001Testing. One, two, three. I was going to take the kids out. Don't forget about Yeah, I bet. And then Jeff got us six rows of [Music] cheering. Now at least So at least you can feel not sitting behind [Music] really. Call the meeting to order. It is 6:01. Today is Tuesday the 17th. Roll call of directors. Power present. Corman here. Kaiser here. Maple present. Nest here. Dinsky here. Sakowski here. Zebro here. Item number three 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. Item number four, approve of the agenda. Any changes? Otherwise, I will seek a motion to approve. Washington. We have a motion by second by any discussion. Yes. So it's not necessarily a change
002but maybe um just a clarification on 72 according to the minutes from last meeting that any item can be talked to not just what is on the agenda. Right. But that policy hasn't been approved yet. So therefore it will go into effect if the polic Okay. So, you're going to leave for this. Yep. Cuz it needs a second. Okay. Anything else? I will seek a motion of tonight's approval of agenda. Motion to approve. I'm sorry. Yeah, we have a sorry, we have a motion and a second. All those in favor? I approve. Okay. Approval of the minutes from May 20th. I had one change at the bottom. We still have the previous president and Yep. That's because the the the um the the the draft of the agenda was created as such when they were
003still there. So, it should be going into effect. Correct, Jackie? Starting next month. So, it's all based on how the agenda the the rough draft of the agenda was created um as Sheena was leaving. So, uh that was still that way. And since it was already created, you can't go back in and fix it after it's been So it'll be fixed after this month. Any other items? Okay. Motion. Motion by Kaiser. Second by Maplewood. Any discussion? All those in favor? Motion carries. Item number six, special presentation, uh, construction update and timeline. All right. So, Steve's going to come and kind of give you a general overview, um, on where we are with, uh, kind of a design process and kind of a little bit of a timeline on where we are. Yep. So, June construction
004season has started. Um, couple quick points. Um, on the drawing you see in front of you is an overall view of our, uh, project area, everything in purple or blue. Um, our new construction. So Fedorf uh has taken control of our site. If you go on the back of the building, you'll see it's all fenced off and gated off. So we are secure to do our operations. Things are starting to come on in sight. Um the biggest thing the school had for hurdles would really be in the back of the building and all our utilities happen in the back of this facility. So that means a lot of things have to happen. We relocate our main gas line because the old gas line goes below the new building that has to be uh taken out
005and removed. So, right now, public service is hanging a new meter the back of the building and we're piping it as we speak. So, hopefully this week or or first part of next week, they'll come and tie that in, disconnect the uh gas line so the construction footings can start. Same area. We also have all our main power coming in. So, our main transformer has to be relocated or basically disconnected. They're going to be setting a brand new transformer and we're going to pour those lines into feed the existing building so we can stay operational for this next school year. that will happen probably, you know, end of July after summer school's done. Um, there's also some relocation of power poles, light poles, and that's all been worked out with REI and public service. So,
006all the contracts that the schools required to perform are signed and paid for work. So, we're just based on WPs's docket. Um, one thing we have to pull ahead of time is because of the gas relocation, we have to do some pre-work um outside the contract to get our main gas light connected. That work is beginning um to be finished here next week. So, we can make the tie shut the entire facility down. There'll be no gas, no boilers, no heat for the pool. So, that's going to be a little bit of shutdown. Hoping to make that happen within a day. Um, one nice thing with this project for security and timelapse. So, we have a camera mounted on um the construction piece and we will be taking time-lapse photos through the whole process. So,
007there's a dual surface service I would say for um watching a project come out of the ground and you get to see it all and it's a great selling tool to the public. We put that up on the website as it goes along, but also it's a security measure as well. Um building footings and site wastewater work is currently in progress as the state of Wisconsin has approved these sections of work. Um our full plan review will be uh completed in July. The sections are being completed early so we can get ahead get footings in get rebar and basically the building starting to come out of ground. Um the current bid package is number three which is the remaining of all things for numbers for project that um is due to the contractor on June
00819th and he'll be reviewing those bids and uh basically being contract set. So that's where we sit right now. if you want to flip the next sheet really quick. Yeah. Uh elevation. So this if you want to see a quick view of what the building will kind of look like. Um this is some of the elevations of the facility and the new design. Page view that a little bit the big will be the front of the building. That'll actually be the west wall you put in the back of 11 street. That's the side you'll see in the front. um and new offices on the right and we've got the to the left that the tech area. Um but that's kind of a quick snatch on what the building will look like. Um it'll start taking
009shape and we'll we'll see it come out of the ground quite nicely. Uh one cost measure I will bring up to the board is we we did end up dropping the building 2 foot in the back of the tech department. Um our grade is such that it caused quite a bit of uh deliberation what to do with it. Um in doing that we're also saving a lot of money making that drop. Uh we figured out a good long ramp. Um we made a few parts inside the building. So everything's coming through I think quite nicely. Um I think it's going to serve very well. We're done. So I guess we're going to get started. We'll see what happens as we scroll through. I'll keep you updated every month. You have any questions? You got my
010number? Call me. I will let you know where we're at. That's all I have. Any questions for the board. Thank you. Thank you very much. Have a good night. Thanks, Steve. Item number seven, public forum. The public forum provides the public with the opportunity to ask questions about or address issues included in the schoolboard meeting agenda. General operating rules of the public forum will be determined by the board president once the number of people wishing to participate is identified. We have one person that's going to identify you'd like to address. I think we have a timer uh for three minutes. Okay, the microphone's on believe so. Yeah. Okay. Uh my first question is it 3 minutes for question or 9 minutes total? Just three three minutes to speak on the public. Oh, I thought it
011was this is for the board seat, right? No, no, this is this is you were requested to speak to the board public form. Oh, no. I that that was pertaining to this. Oh, okay. So, you don't want to speak at the public form. Okay. Sorry. Should I stay here or should I All right. Sorry. You had sent Greg an email saying you wanted to speak at the public for Okay. Okay. Okay. Do we have anybody else? Anybody else? Currently, we we're changing the policy. It's going to be voted on tonight. So, there will be no more forms. There will be a two um things in the back to sign up and you can speak that night on agenda items or not if it passes again. No. Anybody else? Did you get any other? Thank you.
012Okay. Item eight, consent agenda. Um any issues with consent agenda? Anything? Anybody need pulled out? No. No. But I will abstain from voting for um the builder's risk code 6.2 from finance. It's 6.2 into finance. I'm going to abstain from that vote. Uh conflict of interest. I recommend three. Any other issues? I'll seek a motion then to accept the consent agenda. I'll make a motion. Motion by Gordon. A second. Second by Zebra. Um, all those in favor? I motion carries. Item nine, discussion, possible decision, approval of monthly voucher list to take a look at the June voucher. Any discussion? I will be abstaining from check number 154261. Any other discussion? I'll seek a motion. I'll make a motion to approve. Okay. All a second. I'll second and roll call vote, please. And we need a
013roll call vote. Sirman, yes. Yes. Maple. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. With one obsession. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. Item number 10, discussion possibly on decision acceptance of the volume is not very loud. They can't hear in the map. You guys want to hold the microphone? There's one microphone per table. Sorry. Is that better? Yeah. Sorry. Item number 10, discussion, possible decision acceptance of monthly treasures report. I'll make a motion. Motion by second. Second by Nest. And we need a roll call vote for doing Kaiser. Yes. Yes. Nest. Yes. Yes. Yes. Zero. Yes. Yes. Okay. Item number 11, new business. Discussion. Interview of prospective board members to fill the seat. Um, we actually are missing one. We had one not show up. Um so what we're going to do is I talk to all the possible members.
014It's an at large seat. Um we will be asking the questions. They'll come to the podium. They'll have five minutes per question. We will then I think Jackie gave you a form. We will be narrowing it down to the top three vote getters and then narrowing it down to the top vote getter and that person will get the seat and be sworn in tonight. Um so we're going to go alphabetically. And our first one will be Gary Crawford. [Music] I'm going to ask Hello. It's 5 minutes per question. Okay. Can I can I can I skip through the first question real fast and go on? Yeah. Yeah. But you got you got your time in there. So, you're ready to go. So, the first question is please tell us about yourself. I'm I'm a resident
015of the town of Mosan. I'm married. I have three beautiful, rounded, successful children, nine and a half grandchildren and one great grandchild. So, that takes care of that. Question number two, why are you interested in serving on the Mosley school board? Um, I mean no disrespect to the board, but there's a lot of issues going on right now that um I'm not really in favor of question number three. What is your vision for the Mosese school district? Okay. I am I had Greg um I believe print and email or not email but hand out the uh thing that I emailed him this afternoon. My vision is that every child is given the opportunity to achieve both their academic and career potential. Uh I need now go into the strategic plan of 2020. Um the through
016the process they hired um Nexus the solutions which is a construction consultant firm. They in they in fact went out and hired a a facilitator for the strategic plan. And if you look at that picture that I sent you, the number one and how did they figure this out? I don't know. The number one issue was facilities during construction and number one issue was facilities. So the number 11 issue was quality programming, student specific needs, which ties into my vision for for the vision statement. every child is given the opportunity to achieve both their academic and career potential. Now, if you look at the um the vision or mission statement that you currently have, improve student progress academically and socially, what does that mean? Is there any accountability in there? Um what are the benchmarks?
017I I I I it's so um ambiguous that I don't think there's anything you can really conclude from that mission statement. So, um as an example and I and I've sent this uh question to to uh many people over time. Um are you an advocate of normbased assessment? If so, please explain in detail. If not, what would you recommend as an alternative assessment strategy and why? And I never received a response. But if you but during but because of the normace assessment, if you look at it, it compares students to students. It takes the focus off the benchmark and if you're looking at proficiency in math and ELA and really there should be proficiency in any uh classroom that kids walk through the door because otherwise what's the purpose of having a class um I
018always get the um the example um if the teacher the first day of school takes their children to the track and and they show them the inline and you say I want you all to run as hard as you can. I want you to all get there at the same time. It ain't going to happen. And you know that. And that's why you have to um you have to have individualized instruction. As a matter of fact, when I was on the board and we went up to uh Tree Haven for 4 days and we took administrators, teachers, and business people. And one of the things I insisted on was an IEP for every child. And that was in the mission statement. But sooner or later, there was a new um administrator and it was gone.
019So I don't I'm running for time here, but um Uh so uh I want to get into this this issue of last month because this is really disturbing. Um regarding that uh that algebra class, the there was an administrator that made the point in fact it was nine that the curriculum was 9 years older than the new standards that the state had adopted. Well, right now the ratios I put them down there in the elementary and middle and high school 30 34 35 34 and 3522. You could have five assistants for every teacher and you're never going to hit the benchmark because you're you're teaching the wrong curriculum. That that I think would be embarrassing to the school district. And there's another thing here and and he goes on to say outdated to the current
020standards. Wasn't expecting the same out of what the students were expected to do. Well, the the students give a benchmark. The benchmark in the state is different. I mean, where where's the solution here? And we feel and then here we go one more time. We feel we feel this to be a strong program of ours high school regardless of the curriculum below. Well, every discipline, every math, as an example, it it it's all it's it it one passes another. It's it's all sequential. So, I mean, if you're having problems, if you're going to ignore that and you're going to go to the algebra class, I mean, it's going to be very difficult to even to even sustain a proficiency level at maybe 75 or 80%. So the the the the uh as an example um
021if you've got 2,000 kids and we used to have 2,000 kids in the school district and 1,200 and if the proficiency right now is say 40%. But that those numbers are watered down since precoid and but if as an example if you line 2,000 kids up and you told the kids that proficient to stand back you still have 1,200 looking at you. I mean, if if uh and and you can can't compare cars to children, but if Toyota had that that kind of success rate, you wouldn't be in business long. The uh that's it. 5 seconds. I'll give you 10 seconds. Oh, wow. That was pretty quick. I the the other the other thing was um if you could go and look at relevance relevance um the the amount of effort that went into the
022pre-planning and and so forth uh for the referendum and I I would have you pay particular attention to August 2024 look at that thing and tell me that he goes out and what he's for an issuance of bonds and look at the discussion that takes place with all these schoolboard members. There was nobody agreeing on anything. Where where was the um there was the there was two particular um questions that were supposed to operational capital. Where's the operational? If you build this building now, you're going to have um uh non-discretionary v variable and overhead spending. Have you have you have you taken that in consideration? I don't think so. Thank you very much. I'm sorry. That's okay. I could have arranged for half hour. Thank you. Up next, Mr. Joe Can. Okay. Clarify it all.
023We get five minutes per question. Per question for 15 minutes. Can you split it up however you want? No, it's five minutes per question. Okay. Please tell us about yourself. Okay. Um my name is Joe Canadler. Uh some I know some of you, some of you probably don't. Um I've been a lifelong resident of Mosan. I was born and raised here. Um, I raised four kids here in the Mosny School District. Um, then after I left high school, I spent two years in the service as an MP over in Germany. Fun time, different things. Military was much different back then. Um, and then after service, the service paid for my college education. I went to the University of Wisconsin Madison and got a engineering degree in mechanical engineering. And I I think that degree has
024helped me a lot, get through a lot of and I think it would make u me an effective member on the school board just cuz there's a lot of technical stuff that kids are trying to learn today. I while I was at uh and then after college I basically not bragging I could have went anywhere I wanted. I had a engineering degree from one of the better schools in the world. I was on the dean's list so I could win wherever I want but I chose to come back here because I really appreciate this community and what it stands for. Small communities I think in this country are the backbone of the country. I wanted to come back here have my kids raised here and uh basically cooperate participate in raising their kids. And as
025such um I've been coaching the better part of the last 30 to 40 years. I coached my own kids. Um, and after that I coached a lot of kids that weren't my bi biological kids. I never took a penny for it. I think one of the problems with athletics these days is that people are doing it for money and I think that's asked backwards. Excuse my language. Um, so, uh, degree from Madison and then I went to work at Greenhead Fan Corporation. I was a manager of engineering up there. Uh the last year I was there, I was in charge of a $20 million budget was a which was a lot lot back then and I was intricately involved in deciding how that money got spent, what was the most appropriate thing to spend the
026money on and I think there too I would assume that that be would be useful here. Um and again while I was in in working at Greenhack I got to travel around the world. I was in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Egypt, China and of course two years in Germany. So I think those experiences is will make me more effective here too to help kids to grow up. Um my chart has been you know to try and create learn use learning to create a positive environment for kids to grow up to be happier more productive adults and whether that's academics or whether that's learning sports on the stage here extracurricular can be sometimes more important than academic academic is more one-on-one one um sports is uh team, learning how to participate in a team. And when you
027get out of high school, more than likely you're going to have to participate on a team. And um also another thing I'd like to say about my coaching experience, I got as much out of it as the kids did. And there was many times kids that that we had on our teams that were that needed the team more than the team needed them, if you know what I mean. They weren't necessarily the allstar athlete. They were kids that needed a place to go after school. Rough environment at home, didn't do well in school, but I think we gave them a hour and a half after school. I was actually the high school softball coach for a number of years here in Mosby. So I think that would fair me well in this endeavor. Also um
028we've been a softball program. Uh what's that mean? 5 seconds if I accept just this question. this question. Okay. So, anyway, um I I I like to say I bleed purple. I love this community. I love the kids in it. And people that coach here should be commended and um I I think that's an integral part of Mosan. Question number two, why are you interested in serving on the Mos school board? Well, I think part of a little bit of redundancy there. I've coached for a long time, a lot of kids. I think that's uh I've learned I kind of fell in love with the kids in the right way. Um and I and I again, like I said, I'd like to help create an environment through the school board, whether it be in athletics
029or academics. um to create a a positive environment to help kids grow up to be happier and more productive whether you're the star or not in the classroom or or not. Um and I also think my my background in engineering both in academics in school and at Green Tech will help me well here. I think I could use that because I know there's a lot of emphasis now on non on college alternatives when these kids get out of school. And I think a lot of the things that they're trying to help these kids learn is got to do with engineering, welding, um, metals, uh, how do you shape metal, how do you form it, and that when I was at Green, I did a lot of that stuff. We gave tours all the time. I
030still have a lot of contacts to the Green Neck thing that could come in here. And I know there's a good program probably going on already, but uh I think again a technical person could help with that tremendously. The the other thing uh I'd like to say is what are why am I interested in serving? Because I think I'd like to help you guys. I'm not going to come in here and change try to change everything around. I have ideas. Um I think I'm quite good at listening to ideas. I couldn't have been near as successful as I was at Green if I wasn't able to listen. And I I really look forward to learning a lot of stuff from you guys. Go to the next one. Question number three. What is your vision for
031the Mosby School District? Well, again, I've said this several times already, creating a positive environment, using learning to create a positive environment so kids can grow up to be happier, more productive adults. And I keep slamming that because M. That's my one of the things that I uh kind of coin that phrase myself just because as the years went by, first of all, you started doing a lot of things for one reason or another. Uh and then you started figuring out that you know it wasn't it wasn't all always how successfully academically or in sports a kid was. if they could they could stay positively uh focused on the academics especially and get out of high school with some interest and of future in life because I got a good upbringing here in Mos and
032Mos school. I'm really high on Mosese schools. Like I said, I don't know every one of you personally, but I really appreciate over the years the success that Moses schools have had. They couldn't have had that without good school board members. They couldn't have had that without good teachers. I have a daughter that's a teacher and uh I get a lot of input from her and I keep telling her teaching. Okay. Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you. Up next, Dana Lair. Please tell us about yourself. Yeah. Hi, I'm Dana Lauder. Um, I have lived in Cornw School District for about 5 years now. I originally grew up in the New Berlin um area, which is actually a suburb of Milwaukee. I only mentioned that because um I like to think of Mosan as sort
033of like New Berlin on an island cuz I really like the graduating class sizes were similar to here, although I feel like some of that I can use um for um my impact on the Mosi school board. So after high school, I went to Edgewood College. I went to Walker County Technical College and at the time there was no reciprocity between tech schools and universities which actually um has pretty much made a pretty big impact on my life because from there I I transferred to Edgewood College which is which was a private school. So I tell people that I did uh college in reverse because I was in intro to poetry as a senior because I had already taken all my marketing classes um leading up to that. So that's something that um I like
034to share with students today. I've shared some of my um educational background in high school classes at the Mos High School. And so after um college, I moved up to the area. And so from there, I have about 15 years of career experience in variety of roles including property and casualty insurance at Church Mutual. and then um account management for um a larger company that's based out of California and then most recently I got back to what I originally went to school for which was marketing. So my husband and I also own a business locally in Mosen. So we um founded DRL plumbing and heating in 2021. So I also help with the finance and marketing and other duties as assigned for the business. So, um I guess that's pretty much about all about myself.
035Question number two, why are you interested in serving on the Mos school board? So, yeah, I feel like I bring a perspective of a mom as a of a parent that has two kids right now that's in the Mos school district in kindergarten and fourth grade. So, if you combined that um outside perspective I talked about before of someone that didn't grow up locally but now am deeply rooted into this community. I feel like that combination of outside perspective and the community commitment brings both empathy and objectivity to the board. Um, I'm most interested in serving though because I really have a deep passion for cont contributing to the academic and personal growth of students. So really um I'd like to just further support and strengthen the bridge between classroom learning and life after school.
036Question number three, what is your vision for the Mos School District? Yeah, I think it's just really simple. I just want students um to thrive whether that be academically um emotionally or socially. I also think about things like boosting the community engagement. Um I really feel like we can call upon the talent and experience of those that reside in Rosen. um some of the folks that I uh serve with on the academic and career leadership team uh will tell you I pretty much had to like knock down some doors to try to um just be a part of that team and contribute um in any volunteer aspect that I could. I also volunteer with Junior Achievement at the elementary school um and also coach some local uh youth sports. So beyond that community engagement, I
037just also think it's um really important to invest in the teacher development and the retention cuz I guess when I think of my kids that probably has the biggest impact on their dayto-day. That's it. Thank you very much. Nelson Pa is next. [Applause] Hello. Please tell us about yourself. Okay. Thank you. I I expect the board received copies of the letter and the resume that I sent. So I'll try not to be too repetitive of that. But um I've um lived in Mosny for most of my life. Um alum alumnus of Mosny High School, class of 88. I went on to um continue my education at UWSP and I took a speech class as a first semester sophomore and it was all juniors and seniors in there with me cuz I guess most of them
038put that off till the end. Um, I worked for 23 years in the property and casualty insurance industry with Wasa Insurance Nationwide and Liberty Mutual. And for the last eight years, I've worked uh for Marathon County in the Department of Social Services. Um, in addition to um my my full-time job, um, I also serve as the second board alderman on the Mosny City Council. And, um, I'm the secretary uh, of the Mosny Area Action Club, which used to be the Kuanas. and um and the treasurer for the um Mosen Cemetery Association board. I guess it's a very pleasant job, but somebody's got to do it. So, um I think that I I I should also say I've got some time. Um I'm I'm not blessed to have the family that uh some of the other
039candidates have. So, I tip my hat to to the the moms and the dads um in the room who are doing the most important job there is, but um I wouldn't bring to the board the perspective of um someone who does not have kids in in the um school system. Okay, question number two. Why are you interested in serving on the Mos school board? Well, I think education is very important. Um, I I went back and continued my education after um after my first uh tenure on the board ended uh cuz I needed something to occupy my free time. But I was very fortunate um that the company I was working for at that time uh supported uh continuing education and professional development. So I was able to um go on and earn my master's
040degree from Cardinal University um and also um u earned some professional certifications in the areas that I worked in. Um, but I I think education's very important and I think um we need to um do what we can to um make it better, improve it. Um I always remember back to sixth grade reading class. Miss Shabidowski was our teacher and she asked the question, "What is the biggest room in the school?" And some kids thought it was the gym and some thought it was the cafeteria and no, it was the room for improvement. We no matter how good we are, we can always do better. So that's that stayed with me for 40ish years. Question number three, what is your vision for the Mosby School District? Well, I think and I I said this in
041my letter, too, we um can't um send kids out the door when they graduate knowing everything that they're going to need to know for the rest of their lives. So, we got to um prepare them to be successful in whatever their next step is going to be, but also to be lifelong learners and and be able to um manage change. uh you know we're we have to you know not only um manage the current day-to-day things but be thinking you know the kids that are coming into kindergarten this fall will graduate in 2038. Who knows what what the world is going to be like then. I know um I'm sure many of us wouldn't have imagined some of the things um that we have now at the time when we graduated from high school. So
042I think preparing the kids to be lifelong learners is very important cuz if if you're not able to continue learning and growing uh you're going to be stagnant. You're going to fall behind. um that that and I guess the the other thing I would would um comment on having been in um jobs in my career or I hired people um soft skills um h how to work as part of a team, communication, customer service. I I always would say you hire for attitude and train for aptitude because I can train somebody the technical part of the job but I can't train them to have a positive attitude and be dependable and on time. So those are all important things too that um young people need for success in their future. Thank you. Thank you. Up
043next. Next, Nicole Bolson. Please tell us about yourself. Hi, my name is Nicole Fton. I have been living in Mosan for about 12 years over 100 from the Mosan area. Um I am a 22 years veteran teacher at the DCR school district. Um I have taught everything from first grade up through seniors in high school. Um I have two children of my own in the district and have done a variety of different um committees that we've done through school. Um served on some of our sports boards and in the past have um spoke at conferences throughout the state on student advocacy. Okay. Question number two. Why are you interested on the Mosese school board? Um, I think that can bring a a very good perspective that can be really beneficial to a school board, not
044only being a community member and a parent in the district, but also a teacher in a neighboring district. That can give you some insight on what actually is going on in the day-to-day in the classroom. Um, how some of our decisions on the school board can actually directly impact our students and our classrooms um that maybe you wouldn't get from of a different community member. Um, I also think that I would love to see my own children and all of our neighborhood community kids really getting the best education that they can. Um, in any way that I'm able to help promote that, provide some change, continue to move our district forward, I would be really to help do it. Question number three, what is your vision for the Mos School District? Well, I guess as
045someone have already said, um obviously an education for students is our number one goal as as any district. Um there's a lot that goes into that that's just beyond the academic u whether that be the social emotional the college career readiness um providing even just the safe environment for our students and really looking at what we have for our budget and how how we choose to spend our money really will impact each of those different areas for kids. Um I really have enjoyed my students being in this district. Um, I feel like every district has room for improvement. Um, there's not a ton that I would like to see necessarily change about our our vision for students because really, as long as our students are at the core of what we're doing, as long as
046we're collectively working together, it's going to be a good vision moving forward for them. I do think that it's important to consider that um our K through 12 education is a base education for most of our kids and that that needs to be a good solid base and then as they start to get towards high school really looking at what could come next in a variety of options. Um I guess one thing I didn't share about myself is I am not like your traditional teacher. Um, I taught special ed for 18 years and then went on to get a license in alternative education. Um, I do know that more and more as we are going through life with how things are going, kids need alternative options and pathways to get to have that same balance
047that everybody else gets. Um, I see that on a day-to-day basis that there just needs to be different ways for kids to work and how that impacts our kids is what we provide our teachers in education, in resources, in professional development. I've also seen my own neighbors, my own co-workers leave districts because of different supports that are not happening um around the state or supports that are happening. and that's where they want to go to be a part of that district and I would love to see us be able to strengthen our teacher retainment in Mosley um with just providing a really great culture and I feel like your culture really starts from the board and works its way down. So we hope that that will Thank you. Thank you. Chad Pepper, is Chad in
048the audience? I didn't see him and he last call Chan. Okay, Chad is gonna be gone. Um, our next candidate would be Quinn Saber. Please tell us about yourself. Hi everybody. Uh, my name is Quinn Sanford. Uh, my wife and I are originally from here. We spent 22 years away uh and then moved back and we've been here since 2020. We have four kids in the district um to going on fifth grade, seventh grader, a freshman. Um on the boring stuff, my career, I've been 20 years at 3M in the cities. I currently am a global business manager for a $300 million uh business in optical films where I spend most of my evenings with Asia on the phone and during the day uh on the on the calls with St. Paul. So I am
049uh as you talk about culture in and multiculture in your in your values I live them every day. So um before that uh I was an optical engineer for 3M where I contributed in that same business and was moved to the business side. So I've had career path changes uh previous to that. Um my schooling went to lacrosse for physics, University of Arizona for engineering and optics and then University of Minnesota for uh management of technology. so well versed in academics um and understand the value of academics. On a personal side, my wife and I, my wife's from here uh we're related to almost half the town with plenty of cousins. We moved back cuz uh we lost my mother-in-law in 2019 and we wanted the the kids to get a good experience growing up
050with their over 50 cousins in the school district. So, the kids are in multiple activities. Um, pretty much every sport you can imagine where I help coach a lot of them. Um, my kids also do extracurricular music at the University Stevens Point and they're active members at church. We are all active members at church. Um, as well as 4. So my kids have been all over the country for 4 and we extremely value that experience that they've had. Uh we also have a hobby farm where we have many animals, horses, sheep, chickens, ducks. They're showing at the county fair every year. Um so that has been quite the experience that I never got growing up. Uh finally, my wife and I, we raise our kids to have a well-rounded childhood. Um it's not just about
051sports. It's not just about music. It's not just about 4. It's about everything. Giving them an opportunity where when they leave uh school, become adults, they are well-rounded with experiences. Uh and that's something that is foundational for for my wife and I in our in our teachings. to them. Question number two, why are you interested in serving on the Mosny School Board? So, I'm a product of this school district, class of 1998. Um, academics has been a huge part of my life up to this point. Uh, it's gotten me where I've been and where I hooked to go. Um, not not many people can say that they're participating in Asian calls every night. Um, living where they want to live. I could be on a a beach in Cancun, but I chose to come back
052to Mosinique to provide that uh lifestyle for my kids that I had that my wife had. So, I want to give back to the to the district that I grew up in uh and make sure my kids, their cousins, their classmates all have uh the experiences that I had growing up and they're all ready and prepared for the real world. Question number three, what's your vision for the Mos school district? I think it's a successful school district obviously uh that's growing. I hear we're we're losing members uh of the school of the community. Um and and so having a growing school district uh where kids have obviously a successful graduation rate uh they're succeeding socially, academically, they participate, have those experiences that my wife and I are looking to give our children so that they're
053wellversed uh to do whatever they choose to do. So thank you very much. Thank you. Our last candidate is Nick Thompson. Good afternoon. Please tell us about yourself. Sure. My name is Nick Thompson. My wife Erica and I moved here a couple years ago. I spent uh just short of 21 years on active service in the army. I retired out of Korea and we moved here so that the kids could be close to their grandparents. They moved here about 20 years ago. We live in the Mosny Township just up uh off of KK north of town. And uh let's see. We uh I'm all flustered. I apologize. Uh so we have five children. Uh Henrik, our oldest son, just graduated last year, top of his class. We have two children in high school, one in
054middle school and one going into second grade. Um we my wife and I are starting a company in Mosan. It's called drone operations and it is going to manufacture AI embodied drones and uh so that's kind of the specialty that I have is I build uh artificial intelligence and I spent uh two years of my career as an assistant professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point where I was the chair for special operations low intensity conflict. I spent two years as the com uh company commander of the special forces company at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, training advanced technical surveillance and physical surveillance. Um and I think that that is about it. Question number two, why are you interested in serving on the Mosby School Board? Uh one of the um things that
055I live my life by is trying to make a positive impact. And one of the things that uh we've always taught our children is that no matter how hard things are, they need to always try to move forward with a positive impact. Um handinhand with that is we believe that bringing up and shaping young people be people of character is one of the most paramount things that could possibly be. um they will learn good academics and I think obviously we should push really hard to expand our capabilities in STEM and arts and we need to also expand our capabilities in computer science and especially as the new frontier of computer science opens up with artificial intelligence. Um, I think that that is something that Moses should focus on, but that absolutely doesn't diminish the importance
056that we need to maintain on the trades. Um, my oldest son, Henrik, he got into Madison. He's going to become a nuclear engineer. That's his vision. My middle son, Victor, he wants to become a tradesman and a welder. And so, for us across the gambit, we have kids who are interested in all different aspects of life. And I think that that's an important opportunity. every kid needs an equal opportunity to thrive and to grow into those interests that they have so that they can become people of character and solid members of our community. Question number three, what is your vision for the Mos School District? um kind of uh handinhand with why I want to be a member of the Mos School Board is to help the the school district grow into avenues where we
057may not uh be there yet. Computer science is is kind of that example for me. Uh I think that I bring a unique perspective. Uh having spent 21 years I retired as a lieutenant colonel. Uh I've spent uh the vast majority of my time uh as a Green Beret, special forces of Green Beret. And so um I think that bringing the vision of developing people of character and expanding opportunities in uh fields that we don't already have while maintaining what we do have is um the vision that I would hope to see our school board achieve. Thank you very much. I'd like to thank all of you for coming. Um, we're going to do voting here eventually. We're going to narrow it down to three. This seat will be up for reelection in April. So,
058if you want to run, you can run. Whoever gets selected for this will serve until there is the election. Um, all the board members have little slips. They will vote for your top three candidates. Um, Greg, who would you Jackie? We're sending down a Jackie. Please take your time. Once we narrow it down to three, then we'll pick the the from the three, we'll pick our number one candidate. You just you just fine. We're not breaking it. You're done. Raise your hand. or fast already. I'm an efficiency guy. Great. When you announce it, you have to announce their name. It's got to be announceer. It's got to be a public requirement. [Music] Okay. Ness voted for Nelson Fo, Nicole Hollson, and Quinn Sanford. Flander Zebro voted for Joe Canadler, Quinn Sanford, and Nick Thompson. Jessica
059Maple voted for Gary Crawford, Joe Canadler, and Nick Thompson. Paul Ninsky voted for Joe Canadler, Nel Nelson Pa, and Quinn Sanford. Donna Kaiser voted for Nelson Pa, Pollson, and Quinn Sanford. Megan Stankowski voted for Joe Canadler. Nelson Nelson Pa I get that wrong all day. Quinn Samber. Diane Herman voted for Joe Canadler. Quinn Stanford and Nick Thompson. And David Bower voted for Dana R, Nicole Pollson, and Nick Thompson. So our total votes are one for Gary Crawford, five for Joe Canadler, one for Dana Lar, four for Nelson Fa, three for Nicole Hollson, six for Quinn Sanford, and four for Nick Thompson. Okay, we will because there's a tie, we will take the top four. And that I do believe you want to read the top four again. in the top four would be Joe Canadler,
060Nelson Pa, Quinn Sanford, and Nick Thompson. And because this has to be a motion of those four, somebody will have to make the motion, a second, and then we'll have a vote. It has to be public record, and we will do a roll call vote. Any motions? You have to make a motion. motion. You can't you can't vote for like you can't cast a ballot for somebody. It has to be a motion and a second for a candidate. You get what I'm saying? It'll be roll call voted so they could be voted down. So you have to say I make a motion for XYZ. Somebody has to commit second a motion for XYZ to fill the seat and then we'll take a vote on that. It gets a majority. It's done. Doesn't get a majority.
061Back to the beginning. We have a motion in Sanford to fill the vacancy. Is there a second? I'll second. We have a second by Derek West. And then we're going to do a roll call vote. Yes. No. Best. Yes. Yes. Sowski? Yes. Zebro? No. No. Foreman. No. Kaiser. Yes. 534 44 motion is not carried. Um second motion. I need a motion for Joe. Motion for Joe Canaver by Maple. Do I have a second? Have a second by Zebra. Roll call vote. Nest, no. Yes. Sowski, yes. Zebra, yes. Yes. Bard, yes. Orman, yes. Kaiser, yes. Maple, yes. Motion carries. Uh Joe, you are been elected uh the candidate. So, if you come up, we'll swear you in and you can assume the chair over to the left. I think our clerk will swear in. Yeah, Rod
062has to be a part of it. Be a notary. Uh, no. Jack Rob. It's got to be a notary. Just read it. Having been elected or appointed to the board of education, but have not yet entered upon the duties there thereof, swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin, and will fully discharge the duties of said office at the best of my ability. So help me God. Thanks for the opportunity. Welcome to your first meeting. Okay, welcome. Okay. Item 114, discussion and possible decision budget transfers to zero account out accounts. Yeah, this is an annual motion uh that we need to have to close out accounts to end the fiscal year with a zero balance. There's certain accounts in our our system
063that cannot carry a balance from one year to the next. Mainly uh probably the most commonly heard one is is fund 27 which is special education. So, we have to make a a fund 27 transfer, a fun 10, sorry, transfer in this case to zero out fun 27. Um, and so that's just the largest thing uh that you'll probably hear about. Uh, you know, there's a lot of conversation right now at the state level about increasing spend reimbursement. Uh, spend reimbursement right now is about 30%. So, uh, we're going to have to make a a transfer from fund 10 over to fund 27 to zero that account out. So basically for every dollar we spend the state reimbures us 30 uh 30 30 cents on that dollar. Greg, this is an annual This is an
064annual thing that we need to do as part of our closing out of our books at the end of the fiscal year. Otherwise it creates major financial problems. Correct. Well, it's basically required. Do I can I have a motion? I'll make motion. Motion by Gorman. Second by Kaiser. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Post. Say it. Motion carries. All right. Item 115, discussion on the preliminary 2526 budget. Yeah. This is just another annual thing uh that I've always had boards do and and a lot of boards do is the opportunity to just give you a preliminary budget. uh you know, this is the first uh look at the budget uh that granted you're not going to be officially approving this until October. There'll be multiple times you'll see this budget between
065now and then, but by at least approving a preliminary budget, it allows us to start the fiscal year with a budget in place so we can pay bills. Uh just to give you a general idea of where we are uh right now the the state uh Supreme Court held up the governor's line at a veto of $325 for we'll just say the rest of my life. Um so uh that's going to be in play. But then uh joint finance just approved the education portion of the budget last week. I believe on Thursday uh they did not increase any state aid uh into the system. So the entire $325 that you can levy is all going to be uh going to be burdened by the taxpayer is going to have to pay that entire increase. Uh
066so in a sense it's going to increase property taxes. Uh they also uh took special ed from 30 to 35% funding in year 1 and 37.5% funding in year two. Understand that uh the request was for 60% funding. Uh so it's not quite where the request was at. And when I say request, I'm not just talking about the governor. I'm talking about uh education groups. Um WA was all the all the acronyms that they're out there. Then there was an increase in open enrollment, uh about $1,500 of change. Um so there were some aspects that we're going to see some additional funding out of the state budget. Uh granted, it's still just approved by joint finance that portion of it. Joint finance still has to approve the full budget. Then it's got to go through
067both chambers of the of the legislative branch and then eventually approved by uh the governor has to sign it uh after going through the line item veto aspect. So there's a lot of steps in this process yet. um to look at next year's budget. Um but uh Rod and I are are confident we're going to be able to have a balanced budget for next year. So that's just kind of where it is. I don't know if anybody has any questions. Otherwise, we're just like I said, it's just the initial look at the budget. It just allows us to start the fiscal year. So we're recommending approval of this. Make a motion by Maple. I'll second. We have a second by Bower. Any discussion? All those in favor of accepting preliminary 2526 budget is discussed say
068I. I. All those opposed say nay. Motion carries. 11.6. Uh discussion possible decisions revision of policy 0167.3 public comments at board meeting. This has passed once. It's for the second reading. We'll pull it up and you can take a look at the changes. No longer will it be online forms. People would be able to come to the board meeting. They'd be able to fill out uh request to speak on an item agenda item or a non agenda item. They would get three minutes. All the other rules held in place. No personal attacks, things like that would be in place. The only thing that would be a change is you would have to fill out the electronic form. It's a second reading. Speak non agenda items. You can speak on non-aggenda items. I would seek a
069motion. I'll make a motion. And a motion by Kaiser. I'll second. Second by Nest. Any discussion? All those in discussion. I want to clarify for Joel with the what the changes. Yeah. right now. Joel, yeah. Uh, you have to sign up ahead of time using the Google form. If you want to address the board, you can only address it uh you have to supply your address, your name, and you can only uh address an agenda item that's on the agenda. This move uh this this change will allow people to come to the meeting to sign up to talk to the board. You don't have to go online agenda. Do you have it's it's there's always a standing and agenda item or public comments at the board when it's always the what would that be like
070the fourth or fifth or probably like seven on the agenda. The seventh Joe the only the reason I suggested this is you couldn't talk at the public forum unless it was an agenda item. Now you'll be able to come to the if you want to talk about whatever it is. It doesn't have to be an agenda item. It could be but it doesn't have to be. And you won't have you can come to the meeting, put your name in the clipboard. As long as you're a citizen in our district, you can speak at the board meeting to the board. Again, you are not allowed to make any comments to individual board members. It has to be directed to the president and there's no personal attacks and you get three minutes. That's it. Any other questions?
071The only thing I'm I'm a little concerned about is I'm not opposed to not the the form online previously. Um but not coming ahead of time having the the superintendent know in advance of what we could probably head off potential questions. Um that's the only part of this I don't like. I would rather at least have the person who wants to speak if they want answers that evening. So you can maybe head off that question or follow chain of command if it might not even have to come to the board. Um just so you know at all public forums in the policy you have to leave no comments to that. Correct. So whoever says a public thing you can say I can get back to you. You don't have to comment that night or anything.
072To me, it's just a way for the public to give their input and anything they want to talk about. Okay, we're going to do a roll call vote because we needed it last time. Yes. Yes. Zebra, no. Canadler, yes. Yes. Orman, no. Kaiser, yes. No. Yes. Okay. Motion carries. All right. Item 11.7, discussion, possible decision, annual WIA membership renewal. This is the annual uh request to join the WIA. You have to do this uh every year in the month of June. Uh there's no fee to participate or no fee, I'm sorry, to be a member of the WA. But in order for our athletic teams to compete in the WA tournament series uh and really play against other WA schools, we need to be a member of the WIA. So, we're recommending this approval. I'll
073seek a motion. I'll make that motion to approve. Motion by Glenn. A second. Second by uh Stenowski. Any discussion? Okay. All those in favor of the annual WIA membership renewal say I. I. All those opposed. Motion carries. Item number 11.8 discussion and possible decision the Wby membership renewal. Yeah, this is the annual renewal for uh becoming a member of the Wisconsin Association of School Boards. Uh, so this is just kind of one of those things like a bunch of the the June meeting is full of uh things that need to be approved on an annual basis like zeroing out accounts and becoming a member of the WA and keeping your membership with WASBY. So this just kind of follows that that time frame. I will seek a motion. I'll make a motion. Motion by Zebra.
074Second, second by Stanowski. Any discussion? All those in favor of our renewal of our WASBY membership renewal, please say I. All those opposed, say nay. Motion carries. Item 11.9, uh, discussion. Preliminary 2526, Board of Education meeting schedule. Yeah, this is just, uh, a look at it cuz we have to approve the board meeting schedule next month. This isn't an approval item. It's just mainly an opportunity for you to review and then if there's any dates that you know of that would be a conflict, this would be the time to have that conversation uh so that next month we can set those dates uh and then make them public and everybody can get them on their calendars. But I don't believe there is any date that's really different. The one thing I would tell you, uh,
075if you could go up, Tom, uh, two things to point out, uh, that that Tuesday, uh, the 16th at last year's or this year's, however you want to look at it, annual meeting, we made the decision to have the annual meeting at 6 and then the board meeting to follow. So, there's not two separate nights. So, we just wanted to make that aware uh for you to look at as well. And then Tom, if you scroll down, uh the the annual one in January is always on the Monday because the the state schoolboard convention starts on the next day on Tuesday. So that meeting has historically fallen on that Monday. And then the other one on here is go down is the Monday, April 27th, which is the reorganization meeting. Other than that, everything falls
076on the typical Tuesday. I do have a question. If I recall correctly, I think it was last year when you came right there was something to do with September October time with the finances. We should have I remember there was a comment made that we we were approving it later um historically, but then we moved it up if if Rod remembers that too because I think it was under Michelle that that that was happening. Is that only thing I could think of is some districts push that October meeting back a week to get as late as you can to set the levy. I don't know, Rod, is that what you I don't that's the only thing I could think of. Um well, we had time for the levy whenever we did it in October this
077last year. It worked out fine. I don't remember if it was a it was the same date as the board meeting. It worked this year. I think the only thing that would fall into that, Jessica, that I can think of right now is uh one year, I don't know, Rod, probably about a decade ago, the state budget wasn't signed until like October. Yeah, there might 25th or something like everybody was scrambling to get that levy set. Uh but as long as the budget is approved ahead of time, so we did have our meeting in October on the 4th to the second. Okay. October. Okay. So, we did change it. Okay. So, if we want to move that back, that would be the time to have the conversation. Just so we're setting the district up, but
078you that was my concern. I just remember something. So, you want to look at moving that to the 28th. Just tell me now. You know, you'll be safe. I guess. Yeah. Otherwise, we can set a special fivem minute meeting to set the levy. If you if it for some reason doesn't work for the third Tuesday, I don't have a problem if we just want to go to 28th to be safe. I would say we say okay, I'll make that change before we get it approved uh next month. Any other discussions? Any other problems? Anybody sees? Good catch. Thank you. Okay, thank you very much. All right, item 11.10 discussion possible action 2526 property and casualty cyber auto workers compensation liability insurance vendor. Yeah, we're in the process of waiting and this always happens like I
079told you before, I've been in this long enough that this always happens where these quotes come in late. Uh I don't know if they they do that on purpose so that way you don't really have much time cuz it's got to be done by July 1st. But right now, we have one quote in from from our current carrier, Wormach. Um, we've been with Wormach for quite a while. Rod and I did seek a second quote from another carrier, uh, another broker. Uh, they will have that quote for us. They figure tomorrow, we tend to have a meeting scheduled on Monday to go over the quote. Uh, so ultimately the board has two decisions. They can either uh say we're going to take Wormarmac and and stay where we are with an in uh it's Rod
080what about a $12,000 increase. It's like one well some of that is workers comp and that's the same no matter the property was 5.8% increase and the liability is 2% increase. bills. So, there's that increase. Or do you want to authorize Rod and I to make a decision based on when this next quote comes in based on rate and coverage? Who's the other? We're waiting for EMC. A quote from EMC and uh I don't remember the other name of the other company that they're getting, but EMC is We're waiting on a quote from EMC. No, we can't do M3 cuz we're on the other side of the river. Yeah, but you can EMC divides the state in half and M3 has the eastern half and TriRiccore has the western half. Greg, how much of an
081increase is this? Total, Rod, it's what total including workers comp is 15,000. $15,000 total. What is the total amount we spent? We're going from 189,000 to 203,700. But ignoring you here that we really don't have many options. Correct. Uh I mean I I will tell you BMC is a valid carrier. Uh so I would have no issues changing to them. Um if it was my recommendation, I'd like to see what they come in at. Uh personally, but I understand that we're under a time correction. If the board just wants to approve WormC and move forward, then uh you know, that is your opportunity or your right. But I would like to see I mean if it was me I would like to see what EMC comes in as. So you're saying we could make a
082motion to authorize you to take the best bid that you feel? Yep. That motion. Okay. Motion by Maple to let our superintendent and Rod make obviously get the bid from EMT. Is it EMC? EMT. EMC. CMC. Thank you. Um and then make the decision. That's the motion. Do I have a second? I will. Second by. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed say nay. Motion carries. All right. Administrative reports. I have nothing new to add. I talked on the budget and the rest of it's there. Uh good couple of days in June, three days of PD. I thought we're we're excellent. Uh and then we're as I said in there, we're headed to uh administration is headed up to Lando Lakes uh Lowenwood Resort coming up here in uh
083next week to do a retreat put on by DPI where we're going to get an opportunity uh to lay out kind of where we're headed as a district uh around different aspects kind of looking at portrait of a graduate, portrait of a educator, portrait of of uh kind of those things and laying some of the groundwork for kind of where we're where we're thinking about Are there any other administrative reports? Okay. Item 13, other reports. The Wasman report. They do an excellent job of giving that I mean I'm getting flyers constantly. So if you want information or you want to go even the booklet they gave us about the annual budget. I mean read that is very helpful. Very helpful. Yeah. If you're interested yeah if you're interested in going just let Jackie know um
084and she can make the arrangements. Usually you kind of have to drive away. So it's kind of nice that it's it's rare that they're locally. Usually you're going to Madison, Wisconsin Dells or Green Bay and they're very informative. If you're interested in that, I mean I I would recommend going. Okay. Item 132, the season 9 report. Okay. For season 9, there were a lot of kudos to um people. Thank you. Um there were a lot of kudos to the staff members from CISA 9 for their work this following year and um and all the variety of areas that they've been involved in. Um one interesting thing Deb Lou from Tomahawk shared that um their tech ed department uh designed and re and built a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. So that would be kind of a maybe a
085neat thing for some of the kids in our tech ed department going forward. Uh the annual meeting for season 9 is going to be August 4th on a Monday night. And so I plan to go. If anyone else would like to go, they're more than welcome. When was that date again? August 4th. August 4th. And um they don't have the time on here, but it's usually six o'clock. And that's it. Okay. Thank you very much. Uh item 14, future agenda items. You can see the 2526 board meeting dates, board adoption, curriculum and instruction, physical restraint, library report, the district wellness committee and athletic presentations. Is there anything else? And again, feel free to email myself if you feel that there is an agenda item that you need on the agenda. Anything else? Okay, we item
08615, we will move into close executive session. We will be discussing possible hiring of high school principal, possible hiring of elementary principal. Roll call vote. Oh yeah, thank you. Motion by Kaiser, second by Norman. And we need a roll call vote. Yes. Kaiser. Yes. Yes. Yes. We will take a fiveminute recess. Thank you for coming. Hey.