001you when I'm done. Yes. And then got the other one that you need to sign. We are still should have handed in my Chromebook. I use my phone. I never used phone. I haven't used it in at least two years. I didn't have to charge it anymore. I gave it call the meeting to order. Roll call, please. Jackie, roll call. Not on your right. We'll extend. Grace, don't worry. Here. Gman here. Hansen here. Hermaning here. Kaiser here, Maple here, here. Zebro here, Kelly Zebro here, and Brooks here. You don't really 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. I'll seek approval of the agenda. Also move. I'll second it. Have a motion by Gorman, a
002second by Kelly Zebro. Any corrections, updates, changes? All in favor say I. I. Opposed? Motion carries. Approval of the minutes from the uh regular board meeting March 18. I'll make a motion to approve the minutes. enough. Um, motion by Kelly Zebro, second by Donna Kaiser. I think I saw something in the minutes. I'm sorry. I was just going to highlight it, but we had voted [Music] on the Sorry, I'll get there. The hockey um it was four to four. Yep. Yes. But there was two names that were wrong. Okay. Um, let me know and we can change them. I don't know if I have a new. Yeah, one of us to Okay, I think I twice last month. Um, so for um I think J Jessica voted nay and Paul voted yes. Correct. And so
003they're just messing around. Got it. We will make that change. It's on page 10 of 47. Okay. We will make that change then uh tomorrow or tonight when I leave before I leave. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries with those changes. Yes. Uh go ahead. No, this is all signed. Thank you. Thank you. Uh special presentation. Uh Dave, you're up first with the school food service. Christie, could you move the agenda up, please, too? Thank you. No problem. You Thank you. There you go. Just scroll up. Okay. Uh, thanks for the opportunity to talk about food service today. Excuse me. Thank you. Okay. Um, starting out, I just want to talk about um the importance of um the students and making sure they're happy. Um,
004we've been focused on uh offering them great food that looks great, it tastes great, it's uh very nutritious. Um, also uh working on uh menus for next year. Um, all the menus next year for breakfast and lunch are all going to be brand new, offering them uh real exciting options. Um, Chartwells have uh developed these menus that are the most popular in all their um sites. So, it's just going to roll out some, uh, different options for the kids that hopefully it'll drive more participation. Um, I know right now, uh, breakfast seems to be our biggest opportunity to try, uh, drive more participation, uh, you know, right from the get-go, uh, for the school day. Uh, let's see here. Um, student engagement. Um, I think it's real important going out to the cafeterias on a
005daily basis. Um, just talking with the students, finding out what's working, what they like. Uh, you know, we can change the menus throughout the throughout the uh month or the next month. Um, and just asking them how they like the food uh is really important. Uh we also talk to the staff teachers um ask them how we're doing things we uh need to improve on or if they're they're satisfied. Um also what I've been doing and uh you know just visiting other accounts um it's amazing what you can learn by visiting another school district and I've done that going to like Stevens Point or um just different sites. uh Nenina Apple and I visited um kind of observing their operations and see what you know we can bring back to Mosin. Uh change some packaging
006uh just some different uh new foods to bring more partic participation for the kids. Um I did some DPI trainings. Um always learning and uh increasing your knowledge. Um also, uh just talking with other directors, see what's working, what's not working. Um just some pictures of the trainings and that uh important you know talking with principles I think is you know how you know what you can improve on. Um what the principles want to see happen in their schools think things we can change things like that. Um and uh talking with anyone that'll listen on, you know, how we're doing or um monthly news uh letters is what I do every month. Um kind of just give uh some pictures of the kids or uh programs that we're running. Um and uh you know what
007we're working on. Um this year we started a a breakfast cart to increase um breakfast uh counts um at the high school. We're doing this right now. We started in September. Um it started off a little slow, but it's bringing in about 25 to 30 uh new breakfast. Um we have it at a uh have it at a different location in the school. um try to capture those kids that might necessarily want to walk down all the way to the snack shack where the main breakfast is being served. Um, and then we're definitely uh having this at the second chance uh breakfast um at the high school um to try to try to push more of the um breakfast rather than the aloc cart sales um that you know to increase that more more popular
008um with the food. Uh let's see. Um and then the fun marketing events that uh Chartwells have, uh mood boost, fun days, Global Eats, Student Choice, and Discovery Kitchen. Um I try to do these every month or every other month. Um, just to give the kids something different that they might not uh taste like maybe a different dish from uh another country or uh something that's fun and nutritious, easy to make that they can kind of take home the recipe to their parents um that they can have, you know, just a fun fun thing with their parents and push the um how nutritious uh fruits and vegetables can be. Uh so we have a lot of fun doing that with the kids. Um and then extra uh fun events that um I've just done um
009is like uh celebrating an actual breakfast week. Um we have uh events with school lunch uh hero day. Um eat breakfast with the hero. Um kind of invite some you know different activities that kids might not see. At the start year, we had uh the armed forces come in and the kids had an opportunity to talk with them. Um just different things that the kids uh can experience that it might be some new event that it gets them excited rather than just, you know, coming in and having the same old lunch or breakfast. Um, and they just have a good time with that, whether it be uh sampling apples from a local orchard over in Edgar or um, you know, just talking with uh, someone maybe maybe a family member that you know, it's in
010the picture there. It's in the armed forces or something. Um, here's this picture of me doing some uh, yakasoba uh, stir fry or some fun event. Just give them a little treat, you know. It's uh Valentine's Day, you make up some Rice Krispies. Uh you know, as a little treat for him to uh other than the nutritious lunch. Uh last year we did a um uh let's see it was uh um the the Spud Mobile came down and talked to the kids about um agriculture um different recipes they can make with potatoes um and just learning about farming and just give them another experience that uh you know some things that they can do with uh um take home their family with recipes or things like that. It was kind of a fun day that
011the kids came in came in. It was like like a bus where they learned about the different uh potatoes and had fun activities they played like games and things like that. Uh this year um Mosini was awarded the cheers award by Chartwells and what that is is recognizing um the great staff that we have here. always in a great um mood, always doing anything they c can for the uh kids. Um just having that smile on their face every single day and working their hardest. Um and just living the core values of Chartwells. Um so they they won that and then um just um teaching the kids about uh the importance of eating healthy. Um this year I went and talked with the elementary kids uh the third grade and just had a fun day
012with them or a couple days with them. um and having a class there's a picture there of um me talking with the foods class of safety sanitation um uh a lot of times if they go out for a job they might have to take surf safe and surf safe is important in food industry of like you know you need that certification if you're going to go get a job or if you're going to be a manager somewhere and what they kind of look for things like that. So, we had fun with that a couple days. Um, and then just fun contests. Um, this one was a they did a cook for the day at the elementary or uh we had fun with um dressing up with um uh celebrating the the employees for the uh
013food service hero day. Um we had a contest who could dress up the best. Um the middle school won that with their uh milk and taco and things like that. But just getting the kids going and, you know, having to smile when they, you know, come into the the cafeteria and see us, uh, dressed up like, you know, crazy or something. But, uh, it was fun. Um, and then, uh, really important increase in sales, um, making money for the district, um, adding at the middle school some, uh, compliant alart options for the kids. Um, also this year we had some uh drinks that are compliant. Um, the kids really enjoy that. And then at the snack shack here at um the high school, adding some new options and adding some new drinks, too. Really important
014to push those sales up to uh try to make some money. Um uh looking forward to the new kitchen hopefully having um for the high school having the uh alcard option maybe um you know try to bring in more money uh for the district. Um but uh here's just showing you know how important activities are. Um, every single day we did a event. It increased participation except one day and that day I kind of messed up because I handed out swag and the kids wanted the swag rather than getting in line for breakfast. But it was something I learned from, you know, you got to have you got to have your breakfast before you get your prize or whatever. So, but it, you know, it was just a fun a fun thing. And then um
015uh things I'm working on is uh uh some activities. Actually, I already did the Hawaiian pizza. Um the kids love that. But some more more samplings for the kids. Um I've been doing a lot at the elementary, but um we did a few at the middle school this year and then the high school. We're doing one with uh Chef Brandon. Uh he's a corporate chef. He's going to be coming and doing a Global Eats event. Uh it's going to be um a Korean theme where it's going to have Korean dishes, something different for the kids to sample. And um definitely we've been working on the administrative review. Um the auditors are coming May 6th and 7th. Um everything has been submitted last week. So, um, we're just waiting for them to see if they need
016any more additional information and really looking forward to them to come to, uh, they're going to be visiting the high school site. So, just to see how we're doing and then to show off, um, all the good things we're doing. So, um, that's pretty much wrapped up. Um, I really appreciate your time. Uh, did anyone have any questions for me or I Yeah. Um, do you allow the kids to eat breakfast in the rooms? Like some of the neighboring districts will take a breakfast and a lunch count the day prior and then when they get into the classroom the their lunch or their breakfast, I'm sorry, is in a container waiting for them because I think that would have drive that engagement number up. Yeah, I think that's a good idea. Right now the kids
017primarily eat in the cafeteria, but I know the teachers do allow it. they have um especially for breakfast if they come in a little bit later. We have grab and go bag that they they get and they take it and eat it in the classroom. But I think the teachers are really open to doing that and making sure that the kids have a healthy meal especially to start the day for breakfast. I know we're doing whatever we can to get that first, you know, first uh food in them so they can have a full stomach and concentrate on their schooling. Yeah, because it's like, you know, they have to choose between going to the cafeteria to eat or going outside on the playground. They're going to go outside on the playground. And that's a problem
018we're having at the middle school. The kids love to go on the playground and talk with their friends. Sometimes they don't come and eat breakfast, which they probably should first, but that's an idea. Yeah, it's a really good good uh Any other questions, comments? Go ahead. Go ahead, Paul. Dave, do you know Rod at all? Our business manager? He is willing to volunteer to taste any samples if you're willing to do if you want to come to prepare food for him. Rod, you're you're okay with that, right? I have bland taste. So, but you'll see. Usually people who volunteer, another person really would prefer to do it themselves. Um, I just want to say, uh, Dave and his crew do a tremendous job. uh the the selections that this district has is is unreal uh
019for our kids to eat and they do a great job. And and I also want to just give kudos to Dave and his crew because they've been doubly involved, you know, doubly busy because we've had them actively involved in the design of the new high school kitchen cafeteria area. So, not only are they doing the day-to-day stuff, but we're also pulling them into some meetings every once in a while to help with the kitchen designer specifically um and and all that crew. So, thank you for impressed by this and just the involvement with the kids. It's Yep. We're in really good hands. As our uh committee approved their contract again tonight. Good. Thank you, sir. Thank you. There you go. All right, Dustin, you're up. No, you have to present something to him. I thought
020that was after. No, you presentations later. Go ahead. You can do the presentation. Out of order. I'm sorry. It's number seven. I thought that he would do his thing first. Okay, whatever. Let's do it after. All right. Okay. Go ahead, Dustin. You're right. make my mistake. It's okay. Okay. Good evening, esteemed faculty. Family, career, and community leaders of America recently competed at the state level. Students competed in job interview, teaching children, and more. It was a great success. All students returned with a golden placed in the top three competitors in Wisconsin. Many members will now have the opportunity to to take Mosy back to the national competition for the third year in a row. This year, nationals will be in Orlando, Florida. Soon FCCLA will members will start planning fundra fund raisers wow to cover
021the cost of attending a competition of this size. Members will start gearing up for a banquet at the end of the year to to celebrate the success of their FCCLA club. The Mosy FFA chapter started inducting middle schooler middle schoolers into their chapter. The younger members are already working hard attending the EDGE conference in Green Bay. EDGE is an annual conference where FFA members can make new connections with other members from around the state. They also learn about the opportunities the organization offers and gain leadership skills helping them throughout high school and beyond. Student Senate juniors hosted their night in Paris themed prom this past Saturday. Students from all grades attended and were able to enjoy a night filled with lights and dancing. This night represented the hard work that our junior class officers have
022put into this event over the past few months and it clearly showed. Student senate members are preparing for the annual evening of elegance. This event is highlighted by dinner and entertainment for Mos community members. Student senate members volunteer their time to hand out food, run games, and then clean up afterwards. Mosy Skills USA competed in their state tournament this month as well. Skills USA is a national organization that empowers students to become worldclass working professionals and leaders. The organization provides training, leadership development, and comp care career competitions in a wide range of skill, service, and technical occupations. Through skills USA, students earn hands-on experience and develop workplace and personal skills that will help them in their chosen field of work. Unfortunately, no members of the Mos chapter placed in their categories. However, as you can
023see, the students of Mosi continue to demonstrate leadership and growth growth skills across a variety of categories, making students more well-rounded every day. Thank you, sir. Dustin, if you would come forward, please. Dustin, I have to ask you a question. Did I happen to see you earlier? I don't I don't know what you're talking about. Okay. You have a certificate you would like to present to you. Thank you for your service to the school district, to the children, the citizens, the taxpayers of Mosin. Here you are. Thank you. Thank you. As always, you are excused if you have things to do. Otherwise, you're welcome to hang out with us. Thank you. What's too funny? I'm sorry I went out of order. That's fine. And now, since we're giving out plaques, it is my uh honor
024to give our three outgoing board members a recognition um for all their hard work. So, if those three individuals could come forward, we'll do it individually, then maybe we can have one picture of you collectively. So, I've got Peter on my hand. So, Peter, if you want to come up here, we'll get a quick photogenic opportunity. So, thank you for all of your dedication and hard work. There you go, sir. Kevin, don't go too far. [Applause] Thank you, sir. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah. You're welcome. All right. Now, if you get all three of you to have one group picture with Yeah. Yeah. Just have one group picture together. Why don't you go kind of near your cake? A rose between two thorns. Yeah. We have a cake here for afterwards, too.
025I just want, you know, obviously yours was upside down. being a being a board member is sometime a thankless position. Uh and uh uh it's a time commitment uh that they make to the district. So I just want to thank them for all your hard work. I've only had the opportunity to work with you for like 10 months, but it's been a great run and I thank you for all your hard work and dedication to the school district, taxpayers, children, and generations. So thank you. Thank you. And enjoy your free time. [Music] Item six, bullet four, discussion and possible decision donation by Astrader Industries. Yeah. Uh Paul Bartnick received another donation uh this time from Halfrighter Industries uh presented some aluminum to help with the shop uh and and kind of the area uh that
026he oversees. Uh so we just thank them for all their it's aluminum round and square stock plate. Uh, so we just thank them for their donation and appreciate all they will and that will be part of the next link. I put them in the link. So we want to thank them for that. And the letter goes to Yep. Yep. Thank you. Do we need to We need to Yeah. I'll make a motion to accept that donation. I'll second. Motion by Peter, second by Diane Gorman. Questions? All in favor say I. Opposed? Motion carries. Item six, number five, discussion and possible decision donation by the Freemasons from Wasa Forest Lodge number 130. We have uh some representatives from the Freemasons here. Uh they uh graciously are donating money to offset the cost of the negative lunch
027balances in the school district. So I don't know if you guys want to touch base on this for a minute or Yeah, if you don't mind, Mr. President, members of the board, um my name is Matthew Myers. I've got Matt Shelton, Scotty Wickas, who I'm sure you're familiar with, and Ryan Wajowski. Uh one of the core tenants of Freemasonry is relief. And to that end, we thought it would be nice to pay off the past due balances. So, we ask that you accept this on behalf of your students to distribute it throughout your district as you deem necessary. Hopefully get some of those balances down to zero, if not all of them. Well, thank you very much. Do you want to take the check and get a picture? You guys want to come up and
028present the check? Sure. We don't have the big big check, but this one you can cast. the other one. Thank you. Thank you very much. [Applause] We do need a motion and a second. Yeah, I'll be honored to be second on that one. Give it to you. So, we're good. I heard the second Donna Donna made the motion second by Peter. Questions. All in favor say I. Thank you gentlemen. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Parking or speeding tickets? No, not anymore. All right. I already did number seven out of order. Um any uh public forum requests? Yeah, we do have one. I believe we do. All right. If you would, uh, right there, Nelson, looking right over you. I'm sorry. So, uh, please come forward if you'd like or stay back there.
029Um, identify yourself, your address, and the agenda topic you wish to speak on this evening. Thank you, Mr. President. Um, my name is Nelson Pageig Jr. My address is 1023 Western Avenue, city of Moseni. And I would like to speak on agenda item 6 three board member recognition. I know you already did that but um first I'd just like to say is somebody watching the time you can talk as long as you want. No time this time depends on what you're going to say. Very good point. I have the gate to use this. Um, well, I want to thank you all for your service on the board. Um, I think we all know that uh decisions that are easy don't end up on your desk. It's the the tough ones that rise to the level
030of board. And I wanted to um thank the um board members that are retiring from their service on the board today. Um Mr. Hansen and Mr. Hermaning and Mrs. Kelly Zebro. Um I I didn't get to serve with Mr. Hansen or Mrs. Zebro, but I did get to serve um 20ish years ago with um Mr. Hermaning and um I was in the middle of my first I think the middle of my first term as board president when uh Mr. Hermaning uh joined us. He was he was appointed at that time to a vacant seat on the board. And I don't remember the exact year. I know it was the early 90s and it was January because the board meeting was on a Monday night because we were all going to Milwaukee the next day for
031the schoolboard convention. And um back then almost nobody had cell phones. So I was with a couple other board members checking into the hotel. And um when I checked into the hotel, they told me that there was a message for me. That was back in the days when hotels still did that and not a lot of people knew that I was going to be down there. So, of course, my first thought was there was an emergency at home. And uh the message was um Kevin Hermaning left this message for you and he wanted to thank you for your support last night in uh the uh vote for the appointment to the board. So, um some some people may or may not know that um Kevin and I come from different um political philosophies. I guess
032you could say. But I I have to say uh having been able to serve with him and get to know him and work with him um I think back in those days and I I know now um we were able to do a lot to um forward the cause of education and Mosi. So, um, just one other one other quick thing I have to say, and and I don't know if you'll remember this or not, but, um, back in the early 90s when I was serving first serving on the board with Kevin, um, back when I was young, I was still looking for jobs out of the area, thinking, you know, I'm not going to stick around here. Um, I had applied for a job in, I believe it was Rockchester, Minnesota, and I needed
033a letter of reference and Kevin was kind enough to write me probably the nicest letter of reference or recommendation I ever had. And I thought, wow, does he really want to get me out of town? Three minutes are starting. So I have to say I know it was very very sincere and very much appreciated. So so thank you Kevin and best wishes in your retirement from the board and uh Kelly and Peter best wishes to you as well and uh good luck finding things to occupy your free time. Thank you Nelson. Thank you. Uh, very kind. Thank you. If only all public forums were like that. Wouldn't need a timer. Item number nine, the consent agenda. Is there a motion? I'll make a motion. I'll second. Motion by Diane, second by Kelly. Any topics, issues
034to be pulled out of committees? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Item number 10, discussion and possible decision approval of the monthly voucher list. I'll make that motion to approve. I'll second. Motion by Peter Hansen, second by Kelly Zebro to approve the monthly voucher list. Roll call. Uh, questions. Roll call, please. Callie Jackie. Yes. One obstentric. Which one was the one? You've got the 153 966. Perfect. Thank you. Corman, yes. Hansen, yes. Yes. Kaiser, yes. Maple, yes. Soski, yes. Zebro, Zebro, yes. Thank you. All yes. Item number 11, discussion and possible decision, acceptance of the monthly treasures report. I'll make that motion. I'll second that. There's a motion by H uh Hansen, second by Kelly Zebro. Questions? Just real quickly, we uh in committee, we asked Rod about our uh
035compliance with fund balance based on board policy. Our big payment from the state comes in late June. Uh I believe the fourth Monday, I think you thought it was. And when that happens, then uh the board will um we do not have to go into fund borrowing at all, short-term borrowing. But um we will be in it's expected we'll be in compliance with our board policy of having more than 25% fund balance. So um all in favor say I'm sorry. Roll call, please. Zinsky, yes. Orman, yes. Hansen, yes. Hermaning, yes. Kaiser, yes. Maple, yes. Sinkovski, yes. Glander, zero, yes. Kelly, zero, yes. Thank you. Item number 12, uh 12.1 discussion and possible decision start college now and early college college credit program requests. Yeah, this is an annual request we have to do for start
036college now and early college credit program. uh those individuals uh are allowed as per state statute board policy 18 credits as long as it isn't a course that we offer or something similar that we offer. Uh otherwise uh we're required to basically approve them. Uh Tom is here if you have any questions of his recommendations regarding to what we approve uh for tonight but the administration recommends approval of those. Seeking a motion. I'll make the motion. I'll second. Motion by Ninsky. Second by Gorman to uh approve the recommendation from the administration. Um questions. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries unanimously. 12.2 discussion and possible decision student handbooks for 2025 to 20 to 2026 for the elementary, middle, and high school and uh 25 and six handbook changes. Uh the assistant principles have
037done a a tremendous amount of work on the on the handbook trying to consistent have consistent language across all of our handbooks. Uh so they have a a section that's like basically district type language and then there's a section for each that uh does a little variation based on building. Um they've provided a proposed they they've done a tremendous amount of work so we appreciate it to have some consistency across the board. We thank them for it. Uh they're here if you have any questions. Uh but uh they also listed the changes, the recommended changes. Probably the biggest one is yes, we are putting in cell phone more stringent cell phone policy in the high school next year. uh that's going to follow something similar to what the uh middle school has uh and and
038is actually rel probably even uh a little more stringent than the proposed bill before the state assembly or before the state legislature uh because that bill just dealt with cell phones and this one deals with although it goes down to iPod or earbuds and all the other things that Yep. that that are involved in that. So, um, it is our recommendation that we approve it. Is there a motion to accept the recommendation from the administration? I'll make the motion to approve. We have a motion by Gorman. Is there a second? A second. Second by Stankowski. Any questions about the approval of the handbook? Any recommendated recommended changes you'd like to discuss? I just have a question. Um because the cell phone policy for the high school is going to be such a big change. Are
039we putting that out there to the students and and family already? Uh the heads up and once it will be approved tonight uh it will be part of the uh weekly or monthly, I'm sorry, uh newsletter that the high school sends out to their parents. So yes, they're they're in the process of updating that once they get the the the approval tonight. Could we show that up on the screen just just the cell phone part? Is it just one year that the middle school had this or more than one? This middle school's in their first year right now. First year also. Yep. So one the incoming freshmen are of course already familiar. Yeah. Yep. Basically, the policy uh and and Tom and Kurt, you can chime in if I messed it up, but cell phones
040are are not on you during class periods. So, you have the ability to use it, check it, um at other times, but nothing in classrooms. Um and and the same during class. Yep. Yes. Um just in an effort to it's looks like 28 is the 32. 32 maybe 28. It's right there. Yep. Right here. Here it is. Oh. Okay. So, just Greg, for an update, what are we taking it from them now? They have it right. That's what I mean. They have it on their person. Now, they have to keep it in their locker. Yep. Okay. Or home or car. Okay. Gotcha. So that was kind of our distinction with the table there. We have the not allowed versus allowed. So allowed would be during passing time, lunchtime, um privileges. Um if they're staying in
041the commons and they have their privilege time, they can use it before and after school and then as directed through their health or individual plan because some do need them for diabetic tracking and things like that. So okay. And then not allowed would be during class time, instructional time. So that's the bell to the bell, bathrooms and locker rooms, study centers, um, in the library in AMC. Okay. Okay. Picking on those poor freshmen. They should be used to it. Freshman are It's going to be the other ones there. I'm going to have a freshman. I'm going to hear all about you. No, she's an eighth grade. I've already been hearing about it. I know, but I'm just freshman. Oh, it was next year. Yeah, we got a motion in a second. We do already. Any
042other questions? All in favor say I. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you to the administrators for all of your hard work. Good job. And that correction from today, right? Yep. Item 12.3 discussion of possible decision ice agreement with the Mosani Hockey Club from 2025 through 2028. Yeah, there was a convers bring this back. Uh so uh Rod and I met with the president and vice president of the uh youth hockey or Mosine uh group that that oversees that that we have the contract with. Uh we asked them to reconsider uh the contract. We also asked them for a longer term contract instead of a one-year contract. So, what they brought forward is a three-year contract. So, they're taking uh a little bit off of next year. Uh then the year after would be where it is,
043and then the year after that uh would be $1,000 increase. So, it goes up by a,000 bucks over the next two years. It would be my recommendation. Uh right now, it's only a three-year agreement simply because that's all the longer the hockey club has on the lease with the city. So, if they extend the lease with the city of Mosine, it would be my recommendation we look into engaging into a longer contract with them, a five-year type contract with uh opportunities to revisit renewal uh at at certain time periods in an effort. And and it would also be my recommendation. It was a conversation I had with with the the heads of the ice hockey too or the hockey club is let's look at some nominal increases on an annual basis to keep up with
044inflationary um versus every six or seven years 10 years we we all a sudden realize we haven't done anything for a while. So it's a 30 some% increase. Um it's just the easiest way to do it uh from consistency sake. So we are recommending approval of this agreement. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion. Motion by Ninsky. I'll second that. Second by Kelly Zebro to uh approve the ICE agreement as uh laid out this evening. Any questions? I just have a a yes a question. So, what I'm hearing you say, Mr. Governor Spike is that it was beneficial to sit down and have the conversation before starting the contract and working out some of the kinks and maybe getting a little bit of reduction initially, but then having that discussion and and at least
045setting the table that maybe we can have a longer contract. At least they know of your your position. Yep. Okay. All in favor say I. I. Opposed? Motion carries. Item 12.4 for discussion and possible decision approval of the employee benefits for 2025 2026. Uh I I recently we met with the uh staff insurance committee uh and looked at uh where we are going to recommend it or our proposed uh renewal for our health insurance. Our health insurance renewal came in at 10%. Uh when you look at our experience rate at where it is, uh 10% is a very good offer. Uh when you look at we're running about 124% through January. Uh you know and for those of you that don't get into it too much that information lags 3 months behind. Uh so you
046know we don't really have anything past January right now. We'll pretty soon probably be getting some data through March but we're not running very good. Uh so a 10% increase was actually very promising. And so it would be our recommendation that we take the 10% and move on. I think going out to bid would be not a good idea. With the experience rate we had, I think the numbers would only go up. So, it would be our recommendation to do that. And then we are self-funded in dental. Uh so, with a with a cap on how much each employee does and and based on usage, they're recommending that that increase is is 1.5%. Uh which is, you know, a nominal. Dental is not a a high cost item uh in in the grand scheme of
047it. So we are recommending a 10% increase on health and a 1.5% increase on dental. Did is this what M3 broker? Yeah. Okay. Then in accordance I'm going to cover my bases in accordance with policy 0144.3 conflict of interest. I must disclose my interest in M3 as I'm an employee not on the EB side. I have nothing to do with this but I am an employee nonetheless. I will be abstaining. Okay. Okay, I'll make the motion to approve uh as presented by administration. I'll second the motion by Hansen, second by Dinsky. Um I see that the plan um looks like it's an high deductible plan, right? Yep. Yep. Excellent. Yep. Same plan we've we've had. Uh and then we offer a HSA to staff. HSA. Yep. That's that's great. Uh, any other questions or comments?
048All in favor say I. I. Opposed? The motion carries. Item 12.5, discussion, spring election results and board of canvasers. Yeah, there's nothing to approve here, but the board of canvasers met to confirm the election results uh from April 1st, 2nd, whatever. April one. Yes. Not not a joke. It was April Fool's Day. uh and uh Derek Nest uh will be joining the board at the organizational meeting on the 28th. Dave Bower uh was elected at the ATL large seat and then Kandra was elected in the town of Mosani. So uh thank you to those individuals that oversaw the canvasing. Uh Kandra could not canv officially canvas for that because she was on the ballot but she was here to assist with any questions. So, we just want to thank uh those individuals that took part
049in that to certify our results. Thank you very much. Congratulations to those of you who have been elected. Enjoy. Item 12.6 discussion and possible decision student fees, fee changes for next school year. Uh there are some fee changes we're recommending uh that are included. A lot of them are fairly nominal. Probably the biggest change we're making uh which is actually common in uh in fees for athletics is a increase in the ice h the hockey fee uh because of as we just realized the increased expenditures in the sport related to ice time. It is not uncommon in school districts to have a larger fee for ice hockey. And I would say based on our analysis of of local schools that charge fees for ice hockey, ours is still uh low or in line, which I'm
050okay with. Uh I I just, you know, we're not here to to to feed people out of house and home. Uh but there is an increased expenditure in operating a sport of like that. So we're recommending that that fee goes from $40 to $80. Uh but other than that, uh the fees that are recommended in here are fairly nominal. Some of them just keep up with some inflationary increases, but uh nothing really drastic. And if you have any specific questions, administration is here to answer them for you. But we are recommending approval of this. Is there a motion? I'll make a motion to approve a second. Motion by uh Kaiser, second by Kander Zebro. Questions, comments? Is it correct that the egg fee is being reduced? It's not a typo. Correct. Correct. Okay. Thank you.
051Any other questions, comments? All in favor say I. I. Opposed? Motion carries. 12.7 discussion and possible decision alternative character curriculum. Yeah, as as you know, uh we are a leader in me school district currently. Uh it is going to be administration's recommendation that we move away from leader and me and and find an alternative one. Uh that will be one we create or one with a nominal amount which when we get finalized we will bring that to you. If there is a a cost associated with it. Uh but when you look at budgets and you look at the amount of money that leader and me costs us it is our recommendation that we move away from leader and me. So, I just want to get your formal blessing, I guess you would say, to explore
052an alternative character. Uh, and you can call it character ed, you can call it softskll development. You know, it's it's all kind of that same concept, uh, of of of how we're going to, you know, help educate kids about how to be good citizens and how to act with soft skills and some of those skills that, uh, we constantly hear that kids are struggling with. Uh, a lot of it has to do with those devices that are in their hands and they be really good with thumbs, but we want them to develop more skills and have strong thumbs as they type things uh on their phone. So, it is our recommendation that we move away from leader and me. I'll make a motion to go away from leader and me and develop an alternative character
053curriculum. I'll second. We have a motion by Hansen, a second by Maple. Any questions? All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Item 13, administrative reports. Yeah, I just want to touch on a couple things. Uh, you know, I'm not going to go through everything. Obviously, you can see on here uh building project stuff. We have the new board member uh situation going on uh or training on Tuesday. One of the things I just want to touch base uh with with the group here uh is we were fortunate enough to book John Demay to come talk to our students about extortion. Uh he's coming to speak with our 712 students. Uh we will be recording the presentation. Uh he is in Anigo the 23rd. He's coming here the 24th. Uh we're going to do
054it in the morning. Uh we are not having him and I'll explain that in twofold. We're not having him do our parents the night of the 24th simply because every athletic team we have has something scheduled that night and we just we didn't know what kind of attendance we got. But uh we have uh been asked to be a part of the the uh event that DC Everest is putting on. They're kind of spearheading along with Marathon County uh in response to the the tragic situation that happened with one of their students. Uh so they have secured the Grand Theater. Uh the Grand Theater donated their space for an event on April 30th. They're going to have some resource booths available kind of in the area. John Dea is actually going to come speak to
055that as well and a panel of speakers. uh and that's going to be for parents and students to attend together. So, we are going to be promoting both of those events with our our our uh uh our parents and students. We are not going to release our recording though of the 24th until after the 30th because we don't want to try to undermine what DC Everest has going and and all of Marathon County. We want to give them the opportunity to uh have a good attendance and and be have people go there in person. But if they aren't able to attend the 30th, then we will release our recording sometime soon after that to our families to uh to listen to. But uh just want everybody to know that we are actively a part of
056this um and as this has become a fairly large topic in our area and it's a topic that should be fairly large. So I just wanted to give you guys an update on that. Any comments? Any other uh questions about any of the admin reports? All right. Thank you. Um other reports number 14, WSB report. Kelly, your swan song. Yes. Last one. Um as Greg had said, the marathon um region 5 is doing for new board members is on the 22nd and we did move that meeting to the 28th. The reorg is the 28th. Yes. If you want to go the 22nd, um I am going uh with the two new board members. Dave is going to meet us there. Dererick and I are going to ride together over there. So, if you are interested,
057let me know and I'll let you know what time we're leaving from the district office so we can um do that. But if you uh don't want to ride over or can't, it's 7:00 in the Marathon Library at Marathon High School. And then I just have two more things. There's a WSB webinar. It's on May um 20th 12 to 1 and then 7 to 8. And that's if you have any questions or so it might be good for even some of the older board members. Yep. Even the newer ones to sit on that and they'll be more experience. Yes. Very much not the old May 20th. Is it? Well, they have a 12 to one, you know, in the in the afternoon, but they have that going. Then I I do believe it's going to
058be recorded so you can look. They usually do. And then also for the last um to they say to be a part of the convention. So I don't know if any of our choir would like to our band or whatever but you have until um June 20th to propose something and you can also go in and do sessions if you have something that you were doing new in the system which we are doing a few things that we might want to advocate for. That would be that and I conclude my report. Thank you, Kelly. Happy tonight. CIA 9 report. Um, CIA 9 report. Uh, there wasn't a whole lot, but I have a question for you, Greg. Yes. Um, there they had a presentation um about the Wisconsin virtual school. Do you know anything about
059that? Yeah, there was a little bit of presentation up at our pack meeting recently. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, but we're affiliated with the Rural Virtual Academy. Y I just I didn't know where our district was with that. Yeah. No, we've committed a few months ago we committed to a a fiveyear reup with RVA. Yep. Well, okay. And um now they opened up celebrations for the board members. So some of the the people on the board can bring um what events and things that their schools are doing to the season 9 meeting and it's on the report. Nothing really in our area. So anyway, a new item they started. Okay. Thank you. Item 15, future agenda items. Yeah, there's three of them uh I have on here. Uh number one is the membership audit. We should have
060our our findings back from that. Uh special education presentation is up next month as well. And then last is uh the board at at some point in the near future is going to have to engage in a conversation about how we're going to handle our vacant board seat. Um so after Kandra decides if she's taking the oath of office or not on the 28th, we'll know which seat's going to be vacant. uh and then we can have a conversation of how uh the plans are with the with the new board how you want to handle that. Thank you. Item 16, movement into closed executive session. The board will go into close section pending or uh regarding section 19.851c 851C considering employment, promotion, compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental
061body has jurisdiction.