001final turn. Awesome. We'll get started. Call this meeting to order. Um, as noted in the agenda um up here, we had a little bit of a change in plans um in terms of how we're conducting this meeting. I say that everyone made it from the board, but we did make it uh available for people to be to join virtually if they preferred. and we extended that offer to our citizenry. We have a couple of folks on live. So, thanks for joining us. Appreciate having you uh with us this evening. Um and if anyone else uh is joining this broadcast midway um as noted on the agenda, there is a chance for citizens comments toward the beginning of the meeting and again at the at the end to um volunteer yourself and get three minutes of
002time to discuss and you just have to email Dr. Seno and let him know the information is their name, address, any children attending the district and uh we'll be able to queue you up. Um Dr. Seno, has this meeting been probably noticed? >> Yes, it has. >> Outstanding. Uh do a quick roll call. Joel >> here. Leah >> here. >> Jessica >> here. >> Sarah >> here. here too. Uh I did my work tonight and everything. SO let's dance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Would someone like to read the mission statement? >> The Morb Area School District in partnership with the community community is dedicated to nurturing, educating, and challenging all students, preparing
003and empowering them to be productive, responsible, and self-fulfilled members of society. >> Thank you, Jessica. Uh, as we look at our agenda tonight, we made some decisions to not have people have to drive in on a snow day, as you'll notice. So, I would suggest that we proposed a revised agenda that notes that we don't have our student spotlight for this one. We'll bring that back at a later time. And also, our art students, same thing. >> Motion to approve approve the revised agenda. >> Second. >> All right. Motion by Tom and a second by Carly. All in favor? >> Any opposed? Great. Thank you. The next up is our March 2nd regular board and closed session meeting minutes. Bring up there either a motion to uh pass or if there's anything that needs to
004be corrected. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> We've got a motion by Carly, a second by Joel. All in favor? I >> I any opposed? >> All right, good for minutes. We'll obviously skip 3A uh with our student spotlight. Um and we'll fold any building good news that you might have in the school uh school news. Dr. Serno, also our board recognition of our show participants. Again, just like can't wait to uh have our students here uh later date and celebrate all of their talent. Um Dr. Solerno, another pinching opportunity about our student attendance at the Daka International Conference. This is so exciting. Uh we get to uh pending your approval tonight, send 17 students to Atlanta, Georgia. Uh some to compete at international competition. Uh some students who will be participating uh in
005the leadershipmies that they have. Uh this is the culmination of a great deal of work on the part of our young people and our amazing business uh team and I I give a tip of the hat to Allison Carol. Uh she's been responsible for shephering this process through and uh we're very fortunate every year for as long as I can remember sending students to an international competition. So uh this speaks to the quality of our young people and the preparedness they have and we ask for your thoughtful consideration of that that trip. We'd be looking for a motion to approve as >> stated. Any other discussion about that? >> Can I just ask a question? I noticed on the application um concerns around relying on Sports U for communication. Is that the um what did
006the London trip do to handle those concerns? And and are we what what will our response be to that particular >> I I should tell you I know what we did on London. I once it's gone, it's gone. They use WhatsApp. >> WhatsApp. Thank you. Cuz Thank you. Cuz it's international. >> International. >> Yeah. >> Will do you think the the solution here will be something similar? >> Okay. >> I'm confident we can get to a good spot for that. >> Okay. >> Thanks for asking. >> Just wanted to ask about that. >> Thanks for the assist. >> Motion to approve. Second. >> Motion by Jessica, second by Sarah. All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Great. We'll send those students on to Atlanta. Our best wishes. Um, school news. We don't have Andrew or
007Jack here tonight. Do anyone like to lead off? >> I'd be happy to share. >> Or we could have Dr. Maybe I'll just get the prime the pump primed. Uh, tomorrow is a big day for our students. We have students taking both the preac and the ACT test. Um uh we're grateful uh to have had this extra day for our students today to prepare as I know that they likely hit the books hard uh on a snow day. I know some of them are working hard and many of them were probably practicing for the band show as well. Uh the next time we meet uh the meeting of the band show uh will just about uh uh come I think it's April 8th, 9th and 10th. I could be wrong about that, but it's going
008to be a great show. Uh I hope the banquetss this Thursday. >> Yes. I'm planning on attending >> and it look like and I wanted to confirm this but uh that it's open to all >> and free which is amazing. >> There's you can there's a raffle. We came home with a toy chainsaw last year. >> It's a huge event. It is worth the gym is filled. >> Yes. >> Yeah. also has a hard time. >> Awesome. >> Anyone else with any school news? >> Um yeah, some some of our sports teams wrapped up. Um they had really success successful seasons. Um and congratulations to all that participated. Um I know they maybe would have liked to gone on a little bit farther, but they did really well. >> Yeah. And then I have a
009note um that I should have said at the last meeting and I somehow missed it. Um but we had a former teacher pass away, Mrs. Joyce Wall um passed away on 227 and she taught uh 27 years in the district um fourth and fourth and fifth grade um levels during that time and um best wishes out to her family and so >> yeah thanks thanks for mentioning that people talking about that around town. I can add one thing. Um I went to the disagree better presentation at the library that the district um is a co-sponsor of um it was really interesting, very informative. There was good crowd there for was that it last Monday? >> Last Monday, which was not like tonight. It was a lovely day. Um but it's going to be an ongoing
010series. I think there's talks of maybe even doing stuff in the school. So, just something to continue to pay attention to cuz um they're putting some thought and it's good work. >> Was the what was the don't like there? What what were your key takeaways on that? >> I would say that the I mean everyone was that was there was engaged and paying attention and eager to participate. Um the woman that was speaking presented some different options of the way that she has led like community facilitated conversations in the past and then asked the group like oh which one do you think would be good for Mount Horb and everybody had suggestions and ideas of formats and possible topics and I mean they seemed like they were eager to continue to do more. >> Yeah.
011I would say that the audience tended to be my age and older primarily, but uh there was, you know, that I think they were all willing to Yeah. I mean, I think that I to your point that it was positive. It was people there who wanted to engage >> to have conversations. Yeah. >> Cool. So, just the sub30 crowd is what you're saying. I I don't want to say that there was an NPS sub3. >> Um, >> yeah, not to say that there weren't any, but it was a >> Yeah, >> again, it was a lovely day. But >> I know groups have tried to do that in the past in town and that was limited success. So, it's nice that we're giving it another shot. Well, and the fact that the district is participating
012and they've reached out to the village and so I think there's, you know, and with the library leading it, there's a lot of um good people coming together to play in it. >> Yeah. The school district will be hosting a a disagree better supper, what they call deliberation dinner uh this July, date to be announced. Uh but uh the topic is going to be around mental health and wellness uh not only for our young people but uh the community as well. So be a good conversation. We'll let you know more once those states have been selected. >> Great. Um Dr. Serno, did you want to touch on your world tour at all of various municipalities? >> Yes. In fact, um there's one going on tonight at 7:00, but um I've gone ahead and rescheduled uh
013for April 20th. That will be at the town of Springdale. Other than that, we've had an opportunity. Thanks for joining me, by the way. you were a special guest star on a couple, wasn't it, though? Yeah. To to sing uh the great things that are happening, the support we have from our community to allow us to do the kinds of things that we're doing. Really remarkable. And allowed us to offer a personal invitation to the April 7th uh 8:15ish um groundbreaking ceremony we're going to have over at the new elementary school. I've got to get that in my vernacular. We no longer going to call it the ELC or EC. is the elementary school. Uh more details will be sent out but uh uh lots to celebrate in this community and it wouldn't be possible
014without an amazing um support of our parents and our community members. Yeah, it was uh we get very positive feedback from the groups that were there and um uh one the meeting that was a bit smaller and one that was larger and a little bit even charged uh with energy and um just amazing support for the schools from those people. It was just awesome to be able to share our story and as Dr. personally appointed to come to them now with a a hat and trying to uh talk about a referendum but talk about like the payoff and what they're getting for their money out of it. So, it was cool. Thanks to Sarah Straa for being out too. >> Yeah. >> Thank you for doing that. >> Yeah, those are good. >> Um any
015other school news yet? >> I have one. Uh the middle school science olympiads was this Saturday and we have some kids some groups that may qualify for state. >> That's wonderful. >> Yeah. So very exciting. >> Yeah. Yeah. These are great. I love all these competitions. >> Right. Make them all really good public speakers. Can can I ask was there a good turnout for the village the Canada forum on Saturday that was hosted here? >> There was I was going to um roll that into the village update but I could put that out here since that was covered. Yeah, it was I would say what 60 to 75 kind of depending on who was participating versus or facilitating you know versus just there as an audience member. um great format. You know, sometimes you go
016to those and it's either softballs or generic questions that are just so vague you can drive a truck through them. There were a lot of like pointed um questions coming at the candidates. You said this, >> you know, what how would you handle this and the audience had a chance to submit their own questions and write them down as well and so they show up anonymously. But um it it was it was good and it was you know it was a reminder for all of us who've been in those like you feel the heat when you're up there and you're getting a question that you're you know maybe not that well versed in. Um I thought all the candidates did a really good job of like uh you know kind of taking their time and
017forming their their good answers on it. Um, I think my general takeaway on it is we've always had such a recent times, such a great working relationship with the village board and I heard a lot of positive things from the candidates about our school district and the job that we do. I think that we have some conversations to be had about where we want to take that partnership and the implications of decisions that happen at the village board level that affect the school population, school finances. Um, I think that we it'll be listened to perceptive ears that way. Um, and uh, there's a lot of other big questions that the village is wrestling with right now about spending and investments and taxes and whatnot. So, there's a lot of factors that go on, but um,
018I like to think that we have some people on who are fans of education. >> Yeah. >> That are up there anyway. >> That's great. They've already posted the video. The video is already ready. Yes. >> Yes. Troy Troy TV. >> Uh, yes. But there's there's a link around to it so that you can you can find I think it's on the trolling community or things going around around town. Yeah. >> Or if we're Facebook friends, I shared it so that I could find it easier there. >> The legal women voters um who are partners in getting that set up and you know how valuable they are in getting word out. Want to thank uh the Mount Hor as well as the Mount of Noon Rotary and of course Kathy Scott who put a lot
019of great deal of time getting this all organized. It was really nice to attend it. Thanks for asking. >> Yeah, it was cool to have it in our nice facility too. The >> cafeteria area the for the atrium area was phenomenal >> for the sub30 crowd again. >> Exactly. Exactly. We need to go to Vegas for that. >> Good. Uh, Dr. Seno, we know citizens of the room. Is anyone online indicated any interest other than to just say hello? They're here in support of our young people and uh the board of education appreciation, but I will turn it over to them just in case I've missed that. We're grateful to have Mrs. McKini and uh Sue Hunberg also on the call here tonight. So good to see you both. Thank you. >> Great. Thanks for
020joining again. Um Dr. Stiller, no personal track transactions in our first item up. Anything that uh warrants any extra retention? >> Nothing to highlight but a continued gratitude to Aaron Esinger and Patty Weber for always doing such a fine job getting us squared away. Thank you. >> Motion to approve. Second. >> Got a motion by Jessica and a second by Sarah. All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? All right. Motion passes on our uh consent agenda. Okay. Dr. Seno, anything that you'd like to call out on this section? >> Uh not at this time. Thank you. Uh Ben, your pardon. I am mistaken. I do want to make mention of a generous gift that was given to us. Forgive me. Um for I'm looking sideways here. I'll open this up for our viewers. Uh this
021is a wonderful donation that was given to us by the music boosters um to help with our intermediate center uh coral program. Uh Scott drew this uh picture for us uh as you can see for the finance committee the other night and see one of the students studying here today. Uh but no seriously we are always eternally grateful to the for the generosity shown by our music boosters and we think this uh set of flexible seating is going to help us out tremendously. So thank you. Motion to approve consent agenda. Second. >> Got a motion by Con, a second by Jessica. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed. Excellent. Um, we can move on to our discussion items. Looks like our first one up is uh the community and legislative engagement committee, Sigma. >>
022Okay. Uh, so we last met February 23rd. Um all right. And so we reviewed current legislative developments. Um particularly of note is that the legisl legislative session ended without a resolution on special education funding. Um negotiations between the governor and legislature continue on that. Um the assembly passed a proposal related to the 400-year veto. Um, so this proposal would limit the governor's veto powers going forward. Um, if it does move forward, it would essentially go to Wisconsin voters on a future ballot. Uh, we discussed creating simplified school funding materials uh for the community, uh, legislator outreach template for families to be able to contact legislators easier, um, and then a funding pamphlet aligned with the district website. Uh we also discussed a potential post sess post post session oped um to be published in the
023Mount Hor as well as gathering readership data from the Mount Hor to compare with social media um engagement. uh updates were shared on our upcoming recent and upcoming community community engagement efforts um such as the Greater Day County uh school governance consortium um that the presentation of the districts prepared for a future message across different our district municipalities and then um the Viking leadership legacy uh initiative that was uh received strong staff participation and will move into a storytelling phase in partnership with the Drifless Historium. uh communication engagement initiatives highlighted included the implementation of parent square as a unified district communication platform. Um the disagree better um discussion that was held at the library and then um family literacy learning night. And then finally, so we discussed exploring what we what we named as an
024a Viking ambassador model um to strengthen community and legislative engagement through a structured ambassador program. Um so this the committee is working on this and approved bringing this framework to the full board in the future for consideration. I believe that is all I have. >> That's a lot. >> Yeah, that was really good. Any uh any questions for Sarah? >> Jessica, education. >> All righty. We met on Monday, March 2nd, and we had the good fortune to have Tiffany Forsth and Logan Wckery. Is that the proper way? Um from the middle school math team come and present to us. Um they did a fantastic job um talking about great minds, Eureka math. um we got to ask them questions and look at um the kind of work that the students do. So that was great.
025Um then we went over policy 853 military recruitment again. Um it had been presented before but then Sarah did a few more revisions and so that will be coming to the April 6th meeting agenda I believe. And then we talked about curriculum updates. the middle school. Uh LEA staff visited Glac Glacier Creek Middle School um in Middleton to observe um the SAVIS my perspective which our team is currently piloting um and they are going to have a new EL ELA resource um to propose to us by May 4th. And then um oh this was also really interesting that Sarah presented all this different Wisconsin personal finance literacy standards and what we're doing at the elementary grades um with junior achievement. I think Joel volunteered to do a few things. Yeah. And then uh we did
026we talked about grading and assessment. Um there's a team that it was going to meet the following day um with some consultants from First Education. So I'm sure we'll hear about that at our next meeting about how that went. Um and then Sarah presented briefly on the February 9th training uh belonging training that the staff had which we've talked about a few different times at different meetings. That's it. >> Great. Um and was there any community coalition? >> No. in import. I didn't think so. I'm up for a discussion on the village on hor liaison report. A couple of things to update already mentioned that candidate forum and obviously it's four candidates for two seats on um April 7th, correct? Ser date. >> Um the some other stuff coming out. I know that the village
027board is really uh excited by the fact that after that year of work by all committees, citizen staff, consultants, and public input, they passed the new updated zoning zoning code. Um from their standpoint, it's very thorough document that will prevent a lot of time administrative work being done by the uh staff uh generated by the outdated code, try to answer questions related to that. um acknowledgement. It's not a perfect document. It's a living document, but um excited to have that to rely on going forward for some of the big decisions that will come in front of them. Um the two building development of 101 perimeter and the old Caracall received final approval. Um one one building of lowerc cost units for seniors, one building of market rate apartments. um great for the village and also
028uh nice to know for us just given that's a a pretty heavy footpath for a lot of students and making the way over to the library next door. So really good news to take care of that blighted property. Um the as we know the as people have seen have driven past the uh apartment building down at first and front is now under construction. There's being a foundation dig for that. Um, and one last thing out of that's going on there, uh, public safety meeting tonight, looking at a draft of a pedestrian and bicycle safety plan. Um, enhancing signage, designated safe walking and cycling routes and just creating a more safe atmosphere. So, obviously a lot of crossover there with with our kids and uh people who come for school events and whatnot. So, excited to
029learn more about that. And um do we were we able to share our documentation with them? I assume I've met with a member of their team maybe about 2 weeks ago and they're very earnest about wanting to implement safe and productive pathways for our young people. >> Yeah. Good. Any other questions on on that one? All right. we can move on to our summer school information presentation. Sarah Straka. >> Thanks. >> So, we have a short presentation with similar information from the past, but it'll just look a little different because this summer looks a little different for all of us in the school district. Uh, so summer school registration has opened for those students um that we have first round invites for. So, back with uh parent teacher conferences last week, um we make sure
030that students who maybe need skills booster support in reading or math provide invitations ahead of time. Um so, we have that practice in place and it's actually pretty good because with act 20, which you've all been learning about over the past probably two years, um we need to ensure that those who have reading plans, personal reading plans for reading are um provided invitation to summer school. So that ensures this we have a nice structure in place already. So it works out perfectly for us. So those invites went out and families are registering those for strong invites as we speak. Then after spring break, we always open up the remaining seats to the rest of the public. So that goes live on that Tuesday that we come back from spring break. We stay away from Monday
031because it's Monday. Families are probably still coming back. They don't have reliable Wi-Fi. We we've learned the hard way on that. So, we've had feedback to open up on Tuesday instead. So, we continue that practice as well. Usually fills pretty quick within a week and then we'll probably look at closing it either that Friday or that Monday. So, logistics, we've been rotating our school buildings. Um, and we are at the middle school this year for three weeks only. So, we have a one session. Typically, we have two two week sessions, but this year we have one 3-week session. We felt like that was a good medium between what we typically do versus having a shorter summer. Um, we have the leadership returning that we've had last year, which was great to have that continuity. So,
032Katie Hardman was going to present tonight, but I said, you know, Katie, you don't have to drive in. I got you. So, uh, that's why I'm here in place of Katie. So, she sent her regards. We are down in staffing this year because we do have a shorter summer. You can see that there. And then we'll still offer transportation from our central locations throughout the school district. Even though uh we have a smaller program, we were fortunate to have some new staff members and some people who are interested in bringing some new classes as well. So we do have four new enrichment classes being offered. And then we have some of our good and great coming back as well. And just a breakdown then of the current 26 program versus the 25 program. And you
033can see again just um just a small program, but that's okay. We'll see if you know families if if they're available anyways this summer with everything else trying to pack in rec department and all the other good things happening in our community. Uh so we will fill up and we're still going to offer it. It's going to be a great time for all. Uh, if I remember correctly, don't we have some high school students that help out? >> We do. >> Okay. How do they sign up for that and when did they sign up for that? >> Yeah. Uh, man, I think Miss Harland might have sent that out. I remember seeing a couple slides that she had shared with me to get some feedback on like a month a month and a half ago.
034Um, I would think by now she would have had that out, but I can ask her if I can follow you on that time. But she's already started that process and finding volunteers just like she did last year. We had a lot of volunteers last year. It really helped out. >> Silver cord from them, correct? >> Yep. >> Yeah. They'll receive 60 hours of silver cord if they go 3 weeks. >> Okay. That's 20 hours each week. >> Do they reach out to the eighth graders cuz they can start earning that summer? >> Correct. She she might we have had incoming freshmen do it in the past. So I'm assuming that that's there as well. Would you like me to? >> Yeah. Yeah. I'll confirm my kids graduation requirement. So for to graduate high school.
035>> Okay. Yes. I know who signs the diplomas. So, yeah, I can uh I'm done here. I can text Courtney to surely make sure that's still the case. But >> Sarah, I know this is a long way off, but um the longer summer >> Yeah. >> in 27 and just how you're looking at that, any lessons learned, are you kind of like looking as a mirror almost of this year into next year? >> Yeah, I mean, I I think we'll return to our our typical programming. Um well this will probably be in June most likely um to have a little little break especially in that May time. Um we haven't gotten too far into that planning yet though. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Once once once once our sessions get too long it's hard sometimes for
036staff as >> right. I do remember in 2018 we had a similar circumstance uh when we got an extended um time for building construction. We did offer some more not remedial support but uh more uh >> it was also during co so it's just it was a weird time too. >> 2018. >> Oh me teams. >> Yeah. Yeah. No worries. Um it felt like 2018, right? But >> yeah, we could offer some more uh kinds of activities where kids can get in and just network and be social with one another. >> Also, we've always had a tight end of school year, summer school, most that following week. So it's nice to have a little bit of breath. I mean, we want to get more staffing. >> Oh, okay. Sure. It's great. >> Yeah. >> Super
037job as usual. Sarah, please extend our gratitude to the team. >> Yep. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. >> Want to take the Disney music class. I have all the songs. >> All right. Board volunteer boards over on to you. Item C, information and advocacy report. co-curricular participation and opportunities. Brian Johnson. >> Yeah, this is a quicker um information advocacy report. Last year was the first year we've looked at it um and putting the data in from one year to the next. And so what we're specifically looking at is students that are in grades 6 through 12 participating in school sponsored activities. Um and that includes um clubs um and it also includes like after school sports. So who what percentage of our kids are participating? Um and so we included two tables um
038and so um what you can see is that last year we had 68% of our students participating and this year we were at 74%. They can't quite see it but that's what I remember. There we go. Yeah, 74%. So, we've seen a 6% increase in students participating. Um, the district has kind of made a a conscious effort to also include clubs um where you think of it traditionally as after school, right? So, that there's a lot of barriers to that participation um for some kids. Um and this year in particular um having more kids being able to participate in clubs like sources of strength is during stack periods. So like we can do some more activities that are during the day to increase participation um because we ultimately know and and a lot of the
039data shows that kids who are participating in school sponsored activities whether that's clubs or in sports are more have a higher sense of belonging within the whole school community. um they're more engaged, they have less absenteeism, all of those things. Um and so this is a great increase of 6% that we hope will continue. Um and yeah, and so when you when you really look at it, like the direct 6%, right, is students who are in 2% or more or two or more. Um but maybe kids who were in one moved up to two and so we or they just jumped in full you know full throttle. So uh but we know that um it's an increase and so we're moving in the right direction. Um I think that's pretty much what Brian if you
040don't mind me adding this comes at a time of course when our enrollment is dropping a little bit at the secondary level. So kudos to our coaches and our sponsors, our administrators, teachers for all you're doing to encourage our young people to get involved. We know the data is very clear about student involvement in in activities and what that does academically. >> There is kind of a caveat in the data as well just as a note of clarification. Um clearly as kids gain um they gain grades there's more activities to participate in. um specifically sixth grade has very few activities to belong in and so um it's really hard to get more involved. The more offerings you have meet more kids needs and so that does increase as kids get older. Um just a just
041a point of clarification for sixth grade. >> Do can I ask >> any questions on the data report? >> Yeah. Do we know how that compares to the national average? I do not >> I thought we did when we first established Thanks for asking the question. Uh when we first establish this is a power goal for the board. Um we we exceeded the national average. I'm sorry. I don't remember what the percentage was, but I do remember obviously um when it came to urban areas, we absolutely exceeded. Suburban areas we were relatively in concert with. Um and rural areas, we exceeded. So, when we think about school districts that are similarly sized, I think we were in a really good spot. Okay. >> I can gather the data if you'd like or if that suffices.
042>> That's okay. Okay. Right. I think the only other thing that comes to mind is know I know that we added uh some additional sports opportunities this year. Just wondering if there are any other clubs that popped on the scene or is it higher participation in existing clubs? >> Yeah, I think it's existing clubs, but I think that some you know I I think of um just cuz I we just presented in safety and wellness too, right? Sources of Strength was a new program that was um started last year um and really gained momentum this year. Right now, this year we have 57 for students participating in Middleland High School. Um I think of some clubs that I know started a couple of years ago but really kind of have grown the last few years,
043right? When you think of um the um the tech the esports, right? like they're really growing at a huge number. And so I think that, you know, they might have not just started this year, but they started a few years ago, but like now they're they're getting that momentum going and a lot more kids are are joining, right? >> Same with like was it HOSA? And then there's the the >> it's not called home anymore, but the home like family consumer education one would their acronym I could never remember. But both those clubs are in the last couple years too and HOSA had some ridiculous number I just saw on like our Facebook. There's >> so many kids. there's 60 plus kids in the health occupations program >> and then Skills USA I think is
044what you were referring to and just doing they're tearing it up not just in >> uh family consumer but also in the tech uh knowledge education programs >> and I think there's another one that uh Miss Schultz was running they were doing something with I can't remember >> that started like last year and the year before too I think we're getting more options I definitely think we need some more options for the sixth graders cuz there's no sixth grade sport like they don't start till seventh grade, >> right? >> I think one thing that that was new this year um was the addition of adaptive sports. >> So when you think of our traditional students with intellectual disabilities might not be participating in in extracurricular activities now have an opportunity to um in the fall
045and in the spring. Um, also Molly Veric, who's the program support teacher for special education, will be starting next year. She got a grant to do the Best Buddies program for students with disabilities and without, kind of working together. Um, and so we're kind of looking at groups of of who is not able to participate or who doesn't have access and then trying to close those gaps. So hopefully that'll keep increasing and and numbers will keep growing. Other questions for Brian? All right. Thanks. Uh, thanks for your report, Brian. Thanks for all the work. >> Okay. Uh, here complete retention rate. >> Thanks for driving in to hang out with us. Yeah, >> thanks for the sun that came out today and melted a little bit, so it needed a doable drive. No, glad to
046be here. Um, this is the yearly employment um uh retention report. Um, just kick things off, just a little information um both uh nationally, regionally, and and locally on employment trends and workforce stability. Um, current trends nationally and state level. um are from the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics. Um about 4.4% um is the unemployment rate nationally, lower in the state of 3.1 and this was as of December 2025. Um and in Dayne County, even lower than that at 2.4. Um workforce mobility though remains rather high. Um I think this is uh trending different in the last few years. Um again um um in December 2025 about a monthly across all industries a monthly rate of 2% um which equates to an like an annualized rate of a roughly 24% turnover in all industries.
047Um I thought it also was interested interesting that the Midwest um actually was a 2.4% um voluntary turnover um which is higher than the rest of the nation. Um, as you probably are aware, turnover rates are very different based on different industries. Um, transportation, food service are some of the highest turnover rates. Um, with about 4.1 monthly um to 5.3 um in those areas, indust uh the public education industry is lower um with about the 2 to 2.6% 6% monthly rate. So, those are just some context to think about um as we do some local comparisons. Um I think this this general information though does just emphasize the the local labor market with low unemployment and naturally high turnover um increases competition, right? Um as we look at retention rates locally, um you will notice
048a few things in the um uh graphs or the tables below. Um figure 2 talks about voluntary resignation and retirement which are both included there. Um uh our retirement and resignations remain generally consistent within the past five years with just a slight increase from last year. Um I think a couple things just to note when looking at this um for the the current year we did uh the district did have to implement a reduction in force which um prioritized um attrition and voluntary resignation. So that also could be um uh contributing to some of the slightly higher numbers. Um when you look at uh specifics in employment categories um you can see that when we look at all employees with the 12.1 again this does include um retirements um with the industry uh national level
049around 24% were significantly lower than that. Um you do see um some higher numbers in the pair professional area and this has been a topic in our personnel committee um meetings as well. Um these these two areas especially special education pair professionals tend to be higher um industrywide um and as well locally. Um a couple reasons for that. Um we discussed interpersonal um meeting too is how can we find maybe explore some opportunities of mentorship um to uh support our pair professionals similar to our teachers. Um as well as often um some of our pair professionals are studying to be a special education teachers. um sometimes they're able to remain with us. Sometimes they leave uh the paraprofessional um world as well to do student teaching um and sometimes come back to us or not.
050So um we I do see quite a few um folks um uh leave for that reason as well in the special education pair professional. Um the next section talks more about specifically Wisconsin teachers. Um the education preparation report um is put out by the state. This one is most recently put out in March 2025. Um the state data shows 86.3% of teachers remained in the same district from the um end of the 2324 school year to the start of the 2024. Um if you look at uh our data in Mount Horb, we were um this past school year able to retain 92.7% of our teachers, which is again higher than that state average. Um you can see that graph below to uh um looking at um percentages from staying within the state, staying within the
051district, and staying in the same school. couple other um information graphics to look at. I think one thing um and maybe uh if you can pull it on to the next one. Uh Dr. Seno, there you go. Um I thought this was a interesting information. Um first year teacher retention over time. um and a new teacher entering the prof profession right now um seven years later has the likelihood only you know a quarter um of those are staying within the same school um and more almost half of them are leaving the state. So um this this trend um definitely creates competition within our uh teacher um applicant pool. Um, another factor is just overall teacher shortages. Um, if you look at figure five, Dr. Schlero, um, teaching with, um, license with stipulations. I know I've
052reviewed this each year, um, but you can see overall um, the percentage of teachers um, with license of stipulations continues to increase. Um in the and in the graphic below you'll notice that both crosscategorical special education lure and elementary middle school education licenses are those highest that are um being sought in the state. We do see the trend of crosscat special education lures that shortage here. We have not seen the trend locally of needing um license with stipulations for elementary um ed or middle school. Um but it has been consistently on the rise and something to be aware of when we look um not only at the big picture in the state and locally. We also um seek information from our um candidates and those leaving the district. Um the voice of candidates is is
053really helpful to help um making sure that folks coming into the district or being interested in being a Viking from day one are feeling supported. Um they're hearing about our district from we can that's the educator job board. Um or word of mouth. Um, I definitely hear um folks say, "Hey, I mentioned this to soand so about the job openings. Um, our employees are one of uh the most most fabulous uh advertisements we can have. They know exactly what it is to be a Viking and can share that with um potential um candidates. So, we appreciate that. We also have um a referral bonus um as well. So that's something we have in place. Um I do want to uh the next graphic um Steve if you can pull up overall candidate experience survey. And
054this is um just a true testament to to Miss Patty Weber as she is the first often the um one of the first to communicate. And if you have changed jobs or gone through um a new hire process within the the last few years, you know how much paperwork um federal and state documents are required and teachers and those in education not only have further requirements from the state and training and she does just a fabulous job. As you can see, this has been um increasing as well as the overall experience w um welcoming our Vikings into their um new placement um here in the district. But it's continuing to improve and and we want people to have a exceptional experience on day one. Um we also speak to our um folks that are leaving
055the district. This is a um a confidential um anonymous survey um and people selected the the main reasons why they are leaving Mount Horb. Um 75% of those who responded said a family, personal or retirement reasons was why they were leaving um as their primary reason for leaving the district. Um when we look at this data, we there are also open-ended questions. Sometimes folks will leave us um additional information. We look for themes um identify trends and just use this information for overall improvement um with the organization. Um in conclusion um we have strong uh employee retention rates among faculty um and in the all in general in the um education sector. um we have a stable and supportive work environment. However, I think it's good to note that there are challenges that will exper
056um we are experiencing state and nationally um that are no different um here in Mount Cororb um and um paying attention especially to our um pair professional um turnover rate and how we can support um that area of employment. the board. Um, this graphic I think is um really important to to review. It's been consistent for many years and the board's uh uh priority in fostering a sense of belonging, I think, is one of the key factors of why we have long-term retention and highquality educators here in our district. Um, and on our Viking team, uh, you can see from this 96% say, "I belong. I feel like I belong at my building." And um that is important in order to have a retention rate as we do. So a lot of information I shared
057with you and I am open to any questions that you might have. >> On figure 9 about how many people is that statistics based off of? Um this current year I believe was roughly about 20 respondents. Um it's interesting that you asked that too because people will can there's no requirement to ask any spec answer any specific question. So sometimes you'll get um I would say this question sometimes people will leave empty even though they reply to other questions. >> Okay. So they don't want to share the reason being >> is one of the options compensation remuneration. >> Yes. Ask that question too. >> Yep. Yep. they have there's um about gosh I don't know exactly the number almost 15 different options to select um and they are able to select multiple and then there
058this question specifically says of the ones that you selected what is the number one reason you selected um compensation and benefits I think two people over the whole survey mentioned that as one of the reasons but none of them mentioned it as the reason they left. >> Did you happen to you mentioned that you collect comments from this too. Did you happen to see any trends in any of the the free text? >> Not specifically. I I would say it's um we don't get lots of comments on the exit surveys. Um but they may talk specifically about um you know their particular situation. Um I haven't seen anything in the comments that are trends. I think one thing like you can just gather here like we had a large chunk of retirees this past year.
059Um you can see that as a trend. Um we had lots of different family um reasons such as relocation this past year. Um actually out of state and such. So um those things are interesting to compare from year to year if that's um a trend you know year after year or if that's just circumstances um of the current year. Usually retirement isn't as large >> in previous years. I guess the only other curiosity I would have is if the people are leaving that aren't in retirement, are they going to a different school to teach or are they getting out of education all together? >> That is not a current question on our survey is if um what different so it does ask where they're going. So you could um infer that I um but it's
060not if they're getting out of education or if they're switching job positions or anything like that. on figure three. Um, is there a reason we don't have longitudinal data on that particular chart? >> Is it just that it's all very similar or >> um just curious? >> That's a great question. I think um you can see the overall um number of resignations and retirements for the the year above. Um I don't have I just didn't list um from year to year to year. I I don't there's nothing that has greatly changed. Um I will say that the the special education peer professional though higher this year than other years that still is an area that has been high for multiple years. And then in your research and we go down to figure four and the
061average first year teacher retention over time. Keep going down. Steve the second graphic there one more there it is that one >> yeah do you have any way of finding any data on any other industries particularly education adjacent industries I don't know if you would or wouldn't I >> because to me I look at seven years at 26% >> that's pretty dang good when I think about most private industries people are leaving >> and you're probably seeing that in single digits in most cases. >> That's a very that'd be very interesting. Um, as you say that I'm like, where could I find that? Um, I'm not I'm not sure it'd be easily accessible, but you probably could find like this. This information came directly from the educator prep um, educator preparation report from the DPI.
062I don't know if there are other industry reports similar, but it's it's curious. You made me curious. >> I'm sure there are. I just I would have no idea how to get there myself, but I >> the Society for Human Resources Management or >> Yeah, >> I know what I'm going to do when I can't fall asleep. >> Sounds like a good question. >> I think you're right though. I think of like 7 years after I started work and how many places I've been. >> But and I think that's that's that's becoming even more of an issue in the private sector with um >> different generations. >> Yeah. >> Two two years for most positions. >> I just had something coming out. I know there's a lot of general data out there. It might be
063nice to see that as a comparison when we think about the health of the industry overall um and watch that trend over time as compared to >> what we see elsewhere because if this goes down I would posit that we might see the others go up which would be an interesting thing to watch. I that's a hypothesis. >> Sure. >> Thanks eighth grade teachers. that that was my one thought in mine too or Joel mentioned longitudinal before is that has this data been available historically or is that a new stat? I'm just wondering how much that has fluctuated over the last >> you know 10 15 years in terms of retention numbers >> with with the new teachers. >> Yeah. Yeah. You know if you went back 15 years ago and ran that out seven
064years how much that differentiate from what you're seeing? >> I'm sure it may go back a few years. I haven't seen this particular section um for a many many years. Um I think I would say in the more recent trends um there's been more of an emphasis on new teacher projects and keeping that retention and developing like um you know the new teacher project by CISA 3 for example has that mentorship for 3 years um and those though they are not new programs they're new relatively newer um so I think that will be interesting to see um as Well, um you know, >> internal to the district, we've tracked figures two and three now uh since uh the board's inception of the information and advocacy reports maybe about 8 years ago. >> So, we could
065kind of see the trends that I think someone else was asking about. I just haven't seen that at the DPI level cuz they only put out that report every couple of years. >> Yeah. Well, if things go, we're going to have six retirements next year cuz it goes 86 86. >> Yeah. Right. Right. Right. >> Ping pong. >> Right. >> Is we could drop that by just denying all retirement very well, but uh the am I reading this chart correctly too? And then year seven, same state. Um I'm guess let me back out and ask this. Does this only reflect people who stay in the teaching industry or is the 45% that's not reflected there are people that are >> it's >> uh getting it wouldn't be because they're still nation after that. >> Yeah.
066I I think it's just teachers that started in the state of Wisconsin and remain in the state of Wisconsin >> in within seven years. 5 55% there. What um we talk a lot a lot about this at our work where there's different segments of our business that are facing more of a retirement crunch in the next 5 10 years or whatever it is. Um in that respect like what are we looking at in terms of retirement eligible teachers coming up? It seemed we have a bit of a bubble right. I mean just demographically there's a bubble in the country but >> yeah I think I think you're seeing some of that bubble within like uh the teacher shortage as well um as we have more teachers leaving the industry and not as many teachers coming
067in or ready to be fully certified with um you see that number of license with stipulations It might also be helpful to note that many of the staff that we've hired up to this point when vacancies have arisen have not been um fresh out of college. Uh we tend to hire staff who have had experience elsewhere and are looking for a change. And so that does skew our median age of employees in our on the faculty side. Um uh so that does also create some exposure in terms of postemployment uh benefits that I know the board is well aware of because we've talked about them. But to this extent um uh we do we are on the precipice of seeing some real change in terms of who is eligible uh within the next 3 to
0685 years for retirement. the sub30 group is definely come back in this case back to >> well I I I think we'd want that first year teacher retention to try to track that locally if we could so we could compare to that chart over time I obviously it would take us years to get that data but >> I think that would be helpful to have when I think about some of our teacher turnover that's happened there's a fair amount that happens and that just cuz life changes, >> right? >> Yeah. Any other questions or comments from this group? All right. Thanks for your report, Aaron. Um, you get to stay right there. It's like someone designed this or something. Action item 7A, considering final revisions to the 26 through 28 employee handbook. Do you want
069to walk us through a little bit? >> I would love to. What was that? >> Um well, every two years, every other year, we review the employee handbook. Um this has been this version of the handbook has been reviewed for many years um and refined slightly each year. Um we have representation from many employee groups that serve on the personnel committee and um very much thank you to them for their extra time and conversations um that they had with their colleagues. This year we also had um five listening sessions back in January um with different employee groups um asking their thoughts on nonmonetary changes um for the handbook and looked for um common themes that arose from the listening sessions as well. So, um I am going to go through um the substantive changes um
070from the handbook um and um feel free to ask me questions. I'm just going to refer to um the page number and the the section. Steve, are you going to u pop around as I do it? Okay, wonderful. Um the first section um is page 12. Um and it is I believe employment law. >> Awesome. >> You keep going for a little bit. >> Um page 12, we added a section under FMLA. Um there's many legal requirements um in this and we just wanted to bring some clarity on what counts towards approved leave. Um again on page 12 um Dr. Swerno. Um so that was just some added language for clarity. doesn't change any of our practices, but hopefully um will bring some um um clarity for folks that are using that e um section
071E right below D there I believe. There it is. Um on page 14 um you will notice some changes in the language for mandatory reporting. Um changed simply from child abuse reporting. Um this ma this um encompasses also threats of school violence um and emphasizes the immediacy of reporting um child abuse, neglect and threats and worked with um the pupil service team on making those adjustments. You also saw recent policy. So it refers to the policy to the state law um and the administrative leg. So, as those updates may change from the state, um we're able to have that um current here in this section. Um on page 17, um ID badges, just adjusted it to make sure it has current year. Um did I skip one? Nope. Page 17, ID badges. um current year
072that people are wearing their current year for safety as well as returning that badge um upon separation with the district. >> Um um operation of vehicles um I didn't write down the page number but you have it on page 17 as well. Um, anyone driving um, a vehicle should notify their um, direct supervisor as well as the HR director for any traffic violation as it could affect their ability to drive um, or operate large um, equipment in the district, regardless if they have a commercial driver's license or not. Um there are additional provisions for folks that do have um commercial driver's license and that's noted to refer to the specific policy and administrative reg for details on those. Um page 19 um some change language in faculty pay periods. This is um just to be
073updated so it's um consistent with the contractual language. So no change again in practice but just to update um so they are both um the same there. Um but page 24 and 25 this was a common theme in in listening sessions um in regards to leave. Um many districts I should say almost every district has a diff very very different paid paid leave policy. Um we have three buckets of leave. We have family emergency, personal leave, um sick leave, and actually vacation leave. Um for some currently um both personal leave and family emergency do not roll over into sick leave or can be used or they they cannot be used for retirement purposes. That was expressed very clearly by some of our staff. We don't want to change the retirement piece, but we really want
074some flexibility. Um and for a couple reasons. Um um we also feel like um the benefit in tight budgets when we have tight budgets uh providing some additional flexibility that does not have a monetary impact um also will be helpful to our employees. Um the switch goes between personal leave 3 days um instead of two and changing family emergency leave to two instead of three. So overall days do not sh um shift but the flexibility does. Um we also put in some sun set language so we can observe and um study how does this impact unfilled subs uh impact any kind of adapt uh instructional or academic learning. Um so we'll be able to review these things and decide if this should continue in future years. Um this um goes right into the snow day
075um uh section as well. Some flexibility. Um snow days. I think it's Yep. Scroll down a little bit more. It's still in the section. There it is. Thank you. Um emergency and stole closing days like today um counts as a full day. um late starts, early releases, especially for for our hour hourly employees, that is not considered a snow day. Um currently they're able to use just e or um per personal leave to uh make up for that. Um and if we have like three late starts, that's you know all their maybe personal leave that they have. So it just provides again some flexibility to choose the different leave that they have. um that they could use if they would like to take that time paid. They can also take it unpaid if they would
076choose to or if their work is available depending on the position they could choose to do that as well. So just provides a little flexibility real quick. >> Yeah. But when you talk about flexibility, is it does it have to do with what we're requiring from a reporting standpoint? If we're moving from family family leave to personal leave, for example, is it a is that flexibility? I I guess my question is what are what are our teachers getting from that other than just recategorizing what others? >> Um they have more flexibility in how they use the leave. So personal leave is truly personal. Um you can use that however you want. Family emergency is defined by um uh bereavement. um a family appointment. >> Um so there's more restrictions in that case. >> I sorry
077to bother you. Did you guys lose the power? No. >> So the exterior lights, the high school and here are both flashing on and off. So we just wanted to make sure there wasn't a party, but definitely got someone's attention. So we got called our director of building services if you want to take over. That'd be great. >> Sorry. just like for you. >> That's right. >> So, so it's primarily documentation like the specific reasons >> documentation and yeah, increased flexibility on how they use those. Yeah, >> there are some um other small changes like um I didn't go over of you can see actually one example right on page 27 rather than saying secretarial staff it just says clerical staff there are um some small grammatical and just language changes that aren't um sub
078you know substantial so I didn't go through every single change there's a wonderful brand new picture on the beginning um too so um any questions I the answer about what I went through or other sections of the handbook. >> I feel like in committee I feel like the staff on the committee were very receptive to the changes and they were very >> I was just going to say the same thing. >> And they came to meetings this time which was fantastic. >> They seemed very appreciative of the the flexibility piece. Was there anything that came out of those listening sessions that we were not able to address that that was a trend not always? >> You know, I would say there are more than handbook things that came about. For example, like um pair professional
079um supports was a topic. Um we talked about uh translated documents. So there were actually more things that came from those listening sessions that we discussed that aren't necessarily handbook things. Um um I would say most I would say the trends we definitely got to um there were maybe individual comments that didn't make um make it to the handbook but we weren't that we didn't see those as large trends. >> The listening sessions were really helpful. Sorry question that I saw that isn't really handbook related, but um if we know this offh hand, how many what percentage of staff take the 21 versus the 26? >> Maybe Scott can answer that. I don't know the percentage, but the large majority take 26 school or the the full year. Few take school year. >> Got it.
080Got it. >> SCOTT KNOWS GOD has a perspective. He's the gift of >> Yeah. very few take the 21 option. >> Okay. >> And typically some that do they're calling in August saying this is the first barrel for the fiscal year and then I might modify for the next year or so. Right. you know, people are pretty hard recognizing what that means. Uh, be a very very small number of people. Any thoughts or questions for Aaron? All right. Um, entertain a motion. >> Do we need to approve this one? >> Yes. That's what I believe >> to approve the uh the employee handbook for 2628. >> Second. >> Okay. We got a motion by Leah and a second by Sarah. All in favor? >> I Any opposed? I need to Well, I didn't I didn't
081do I might need to abstain. >> You shouldn't have to because it doesn't affect um compens compensation in any way. Not really. So, I think you're good to vote. >> Okay. Hi. Thanks for asking. >> I I just want to thank the um the staff who participated on the committee. I've been on the personnel committee in the past and I know it's extra time and extra work, but just super helpful to have their engagement. >> Thanks. I'm sorry. Did I have a motion for that? >> Yes, you did. >> Okay. Thank you. someone. >> Yes, Sarah. Thank you. I'm sorry about that. >> And we determined that Tom did not need to abstain. >> Okay. >> We didn't think he did unless you disagree with >> compensation. I'm fine with that this time. >> All
082right. Um, next up, number eight, consideration of budget revisions. Scott Young. Hello, Scott. Hi everybody. Good evening. I didn't hear your voices. I couldn't say I see everybody but hear your voices. Um thank you finance committee members for um engaging in conversation last Monday at our meeting. I always appreciate that. Uh you may recall that two to three times a year we make budget revisions. The most common one is October, right? October is when we adopt the levy, make modifications accordingly. Um this is the time of the year where we typically are making revisions due to uh pieces of information that um become more finalized um since October. And I think I jokingly sat at finance, although maybe I wasn't joking. Boy, it sure be nice if we could, you know, find out some of
083this, you know, definitive information much earlier in the school year. Nonetheless, um I I do want to point out um as we talked about at finance as well that our auditors continue to be really appreciative that we're proactive with managing our budgets and our expenditures and our revenues and um so thank you. That's my way of saying thanks to all of you for allowing us to continue to do this. So the revisions that you see in front of you um quick reminder is the format that's used is the format that we uh get published in the news for upon approval. Um it's a a state statute in terms of what the format looks like. So that's um you know you've seen this format before but I always like to remind you of that. Um so
084there's three categories of revisions that you'll see. There's three tables up on the screen. The first one is the general fund. Remember that's where most of our general activity takes place um in business. The second table is special education which I'll mention in just a minute in terms of what we're doing there. And then the third one is a packaging cooperative program fund that has to do with a grant. Um I promise I won't go into the detail we did on finance but certainly happy to answer any questions. The thing that I'll point out in the general fund is we've had some modification that some of our state and federal supports which is typical this time of the year. Um so state support it would be things like our common school fund otherwise known as
085our library fund through the state. Um that's increasing about $30,000. Um we also have um some of you may remember especially if you're on the board the investment that was made a number of years ago um regarding our reading program um and we use fund balance over $200,000 to make that purchase. Uh we received a small reimbursement. When I say small, um I'm not suggesting that $80,000 is small um but definitely smaller than what we um purchased the program for. And that goes out through the state. Um so we didn't know if and when we would get any type of reimbursement like we originally expected when the program was implemented. Um but we're happy to to know that we received just over $80,000. Um, so that's a reflection of not budgeting for something until we
086actually till we actually see it or I would have been budgeting this every year for the last few years. So super happy that we received something there. Um, on the federal side um primarily grants um title grants um few other smaller federal grants that we had. It's a matter of just, you know, finding that we had um we had the grant, but just finding out what the official allocation is since October. Um and then of course, anytime we make modifications to grants, we also have corresponding expenditures that we need to make to reflect those revenues. And then most notably is we have personnel modifications. Um one might say, well gosh, you know, halfway through the school year, you know, what kind of modifications do you make? Well, um sometimes people come and go. Um and
087so there's modifications there, but I will say from a benefit point of view, um we all know that many um other employers may have their open enrollment periods for benefits in the fall and they may go into effect January 1st. So sometimes we see adjustments to what people need to do with benefits based on what's happening um at home with their significant other. So, um that's reflected in some of our expenditure modifications. Um that's the general fund. Now, for the special education fund, um we're transferring $20,000 less from the general fund to special ed. And that's due to some modifications that we're making to our costs. So, if our costs go down in special ed, then our transfer from fund 10 um to support special education services goes down accordingly. So, that one's a a
088pretty straightforward one. And then the last table, that package and cooperative program fund. Um, that's for our vocational grant. Um, the amount that um we have coming through the grant is going up just over $1,900. Um but because um the way the money is being funneled through us from the federal government, um we needed to uh modify where that money is being spent. Um but the good thing is the grants going up just over 1,900 from what we budgeted. So that's always a really nice thing. Um thanks for listening. Um I'll pause and see if there's any any questions. And again, thanks finance committee members for the engagement last week. >> I just want to draw something to attention as it's been consistent over the years. When you look at an audit done of a
089public company, normally materiality is set at about between 5 and 10% of revenues. Our budget adjustments are typically less than that. That's pretty dang impressive for not knowing any of the data to be able to put together a budget that we can hold pretty close to and that's been consistent over the three years I've been on the board and I'm sure well well into history as well. So congrats to everybody who touches the budget in this district because that's uh the fact that the adjustments are as small as they are without knowing the real data is pretty impressive. So, >> thank you for >> Yeah, good call out. >> I would make a motion to approve the budget changes as presented. >> Second. >> Motion from Joel and a second from Jessica. All in favor?
090>> I I Any opposed? Motion. Motion passes. Thank you very much, Scott. >> Thanks for your support, everybody. Okay, we're coming back to last item of the night here, second reading, revisions to board policy 537, professional growth referred by education. Sarah Straa. >> Hi guys. Thanks. Appreciate it. Yeah, we we spoke about this policy at our last board meeting. We had some um wonders about some language changes. So, I'm bringing those language changes to you now. Just a quick review of the initial changes. So WASB recommended that we include information that's in paragraph 2 about having uh the superintendent or a designate which in most cases that would be me creating the annual professional development plan. So we have that that uh designate language in the first paragraph and then I believe later uh in
091one of the lower paragraphs as well. Um the there's a suggestion I believe at uh our education committee then uh the last sentence in the second paragraph about um that the plan will be shared with a subcommittee which is the education committee of the of the board of ed. Um there was some language that was just not worded well in the third paragraph. Uh, so I think Sarah had said some information about some changes and I also uh took that language and tweaked it a little bit to try and make that paragraph clearer. So hopefully that's okay now. >> Good. Yeah. >> Great. >> Uh there was also um some clarification at our board meeting uh the second to last paragraph the word putting external in just to designate um who would be um identified
092there. Other than that, there weren't there's not really any substantial like content changes. It's more tweaking of language or clarification. >> Any discussion or questions for Sarah? >> Looks good to me. I would make a motion to approve. >> Second. >> A motion from Sarah and a second from Leah. All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Great. Motion passes. >> Dr. Sero, do we have any citizen comments? Want to check my email real quick and see if there's any that came in? No. So, we should be good there. And how about our friends online here tonight? Any citizens comments? Sure. It's great to see you again. Thank you for being here tonight. >> Excellent. Um, look at our next meetings coming up. We have PGT coming up on the 23rd, 4:30. We're back over at
093the district office for education, an early start, and then our workshop at 6:00 on April 6th. um got our typical lineup there finance and then it's on full board on the 20th and looking forward already here to our board reorganization meeting May 4th coming up quicker than we expect. >> Everyone must wear a Star Wars shirt. >> There you go. >> All right. >> If you play the music, they'll be really concerned. Good to have you walk in. Nice. >> That's why we play. >> I'm looking for a roll. >> So, your last May is April 20th, right? >> That'd be correct. Yes. >> That's so soon. Yes. Right. All right, thanks everyone for making it in tonight. I would >> motion to adjourn. Was >> a slow set up on purpose. Sarah Leah. All
094in favor? I any opposed? We are journey.