001All right, evening everybody. 6:36 p.m. We'll call it into order. Mon area School District Board of Education. Dr. Sono, has this been properly noticed? >> Yes. >> Outstanding. Do a roll call. Joe Craraven >> here. >> Leah >> here. >> Jessica >> here. >> Sarah >> here. >> Andrew >> here. >> Jeff >> here. Tom >> here. >> Carly >> here. >> And myself full house. >> Um could be Stan and Dutch. I aliance 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. >> Do I have a volunteer to read our mission statement? Second, the Morberry School District in partnership with the community is dedicated to nurturing, educating, and challenging all students, preparing, empowering them to
002be productive, responsible, and self-s members of society. >> Thanks, Carly. Um item 2A, um we will leave this now, we'll leave the school news intact in our sequencing. We're going to move that, but we're going to keep that there. If we could get a motion to approve or if there's anything that people want to uh suggest be relocated. >> Motion to approve. >> Motion by Jessica, second by Sarah. All in favor? >> I. Any opposed. All right. Motion passes. Next up is there consideration of approval October 27th regular and close session board meeting minutes. Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion by Joel and a second by Jessica. All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Motion passes. We will move on to our addressing the board and our section here. Dr. Seno, would you like
003to lead us off with our student spotlight? >> You guys to be introduced to Christopher. Christopher has really left a positive imprint on the intermediate center as we principal. >> All right, Chris, we're going to come over here. >> Watch your step now. >> You can stand next to me and I get to brag about you now. Okay, so Chris is a fifth grader in Miss Weir's class. And it's kind of funny to use the word bragging because Christopher never brags. He is incredibly humble and he has so much to be proud of. He excels in both literacy and math. Consistently demonstrating a strong effort and enthusiasm from learning from third grade with Mrs. Mary to Mrs. Fred and now to Mrs. Weir. All of his teachers said he works so hard and he is
004a highly skilled student. Um, but not only is he a is he strong academically, he is a very kind and empathetic friend. We had a new student move into his class like a month ago. Yeah. he was the first person to welcome him into the classroom. And we think about um our goal that all students belong in our schools. Christopher demonstrates that and he works really hard to make sure all students feel like they can work with him, that he'll be a good partner, he'll make them laugh, and that they belong in the classroom with him. and he um not only is he good in the classroom, he's also pretty great at soccer and a great athlete. So, his inclusive spirit and patience with peers make him a highly valued and respected collaborator and a
005natural leader in the classroom. So all that said, he is an exemplary member of our school community and his dedication and character shine brightly. So congratulations to Chris. He does not seek the spotlight office to be here standing in front of all of you, but he is so deserving of it. Chris, can you tell us who these fantastic people are here? >> That's my mom and that's my dad. >> I'm so grateful to have you both here tonight. >> Can we take a picture together? Oh, that would be great. And um we have a certificate uh here to commemorate this very special day with you. We'll give this to you outside. And I also have a pin. I want to introduce you to my friend here. This is Mrs. Fischer. Mrs. Fisher connects regularly here
006with Principal Hogy. So, she's going to join us in that picture. Could you excuse us for just a minute? Will we go take that picture? Yeah, let's go out that way. How's that sound? Mom and dad, can you be in the picture, too? That'd be terrific. All right. Did you notice that Nicole's outfits are identical? >> Does she look the same? I didn't know it was leopard print day either. I mean that was the thing that I was like come on Yes. >> SC totally forget. But if we don't distinct Which one do you want to fill out? >> Chelsea's giving us the stair like I'm here. It's your It's yours that I really need. No pressure. >> December 26th. this present you if I show up on Christmas then I have to be here
0072 weeks till 5 get it to you before then just by no >> every Friday morning you come in I'm going to come around >> yeah you're the gather then then the amount of paper incredible Perfect. Thank you. >> Some great news coming from Intermediate Center special. What do you know? >> Yeah. Well, last week was pretty fun. Um, Wednesday we had fall parties in our classroom. So, one of the things that we always um take time to do is communities celebrate and we work really hard to develop that classroom community. And so, we plan some seasonal celebrations. And so, Wednesday was a pretty fun day to be in school because there were costumes of all kinds and varieties. And um teachers worked with their students to plan celebrations. Um we had um a number
008of staff also participating in costumes. So like our related art team was all the cast of Wicked. So as students went through their day and they saw them, they were able to put it together and see that that was a nice um team effort. Fifth grade, they all were Pac-Man characters. And so um those are things that students really um enjoy and remember. Um, along those same lines, PTO put on a fall ball the um, a couple of weeks ago. And one of the things that I really appreciated from the way they approached it is knowing that our focus is on belonging and connecting students to our community. They asked some of our staff members to invite like gave give a coupon to students um, and invite them specially to come. And so we were
009able to do some outreach to some students and families who might not normally come and um it was really we heard back from those families and those students that they really appreciated it and I think the students also um you could see their reactions. It was it felt really um inviting for them to receive that. Um and student council is often running. Megan Hendrickk organizes that and um you know her other role at school is as our school social worker and so she coordinated with the other um school levels to do the snack drive you would have seen and so we had a really nice response at the IC as well. Um in the fall several groups have already been out with field trips. Um third grade took um uh turns going out to Haven's
010Petting Farm. they um are just starting an animal classification unit in literacy. And so that was a really nice connection that so many of the animals they were seeing out at the farm they will now be studying um and classifying. Fourth grade also took advantage of seeing Matilda at the Oer Center and so the whole grade level went um to go see that play and really enjoyed that. Uh next week we're gearing up for fall conferences at the elementary level. That is a big to-do. Um wanting to get as many families in as possible and to connect with parents and share what students have been um learning and how they've been growing. Um and then in a couple of weeks on November 21st, we have our first music program, the fifth grade um music program.
011And so we're very excited for that. On the staff end of things, um I know inservice days, if you're not working in the world of education, you think, "What the heck are all the what are they doing? Why do they need that day off?" And to Sarah's credit and to um our instructional coaches, it was a jam-packed, really meaningful day. I heard um one teacher um uh share it um that it was really impactful when teachers are planning professional development for other teachers. It um is really meaningful and that's just what our reading interventionists and math interventionists did. Um so we were studying high impact um reading practices, math practices and math um interventions and extensions as we're trying to support that growth across our um all across our achievement spectrum. Um and then um
012the other what we've been focusing on in our 100 day plan is that academic growth. We're focusing a lot on reading. Um, and then also belonging. Um, that all of our spaces are safe, positive, and predictable. Um, whether you're in um art class or PE or you're in the classroom that we're really wanting to look at our adult practices and support that as much as possible. So, we've been busy. >> Sounds like it. And the results are are evident. loving the results that I'm seeing out of your student growth numbers and you all put together a video recently highlighting a number of the the staff members who are doing some great things out there too. Uh Monday is an important day. Can you talk a little bit about setting sail? >> Yes. So, it's the
013um it's a school improvement or um uh district improvement um institute where over two years all of our leadership teams are participating in um uh continuous improvement process and developing 100 day plans to um work towards our goals in um to break it down into more manageable pieces. And so um this coming Monday um if you are familiar with the plan do uh study act cycle we'll be um studying and reflecting on how did the first plan go and then what adjustments should we make going forward what should we focus on going forward. So, um we'll have um all four school leadership teams and the district um office leadership team at that um professional development on Monday. >> Principal needs to be commended. She's assembled a really great group of professionals at the IC to
014help her. So, thank you. >> Yeah, you're welcome. >> Sounds great. >> All right. Thank you. >> Yeah. Thanks for everything, Katie. Dr. Sle, do we have any citizens comments? I do not see any. No. All right. Go to um school news. Jack and Andrew. Either of you uh have anything you want to share for all of us. Girls cross country did really good. Took home that title last weekend. Um football did really well. Sadly Friday night if you were there Halloween night. won overwhelmingly. I think it was like 40ome to like 13. So um they play again on Friday um at Carol College in Waka. Um and then the National Honor Society Ronald McDonald food drive got an overwhelmingly positive um reaction. A lot of donated food, monetary goods. Um, so much so that
015we've actually covered Miss Fel the full back wall of Miss Hson's room up to the the back lap table. So, an insane amount of food if you go in there. It's Yeah, it's crazy. So, that's exciting. >> Yeah. Nice. >> I know the musical is coming up. Next week is the start of it. Um, this week we're just figuring out all the sets and stuff. We're getting it in full swing. So, tech. >> Yeah, >> seen the videos of them. I was talking to a couple earlier with them flying around on the cables. It's pretty cool. >> Andrew, I heard you. Are you part of the production team at all? >> Yeah. So, I'm part of the running running crew. So, >> awesome. Awesome. Thanks for your work on that. Anyone else with any um
016school news they want to chat through? I think uh I just add uh had the chance to be a swim alumni here and go to conference on Saturday. Had a a nice win for freshman Lucy Peterson, which doesn't happen too often. Have a freshman at the conference meet. So they have sectionals this weekend. Pretty cool. Um and had a chance on the community side to go to the uh going away party for um Rachel at the chamber. um wishing her well and just thanking her for everything that she's done for us trying to tie together the community, business community, and the schools over the past few years. She was really ahead of it and uh had some great conversations. So, big shoes to fill and I hear that you're responsible for trying to find someone
017partially responsible. >> We've got a leadership team that's trying to fill those big shoes. Anybody's interested in the position, executive director, a presidency of the chamber, I'd love to talk with them. Mr. President, can I just quickly mention please uh that uh we have a little bit of a surprise coming later in the visit today. So, we might extend school news for a minute or so uh once uh that those individuals get here. Uh but prior to that, I'd just like to recognize the fact that uh we have in the audience tonight for a presentation uh Nick Owen and Ryan. Uh it's good to see you both. Thank you for being here tonight. I want to uh take an idea that Ryan has thoughtfully created around uh November 19th. Uh there's a planning commission meeting
018that will be held here actually at the district over at the high school in the auditorium. We're encouraging people who come to that meeting to please consider bringing some kind of non-p perishable food so that we can add to the collection that's occurring at Neighbors Helping Neighbors. Uh so please load us up. Uh we want as much food and materials as possible and thank you for the suggestion uh Mr. President. And then lastly, there is a bus that's traveling over to Carol College uh uh to play against Catholic Memorial. Uh the bus leaves at 4:30 in the afternoon. $15 gets you there uh and also includes the ticket. There'll be as much energy on the way there as there will be on the way back. Right. That's what I suspect. So, thank you. All right,
019thanks everyone. Um, on to personnel transactions. Dr. Sen, was there anything you wanted to pull out members? >> Yeah, I just wanted to note there is an addendum for you this evening. >> Motion to approve second. >> Got a motion by Jessica and a second by Leah. All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Great. Motion passes. Um, consent agendas. You'll see three items there. Accept a motion to move through those. >> Motion to approve consent agenda. >> Second. >> And a motion by Tom and a second by Carly. All in favor? >> I. Any opposed. All right. Consent agenda passes on to um committee member reports. Tom, you want to lead us on PGT? >> Sure. I'm pretty brief on this one. Um BTT met on 10:27 and then on 10:30 um we met um
020went basically into close session both times to discuss uh possible general contractors. >> Great is there is at this point >> short and sweet. >> That's right. Um finance Joel >> um yeah we met on the 20th of October. Uh there was a couple donations that came in, both for the cross country, one from the booster club and one from an anonymous donor um to do some things for the cross country club. Um totaled up to just under 10,000 was very generous donations from both of those parties. And then we had a just a real short conversation around budget uh revisions. Took us quite a while to get through it all. Um so we had that discussion at the board table here last board meeting approving the levy and things like that. Again just a
021couple of things of note uh in there is how much a little over 700,000 that goes out of our district for the voucher program. Um which is a a very interesting stat but uh that was it. Uh we meet again coming up here next Monday. >> Great. Thanks. Any questions for Joel? >> All right. Double billing potentially. Jessica, safety and wellness. >> Safety and wellness. We met on Monday, October 20th. We were able to welcome our new student board member, which is great. We spent some time on policy 425.1 park open enrollment, which I believe is on the agenda later. Yes. Um, and then we had a discussion about the seclusion restraint number, which we passed at our last meeting. Um we had a safety update where we again um talked about officer Rosemire being
022honored by the state assembly. Ryan gave us an update on um the fact that all the drills were starting the latest news on the use of visitor aware new construction and the cops grant. Um we had an equity update. We talked about unified sports and how fantastic program that has been. Um and then mental health. We talked a little bit about um the kindness encourage encourage retreats which are happening on Wednesday. >> Yes. >> Yeah. So that was that was it. Brian, did I miss anything? >> And then uh Oh, do you want me to continue? >> You already said that. So then I was like >> Parks and wreck. Uh that committee met on the 28th. They talked about a few different things. Um they thanked the FRA committee for a $50,000 donation to
023help with the um new Grundle play equipment. There was a proposal from the Gators to have a little more um time at the pool. Uh and then uh the uh village is going to work on developing sort of a naming rights policy similar to what we have as they think about expanding um parks and how they're going to develop plin and ability. And I believe on November 19th the budget will be presented to the public. Okay. Yep. >> That's >> confirmation. Thank you. Any uh questions, Jessica? Neither of those. Um at this point, then we could move on to 6B, uh discussion over our tax incremental district number six. Nicole and Ryan right here. We also have our CDA community authority chairperson Mark Tucker here >> helping answer questions for support. >> I'm the pretty
024face. It's >> the best we can do. >> Appreciate you getting us on the agenda tonight. We just wanted to take some time to talk with the school district because you're you're valuable partner for the village and when we create a new tip district um you know not only do you get approval seat on our joint review board, but it also affects you guys cuz you're agreeing to forgo some tax increment for quite a few years uh for us to create that enable to redevelop a property that we see a need to redevelop in our community. Um Steve, are you the guy on the train tonight? All right. >> So, this is just kind of a a little u a little introduction to TIP. I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with it, but
025basically it's one of the only redevelopment tools uh financially we have in the state of Wisconsin as a municipality. Um it basically creates a district. The the face value of that district is frozen. Um that base value goes to all the jurisdictions, the technical college district, the county, the school district, uh the village, and then everything that grows beyond that goes to the village to pay off uh basically the improvements that are uh seen in that area or that are funded in that area. This is probably one of the better slides that really show that the the bottom line there you see is the base value and then the the gray area, the tax as anyone seen from that development and really the big thing with the kid is that the butt board for test.
026So but for this uh incentive the the development wouldn't happen. We wouldn't see that growth and getting increment. So that's kind of a big main big main justification for creating the tit without that the development wouldn't happen. We want to see that reinvestment in the village and the growth of the tax. Looking at this tent, uh t would be tid six in Mount Horb. Um we've had uh other titly retired. So we don't have tits uh active right now. We have two tits active. T five or two tits active right now. Uh t three which is the north pave t. T five which is great downtown T. Then this would be TI six. Uh it would be a very small TI district. It would basically just be for we developmental and then the vacant land
027across the perimeter which has been vacant and undeveloped for late years. Um there's some site limitations with that depth of bedrock which I guess is pretty much anywhere you can shore. So we decided to include that in the property as well uh as it's been undeveloped as long as anyone can remember. Um there's been a number of people that have approached it as well financially. So we had the chance to develop that paracol site which has been underutilized for many years and make it now for uh I think three or four since that fire. We thought this was a good chance to try to develop that area. project plan uh for state statutes we have to make certain findings uh I won't get into the details of all those but we've reviewed them uh and
028we believe all those findings to be accurate that basically we need this tiff to move forward and improve that revitaliz without the tiff uh we don't believe that that redevelopment would happen some of the improvements we're looking for in that area would be infrastructure within the district and without the district. Um, we need to do some sewer upgrades in the area that would help this development as well as other uh developments like the locking farm residential and some other uh problems out on Springdale Street that would benefit. We're able to use this TID to help spur that development. Uh we can do some streetscape projects, planning of the development. We're also looking at doing something if there's sufficient ignorant like we've done with the downtown so some surrounding homeowners can benefit from it. Um one
029big criticism criticism of tiff districts is that it only helps businesses. With the downtown tiff district we did a residential improvement program. So properties within a half a mile to have some home improvements done. So we'd like to extend that to this district as well. Uh we would like to do some contributions to the community development authority uh to do some other redevelopment projects as well as administrative cost and then any financing cost associated with the district or projects. Uh again the advance incentives investments in the half mile uh and I mentioned that was the residential improvements and then the sanitary improvement would also be an investment in infrastructure within the half mile of the kind of the draft budget we have um for the extension of the the utilities otherwise there won't be any
030real extension within the area. Um, developer incentives are a common thing uh developers look to us for to help a project go forward that wouldn't otherwise go forward. We already potentially have a senior housing uh development that's going to go up on this site. Uh we're very interested to see somebody purchase it before they even have the 10 district. So that was a good exciting thing. As you know, we have needs for all kinds of housing in Mount Hart and this developer is looking at doing that. 40 unit I think it is of senior housing and then is it 50 49 of regular market rate >> and that's up that's above location where the care call >> correct >> uh then just some additional administration financing costs as well to round out the budget any
031questions Kristen was going to be here she also had a meeting for another community and unfortunately she's a very popular development consultant so she was in the Andy, one thing I want to add again, um, appreciate the time before I kind of introduce this to you. Um, because with all of the four jurisdictions, um, we we like to have buy in from everyone, you know, with just buy in um, but also understanding as well as for what the reason behind um, you know, why we use this TID increase or these TID districts um, and financing to again it's the B4 test. if if not for this um stuff just couldn't happen uh in a reasonable amount of time or energy and uh and financing as well and stuff. And so I think again with one
032project the senior housing component of it you know great opportunity that we've seen help with our move around the housing site goes in the community coalition uh you we've talked about that um and then you know just the fact that it's you know kind of eyesore uh just down the road from here um you know has been problematic and you know something needs to be done with that. So stay right on that. Do you have a good understanding of what the infrastructure even is under the care? How is that like a doover? Basically everything that's there >> basically. Yeah. They're going to have to remove everything under there and replace it. >> Yeah. >> My question is only a question of comment slightly related and I know that you both are already mindful of this
033but whatever development goes there. I know you're concerned about traffic, but also like student safety because there's tons of kids that ride their bikes to get snacks at Walgreens and walk to school. And so just having all those many more people in cars, you know, just as you develop that area, keep that in mind. >> Are there thoughts, questions from this group? >> Mark will also take questions as well. >> I am I am available. There are like just procedurally is like what are the next steps? I saw the there's a joint review board. Is that like one board member that joins that and is that >> there'll be one representative from the school district and then there'll be a representative from the county uh the MPC Madison College >> board members. Uh Dick was
034kind enough to invite uh the board to represent um a board member representing you all. Um but was announced that that would take place on Thursday morning 10:15 if I remember correctly. Um thank you to President Mertz who's going to represent you. We had already put out the agenda so we could not have made this an action item tonight. Um but suffice to say by consensus if you have uh feedback that you'd like to provide President Bird so that he can speak on behalf of the full board. Uh just as a history for you um as a school district we've consistently supported uh TIT districts. We see it as an investment that pays off in the long run. I think the most famous hit district that you can probably recognize is a little place called
035Epic down the road. Uh that did a really nice job for Verona. Now certainly we're not expecting epic types of TID uh revenue, but suffice to say um we we would encourage the board to give uh due diligence in in considering this TID. But with that um if you had questions of either our three guests or direction uh to the president so that he could make a a decision that is in the best interest of your thoughts. >> I don't have any other questions. I appreciate you coming and I have my concerns. I haven't attended meetings before. >> Yeah. Thank Thank you for coming. I was just curious on the 27 years. How does that >> Yeah. >> Just how do you pick that number? Is that a standard or >> how do you explain
036that? >> 27 years because it's a blank elimination district. Um there's several different kinds of tits. Um one is flight elimination and that one I believe is the longest because you're trying to clean up an existing condition. Um I think an industrial t I want to say is 20 years. Uh so there's all kinds of different different tits. I think there's green field tits which are less than that. We chose white elimination because we're kind of dealing with the known issues with the carol site itself. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. I fig I just Yeah, maybe just get it out to the public. >> Anytime we can close a district before those 27 years, we like to do that. Um we do that with TID 4, uh which is in that general area. It's actually
037um the the blank parcel wasn't tid for prior stuff. And so, um now it gets going to TID 6 if if approved. Um and so yeah, we try to close that little information quirk. Uh and so the state does allow um the a couple years ago they added an extension where you can maybe extend the year of the TID or or what the final year of the TID um allow to use that increment for uh housing affordable housing items. And so we did use that for TID for um we instead of closing that couple years early um we waited an extra year and use that increment for the Lamsy Bridge project or Blue Mountain Street stuff for some nice affordable housing options in the village. So again, not a lot of opportunities for the village
038to finance anything uh or you know do incentive on like that but kind of a benefit on that but uh with the uh same we can close stuff um can't start depending on we have to look at whatever TID agreement we make with the car property or so obviously that's going to be a multi-year loan and stuff like that. So I it wouldn't be the full 27 years um but so um wouldn't be closing within 5 years we still have that process on that. So, it kind of goes as for what projects are in there. I'll go back around to five. Uh, downtown T is doing excellent. Um, I don't remember what the exact numbers are, but um that we've seen that not not that good. Uh, but percentage wise good. Um, I think it's
039either at or beyond what we expected the capacity at that time uh to be. So, um I mean again from the you know big thing you know we hear from uh ourselves as well as just you know the community and you know nationwide is TID when um TID doesn't pull money from uh existent district. That's why I love that chart that shows you know the baseline you continue that base. Um we recognize you know that it doesn't keep up with you know inflation andor um you know you you do lose some with just two parcels. It's not a significant uh hit to to each mission families from that up. But again um in this case statue would definitely care. Um I don't we wouldn't see anything for years um if there wasn't have been tid
040on this an option on that. So um and then uh then you might in a couple years. So in TID 4 we'll close within a couple years as well. So TID four or three I'm sorry three. Yeah three three. We'll we'll close eventually. So we So uh for for you to get the budget numbers uh you can look forward to that but it's a couple more years you guys look forward to that. So and we can look forward to that as well because we're still paying off the infrastructure cost on that. So >> good. >> All right. Thank you both for coming for the presentation and I'll see you on Thursday morning. Thanks. >> Yeah, absolutely. Um, and now we had the privilege of interrupting our regularly scheduled program. I mean, don't just a little
041bit. Just a little bit. I wonder if anybody came into the room. Oh, the only the state winners of the cross country. Wow, what a great group. Good. >> Coach, how are you doing? Yeah. >> Tell us about what happened this weekend. started off and our bus broke down on the way out so that um but we have an excellent bus mechanic. Um and um yeah, he made his way up there really quickly. We got a new bus and then uh yeah, we made the Wisconsin Raps um yeah and you know we just put on they put on a great team performance. Um, you know, I think it was, um, you know, it's cool to be able to go into the meet ranked uh, first, but we also felt like we probably had a little
042bit of cardio on our back and I think, um, these ladies really rose to the the occasion there and just very sad. So, yeah, they won. So, proud of you guys. Congratulations, truly, for representing the very best of Mount Hor. Do you think we can get a picture with the board tonight? >> Let's do it. >> We wore pink cuz we knew in the middle. >> Please watch your step here if you don't mind. Every time I look like a toddler, we want all of our winners in front. What if we get on? Okay. Okay. Oh, this is looking good. All right. Ready? One, two, three, smile. Okay, we're going to take another one just in case of blinks, you know. >> All right. Ready? A second one. One, two, three, smile. Awesome. Thank you
043guys. That was so good. Can someone tell us about the sweatshirts you all have been styling today over at the high school? What What's this all about? >> I'm really about that. So, this year we were tired of having red and white. So, we decided to go light pink. And I think a lot of us enjoyed a color change. >> I didn't get that moment. I thought maybe you just washed your white sweatshirts with red socks or something. So, no. Okay. Well, I heard that. Did you guys even stop the clock? I mean, you had an extra hour uh because of your >> nice work on the uh powder social media. >> Oh, thank you. Thanks all of you for coming in. Congratulations on the big win. Something you're going to remember forever. >> So,
044you you worked hard. You deserved it. And we just wanted to make sure that we had you here tonight and let you know how much we appreciated everything you did for the district and putting this out there. Um, let's get one next year. >> I think we're going to do one more though. So, Thank you. Thank you. >> All right, we're going to top that one. Um, we have the uh beyond the 18 program uh an overview of our services. Starin Olson is here. Thank you so much for coming tonight to talk to us about this program. >> Thank you. >> Hello. >> So good to see you. >> Thank you for letting me um get to explain to you about my passion and dream. I get to look it every day at the 18
045and beyond transition program. That's a picture from last year. Um our end of year celebration. We had about eight students and we also invited our high school students that in our life skills program to come join us. And we hand out diplomas. We do bowling and we just get to celebrate our successes as a group and it's a really good time. So I wanted to start off with that picture because it's a good group. So our mission and vision and commitment is to empower every student to be an active community member achieving future success and developing leadership potential because all of my students have that possibility to do that. Uh we want our students to thrive in postsecary education, employment and independent living and our commitment is to partnership among have a partnership among students,
046families and educators in the community. We work with everyone. It's a whole team effort to make the students as independent as possible. So that's what we look for that it's from last year. Again, we had a Thanksgiving feast and teaching the students how to do that if they want to throw it independently or throw it with their family members or having their favorites dish. Doesn't have to be your normal turkey or anything, just your favorite fish. And we like to, we are a family over there. We like to make it. Why beyond 18? Some of our students need extra time. The biggest part about my job is I get to um teach them how to be an adult, and I know we do that as we are through K through 12, but I really give
047them that extra 3 years or more um until they're ready to be independent as possible. And it provides opportunities, age appropriate opportunities, getting to help out the community, being an adult. That's all what we're about is making sure we are giving back to community with the community back to us. So giving them real world um skills, independence. We work at Steuart Lake and working with um I am not very outdoorsy so I learn myself but we were like re like receiving if it's what's called but like taking the plants the seeds from Steuart Lake and and having them receiving them to plant them over. So it's really neat. Yeah. Again, our guiding principles is commuting, building positive relationships, future, we want to prepare them for education, if that is college or if it's um just
048taking training classes, whatever their education looks like, work independence, giving them the ability to advocate for themselves. We want them to feel confident to go out there and tell their um employers that this is what they can do, this is what they need help with, seeing them as they don't have a disability, they're able to do anything, they just might need a little extra help. So being able to advocate those needs and preparing um for life skills, vocational training and growth. So in here we like to do a lot of crafting and so we would get pumpkins and craft pumpkins and have decorate outside of our we're in a great location. Um I love where we're at. We're on Front Street at the old police station and we're able to partner with a lot of
049community out there and then work places and get to decorate and talk with them. And again, this just some more visuals from the three years I've been there. there that I've been working with the students. And so our instruction is life skills, vocational and employability skills. Again, we um we do and I'll talk about this later, but we're neighbors helping neighbors. So I think that's really neat that you guys are giving back that food because we're the ones stocking it. We go Monday, Wednesday, Friday. We pick up groceries from Millers and Suns and we bring it to Neighbors Talking Neighbors. It really is an impactful thing to show the students how to volunteer um and still do that after school. So my goal is to still have them commit to that volunteer hours at neighbors
050helping neighbors and giving back. And we every Friday we go out to a lunch place of our favorite choice. We vote on it and we get to experience lunch as a group. Um we try to go into Madison cuz I'm a city girl. Um and have like the old places that I used to like eat at. And it's fun when my students go, "I never ate there." I'm like, well, you're missing out. So, it was really good to do that. And again, working with family agencies, we have a great um opportunity here with Mark Center. And again, I'll talk about that later, but being able to work with Mark Center, DVER, there's so many acronyms in um the world of special education, being able to collaborate what's best fit for that student. It may not
051be Mark Center, it may be another agency, and just reach out and help them find what's going to be the best fit for them. So, this is um one of my students at Neighbors Helping Neighbors. And I have tons of pictures. I could probably photo collage if I wanted to, but we work again on um cooking, cleaning, we work on job sites, training. We some of them my students have paid work. So, my some of my students work at Miller Sons and they have through their um job agency have job coaches with them. We're able sometimes to take them or I get feedback from their job coach on how they're doing. Um we have a student right now that's doing project search in Plaqueville and he's been doing a phenomenal job. He gets four um
052shifts of work experience and you'll see a picture I think a million. I'm hoping I put it in there. But um he's he's going to finish out his project search and hopefully have a job on Platville um college campus doing a job there. And um recreation we've had where we do yoga, we walk around, teach them to stay healthy in their life, making sure that they're always being active and not sitting at home playing video games or not doing making sure that we find a fitness activity that works for them. And again, um shopping. We love shopping. And we do a lot of budgeted shopping and teaching them how to work with a budget. Um actually they have taught me thrift store shopping and so it's again we teach each other different things but um
053we talk about transportation this year we were so um honored to get a scholarship for bikes and and having that be an opportunity. So we're going to look into bikes for our students and having them learn I'm assuming most of them have rent a bike but have not teaching them how to get access of walking riding a bike if they can't drive or if their parents are going to drop them. So that's what we focus on with our community based instruction. And then our weekly schedule, it's different, but I kind of do a morning meeting and personal goals. We set personal goals every day. We talk about our feelings of how we're feeling and it's okay to feel this way, but how when we're in the public or working, how can we be happy for
054the customers we're working for and how can we change those feelings? And then we go to job sites on um I've had this partnership for two years. We've been with the beehive and with the senior citizens over there and being doing recreational, we do bingo, we do dancing, stretching, and it's been really rewarding for both parties. And we do that Tuesdays and Thursdays and I hope to continue that partnership, especially since they have a nice new building coming up. So, being able to do that and neighbors helping neighbors, we work at the high school sometimes. I'm working with um Paul over at the middle school hopefully to do a partnership over there on maybe doing some food like um student store and of course but being able to have the students work with foods and
055just different types of job pathways we can find within the school district or community and um again it's all individualized. It really depends on what the students go. the sky is the limit. And so some students stay with me half day, full day, whatever they need. We work that out so we can transfer it over to their adult agency and follow that same pathway. I like to call the middleman. We're the bridge until they get there. So their weekly schedule and then my goals I see for students is to gain employment or volunteer experience. um maybe they're not ready to be employed yet and that's okay, but we want to still continue the volunteer experiences. How can we keep you active with your skills and put it on a resume so when you're ready to
056get employed, this is what we can show you. Increase independence. I've always said my goal is to make you as independent as possible, whatever that looks like. The sky is the limit. Hold them accountable as an adult. To build friendships, again, we do build friendships. We are a family at our um transition center and we hold those friendships. I still talk to students. they have my u messenger they can reach out to me and I see them at work sites so it's really building a friendship and social communication skills and building those connections I always say when you know somebody they can help you get hired so being able to build connections and connect with adult services and again just having them be able to make decisions as best as possible or finding people who
057can help them make those decisions so that's our student goals then one of the things we started this year was turning passion into a small business I've had this idea in my mind of if you're not working, how can we do a um small business that you could work from home? My uncle's done where he goes to garage sales, buys stuff, and then sells it on eBay. How can we make you money if you're not employed right now? And so, we want to identify hobbies for our students. We want to make sure that excites them every day. They want to go to work and be excited. And that's what we want them to do. Encourage independence and creativity and prepare them for transitioning and beyond. So, in the next slide, you're going to see this
058year, which I'm about to send out. This is one of my students, Caitlyn, and she allowed me to present this to you, but she wants to own her own baking business one day. And so, we're starting small. We're creating delicious treats for staff. Um, students, maybe we probably have to follow nutritional guidelines and make sure that, but she calls it treats for your sweets. And she thinks, you know, at first it was, oh, I only want it for, you know, boyfriends. I said, no, everyone has a sweets. you just got to for everyone. So, she's expanding. She's doing cookies, brownies, cupcakes. We've been getting um ideas and we did taste we did test trials where we baked stuff and we brought it around to people to let us get feedback. So, if you're interested, I
059will be sending that link out. But this is something for her to continue after she graduates from the transition program. And she's, as you can tell in the picture, very passionate about it. And then again, partnerships, DVR, vocational rehabs, making sure that all our students I want to actually start in middle school talking with eighth grade teachers, families, and students about DVR, what it looks like with transition. And again, with DVR, it kind of started in high school, but we can start transition transition at 8th grade. And what is your goal? What do you see? Do you see yourself going to college? Do you see yourself working? So, getting making sure they have DVR before they hit my program is huge. um adult uh long-term care and resource ADRC is another one that is by
060age 17 that we want most of our students going on that gives them the resources and support for long-term care making sure they're funded for um Iris different stuff that's going to help them after the school the school does a lot we all do a lot for our students so we just again I want to make sure they know what their community support is Mark center again a beautiful building and we appreciate all they've done with us here and I thought I can always communicate to them what students may need to go out there and families there and beautiful building. Um we did Brian helped me out with the Wisconsin health transition. Tim Markle who Brian we did it last year. So what was it five Tuesdays I think we did once a month. We
061had um an online Google meet that was live but he also gave it recorded back to us like put it on our website talking to families about living. What is living going to look like? If they're going to live with you or are they going to live in adults home? How is that going to look like? transportation. We talked about DER, we talked about ADRC, different topics that families really need more support on. Um, Timarco was able to bridge that gap and talk with these families and they give us the resources to post on our website. So, that was wonderful. And then local businesses, again, I hope to reach more. Um, this is only my third year here, so again, Behive and Neighbors helping neighbors and Millers have been really huge, but we really want
062to work with those small businesses downtown because that's where we're located. So if you have any connections, I would love it and to reach out to them to help support us. And then um again that kind of highlighted our transition talk Tuesdays um conversation around housing support decision making and guardianship. Some of our students can't be their own guardian. So making sure that the families know that and how to get that step and process started quick as possible. Um healthc care which is huge and DVR and again we're looking forward to maybe doing it again. and we had a good turnout, but maybe um doing some more transition Tuesday talks and getting feedback from parents of what they want to hear. And then um family and student engagement, it takes a village. That's kind of
063why I moved out here. I'm from Las Vegas and so I'm from a big city and the resources are there, but we are really good. Um I had a school district, I want to say even someone reach out to me about our transition program, which was really neat to see. they saw our website and they're wanting to start a transition um ATB on road program at their school district and wanted to come out and thought it was great. Really putting our um name on the map with transition program and students and being able to help other districts as well and bridge that gap for students um 18 and beyond who need that time and extra support. So, it's been working on student portfolios. I want them to showcase what they do. Uh we do time
064sheets. We do a lot of just real life experiences that they can show their family, their agencies and everyone how much they contribute to our society. So that's kind of our goal with portfolios. And then um our outcomes again is just making sure they have their diploma, they've reached all their transitional goals and skills for adulthood support if it's college or training, if it's going into employment, independent living and community involvement. I truly say I have the best job in I I make an impact. I know we all make an impact, but I just feel that with that time, I learned so much and they teach me a lot. So, it's been um incredible and and anxious to see how it continues to grow, what the outcomes and next steps will be for our future
065um in the community. And this is our website. Um Aubre's been amazing at helping me make sure it stays up to date, but just having it I have a guide. I have a 24page packet, which no one wants to read 24page packets, but uh Aubrey helped me with like a little glimpse of what it's like for families that hopefully I can start giving to them at their eighth grade year. And again, just being that connection and working with all the staff and families, like whatever they need, they don't have to wait to see me making sure that I can come to them first before they meet me. And um yeah, that's kind of our we have fun and um we love to be part of the community. It's again, it's a rewarding job and they
066they actually teach me a lot more than I teach them and I'm blessed and thankful for well giving me the opportunity to continue to do this. So, yeah, >> that's great. Thank you so much for all the the work that you do and we're really eager to have you come in and uh I've heard about your passion for this job and it shines through. Thank you. >> Any have any questions or anything you want to talk through? This >> is fantastic to see. So, thank you for that. >> Yeah, I appreciate having that in depth overview of it because I I know about it. I've heard of it, but the overview I'm curious how many students you have now. And is that a pretty consistent number or how much? >> So, when I first came,
067we were at about five students and again it was in I had a lot of students in and out. So, there was like morning a lot of students came. Um, last year I had eight students. That was my biggest class. This year has been a little different which in good way and bad way with two students I two to three I shouldn't say I have two students I have two students that are with me full-time one students at project search that's my third one and then a fourth one comes periodically so just being able to adjust to their schedules has been a challenge but it's exciting I like it cuz it's that's what the future's going to be like so I think it kind of I like to talk with Brian the other teachers of
068see I think there's going to be a big group coming which is exciting cuz I knew there's kind of a little breathing period and then a big group, >> but um I think it just Yeah, I think we're having good numbers and when we talk with a lot of families, they haven't heard once they hear about it, they're excited to join on. I did lose two students from moving. That's how I heard about it is moving sometimes. But I mean, yeah, I've had um the student right there in the middle, um Michael, I've had him for two years and I had them for two years and it was really cool to see um just the growth in two years. Some of the students I only had for one year my first year here. So, it
069was kind of hard to see if they were growing or not. So, I'm liking that now I can see growth with the students that are coming up. Yeah. board members. If this was not enough, on top of that, guess who our coach is for the sports season? >> It was incredible. It was fun. Um, it was good to see a student. I love sports and um, again, I've got adaptive physical education on my license, being able to give them the access to sports. And I when you kind of coach competitive sport, it's not as fun. Whereas when you're there, they still grow. I mean, we won our last game. We've won two games this season which was incredible starting from our first game where we were a little like oh this is this is intense.
070I I was in the gold ducking cuz I I was afraid and but I mean as I'm ducking I have the student in front of me and she has the biggest smile on her face and just to see them and their parents and we went to one school and they had a whole student section and crowd cheering on both teams. And so then we were in Verona the football team from Verona came and supported both teams and the kids just love you just saw them cheering. It just was a blessing to have and um it was incredible opportunity and I'm looking forward to spring season of football and just maybe a future floor hockey. We don't know but um yeah, it's been incredible and it's just it's fun. So, thank you again for allowing me
071to do that. >> Starlin also is an aspiring administrator taking classes all the while she's doing all these other things. You truly are a beacon of positivity. We're grateful for your leadership. Thank you. >> Thank you again. and I have kids here in the group. So, I'm very pleased. So, very young children and um that's why we live here cuz we're very thankful for all you guys do for the students and stuff. >> Thank you so much. >> Excellent. Um on to our action items. Uh we have two first readings tonight. We do have everyone present if you want to move through. um those on a roll call vote and approve or we can have those for consideration. First one here is revisions to number 754 privately owned vehicles s strong again. Um yes policy
072754 own vehicles uh for instructional purposes. So, this policy went to the uh went to the education committee. Um we had a shorter policy in place if you look at the red line. We've made quite a bit of additions to this policy. We really wanted to reflect what is currently happening and what's feasible um for students especially if they are leaving our campus for youth apprenticeship or for any opportunities like Sarah was talking about in our community. uh we want to make sure that policy reflects practice. So we did add um language around students driving themselves like I said for school affiliated coursework experiences workplaces as well as uh systems in place for adult drivers um driving students in their own personal vehicles as well. We divide it out between the student drivers section, the
073adult drivers section, the insurance piece, and then the approval piece from the administrative team. So now that language is new and is for your consideration tonight, questions, >> please. Um, so for student drivers, it says a parent or guardian must provide written consent, but there's nothing about written consent if they were going to drive with another adult in their private vehicle. Is that something we do or we should do or and if we do that, should we have it in the policy? >> That's a different district policy. Um, and that would cover uh students riding with other staff members or maybe another adult. I could be wrong about the other adult piece. Um, in terms of um, should we have it in the policy? I would advise if it's not already a cross reference that
074we make it a cross reference to that policy. >> And maybe it's one of the I didn't read I didn't read the cross reference. >> And I I should I should have known better myself. We I can look to see that. If absent that then we certainly can look that in as a cross reference. >> One other question. Um, how does that whole student drive thing work when it comes to homecoming? And I only ask because I have seen a vehicle pull up to like the PC and then a clown car of students get out of the vehicle to do the thing. So is cuz you said something about like uh what would you just use? Oh, can't on campus. We considering that still on campus and so not totally bound by this policy or
075is should should they be clown caring it from the high school to the PC? Yeah, I mean it's a practice. We can look at the policy or the practice. It's a practice we can take a look at. Sometimes we do have less transportation especially graduation walk and other pieces. So that's something that we could look at and do better with have that transportation especially if it is for 30 athletes 40 athletes is what I think you're talking about. >> Uh the like eight soccer kids, you know, all piled in somebody's heavy van. Yeah, I think we do a better job with the transportation of homecoming when they take the tour from buildings, >> right? That's the only time I can like I remember pulling up going, I don't know what's happening over there, but I'm
076just going to go in. >> Yeah, just temporarily. >> Yeah, there a discussion or question on this one. I get one more question. >> Yeah. >> How long is the approved written approval good for? Because it says we could revoke it at any time. So is it like on a situation by situ like is it for like a whole class work or like you know they have to drive to campus or whatever. >> Great question. Um we would hold this information in campus. So we would see it somewhat like we do our online registration system or or yearly. >> Okay. a piece that that we have a yearly within there. >> It may not kick in for all students because we can send that out to families on a per event basis, but that would
077be good for that year. >> Thanks for asking. Um, is this something that the something the board feels comfortable moving forward with and entertain a motion? >> I would I would make a motion to approve. >> Second. >> Got a motion by Sarah and a second by Jessica and first reading. So, we can do a a roll call vote on that. Joel, >> yes. >> Jessica, >> yes. >> Sarah, >> yes. Tom, >> yes. >> Carly, >> yes. >> I'm also a yes. Motion passes. >> Thank you. >> Next one up is 425.1 part-time open enrollment program. Let's get over from SA Brian Johnson. >> So, this policy is it's always a little confusing because you have to remember that we're talking about students who are part-time open enroll. So it's not just a regular
078student who's coming to our school. It's somebody who maybe comes here but maybe wants to attend one class somewhere else or maybe they attend the private school but they want to attend, you know, the really great band program in a different district, right? So there's it's like it's little nuanced already and it's very few kids if it would ever um become of a possibility. So, um, really the updates that are in here are updates on, um, a a law that had got updated. Um, and so those are really where they're at. So, um, really instead of writing specific dates, which is what we're trying to get away from, um, our attorney, you know, just said basically the director of instruction or the designate sets when the classes are going to start, which is basically semester,
079right? So, those are the classes when they start. um and into for the purposes of this open enrollment day. Um some of the other changes were just kind of some grammatical kind of trying to um kind of just keep it on our policy kind of how we write things. You go down a little bit further. Um one change that we did make in here was that we can reject somebody from doing this. Um, and instead of like making number three a rejection category, um, we just kind of made it like a statement of fact that we will notify somebody if the course wouldn't, um, satisfy high school graduation requirements. So, um, I want to take this science class. We'll let you know if it meets our science criteria or not. Maybe it's something that wouldn't
080do that. So, we would love to give them that that notification. um just kind of put it in like all this the stuff underneath it's the same pretty much except for that last piece which is the law that they can apply um through the DPI for prorated actual transportation costs. It is um given preference to students who are reduced lunch. So, and then the location of school attendance. This is like tricky and you have to read it multiple times. And I still like it still is a little tricky for me to understand the last sentence. But what I think is really kind of important with this is like each sentence is like a different category, right? So like each sentence is a statement of fact and each sentence specifically is the word of state law.
081>> You can't change it. >> This was the one we talked about. >> Oh, it doesn't matter. That doesn't make any sense. >> Right. It is that is the law of each area. And so attendance within a school district means that the physical the pupil physically attends a course located within the physical boundaries of the school district. You're going to attend it. Yeah, that's like one statement, right? Then the next one kind of goes into ver virtual charter school. And then the third one is um I have to read a lot like I reread it before I came down here, right? But a pupil participating in an online course. So, a part-time openen enrolled student who chooses to do an online course that is not through a charter school or a virtual school is not
082considered to be attending a course located within the non-district school district unless they actually go there to take it. >> Clear. Yep. >> Yeah. I I like I understand it in my head, but like if you read it a few times, like it does make sense on how we would use it. >> Currently, we have no students who fall under this cate this entire policy. >> You said it's pretty rare that we do for >> Yeah, I can't think of that. Yeah, at least 10 years I've been here, I don't think. >> Haven't had any. So, >> I don't think we've had one in like show because I would assume it would show up on our transactions part time. I don't He'll convent any. >> Yeah. So, this is it's really specific state law and
083then the state statute is is tagged in there. So, >> motion to approve this policy. Second >> motion by the and a second by Sarah. Any further discussion on this one? All right. This is another roll call vote. Joel, >> guess I'll give it a weird yes then. Leah >> also a weird yes. >> Yes. >> Sarah, >> just give it a yes. >> Tom, >> yes. >> Carly, >> yes. >> I'm also a yes, I guess. >> No citizens comments. Dr. Outstanding. Um, that uh look ahead at our our next meeting. We got finance coming up next Monday on regular slate of safety and wellness and our full board meeting on November 17th at 5:30 and 6:30 right here PGT the end of the month Thanksgiving week. Um and uh then again December 1st
084education and full boards is our only meeting in December which is hard to think about for the end of the year. Um at this point um like to entertain a motion moving to contemplated in close se close session for section 19.851C 851c considering employment, promotion, compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility to it a meet and confer update super intelligent super in super intelligent superintendent evaluation and an employee matter. So moved. >> Second, >> Leah. And that was Jessica. >> Yes. >> And this will be a roll call to a close section. Joel. >> Yes. >> Leah. >> Yes. >> Jessica. Sarah. >> Yes. >> Tom. >> Yes. >> Carly? >> Yes. >> I'm also a yes. I should eat a dinner before
085that. >> To be fair with the time change. It's really almost 9:00. So >> thanks. We'll we'll do a fivem minute break. I didn't want to clear out. Thanks for coming tonight. Thank you.