001Motion approve [Music] a motion by Tom and second by Carly. All in favor? >> Any opposed? >> None. All right. On item 3A, we have our student spotlight here. Dr. Swear, would you like to introduce for a treat? This is our inaugural student spotlight for the school year and uh recommended by one of our strongest teachers in Kingwood Primary Center, Mr. Pelton. Mr. Pelton and Mrs. Rachel Johnson are here, our principal. Tell us a little bit about Annie. Can we bring Annie up here? Maybe asked her twice. [Music] That's the best stuff here because my enthusiasm tell >> So what I've noticed in just from day one, your kindness toward your peers, um your strong leadership skills, um you always show up for others, you care about others in class, um you have a great
002sense of humor. Uh but you I you really embody the Viking spirit and um you're just you're just an outstanding person and you're a great leader in the class and a great student all all around and u you make our class your culture better. So really grateful for you. >> Can I share a few other words here? >> I would love that. >> Compassionate, a leader, a model, kind, approaches every situation with grace. That means like even if something's tough, you just like we got this. Um demonstrating strong leadership, emotional maturity, and she he said you like truly if any kid could be want to be someone it would be like you. Respectful, responsible, ready all the time. >> Congrats. Let's club over here. Who are all these wonderful people? Some people have video tell
003us who are people. >> So that's my great grandma. One of the purple suits is my grandma. And then next is my grandpa. Grandma, grandpa, my dad, my brother, and my mom. >> It's so lovely to have you all here and support. you know, it starts at the home. And so, on behalf of our board of education and the school district, we're grateful for you both and what you do to help support our young people. I I have um on behalf of the board a certificate that we would like to give you and uh I hope that you have a special place at your home that you can put this. Do you have a good idea where this might go? >> No, I already have one and I haven't [Music] I need to wear this
004probably. This is a Viking pin. And then would you be willing to take a picture with your family and and Mrs. Johnson and Mr. Pelton and I have a friend in Mr. Schliman. He gets to work very closely with your school. We'd love to take a picture with you. >> Sure. >> Let's do that outside. What do you say here? >> Could you take a picture of us, please? I don't know. And my father, you know, like there's all stuff like feeling I know. I actually [Music] don't actually [Music] I know. I know. Sorry. I know. I know. So, Chicago from Northern Illinois. something. [Applause] Thank you. Everything [Music] It works. She's four years. The person that I should not Oh yeah. message your bigger than it's not like [Music] that. What do I need
005to do? And they have an internship but it is >> Oh yeah. It's like designing the fox. It's not just like [Applause] [Music] Oh, I see. [Music] always [Music] kind of Especially 5 years like we have a successful picture. >> Um >> do we have any building good news? >> Um I think she was getting ready to step away. I apologize. >> That is fine. Then we're up at citizen comments. >> Yes. Could you meet the Mrs. Schaer? How are you? I'm good. Thank you. Um hello everyone. Um Mike Tracy and I are here to representing P Flag and we're grateful for this space in this time. But I actually want to tell you we just attended the National Conference for P Flag. It was in the Chicago area this weekend and the Mount Chapter
006was awarded the Mountain Skating Chapter award. So we are so proud and just more than proud just elated to be able to communicate and connect with there were 38 states and I think 68 chapters represent and got to talk to everyone there and what everyone is connect to the school boards to our local government is one of the most important things we can do. So, and I think that had something to do with why we were select. So, for that, I thank you for your time and all you do for our kids for hours. [Music] >> Dr. Do we have anyone else registered? >> All right. Uh, he'll cue you into um school news to lead us off. Wow, that is that's hard to follow. Congratulations. We're so proud for you and all that you
007do in support of our young people each and every day, especially that which goes unnoticed. We appreciate you very much. Um I uh want to recognize a couple of students uh who were just um recognized um by AP testing. Uh we have seven Mount Horizon School students uh who will receive national recognition by the college board. In fact, my notes are on the on the screen. You can see them there. Uh Samantha Hansen, Ethan Gage, uh Kate uh Green, Lily Nelson, Maddie Olman, Anna Chanel, and uh Joseph. Now, all of these students are people that you would expect around our district uh because they're so well thought of. They're just high achievers, not only in the classroom, but around our campus as leaders. So, I want to congratulate those individuals. That's no easy achievement. I
008also thought it might be time as we're already into the middle of October already, my word, uh to put a bow on some of the um regular season play, and give you some updates as to where some of our high school students are at. In fact, we had one student, uh, uh, Miss Nicewander, who was, uh, spending the afternoon golfing, uh, at the state tournament. How great is that? Uh, and we're so proud of her. I don't know how things played out for her, but knowing her, uh, she just handled it with, uh, great calm and grace and class. She's just a neat young woman. Uh, boys soccer, uh, they're getting ready to host West Salem here in the coming days, uh, as part of a regional semiinal match. our volleyball bracket, although it hasn't
009been finalized yet, they're getting ready for some division 2 play, also happening on the same night as our boys soccer. Uh, and then uh we'll take um in our boys football team um uh a level one likely host on October 24th, which is that Friday night. And then hopefully when we win, like the Chicago Bears will win tonight, uh they'll go on to play on October 31st. And then uh also want to recognize our girls swim team. They're going sectionals already November 8th. Where does the fall go? Uh and then I wanted to remind families that on the 23rd of October, we're having a special family engagement night. Uh and that uh topic is around the concept of sextorrtion. This is a new term to me and maybe to you as well. The community session
010is going to be held uh by one of the detectives uh a fellow by the name of uh a detective blank uh from the Dane County Sheriff's Office. He's going to talk to us about what it is and why it's becoming more and more prolific and how we help students who find themselves in the circumstance of um being involved in these c these issues. It's it's quite quite sad quite frankly dastardly as to what people are doing to harm other individuals. So, come on out 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. the 23rd. That same evening, uh we'll have our fall concerts uh at the middle school. And as you can see, we're also going to be hosting some volleyball and and some boys soccer that night as well. So, lots of great things happening here at
011the home of the Vikings. Our kids continue to make us proud and our loving staff continue to make opportunities happen for our young people. >> That's a lot of stuff. Uh you don't have any um school news to bring forward. >> Okay. Um yeah, I have a few things. U there has been open houses at some schools at the intermediate center on October 2nd. Um and there was a lot of nice artwork to see and the students got to leave their um parents into discussion on what they've been learning. And then the primary center open house was last Thursday on the 9th. And same thing, there's lots of great artwork from the kids and lots of excitement. uh from the kids taking their parents through the schools. Um and uh field trip season has been
012going on a little bit too. Um I know the fourth grade uh took some time to go to Indian Lake County Park and did some hiking and learned uh a little about nature as they were learning some things uh based on their lessons in school. >> That's wonderful. Thank you, Tom, Jessica. >> Um a few other things that I thought of. October is National Principal Month and we are very fortunate to have excellent principles in our district. Uh this week is school lunch week and I know the I've been seeing the post. They're doing all kinds of school extra school lunch stuff this week. Um the high school musical, the tickets went on sale. Um that's November 13th through the 15th. Um I had written down to congratulate the P flag folks. So congratulations again.
013Um, and then are you Adam going to talk about our back the regional dinner and the creator Dane? >> If you would like to lead off on that, I'd be glad to chime in. >> Uh, well, sure. Um, the regional dinner was not last week, but it was the week before. Um, we had a nice discussion in terms of um, what our priorities were there. Carly, you've gone before. Um, there's always someone who speaks um and then there's some activities at the table. So, Adam, Dr. Lauren, and I got to spend some time talking about um priorities and how we wanted to communicate them out to the district. Um, and then we had a legislative update that was interesting and useful. Um, and then the Greater Dayne County Consortion meeting was just the other night.
014Um, and we spent some time talking about the eight characteristics of making effective school boards. Um, talked a little bit about moving forward and how we could be as a group most effective. Um, talked a little bit about having liaison from each of the um different school boards that could kind of meet together to develop priorities and move those forward because um, the Madison school district now has like a paid lobbyist basically. um so she could kind of help lead the efforts and work together. Carly, it seemed like something you'd be very interested in. So yeah, I don't know. That's those are my initial starts if you want to chime in and add to those. >> Yeah. No, that was a really good list and that last one jumped out at me a lot just
015about the ability to build as a platform. Everyone was talking about how the the unified front last year on focused issue brought results. maybe not the exact results that we targeted, but at least put it out there, put it on the legislature to to come up with some uh some solutions to an answer to that question. Um, this is obviously a non budget year, but there was still discussion uh over making the most out of that time, whether that's laying the groundwork for the ask next year. Um, I also had it through my head if there were any other issues that weren't necessarily money related, but something that we could maybe build some bridges with some of the representatives on. And um one of the there's some prairie superintendent that stood up and just mentioned
016about um you know we we need to have a unified fund. It's helpful to have a unified fund as Dane County. It's also be thoughtful about what issues connect with rural districts around the state. um because there's just there's obviously a lot of folks who represent those areas and it'll mean a lot more to them if it's not kind of um one area which is kind of a place of power privilege um in this state if it's something that's more a little bit more broad-based. So I thought it was a very good discussion on it. It seemed like there was a lot of consensus over pooling our resources again um brain resources in terms of coming up with a new platform. Um really and uh just not too love the discussions at the table for
017the this one. It was fantastic. they kind of forced us to move to other tables uh not just sit with the mountain or contingents and talk which is great in its own right but um just to hear some of the the circumstances and concerns that the districts have um I feel like I generally come away from those feeling pretty good about where we're at about what we do on a regular basis and the situation we face but there was there was three four ideas that I picked up I was like that's that's something I'd love to incorporate here >> yeah and there have been Two more meetings this year. >> You have January and April? >> That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They needs to be announced. Yes. Yes. Um the any does anyone else
018have any other school news agreement? See the only other thing that uh I was going to mention is just we've had some discussion about school liaison role and I think that everyone's done this um in their own right. I did hand out a list of uh some potential questions that we could keep top of mind. Um the big thing was from my point of view was just making sure that we were staying connected with the school. I know we all put a ton of time into it, but I caught myself last year. um being dragged into a lot of other areas rather than making enough school visits as many as I intended to make. And so just an urging again to um have like one at least one report a semester from the school or
019other organization that we're tied to. I'll kind of fill in the gaps too as the president without any specific um allegations but just areas where I feel like I can bring um some input like directly from the field and uh some understanding what people are facing out there to help us inform decisions that we're making. So um again this is not like meant to be a prescriptive. This was just a hey uh some something that we could go on when we're walking in there and it might have some commonality to it. will come back with a report that uh we can make more actionable and uh that was that was all I had. Um Dr. Scho, anything else from your end? No, thank you. Okay, excellent. Um on to item number four, personal transactions uh
020recommendations and employee employment employee employment status matters. Any comments on that or would we like to make a motion to approve? >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> We got a motion by Jessica and a second by Joel. All in favor? >> I Any opposed? If that motion passes, uh the consent agenda, several items on there, including some financial reports and our Dane County new teacher project intergovernmental agreement. Can I just ask a question about that quick? >> Sure. >> Um is it what for one instructional coach or >> That's right. >> And um it says we would we'll pay regardless of what independent of the actual attendance if that person is unable. >> Okay. The only other thing is term of agreement. It says between the Verona area school district >> through the fiscal
021agent. >> Verona. >> Yes. Oh, I thought that >> uh excuse me. No, I'm mistaken. That is not true. Uh CISA 2 is the fiscal agent. I think this is boiler plate. >> Where are you seeing that? >> Section three term of agreement. >> I will ask them to revise that and then we can put it on our strike it as a matter of fact. >> Okay. >> If that's amenable to the board. >> Yes, absolutely. Thanks for motion to approve consent agenda. Second. >> Got a motion by Jessica and a second by Carly. All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Motion passes. And for discussion items committee remember reports. Uh PGT. Tom, you want to lead us off? >> I'd love to. We met on September 22nd and we got a report um that
022the buildings and grounds crew is fully staffed. Um over the summer there were 127 work requests and 125 of those were closed by the team. Um so that's a great great work by them. Um and they will we probably have the last two finished by now. Um competition fields went from being pretty wet to needing some watering. So they will spend some time with that cleaning lines on the fields. Um then we went on to a transportation update. Uh there's a CDL candidate testing on September 23rd for an afternoon route. Um they're still looking for a wheelchair route needs a driver. Um operations state stop was September 21st through September 25th. Um focusing on illegal bus passing, which is obviously a big big safety. Um got a small update on the electric bus. is still
023waiting on a few parts, but hopefully um that comes around and we have that um to use for our routes. Um we talked about policy 30-1 rental use which will be on the agenda later tonight. We'll talk about it then. Uh, as far as the referendum, there was no update since of our last board meeting. And then our next meeting will meet on meet in person on um October 27th. >> Excellent. Thanks, Tom. Any questions? [Music] All right. Finance Committee Jewel. So, we met on September 8th and all the things that happened in that meeting, I'm pretty sure have been discussed already. Well, just to go through them again, we had three different donations that were made. Uh wrestling club with the Mats uh and then the youth baseball club uh the new batting cage
024at the high school there. We had talked about that as a a roller board. Um but that uh we'll be working on putting that in. And then of course the Lions Club with their donation, their stuff donation. So, uh, appreciation to everyone that's donated in that manner. Then we spent some time looking at the tax receipts and budget summary. Um, in uh, discussions with Mr. Young, it's everything seems to be where we expect it to be. There's not anything unusual in terms of the numbers being out of control or something different than what we expected. So, um everything uh looks to be in good good shape there. Uh and then we meet tomorrow. Sorry, next week. Monday, correct? Yes. >> Tomorrow and Monday. We we just can't help ourselves. No. Uh next Monday, uh we
025meet again. Um and we should have some final information as relates to the budget. It's very exciting time for all of us. So, yes, that's it. >> Wonderful. Thank you. Any questions for Joel? And safety and wellness. Jessica, >> we met on Monday, September 15th. We spent a little bit of time talking about policy 423, part-time attendance, which we're going to talk about later tonight. And then we spent the bulk of our time talking about um policy 443, the dress code. Um we had students spoke, we had some parents speak, we had a good conversation. um which took up most of our meeting. Um and so some of our other safety, equity, and mental health updates we postpone till this month. Um the one thing that I would note um in terms of equity, the
026unified sports, it was upcoming at that point, but they've had their first um game since then. So um that's pretty exciting. Absolutely. >> Cool. And uh um also I had you down for parks and wreck if there was >> Oh yes, but uh we don't meet till the 28th. So I don't have any updates since last time. >> Sounds good. All right. Thank you. Um on to our presentations. Um anyone who did not get a chance to listen to Mr. Craig Smith last week in committee meeting got robbed. You get the condensed version there. But it's uh just amazing report. It was so fun to hear about. So I'm waiting to see how he consolidates this into his band tonight. 40 minutes or something [Music] interpret by the way [Music] and I look very good
027today is current programs up and running. There's a lot of information on there. We're running our DP diploma based course. Each student has to take two diploma courses as long as well as the QPS and do the core which is their service learning um culture development and those pieces of 70 hours each that go into that. That was all in the beginning. The other piece that is up and running is our career related studies. So just like our youth apprentichip program, the IB program has to have a course that uplifts what you're learning from the microscope of workbased career development. So whether it's handon youth apprentichip or through the IB, you have to have a class that supports that. And so now what we can offer in house um through our biotech, our biotech lab,
028we are running two childc care development courses and we are able to get Sam a new set of babies and practicing those things which is also helping try to get it ready. So it's coming in March in that world that we know legislation's passed. It should be approved in March that 16 year olds can start working in daycarees as we're learning and other committee towards the count. So when the 16 and above, so our students that have taken child development are doing the youth apprentice, you can have more student or more pupils in that room than you currently can unless they're 18. So we're adding some CPR, but that all qualifies as a career related study course that packages our CTE with our healthcare pathway. And so we officially have a healthcare pathway pathway which
029means as we're currently doing our CMLA looking at what we need going into our next Perkins cycle we're coming back because of child care because of the great need for healthcare in Day County and our community in particular that we're going to be able to now start spending some of our Perkins grant in that world. So that'll be nice. But you have to have that pathway in your building before you can spend some of those monies in that area. So we're officially eligible to start doing that now. Um, we can keep moving. So, this is just re rehashing what I've already touched on. Our two diploma based courses, sports, exercise and health science. We actually got to go over uh our first trip where we finished a unit and then we put in application and
030we were able to go to Upland Health and go through their PT how they will use and learn or use and use the instruments. Some we have, some we use theirs. So students are not putting into application what they learned in unit one in physical therapy and we'll keep that relationship. They're actually coming over to us next time to do with the two student groups. We break them down into two groups of 15 and then they get to go through and have that hands-on learning experience with Upland Hills. So we're very excited about that. And then I just listed some of our career related study courses. Um bringing workplace learning to our classrooms. I Dr. Sleno is going to be very right I believe on this one. IB is taking off. So through the waves
031we're learning more about legislation being passed in Missouri where now every credit taken in IB has to be accepted by all schools in universities college system. Indiana is now getting automatic acceptance in it goes through the full DP. Again we're CP career programming school but the amount of credits and all those things are being passed in our state where we'll soon see legislation that's going to help but we're on ID. you'll find on every state website, every everything. So, it's really been coming to life in the Midwest. Um, in the US in general, it's really taking off, but we're seeing a growth in our state as far as schools. I'm meeting with two schools that are DP schools that want to add CP and now we're looking to us as one of the first to
032get through the gates, us as to how you do it. So, getting TISA back this week is going to be very helpful because I need that part of my brain to get some of this done. Um, but we're getting those work-based learnings, but you're bringing experential learning. You brought experential learning to your classroom and you have a capstone in healthcare where students are getting practical experience. Actually, you can go to the next slide and kind of start looking at who's benefiting from this. I don't have that success story yet like I can with work-based learning some of those things because it's so new. I think when you read through these, the one I'll hit on is we said that we can just sit around the table discussing. We know we had seven students major in
033a healthc care field that went to college and we did not have this and what they did and God bless them when they build Bill Hosa and there was five of them those five we know in healthcare that is now over 50 students next Thursday I'm going to Madison College with 30 students freshman through seniors that are going up to practice healthcare professions learn more about the different things that are in healthcare so what our success story is right now is we're giving our students opportunities that didn't exist this one counter a year ago and we're now being able to fund it through our grants and some other things. So, we've we've done a lot in the year. It's very fun. But again, our kids wanted it. We gave it to them and they showed
034up in the masses to say, "Told you we wanted it." And we're providing that for them. That's it for now. We we'll get more after we've been in school for a month, but that's our we're off and running. Tom's doing a great job in the classroom. Kids are loving it. So, we're just going to keep this growing. questions. >> All right. Can I flag on Mr. Smith for just a moment? the pie piper of our young people in the high school. Not only has he set us on a course for success with the IB folks who actually audit our program and give us our credentiing, he's also assembled a really talented group of professionals to help lead it um through training, through regular visits, and then of course the students. uh success begets more success
035and I credit uh a great deal of the success we have to our our staff uh and the curiosity that our students are bringing to the work. So keep up the great work. We're so lucky to have you. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. Thank you. And Greg, in all seriousness, that was phenomenal last week to hear you go through the full uh collection of things we're doing. And the thing that became apparent to me was just a the synergies, you know, that you were able to find and the crossovers and our ability to uh um combine resources where possible and outputs were possible. You know, this stuff inside and out. It's so nice to have a point person running it, but it's more like the mindset too. Like you got kids thinking about like how
036how do I apply this knowledge? That's so exciting. >> It was funny. One week I reached out to Kates. I've never done ACP academic career planning looking at the third, fourth, fifth. Well, I started new researching its right. And so I'm like, well, what do we do? And then right after that, I get a call from wire of middle school ACP and doing blueprints. So now to see it all connect and figure out how we can get the big bodies down there teaching this, the little bodies is what K and I are working on. So we'll keep going. All right. Appreciate you. >> Thank you. [Music] >> Excellent. 60 update. So, uh, I'm just going to bring up Kim here. [Music] She's >> Yeah. So, Kevin, she >> How are you? Hello. >> Hello. >>
037I I can see you, but I can't hear you. Hold on. Let me see if my >> Okay, maybe your audio isn't hooked up here. Say, how about now? >> Okay. >> Can you hear us now? >> I I think I can hear you now, Steve. >> It's a delight to see you, Kim. I have here with us our board of education and our friend and colleague, uh, Brian Johnson, uh, who's on the call with us tonight. >> All right. Excellent. Hi, everyone. There's more of us. >> Hello, everyone. Good to see you all. Well, thanks, Kim. We we'd like to have uh Oregon Mental Health come once a year to just kind of give an update on the work that's being done within our our schools. Um, as you would know, Oregon Mental Health
038provides services kindergarten now through 12th grade. Um, and so we have some pretty great results to kind of share and how it's grown this last last year, how it kind of grew. So, >> and they have your um document uh in our board docs. Thank you for absolutely absolutely. No, I'm I'm really glad to be here to share some some of um this with you. Um yeah, uh we we're we're seeing more clients, which is which is great. We have had an increase as you can see um from 50 um from 48 to 58 students from one school year to last school year you know which is great um meaning that there's going to be more appointments more more sessions and I think sometimes those sessions really depend on um the need for frequency and
039things like that. I think that that's pretty much kind of stuck with each individual therapist too. So um so I think that's dependent upon that. Um, as far as consultations, I put in there at least 11 times. Reason being because we don't have a great way to capture some of those. We can bill for some of our consultations, but a lot of times we we consult a lot more in an informal way. And and also um you know, sometimes it's it's documented differently in a in in a contact note versus versus a consultation note. And a consultation note is something that we build for. Sometimes we can build for it, sometimes we can't. So, I just kind of put at least 11 times because that's that's that's the numbers that were kind of picked up
040there. So, um we had quite a few referrals. Um definitely more referrals last year than this year. Uh oh, sorry that that last year from from the previous school year, 54 referrals. And um there's there's obviously some reasons why we have issues, but a lot of times it's parental follow through in um in actually signing the documents. Sometimes it that they missed the appointment, sometimes they found services elsewhere. And I'm kind of wondering, you know, based on your knowledge, has there been any changes um as far as being able to um have like school funding? like if that were to be like a necessary thing for some kid. I know we provide we provide a certain percentage um for I think 5% of the total population. Um but I'm just kind of wondering what what
041you're seeing. Has there been a change in DPI's aotment for any you know school funding? Let's say we were if we were out of network with somebody um and we wouldn't be able to see them. Um I'm kind of curious about if anyone has answers to that. >> Thank you for asking. Unfortunately with the latest budget bianium we did not see any increase in mental health supports. Uh whereas we had seen that in the last bianium. Suffice to say we would never let a student go without any kind of help to the extent to which we can get to a yes on that we absolutely would. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And like like I said we we do provide birth at that that population of 5% of the population. But the good news is is
042that we have two clinicians that are fully licensed now, which makes it even um more um it gives us more the ability to be able to serve the population. Um obviously there's going to be outliers with certain, you know, out of network insuranceances and things like that. But now, um we have Dave and Justine who both are fully licensed. Um I believe Dave got fully licensed at the end of the last school year adjusting this school year. So that makes it so that we can provide services for some of those commercial um insurance companies that that a lot of times our our qualified treatment trainings are not able to bill for, you know. So this is this is good. This this is able to kind of bump bump us up a little bit and be
043able to serve more of the population. So So that's definitely going to pass. Um, so yeah, and and I I I don't I don't know if there's any other things. I I just I I know that I I fully appreciate and I I I speak for all of us here at Oregon Mental Health Services, we're just really appreciative of of this ongoing relationship we have with the Mont Horm School District and being able to um you know, work together and collaborate and be able to provide these um needed services for families, for for kids and things like that. So, um, yeah. Yeah. I >> think one of the big benefits too within the last couple years and been a potential reason why we started to see an increase is that we've also seen a a
044really strong consistency of the counselors being able to be within our district. Um, which has added good continuity, good continued care, um, and kind of that spreading the word of like this has really been helpful for my kid. and and so um we really appreciate that as well. >> Yeah, that's great. That's great. I think that's the that's the best way to to that that can get spread is by word of mouth. I think that that you know I you know it it's we've had such a a great ability to be able to kind of come in and support and and work with and and collaborate with all of your services staff, things like that. So I think that's that's happening on a um a regular basis as well is what I what I know.
045Um maybe and maybe maybe I I think we did receive some feedback. I think there was um I think we had um Hillary Hartman did some type of research last year I believe and kind of we gain some feedback. I don't know if you were aware of any of those things. I think we talked about a little bit. >> Yeah, we presented that at a board meeting as well. >> Right. Right. So, so I think one of the feedback um pieces was just more collaboration and a little bit more collaboration with actually like teachers and things like that. And so um so hopefully that that will um maybe start a little bit more too that teacher maybe and and I don't know if if there's if there are things that we can do on our
046end that would that would be helpful. I, you know, I would really like to to kind of hear some ideas about that, about what we can do to maybe make that that information a little bit more accessible to teachers and things like that. So, we would love to schedule some time to visit with you on that. I I love the continued partnership. We're now on year nine uh with Oregon on Mental Health, and we're so grateful for what you do. you truly make our community, our students, uh, even better. We want to do whatever we can to continue to breathe life into that relationship. >> Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Please don't hesitate, you know, whenever whenever we want to have those conversations, you know, that that would be that would be great. We we're um
047wherever we're in evolving here at at Mental Health Services cuz we do have some some changes that are occurring in that Mary is going to be retiring in May of 2026. and so she's helping down it, but she'll she'll still be kind of helping with some of the development of our doctoral office. Um, but she's definitely helping from school work. So, we are anticipating a little bit of change that way. But, we do have an administrative team. I'm part of that. I'm the school bus manager. We also have a clinical manager and Dave Litman who is a therapist there. He's he's the operations manager. So, we're going to we're kind of keeping it all running and and hopefully we'll we'll continue on, you know, working together. So >> Mary surrounded herself with some really great
048people. I count you as part of that that uh that team. So thank you, Mr. President. What any questions? >> Yeah, I was curious if anyone had anything for for Kim or Brian. I think uh my my only one in a general sense and this is probably not an easy question to answer but just the nature of the of the um visits that you're seeing with kids how that's if if and how that's changed uh this year or in recent years. >> Okay. Um and the nature being um like different um like different presenting concerns and that >> issues that they're facing and dealing with. Right. Right. Oh, you know, one one of the things that that I we we we've noticed ever since co has been an uptick of anxiety. Anxiety has been an
049ever prevalent thing. Um what I what I feel like I've seen more is more more kids on the on the spectrum on the autism spectrum as well. I think those are pres not not to say that we are specifically um able as an outpatient facility to treat the actual diagnosis of autism but we you know we work with it and there's other things attached to that there's anxiety there's ADHD there's other things that we you know so that that's definitely a presenting thing um that that we see I think we've seen um I I want to say probably decreased um I I think depressed mood is still kind care. I I'm not sure about about the level of suicidality that it, you know, um I think those are still prevalent issues. I think we we
050have um you know, certain populations that are affected more um with with those types of things. Um and yeah, and I don't Yeah, I'm trying to think if there's any new things. I I think they're they're just relative. I I me personally as a therapist that works in the Oregon school district and and I I think I I it would you know I have my my colleagues in Mount Hor that would echo that about the the autism spectrum. It's just kind of some something additional and something that we actually have training for, you know, that we're able to do. But like I said, we're just not um that's not like our expertise. if we need someone to to be treated that, you know, for those symptoms specifically, we would report that out to you. So,
051>> great. Thank you. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> Well, keep up the fantastic work. We're grateful for your time here this evening and we look forward to connecting with you, Brian, and I do at some point very soon. >> All right. I I look forward to that and I thank you so much for your time tonight. It's as always, it's a pleasure. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. >> All right. Not to our technology or annual update from Will from me. I am I'm Will Rubin. I'm a technology coordinator here in the district. Um that's my team. Uh minus the the white-haired gentleman. He is now a budding freshman at W Platville. Um he's working on uh uh computer security type items. [Music] That's we affectionately call him slappy slappy. Um just a few things that we
052last year and this year that we did uh the previous year we had 178,000 grant from uh the government for Chromebooks. We did not hit that number this year for obvious reasons, but we did come up with a 33k uh cyber security grant. Um we're also actually tomorrow going to receive the laptops and computers from uh Epic. And then last year uh we had $4,000 approximately in hardware garage sale. Those were items that normally we would go ahead and recycle that they would just be gracious enough to take off of our hands that we we actually generate a little bit of revenue on it on items that we felt were in fact you bought one yourself and so that we're going to continue to do that this year. Um we have a few more items
053left over from this past year's um reconditioning that we did at the middle school. Um, next year up is going to be the IC building. So, we'll have some more items, especially the the flat panel interactive cycle purchase. Um, next up is our network topology uh topography improvements. Um, we're always looking to improve our network uh from beginning to end. One of the big things that we put in is we're putting network hardware network hardware upgrades in all of our closets so that um we're replacing our older PoE switches with PoE plus so that when we have new items like cameras, uh bait detectors, um anything else? Uh we can do clocks now. We can do um uh uh the intercom system stuff with the door switches. Um we're purchasing those. Um, basically they're used,
054reconditioned, but they're they work for us. Um, we installed that air fiber from the high school to the ticket booth. Um, that was one of our things that we want to expand on with our air fiber. Uh, what air fiber does for us, we have an air fiber connection from the PC building to the high school. So, if something happens to our telephone company and they cut, we still have access to all of our systems in all the buildings. So that uh that's one of our big things we did last year. Now we're just expanding on upon this. Um that number the 22 wireless access points is going to be um wrong. Uh we just acquired 200 uh Wi-Fi 6 capable access points, the the newer generation ones uh from a fire sale in Florida.
055Uh we we received approximately $115,000 worth of equipment for about $1,500. Yeah. So we we're going to be going around and we're going to replace all of our our older ones that are still fine, but we're going to replace them with the newer the newer equipment as we go. So, um, we've been getting the big push to go cloud-based Wi-Fi, uh, from a lot of vendors, a lot of, and I keep telling them that we're just going to keep adding to our system because it's already paid for it. Uh, the the taxpayers paid 80,000 back in 2014 for it, and we feel like it still has a lot of value to us. Um, it's a very nice system where we're just going to continue on to to move in that direction. Um, this bottom one
056where the HyperV virtual server farm that we created. I don't know if you know about Broadcom. Broadcom bought VMware. It's a big deal. Um, they're basically a company that buys other companies and they strip them down for for parts. Uh, they raise prices a lot. So, we decided to move in a different direction so we don't get caught in the crossfire of that. So, we have both. We have the HyperV and the the VMware. So that we're running both sides of the fence. So if something happens on one side, we can do it. If it happens on the other side, we can continue on with and with no interruptions. Uh our high school stadium. Um we did find out some new things about the antenna systems out there. Um when there are a lot of
057people in the stands with their phones and stuff. So, we're going to be working with some local companies that are much better at radios and stuff than us to make it better so that when we're front and center for the WIA playoffs, you know, in the future, right? You know, when when when the, you know, the officials doing this thing that it actually works properly. But um the outdoor stadium wireless um we did put one on the back side of the press box for outside wireless that that worked better for the soccer field. Uh the gentleman that was out there was trying to videotape with his, you know, with his camera and he didn't have very good connection that so we made that better. Um we added fiber connections to the barn, the utility barn
058over there. Uh we pulled our own fiber, we terminated our own fiber, we have a 10 gig connection out there now. Uh we're going to our intention is to add more access points out there. Uh cameras for the practice field on the other side and then other cameras in and other other areas. And then um obviously one of the big big uh additions that we've done is the cold storage for our Skyward data. I don't know if you know about uh being hacked and having ransomware and stuff. Um we we built a pretty bulletproof system that even if we were hacked and everything was stolen, we could be up and running within 24 hours. And that was a a lesson learned that we learned from when the Jamesville School District was. So we we brainstorm
059cold storage and that's basically our data is ours and it can't be touched from from the internet or any internal network stuff. So that was one of the big thing. Um, another big thing is our uh uh penetration testing from from CISA. That's the government. They come in once a month on the outside and they scan our network to see if they can break in. Um, we're working on a new system for internal and Dr. Seno has introduced me to a young man that we're going to basically give him the keys to a Cadillac and let him build a system and see what he can do with it. So, um, we're hoping that we can offer that to other school districts, something that would be, uh, cost effective for them to use. Um, our network
060documentation and password integration. Um, that's all part of our our network harding program that we've started to try to make things um, better for us. Not sure what else we got left. Um, our long range replacement plan, uh, we use some of the leftover money that we have from the previous year. We pre-purchase middle school replacements. Uh, fortunately for us, when we did that, that left us a little extra money for this year, we went ahead and pre- purchased some of the stuff for that IC. So, that 178,000 that we got two years ago for the Chromebooks, we've kind of spread that across a couple of the years. So most of the stuff and you can see that it's going through um all the staff computers and things of that nature will all be replaced.
061Uh the surface tablets are for staff members in case we have a co type system that all staff members, teachers and stuff will have a a device capable of doing a remote learning session. And obviously the fiber runs like I said before we we are able to do our own fiber. We have our own fiber splicer. So, uh, we built Whistler radio um, for their connections for their truck. They can just plug in right there at the bottom of the press box. No more cables running around, stuff like that. So, they will, you know, so we can do that anywhere in the district and and we're starting to do that. Some of our closets, our copper closets from one place to the other, we're going to replace all that with fiber. And we're hoping that
062we can do the same work for the repeater system that we're going to pull from the ELC when it comes out. Um, instead of paying lots of money to Gen Con to do that, we feel that we can do that ourselves and and pull the fiber ourselves to do it and then have, you know, and that's just the the last thing on that is with the ELC construction. I don't know if there's a slide on that. Um, we got a couple of contracts. um is that with the ELC, all the technology that's in there, we're not going to leave anything behind. If it has any intrinsic value, we're going to pull it. If it's not bolted down, we're going to pull it and leave it. If it is, we're going to try to unbolt it
063and take it out of there. So, we're going to be busy next summer or the summer of 2027. >> Like, you are busy every summer, >> right? Yeah. So, and then the big one was the the linewise filtering. I was informed that it was going to be uh about 15 to 20% higher. Um I negotiated with them. They sent me a proposal that had the same cost for the next 3 years. I literally signed it and faxed it back to them in about 30 seconds. So I stayed the district about sixth grade over the course of 3 years. So great. >> And that's all I really have. >> You have any questions for me? >> There's a hint at a funny story there. Oh, yes. Yeah. Oh, the conditioning cable. The conditioning cable is a
064special cable. Um, before I got here, somebody pulled fiber optics from the high school MDF to the press box. It was undocumented. Nobody knew who did it, who lit it, who did nothing. We just knew it was there and it worked. And so, when we're adding these 10 gig connections, we're going from 1 to 10. It requires a specific type of cable. This conditioning cable forces the fiber optics to run at a specific speed. We bought two on the open market at one was 85 and the other one was 90 and neither one of them worked very well. So our own technician Dan built us our own with our own fiber splicing equipment and we haven't had any single hairs on it since. So now that we know how to do that, we might make
065our own and sell those. So, always looking for new revenue streams. There's many things I appreciate about you, Will. Plus, you're always good for a good story. I enjoy you just personally as a as a friend and a colleague, but I also appreciate how proactive you are. Um, when tariffs were first announced, the first thing he did was jump on board and find out, let's lock in our prices before things skyrocket. And it's paid off dividends on many occasions. And then I I want to show back the the group of people that you've surrounded yourself with because this is a really remarkable team. Uh three of these individuals are graduates of Mount Horb High School and um uh just really service is their mindset and being um supportive of people on the front lines, our
066teachers doing the heavy lifting and um >> well, we have the mindset that these are their tools and we're the ones that keep up their tools. So we, you know, that's that's our mindset. So that's how we we approach our technology part of it. I've been in other districts where and I affectionately call them the network Nazis are not very communicative or they're you know they don't help and so that's our thing is that we want to help. >> It's it's not uncommon for me to be hearing overhearing conversations in the school where any one of these uh folks will be asking staff I'm just here what can I do to help you is you've been having a problem with your computer in some way and that proactive orientation uh goes a long way. So,
067thank you. Please extend our gratitude to your entire team. Just really remarkable work. That's what Wing Wednesday is for. >> Yeah. Happy lunch on Wing Wednesdays. We get paid on Wednesdays. >> Yes. By the way, Scott, did you ever get an invite? I didn't. >> The wings have been delicious, guys. >> Truly great work. Thank you. Can I ask one quick question on the >> the networks that not moving into the cloud space? I mean, I'm sure there's cost savings, but how how long would you anticipate that we could continue to do that? >> I would estimate we have at least 7 years worth of life out of our at least seven. Uh the latest Wi-Fi 7 and the eight hasn't been ratified. 7 is like super super new. So, it takes 3 to 4
068years for, you know, your phones and your to to come into existence with that. But with Wi-Fi 6, there's more than enough bandwidth. And especially with our new access points going from a a 2x2 antenna to a 4x3, there's more coverage and it's just a better access point. So, um, >> we'll have Wi-Fi 6 with the new ones that we got out of Florida. Okay. You figure seven years at least before we have >> Yeah. I get I get calls all the time saying, "Hey, we'd like you an upgrade." I'm like, "Yeah, I don't want to pay $20,000 a year." And some of the gentlemen that I was with in the conference was stating that, "Hey, we got to pay $18,000 a year just to have our access points in the building, whereas ours are
069already paid for." >> Yeah. >> Okay. Great. Yeah. Well, we know that you're usually here by 6:00 a.m. and you've got to drive tonight, so uh if you wanted to head out, we would understand. Okay. Safe travels are best. Okay. >> All right. Thanks. >> Thank you very much. >> Don't worry, the the tax sale is coming up. >> There we go. >> Now that I know that you guys build everything electronic, I guess I got some questions for you. >> Right. Our action items. Um we do not have our full board tonight and we just have a couple of first readings up. So we'll have to uh not take action but obviously encourage any other questions and shaping of the uh the policies for next time. Um first reading here is visions to number
070423 part-time attendance coming from saw right? So this is kind of this policy is specifically in reference to students who are under three categories. Private schools, tribal schools, and students who are homeschooled who maybe want to come in and take one or two classes through the school. And so this is really just taking feedback from um our lawyers about feedback to be able to do it. We really took out what you can see from the top about being a resident. Really, they just have to be in like they have to meet our enrollment criteria, right? We don't have to say resident. they just had to meet our enrollment criteria. Um, and so that was one of the biggest pieces to the policy. The other policy when you go further down into homeschool students is that
071um students who are in the elementary and middle school levels um can only take non-academic courses. So they can't come in and take a reading or a science um class. It can be the music classes. It can be art um by some of those classes. Um and again as as always there has to be room um and so there has to be a room in that in those courses. And then the other big change um is kind of towards the end about enrollment because we had dates in there. We should never have dates because as next year or beginning of the school year starts different. So it just is we put like what the statutory limits of when you have to announce it. um whether it's 7 weeks or 2 weeks um when we get
072that information and then um the end we just have um may consider be appealed or we may get an administrative appeal, not that it would come to the school board. Um and I specifically wrote a little bit further down the lawyer's rationale for why it wouldn't need to come to you um for that. But those are those are the basic changes. >> Brian, can you um I know you touched on this, but could you just revisit quickly for me that change off the the lives district that that the language that got stripped out of there the reasoning behind that one? Yeah, it basically just they took out the word resident and basically said um meets resident like meets the enrollment criteria, >> which for us is you're either a resident um maybe you're um homeless
073or you um are >> okay if part of that too. >> Yep. I think one other the one other question I had looked to me like in the the homebased private education. Um there was maybe just a carryover in language had uh reference their participation by students who attend private or tribal schools in the home base section in the green. >> Mhm. >> Oh that got struck. >> We saw earlier version it was a cut. Yeah, perfect. Any other comments or questions? All right, we'll hold on that one for this month. >> Great. Thank you. >> Yeah, thanks Brian. Next up is our first reading on number 830, rental and use of the high school fine arts facilities referred by BGT Scott. >> Hi everybody. Well, most of you, I think, are at that September
07422nd BPT meeting. Um, the policy, as it currently shows, has three parts, an A, and a B, and a C. And as we went through the variety of revisions that we thought needed to be made, a good point was brought up, I think, Joe. Um, section B really got into the nuts and bolts of the sort of the administration and taking care of the facility. and Kellen Darner did a a great job. Thank you, Kellen. Um for providing us a variety of um revisions that he thought needed to be made. So um sections E and C essentially will remain in the policy with some subtle changes. Um section B really gets into the nuts and bolts of administering the the facility. So we thought moving that into an admin brick would make a lot more
075sense. So those are things like um dealing with costs, the labor needs for folks um that are reserving the facility. Um Kell created an online application for reserving the facility. So that helps on the maintenance and admin side. Equipment that's needed, staging, lighting, all of that kind of thing. making sure the facility not not only provides the render with the things that they need but also ensuring that the facility is taking care of the stage floors being protected the walls and so on. So all of that is spelled out in the current policy middle section section B then we would move over into the admin rake and I don't take credit for that because Steve was kind enough to take that section B and move it into the um into the admin rake. So, um
076I know this is the first reading. Certainly, I'll pause if there's any questions. Um again, kudos to Kellen for putting together a system that's online that allows him to be able to work with folks outside um to get the facility they need in a timely manner and being able to do it with some tracking um on his side. the um application is it on our website? >> Yeah. Yeah, it's a a virtual application that they can do it online and then they just upload their upload their insurance forms and stuff. Um I was just going to look at this again. I remembering the uh specifics. I'll take a look at it later, but just wondering about the penalties for violation of any of this stuff if that's spelled out here as well. >> They're they're
077not, you know, I think taking a cue from the board, which is, you know, to seek cause in an accepting way. I don't in the 10 years I've been here, I've not had anyone violated, but it has been. We just usually say, "Hey, help help us to understand how can we help you?" And we we should get to a yes. it. And if we feel like that would be helpful, I'm happy to to look at putting in rag of some sort. It might be maybe be something like um just a period of time where they couldn't use the facilities until they remedy whatever issue there is or not looking for a pound of flesh, more, >> right? >> And you also have in here that you know you can deny for any reason. So, if
078you're like, "Wow, they kind of made a mess last time, so not this time." You know, or >> Yeah, that's that sounds good. >> All right. >> Thank you everybody. >> Thanks. >> Our last item on the action portion is the uh considering the renaming of the early learning center in PC to Mount Hor Elementary School. How great is that? Uh we are so excited. is the next step in our our evolution towards the new addition. We recently asked the community, hey, tell us what do you think? Uh would you like to see this combine combined uh building look like? And you can see here the staff response and the community response was the same. Uh they're all very excited in uh the Mount Horb uh elementary school. Um you see the orange there and
079and it was about that margin uh of 55%. And so we're requesting of the board tonight to uh direct the superintendent to begin that process that would start in the school year. Um the only other thing I can think of that would be important as it relates to naming is going to be the address. Uh that will change too because as you know the address is on Academy Street and now the front of the school will be on Second Street. Uh so we'll work to figure out how how to change that. But in the interim we'd love very much to see if this meets with your approval. >> Is there a process involved with this? Like how notify DPI and all that stuff. Tell me a little bit about that. >> Yeah. So it's as
080simple as me writing them a letter. Uh, I thought it was going to be something really super to the meeting. We'll be ready to rock and roll. I think I need to call them to let them know. >> Nice. I was wondering the same thing cuz I thought, oh, if we do want to change the IC at any point to the intermediate school, not center. I was like, well, if you're going through the work, should we just do both right now? But it's that easy. Doesn't matter when. >> Assuming the address will be a lot more complicated. >> Yeah. I'm grateful that you mentioned the IC because they would be the only center uh in our district and I've heard just tangentially throughout the the district that there might be something to add and and
081could we consider an intermediate school as opposed to an intermediate center. Happy to to do some polling like we did here or if um how if you're interested in pursuing it, I'm happy to do that. I think yes. >> I thought it was made sense. I mean, check it out, explore, see or add four excellence on the back. >> Those are the two options. >> Yeah, exactly. >> Show off. >> I want to know the writing candidates. That's what I want. >> No, this will work. Motion to approve the change of the school name to Mount Ford Elementary School. >> Second. >> Motion by Jessica and a second by Carly. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. >> Thank you. Got a new school. >> Yeah. >> Uh Dr. Oo, any second
082half citizen comments here? >> No, we're grateful that our friends from P Flag Hung out. Again, congratulations to you all. Thank you. >> All right, we've got our schedule of next meetings listed as was mentioned before. Next week we have a special uh virtual finance committee followed by saw uh got BGT on the 27th early that's at the district office and then our next full board meeting is on October 27th. At this point [Music] we would go into contemplated close session for sections 19.821 and 19.851 851 CE for discussion for status of collective bargaining with the Mount Worth Education Association regarding a 202526 collective bargaining improvement including potential declaration of impass and in position of offer. >> Do we have a motion on that front? >> Second motion by Jessica and a second by Joel.
083This would be a roll call vote to go in. Joel, >> yes. >> Jessica, >> yes. >> Tom, >> yes. >> Carly, >> yes. >> I'm also a yes. We will go into close session and uh reconvene in 5 minutes.