001Tuesdays. I've been the last two Tuesdays and my co-workers know that I have not had tacos in two weeks. >> It's a must have. >> All right, everybody. 6:32 call the uh board meeting to order. Uh Dr. SL, has this been properly noticed? >> Yes, we have. >> Excellent. Do a quick roll call. Joel, >> here. >> Leah, >> here. Jessica >> here. >> Sarah >> here. >> Carly >> here. >> Tom >> here. Myself being here. >> Excellent. We all stand and say 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. Um, when I would like to read the mission statement, >> the Mount Clark Area School District in partnership with the community is dedicated
002to nurturing, educating, and challenging students, preparing, empowering them to be productive, responsible, and self-fulfilled members of society. >> Thanks, Jessica. Item two is our agenda and minutes approval. Um, taking a look at the agenda tonight. And do we have a motion to approve or to modify in any way? >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion by currently seconded by Joel. All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? All right. Motion passes. Our August 18th regular board meeting minutes. Ask for a motion to approve. >> Motion to approve meeting minutes from 18. Second. >> Motion by Tom and seconded by Sarah. All in favor? >> Any opposed? All right, that motion passes. Dr. Serno, do we have any citizen comments tonight? I haven't seen any. No. Great. We'll move right into um school news. Well, today
003was just a real fun day. Our kids were back breathing life into our buildings after our teachers have worked so very hard to prepare for. I think a pretty fantastic start. Excited that all of our Vikings will be back uh at home uh tomorrow as we have all K through 12th grade students. Today was a great deal of fun with our 9th graders. Uh every year we hold host something called link crew. And link crew is where a bunch of our upper class uh uh students uh they come in and they help our freshman students get acclimated. Uh many of you know Becky Cleanenstein. Uh Becky is instrumental in helping to organize that. And I know I'm leaving out maybe others who also help us with that. But to see all the kids in the
004auditorium getting up and and moving about some of the cheers that they're supposed to learn when they go to the ball games and things like this to just getting to know uh their teachers and taking tours of the building was just very very special. So, we wish uh this incoming class a great deal of success and carrying on a tradition of excellence over at the high school. Same be true over at the middle school today. Uh our middle school students, particularly the sixth grade, are uh are finding their way through uh school. They just look so their chests were kind of puffed up a little bit cuz now they're out of elementary school. And uh it's exciting for them. and uh just the love that you see in parents who came out to support their
005kids getting off the bus this morning or the pictures that were taken. If you didn't get a chance to get on our district's Facebook page, every year we invite families to send in pictures of their children's first day and wow, they just look so great. The kids, they're ready to learn. So, I'm eager. Many of them told me they'd even come back tomorrow, which is great. Yeah. So, I'm I'm really really pleased with that. I also um want to recognize the fact that we are fortunate to be in a school community where uh there is longevity longevity in the professionals uh that we have supporting our young people. And on Tuesday of last week, we had our back to school congregation and we were able to recognize five teachers uh who have been with the
006district for 25 years. uh they're added to a list of many many more staff members who have been with our district uh more than 25 years. But please allow me to publicly acknowledge Martha Colbert Faust, Joy Finley, both of them you know are just fantastic partners in the gymnastics program. Uh Ryan Finley, uh a PE and health teacher at the high school, Michael Moer, uh Michael uh teaches in this very building. and then John Mesoris. Uh, and so all five of those individuals uh received uh recognition for their service to this community and and I know you joined me in in offering your your congratulations. Last but not least, Miss Sarbacher, I think um word has it that we could get ourselves a cow. >> Yes. >> Tell us a little bit about how. >>
007So, as you all know, I have a background in agriculture and I work for the hosting association. Um, so Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin promotes this. It's a it's a free program for school districts. Last year they started it. I believe in Wisconsin there was a over 50,000 kids that were were able to participate. So it's adopting a cow. It's virtual. Um, so it teaches them a little bit about agriculture that our state is so famous for. Um, but they also integrate into this some common core math, reading um, and um, science into it as well. And it's totally free. So I had sent that over to Dr. SL to share with any teachers who might be interested. >> That's wonderful. We also put it up on our school social media and it's starting to trend.
008Uh so it's great. Thank you for offering this opportunity to kids. >> Dogs and cows. We got everything. Love it. >> I was so happy to see Crumble's um professional head shot in the yearbook. Liz brought her yearbook home the other day. I was so adorable. That was so cute. >> Yeah, he's got little toys all over the floor in the front office. You have to watch out. Well, my field is just great. He brings such joy to the building. Compliments to to um administrative team for the convocation last week. That was a real treat to go and check that out. I hadn't been there before. Um love the video presentation. Uh there was uh a phone call that went ary u phone call that went arry with everyone down at the at the union
009and that's how they introduced all the senior leadership team. It was all based around Sarah Straa's move in day and they were all purportedly down there helping her out but then appeared later on. So it was it was a good gag that I got got a kicked out of. Um, and we we were fortunate to have uh Travis right there as our main speaker and I was really glad I got to build for him cuz I would have really sto [Music] uh again as he's come here before had such an uplifting um pointed message and I always appreciate when someone can boil down the complexities of education or whatever top it is topic it is to something that's you know, simple and straightforward that you probably know, but when it's pulled out and told in
010the beautiful story, like it just resonates with you and everyone was just overjoyed. I felt like there. So, big shout out to you all for arranging that for him for coming in. >> Mr. President, I did forget one more thing. There are some cards going around the table tonight. Um, first to recognize our school nutrition team, uh, as well as our transportation team. Uh so if you don't mind, would you please consider signing off on those and we can be sure to um get those to the right people? Thank you. >> Any of the school news? >> I'll just uh kind of piggy back on Dr. Seno there on the drop in nights through the district. Um and just uh a thank you to all the teachers making it very welcome for all the families
011and the kids coming to new schools or new class grades. And then uh a big thank you to Michelle Bank and her team for kind of the fun uh the food uh at the icy for the drop in night. That's always kind of a neat event and some really tasty treats. >> I felt very spoiled because she found me to make sure last year they had like no vegetarian options. This year was mostly vegetarian options. So that was very nice. >> I have two PTO things. That's >> uh September 10th is the is like our kickoff meeting. We're doing popsicles like meat and treat or I forget what we called it, but 6:30 at the IC um for anybody who wants to join the PTO. Um and then the PTO will be doing Bratz in
012the lot on the 13th of September. >> Do you have any advertisements for that? I'd love to put those in the board recap. >> They're all on our Facebook page. Okay, I can send it to you. >> And if I use on Adam and Dr. Leonard's comments about the teacher convocation, I was able to go um this year and I've gone for the past few years. Your schedule with me allowed to be there. I highly recommend it. Dr. Wright mentioned this as well. The level of energy and joy that our staff had was just really nice. Adam did a fantastic job of his speech as well as Dr. right Dr. Ser and all the admin team they it was a it was really well done and respond and everybody it was a good start to
013the school year and it was nice just as a school board member to know the messages that our staff are receiving and be a part of that so it's it's hard it's in the middle of a work day work week but anyone can go in the future I do really like >> and it's not often that you get to hear a poll pop acoustic version of me. So, that was pretty cool. Finish Prairie Flowers came and performed. It was very cool to hear. Yeah. Anyone else with school news? Great. Thanks for all those great submissions. Um, item for personal transactions. Dr. Seno, any any notable uh instances here? Uh nothing in terms of an agenda, but it does allow me the opportunity to thank our faculty and staff, our administrators, uh Director Esinger and uh
014Petty Weber. We are fully staffed, which is not a statement that many school districts can say at this point, and that's due in large measure to everybody rolling up their sleeves to make certain that we had all our bases covered. Truly remarkable work. And I think once you get a chance to see the class of 2025, you're going to love them. They're really just a lot of fun and and very knowledgeable and compassionate as the days long. >> Motion to approve personnel transactions. >> Second. >> Motion by Jessica, second by Leah. All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Consent agenda. Is there anything that anyone like to allow for discussion would be good as a Motion to approve consent agenda. >> Second. >> Motion by Tom, second by Sarah. All in favor? >>
015I. Any opposed. All right. Consent agenda passes. On to our discussion items. Committee reports. Uh BGT. Thanks. On 8:25 of buildings and grounds team uh met and uh we got an update. They were fully staffed and they were wrapping up their summer work. Um, and they did they've been busy mowing as you can imagine and getting the sports fields ready to go and they've had some games on them by now. Um, I'm sure a lot of families have been going. So, that's great. Um, as far as the transportation update, um, we have two employees getting licensed, but they're not quite ready for the start school, but they will be shortly. So that'll really help out um with all the routes that are needed by the school. Um there's a lot of heavy routing for the
0164K and the 4K to kindergarten. Um and they're working out those routes uh best they can best they can. Um and the drivers started practicing on 825 practicing the routes so they're ready for kids. Um the bus inspections happened and we had brand new state inspectors um for our district. Uh they check everything over from every light and uh they go underneath and they were really impressed with our fleet. Um they said our interiors were some of the cleanest they've ever come around which is a kudos to our our care techs. Um kind of mentioned them earlier but I'm going to mention their names again. Uh Joe Fner, Ray McKay, and John Riley did a great job on having the buses ready for those inspections. Um and our buses always look great and are ready
017for use. Um we talked um a little bit about the badges for the for the younger kids and what we're seeing if reusing the badges from previous years is is kind of worth worth the cost. Um just getting one. So that we should get an update on that. um on the electric bus. They're still doing some work on it and we're kind of hoping maybe then in September or October we'll actually receive it. We'll see. And then Dave Green gave us a nice update on some of the major summer projects they were able to do. Um there's new transportation sign up in front of the transportation building. The IC bus loop um got fixed up a little bit. Um there were some sidewalks installed at the IC. A dust collector was added at the middle
018school. Um there's fencing was completed around the high school with a retaining wall. Um just some other more minor things were done as well. Um on the referendum side, there wasn't much to update since our last working. Um the only thing we mentioned is that we'll probably start looking at qualifying contractors around Thanksgiving. And our next meeting is September 22nd virtually at 4:30. Right. Any questions for Tom? Joel finance. So last financial meeting was our annual meeting which we all attended and it was a joyous and wondrous occasion. the community graciously uh approved the levy that is proposed for this year. Uh keep in mind that's a budgeted levy. We will get real numbers later this year sometime hopefully September October time frame. Um so all that information is available uh if needed. It's all
019public information. I believe it's on the uh on the website under the business services uh um section. Let's look at that. Um beyond that it's just finances as usual. So um still yeah the budget process is run the way it needs to be as we get that through. Nothing nothing new or unusual there. So any questions for Joel. >> All right. Thank you Jessica. Safety and wellness. >> We met on Monday August 18th. We were fortunate enough to have Officer Rosemire give his yearly presentation. He did a great job talking about data from the past year comparing it to previous years. He talked about the goals um that they accomplished this past year and what goals are for the coming year. We spent most of our time during that meeting talking with him. Um one
020thing to point out, hopefully I did this correctly. So he was the officer of the year by the name county um professional association. So that's awesome. Good for him. Um Brian and officer Rosemire did some shopping and um because of uh two different grants they received to purchase some needed items for the reun reun reunification bags. Um and those are stocked and ready at the bus garage. And then we also talked about a policy update for visitors to school and school property which is on our agenda for later this evening. And um we had a short mental health update uh and Brian shared about some upcoming work related to belonging particularly some PD that our staff are going to be doing this year and meeting on 15. All right. Thanks. Any questions on SA? >>
021Do you have any park and wreck updates as well? >> I do. Okay. So, we met uh last week, April 26th. Um the there were two concepts that were presented to the committee related to the Lucken Farm. There were committee presentations a few weeks ago. I don't remember when they were. I attended one of them um where the architects who are planning some of the stuff presented the two concepts and community members were allowed to vote um based on what Nick shared. The 4:30 group picked A, the 6:30 group picked B or vice versa, but you know like it was pretty much split. Um, so we, so the group talked for quite a bit about what they liked about one versus the other and then they made a recommendation that we'll go to the full
022village and then the full village can approve it and discuss it and then start to think about funding it. Um, there's a concession and storage building that's going to be built at Grundle. um they're still trying to figure out funding for all of it and how it's going to be split between the village and um some other groups that use that space. Um there were also some capital requests related to um village buildings that need upgrades. We also talked about uh or what we will be talking about next month is wreck and aquatic center fees. Jill is doing a survey from some of the other communities and we're also going to be talking about the Grundle Park phasing. They have a whole phasing plan, but it's I think shifting a little now because all the
023luck and farm stuff. So, it was all good. >> Great. Do you remember off hand which one that they pushed forward? Which version they push forward? >> Pretty. Yes, it was B. It was the one that has Well, no, it's gonna be oppositive, but has the the rec the future possible rec center up in the corner versus down by the parking lot. >> Great. Thank you. >> All right. Um, on to 6B, which is going back to that WASY school finance 101. Thanks to everyone for voting on that. I know that's not easy to pin down the uh the top selections in something like this. And um there was there were some that were obviously not as popular as others that were probably six that were in contention that all received votes. When we Dr.
024I looked at it and it seemed like most of the votes gravitated toward part one that initial uh board role in school finance which makes a lot of sense is the introductory pillar and then went down to the the bottom of the list and it was more getting into like the budget process, how the budget is actually administered and then number three was the more like future focused of looking at 26 27 and trying to think about trends and other considerations. ations that we should keep in mind. Those were those were the four that popped out. And when I was talking to Dr. SL about how we might set this up in a way that be most productive, we thought, hey, why don't we focus on two for each of two workshops so that we're
025not getting crazy about it. And to drill down a little bit further, I thought if we can get out in front and watch those two ahead of time, submit like, hey, here's something I'm curious about. by learning about more and talking about learning more or talking about as a group either one. Um and then uh we'd have some time to reflect on that and focus in on a couple of key areas so we could get into a little bit more robust discussion on a particular topic than just giving our opinion in general about the whole course. That was the mindset on it and my idea um in listening to the feedback from last time too like hey let's take it to Dr. and Scott and use them as our uh folks that we can bounce
026these ideas off of and tap into their knowledge a lot more about these subjects in terms of facilitating filling in blanks, tracking down any questions that we might have. So, I wanted to bounce that off of you all. The concept would be to do pick two of these and we're thinking one and nine kind of go together and seven and eight kind of go together. So one and nine for January and then seven and eight for March. Be the mindset. But that's just to put that out there. The conversation that shaped this last time was great. So like whatever thoughts that you have, let's chat about it here. >> I think it's a good plan. I like the idea of us watching them all on our own and discussing because even though we have the
027workshop, we still have limited time and whenever we have workshop, we could easily stay there for the whole night. >> We could easily because my one thought when I was looking at this was that like one and eight kind of go together, but I won't like >> like but that was just my thought. So >> conceivably any of them could be matched >> totally. So whatever is >> the reason why we had suggested um Mr. Merz and I had suggested the the seven and eight together is just because about the time that we'll be meeting in March. We'll be doing the budget process uh and we'd be administering the budget. You might remember typically in March we try to have just a high level budget approval of of where we want to go for the
028following year, but we can make it happen any way we'd like and it would be helpful to you. >> No, that makes sense to me. I guess I was thinking because I hadn't watched any of these yet that maybe it was more like what we should be doing throughout the year in terms of the budget because then that might be helpful like having that information and knowledge sooner than later. But if it's more related to like developing the budget and setting that then that makes total sense to me. >> It's a little bit of both. >> Yeah. Whichever you all prefer. >> If you do one and nine and seven and eight, then it's an hour and an hour. >> Did you look at that? >> That's the math I did real quick is how
029much time I have to block somebody else. >> I would I think it's a I think it's an overall good plan. I do want to just put in my two cents on the property tax one. I think like that's that's what we're going to get questions about. That's what's going to be public facing. >> The it's a short it's a short module and I'm going to watch it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to go through it. But um especially as we you know we we just passed the the community passed the proposed we will pass the actual levy in October. I think that one is very timely whether or not it's workshop or outside. So I guess I don't know. I I don't I I don't know that I have a proposal for
030it other than because I think the plan the the proposed plan makes sense given the four and breaking it up into two and two and the timing. Um I just I guess I just want to put that plug in then for maybe just all of us on our own to watch that one and come first and some of the nuances there. >> Yeah. You know, take it a little bit further. I would say that if if anyone finds something as they're watching any of these that you're like, hey, we should explore further like let's call it out whether that's >> at the workshop or finance committee or wherever we want to introduce that conversation to >> or I don't know if it's even like I volunteer to watch it and do a book report to
031a board meeting that >> finance meeting or something that that would be >> if something like that would be helpful. I don't know. That's a good idea. If we wanted to do any of these extra ones, we could watch them and then if Scott and Joel don't mind spend 10 minutes at a finance committee discussing I don't know. >> Appreciate that. They're not too hard to watch. I watched one and two um and they're I have some good information. I have some bullet points some stuff. I think one of the things that will make this as helpful to you as possible is maybe if it be okay with the board that we establish maybe a timeline for when you might be able to offer your questions and wonders so then that way President Mertz Mr.
032Young and I can put together um a game plan that meets your needs um with the January um time frame. I think it's January 27th is a board workshop. So, it's the end of January. Um, is it reasonable to ask to have your feedback and ideas by say um winter break? >> Are we not doing any for the one that's coming up in September? >> We've got another pretty busy agenda. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Unless you'd like to. >> No, that's fine. I just was like, wait, don't we have a workshop? Yeah, >> she wants to focus on the school funding formula specific. Are you going to create some sort of dab for us to put our questions in or >> or do you want us just to email them to you or whatever
033you want? >> I like that idea. And that way maybe as you're looking at other people's questions, it might spur you to send them. I wonder if >> that would be great idea. Cool. Thanks for the input, everyone. Come back with more specifics on that then down the line, but nothing we have to act on right away. I'm going to be overachiever um 6 our partnership development with Upland Hills Health. [Music] Well, I'm excit excited to share this with you. Um, but first I'll just provide a little bit of background of where this partnership came from. So, you may be aware that the state of Wisconsin requires physical exams and tuberculos screens for all new employees. So, it's something that every employee um on boarded goes through. Um, we also were looking at pre-employment job
034specific screens with some of our physical assessment um with some of our more physically demanding positions like school service, custodial um special education professional and we just didn't have um services in town that were able to do such assessments. as well. Um and also just the needed um you know due to injuries or difficulty um performing job uh duties, we also need a partner for that. Um Upland Hills, as you may know, you can go to the next slide. Um last winter spring, um they have opened two locations here. Um right in town. Um you've heard a lot about Upland Hills and some of the partnerships that they've had throughout the district already from our youth apprentice and I program scoreboards um lowcost physicals to our students. So they've been wonderful on that. July 1st
035we started this partnership with them and they are performing our our screeners for our staff. Um, in the next slide, I I believe you and maybe you've been able to take a peek at um the the new facilities, but they have the clinic and also the urgent care as well as the therapy and wellness center now. Um, but the therapy and wellness center is where we can do the physical examinations and and um physical tests whereas the clinic we utilize for like the TB tests and things like that. Um, just to note, these clinics are available for our courts members, too, who have the district insurance program. So, I also want to specifically call out uh Chris, Ann, um, Chelsea, Carrie, we worked so closely together to make sure as they transitioned to this new
036location that they were set up and um, able to do some of the assessments that we need um, and be able to to make sure we're meeting each other's needs. So, it's been a wonderful start to a amazing partnership. Um, looking forward to continue to work with them. Yeah, they've just been wonderful in many capacities that you've seen recently, but this is just another one. So, um, I'd love to answer any questions you guys might have um about about the partnership or about employment physicals. >> So, this is available under our current insurance. Yeah. >> One of the things that or one of the trends in the insurance industry is to peel out repeatable basic basic healthcare services and treat those on a subscription type basis. Is this something that a model that they have
037played with? Have you guys checked that? >> We have to check that piece. I'd be curious in the upcoming discussions around health insurance and what might be needed or wanted um because as we've seen some of those things peeled out, it can drive cost down significantly uh from a frequency standpoint. Certainly not severity, but from a frequency perspective. >> That's pretty. We we're very excited tonight because we'd like to make uh an announcement with regard to formal Upland Hills partnership and that has been created thanks to our uh resource development coordinator and public relations coordinator operating. Aubrey, what can you tell us about what's happening here with >> Portland? >> Super excited. So, all of your great work on the advertising donations and sponsorship guide and all of your great work in facilit facilitating such
038a great relationship with the Upland House has culminated in a CNA room sponsorship, which is really cool cuz this is the first that we've done um the the guide book. Uh, so first of many, fingers crossed. Uh, but it'll be fun. So, $2,000 a year. Um, they get some kickbacks obviously, so like they get to name the room. Um, it benefits our CNA program. So, it's a real win-win. They're helping many of the costs that are associated with bringing the CNA program into our district. We're looking forward to starting that up as part of our IB and HOSA programming, health occupation science academy programming in the fall of next year. >> Ki that donating her time. So that's >> Channel so many of you know the channel family just remarkable people >> and they're they're
039medical professionals have availed themselves to our students. So, we'll be seeing the number of students taking trips over there to see firsthand what health occupations are there and and build our program. >> Great. >> Yeah. Super job. Thanks. And thanks all of you for nurturing that partnership. [Music] >> All right. Uh the entertainment portion of the >> Oh, I'm so excited. Okay. So, we had some fun this summer. Uh, I will say that for all of the um A-listers included in these videos, it takes a lot more work than you anticipate. So, I appreciate you and Officer Rosemire for being willing to be in these videos. When you get on camera, it's hard to remember your lines and then make it sound genuine. And so, I do ask them to redo their lines. They do
040really well, as you'll be able to see. Um, but this first one, why make uh a scooter safety video? As you may or may not have noticed, around town, there are a lot more on scooters. Yeah. Mhm. I see most of them wearing helmets, though, which is fantastic. Uh, but just for their effication, the dos and don'ts of being on a scooter around town. This was a great opportunity that uh Brian and Officer Rosemire came to me with uh and they just asked for a little bit of help in sharing the good word. Um so without further ado, [Music] Hi, Officer Rose here. Let's talk about electric scooters. You've probably seen them, probably even ridden them. But have you ridden them legally? Let's find out. By state law, an electric scooter is under 100 lb,
041has handlebars, uses an electric motor and human power, and tops out at 20 mph. Scooters are treated like vehicles. That means stopping at stop signs, yielding to pedestrians, and obeying all directions. Things we are seeing around town are scooters going too fast, riding down the middle of the road, and not yielding to pedestrians. Let's clean that up. You can ride side by side as long as you are not blocking traffic. And if you're going slower than traffic, stay to the right. Keep it smart. Keep it moving. If you are riding at night, lights and reflectors are non-negotiable. White prop, red or reflective in the back, visible from 500 ft. If they can't see you, they can't avoid you. Just a reminder, scooters are not allowed in the downtown area and a few side streets. We're
042not trying to ruin your fun. We just don't want you to get in trouble while you're on your scooters. Bottom line, respect the road, respect pedestrians, and wear a helmet. The goal is to ride again tomorrow. Contact the MARPD if you have any questions. Thank you. [Music] >> I did not see the kid on the scooter until afterwards when we were editing. I was like, "Oh, oh no." >> He just rolled with it. Um, this was amazing. He also practiced on that scooter. If you saw how flawlessly he did, that's because he spent a very long time practicing, which is amazing. He let me try it. I was not as good. Um, I will say the dissemination for this video, so the PD will be posting this first and then we'll reshare so that it
043gives them the credence that we need them to have. Um, and then the next video. Oh, any questions about that first video? >> Okay. >> I I think it's a a great video when very well needed because the safety of the kids using them. It's it's it's a serious thing and I know there's already been some incidents where kids have gotten hit. So >> yeah. >> So yeah, great. >> Thanks for doing it. >> How many kids take them to school? >> Lots. >> Yeah. >> Pick up a kid at the middle school and just watch them flee the building and just throw. >> They need matching jackets. They look >> the way in the summer when everybody was up there early in the morning. They have to offer scooters out front on the grass.
044>> Thanks for being proactive in that messaging. >> Um, for this next video, speak up, speak out. As we've all probably noticed, as well as Dr. has noticed and Dr. Rosemire and our principal teams, speak up, speak out has been a invaluable uh tool that we, our community has been able to use. Um it's also we've also been able to help SUSO improve their platform via feedback uh for for our admin team. And then one area of improvement that we strive to improve via this video was to share the expectations that when possible try to share the who, what, when, where, why in your in your own tip. Um, and then also stay online for a little while to answer any questions or provide more details as needed by the folks trying to get the
045support that y'all need uh when those folks make the tip. So, without further ado, hi everyone. I'm Steve Solerno, your superintendent of schools. There are many reasons why I'm proud to be a Viking, but chief among them is the great responsibility each of our students undertakes to keep our schools safe. And I brought along a friend of mine, Officer Steve Rose Meyer, to talk a little bit about Speak Up, Speak Out. Officer Rosemire. Hello. Thank you. And here's how you can help. First, visit the Speak Up Speak Out website or use the app and your confidential tip can be submitted 24/7. To submit a tip, fill out the form with as many details as you can. The more you tell us, the better we can help. Air on the side of caution and report immediately
046when you feel concerned or uneasy. You are not going to burden the police department or the school district. We want to know how we can help as soon as possible. You are sharing information to help others, not hurt you. Details matter. include who, what, when, where, and how you know. There's a very large text box for you to explain. Let's say you notice something suspicious during lunch. A tip with info like a group of students including Kevin Posner and Leslie Nol near the gym at 12:15 p.m. Today we're watching Tik Tok and show drugs and Kevin talked about bringing someone to school. It can help both the school and the Mount Police Department take action quickly. It also is helpful to remain available for follow-up questions from SUSO representatives to adequately investigate the concern. When
047you submit a tip, the school and police work together to investigate and ensure everyone stays safe. Your tip might be the reason someone gets the help they need. So remember, you've got the power to help. Speak up, speak out, and make a difference. Visit the website now or download the app. Stay safe. Stay smart. >> Well done. >> Uh, so we'll be able to disseminate that on our platform. >> Kudos to Aubrey for putting together not only a script, but her patience in filming, editing, even the little sound effects you hear. And in fact, we submitted this to the office of school safety and said, "Hey, I want you to know based upon the feedback that we've we've supplied to the office of school safety. We created this video and they said, "Can we use
048this statewide?" >> So, um, we replicated these kinds of things and it wouldn't have been done without Miss Hanks and her her outstanding leadership. So, thank you, Julie. >> Really nice work. Not easy to write a script that's nice and tight and gets to the point. >> Yeah. >> Any questions? >> Did you guys have craft services? >> No. >> Did you have a mechanical keyboard so that you could type loudly and pick up that sound? >> No, I picked a bank. It has a lot of free stuff. >> Anyways, thank you. Super chat. All right. Thanks, Aubrey. >> There's another great video that Aubrey put together that maybe you also saw on Facebook this weekend uh from Mr. Curtain uh in which he's encouraging people to continue supporting the schools through lots of different
049ways and she actually went back into old yearbooks and found pictures of Kathy from back in the day that just absolutely warmed the heart. So, you put all your energy into these and I I appreciate that about you. Fantastic. All right, we've got uh just one action item tonight. This is the first reading, so require a roll call vote if we feel compelled. Um considering revisions to board policy 868, visitors to school and school property referred by safety and wellness. Dr. And thank you again board members. Many of the ideas that you see here are born from feedback we received from the Wisconsin Association School Boards, their attorneys when we asked them to do some review of our policies. But then as we uh introduced visitor aware of which I know we've had some uh
050lengthy conversations about, we thought it might be helpful to clarify some language here and then um build out the administrative regulations. Granted, we've done this a bit in reverse uh just because we were launching visitor aare here yet today for that matter with our new families. And so um some of these um uh suggestions in terms of language um are are tremendous uh not substantive, but they're also um important in terms of um how to hold to account in those very rare circumstances. And I do mean rare circumstances whereby we have people who make unfortunate choices that give us cause to believe that maybe um we need to rethink uh their participation in school related activities. Um, so without me going through each and every single one of these, um, I do want to just
051note that, um, all of the procedural kinds of things relative to this board policy as it's been proposed are now found on our district's website. If you were to type in just the word visitor into the search bar along the top, um it'll take you to a number of graphics um that we hope make it easier for uh families who are trying to navigate this new um this new territory. And lastly, I'll mention that uh through board recap and messaging to families, um uh we feel as though we've uh been able to communicate in a number of different modalities. um either if you're someone who likes to read it or watch a video about it. Principal Johnson the other night during open house, she actually um opened up uh all the computers in in one
052area and just allowed parents to just enter in their information so they can be ready to go. And she had quite quite a number of people who did that just to make it easier when uh they come and visit at elementary sings or want to have lunch with their kids and these sorts of things. So, with that, I'm I'm pleased to answer any questions or thoughts you may have regarding this proposed policy. >> Um, I've got a couple of content questions and then like I I struggled with some of the wording in it and so some grammar ones, but if everyone else is fine, like I don't want to take up all the grammar stuff. But my my one content one is the uh 1 2 3 4th paragraph Wisconsin statute prohibits the required notification.
053Is that what is that or is that is the required notification specified in the statute? >> Yes. >> Or I'm just curious how people would >> This is the sex offender registry. Okay. Um we do have some parents who are on the sex offender registry and they ask if um they can be permitted to attend um school related events that their own children are a part of. Um and so we have them notify typically my office and I meet with them. We talk through um what what we can do to to strike that delicate balance. >> Okay. Okay. So, the required notification is them reaching out to you. >> That's right. Okay. And in fact, um, in their notification, if they are placed on the sex offender registry, they it's incumbent upon them, uh, the
054offender, uh, to notify the school district, not for us to notify. >> Gotcha. Okay. Um, other throughout the rest, the superintendent is qualified with superintendent or designate except for that sentence. Is that purposeful? Yes. Um, now that you say that, I did leave it as that because I felt like um, it would be helpful to have one person kind of address that so there's consistency in his application. >> Okay, I that makes sense. That makes sense. >> Um, those those are my two like substantive questions. And then otherwise like the I struggled a lot with the like the second sentence in the first paragraph where it says um visitors are welcome in all the buildings blah blah blah blah blah if the presence does not interfere with the educational mission of the school and I'm
055wondering if that like the next thing really needs to be and does not disrupt or limit >> because like it just reads kind of awkward let's open it up here I'm happy to make changes here and I was really I remember he actually was a little bit I think too and yeah >> we tried to work some of the >> we're trying to blend in the >> language with I know that's what I figured that some of the jumpiness comes from like multiple edits over time. >> We are very happy to add that in. So you're thinking please say it again. Oh, I'm thinking that like so after the comma after school if their presence does not interfere with the educational mission of the school, and does not disrupt or limit students privacy and then
056I wonder if the and should be or access to their education or with respect to purpose of activity. >> Okay. Yeah. So it would say and does not disrupt or limit student privacy and access to their education or >> No, I think that I think the first and or as well. >> Okay, very good. >> Limit students privacy or access to their education or with the respective purpose. >> Gotcha. Yes. Um I I this one was a little jumpy too. The last sentence in the next paragraph, all visitors shelter through a secure entry system where appropriate. Providing picture identification will be require like I don't know if that's just a run-on sentence or if it we should just say where appropriate period >> and then provide >> photo identification will be required. Yeah. >> Um
057And then in the next paragraph, a person is not allowed to visit school. I wonder if could buildings or premises just be property just to make that a little less wordy. Does that make meaning difference? >> No. >> This is school property or to attend a school sponsored event and for when that person substantially disrupts. It just it read a little awkward to me when it was a person is not allowed if a person substantially disrupts. >> Yeah. >> Happy to make that change. >> And then I think the rest of the sentence uh substantially disrupts the purpose of a school sponsored event. poses a threat to the safety of others. >> Yeah, that's one of those pieces of language that was a carryover and I my attempt is always to mitigate the changes to
058the board's policies. I see it both ways um because it's kind of a seriation of of ideas. Um but by changing it from an or to an of >> Oh. >> then it does um give a different um context. Happy to go in either direction. >> Oh, I see. Okay. No, I think that's fine. I think it's fine as it were. I just I think I was I think my brain wasn't following it in that train of thought, but when you say it, the work can make sense. >> Maybe a comment this meeting. I was gonna say maybe it needs some commas the purpose >> for school >> or because I think what we're saying is like >> Yeah. I think what we're saying is when a person substantially disrupts the educational mission when they
059substantially disrupt the purpose or when they substantially disrupt a school sponsored event. That's what you're actually saying. >> That's exactly right. Got it. >> Well, you either need to to repeat substantially disrupt. >> Yeah. >> And I think that clears up my confusion. Thank you. This is helpful. How about other >> the only other one there in that the sent the last end of the sentence four poses a threat to >> well safety of others although maybe a threat to safety like yeah that's fine but >> to the others a little choppy. >> Okay that was it. Thank you. and you >> both a lot appreciate it. >> Yeah, really. >> My only thing was the word therefore in that second sentence at the top. >> It should either be at the beginning or taken
060out al together. >> See the the prior boards needed you guys. Believe me, your next board's going to make a bunch more changes. So, they might add the clear board back in. I don't know. What was that superintendent? Could we um talk through the last clause in that first paragraph? I'm just thinking again about like the flow here. >> What we're trying to make sure that says is that again the disrupts >> Yeah. We inserted the disruptive limits privacy and access to their education um based upon the feedback that we received from an attorney. Um but in terms of its placement maybe it needs a new paragraph. I'm just trying I think my first thought is like what's the verb that we're putting with the respective purpose of the activity or event >> it would
061I mean if their presence does not interfere with the educational mission of the school would you put does not or just take off the assignment disrupts that makes sense >> or disruption >> that does not interfere with the educational mission of the school >> yeah I mean that's I had the first suggestion there because it like if it were to be and does not disrupt >> does not disrupt or limit students privacy. >> So we have like interfere and we have disrupt or limit and what's the third verb that's what I access to their education the for the respective purpose is that all under disrupt or limit that last part with respect. Yeah, that's how I read it. >> Yeah, that's how I read it, too. >> It's hard when it's a there's a come,
062you know, >> I know. Yeah, I read the first clause that does not interfere with the education is one and then disrupting the students privacy or access. >> What if it's a bulleted list? If their presence does not then you could just >> access. >> How about um I bring this back for a second. I think this feedback has been very helpful. Thank you. And um ask the board to consider this at the September 15th meeting. [Music] Yeah, sounds like we're all in agreement on like the meat of this, right? >> Yeah, that sounds good. Excellent. Thank you. >> All right, no citizens, no comments. Um, our scheduled next meetings coming up. We have finance committee on September 8th, 5:30. safety and wellness back here on September 15th at 5:30 followed by our board of
063education meeting uh there just to go over some of the stuff that we have on the agenda of the update from Ray and we have an info and advocacy series of reports on um AP and IB test postsecary course loads and credit and with that I would ask for a call to journ with the motion le all in favor. >> Any opposed? All right, bearder.