001All right, I'll call us to order at 6:32. Start with a roll call. Joel, I'm here. Leah, here. Jessica, Sarah is not able to join us tonight. Tom, I'm here. Carly here. Myself and Dr. Slero. This meeting been properly noticed. Yes. Excellent. I'd ask we all rise to say the pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Do we have a volunteer to read our mission statement? I can. Uh the Mount Corpora School District in partnership with the community is dedicated to nurturing, educating, and challenging all students, preparing and empowering them to be productive, responsible, and self-fulfilled members of society. Thanks, Carly. Item two is our agenda and minutes approval. Do we
002have any motions to approve or revise any of the uh the agenda or the minutes? Motion to approve the agenda. Second. Motion by Jessica, second by Tom. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Um the B separate those out. Approval of our June 2 regular board and executive meeting minutes. Motion to approve. Second. Motion by Joel. Second by Jessica. All in favor? I. All any opposed? Motion passes. Item three, addressing the board. Any citizen comments? Any signups tonight? Dr. didn't see anybody, but we're grateful to have our friends from the local P5 with us. Again, thank you for your continued support of our young people in the district. Thank you for your continued support as well. Great. And uh on to 3B school news. Dr. Serno, do you want to Well, boy, we sure
003had a great uh commencement ceremony back a couple of weeks ago. Let's see. Last Sunday, actually. Uh just some lovely lovely presentations from students as well as the staff and board president Mertz, thank you for that. Um we finished school on Wednesday of this past week and wouldn't you know it, the kids were back to school today for summer school round one. Uh we'll go this week and next. There'll be a bit of a reprieve uh during the week of what would that be June 20 or June 30thish somewhere in there because of July 4th uh follows on that Friday. so families can maybe break away for the holidays and then we'll have our second run at summer school. I want to commend uh a couple of people for their outstanding efforts. Uh first I'd
004like to uh commend uh Katie Hardyman uh who you may know is our dean of students at the early learning center. Uh Jesse Mette. Uh Jesse is our administrative assistant to uh Dr. Straa. Dr. Straa, of course. Thank you for your outstanding leadership. Um, who else am I forgetting? Oh, Courtney Harland. Mrs. Harland, uh, second grade teacher. She, um, is going back to school to get her administrative license and kind of a school within a school opportunity for her to demonstrate her leadership. I don't want to put you on the spot, but I might. Um, how many students would you guess are actually helping us out? The high school students who are That's harder number. I say probably 30 to 40. It was really impressive this morning. Uh many kids, high school students getting up.
005Uh you you think they'd be wanting to sleep in, yet they're out there helping us out, and we couldn't do it without them as well. So, really a good start to the to the summer. Um and speaking of uh summer, I'm excited about the baseball night. The Madison Mards will be hosting the Green Bay Rockers uh this Sunday afternoon at 4:05, I think, is the first pitch. You may be asking yourself, why is he telling us about this? Well, this happens to be Mount Horeb night. And thanks to the good work of Aubrey Hanks, uh, and in partnership with the Chamber of Commerce, um, we, I think, have well over, uh, 900 people who have signed up for tickets to this event. Uh, and I saw on the TV last night that they're giving out
006bobbleheads, uh, channel 27. So, get yours early. Um, and then I also want to um kind of plant the seed with a little bit of exciting news. It's been about maybe seven or eight years since we've updated our school district's website and we're in the throws of putting the finishing touches on that. Uh, we look to launch that sometime this summer and I think you're going to be very pleased with not only aesthetics but how much easier it will be to find information that will people are wanting to find. So, we'll we'll continue to keep you posted on that. Excellent. Thank you, Dr. Serno. Anyone else with any school news they want to share? Um, I wanted to give an update. You may have heard that the joint finance committee met last week and um
007finalized their budget proposal. We've had a lot of discussions here about the our budget needs and asks and advocacy. Um, and so I thought I would give an update on where they landed on some of those items. Um overall their proposal for education was underwhelming and didn't come close to anything that we asked for. Um that's the short story of it. Particularly in special education reimbursement. As a reminder, we asked for um not only us but coordinated with the Dean County Consortium with state with school boards across the state um an increase to the special education reimbursement rate of a guaranteed 60%. they are going to their proposal is to take it from the estimated 33 to an estimated 35. So far from in the first year and an estimated 37 in the second year
008and as we all know those estimated amounts never come to fruition and our 33% estimate from last year came in at was it 29 30 yeah this year. So um any increase is something is good but fall far short of of uh of our needs. Um they instead as we've talked about before focused on recommending an increase of up to 90% of highcost special education which is a category a very specialized category. It's it's very small not even applicable to every school in the state. Um and my understanding is not even applicable to us including us in this past year. So um the legislature may tout that as as having done something but the material impact is minimal to nothing for us. Um they also on general aid which is what balances property taxes they
009did not increase pass any kind of increase to the revenue limit. We still have the 325 revenue limit increase from um from Governor Ivers. However, by not increasing general aid at all in their proposal, they are guaranteeing that that will fall on property tax payers instead. Um and then the last thing there's there's all like if you go to the WASBY website, I encourage you to go, they have a good summary of everything in there. So, um feel you know feel free to go and look at the other details. The other thing that I would point out is that the $50 million literacy funding from act 20, the governor proposed to reallocate that in this fiscal year. They did not. So, um the budget's not final. I I I guess I will as a personal
010editorial say that they did their package does include $1.6 billion of tax cuts. Um, and it's they I think a lot of their reasoning for not increasing budget and you know and as we well excuse me as we know there's about a $4 billion surplus right now. Um, a lot of their continued reasoning for not spending into that surplus is that it's not a structural surplus. It's a onetime surplus. Yet they managed to put in $1.6 billion of tax cuts. Um, the budget's not final. still has to go through the entire legislature, still has to potentially be passed or vetoed by the governor. And so I would encourage anyone who's an advocate to education to let Representative Novak and Senator Markline or whoever your representative is if you live in a few cross lines in
011the district to reach out to your representatives. Can I just add one the budget also a cut of $10 million in mental health funding and we get a lot of grant funding services. So that's alarming. There's some talk that perhaps I don't know what the it's so far from what the governor asked for. There's some theorizing that he might get enough pressure to just veto the whole budget. Um, we'll have to see how other aspects play out there, but yeah, that's where we are. High school news, that's not as true as um, our FFA kids are in Canada. That's right. They made it late Sunday night into Canada, so now they're cell phone free until sometime Saturday or Sunday. It's a very exciting trip. I I'll add um the middle schoolers put on a musical
012the last day of school and that was entertaining. They did a nice job to be out of school and still willing to participate in something like that is dedication to our not only our staff but the kids that participated. And then just a big shout out to all the spring sports that finished up at the end of the year and basically are going up to the last day and competed strongly. That's great. Thanks, Tom. Anyone else with any school news? All right. Appreciate it. Uh, let's move on to item four, personnel transactions. Uh, Dr. Selin, would you like to elaborate? May have a special guest in attendance. We have a couple of bits of great news. First, as you might have seen, board members, there is an addendum to our employment recommendations. Uh you may
013have seen uh a bit of a change that will occur at our intermediate center office as uh two of our longstanding administrative assistants are preparing to go out together uh one into retirement and one into a new opportunity for themselves and uh some recommendations of of some names maybe you even know uh as they've just been wonderful um community members here in uh in Mount Horb for some time. So we're eager to welcome them. And then one that I know that has uh garnered a great deal of interest uh because it's such an important position in our district is our new activities manager. And I'm going to ask Mr. Carr if he'd be willing to come on down and say hello to everyone. Everyone, welcome to Mr. Chris Carr. Chris is uh going to fill
014the role pending your approval. Uh a new position uh that we're calling activities manager. We're trying to utilize some savings in anticipation of next year's budget reductions um and allow for uh the focus to be solely on activities and on athletics. Mr. Carr's background is so amazing. Uh he has a a bachelor's degree from W Platville where he studied physical education and health. Yep. Use that to teach in both Monroe as well as Mineral Point school districts. Uh, and then because you know you're you're not busy enough, you've decided to go back and get your master's degree. Y and did I see masters of public health administration with an emphasis on sports administration? Sports administration. Wow. And when will you be done with that? Yeah. So after this summer concludes, I'll have I think it's
015up to 12 out of my 30 credits complete. So about halfway done. Good for you. Grinding over the summer and some other seasons here and try to get as much done as I can. I it to a tea. Everybody with whom we spoke both in reference checks but then all of the coaches and parents who participate in the interview committees just were so impressed by your level of energy and your excitement level uh in terms of I hear you're already thinking about ways in which to even get us to electronic um ticketing uh in our district and I just have such great hope for your leadership and uh tell us a little bit more about yourself if you don't mind for that. Yeah, I grew up in uh Darlington, Wisconsin. And first of all, thank
016you for having me here today. I'm really excited to be here. I've been looking forward to this for a while. So, I grew up in Darlington, Wisconsin. I was a three sport athlete then. And uh during that time is kind of when, you know, with with various clubs and activities, I had a lot of interest in in putting myself out there and doing things. And um you know, I got into teaching and uh I I just love the atmosphere within a high school and a middle school. And so then, you know, I taught and I just wanted a little bit more. And so I I wanted that athletic administration. And so I went back to Mineral Point because they that's where I did my student teaching and and so when I completed my student teaching,
017I had great relationships there. And then so I was, you know, I was very happy at Monroe. I had no reason to leave. And all of a sudden, I had somebody reach out to me for mineral point saying, "Hey, they're combining the the AD and the FIED, which you're both obviously qualified for, and and we really want you to be the one to take it." And so, you know, I threw my name in and obviously I had some good relationships over there. So, so that's where I've been since. And we've had some really, really successful programs and, you know, some unforgettable years for me over there. Um, so, you know, that part it's a little, you know, it's always, it's never easy to leave, especially all the great relationships that I formed over there. But,
018you know, when this came open, it was, you know, it was your quote unquote dream job that I've talked to my wife about. We drive by all the time and I'm like if something ever were to open up in Mount Horb I would be, you know, chomping at the bit to get in. So, um, you know, I went ahead and did that and, you know, I appreciate everybody and the time it took for the whole interview process and it was planned out very well and you had different stations moving all throughout the whole day and, you know, it went very very smooth. So, um, I appreciate, you know, everybody's time that went into that and, um, I could not be more excited to get started. So, we're so grateful that you would take time to
019meet our board of education tonight. By the way, notice he's already wearing something from the fall fashion line uh here, Mount Hora. And uh come by education honestly in that your wife is also an educator as well. And yes. Yep. So I've got a soft spot a little bit for the music department. Um because my wife is a choir director over at Broadhead um that school district. So um you know, I'm really excited. I know we've got some great music programs here as well. So excited to get in touch with them and and see how we can keep things moving forward with them as well. So well, thank you for being here. Absolutely. Again, nice to meet everybody. Thank you guys for having me here. Thank you for coming out. Thank you board for considering
020these recommendations this evening. Excellent. Um yeah. Uh do we have a motion to approve or any further discussion on the personnel? I mean I heard Darlington. [Music] Oh, go ahead. Motion to approve. Second. Motion by Joel, second by Jessica. All in favor? I. I. Any opposed? All right. Motion passes. Next up, our consent agenda. Looking for a motion to approve in full or pull out any of these individual items for discussion. Motion to approve consent agenda. Second. Motion by Carly, second by Leo. All in favor? I. I. Any opposed? All right, we'll move forward on to discussion items. 6A, we've got the committed committee and village leazison on member reports. Um, first up, Carly, I don't know if you have uh some more to add from uh from Cali. Nothing. Our last meeting, we've seen
021everything that's come out of the of this committee come before the full board. Our last meeting was a brief uh abbreviated meeting to give the final touches to the two uh letters that we approved last meeting. That's it. And we don't have anything currently on the books for a future meeting at this time. Okay, good to know. Um, Jessica, education. We met on Monday, June 2nd, and we were fortunate enough to have um several teachers come in to present to us from the CKLA, kindergarten through fifth grade, plus the reading specialist was fantastic. It was almost the entire hour. Um, they shared what was successful, a few challenges. Some of the older teachers, well, the teachers of older students are anxious for the students that will get to that have gone through CKLA um in
022the previous years. Um and then we very briefly pass the academic standards. There's no changes from the previous year. Our next meeting is July 7th. All right. Thank you. Any questions, conversations about Jessica's report? Excellent. um community coalition. We meet in July. In July, great. And um village of Mount Horb, that's me. I don't have a whole lot to report, but I did touch base with village president Ryan Suzuki today and our our leaison from the board, Nate Goger. just um expression of appreciation for our continued path toward more communication, open communication first about the uh uses of the Lucken property for recreation and then um ongoing discussions with the facility plans with student safety um and general community involvement. The one thing that did come up was uh that they don't have any youth
023and government students yet for next year and they're going to focus on that in September. But if there's anyone out there who has a has a child who wants to contribute to that, I know I can give the parental testimonial. I have both kids go through that role and it was uh it's one of those things where yeah, you sit through a lot of meetings and a lot of things you're maybe not that familiar with, but it's a great experience and uh to understand how things work and also to uh see what happens in Mount Horb and it's a great career resume builder. So, I'll throw that out there for everyone. Excellent. Um 6B, long range facility planning. Um Mr. President, it looks like our uh speaker isn't quite on the line yet. Would it
024be okay if we introduced Sarah Straa? Absolutely. Sarah Stroker, are you ready? Great. We got the information advocacy report. Life ready indicators for K through grade 12. Okay. Um so this report is on my typical report which is on learning and growth. Looking at that academic development and the life life ready indicators that are connected to preparing our students for citizenship. The first is looking at Silka. We actually had a really good discussion I think back when we made this power goal um thinking about students and their service to the community. And one way we've been tracking this at the high school level is through the silver court hours. Um we did see an increase this year 2425 school year where about a quarter of our seniors um were able to graduate with silver court
025hours which is an increase that we haven't really seen since before co So we're seeing a rebound in students who are getting to that 140 hour mark which is where they receive that silver core hour number or higher. Um within the report I I did indicate though that as I have I think started last year that we do have students who commit who complete some hours. So we did have 31 students complete hours of the range from one hour to 120 hours. Um so there's and again these are documented hours. There's probably kids doing a lot of great things. They just might not get the paperwork, which, you know, that's just part of their growth and a life skill, right? Getting paperwork done. None of us like that. So, um, we can maybe do a
026better job advertising that and and thinking of ways for students to submit that, but I bet a higher percentage of kids are are getting that that number. But of the numbers we receive, it's nice to have that. We've also been breaking it down thus far by gender because that was a glaring area um where females have been have had a higher percentage of completing the silver court hours and again um from last school year and this school year that's still the case. So we'll keep working on getting the males out there um and really trying to diversify our groups. I know as Dr. I know can attest to with Club Interact. You have five males. Five old males out of what? 40. 65 kids. 65. Yeah. Yeah. So, you have to tell the female. You
027got to get more. Yeah, that's right. Bring find someone to to to bring along. That's right. It's a it's a role that's still on our radar. I know Cody Lungquist uh is going to be potentially sharing more information with us and with the board about like silver a bit maybe why we need what constitutes um club hours but he's he's been thinking through that he's going to hopefully by the end of the summer bring some more information to us and just brainstorming ways to get kids more involved and to recognize the work kids are doing I wonder if there's a way to gather like student testimonials from the male students about why they did it what they did my mom made me do it well possibly that or like It's useful. Hey, I put this
028on this applic. You know what I mean? I don't know. The adults in the room saying, "Why aren't you doing it? You should isn't very helpful." Yeah. Well, and I've talked to a few kids, like some of the soccer kids who help with the little soccer camp. They're like, "I didn't know I could do silver cord." And they're like, "It's too late now." And I'm like, "No, it's not. Yes, you did it last summer, but you were still in high school. You can take it and ask the the coach to sign it." And they're like, "We can." I'm like, "Yeah." even the number of students who are participating helping out with summer school. I was pleased to see there was a look a little little bit more male representation and there has been a pretty
029even split at summer school. Yes, it's just not transferring. So, we'll have to figure that out because each year we do have some kids return over and over and that's 20 to 40 hours right there. So, maybe I can ask Courtney Harland to just mention the kids. We'll put a little sign next to the signing table just to remind them. I have their silver sheet there. that they can turn in. One thing that would be helpful too is you can see like the silver cord but not what it what percentage or something. Yeah, it Yes. But if you could see like what you turned in versus what you didn't because finding them at the bottom of backpacks I'm like this is the dupus. This is not my problem. So, you know, it might be nice
030if they could look in and be like, oh yeah, I forgot to do this thing. I know it says keep track of it on your own, but we keep track of everything else in campus. I can't imagine too difficult to even just have a scanned image or something of what you turned in. Yeah, I can talk to our school counseling department on that. Okay, thank you. I wonder class organized activities and I don't know how prevalent this is. I know that social problems does like that part of their grade they do hours and I don't know if those if if uh there's a coordinated effort to track those hours if there are other classes that do those kind of things and how that plays into this depending on your age those don't so like I
031had a senior who did that for class but it's after the due date for when it's due for silver cord so then he couldn't use them for silver cord because that date had already passed. Yeah. So I guess yeah, my wider question is just more like those activities that we know are h and I know just like you said there's stuff going on that we're not tracking that we don't have as easy access to. I just I guess I wonder how much of that is stuff that is school generated otherwise. Good question. Would it make sense to use some time in staff at the beginning with the freshman year to talk about what it means. I'm sure we do some, but I'm sure. Yeah. Thanks, bud. Or even at the beginning of every year. Well,
032every semester. Yeah. Yeah. And Sarah, I don't know if we've discussed this before about, you know, I mean, there's like bandwidth on what we can all do and focus on silver silver cord or other programs or whatever else it is, but it does seem like something that we keep coming back to and gravitating. Yeah. from interest level and maybe um you know automating some of it, sign up genius, whatever else it is like advertising opportunities a little easier, sign offs easier, that type of thing whether that's now or down the road. I know Cody is looking into a program for other things and he had mentioned that that that could be a possibility. So yeah, he's quite there yet but he's part of his updates. We can make the cords real silver [Music] then we're
033just like paying them Perfect. Yeah, that I do. I mean, I as I looked at this, I was just trying to think like I know we've seen the the the the disparity and the discrepancy in that stat before for a while and I was trying to look back and think of if we see a dispar discrepancy that wide in other areas of engagement. I don't think that we really do. I can't think of anything off the top of my head where there's such a gender disparity. You just have certain courses that way if that's improved. Think of like technology engineering was plant it the other way some percentage but that's that's improved to almost 50/50 now. Yeah. Um so just maybe going along with education. Yeah. Some of it is nature versus nurture just figuring
034out some people just don't it's not in their nature. So I think we come we think we do return to a lot because when we look at you all I mean this you're doing a service like this is your passion right and you're involved in many things so I know we have good discussions because that's at your core graduation. Yeah let's do it um graduation rates are still pretty consistent. Um you probably think gosh why aren't we closer to 100%. Part of this percentage um still includes our students who are in our 18 plus program and we have six students that's part of the percentage. Um so each year um outside of that we do have typically one to two students who do not make that graduation walker who do not get a diploma. So
035we did have two this year. Again one student came to us senior year. Um so did a lot of work to try and get him back on track. Um just it it wasn't it didn't work for him. Um We had another student we we were working with operating we offer operation fresh start. You go to many parent meetings um and he preferred to work instead of he wanted to make money instead of coming to school that was what their family needed. So, uh, while it does 94%, um, truly is probably closer to that 98 99% we don't have that transition piece. Um, but when we pull our state data, it does include the students who are in 18 plus program because there's they're technically not ended in infinite campus. So, just a note there. Along
036with graduation, we have attendance and our our board goal, one of the power goals was to get to to be at or higher that 95%. We're teetering. We are right there at that district average of that 94.5. And you can see the state trends, the five-year trends versus Mount Horup in the bar graph. But when you break it down in the next page, oh, keep going, Steve. We'll go to the next page and I can come back up. Keep it going down further. Yep. To the Y grade level. Um you can see by by grade level how our grades are doing each year over the past seven years. We did put an average column in this um into this report. So you can see on average over those seven years which grade levels are hitting
037that 95% threshold and which really aren't. Um we could look at cohorts too. We just haven't done that yet, but you can go diagonally down to see if any cohorts are sticking out. But um we're right there. We are right there. And we'll keep going with our attendance campaigns, calling families, keeping up the campus going, all those kinds of things just to educate families and make sure they're in the know. Uh the previous page where Steve was um we just added then our students who are chronically absent um overall for our school district, what percent and then um looking at by grade level as well. So that's a newer piece. we could see a decline since co um I removed actually like a couple years prior up like the 20s 30s 40s and that just
038didn't seem relevant anymore but now that we're pulling out and stabilizing um you can see that the percent of students who are chronically absent has has decreased. That is our our report for those life indicators related to creating citizens. Any questions for Sarah? Silver cord. Keep at it. Well, thanks for all you do to keep it going. Yeah, thank you all. There's a lot of good I I love seeing that the numbers up this year. Yeah. Well, keep at it. Thanks, guys. Thank you, Sarah. Nice job. Dr. Seno, appears we have our uh our guest speaker now. We sure do. Hey, Mark. How are you? We'll just have you Mark um if you could please uh unmute yourself and then what I'll do is I'll see if I can't turn up our sound. Can you
039say a few words just first so I can make sure I have the sound correct? Excellent. And beautiful day. It is. We had a little bit of rain here today, but um hopefully we got that out of the way for the week. I'm going to go ahead and record this if that's okay. We like to put this on our on our website. Well, uh board members, here's a a gentleman who's just been a wonderful resource uh to our school district over the course of the past number of months as we've transitioned to um uh working with Bray. Uh this is Mr. Mark Miller. Mark has um been just a great great addition to our building design team. Uh, he is pinch hitting tonight for Ryan. Uh, as Ryan is on some well-deserved vacation time. Do
040they let you have vacation, Mark? No. Oh, well, we'll talk to someone about that for you. But, uh, nonetheless, everyone, I'm pleased to introduce you to a new friend to the school district, Mr. Mark Miller. Mark, you've got some updates for us, don't you? Yes. Uh, I'm going to try sharing my screen and see if that works. Huh. Terrific. And if not, I'm happy to post it. We'll give it a try. There we go. That looks great. All right, everybody see that? Okay, we sure can. All right. Well, thank you for inviting me tonight. Uh, it's been a fun project so far. It's been enjoyable working with all the different folks in the district and uh we will continue having fun. Right. So, I think you've seen these schedules before. Uh, we're just progressing through
041the schedule. I think we're uh currently up to date uh project wise. In one respect, we're a touch ahead in that some of those district district-wide improvements with re- roofing and uh some of the uh restroom work over at the middle school. We've got a a jump on that, getting started on that. And uh the primary is moving right along. So, uh, design schedule, we're still in design development, but we'll be wrapping that up here, uh, the end of June. So, I think we're getting a lot of of uh, work done. It's been positive. Uh, staff engagement. We've had multiple meetings. uh we've had user we call them user group meetings to try to speak to individuals about uh the needs of uh their classrooms and the departments and uh such. We've spoken with the
042kindergarten speech math intervention, special education, athletics, administration, health, library kitchen, reading intervention, music. uh and they've all been very nice, very generous in their time and and the suggestions and comments and uh it's been very helpful and uh we are enjoying that uh partnership and we'll be continuing this uh over the summer, a little less, but uh still some over the summer and then again uh this fall once school gets back into session. Uh budget uh is proceeding I think uh uh in the direction that we've got laid out. We're we're still uh following along with that budget. We are going to be taking some alternate pricing options to give us a little more flexibility. We'll ask the contractors for additive alternates and it um all have a different number. Alternate number one, uh alternate
043number two, and it gives us some flexibility uh in putting together the final price. So, we'll be uh adjusting those as we get through the summer. Uh primary center uh update. We've been uh working on that and had a discussion with the village uh this past week and that went very well, I think. Uh they had some tips. They are looking at redoing their zoning ordinance. So, that will uh take place hopefully this fall. Uh we are having a preliminary presentation to historic preservation commission and the planning commission at the end of July. I think it's the 23rd of July. And the city staff thought it might be good since this is a large project magnitude wise uh to ease the two commissions into it. So we will be presenting a preliminary information uh at
044the end of July and then we'll have the final submitt uh later this fall. sign up date. Um we the basic concept I think has stayed the same but we're refining the details. So we've got our our parent drop off loop our parking uh we've had some discussions with the district staff on the number of parking spaces and I think this is going to get adjusted upward a little bit. I think we're trying to get the exact number we want to have make sure we have enough parking for those dayto-day activities. Uh but on the other hand, we don't want to have additional parking that never gets used except for those one or two events a year. Uh it's expensive to install that excess parking. It's expensive to maintain and it also hinders us with
045our storm water runoff and storm water management and storm water clarity. So, we want to make sure we get the right amount of parking that gets used on a regular basis and uh we are going to be continuing to work through that. But I think that uh basic layout has stayed the same. It works very well. We've got our bus drop off along the north side uh pulls up closer to the playground area. Uh we are having our our existing parking hard surface will become playground and we'll be having a soft surface playground area to the south. Uh we have been starting conversations about playgrounds and that always gets people excited and it's kind of fun because playgrounds are just they're just fun. Uh the floor plan hasn't changed a whole lot. Uh we are
046working through details. One thing that has changed a little bit is the cafeteria kitchen. Uh we've got our individual toilet rooms along the east side of the room now, the existing gym. And then we've got entrance for the serving area uh from the hallway. So the kids will come from their classrooms into this hallway into the servery, pick up their food selections, and then come out to the cafeteria. And the rest of the kitchen layout is along that north side. Uh we've got our kitchen consultant. Brett's been working on the detailed layout of this and hopefully we'll get something here from him uh this week or next week. We'll get back with Michelle and the other district folks on that kitchen layout. We've also been working on construction details. uh what kinds of walls we've
047gone through uh with the with the uh folks on what kinds of things we want to see, wall types, concrete block uh both from a a structural standpoint and and from a finish standpoint and durability standpoint, metal stud walls with abuse resistant sheetrock, gypson board, and uh I think we've got that fairly well na nailed down now, but uh it's been a little bit of back and forth on that. Uh this past week we also had our preliminary interior design presentation and uh we've got uh a conversation went through uh with Melissa from our office on material types uh what the durability of those materials are, the ease of maintenance, life cycle costs. Uh those are all important uh items that need to be balanced uh that fit with the district standards. uh talked about
048flooring, wall finishes, ceilings, cabinetry, countertops, and then those accents and enhancements that that make it a fun and enjoyable enjoyable building to be in as well. And we're working through that. We'll be having more conversations on interior finishes, uh material types, and colors. So, the exterior appearance hasn't changed too much. Uh we're working on colors. We've got orders in for bricks to try to match the existing brick. One of the thing that is is you can see an elevation here. We've got Mount Horb School because we're not sure at the moment, but uh will the school have a new name? Uh stay with Mount Horb Primary Center and Mount Horb Elementary School. Other thoughts? uh we're not really looking for an answer uh now, but we uh are looking for people to start thinking about
049this and we're welcoming feedback and and how we want to approach uh the name of that school uh since the uh early learning center will be disappearing down the road. So our next steps, we'll continue with our uh design development interior and exterior design materials. We're getting samples pulled together so you can actually see what the materials feel like and look like. We had some this past week. We'll be getting more of those. Uh continued engagement with our engineers and consultants. Uh I mentioned the kitchen consultant, but we're also coming out Wednesday uh and having a walk through with the MEP folks and the structural engineers. are going to be looking at the existing uh building and and construction pieces and and how we're going to extend and expand that. And then also discussing the
050HBAC systems, how we're going to approach that expanded geothermal system. And as I mentioned earlier, we'll be having additional user group meetings uh sporadically across the summer, but uh uh definitely more as school year starts back up. So any questions? Well, it sounds like you've done such a great job with your presentation that you've left them speechless. Mark, I tell you, it's pretty exciting from my perspective. Well, it is exciting. You've done a great deal of work. Thank you to your team. Uh last Thursday's building design team meeting, as you may have seen in my weekly update, was quite a breakthrough uh meeting. Uh got a lot accomplished. Uh as a result of there being a number of people who are going to be on vacation, the team has elected to forego their meeting on
051well that would be June 26thish and we'll we'll come back again in uh first week of July. Uh these are meetings that are open to the public. uh and we have them either virtually or in person and we'll always post those meetings and we'll also make this video uh available on our district's website uh so that people if they are interested in doing a deep dive they certainly can do that. Um I end where I began Mark and that's in gratitude to you and your team. Thank you for your continued partnership and we look forward to seeing you on Wednesday morning. Sounds like 10 o'clock in the morning is the cemented time. Yep. 10 o'clock. I'll be there. All right, my friend. Onward, upward we travel. Very good. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
052All right. We've got a couple of information and advocacy reports from Mr. Brian Johnson. Improving the practice and policies related to school safety and improving confidence and knowledge of school safety. Yeah. So this is kind of put into one document. And so let's just kind of go through it. Um you know when you think of of kind of the introduction itself, right? Um when you talk about school safety, really talking about two pieces that aren't directly talked about in here, but the part of well-being and belonging and all of the pieces, right, that also are a critical part of school safety um aren't overtly mentioned in this in this um document. This is more on the physical safety side of the house. Um, also acknowledging that things have really changed or um, we've kind of
053taken a year of not being able to change our policies and practices. Um, and so um, because of May 1st um, we've had to look at things differently and different perspectives and um, it's kind of changed the way we've looked at it and so that's um, kind of a revamp in a lot of ways as well. So when we go right into improvement of practices and policies, um really we've kept the actual plans the same. So those are the same. Um but how we do them are different. Um if you remember this year, all of our incidences and our monthly drills that we do, parents were given notice um before they occurred. Um, Chief Veric and Officer Rosemire came once a month to every admin an administrative council ran scenarios and practices and then um
054they got to hear our answers on how we would handle um you know they kind of do like a scenario like here's step one this happens how do you react step two how do you react and gone through it so they're learning from us but then we're also learning from them like well how do you want us like when when should we be taking serious said step two, step three, right? Um and get them involved. And so those are have really been equally beneficial and important for us to kind of refine and really take seriously um as an administrative council. This year we also had our community safety review task force which two of you were on and the task force res uh presented to the full board looking at the physicality of our buildings.
055um doing taking the studies and the observations that um David Melby um did and then um we looked at those and then we took tours of the buildings and looked at it and talked to the principles and are like how do you see this working? How does it play out? And then how can we um make it better? And so that was kind of what we continued to look at. And then also just kind of overall district leadership. um it's really changed and really taking the experiences that we had as a community um and all of us have played a role in supporting a different district at some point right um whether that's another school board member calling asking for advice um whether it's presenting at WSB conference um whether it's you know Stephen Aubrey
056presented to Belleville school district you know and we've had different people I know Paul Christensen just met with principles and we shared all of our resources with them, too. So, it's that continuously learning and helping support um which has really been important for us um moving forward. May I interrupt there real quick? It should not go unnoticed the extraordinary work and support you provided uh to our friends in Madison this past December. just hours after that incident occurred. Here's Brian going down there to help out um and offering support. And I heard from more than one person uh down there just how appreciative they were of your leadership. Thank you. Thank you. Um it's the power of taking the experiences that we've had and helping somebody else, right? And that gives us power um with
057what we've gone through and helping somebody else. And so I think there's a lot of power in being able to do that as well. Um when we look at kind of the second piece which is improving our competence and knowledge, um what are we kind of doing to always get better, right? And so um we're always looking at what ways to be preventative. Um we're also really focusing on our speak up, speak out, um training, supporting, making sure that sta students feel safe calling. We've also had the people from Speak Up Speak Out who are running the system come to our admin council like how do we make it better? Um how and and our feedback is that like we'll give two pieces of information, right? And then the the student hangs up or the
058parent hangs up and we can't get a followup. And so can they like give a warning like somebody's gonna a real person really is here. they're about to join you to ask a follow-up question. Um, and so if we can get some of that, we can do more with it. But if we have two pieces of information and we don't know who this like anything else, it's really hard for us to investigate without a full picture. And so that's what we've been working with Speak Up, Speak Out, and our administrators have been on really being able to have a better system. In fact, we're making a video thanks to Aubrey's good work in which Officer Rosemire will walk a student through how to use the service and to stay on the call or stay online
059uh when doing the reporting so that we can gather as much information as possible while respecting the anonymity of the process. So, we want to go down a little bit further. We're really continuing to do staff training um and have that that partnership um talked about the safety drills. Um our monthly drills, um we're continuing to look at secondary locations, um our reunification location, all of those pieces, just making them better. Um from what we learned, we talked a little bit about this within our last um safety and wellness committee, but next year we will be starting visitor aare, which is the identification system that somebody will be able to show their driver's license. It'll run a a fullwide national sex offender registry. Go through it. It'll take your picture. You'll get the name badge
060printed out. So, it really kind of has a more robust system for all of our schools and all of the 4K sites um within the community. So, this is a a great partnership that we're excited about and just making us one step better. And then, you know, part of that is is we've gotten generous donations and part of that is through the Kurt family um that have focused on additional cameras pointed towards exterior doorways um throughout the district. So, that way it has we've had a lot of discussions about what AI can it see different features, can it see different areas? And we know we're not there. It's not there yet. Um but the yet is really important. And so, what systems do we have in place? and what procedures so that when it is
061up to par that we're ready to go. And having the exterior cameras um pointed at all of the the exterior doors and and um parking lots um is a big step forward for that. So we thank them for their their continued commitment. And then two pieces of important data um pulled together for the YBS. So, the youth risk behavior survey, um there's a question at at students who feel safe in school. Um and so looking at this kind of more long-term, um blue is middle school and green is high school. Um but we're at 89 and then in 2022 23 um it dropped but and we'll continue to to look at that and then bring you know how did that change after May 1st as well. Um so we are kind of continuing to see
062that from a student level that their level of safety has in decreased a little bit. Um, and then the student the staff well-being survey, you've seen this slide before, um, but just kind of put it in this document as well. Kind of the surprise that after May 1st, I feel physically safe in the school and work environment did did increase a little bit. Um, and so that's kind of a good feeling about what we've put in place as has been effective as well. So, um, just kind of looking at it as longterm from a student perspective as well as a staff perspective and what can we do to kind of continually look at that and make it make it better? Can you remind me on the timing of that YBS? And I know the middle
063school is the one that lags, right? But the high school one has been they've gotten decent turnaround on that. turn around. Yeah. So, that's the latest document that we have was 2120 or 22 23 23 22 23 school year. We just did it again this year. Um and so we'll be able to pull that data pretty soon. We haven't got last year's Dayton County Youth Risk Survey results back yet, but those should be anytime. We're It's always a year behind. So, again, it's hard to do anything with it, but it's nice to look at it when you can start looking at it longitudinally. Yeah, we've been thinking about um running that through our own district procedure, maybe using Survey Monkey or some other system so that we get instantaneous data feedback and then we can
064report it back to them. Um and we're not waiting. Um so we're working that as a summer project. Cool. Yeah, Steve's asked the questions if we can flip it. Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. The lag idea. The lag is that we only just got that 22. Yeah. Like last month. Yeah. It's hard. Kids are 10th graders now. Yes. Wow. So, is the visitor aware system that we're putting in, is that one that's used by other neighboring schools? I know quite a few of them have that print out. Is it the same every a lot of districts use a a version of it but the visitor wear is used in quite a few Oregon school districts the one that we went and visited and u was pretty well received. We encourage people to even before they have
065a planned visit to go ahead and just load it into the system so that way it's instantaneous. Oh, it works great. Well, yeah. I I hope so. It actually is every time I have you. It's been it's been super easy. So that's nice to hear. I just wasn't sure if that's Yeah. And it's a local company which also helps in some of your like if we need have a need they can respond quicker other than the sticker sticks to golf shirts and you can't get it off. So you got to go home and scrub it out. Don't put it on a leather coat. Yeah. Put it put it on your portfolio or something. That's good. I I appreciate the emphasis on yet on the AI stuff. I just it's going to take me I think
066of it to come around to not being so skeptical of it, right? Because I think it's my the applications that I see it in use every day are ones where yes, it can be helpful and it give you good information, but it also requires you have a level of professional knowledge to verify the information you're getting is actually accurate, right? Because it hallucinates. It does. So yes, it is not there yet, I think, as a industry, but perhaps there's future potential. We saw that with the Nashville shooting here uh this past winter that um they had the system um for AI that over overlapped with their cameras and it didn't work and you could visibly see the weaponry as the kid was coming in. And so rather than invest and be a guinea pig, uh
067we'd rather make sure it's perfected. Well, and I imagine you can hide something in a absolutely large instrument case, right? Like so it has any camera let based system is going to have some limits naturally. And I think I' I've heard Dr. say it many times too, right? Like we part of being having a secure school is not giving people a false sense of what we what we have and what we can provide. And Sometimes then when you have like we have this AI system and you're like it'll prevent everything. It will not, right? And so it really is limited and so you don't want to you don't want to false give false hope to what we have because the these are what we have and we have a really good system. Um but let's
068not pretend we have a lot more, right? So, we have a lot of information on school shooting, things like that, obviously, because of recent events and all that kind of stuff. Is there any other safety protocols that we've needed to update the the fire safety protocols, anything like that that aren't included here? I mean, I know those systems have been around for a long, long time. They work well, but is there anything that we've done? No, it's all really the same. And so when you look at the evacuate portion of the it's like the runhide fight and then the evacuate it's all the same. And so in terms of when we do the monthly drills um we it used to you know five years ago it was fire drill every month and now it is
069a little bit different. Um sometimes they're critical incidents, sometimes they're they can be chemical spills, they can be different things that get looked at from the same perspective and they're all on that one sheet document. Okay. I appreciate your question because um there are some things from a material perspective that I think we're working to adjust use the example of um keeping doors locked to every classroom and having those rubber stoppers so that if we had to go into a a lockdown internal to the organization is something as simple as just pulling the rubber stopper and then closing the door and and Mr. and Mrs. Kurt have been kind enough to use some of that $100,000 to help us offset that. Um, we continue to look at other kinds of things from a material perspective,
070grant writing. Um, you may have seen in my weekly update the cops grant that Aubrey has just done an exceptional job in in writing um and and partnering uh with uh community members in writing that. by the way, um that we want to be able to um enhance uh further some other options that you know, we kind of keep behind the scenes a little bit so as not to create some excitement or awareness for people, but thanks for asking that question. I mean, I didn't notice the Ben Franklin protocol where we fly kites during to tornadoes. So, I think we're good. That's right. Just check it. the uh um one question about cameras and placement without getting into specifics or anything just on our vision. Feel like I've heard us talk a little bit about
071this too about you know not just on the buildings themselves but the property that we're on um first so you can spot things further off but second in areas that we don't have visibility into. Is that am I thinking about that right in terms of our approach? Yes that in fact that was a topic of a great deal of conversation from the safety review task force. Uh, I use the example of the the tree line here out at the the middle school. Um, when it's bright out, it's a nice day, you know, you can you can make out people. But when it's the evening time, we'd like to be able to up the pixelation, if you will, of the cameras up, and that requires, I think, uh, a little more money to get that night
072view, if you will. Um, so those little kinds of things that will evolve to. Um right now the priority is doors and windows and then um we suspect that as the technology improves the price will come down a little bit and we can leverage our savings that way and and purchase it. But yes, you're exactly Carly or or Leah who were instrumental to the success of that task force. Other reflections there. I mean it was cool. Paul showed us like he could bring it up and show us what he could see right then and it was a bright sunny day and he's like so I can see pretty well but he brought up the same point like if it's raining or cloudy you can be like there is some there but you know what color
073shirt are they wearing right dark you know light um but I was actually surprised at how much you could actually see every time I walked by I kind of wave like I know you can see me on the camera somewhere So, but it is it is cool. I mean, they can pull it up on their phone, but there there were a few call outs that they had like it would be nice if we had like you could see, but it'd be nice if you could see just a little bit more over here and things like that when we were kind of going through. We don't run into any privacy concerns with neighbors or anything or any of that stuff, do we? No, because we don't um have them aimed at like the homes across the
074street. Um we do have signs up uh throughout the facility says you're under surveillance or the properties under surveillance like pickle ball area and stuff. This is great. Thank you so very much. Don't go too far yet because word has it you get to have a policy. Is that second reading, right? Yeah, it is. It is second reading. It's three sentences now though. I've been looking at we gota juice it up a little here. That's right. Action item 7A second reading board policy 493 student valuables. Yeah. So um uh second reading the first reading we decided to change the first sentence um into two separate sentences so that they were more concrete. Students are responsible. School district is not for people's personal property. And then we changed out do not leave valuables or money in
075your locky cover and a unattended area. Motion to approve. Second. Got a motion by Leah and a second by Jessica. Any further discussion? All right. Otherwise, I'll call for a vote. All in favor? I I Any opposed? No one opposed. Motion passes. Great. Thank you. Thank you, Brian. 7B is considering the budgeted purchase of Chromebooks for the 2526 school year. Dr. SL. Yeah. Thank you again, board members, for the opportunity uh and to the community for allowing us to even be in this position. It's part of our replacement plan uh in which we annually refresh um at various grade levels our Chromebook purchases. You will see a recommendation uh for I'll make that bigger um for uh this school year. Um, Trfera is an outfit that we've bought um Chromebooks with before and um you
076may remember that as part of that relationship with Trfera, we also have um staff ability to monitor students Chromebook. Um also have an extended warranty through Trafera. And so that's why we selected Chfera as opposed to CD uh WG um which was also uh the same price. Um, quite frankly, this is about 80 Chromebooks uh purchased. Excuse me, I stand corrected. No, it is 80. I beg your pardon. 80 Chromebooks um uh and we took advantage of some sales in January out of fear that tariffs um would have caused us to pay even more. Uh and so I'm pleased to tell you that if the board were to approve this here tonight, uh we will have met our requirement uh for uh meeting our our replacement plan structure. We would ask if the board would
077please consider approving this uh purchase. Dr. Seno, could you refresh me again on what you're talking about in terms of monitoring like the capabilities that you mentioned? Yeah. Yeah. So, um, if a student is in class, um, and they're not necessarily on the right page in the Chromebook, we help them, uh, find their way to the right page. I have heard about this. Sounds never heard about this at all. A little coaching gets done. We move away from Minecraft, though. They can't get at Minecraft. I'm just used to being playful. Yeah, help them think about math. Motion to approve. Second motion by Leah, second by Jessica. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Thank you for that, board members. And then also part of that refresh and replacement plan uh has to do with
078surface tablets. Um and um you might recall that in order for our teachers to take advantage of allowing students work to be displayed on the big screen monitors in the classrooms, they use surface tablets. Uh and uh they might even hand a surface tablet to a student say hey work this problem for us so that all the students can see it being done on the television monitor. Um this is a um tool that our teachers have come to really enjoy and appreciate. Um we are going to be refreshing uh tablets. I believe it was in the sixth grade and the ninth grade. I could be wrong about this. Um please say again. Yes, by building. We're doing that but there are certain buildings that were on on the docket for this year and I I
079can double check that and get back with you. But um this is a a a technology that's very helpful, but it's also evolving. And so in order to take advantage of um some pricing, favorable pricing, uh and because the model that we like to use is no longer going to be created after this year. Um we want to keep everybody on the same tablet uh for uh for now, so it's easier for our our team if something goes wrong to fix them. um two of the outfits, Amro and Second Gear, they just didn't have any stock because again it's a it's a it's a version uh if you will that's no longer um readily available, but C CDWG will will get that for us. Um we're asking for your consideration. We'll have to look at
080another uh tablet uh once we get uh down into the next cycle in a couple years. What's the uh what's the shelf life on those? What do you try to get on? Our replacement cycle is about four to five years on that just like our Chromebooks. Mhm. My notes say this this was 90 units. 90 units. Thank you. Thank you very much. Motion to approve. Second. Motion by Tom, seconded by Carly. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. Motion passes. Thank you. We do have space for citizen comments if any of the citizens in attendance want to weigh in at this point. Otherwise, um we want to uh contemplate close session per section 19.851c considering employment, promotion, compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or
081exercises responsibility. Roll call vote. Joel. Yes. Actually, I do. I need a motion first. Yes, please. So moved. Thank you. Second. Motion by Leah. Second by Jessica. Now the roll call vote. I'm going to change my rules. Leah, yes. Jessica, yes. Tom, yes. Carly, yes. And Emma, yes. Let's take uh let's take five minutes. Terrific. Please and thank you.