Mount Horeb Area School District Board of Education Meeting held 5/19/25.

001All right. Call this meeting to order. It is 6:30 p.m. Um, we start with roll call. Joel Gra here. Leah here. Jessica here. Sarah is not here. Nolan here. We got Tom here. Carly here. Myself. Dr. Seno is meeting properly. Yes. Could we all [Music] stand 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. read our official statement. All right. The Moro area 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. Thank you very much. Um, item two, agenda and minutes. Does anyone want to make a motion to approve or modify the agenda? Motion to approve

002tonight's agenda. I'll second. We have a motion by Tom, second by Carly. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. Motion passes unanimously. Uh, next up is our May 5th regular board and executive meeting minutes. To approve. Second. Motion by Jessica, second by Carly. All in favor? I. Any opposed? I have three. Addressing the board. I think we have a couple of people [Music] sign. First we begin with Miss Patty Schlipper. Hi everyone. I'm Patty Schliver. I a retired teacher here. Welcome to 210 Link Street. Tonight I'm here as a member of P Flag. You see us regularly. I'm joined by Jill Jo, Sue Hunterburg, Kate McKenna McKenners of P Flag. I have nothing but thanks to share. Um, our bit of news is that we're very proud. P is celebrating our 10th anniversary, which I

003just amazing, miraculous thing that we become so successful here and supported by our school district and community. Um, we will be presenting a scholarship on Wednesday night to a lucky senior. Let those know this scholarship which we call the social justice award. So that's news from flag. Thank you for all the work you [Music] do. Thank you. um other than the address 1912 Greek dera where we moved um this year for um so our child could go to the school district primarily because we got a really good feeling of your inclusive environment and um where could we feel safe and um so I just want to say thank you so much for everything you do your whole mission statement everything the the flags the everything so just it's um really really important really matters to

004us. That's what we do. We appreciate you too. Thank you both. Did I hear P Flag has a great event happening at the end of June? Could Could we talk about that for just 30 seconds? Is that June 28? June 25th. Um 6:00 we have our um Pride Walk at Grundle Park. We're moving there because then at 7:00 we're having a communitywide concert um with VO5 as of band which apparently is really cool and they'll have food trucks and kid activities. Um the forward match marching band will cheer us on through the walk. So we'll have a lot of music that night and we hope everybody comes. Everybody's welcome. We're advertising it as a community community event in celebration of our 10th year in M. You have me in food trucks. Thanks everyone. Item 3

005school news. No, would you like to be assigned? I would love to. All right. chronologically. Last week, AP tests wrapped up finally after 2 weeks of testing. Um, as I mentioned before, it was the first year that a lot of them have been digital or hyperdigital, and there were a few hiccups. Um, I know that at least a lot of other schools, um, some tests got completely cancelled, the AP psych test, uh, there was a nationwide shorted short out, what am I saying? blackout um on the testing platform that they use and the int the test for the entire nation got delayed by about 2 hours. Um but there are makeup tests available at least for Mount. We went um through the test as planned. Um what else? Oh, sustainability Saturday was this past Saturday

006at the PC. Um, and that was really fun and educational to anyone who wins. Uh, conservation day, which is the 21st, I believe this Wednesday. Um, usually at the high school at the very least, a lot of classes will go on a bus to the conservation park um, for their class period or the pool day, and that is all cancelled now because of the rain. Um, there's a scholarship this cere scholarship ceremony this Wednesday at the high school for all seniors who applied for scholarships and got one. Um, and then there's a Memorial Day um event at the high school as well on Memorial Day in the morning. That's great. Thanks, Nola. Anyone else have any school news they want to share? In addition to the uh scholarship night, we also have the schol. Yes.

0075:00 and the program for Memorial Day. Hard to believe it's one week from today. That's at 10:00 in the morning in the gymnasium. Always very well attended. I have just a couple of quick announcements as well. I wanted to mention that we are now officially an international balorate school and that is really due in large measure to the hard work of our teachers and staff and healthc through the professional development and training uh to get this program off the ground. I think it's going to be a gamecher for this district and I'm very very excited about where we're going with it. So kudos to the board, kudos to the community for supporting this effort. I think our high school's best days uh remain ahead. Dr. Sando, thanks to you and to all the administrators and

008teachers who put in that work because um you kept us really well informed throughout that process and obviously had your uh eyes dotted and tees crossed including with the ID committee. So that was really cool to see. Yeah, thank you. Yeah. The only other thing that was on my mind was uh I'm still I'm still stuck in that uh last my last high school band concert as a parent or the all grades, excuse me, concert. It's so cool to see those 6 through 12 all in one room. You know, it's hard to find a spot to sit and uh um sometimes it's interesting in terms of being able to spot your own kid show. It's plenty room to stretch out. There you go. But it was fabulous and it was really neat that we have

009the uh um retired teachers come and speak. The uh Diane and Rob Farnsworth were the uh the MC's for that one. It was neat to see them share their experiences about being band parents and their time in the district too. So hopefully uh hopefully get some more kids interest in band. Anyone else have any school news? All right, move on to item four, personal transactions. Dr. Seno, would you like to walk us through anything? Not anything particular today. We've got ourselves a pretty straightforward recommendation. Motion to approve. Second. Got a motion from Jessica, second from Leah. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. On the five consent agenda, is there anything that anyone would like to pull on for discussion? Otherwise, I look for a motion to approve. Motion to approve consent agenda items.

010Second. Motion by Joel, second by Leah. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Under our discussion items, we have all the committee and village liaison reports. Why don't we start with community and legislative engagement? Yeah. So, we last month on Monday the 28th of April and a lot of the things that we've talked about you've seen or come through since then. So, kind of a short update. Um we talked a little bit about a couple of bills going through the state legislature and um reviewed some draft advocacy letters and um potential testimony. one of which is on an AB55 which would allow should the board create a policy that allows it allow firearm use on school grounds by staff and teachers. Um lots of reasons we think this is a bad idea and so

011we've got a letter drafted that'll come back to the board. Um we talked a little more about some community engagement um things that had happened in the past and that were coming up. some of which we've I think we've actually covered and have updates on including those fall boards coming up. Um, and let's see, we also talked a little bit more about the youth versus behavior survey and the timing of it and reaching out to DPI to advocate for more timely results. As we all know, it's taken us 2 years to get results from our eighth graders, which is just unactionable on our part. Um, and so we took the followup of Dr. Senovo reaching out to DPI to see what we could do about that, how we could help facilitate and we'll see what

012response we get and go from go from there. But hopefully we can get better data for for kids. Um, we meet again uh on Tuesday, the day after Memorial Day at 5:30 to check in on the DPI item and and look at those advocacy letters one more time before they come back to the report. Great. Thanks, Karly. Any questions? All right. Uh, next up is education. I'll take that one. Was still in that role was present at that time. Action-packed. Uh, 45 minutes that we're able to get through all of our business was really impressive. Um, the talked in our curriculum updates about state assessment season getting through that um, successfully. And uh one interesting note there, we had on the early literacy screening, we had 30 students in grades K through two exit from

013their personal uh reading plans. So the whole point of developing those and getting those kids through it and um you know graduated per se from those uh is having some success. Looking forward to more of that over the summer too. Um ID as Dr. legislative mentioned um got through the verification process on grading and assessment. We reflected a little bit on the community information night that we had in April and talking about how productive that was both in terms of the content that we brought to everyone and the feedback that we got from all of the attendees. Credit again to other administrators for sticking around and having some really deep one-on-one uh conversations to help u both ease people's minds but then to hear more detailed feedback. That's some really good questions that'll help us

014uh develop a brand message around it. Um at Quinty Work, um we uh closed out our work with CISA 6 Center for All over the last couple of weeks before that meeting and um looking forward to having further conversations about a partnership during the next school year. Um we had discussed some course proposal addition removal that's on the agenda for tonight. and leave that for that point. Um the at the middle school math review recommendation, we talked about Eureka and that went also to the board. Um have a cable TV recommendation policy review that goes to the board. And then I encourage everyone to take a look back through the mentor and coaching review results. Really interesting stuff. Um Sarah Struck has done a lot of research and and uh conversation with eight teachers who

015went through this program and um got some really uh excellent focus group uh language and feedback around how we can improve that program and how much pride we should take in having it too as a draw for the district. That's all I have for education. Any questions about that? All right. Um Sarah is not here tonight for community coalition, but Jessica, do you have any reports from uh from Village? Uh Village, they met uh early this month on May 7th. Nothing in particular to know from the meeting, but on Wednesday in between the skull awards and the scholarship night at 6 p.m. they're having the community session about um Reckland at London Farm. And I believe it's at the senior center community room. If there's time, I'm gonna try to [Music] run. See how stars?

016That's it. Excellent. Any questions for Jessica. All right, we'll move on to 6B long range facility planning capital planning update with Ryan Sans and Dave Reed. Mr. President, I didn't expect us to be ready to go at 6:45. I told him 7:00, but Scott was kind enough just to give him a ring. Um, could we maybe go on to, you know, what would be a great report if you don't mind me suggesting is Aubrey Hanks. Um, if you'd be willing with your permission to share your information and advocacy report that would be terrific. Yeah. Well done. 6F. Thank you so much. Increase the number of business partnership cultivates. Thanks, Aubrey. Thank you. Okay. This is my first information and advocacy report, so I'm excited to meet. All right. So, yeah, we have nice. So, our

017the board goal that we're reviewing today is the community engagement uh goal. So, we'll partner with our community, engage them in district activities. And object A, objective A. [Music] prints. Objective A, honor existing and create new relationships within our community. And then indicator three specifically that we'll be talking about today is increase the number of business partnerships for cultivates. Okay. So, I'm excited to share this update and specifically focus on that objective. Um, this indicator that we're talking about is a key metric that reflects the strength of our community connections. Over the past year, it's really huge. I think in April, we uh officially made that advertising, donations, and sponsorships a thing. Um and we also worked on those policies and the admin which was a lot of work and I thank you all around

018the table for your help in those. Um I also would like to thank the staff members and community members and SLT Dr. for their work on all that. That is no small feat and that's brought us here today to be able to talk about this stuff. So thank you. Um, I couldn't do any of this without every one of those individual parties. So, consider this information and having support from deep above. Um, so we'll begin with our strategic partnerships. Um, I went to an AFP um, association of funding professionals meeting. Thank you Adam and your wife who suggested going to those meetings uh where they talked about mega donors. So right now per data from AFP uh there's a decrease in one time donations and that's alongside uh volunteerism which is interesting and an increase

019in a reliance on those mega donors. for people who are uh giving big amounts multiple times which is neat and kind of what we're seeing in mouth forum today. Uh for example uh one of our partners hills health fantastic we first got um to partner with them with the stadium scoreboard sponsorship which was really neat. Uh so they got to see how reliable we are of a partner to them we are uh and we got to work on other things with them as well. So fostering that donor engagement was critical. If you aren't aware we send emails after every game to our donors. Uh so football game and things like that just to share like what is your cost per viewership? What is what does your um advertisement look like on that night? what were

020some cool things from the game that we might want to know about? Um, like the way that we would insert uh their advertisements into the uh player uh reel at the end of the game, things like that. Um, so that's just one of the many ways that we create those touch points throughout the season. Um, and throughout the year, so like in November when uh games were done, for example, uh we sent a loving thank you note to them um and continued communications like you. So, additionally, Upland Hills Health has recently offered to partner with us in uh providing our students with $20 WIKA required uh physicals, which is awesome. Uh if you don't have insurance, for example, like my family was on state insurance growing up, and $20 would have been peanuts in comparison

021to what we had to pay out of pocket. Uh, so this is super important. I'm working with Emily Medical um to make sure that the students who really need this are provided that and then we'll be pushing out to obviously all of our students so that they're aware and the families so they're aware of this fantastic opportunity. This is at a um a detriment to Upland Hills Health, but they don't make any money off of this. They actually lose money, which is phenomenal. So that'll happen on June 12th. And then they're also willing to come back if there's plenty of other kiddos who need this um in August before like football for example, which is amazing. And they're also very interested in our IV program. So we'll be working with Craigs uh and other people's

022health to talk about ways in which they would like to overlap in a partnership on this cool adventure that we're going on. all and they've said that they're willing to contribute funding as well as their time which are huge. So not only the the financial aspect but also that time is critical as well. Um they've also keeping on a little bit developed a leadership summit with other schools. I think Kobe Lquist um and we'll be inviting peers from eight districts around the area to come and talk about leadership and hear from really really cool speakers. Uh, I can't name anyone yet because they haven't confirmed, but I can't wait to. Um, and so that's really interesting because other school districts we've seen do similar leadership uh events and it just just gives your district a

023sense of leadership among other districts as well. And I'm going to move on. Another phenomenal partner that we've been able to work with is wean. So, the Curts uh beyond their generous donation of the scoreboard, which is $500,000, uh they also sponsored, they're a sponsor for the state scoreboard. Um they also have given us, as you guys all know, uh funds towards the safety task force initiatives, which is phenomenal. Um again, one of those mega journals that we're consistently engaging. It takes a lot of time and effort, but it's so worth it rewards. And I think um they get a lot of out of it too. Yeah. Let's see. And then beyond those their scoreboards launchership uh courts has also joined us in piloting uh staff wellness program. So things like activity trackers and wellness

024challenges and daily health tips, preventative care tools through their core flow. Um, this is something that Aaron's been working on so self so self so self so self so self so self so self so self so self so self so diligently and it was neat to watch uh a recent workshop that they provided for staff which was really neat once again they're just showing how these relationships directly support both staff development and potential like student achievement because if our staff aren't worried about their health consistently and have a good will of health they're able to better focus on our students and then vortex optics is now a sponsor as well and they're in veteran almond. You probably already know that. Um so they'd love to be a part of Veterans Day events going forward which

025is really neat. So we're working together to make this possible. They also want to engage with DECA and make some swag for students which neat. Um but these businesses are actively helping fulfill our mission uh just beyond the classroom which is really cool to see. and then community based engagements. Also, if I'm talking too much, you're doing great. There's so many good things we've been doing. We've all Yeah. team effort. Um, community based engagement. So, beyond our major sponsors, um, we've expanded our efforts with numerous local businesses and organizations, whether it's first residential or water construction locally. So, they're they're also involved in the scoreboard sponsor or state scoreboard sponsorships. um but at a a lower cost level still experiencing that awesome um cost per viewer. It's like five cents per viewer which is fantastic.

026If you personally a normal cost would be like 20 cents per viewer you're doing pretty well. Um I think on social media you'll see like a dollar usually you're guarant or told that you'll get something lower but it ends up being anyway. Um, also sponsors like Quickrip and Target, Costco, MCO, Family Pharmacy. You'll you'll you probably already looked at this, but there's that long list of folks um there who we've uh interacted specifically with recently um whether it's through businesses in our backyard or um funding like you'll see that photo a little bit further down below, the the fruit baskets from Mount Horizon. Um, even that it's it was fun to work with them because of the fact that they were like, "Okay, we don't want um any sugary treats. We need these to be

027uh super healthy for our staff. We have a focus on this." And I was like, "Okay, great." So, every weekend I would go to the store and pick up fruit cuz it had to be fresh. Um, so it's just the little things that we can do to promote that donor engagement uh that go a long way. Um, moving on. Yeah, we've just seen widespread support from restaurants, financial institutions, service providers. Uh, it's a broad net that we cast. So, I'll highlight another one. Um, our free night at the Malards game is free because of the sponsorship of Buck. Um it was free to us going into it, but we didn't know who would be the sponsor necessarily. Uh and so we work with the balance as well as uh our chamber of commerce which has

028been a phenomenal resource. Um Rachel, you [Music] all and so going into this, this will be fantastic for just a sense of belonging in the summer as you did this summer. Oh yeah, I see a question. I was going to say, would you mind telling people how many tickets we have for Mount Hor represented? Yeah, we have about 900 tickets accounted for, which is I don't think they were uh anticipating because I got an email and a call like what's happening? So, I think um they're they've told me that they'll be revamping their process to take advantage of our um our process. So, we did an online version versus the ticket version that you've probably already seen and your friends may be experienced in other school districts. And so, they'll be moving to that type

029of process in the future. 200 plus families have agreed. There's not many left in town. Um that is vouchers accounted for. So on the day of it might not equate to the number of people in the stands but still a cool number. And I was able to talk with from the Chamber of Commerce too on one of the Good Morning Mount Horum days um and just tell her about those statistics and things like that cuz we regularly catch up. Um, and she was like, "Oh, this is fantastic." Cuz I had no one signed up to do the booths there that are free um from Mount Horo. So now this gives her an opportunity to go back to her her constituents and just say, "Hey, this is a great opportunity because we have x many eyes

030that'll be available for you." Which is nice. It's nice to have that symbiotic relationship, right? Um yeah. And then moving on, key achievements. So, thanks to the board's implementation of that guide, we've seen measurable progress not only in the events and projects that we've been able to do and will do, uh, but also financially. So, this year alone, we've secured six new sport sponsorships, totaling almost $20,000, um, which might seem like a drop in the bucket, but it's something that'll evolve and grow as we go on. So, for example, next year we'll have $25,000. Um and again these are things that are fiveyear contracts. So this is over time even that 20,000 will be even 100,000. So it adds up and these funds not only support district goals but they also validate the success of

031our engagement strategies which is nice. Um, additional support from partners like W Health and American Family Insurance, Rotary and Courts also allows us to invest in student leadership programs, cancer research awareness, um, and staff development, making just like a real difference in the lives of our community, not only in our expanding our digital footprint. So, I wanted to highlight something kind of cool. We've actually uh increased our following on Facebook and Instagram by about a double in a year. Um we do a number of things, but this is super helpful to our partners when we go to brag about the cool things that they're doing. So um people do things typically altruistically change companies, but there's this saying uh if you didn't take a picture, it didn't happen. Um, and it's really nice to just

032say thank you in a big way and broadcast that across 152,000 people on Facebook or 19,000 on Instagram. So, that's just really cool. Um, and it goes to show that we're doing really cool things that people like seeing and talking about. Uh, strategic model for long-term engagement. We're intentional about how we're cultivating these partnerships. So, like you've heard me talk about throughout this discussion, we're probably at like 10 minutes now, sorry. Um, we're emphasizing that symbiotic relationship and it takes more work, but it's more longterm. And that's something that I definitely learned at Epic and you you've heard all the the marital song uh throughout the day that's played when you had on a partner at Epic. Um, it's a long-term commitment that some that's something to be proud of and to consistently work at.

033You don't just say, "Oh, I've got a partner, put them in a corner, we're all set." Um, you consistently talk with them and and have that that buddy system and reach out and say, "What do what else are you working on this year? What goals do you have? How can we help you further those goals?" Um, yeah, a lot better than us long term. Uh, in terms of strategy, I love the foot in the door strategy. So, even though not all of the 215 organizations that are that work with the chamber are working with us currently, um, it's still helpful to keep engaging them over and over to make sure that they know like when they're ready, we're here. It's okay if you're not partnering with us right now. We're ready for you whenever you

034are ready and we want to make sure that this is a good fit. We don't want to just sell you something that you're going to be like, "Okay, that was great, but I didn't see any returns or I didn't see what uh see any anything that furthered my goals." And then looking ahead, as we look in the f future, we're aiming to deepen those relationships through those ongoing conversations. Right now, you've heard me talk about the emails that I'll send out to our current um sponsors. Uh that talk about like cost per viewer, etc., and the cool things that we're doing. Um but in the future, I would love to do a semianual newsletter to d all the above like folks in the chamber and utilize one of our free eblasts. That way we're getting

035out the the word about like the cool things that our sponsors are currently doing, but also the cool ways that other people can help connect with. Um, which would be phenomenal. Uh, and then continuing to leverage our data and storytelling in showing partners the impact of their investment. So, currently we're working on videos with our partners. So, for example, Steve Helwick, he contributed, if you'll remember, um a list for the CTE. Um and that's really neat. And so, we got to do a video with him. Um Steve, thank you for the idea. And oh, thank you. And um it was just neat to have him alongside the students working on a car, working with the lift. Um yeah, it was just awesome. And I can't wait for folks in our community to see that video

036as well. So, thank you. That's it. Any questions? I know that was a lot. Sorry. This is awesome. My only question is, and I'm I'm sure you are, but how are you working with Craig and our youth apprenticeship program in terms of, you know, maybe some businesses are providing financial, some are providing apprentichips, maybe some are doing both, but like how are you sort of collaborating so that they're not being getting an email over here and an email over here? Oh, well said. Um, that's a great question. When Craig moved into his role, we set up meetings and we meet every week. Um, we discuss things like this. So, including time in our social calendar to make sure that we're highlighting this. That's right now where we've done the first CT or YA appreciation post

037last week and we'll do them for the rest of I've gotten I think 12 students have responded to my email so far. So, we'll do that for the next 12 weeks, which will be really nice. And in those posts, we say, "If you want to reach out to Craig, here's some contact information." So, that's that way of the partnership. And then in the reverse way, so contacting these partners. Um, we're still working on that. Uh we have worked on I know Jody has an awesome um spreadsheet that I've worked from to be able to contact the kiddos and to be able to contact the chamber in terms of showcasing our work with partners. Um it's an involvement piece and I believe that needs county school consortium museum is getting ready to dissolve at the end

038of June. There's a new venture that's going to take on that role. Um, I get to I'm honored to be on the board of that and I've brought Craig along with me to a number of these meetings because I do want us to get our foot in there. Um, and then we also have the opportunity through um, uh, visits at the chamber uh, as a as a I guess adjunct for one of a better word. I'm not a voting member of the chamber, but we're always able to explain with the chamber, hey, we have x number of welding positions. we'd love it if you could help connect businesses with our students so that our students could not uh be left uh without the opportunity. So, everybody just seems to envelop and wrap their arms around

039these kids in such loving ways that we usually get to a Yes. So, between your outstanding work and the work of Craig, we think we're getting in a good spot. Yeah. But I tell you what, when when we started this position, what now maybe 20 months ago, we never thought we'd be where we are. Uh and it's as a result of your truly outstanding efforts, your hard work, you your hustle. Uh she's just really remarkable uh professional. I'm grateful. I learn a great deal from you every day and I know the senior leadership team appreciates you. I want to say $1.5 million is the approximate amount of money that you've raised just in the 20 months that you've been here in in your role. And um you're you're setting the seeds for less of a

040transactional relationship, but a transformal uh relationship with our partners. And we couldn't have done it without you. Really remarkable. Can we give her a round? We'll have you back to Mr. [Music] Did you want David Scott to come down as well? Sure. I didn't know if they were co-starring if they I saw their names on the margin. Our window dressing. Hi. How are you doing? Good evening, Emma. How are you? It's nice to see you. Thank you for your flexibility tonight. I'm going to actually record this if you don't mind. You may remember we said we wanted to do that for our website to make certain that people who might want to hear this part of the meeting, they can do that. So, [Music] I will turn this up a little bit. Thank you so

041much for being here tonight. Thanks for having me. It's all yours, my friend. Are we all set? All right. Great. Does everybody see my screen? Yes. Okay. Uh well, as we typically do, we'll do a quick uh touch on schedule. So, uh we're about a quarter to a third of the way through the design phase. Um now, obviously a ways to go. We consider the remaining design and then all the construction. Um but we're making great progress. Um we wrapped up uh the schematic design phase uh at the end of April and we met with the court planning team uh a couple weeks ago to review uh both the schematic design progress sets. So I'm going to do a page turn of where we sit today uh from a documentation standpoint as well as uh

042review the budget which I'll get on uh again in a minute. So we've entered the design development phase. We're starting to layer in uh more detail, continue to engage with users and uh start to engage more heavily with our engineering consultants. We've also continued uh staff engagement. Um so we've met with the primary center subcommittee which includes the primary center and ELC um staff member representatives from the different groups and departments and grade levels. Um so they've continued to provide uh important feedback and we've now had um multiple user group meetings with kindergarten special ed uh kitchen food service uh and math intervention reading specialists and music. Um so they've provided more specific feedback on their individual spaces or uh rooms and we are scheduling additional user groups moving forward. We've got uh one tomorrow

043afternoon and a couple uh coming up next week as well. And then last week, Monday, we had a all staff presentation for the primary center and ELC staff and offered an opportunity for anyone uh for the district staff who was interested to learn more uh more of an overall update on the design progress so far. Um we went through the plans, the site plan and uh the culinary conceptual uh exterior view that you saw at the last board update. Um so it's been great to get everybody's input on the process and uh the design uh as we've uh held those staff engagement opportunities from a budget standpoint. Um we have a number of checkpoints built into the design schedule. Um so at the end of schematic design at the end of design development and uh

044at the 50% construction documents benchmark um at the schematic design phase we updated um the primary center addition and renovation budget to reflect the current scope of the project. So, balancing the addition and the renovation scope as it sits um today, we've updated based on what we're seeing in the market currently. Um and uh we also included the relocation of the JB baseball field which um was not uh in the original referendum budget. Um and currently we are on target with the overall referendum budget as well as uh the associated individual project budgets. Uh as we get into the additional projects at the middle school um the IC roof replacement and the masonry repair at the high school uh we'll be able to provide additional budget information um at the end of design development phase

045on those projects as well. But we're in a really good spot um from a budget perspective. uh we're on schedule. Um so things are are on target there. Um thus far as far as design update, uh not a whole lot has changed from a macro perspective uh to the floor plans relative to what you saw um at the last board update in April. Uh we've been adding more layers of detail as we've met with user groups. So in kindergarten for instance, we've gotten feedback on specifics related to the case work, the storage, um how the room is configured from uh technology, whiteboard, tackboard um standpoint, uh as well as similar feedback for uh many of the other spaces. Um so I have all the floor plans for reference uh in case there are any questions.

046Um, one area that we have dialogued a fair amount about is the conversion of the existing gym into the cafeteria and kitchen. And so we have uh we've had a couple of meetings including uh your food service director Michelle Den uh and others um to get input uh including our consultants and uh we we landed on pro probably needing a bit more space than we were showing in our original concept. And so we explored a number of options for um how we configured to tour rooms as part of the cafeteria conversion and where those were located and landed on this as an updated plan. This obviously doesn't have any detail yet for the kitchen and servery itself, but it was more of a test fit on getting the amount of square footage we think we'll

047need to meet the goals of a uh modest production kitchen at the elementary. um also meeting our seating count for the cafeteria and providing uh in this case now four individuals by the rooms. So, it's similar to what you have currently at the primary center where we have two individuals. Um, in the in the lower level cafeteria here, we'll be providing four along with some uh handwashing opportunities off the corridor. And what we think will end up being a pretty nice flow um down this corridor through the server back out into the cafeteria with the opportunity to stop and wash hands uh on lunch. Um the rest of the full the size of the doors and everything will be uh determined as we get a little further into the design. And our consultant is currently

048working on the layout based on the goals that were established in our first uh food service user group meeting as well as some of our subsequent conversations with the core planning team and uh with Michelle. Um we'll be adding windows along the west so bringing in daylight as well as borrowing light um kind of in line with earlier formerly window openings. So kind of a unique opportunity to take advantage of and and kind of restore some of those previous openings um in the in the renovation. And then from an exterior design uh development standpoint, uh you saw this uh this image the last time that I presented. Um and so we've continued to uh we've continued to develop the exterior design. Um I'm going to show a handful of views uh of the exterior here

049in what we call white mode. So, we don't have any materials applied yet. Um, but uh it'll hopefully give you uh an idea of how the building is developing. Um, I apologize. One of my colleagues uh just left the office and forgot his keys. Would you give me 30 seconds? still there. [Music] All right, hopefully that was less than seconds. Um, so I've got uh a handful of uh 3D views. Um, so this is basically that same view, um, but with a little bit more detail on the model. Um, you can also see, uh, kind of how the the site is starting to lay out, although it's still kind of based on our conceptual architectural site plan. Our engineers are currently working on um, drawing that up, uh, taking into account more of the existing

050site conditions. available. You can see some of the elements that we talked about um the last time as far as creating a nice canopy for um waiting and for entering the building. We've got the kind of suggestion of some planters, excuse me, and built-in bench opportunities. Um both from the standpoint of students waiting for rides or parents waiting to pick up their children uh as well as through the lens of safety and security. And then you can kind of see how the maxi is starting to formulate with a nice classy twostory um entry leading to uh the twotory commons area kind of connecting existing to new. Um these windows up here will bring daylight into more of the center of the building. So we'll be able to get a lot of daylight deep into the

051space. And then you can see the rhythm of um what we're suggesting would like to be a brick masonry on the lower uh and some type of metal panel with our punched window openings um relating to the design language of the existing building. The next view we're going to spin around and be on the end here looking down uh the entryway uh under the canopy. Oh, sorry, forgot. Uh so this is just a a view at a slightly different angle of the entry uh from the pickup drop off drive. Now we're looking down uh underneath that canopy. So you can kind of see the the benches um kind of sheltered on the back side of these seat walls uh some potential for plantings uh out front and then that kind of trellis and canopy leading

052to our main entry uh west studio. Just a slightly zoomed in view. So here you can see, you know, the vest of here. Um, a lot of visibility to the office. So the office staff should have um good views of people both approaching the building and as they uh enter the vestibial. And then what the the potential for those um seats uh here similar to the uh entry and canopy of the high school. Um, but like I said, opportunities for parents to wait for kids or kids to wait for rides uh in a protected environment. Now, we're going to jump to the end of the addition. So, here see a moment ago. So, now we're basically at the end of the kindergarten wing. Um, we're still working through balancing window locations in the classroom where

053we obviously want to maximize opportunities for daylight with uh teachers wanting plenty of wall space for um pinning up work or uh other things for students to have as resources. We'll have a set of doors here uh at the end of that wing for um ease of access both from uh the playground and for exiting for pickup at the end of the day. Um the the site is really just animal placement right now. So we'll have more sidewalks. We'll have um a fence kind of coming off of here to enclose the playground. So a lot of details to add um as we progress the the site design. Now we've spun all the way around to uh the existing entry. So that's right here. You can see your current vestibule and canopy and then the curved

054piece of the existing art room. Uh so this gives a perspective of how the the gym will sit relative to the existing building. And then we've got our um our east facing uh entry point or uh access which will come out to the playground which will have the in this zone here. We're still working through exactly what the windows into the gym look like. Um but we'll definitely have daylight and we're looking to maximize what will be the north side of the gym. So that will be nice even uh north facing light will be diffused and we won't have to worry about um as much direct sunlight or glare uh within the gym. Um you can get a sense for uh how far away we are from the building and I'll zoom in uh into

055this area in just a second. And then you can see on the second floor. So, this is one of our large group instruction rooms uh just off of the connector uh that leads down to the kindergarten way. So, now we've zoomed in on that uh that entry uh or exit, however you look at it. Um the access to from the building to the playground. Um you can see the existing windows uh into the library. Um some some of those existing side windows. So basically this corner here is our joint between the addition on the left and the existing building on the right. Um similarly you can see how we're trying to uh you tie in some of our our punched window opening language with the existing building uh as well as some of the architectural

056elements that uh relate to the current entry vestibular canopy. So, wanting the building overall done to feel very um uh tied together and have the addition really complement and uh and tie into the both existing historic building as well as the addition that was um added previously. [Music] As far as the next steps, uh we'll be taking the 3D images from white mode and starting to get material samples and apply actual um you know brick matches and explore metal panel color options. Um so take those to the next level. Um we've got in a few weeks our preliminary interior design and finish presentation with the core planning team. So starting to look at what types of interior finishes, flooring, paint, uh ceilings, wall panels, uh we'll be planning for the addition and the renovations. Um

057and then in a subsequent meeting, we'll get down to the actual patterns and colors uh and specific products um that we're planning or proposing. Um we're continuing, like I mentioned, to engage with engineers and consultants. So um getting more detailed information. We've got a couple of conversations planned for uh our next APB related to the geothermal HBASC system and getting into some details on that as well as um looking at the JB baseball field relocation and exactly what we need to include to make that successful. Uh I mentioned before we got additional user group meetings scheduled and then we're working on scheduling a meeting with the village locally in early June early June once we have a um civil engineer drawn site plan to review with them. So that's our update for uh this month.

058With that I'm happy to answer any questions. Anybody have any, Steve? As long as you're feeling comfortable with where we're at in the process, that's pretty good work from what I can see. I I'm so appreciative of everybody's input throughout the process. Uh, in fact, um, we'll be visiting with HVAC heating engineers on, uh, May 29th, which is our next, uh, group meeting. Uh for those who are interested, of course, all are welcome in the community. Those are uh this meeting upcoming is going to be a virtual meeting. And uh this all started at 9:00 in the morning that day. Uh and then uh we had kind of beginnings out here today uh to look at the uh baseball diamond and develop something for us to react to. Um, our goal is really just to

059take what's over there at the PC and bring it over to the to the uh to the new area. Um, we had a preliminary look at the at the budget. Uh, I'm pleased uh that we really are in a good spot. We've downsized uh to a point where we're no longer looking for square footage. Uh, and now this is where it really starts to get exciting because now we get to identify what it should look like, what we want it to look like, maybe look at some alternatives just in case uh we've got some champagne tastes. Uh, none of us none of us want that, but certainly we also want to be cognizant of the the dollars that the community so graciously given us. But we're in a good spot. I'm very excited. And thank

060you to all of you who've been a part of those calls. It's really been uh wonderful. Yeah. at some appropriate point and whether it's this forum or finance or somewhere else I would be interested to see more details on the budget and stuff and how that's going. We'll be happy to bring it to the finance and uh one big picture question just on a project like this when you're attaching to an old older building. I know you account for as much as you can but at what point do you um sort of spot or run into any like retrofitting issues or anything like that? And and Brian, is there anything on your mind that you saw that you're like, we really need to do to zone in on on this section of the building and

061make sure everything's going to fit out nicely? [Music] Yeah, it's a great question. Obviously, anytime we're doing an additional renovation, you definitely have the potential to run into more unknowns. Um I think we're trying to do all the due diligence that we can from the standpoint of um you know the geotechnical exploration to understand the low rate um doesn't mean we won't run into things that we need to take care of um because we're not you know covering every square inch of the the footprint of the building with boardings but it'll give us a good idea from the standpoint of attaching I think one of the things that is a benefit in the case of the the proposed project. Unlike the additions that we did at the high school, um where we needed to basically

062separate all the new construction from the existing building with a firewall to essentially create two fire separated buildings because the existing primary center is um already sprinklered and we're sprinkling the addition and based on our um our square footages so far, we won't need a firewall between the addition ition of the existing building. So, that will simplify some of the construction and give us a bit more opportunity as far as how we're um connecting, how we're able to maintain some of the existing windows that will now look into our twotory um connector instead of say directly to the exterior. So, I think that's a benefit. Um if we do need any fire separation, it would just be at the gym. So, that's kind of separated and already at construction. It's easy to do. Um but

063right now, I don't think that will be the case. Um we are uh as we do more field verification and um and get into more detail, we have already uncovered some uh little interesting tidbits. Um if I jump back to the floor plan real quick. Um and actually the surveyor that Steve referenced being on site was going to help us verify some elevations. So, initially, you know, when we do a survey, the the surveyor will typically go around the existing building, and they'll do spy locations and all all the door thresholds to give us a sense of um what the floor elevations are within the existing building. Uh we also use the existing drawings to try to establish those as best we can. Um but one thing that we noticed um went right on site

064doing some verification architecturally was that the the elevator stair and the small um the small kind of ramp walkway addition that was added at one point. Um that's all at one elevation and then there's a small kind of 2-in ramp down uh in this corridor currently. So the first floor here where it says 100 and where this says 100, there's actually about a 2 in difference. Um, so we've already planned around that and are accommodating for that. But there there's little things like that that as we go a little further along, we're trying to, you know, uncover and identify any of those things as much as we possibly can. Um, but to, you know, to your to your question, there are likely going to be things that as you open up walls or as we

065kind of start to punch openings in the existing building, you know, there may be things that uh we weren't able to account for that are buried walls. So, we do that's why we carry a contingency outside of uh what we would be competitively bidding to the construction market. you carry a construction contingency on the owner's side that would help account for some of those potential unknowns. Does that answer your question, Adam? Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for the the details on that, too. And my course another specific question, you mentioned it, but um so in the gym area that will be converted to the cafeteria. So that'll be like the old windows will just be sort of uncovered, pulled off or is it creating new opening? So there are some new openings. Um so uh kind of

066these these openings that you see along here um except for the door. So these are kind of in line with where there were once openings and it it looks like they're probably um existing lentils. The the challenge is that because of where our new roof is coming in, we're kind of splitting that zone between windows that are are going to be in the case of these. So these are what we call bar light windows where between two interior spaces. And then above the roof, we're hoping to introduce clear story windows. Um so similar to uh these windows up here, we're hoping to be able to punch some windows up high into the cafeteria. uh above these uh we're still trying to coordinate with the existing structure and the roof heights and seeing if that's feasible.

067And then on the west side um these openings are all um essentially in line with either the current door openings or um what at one point look to be existing openings as well. So, um there may be some new openings and and likely some new lentils to help u accommodate those, but we are trying to uh kind of reintroduce where it appears there were once uh windows of some kind in the past. Um it both helps uh helps kind of tie in with some of the brick detailing that's on the existing building. um as well as if we can take advantage of existing lentils and not have to um introduce those um that helps both from a cost standpoint as well as a design standpoint. Yeah, love it. Brian, can I ask a question with

068regard to what you're seeing when going out to bid? uh are we seeing any impact in terms of pricing, tariffs, access to materials, these sorts of things that are causing prices to sway um exponentially. Um you know, I think it's uh in some ways it's a little too early to know um kind of what might be an impact long-term to the point where it would affect your project. Um, we've had a couple of projects bid recently. Uh, and we've had very good bid coverage as far as the quantity of biders for each of the different disciplines or subcontractor packages. Um, and we've also had some really positive bid results. Um, so from that standpoint, I would say I don't know that we've really seen anything significant thus far. Um, it depends a little bit who

069you talk to as well. Um we've had some conversations with some long choice suppliers recently who said that they currently started anticipating um any impact of chairs kind of leveling off um with costs and where they saw costs kind of early last year. So they saw a bit of a decrease in demand and cost and then see it probably leveling back up. So they didn't really see uh at least anticipated at this point um a huge impact. Um but it also remains to be seen. Uh you things seem to be changing pretty frequently as far as um you know exactly what the tariffs might look like and and what the impact might be. So that's something we'll continue to monitor um throughout the design process. um we are carrying what we what we label a

070a design and estimating contingency um to help account for some of those unknowns both in market as well as uh unknowns in scope at the early phase of schematic design. So, uh, we do have some some things built into the market to account for, um, potential, you know, ups and downs in the in the market, but, uh, yeah, right now it's a little, uh, probably hard to to predict out to the end of the year, early next year this project. Are you seeing many agreements that require some kind of escalator clause that uh would allow uh a builder to not necessarily quote unquote lock in their price uh because of uh fluctuations in supplies? Um so far nothing uh nothing anywhere to the degree of some of what we were seeing um during the the

071pandemic. Um, we have uh we have seen in some of those recent projects some of the the bids of minerals not being good for as long as they maybe traditionally would have been where you might get bids that are good for 60 days. Uh we're seeing some smaller notes of the commitment on the pricing, but um we haven't seen anything uh like we saw, excuse me, back in uh you know, like 21 22 um as far as some of the like complete lack of commitment on pricing or like you said, built-in escalators um within the bid. I mean there there may be a low that if if so it it is currently appearing that it's pulled into their their lumpsum bid as opposed to being identified separately like we saw for uh for a while

072there during the uh the worst of the pandemic. When we go out to market on this, I think one of the pieces that we can consider uh in our request for proposal is the demand that there not be escalator clauses in our pricing. Um that way we we have a a certain amount of money that we know we owe to whoever is our general contractor. Um for the general public who might be listening in, the board in my opinion wisely chose a design bid build process to introduce uh a high level of competition into this process as opposed to having the the builder be with us uh during this design process. Now we are having a design then that can go out to the market and have them bid and keep it tight. Uh so

073uh if there's any fluctuations in terms of uh pricing it really is as a result of you know the uncertainties that you thoughtfully sought out and you you just don't know that there's this wall or there's this pipe here or maybe that we've suddenly realized we need to change something in our design. Um, but that that's uh really I think a very wise move on the part of the board and I'm grateful to hear that the the news continues to be uh semi-copacetic on the on the pricing as it relates to the budget board members because we do do a design bid build process. I welcome having any conversation around budget uh be in a closed session uh so as not to have others uh who want to see what is our budget and case

074surprise they uh suddenly uh and this is a project that's right at our budget. So, we'll figure something out, but know that um we really we're really grateful for you, Ryan, and your team. Uh word has it that next month uh Ryan is going to be on a well-deserved vacation. Uh and so we might have a different person other than Ryan uh pitching, but Ryan, as always, you've been a great leader on this project and shephering us through this. Maybe any final questions for the Honorable Ryan [Music] Sans. We'll end where we begin then, Ryan. And gratitude to you. Best wishes for a great rest of the night and we look forward to seeing you uh very soon. Sounds good. Thanks so much for having me. Have a good rest of the evening everyone. Thanks.

075Thank you. Bye. Excellent. Uh we're on to what I would assume to be 16 CE in succession with more information advocacy reports post high school experiences percent of seniors meeting college board recommendations and percent of students who persist beyond first year. [Music] Thank you. Yes. So we have three um items all in the same report. So I I will just move through those um as we go and Dr. Simon's point. So thank you. So we are looking at that learning and growth goal with the indicator of the academic development and of behavior students to help them prepare for citizenship for their next phase. Um indicator 2 is a new one for us. Thinking about those that post high school experience. We've never shared one of these in a board report both um in the past.

076So, it's been neat for me also to see the numbers. I always had a sense of where we're at. But now that I know that our school counselors collect this data, um you have the 2024 data, you'll get the 2025 once once all of our seniors move on and for sure and transcripts are sent to the specific places and all those good things happen. So, last year's class, the class of 2024, you can see um where they intended to to end up. um we did have close to I'd say about 78 79% of students thinking about attending a two or four-year institution and then you can also see some of the other programs whether it's employment or military or apprentichip um the specialized tech program um I came up with that term so I was

077trying to think about students who are maybe are entering um institutions like um the beta for cosmetology in those pieces as as well. So that specialized training may not fit in the category of that 2-year or four year institution, but they are continuing their education. So we'll track this each year and see where our students are are ending up. We don't have any major ahas at this point. It's just moreformational for for the board and for the community. A traditional piece that we've had in the past was the percent of seniors meeting college board recommendations in a in a course of study. And we often looked at the W systems um remediation reports. I'm looking at those students that have graduated from M Park High School and actually across the state who have needed a

078course at the um college level in math or reading remedial course we call it prior to then entering their program of study. Um in the past it's been harder to get the W systems overall data. So I've added that column now um because there's a really neat dashboard Dr. Would you mind scrolling up to that dashboard link for me? Thank you. Uh, so this is a a newer piece now um that I've come to know that you can see overall across the state. Um, this is more the state data how students are doing and you can um look at this through the lens of which university they're going to. Um, so we can, so if you have, you know, a student or a student that's going to be at AUW University, you can see the

079percentage of students need to take that developmental education or remedial course, which is pretty neat to see. But overall, um, we've been up and down when compared to that percentage of W systems freshmen who need that math course. Um, but this past the fall 2023 report, we were actually under the number. So has been going up and down and we'll keep in mind that as well the persistence piece. So our students maybe choose to enter a 2-year or fouryear university and how are they doing from that first year to the second year. So we have a series of figures, figures one and two and three that we've seen before in this report looking at institution type whether uh students Sorry it's not the persistence one I got ahead of myself. Oh this is a persistence

080one just getting ahead of myself today. Um so we have two things we have here. So the piece figure 1, figure two and and figure three is actually where our students are going whether it is a public or private the 2-year or four year university or in state or out of state whereas figures four, five and six then those that is the persistence piece. How many students then are moving on from their freshman to sophomore year. Um, and that's what we want, right? We want kids to make that investment, continue that investment, but make sure it's the right fit for them. But if it's not the right fit, and that's okay. Um, another data point now that we have per the National Clearing House, which is what we subscribe to, is on page five, and

081it's the sinking diagram, which we can now see. So, if a student does decide to transfer, where are they transferring from and to? Um so it's a very small amount in in class of 2022 information we have here um of the 137 students who went on to a postsecary institution 11 decided to transfer to another institution in their second year and you can see sort of where that flows and where they went. So this is a newer piece I'll be sharing with the counselors in case they don't have this just to know where kids are going if they choose to go to a different institution. Now, if we start to see this number increase over time, then we have to start thinking about, have we set the kids up for understanding where they want to

082go the first time? In light of that, then on figure eight, the amount of time it takes for students to graduate, you can see the 2year all the way up to the six year mark. Um, so this is for the you can see the class that our graduating class at the bottom. So I think in 2018, well really they graduated in 2024 they go out the full six years. Um, so we'll see the the class of or class 2019 on this chart next year. A couple pieces that stood out to me. While the national norm or national average um for students graduating within six years is about 64%. So we, you know, we fluctuate there. We were high one year and then co I I would say co could be a piece of it why

083those other classes 2016 17 18 went down a bit. I'm curious to see as we continue to recover from that hopefully an increase. Um but what I what I'd like to hone on is that orange level when think about the number of students who are graduating in four years. um that has been increasing every year which is hopeful and something nice to see. Um it's easier on people's pocketbooks as well if the students can graduate within that amount of time. Some reasons for this um maybe it could be um with the rising college costs, kids are just wanting to complete quicker. Maybe they're taking those summer courses. Maybe they're taking more credits first semester. Maybe we just had improved guidance um and support for students high school career planning. I hope we're getting better at

084that piece of it. Um we have more opportunities with business partners as Audrey pointed out with apprenticeship. So maybe those opportunities that are presented help kids understand yes I want to do this. No, I don't want to do this and they're making that decision now versus freshman, sophomore, junior year of college. So, I would like to see that orange increase. Um, and we'll be keeping an eye on that as well. Let's see here. Other than that, pause for questions. I apologize, but there's the complete picture of the post pieces for our students. What questions do you have? Okay. The one that I'm curious about if you have a take on Beckham the figures the first ones about college attendance percent of college attendance. Um there clearly is a dip in the co year. Um and

085we've leveled off there but still about 10% or so under where we were before CO. I'm curious if that is if you have a sense if that's a statewide nationwide trend overall or if we have any thoughts on I mean and not to say that that's a bad thing. Yeah. Because if they are finding other paths that are better for them that's great but I'm just curious. I would say anecdotally we hear about universities closing or choosing to have this program in their school at this university and then another university having this program because they have to be more fiscally responsible and I mean costconcious with what they offer. So I don't have any hard numbers in front of me but what we hear in the news and going throughout the system is that you

086know colleges are having to make these decisions because enrollment isn't necessarily there. Um, and we we think about other programs like Wisconsin Guarantee and things like that pushing kids into the the W system. Um, I think it's not just our numbers. Um, we see that across the state of the uh graduating four years. Yeah. I think it might be interesting to look at the total number of AP credits earned and how that has affected how that compares. Y cuz that may be a piece that we're looking at there. The other thing that I know is out there is colleges are beginning to offer guaranteed four-year graduation when they pay for the fifth year. Um and so I don't know if that's being talked about in our guidance process, but I can ask that. I haven't

087that has never come up in that conversation but it doesn't mean the counselors aren't sharing that. Thank you for that and I had the EP credits and dual credits are my age but now thank you for that. The only other thing that I see or question is what degrees are they getting in six years compared to four years? being some degrees might be a good one to obtain in a four year time frame, but yeah, it's hard to say or maybe access that idea. Yeah, I wondered some of the six year like combined master type programs. Do we get um specific data on what you're graduating in the degree? Um, I'd have to look back the National Clearing House data. I have not seen that in the reports that I receive. Doesn't mean it's not

088fair. Yeah, I look for that. Yeah. Just out of curiosity of like what what we're producing the most out of or trends or anything like that. And my mind goes to what we're offering and what kids are going into, you know, eventually what they're graduating with. because I I know a lot of people don't shockingly don't stick with the major they do a show hands. No, put you on the spot. Do you have any questions about this or any thought about the data even and like thinking about your pathway and everything? No. Um I mean I would agree with like the dual enrollment and like AP credits. Um, but other than that, I don't have any questions. The, uh, table two, I think, is a little bit. Maybe we just need more data. Well, we're

089all over the map here. Um, yes, yeah, any kind of question. I mean, I see co obviously probably has some impact on some of that and some of those things, but it it looks like we were making progress and then we lost it maybe. I I'm just wondering if there's a or or is there a consistency question? I guess. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder, you know, with a total number of in those years 57 students when you think one or two or two students, one or two students change that change that number by a couple percentage points. So, that's the hard part, too. but he had thousands and saw that number, I could be more concerned, too. But yeah, I understand what you're saying. I also know I had a graduate in one of those time

090frames who took the ACT. They were like, "Act doesn't matter to get in school. Didn't take that ACT very seriously, ended up having to take remedial math when he got into college." And he was like, "This is dumb. I already took this." I'm like, "Well, I guess you should have taken the [Music] ACT because of the score on the ACT. So some of that I do wonder like if we told kids that that doesn't matter then they did not take it as seriously. These are all ACT optional years. We're only just now starting to get back to ACT required. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. had had he known that it mattered for which math class he would take might have taken it a little more seriously your your uh motion would have taken repeat algebra yeah maybe%

091sounds like a testimonial way to I have told the story of my [Music] children% take it seriously I think you know And I'm going through this as a parent as well. My my daughter's been taking her the um college entrance exam. Oh, testment test. Placement test. Thank you. I have to take two. Yeah. Yep. Um so I think just emphasizing that as well as a parent or school or counselor that that matters because that's where those numbers come from as well. So get sleep, eat well, show up and do well. I think sometimes too they think, "Well, I took that already." So, it doesn't really matter how I do on this cuz they they can see I already passed this class, but that's not the whole point to it. So, it's not going to be

092neat. Yeah. So, really well done, Sarah. As per usual, thanks for adding in the additional information with the new objective from the board's uh strategic plan. Be fun to monitor that. It's great to see it longitudinally like this. Absolutely. Thank you. Would you mind staying seated and keep you rolling? Uh we got action items here. You're up on the first three of them. Sure. First reading of removal of board policy 363 cable television. Yeah. So we have a cable television station guys. we have not utilized uh since before co um with the the the power of the internet uh our meetings or our work is now on our YouTube channel. So Aubrey and I uh had a couple meetings and talked through the need for this policy many more because there is a social media

093policy that contains much the same information um and guides the work. Um then Aubrey also um helped us out and cross referenced um this cable television policy and the admin right with the social media policy and the admin right and found great overlap. So there is not a need to have cable television policy anymore. At the education committee meeting Adam brought up a wonder about you know if we need to what happens to these policies if if we let this go we do have record of it. So if we ever have to reinstate our cable television station um or policy, we'll have this in our back pocket. So it's antiquated. In other words, it's first reading, so we can't do anything. Any questions about it this morning? All right, we'll bring this back for next

094month. Next uh next meeting or next month. Yep. Both. Thank you. All right. Um we the other two are first reads too as you mentioned. Um did you uh want to discuss these separately or is it best to tie those together? Since there's no vote, we can just tie together. Yeah, let's do it. Yeah. Uh so we have a we have here okay so we have a a course proposal for uh an AP statistics course called I'm sorry not AP statistics a non a nonAP course but it's called introduction to statistics that would precede AP statistics um we we currently have a gap in our math sequencing and programming where we don't have a statistics course we've seen an uptick in students who are interested in statistics um when we started AP statistics about three

095or four probably four years ago and we had we're just getting to one full class uh next year's uh class we have three three sections of it so there's definitely an an increased interest part of this is because kids are understanding that everyone has to take AP kelk or be on that kelk track there's many many many occupations where statistics comes in more handy than calculus um so we're doing a better job of is understanding their 4-year program and their college career planning. So, the math department has been thinking about us to take this course for quite some time. Uh they were going back and forth in semester versus full year and all these other pieces, but the team did settle on a full year introduction to to statistics course. [Music] Um, I think that's

096all I have for information on that on this. Do you think I'm curious though overlap like so is the idea that somebody would take this class and then potentially take AP statistics? Would it be a prerequisite for AP stats or currently? And so then I'm just curious like when something like that happens the content overlap in those classes if somebody takes both would they be repeating a lot in AP statistics do you think that would be in here there I mean there there may be some foundational pieces I mean we see this with chemistry chemio bio pre-calc right so those all are precursors or they can stand um you can crosswalk the success criteria between the two identity. Sometimes it might be good just to have that foundational circular kind of Yeah. Yeah. I mean,

097AP courses we know fly by and then they they go um deadline. Yeah. Uh so if a student chose to take this introductory course, it would first month or two um provides that that foundational piece and review. Um, but there's students who may not take AP AP stats and they may go a pre-calc and then intro to stats pathway. There's there's more combinations now for students. You don't have to go pre-cal to calc or pre-cal to AP stats. A student may not want to take any AP but still have a wider breath of math. I think all students should take they should have statistic literacy. So, I'm I'm all for it. I just am conscious of I mean having having had a kid that did physics and then AP physics and and everything I always

098wonder about like are you getting the breadth in your subject matter that you did as well as you take those and I know that like colleges I think my experience was that they don't really count statistics as a math math like when you're looking to transfer in but um but I mean good important content might encourage more students to take four years of math too. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. So based on the sort of 15 to 18 month prior this would be rolled out not next fall but following 26 27 question and it would replace the next item. Correct. Yeah. Go ahead for us. Uh we are looking for a course removal of our math easy course. So that is a dual credit course that has had very very low interest the past couple of years.

099Um has not I don't think is going to be running next year because the interest maybe is 4 to6 students. That just doesn't meet our board threshold. even though it is dual credit, we we try to take that into account. Um, but it it it's a course that is not meeting our needs right now. Um, and we would like to have students have other options like this AP stats course uh to to be able to take a little more rigorous walking. Is there in a case like that where the kids have, you know, asked for this, we're not offering it. Do we steer them to something in particular for next year? Well, it'll it'll be there next year, the 26 27. It's the we're fine with programing. Yep. Good question. I But I just to

100like draw that one step further. Sure. It's not that we're saying statistics is a replacement for that. It's just that it's an entirely different offering in a different Yeah. You try to Yeah. We look at what we just to keep things manageable. [Music] So those those are the pieces to think about for next meeting in June. There we go. Any other questions? All right. Thanks team. Thank you. Scott is up. Transition to Matt consideration of budget revisions. Um, so thank you finance team for um, talking quite a bit of detail last Monday. Um, one of the reasons why I brought up earlier this spring about potentially doing budget revisions in May instead of June um, was primarily because of the number of transactions that took place with the referendum. I really wanted to get them

101in our books so that when I submit data by the end of May to DPI for their reporting purposes, I have the most up-to-date information. Um, and I'm not able to do that in our system obviously without going through a formal process. So, um, thanks for allowing me to do this tonight rather than the last couple of years when we've done it in June. Um, so you'll see there's about just over a page, page and a half of of tables. So I'll point out just promise a couple just big areas that I think are important. Um, but certainly if you have any questions on anything detailed, um, you know, I can talk about that, too. So the first table, thanks for putting that up. Um, is our general fund table. Again, remember our general fund

102is where most of our business activity takes place. Um there's a couple major items in here. One that has absolutely no impact whatsoever on the budget. It's just an accounting equation um recording that I need to do for our new copy lease um for the book of revenue expense. Again, no bearing or operations, but I do need to show that in the budget. So that's being recorded here. Um the second one um is the drop in our special education reimbursement for this year. I know we talk a lot about what special education could mean in the banium budget for the next two years. Um, but for this year, we entered the year thinking we'd be right around 32% 33%. Um, a year ago, we were 32.4%. Um, carry that forward, I don't think anybody thought

103in the state we were going to get to barely over 29% approaching 28. Um, so the general fund is impacted simply because we have to transfer because of the loss in specialized revenue this year, we have to transfer some of those funds, not all of them, but some of those funds from the general fund to support that decline. Um, and then the last item for the general fund that I wanted to point out is actually the last two lines at the bottom of the table. um ones called projected ending assigned fund balance and then unassigned fund balance. Um the assigned fund balance that 200,000 um is there because we receive the electric bus rebate funds from the federal government. I spoke with DPI on a number of occasions were able to determine exactly where that

104needed to go. Um, I reminded them there's lots of districts and and lots there's a number of districts in the state that got this rebate, but I was the first one that called. So, that was kind of interesting. But, we had it recorded correctly. I felt like we should put it in a signed fund balance so that um even though we heard thoughts that we might get the bus in June, um I'm proposing that we would get it in July and we would have that 200,000 to go to an assigned fund balance. Assigned being for a particular product or thing. And so when we get that bus, we would use that 200,000 and it would make that fun balance zero. I figured I would I would take the leap and go this direction. If we

105hit the bus on June 10th, this isn't a problem. We make the purchase um assigned fund balance just becomes zero at the end of the fiscal year. And then our unassigned fund balance is not changing. The 7.1 almost 7.2 million. Um again, that's not cash. Um but that's just a way that we measure the health of our district from an accounting perspective. um that remains the same meaning that we maintain a balanced budget. Um so that's the general fund and as we navigate to the special education fund again because we saw a drop and we're expecting a a drop in state sources of 150,000 that is due solely 100% to the the drop in in categorically. Um they still haven't determined the official final payment in June of what we'll be getting and we're already

106approaching the latter part of May. Um but I'm keeping my eyes on that but I'm anticipating it'll be about $150,000 drop. So that's reflective in the revenue um and the 69,000 the first line across the top of the general education fund that is the transfer from the um from the general fund and then the modifications on the expenditures is just what we typically see between staffing but more so the services that we're providing kids. Now the next two tables are the debt service fund and the capital projects fund. The debt service fund is accounting for the financial activity that's taken place since the turn of the calendar year primarily in February and March. Um remember we paid off that ban loan from December and we also took on our phase 2 borrowing in March. Um

107the debt service fund accounts for all those transactions. the capital projects on that table at the lower part of the screen. That is what we call our construction loan. That's the fund that we're using to actually pay our bills every month. Right now, it's primarily factory architects. Um so that's accounting for that additional phase 2 borrowing 15 million that we received in March. And then on the second page, um, two quick items. Food service. They're spending less in capital, um, equipment than they originally planned. Um, partly that's due to, um, just not having enough revenue coming in and having concern what's going to happen with federal revenues in particular. Um, but then also the referendum will assist with some equipment needs um, at the elementary level. And then last but not least, the packaging cooperative

108program fund. It's only a change of 2300. Um, this is our Carl Perkins grant. Um, we are part of that consortion with some prairie this year. Um, and so this is just accounting for some modification. um little bit more lines in terms of um volume for this time of the year, but um again, recap special ed, the electric bus rebate, and then of course all of the activity with our financing and referring project is what counts for. Thanks for listening. Um any questions? Thanks again, finance team. I if you have any questions, certainly ask. They weren't able to be on this. This just reflects one and a half pages worth of the transfers, but the amount of work that goes into getting us to this point, Scott, is just immense. And your attention to detail

109is all over that. So, I'm so grateful that we have his expertise, his talents in this regard. Uh takes a lot of work to get us to this point here. So, thank you. We'd be looking for a motion if the board was finally. Are we going to send the total ink to the Mahor? [Music] Take out the draft. Motion to approve. Second. Motion from Jessica, seconded from Carly. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. Motion passes. Thanks everybody. the end of our uh items on the list. Uh do we have any other citizen comments? Thanks for staying through the Thank you, Dr. Seno. Um we got the list of future agenda items, but also the scheduled meetings come up. I know that we had a couple of uh um different meetings, different dates and

110whatnot in there. if there's anything else you wanted to touch on. No, I'm just excited. Just as a friendly reminder, June 2nd, right before the education and full board meeting, we get to celebrate our retirees. So, and board members, there's cards that we have going around the table. If you haven't had a chance to sign those for our retirees, don't you please consider doing so? Excellent. Thank you. We do have a closed session on the books tonight. Contemplate a close session for section 19.851E deliberating or negotiating the purchasing of public properties, the investing of public funds or conducting other specified public business whenever competitive or marketing reasons require a close session to wit land access. So second a motion from Leah, second from Jessica. We'll call a vote. Joel, yes. Leah, yes. Jessica. Yes. Yes.

111No. So women will be given quality.