001Good evening. It is 6:30 and we will call our Monday, March 17th meeting to order. Roll call. Joel, I am here. Leah here without a voice. Adam here. Sarah here. Nola here. Carly here. Tom here. Here. Dr. Cerno, has our meeting been properly? Yes. Please join me in presenting the 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. Please read the vision that one more various school district partnership community dedicated to nurturing, educating, and challenging students, preparing and empowering them to be productive, responsible, and self-fulfilled members of society. Thank you. Would someone like to approve our agenda for the motion to approve? Motion by Carly, seconded by Tom to approve the agenda. All those in favor,
002please say I or raise your hand. I. Anyone opposed? Would someone like to make a motion to approve our March 3rd regular board meeting minutes? Motion to approve. Second. Motion by Sarah, seconded by Joel to approve our March 3rd regular board meeting minutes. All those in favor, please say I will raise your hand. I opposed. Number three, addressing the board. We get to have our Mountor High School art show students here. So much more festive here. Yeah. Well, I so excited. This is now, I think, our fifth year that the board of education wanted to find time to recognize the outstanding artwork of our young people each year in partnership with uh the Drifless Historian, our high school teachers. Our teachers uh help to arrange for the students good work to be on display. It
003doesn't just have to be a uh painting. It can be a drawing. I saw a dress this year made out of out of uh looks like book a book of some it was just really remarkable. And so each of our board members has selected uh one piece that spoke to them uh in particular. And my friends and colleagues on the senior leadership team at the back row here have also selected a piece. And what we'd love to do, if it's okay with the board, is to take a moment uh for the artist to meet up with the board member or the administrator uh who selected their artwork so that we can learn more about their piece, learn about what inspired them, and then for us to share what spoke to us about that piece. Uh
004you will know who your board member or administrator is is because we have uh these handy dandy certificates with your names on them. It's like you're waiting at the airport and then the person will come to you if you don't mind and let's just spend a little time enjoying each other's company. I'll put up some of the artwork here that we had shared. So, take a minute to do that [Music] here. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Oh, heat, heat. All of our artists make your indulgence real quick. Could all of our artists and their families, would they be willing to join the board for a picture out in the middle school together? It won't be as nice as
005the pictures you all have taken, but I'll give it a shot. We just right outside the classes. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. I actually never went to Nashville and I just really slo session and they said it was cancelled and as we came back Cassid's texting us the whole time like maybe you guys should come in the building and then the next day they shut down the world and so like when I came back in May all of my state stuff was still sitting in my room just like dropped off. Wait, so you came back home? That's where it used to be. And then when they moved the [Music] ECA Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. I will my Heat. Heat. 10 other [Music] I never Everyone Heat. Yeah. Be careful. [Music] very recogniz. [Music] 3B.
006Consider approval of students like international doctors conference board members. We have an amazing group of young people here who just came back from a very successful run in Lake Geneva and now here you want to go to Orlando. Apparently, we would um I'm also Carol and I am the executive adviser going into my 10th year as a decade advisor, which is very fun. Um and I have brought four wonderful humans with me um just to introduce themselves and um what they've done at state and what they're hoping to do at the international development conference in Orlando. So, Jack, do you want to start? Yeah. Um my name is Jack Schult. I am a current junior. Um, I did a rated project this year at state. I competed in community awareness project with my friend Hannah.
007Um, we ran a mental health initiative targeted towards battle of youth. Um, and we had a booth at the mental health and wellness fall festival which I saw Dr. Seleno volunteering at which was amazing. Um, we presented to a judge finally after a long 9 months of preparing and we won third place at state. We are ecstatic to get to present that project at internationals and really brag about all of our hard work. It's been a long a long time going. My name is Elelliana Harris. I'm a freshman. This will be my first ICDC and I'm competing in principles of finance. I'm Clayman. I'm a sophomore and this is going to be my second year at ICBC and I will be competing in accounting applications. I'm Abe Murphy and this is my fourth year in
008DECA. Um, I'm very privileged to have been able to go to international. So, this is my fourth time doing it. Um, I've competed in professional selling as well as hotel lodging management and I final in both of those events and so I'm taking my project to the international stage. DECA has been a very important part of my life for the past four years. It has led me to my future major in business and has changed the course of my career and future plans. And so I'd love for your consideration for us head into this trip. So Ava is one of what we call the Fab Five that have gone to ICDC all five years. All four years since they were freshman closed our fourth. So um and this year we're excited because we have an
009additional um four freshman attending which is pretty rare. Last year Danny was our only freshman. Um so we are traveling to Orlando um on April 25th and we will be there until April 30th. And during that time, um, students will do their, uh, competitive events. We also have a number of students who apply for and were accepted to what we call the Emerging Leader Series Academy. So, they'll be doing workshops and being able to bring that knowledge back to our chapter. And that's always been really great going into the next year to have that information. Um, we took 28 students to uh, state this year. And of those 28, 18 qualified competitively, 17 of them are able to go internationals. And then we have those additional four. So, we're at 21. Um, we're at the
010point where I'm starting to learn where we should just like charter a jet. Scott knows my struggle with having to buy lots of plane tickets every year and coordinate all of that, but I have to credit card. Um, but we are so excited this year, biggest group ever. We may be maybe the third or fourth largest group coming out of Wisconsin, state of Wisconsin all together. Um, we're one of the most competitive chapters in Wisconsin. Um, and we would love your approval to be able to attend this year. Anyone understand your question? How many people do you compete against? Do you know? At the international stage, we compete against over 23,000 people from around the world. So that's from countries um like all all over. So we have people from Canada, we have people that
011come from Puerto Rico, we have people that are coming from Spain. I've met people that I never would have had the privilege to meet. And it it's been truly life-changing. And in addition to the 22,000 there to compete with themies and everything else, it ends up being 40 or 50,000 people here. They actually will shut down Universal Studios for us like that. So we get to see some fun stuff as well. Yeah. In addition to getting to compete yourselves, do you get around and see a lot of the other presentations and whatnot? Get exposed to some other, you know, content or anything like that? Yeah. So oftent times at these types of conferences we have workshops as well as competing. At international we have less access of those conferences but we do have access to
012career fairs. So once we're finished competing we get to meet people from colleges and get job opportunities as well as um like pitches and recruitments from the army and all sorts of different opportunities. So we get more of that rather than workshops which is the main focus of state but we also have people that are going to themies and that is primarily learning rather than competing. So that's the um learning opportunity there. Great. Are aremies invite only or how does that fit? Uh so students need to have made it to state. So they made it through the district level and competed well at state and then that's something that they can choose to apply for at that point. Um and then um we wait you know a week or so we're all hoping that who
013waited to see who can make it on in that capacity. We know who's going competitively. Um and this year all four of our students who applied um were accepted. Three of them are freshman, which I've never had um accepted into Canada, which I think really shows we've got some great places to grow in our program. Having that many the the leadership potential of that many freshmen um know this this year is pretty cool. Well, congratulations on the work you've already done and hopefully you get approved to go and uh hopefully you think about taking a board member. Sounds amazing. You have to wear the lighting mask polyester blazer. And are you available to contract out the next time I have to give a presentation? Would anyone like to make a motion to approve? So second
014motion by Sarah, seconded by Carly to approve the decad trip. All those in favor, please say I or raise your hand. I I have a wonderful time. Good luck and we'd love to hear about it when you come back. Thank you so much. Fantastic. Mrs. Carol 10 years in, huh? 10 years in 21. I am just a fe. We know that it's a quite a sacrifice on your part, especially with your own little ones at home. So, thank you for this way. Well, this year, one of my own little ones will actually be attending one of theies. So, my little kids are now officially my big kids. [Music] Board members, we have two folks who signed up for the first [Music] I'm going to stay right here. I think I'm sitting B. and um president
015of peon tour. I don't know if you heard about the sixth grade history teacher in Idaho whose administrators um and or told her to tape down two signs in her in her classroom. Um and she's had them out for 5 years. The first one says everyone is welcome here and it has handprints but different colors. The second one is in this room everyone is welcome. important, accepted, respected, valued, and equaled. Um, this Sarah Anama said that the principal cited district policy that classrooms must respect the rights of people to express differing opinions and that decorations are to be contentneutral and conducive to a positive learning environment. So, I'm thinking everyone is welcome here. What would be a differing opinion to that? Some are welcome here. You aren't welcome here. None of you are welcome here.
016I don't understand that. And how is it not content neutral? Um I believe welcoming and valuing every kid is conducive to a positive learning environment. So I want to thank all of you and Dr. Swano for supporting every teacher in our district. So, and encouraging them to make their classrooms um welcoming and safe and making learning conducive for all those kids. In addition to that, I also want to thank Dr. Seno for being at the capital last week. You're um to speak against the the multiple anti-trans bills that were up. I know you waited forever and didn't get to speak. your testimony was recorded and your presence was noticed. I've heard that from a number of people and so thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being here for the right. Thank you. That's all
017I had. Thank you. We're also fortunate to have with us Amy Lyle. Amy um I also had the opportunity to see present. Uh and boy was it heartfelt at the state capital. Thanks. Hi everybody. smile or um it was really fun to see Miss Carol in person. Um both of my kids were in DECA and they were the green team, the green siblings and it was such a phenomenal um experience for both of them and Miss Carol is just as you know one of those allies that creates a welcoming environment for everyone. And um my incredibly incredibly shy kid now can get up and do public speaking and introductions and things like that and she absolutely credits her that directly to DACA and Miss Carol. And so super happy for um for them and just
018wanted to extend thanks again um for you all going to the capital um both to register testimony um you know opposing the anti-trans bills. It's been a really really rough couple weeks but also to go as a board and to advocate for our district. And I'm really bummed that I missed Crumble's visit at the capital. I think I just missed probably like an hour or something. It was like that was just brilliant. And also um it just shows like our district's commitment again to all kids and to safety and to mental health and to wellness and it means um so much. and um you know our community is paying attention and and it does matter every time somebody um shows up or sends a hand or checks in or things like that. So we just
019like greatly greatly appreciate it and um I think that's it. I feel like there was one other like thank you I was going to it's gone. Um yeah, just thanks for providing this opportunity and your continuous support. It's appreciated. 3D school news, I know you've been sick, but do you have anything you want to share? Uh oh, the orchestra did our little pops concert tour today. That's always fun. Um seeing the kids at the IC and the PC and playing for them. Um, I think they were bored out of their minds, but what's new? Um, yeah. And then the choir pops concert, I believe, is this week. The orchestra had theirs last week. Of course, the band shows coming up in a couple weeks after spring break. I guess that's it. Thank you, Dr. Sundo.
020Well, just want to take a moment to highlight four groups in particular for their outstanding service over the course of this past winter season. our gymnastics uh students just did an absolutely fantastic job as division one uh competing. Uh if you heard the fire department coming through town, you knew that that was a sign of good things for our young people. And of course our DECA students, boy, weren't they poised tonight and we know that they're going to represent us just beautifully in Orlando. Uh be remiss if I didn't also extend a note of gratitude to our boys basketball team. Quite frankly, both basketball teams cuz it uh both our boys and our girls just had a wonderful run this season. But we came up just a little bit short on Saturday afternoon. There's nothing
021to be hanging our head about. In fact, the exact opposite. I received the most lovely email from the dean of students at Econom Walk today that just spoke to how classy, and that's their word, classy our young people were in supporting uh our our team uh and represented a great student section. And then uh lastly uh I I'd be remiss if I didn't acknowledge the good work of our solo and ensemble students uh coming up. I I think it's in a couple weeks. Where are my band parents? Is it a couple weeks that we've got the big show? Yeah. State show. Stage show. The stage show. Yeah. Yeah. So we're eager to see them continue to perform at very high levels. Uh, tomorrow night is a night that we've been planning for some time and
022I hope that uh the folks who are listening to tonight's uh program uh might find time to head over to the library from 6:00 p.m. to about 7:15 p.m. Uh we'll have a community uh dialogue around the book The Anxious Generation. When we talk about mental health and wellness of our young people, uh there's a lot of information which demonstrates causation, not just correlary causation of our of our cellular devices and the amount of time we spend on social media and our mental health. Uh and what do we what do we need to do about that as a school district, if anything, in order to help continue to support mental health? And then lastly, I'd like to uh welcome everybody to come to this very room uh Thursday night at 6 pm. Uh we will
023have a candidate forum uh for our three incumbent board members who are currently uncontested. Uh but nonetheless felt it was important to honor time with our students and their questions that they have. Uh and so there'll be a bit of a forum that will be recorded and we'll place on social media uh for folks who are interested in catching later. But we're grateful to um our board clerk Lipka, uh vice president Mertz, and thank you to board member Fischer for availing themselves along with Mr. Winnicki and his AP US history students who formulated a series of seven questions that I'm going to send you tomorrow morning. I promise. Thank you. Carla, do you want to talk a bit about our lunch? I would love to. Yes. So, last Wednesday was our day at the Capitol.
024Um, and Jessica and I went and I also want to extend our thanks to staff who came along with us. We were the only group that we saw that brought educators and teachers with us. So, thank you to Emily McGonicle, Heidi Horse, Stephanie Schlungan, and Emilyn Bower for coming along. They were able to tell their own personal stories to the lawmakers that we met and their staff. And it's so much more impactful when they can hear that. That's who they want to hear from. They don't want to hear from me. They don't want to hear from Dr. Serno. Um they do want to hear from Crumble. Crumble got lots of pets. It was awesome to watch him work the room. Um he's pretty masterful at it. But um we started we started off the morning
025with an overview with WASY just talking about the the priorities um to focus on. One of them being um advocating for an increase in the reimbursement rate for special education. Um that was the one that in our meetings we we try to focus on and talk most about. The other priority being to continue to increase the revenue limit for people and to index that to inflation in the future. Um with some acknowledgement that that's a challenging ask not a challenging ask. It is not as impactful to a lot of districts when you're declining in enrollment. Right? Doesn't matter if you get more per you have to cut the the the end. Um there was a legislative panel that included Chris Larson, who's a senator, um Democratic Senator Joel Kitchens, who's the chair of the uh
026Assembly Education Committee, Romy Quinn, who's a senator, I believe on Joint Finance and the Senate Education Committee, and then Joe Sheen, who's a freshman, um freshman Democratic Assembly member who is coming from, he's the former superintendent of I believe Shboen, so lots of education experience there and the takeaways that we got from that panel. Um, a couple of things in there. I think in general what we hear is that everybody is in theory supportive of increased funding education and and in those the special education reimbursement I think has more more momentum. Um, there is it the the proof will be in the pudding of what actually gets proposed though, right? Um, a couple of takeaways there. One, they are everybody expects the budget to be late because of the pending Supreme Court decisions on the
027400-year veto and act 100 veto the the literacy um funding. And it's not some of it has to do with timing of when the Supreme Court releases those decisions. Those cases have been heard. They think the decisions actually may come in April or May. they're not going to come before the election, but they think they'll they will come from this current court after the election. Um, their concern isn't the timing necessarily of the decisions. It's that if vetos are upheld that the Republicans are going to take their time or the legislature is going to take their time writing the bill because they feel that the vetos were signed a broken trust and they want to make sure they don't get caught in that again. So, they're going to just read it and reread it and
028reread it to make sure that it's line item. Um, they thought maybe as late as fall was some of what we heard on that to get a final budget. Um, so other concerns that that they have that they were tossing around were that I don't know is as impactful for us, but just what's on their minds. They're worried. They're not worried, but I think there's some acknowledgement of the per pupil revenue funding structure being challenging in an area of declining enrollment, particularly in small rural schools. And so they are looking at how can they incentivize maybe some very small districts in other parts of the state to consider consolidation. That's something we heard multiple times. Um, and there does seem to be some low-level, I don't know if low level is the right way to
029characterize it, but we heard a couple of times some concern over not wanting to increase the special education reimbursement rate too high because that could potentially incentivize what they think is an overidentification of of special education students. And so part of our job is to um educate the legislature on why that is not a valid argue. So um after that we had meetings with the staffer from Harold Barkline's office. We met with um Diane Hasselbine and Mike Bear at the same time. We met with Jenna Jacobson and then we had a a long time with Tat as well directly. So um I think that is that's about it. It was a long day. Crumble did awesome. Our teachers did fantastic preparing their their statements and and advocating for our students. We really couldn't have done
030it without them. Other schools just one small addition to the uh uh basketball crowds. Huge thanks to the band for being there, especially to drive all the way to a cotton block on a Saturday unexpectedly. Um that adds so much. Our town supports the team so well. The students support the team so well that our band puts us over the top. So, I'll put in a plug for postseason football, too, while we're at it. Likewise, [Music] um yeah, I've got a few things. Um I was able to go to the fourth grade uh music concert on March 7th and it was titled We Rise by Lifting Others. And I just it was a nice concert and the kids really sung their hearts out and so congratulations to Miss Evans and Miss Larson um and Miss
031Winters for putting that together and making a nice concert for the for the parents to watch. Um I was also able to attend the orchestra uh concert on March 11th with the high schoolers and eighth graders. Um and it was titled Yesterday and it was a fun experience that took us back in time and we even got a visit from Elvis. So, um I was also able to go on the school visits um to Nlaris, Edertton, and Oregon to I didn't go to the Ed, but I was able to go to two um to kind of look at their buildings and how they went through um their designs and how it was working with their teachers. So, that was really interesting. Um, I'm sure we'll dive into that more at a later time, but I
032want to say thank you to the districts that allowed us to take a peek into what they had and and all the staff that went along and participated in that. Um, this coming Thursday, March 20th at 7:00 p.m. um at the high school, FFA banquet will be taking place. Um, so if you uh want to participate in that, it's always a interesting night. Um, a lot of awards given out to students that put in a lot of hard work. Um, on March 13th and 14th, the drama club did their show, Almost Maine. Um, that was directed by Becky Clyde Stein, one of our teachers, and some of the students. Um, and that was a really good show. Um, it had some comedy, but it was also had some serious moments in it, too. And, and
033the kids really uh, performed their hearts out. And I just want to echo some of the things set up earlier about congratulations to all the winter sports um that they're done. They really competed to their fullest potential and good luck to all the spring sports. All right, moving on. Personnel transactions. actually just one quick uh note how appreciative we are of all of the uh individuals who will be helping us this summer uh for our summer program and a tip of the hat to directors Esinger and Straa for putting that together uh and we can't of course forget our dear Miss Hardyman who's in the audience tonight as well. Thank you to all three of you. Anyone like to make a motion to approve? So moved. Second motion by Adam, seconded by Joel to approve
034our personnel transactions. All those in favor, please say I or raise your hand. Anyone opposed? Number five, consent agenda. Is there anything that anyone would like to pull out to discuss? Motion to approve consent agenda. Second motion by Tom, seconded by Karly to approve approve our consent agenda. All those in favor, please say I. Raise your name. I Anyone opposed? Number six for discussion item summer school. Nice to meet some of you. I'm the K2 students during the day, but I also am excited to work with Sarah and partner with her to do summer school this year. And I'm super excited. So, it's my first year, so I'm working right alongside Sarah as I learn the ins and outs. Um, so you can see our lovely little graphic that Jesse made for us. It's so
035cute that we have on the school website. Um, and if you click the next slide. Thanks. Um, you can see we're actually having a new location this year. It's going to be at the primary center for kindergarten through fifth grade. It's going to be tight because as you can see in the um, a little bit down, we've got more staff this year, which is super exciting in the past. So, we're really going to use every single space we have in the PC. Um, and then we're still going to use the middle school for our middle school portion of summer school. So, busing will look a little bit different, but we can navigate through that. You can see the dates as well. Um, we're starting pretty quickly right after school, so we'll have a quick transition
036there, but that still gives us the week of the 4th of July off um, and still some time to have a little bit of time off before summer um, wraps up. So, I'll be the administrator. Courtney Harland is back this year as a coordinator. Jesse is our program support again this year and Kira also will be working with us and coaching me like I mentioned on the staffing piece which I thought was pretty neat. Last summer we had um 28 teachers to fed and then this year we're up to 32 so we have a few more which is exciting. Um I also think um maybe not at the LCPC a lot of our staff come from there. It was nice cuz I could really get in there and recruit personally some of our enrichment staff.
037Um, and also being in the building, a lot of staff love that they don't have to move. The pay went up a little bit. So, if it was booster teachers that are teaching those skill classes, it's their salary hour just like last year in years past. But the enrichment pay went from $24 to $30 an hour. I think that probably definitely helps get an increase in teachers as well. Like I mentioned, you're going to have transportation again, some central locations and navigating what that looks like for the BC and middle school. Here's just a list of some fun classes. Um, but we have some new ones this year, which is super exciting. So, I just listed some here for you. Some to highlight is we're going to have an English learners class that's by invitation
038only um just to teach like social skills um and general things like that. So, we'll invite some of our learners to join us. We have um some STEMbased classes. We've got a few more um activity physical education type courses this year. um a music class, obstacle courses, um a trading cards class, trail mix where they're going to go out to the trail and do some exploring and Zumba. Then a few that are back this year, theaters back, which is always a good popular hit. Um we're bringing some slime classes back, board games, creatures. So, we're going to have a lot of fun. Joel, the thing you think you want to come visit? Well, Zuma, of course. I love my right. Yes, he hung that hat out. But yes, um this is also something I just
039thought was pretty neat. Um as I was learning the ins and outs, like I said, from last year, just some interesting stats for you. Like I said, we have grown a bit this year. So session one, we just enrichment classes. These boosters are similar to the years past, but session one for our enrichment classes. This year we have 26. Last year we had 21 and session two we're going to have 24. Last year we only had 15, which is interesting. Um, so that's how many actual enrichments we're offering. But then you can see in the chart in the middle just like our total enrichments per period. So we have three periods a day. You can see the increase as well, which is quite a bit. Yes. Super exciting. Um so it really ended up to
040be we increased about two and a half classes period. Um and we had many enrichment staff which helped for this. Um last year a lot of staff just taught in session one. We have a lot of staff all four this year. So come forward. So that gives you a brief overview and we're excited. Yeah. Pretty good year. It's going to be a good year. Any questions? So, how many students did we serve last year and are we pardon me? Yeah. Well, your Friday would be up there. I'm just curious because I want to be able to compare that. I mean, obviously we filled up, right? So, Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's the anticip I'm thinking of where and there I can't remember potentially, but we can share that. This reminds me of college for kids
041when I was little. College for kids. So I said, "Oh, I can't wait." So I went to clown school. So Oh, these are great. Year. What date will we be opening it up to the general population? Good question. April 1st. April 1st. The kids that got invited were found out at conferences besides middle school. We're still opening up some ends on that piece, but it will open to the students April 1st. Yeah. Can I take a moment to brag on this professional right here? It has just been so much fun to see your leadership grow in the time that you've been here in Mount War. As a teacher, you were always one of those teachers that just got in there and rolled up your sleeve and worked with the kids. And you've not lost that
042as a dean of students. and you could see she's selling a summer school program in such a positive, energetic way. We're lucky to have you as one of the gems in the crown that is the Mount Warberry School District. We appreciate you. Thanks. I love it. And Steve was actually I just finished up my masters and my principal license. He was I got to you my professor a couple times. Thank you. Very great. Thank you. Yeah. Feel free to stop by school when you start. Thank you. Thank you. Community committee member reports. Do you want to start with community legislation? Yeah. Um we met the date now about three weeks ago. We can do it next week. So about three weeks ago on Monday. Um we have updates. We had an update from Aubrey, Dr.
043SLO in the meeting they had with some community members about the firearm safety program which you saw some of those social media posts go out. Thank you to Aubrey for doing all the leg work with uh with Verona and some of the other districts as well. Um we talked about some we went through all of our community engagement upcoming opportunities that were already a lot of which we've already talked about some that we haven't mentioned tonight including um this coming Thursday evening is the last meeting of the safety task force before the um safety task force that comes to with the recommendations to the board in April. Um, we talked a little bit about the April 16th evidence-based grading evening, the skull awards on May 26th. Um, we had a little bit of a recap
044again of the February 10th family engagement event and some discussion over looking to do something similar with students. Um, and then we spent some time just going over potential advocacy items and narrowing that focus down to really the two things we talked about earlier. um for now focusing on the increase in a special education reimbursement rate and indexing revenue limit increases to inflation. Um and so we started work on a couple advocacy letters that we will review at our next meeting on Monday, a week from tonight. Um so thank you to those staff and uh educators who are who are on spring break and still going to attend that meeting. If they are, they do not have to. And uh anyway, so um [Music] and thank you. Any questions or questions? [Music] [Applause] Adam, do
045you want to talk about education committ? Yeah, we set an unofficial record for most content discussed in it was pretty incredible. Um Sarah Straa, thank you for all your work on this. It was a great update. I'll run through some of the highlights and then if anyone wants to ask any of your questions about it, we can get through because there was so much to talk about. Um, first of all, it was assessment season. Got ACT and PRT tomorrow. I'm remembering correctly that dates. Forward exam coming up after spring break for 3 through 8 and 11. The Ames Web for 4K through third grade and early April. Um, middle school math teachers are piloting grade MS Eureka math. We'll have updates in April on how that's going. Um, also at the middle school that we're
046exploring, uh, Amplify ELA potentially a pilot this spring of that curriculum. Um, the Amplify, this is a good one, the Amplify CKLA lit literacy consultant visited with our grade four through five teachers, kind of talked their experiences and next steps on that. That was a really um great session, a great trainer that resonated with people. Um and then one thing I was going to confirm with you Sarah is that for sure that we're doing this the two to three days of um training August 19th, 20th and 21st and already signed up for their half days. Awesome. Yeah, there was such a um immediate bond with this trainer. They wanted to come back and talk about um you know sort of lay the groundwork for our unit assessments going forward. that's something that the teachers can
047just take forward from there. Um have to call out Miss Olmstead who made the the trainer by looking through all the materials and finding the guidance for multi-elabic instruction and already implemented that. So um it's good to have uh people who are digging into the material and seeing if they can put to use. Um we talked through the mentor and coach program and how we're taking steps to make sure that we're being helpful and not overwhelming um at times cuz there's so much coming at people. And again, tip of the hat to Sarah who took the time to meet individually with uh eight young teachers to hear their experiences rather than just do a survey or or that kind of thing. And just the she was talking about the quality of information that came out
048in those discussions. So, I know that took a lot of extra time, but sounds like it yields a lot of really good information and help shape our program going forward. Um, and last bit on the on the curriculum area was the AI learning team, um, which received over 100 survey responses and deciding where staff was at in terms of their exposure and and familiarity with um, AI. So, we'll have more updates on that front. um grading and assessment. We heard about evidence-based grading uh a lot during the uh main meeting. Uh equity uh the 172 staff members took a self assessment and equity committee is going to be reviewing those results. We'll share that with education. This follows our survey. We have a little over 200 responses in 2021. So be able to do some
049comparisons of where people at as a group, where staff is at as a group. uh promotion policy. We have a that on our agenda later tonight. Summer school we had and um the I think we already mentioned that the evidence-based grading uh session community session is April 16th. So that's what I have from education if there's any other anything that anyone's interested in all that. Thank you. Sarah did the community coach. No, we did not. Uh, village, I only have a couple of updates. Um, there's been preliminary approval for a small addition to the Brookside Bridge subdivision about 16 homes, potential students. The ATV UTV uh was not adopted and that carall has a new owner and options for redevelopment of that um site are also being discussed. So possible attention was I did not
050know most of that meeting was about the ATVs. So is there still plans to are they going to demolish that current building the care? I think that I don't know the [Music] answer is being considered. [Music] Hey Jessica, I was just wondering cuz I didn't picture where's that where's that development? Do you know it is on the southwest side? I have just moved there. So, okay, good. I was trying to figure out where it was too. West of Grenell Park. Yeah, over there. Road. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Great. Thank you. Yeah. Yes. All righty. We got Ryan. Well, hey Orion. How are you? Doing well. How's everybody? Good. Let me just turn you up here. Please hold. It's nice to see you. Thanks for making time for us tonight. Can you Can you speak again real
051quick? Good evening everyone. Okay. Yeah. Just a second here. How about now? You want to say Good evening everyone. There you go. We're grateful that you're here tonight, Ryan. Um, board members, as you may know, we had a group of administrators as well as teachers and staff. Thank you to Mr. Schlumbian for mentioning the recent visit that we had uh just a couple of days ago. Uh and what we thought we would do is uh maybe at the second meeting of each board um cycle uh we would just do a check-in uh with you about the work that's being done on our team. And who better to help us through that than Ryan Sans. Ryan put together a slide deck for us tonight uh that is uh been placed in board docs and I would
052uh for your edification Ryan would be happy to just explain that we also have in the audience tonight a couple of community members as well as coordinator uh building services Dave Breed. Um so we're grateful for your your taking time to visit with us this evening and for putting together this nice slide deck. You're on my friend. Absolutely. Well, thanks for having me. Uh I'm excited to uh first and foremost uh on the brand uh for our team to be partnering with you uh on the the successful referendum project. Uh it's been great getting things underway over the past uh month and a half or so and I'm excited to share an update with everyone this evening. Uh so I'm going to start with some uh project update uh kind of hitting on a number
053of different things. uh first with the schedule. So this schedule should look familiar. Um this is a document that we we used during the referendum communication and uh and so that's remained consistent and this is looking at macro uh design through the end of construction at least uh in the preliminary form and this will continue to get refined throughout the design phase. And so, uh, you can see here, you know, design is slated to go, uh, essentially through the end of the 2025, uh, calendar year. Um, can you see my cursor, uh, on the Okay, great. Just wanted to make sure. Um, so you can see design goes through the end of the year. Uh, we are planning, uh, this fall to do a pre-qualification process for bringing on general contractors. So, um, for those
054that were around for the previous referendum work, it's a process we went through, um, back in 2017, 2018, uh, as well. Basically, uh, looking to solicit, uh, and and garner interest from general contractors in the area. uh have them submit qualifications and make sure that they're capable of of doing the project and basically creating your short list for when we're ready to go out to bid in early 2026. Uh that we know who our list of uh potential contractors are. We'll send them the documents and specifications and they'll be able to bid on the the project and then we'll go through the the bid review and and award process. Um that'll lead us to starting construction in the spring and the addition will be the first uh piece of construction at the primary center. Uh
055and that's really to get the ball rolling for what will inevitably be some uh you know moving pieces as far as the phasing uh especially at the primary center and early learning center site. Uh we'll have renovations at the the primary center to complete the the product scope within the existing building. our additional districtwide. Um and uh and then kind of the final things will be the early learning center demolition and site restoration um leading up to the fall of 2027. That work uh like we talked about um during the the referendum process may not be 100% done um for the start of the school year. Um that'll certainly be the goal, which is knowing uh the timing of there'll be a lot of work to do that summer. Um that's one piece that we'll
056continue to plan around. The other thing would be some of the districtwide improvements we may be able to tackle in summer of 2026 depending on uh what they are and and what you all want to have underway within the district. This next slide then breaks down the design phase. So when we uh go through the design process, we break it into these three uh phases. schematic design, design, development, and construction documents. Um, and it helps us to organize the design schedule around what we're looking to tackle within each of these phases. So, schematic design is when we're really looking big picture. We're uh, as you'll see, we're revisiting um, some of the decisions that were made pre-referendum to make sure that uh, we're going down the right path. We're moving uh, spaces around on the
057the plan. We're looking at the best locations for all the different pieces of scope between the addition and the rate uh renovation areas at the the primary center. Um as uh as I'll hit on uh in a little bit, we went on some building tours and we're starting our staff engagement. uh and at the schematic design phase as a as a district you're you're making highle decisions about the project and we're we're focusing a lot on 2D uh plans as we uh we study schematic options. uh in in the end of April, we'll be transitioning to design development, and that's when we start to focus more on what goes into each of the space, how we best outfit those uh to to meet the needs of the district and uh our earliest learners at the
058the primary center. Um we're hoping that by that point, we've kind of finalized the layout and walls. Uh many aren't moving uh as much. We'll finalize that during the the the design development phase. We'll get more into material uh color selection. We'll engage uh staff further. Uh we'll start to engage our engineers more during design development. Um you'll start to have more detailed conversations and decisions to make about the project. and we'll get to the exciting point of starting to look at uh the projects in 3D which um I was sharing with uh some of the district team members on the the tours last week that um the technology even from when we did the previous referendum project now has gotten uh improved and so there's a lot we can show in 3D uh these
059days. So that'll be exciting and I look forward to bringing that to the board in the future. At the end of design development, then we shift into construction documents. And so um this is really um kind of putting a bow on uh the design work. Um there'll still be some things that we need to finalize, but we're really transitioning to creating the set of construction documents and specifications that the general contractors uh and subcontractors will use to bid out the project and then eventually to construct the project. Um so here we're really uh doing a lot of coordination and work with our engineers. We're finalizing exterior and interior material pallets. Um working on the specifications, working through um finalizing local approvals. You're starting to make more granular decisions um as we we finalize those uh
060pieces of information and we'll be able to produce uh final 3D renderings uh of the the project in the spaces. So, all said and done, that will take us through uh the end of the year. Uh during each of those phases, uh we'll be doing budget updates and we'll be issuing progress sets that'll be used both from uh a district review standpoint as well as for coordination internally and with our consultants. And then uh in the end, we will issue a bid package uh to the broader bidding community uh like I said in early 2026. This is a design phase structure that again probably will look familiar for those that were around for the the prior referendum project. Um obviously uh as the board um everybody in the the scope of the project uh kind
061of works up to you as the uh the decision maker for the district. Um, but from a day-to-day standpoint and a a meeting standpoint, we've established a core planning team with um the district uh admin team, Steve, uh Scott, Dave, and then Rachel representing uh the primary center in uh in those conversations um along with our team. We've identified these kind of subgroups or committees um that we will be meeting with to provide input and and gather feedback as we move through the process. So um a group focusing on safety and security which is obviously of the utmost importance a group focused on operations and capital maintenance and then uh the the Mount Corora primary uh/ele school group uh which uh which Rachel helped us develop and uh that's the the group that uh joined
062for the tours along with other district team members and uh also uh board representation. So we'll meet with these groups. Um they'll have more highle uh o input on the design progress and then especially when it comes to the staff uh here we'll also hold what we call user group meetings. So we'll meet with individual um departments or grade levels uh and groups to get specific feedback on the different spaces within the project. [Music] We've taken a number of steps uh to work through site and building verification um already in the last uh month plus. Um so our team was on a couple different times um doing uh 3D Matterport scanning of the primary center building. Um it's a a pretty cool technology that uh we'd be happy to to share in the future. Um,
063you probably have seen something similar maybe on real estate websites where you can kind of walk through a a house or a building through 3D photos. Um, this is a tool that really helps our team uh with conversations around the renovations so we can kind of pull up the existing building and talk about how we're uh making adjustments um in design meetings with the district team and with user groups. Um but from a documentation standpoint, it helps us verify existing conditions. It helps us um with demolition scope and renovation scope. Um so it's really part of our field verification tools um currently. Then on the on the district side, um you uh you brought on a partner to do a site survey. So that work is underway. Uh and that partner is point of beginning.
064uh we went out and got competitive proposals and quite a beginning was the the low proposal and they uh also happened to be our civil engineer for the project as well. Um and then we'll also be uh conducting some geotechnical engineering analysis um with a partner that the district brought on uh child. So, they're scheduled to start their um their work during the week of the 24th over spring break uh to do uh soil warnings to help us understand the subsurface conditions in the the location of the addition and parking and drives. Um those that remember the high school project, uh there's a high likelihood of hitting rock in Mount I don't know if you you knew that there's a lot of rock in the area, but uh there's a likelihood we'll hit some rock.
065And so in that case they uh they'll stop the boring and uh we'll do a few rock cores just to understand the the makeup of the rock um to support the foundation design uh pavement recommendations and the storm water management uh design for the project. Um and then uh another partner that uh we're in the process of bringing on um from the district side, they'll do the thermal conductivity test and test boardings for the uh the geo warfield. Uh and so that's something that we're in the process of getting proposals for uh that we'll be reviewing with the district and then uh ran somebody to help facilitate that work and then that will feed into the geothermal borefield design to support the HBAC system for the addition. And then finally um we've engaged with uh
066the W Milwaukee cultural resource management department to conduct an initial cultural resource investigation. Um, knowing that the the primary center has a historic designation, uh, we want to make sure that we know what steps we'll need to take um, to get approval for adding on to the building. Um, as we get further into the approval process, primarily with the DNR, if the DNR sees that designation, uh, it'll get flagged. And so we make sure that we're prepared to respond um at the point that we submit. Uh so I mentioned this before uh when we were talking uh about the different groups uh and so we went on three building tours uh last week on the 11th. um a large group of the district admin and primary center uh ELC staff uh touris primary uh and
067elementary that is a district renovation project not unlike uh the one planned for the primary center in Mount Hora. Uh we tour community elementary intton and then uh the last one which is where we're uh we have our photo there is Edge Elementary in Oregon. So that was a new building. Uh and the goal was to provide some insight and thought starters for the the district team and the staff uh as we get into additional design conversations. Um sometimes you uh don't know what you don't know and if you've taught uh in the same building for a long time, it's good to to get out and see uh other um facilities and uh help to inform our design process cuz we really value staff input. Uh and so it was an exciting opportunity and I
068think um all the feedback that I heard was really positive as far as it being um helpful in understanding some of the space that were in the process of designing decisions that uh will need to be made. The last piece then uh as far as ongoing community engagement is uh we'll be providing regular updates uh and the the images there are the the template that our uh communications team put together. um for regular project updates during the design. Um you know, we did a lot of great communication during the referendum uh campaign and we want to make sure that that continues throughout the design process. Um when there's not the the shovels in the ground or the the large equipment on site um that maybe is more evident during the construction phase. So um admittedly,
069the first couple are maybe not as exciting from the graphic uh content standpoint. We'll probably have some great photos from the tours. Um, but as we get further along, we'll be able to share plan updates uh and eventually 3D uh imagery of the the projects. Uh, and then for those that uh recall the last time around, we then worked with whoever you select as a general contractor to create uh and kind of transition these updates from design updates to construction updates uh once we hit that phase to continue to keep the community uh up to date uh during construction as well. Uh, I can pause there and see if there's any uh questions before I jump into more of the design conversation. Uh, if that's helpful or I can go all the way through and
070save questions for the end, whatever you prefer. One quick way just to walk around this topic uh in terms of distributing the community engagement uh materials that we have here. Uh I know that we did a lot of printed materials before. Is that still the norm? Do you go more digital at this point? Yeah, most frequently these would be um provided digitally uh often, you know, posted to your website um posted either directly to social media or via link to your website. Um, we can certainly provide printed copies. Uh, or if often what we'll do is if you have regular newsletters scheduled, we'll align one of these and we can include some of that content into a regular newsletter that you're already sharing uh or maybe mailing um to the entire community. Um, but it
071it really depends on what your preference is. We're happy to work with you um however you'd like to best distribute and keep the community informed. Thanks, I hope there's any questions. All right. Well, uh, happy to take questions on any of that at the end, too. So, I'm going to jump into a bit more of an update around the design conversations that we've been having. I'm going to largely use the the referendum um concept imagery and some of the diagrams that we've created since um to kind of talk through uh the conversations that we've been having. So, this is really just for reference the existing site plan of the primary center and the early learning center. Um this is a slide that probably looks somewhat familiar uh to those that uh attended the focus group
072meetings um and uh and from some of our subsequent presentations. Uh and it's probably no surprise to you as board members some of the existing site considerations that um are both influencing and part of the the conversations around the design for the additional renovation of the primary center. Uh so as uh as all of you know there's some variation uh in topography across the site especially um along academy as you go from west to east and uh from the primary setting center center site dropping down to um the early learning center you know it's about a story of grade change um the existing uh JV baseball field is currently housed in the site I'll come back to that in a minute uh the existing geothermal the warfield and vault. So that's what you see here
073in orange. Um the vault is where all the the borefield circuit piping um enters and then there's piping from the vault to the building. So that we always knew would have to be um adjusted because we're building over it. Um but we need to maintain the current bore field for the geothermal for the current building. Um, you obviously have existing parking and drives with the the bus loop around the ball field and the current parking and up and drop off loop um to the east of the building. Um, there's some existing bio retention ponds and storm water management that we'll need to uh either revise or uh add to um as we increase the storm water management to account for the addition. And then there's some site utilities um that we have to uh to
074work with. So, as we started uh or I'll say kind of restarted the design conversations um in schematic design um all of those things were top of mind. Uh and so these are some of the things that we started to talk about uh from a site perspective. Um safety, security and traffic flow are obviously uh extremely important. They they went into uh the referendum concept. We have a lot of conversations around that as we develop the referendum concept. Um we know we need to find a location for the new geothermal warfield um vault and piping in the building and we're studying a few options for that. Um for those that are maybe less familiar, uh we we can't build the building itself over the geothermal or field. Um but we can build site amenities like
075parking, um drives, playground, uh green space. Uh those can all be built on top of the the more field um as you have currently with the the Jamie baseball field. Uh and and that ball field is really uh a major part of our early conversations as we talked about uh you know looking ahead to the next uh 50 years of the primary center is having the JB baseball field on this site and some of the limitations that it leads to from a design standpoint and I say layout standpoint you know is that the best uh long-term solution and you know we we wanted to revisit it um to make sure that we're starting schematic design through the the right lens. And the more we talked about it, um, the more that, uh, everybody agreed that
076planning to relocate the JV baseball field to the high school campus, uh, was, uh, the best long-term, uh, solution, not only for, uh, JB baseball and having it on the high school campus, not having young drivers have to go to a different campus, and uh, the convenience of having it um, at the high school, but also for uh, kind of relieving the L uh, the ELC and primary center site of some of the limitations um that it was producing. Um the district has already talked to Colleen, your athletic director and uh the coaches for um for baseball and soccer uh to to get those conversations going to help them understand um the why behind um that decision. Um but that really then uh frees us up to explore some concepts that uh we weren't able
077to uh previously when we had said you know we wanted to to keep the JB field here. So, we're starting to look at, okay, if the if the ball field moves, how does that change how approach parking and drive site, and we're looking at really potentially changing the orientation of the addition and the campus as a whole to move the office and main entry to the the west side of the campus, uh move our parent pickup and drop off. Um, sorry, that says east. It should say west. Uh, that's my mistake. Um, to the west side of the campus. It's currently on the east. And then we're exploring options for the buses. So we had one option um that explored it um still on kind of the south southwest but separate from um parent pickup
078and drop off. And most recently we're looking at uh an option to potentially put it north of the existing primary center um or between the existing building and academy street. Um we think there's a lot of um positive positives to that as a potential option. um as we talked through with the district and with Rachel and thus far and uh and work to get others input. Um and then if we go down that path then it gives us some flexibility with how we um orientate the addition the classrooms the gym uh and think about how we best set up the building for kind of the the multi-uses throughout the day. So obviously school day use um is first and foremost but then also how can can we control access to various spaces for after school
079uh evening and weekend use. Um the other thing that we've talked about um in uh in relation to this uh this shift is if the JB baseball field shifts to the high school campus, how to uhate some of the pressure on your practice fields and green space over there. And so we've been exploring a potential opportunity to maybe locate the youth and soccer field um on this site um to kind of separate some of those uh and provide that additional amenity um here on the the primary center site. So a lot of exploration underway. We're currently working on a number of options to respond to this um as we uh we get further into schematic design. uh as we talk about the building that uh this is just a quick reminder on our approximate square
080footages. So we have a twostory uh addition concept for a partial twotory. Um you can see there the first floor or the footprint around 36,000 square ft. A partial second floor with some of our uh academic space and then some mechanical space uh for a total addition just under 60,000 ft². And then we've got about 17,000 ft of renovation within the existing primary center. Um mostly focused on that on the first floor, but also providing some amenities on the um second and third floor as well. So this is the referendum floor plan uh concept. Uh so this should look familiar. Um and an exercise we went through a couple of meetings ago as kind of our launch point for the building design and uh you know potentially exploring some of these additional options was going
081through kind of space by space and doing a program verification exercise um to understand um these concepts were you know created uh basically in the spring of 2024 and then refined through the focus group process. So, we wanted to understand, you know, how is the the building being used uh potentially differently uh this school year than it was uh last school year when we did uh the referendum concept design work. Uh and as an example, we learned that you've already moved music from the the lower level basement um below the by the gym here. Uh it was previously housed. You've already moved that into this classroom on the first floor for this school year. uh which was a nice opportunity to test that out and it has already been able to kind of move into
082the space that they were planning to move in to at the end uh of the project. So that's one example of information that helps us understand are the spaces that we showed here as we start to revisit the concept and explore new ideas um are those valid? So that was a really productive conversation to understand um what's the same uh you know the main the major pieces of the program are the same as far as the two station gymnasium the kindergarten classrooms uh a new space for the office some of the specialed resources uh and other uh resources that we were providing. Um, but we got some additional insight into u maybe where those might best be located and uh and some of the adjustments based on the how the building is being used this
083year. So that's been really productive and that's then informed our exploration of those additional design options that I referenced um where we're looking at you know kind of shifting the office to the west side of the building um and then kind of reooking at uh how the rest of the spaces uh react accordingly. Um, we're also then revisiting, you know, music. It's currently on the first floor. That seems to be working well. So, is the the current cafeteria the best location for that? Uh, and then you can see um some of the special ed resources um that were planned uh to be added uh in the upper floors. We also have the additional um projects. So, the intermediate center roof replacement uh is something that we're uh working on. Uh we've done walkthroughs at the
084middle school and uh Dave Reed has been uh working with Paul Christensen uh to help us gather information to hone in on the the middle school renovation scope for the resource uh rooms and uh and adding those um single occupant toilet rooms. And then uh not also losing sight of the high school chuck pointing and screw repair work that we'll be including uh in the overall uh project package. So I'll just hit on a few next steps. Um so we continue to meet bi-weekly as a core planning team. Uh and we will be layering in the those committees or those subgroups and the user group meetings uh into our schedule as well. We'll be uh establishing updated conceptual site plans and floor plans uh here in the next couple of uh couple of weeks and
085couple of meetings to solidify our macro concept um at schematic designing and wanting to nail down the big moves of where the spaces will be and what the the layout looks like. uh we'll be doing additional staff and stakeholder engagement um like I've said through the committees and users and then we'll be beginning engagement with our engineers and consultants uh as well uh in the the coming weeks. With that, I'll open it up again to questions and I'm happy to go back to any uh any of the slides that help uh facilitate the conversation. I have one question. Somebody's going to have to repeat it for Ryan, but so we're talking about moving the JV baseball field to the current soccer practice fields at the high school and the middle school. Don't they use that
086also for gym? Are they going to lose that space as well? Ryan, the question was with regard to moving the JB baseball field over to the soccer fields. What impact will that really have on uh access uh for for our young people? And you want to talk a little bit about that space down below? Sure. Yeah. We we haven't finalized um the exact location, but as you noted, it's likely to be the the I'll say the upper practice field. Um, we've been having initial conversations about how we can best lay that out to maintain as much green space as possible and uh, similar to what you have currently on the primary center site. We've talked about um, not having an outfield fence to keep the the outfield and the green space continuous and flexible for
087uh, other um, groups and sports to use for um, practice. And then in the lower practice area, um the initial thought is to stripe a full-size um soccer field down there as well, so that you'd have flexibility with uh how those different fields are used different times of the year. So, uh it would really depend on likely the time of year in which sports need green space as far as kind of who would go where. Um that's been I guess the discussion thus far. um without having anything finalized yet the lower field. It's already tough. Quick addendum on that one. The lower field. Are we talking about the pit area? Yes. Okay. What we're going to rename it because we want it to be more than just the pit. Yeah. [Music] David, you went out
088there on a number of occasions and you spoke to the quality of the, you know, is it dry enough in the springtime and those sorts of things. Can you speak to that, please? Yeah. Um, so the the major impact for um the season is majorly impacted is spring. when you have to put baseball and soccer on that upper practice field. So, we're going to take soccer off of the upper practice field and put on the lower practice field. Um uh the upper practice field has some drainage issues that I'm going to address. Um last year we couldn't mow the upper practice field, the the southern half of it for a couple months, you know, in the spring because it was just too wet. um the lower practice field um will will have to put some
089more effort into maintaining that now that it's used both fall for football and spring for soccer. Um but it's it's a bit about moving moving the pieces around, you know. Um it looks like everything fits now. Um and I have to I have to admit I was very um very happy to hear Coach Newman and coach Gage go, "Yep, we can we can make this work. we can we can try to make it might require us putting some other amenities on the field to help them, but um we're we're proposing or we're prepared to do what it takes to make it all work out. There's going to be a lot of green space still. We're not we're not we're not making a dedicated area. It's going to have a ball diamond in the corner, but
090again, Dr. So says, not an outfield fence that makes it like this is all you can do in here in the fall when there's no baseball out there. It's wide open for middle school um fed. It could be where the ba the band marches to practice the others and that and we're move we're trying to find places where those can go. Right now our intent is to um line those all out so people can say oh yeah that's going to work or that we can see for ourselves that it it's it's one thing to draw in a Google Maps picture but another thing to actually strike it on the grass. So it's it there's still some questions but we're we're working towards a solution. So the so that boys soccer would be up top in
091the fall. Yeah. Yeah. Boy soccer boys soccer the fall really isn't affected at all because baseball's not in session. Thank you. Okay. U Ryan if if you don't mind taking like a a higher view of the of maybe the the structure itself. I've had some community members asking me about why aren't we thinking about building along Academy Street. Maybe you could explain um maybe some of the reasons why maybe that's not an option because of the added cost of some certain issues, but maybe you could explain that a little bit if you could. Sure. Yeah, I'd be happy to. So, let me jump back to this one. Um yeah, so we did uh we did we did look at that um as part of our kind of re again revisiting of the overall referendum concepts
092and wanted to make sure that we're vetting all the potential options. Um so for uh for reference, Academy Street is north. We got the existing primary center here and we obviously have the referendum concept for the addition to the south of the building. Um, looking at the zoning, we've got about a 30 foot setback before we could uh construct any um building along Academy Street. Um, as I mentioned on this slide, you know, you can see there's quite a bit of grade change from east to west and then also up to the primary center. Um, so almost a story uh or a little more than a story of grade change from the building to the street. Um and so between the grade change and the the setback, we're a little limited in how much um
093building area we could put in front of the building. Um knowing that we want to have a a courtyard or a light well of some sort to make sure we're not blocking all the windows on the existing building. Uh so when you take into consideration the setbacks and a potential courtyard um we could put some amount of building uh across a couple of stories out there but it wouldn't be able to house the whole addition. You know visually you can kind of even see how that wouldn't really fit if you subtract 30 ft off the street and maybe even if you didn't. So, we probably would have to be looking at two additions, an academic north of the existing building and then still adding the gym south of the existing building. Uh, another just kind
094of general thing would be, you know, the referendum concept with the addition to the south really suggested to the broader world community that the the most prominent historic facade of the existing building was going to remain visible. Um, so we want to be cognizant of being, you know, uh, respectful of that and any any community members that may have supported the the project because it was implied that the historic facade would remain visible um, for those uh, that would want to be able to still see it. And then there's a couple of uh, maybe more nuanced things. So I mentioned the grade change from the existing building down to the street. you know, we had planned a two-story addition, but to effectively build a two-story addition out front there and not have uh, you know,
095a massive retaining wall and a ton of um, additional earth work beyond what we'd already need to do. We probably would have to build the two stories down a level. So, have the first floor of the addition align with the basement of the current building and then the upper floor of the addition align with the first floor. So that would really start to present some challenges from the standpoint of connecting back to the existing building and accessibility to the addition. We potentially would need uh a second elevator or we'd have to have kind of a tunnel connection back to the existing building and it would be a challenge then to get daylight into some of those lower level spaces. Um, so those are some of the the design considerations uh as far as the uh
096the potential of building out there. There's also some site utilities that come off of Academy Street. So we'd have to look at um you know relocating those as they feed the existing building. Um so as we as we looked at it and kind of talked about all those factors, talked about the split addition, um it felt like it would likely be more costly um from a kind of excavation and a site perspective and a foundation perspective be more challenging um to effectively connect the existing building. It might limit um student traffic and staff traffic flow um between the lower level and the upper level of the addition. Um, and then like I said, we we'd kind of be mocking the historic building with the new building, which may not be wellreceived um with some community
097members and probably something we want to have run by um the village and the the um plan commission as well before we would pursue something like that. Um so, uh I think those were the bulk of the reasons that we kind of came across as we were studying that. Um I did as I mentioned before we are having um you know Milwaukee do that cultural resource investigation. Um so that will let us know if we need to do any like documentation and things. My my guess I don't know for sure but my guess is they would say that the the mitigation factors would be much more severe if we were going to kind of cover the existing historic building versus leave it exposed um to the north uh as well. So that's one additional factor.
098Um, as we looked at that as a potential option, does that answer the question? Are there any follow-up questions? You want to say other questions? Well, Ryan, we're looking forward to continuing the dialogue uh this Thursday morning at 10:00 a.m. board members. We've decided that because there's great interest on your part to be a part of these. Uh to make this a little easier, we're just going to go ahead and notice the meeting publicly so that if your schedule does happen to allow, we'll always have our meetings virtually. Uh and I'll have the uh link available to you in my weekly update. uh in the is it the first meeting of the month if I remember right Ryan um we will have uh we'll host it at the district office as well as uh virtually
099um so if there's a community member that's interested in just kind of seeing the work being done if they have an idea that you know maybe we just haven't considered you know we we'd welcome that opportunity too so um next meeting would be this Thursday morning at 10:00 a.m. and we usually go about 2 hours. So, if you can only join us for a couple of minutes, that's okay. Uh folks, we certainly welcome your input and then we'll re we'll redo this uh kind of catch up with the board during the second meeting of each month going forward. Did that Ryan, it was terrific to see you tonight. Hopefully, you're at home with your family. You can read some stories to the kiddos before getting them to bed. We're grateful that you would find time
100to spend with us this evening. Thank you. Yeah, happy to. Thanks for having me and I look forward to coming back with future updates. Have a great rest of the evening everyone. Thanks. Bye. Number seven, action items. First reading, consider revisions to board policy 3454. Sarah, thank you. Uh due to act 20, all school districts are to look at their promotion policy, typically the third to fourth grade promotion policy um and make changes. And both of Construction has provided um some language on those changes that we did incorporate into 345.4. Um so backtrack slightly. So couple years ago, WSB recommended that we combine many of our promotion policies into one policy method policy you all have here. So we did some work a couple years ago. So we didn't really have a standalone third to
101fourth grade promotion policy anymore. So much of the language is embedded into the third to fourth grade section or it's also embedded throughout the policy, but it's just good practice for all grade levels. Uh some key topic additions to the promotion policy. Uh promotion requirements from third to fourth are in there. Um language around good cause exemptions for um for promoting students. Uh we added addition we added additional language on the retention determination process. And then during our education committee meeting uh there were two requests on adjustments. One was um adjusting the kindergarten language to making sure it's in parallel structure compared to the first grade promotion which uh there was conversation about the voluntary routine and I chose to I moved that down. You don't see it in this red line but I moved
102it down. You'll see in the final. Um I felt strongly that's but I feel strongly there's a reason why you have the language in there. So I didn't want to lose it at that at that time. So I left that language in there. Um and then we also had a request on the middle of page three or so when um we started to go through the process of think about promotion um I think Adam had asked or Joel right there. Perfect. Right where Steve is almost um to that that our decision making will be within 10 schools. So we added that as well in order to have it not be whatever and 10 school days is our typical number. We look at other requests from the public of us or of the board or Dr.
103So yeah there's our any questions. Well, she can't talk or she's she's got nothing. I'm reading. She says it's the best policies I've ever seen, right? Anyone else? Anyone would like to make a motion to approve? Second. Motion by Adam. Seconded by Sarah to approve policy 345.4, promotions, retention, and acceleration. All those in favor, please say I. Oh, it's a roll call. Okay. Roll call. Joe. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I am also a yes. Appreciate it. Thank you, sir. comments, future agenda items. If there's anything in particular you'd like to talk about, we have a lot on the list, but we can add to it. Uh, schedule next meetings. Anything to highlight? That's right. All right. Moving on to number 11. Executive session contemplated close session per section 19.851C 851C considering employment, promotion, compensation,
104or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility and e deliberating or negotiating the purchase of public properties, then investing in public funds, investing other specified public business whenever competitive or bargaining agreements to prior a close session to wit sobatical request and day county school consortium. 27 make a motion move to close session. So moved second motion by Joel second by roll. Yes. Yes. Sarah. Yes. Yes. And also yes. 810 5 minute break. Thanks for being here tonight. How are you? Good. [Music]