001this meeting to order. April 13, 2026, the school board meeting. Verification of meeting posted. This meeting was posted in accordance with all open meeting laws. Attendance. Roll call. >> Chris, >> I'm here. Terry >> here. >> I'm here. Lori >> here. >> Tracy >> here. >> Kevin is here. Bob is absent. Right. If >> we could all stand. And Tracy, can you do the pitch? I pledge algiance 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. >> Motion to approve the agenda. >> Second. Any discussion? We will be going into close session, but we will be coming back. So, I apologize. There's going to be a brief recess. You guys can just hang here for a
002minute. Um, uh, any other discussion for the agenda? >> All right. All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. >> Motion passes. Okay. A vote for close session pursuant to Wisconsin statute 19.85 85 sub one subc considering employment promotion compensation of performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility specifically associate principal hires [laughter] >> second >> who did who first did >> I say anything first she Okay. >> All right. End discussion. We will be right back. We're going to run into the room and we'll be back. >> Roll call. >> Yes. Roll call, please. >> Chris. >> Yes. >> Terry. >> Yes. >> Lori. Tracy. >> Yes. >> Kevin. >> Yes. Okay. >> Okay. We are closed. We'll be right back. We are back and
003we are going to move into our recognitions. All right. Well, this is always one of my favorite opportunities that I get in this role is the chance to recognize the excellence that our student athletes and our students get to do, not only in our building, but across the entire state. So, our first opportunity tonight is to celebrate our varsity cheer team who recently competed at the state championship where they earned first place in the all girls traditional and then second place also in cheer dance at the 2026 WACP division 1 varsity competition. So, if we could have our cheer team please come forward. [applause] >> You're fine. You're fine. Um, yeah, do those, but I'll read it from here because I can see this. Yes. All right. Welcome and congratulations. So, I'm going to read
004through one of these. You guys have been through this so many times. And then I'll just read your names. Okay. So, certificate of appreciation. The Mosquo Norway School Board presents this certificate and grateful recognition of Meline Schneider Schneider for her [applause] contribution to High School cheer team. She made the exceptionally high honor of placing first place for all girl traditional small and second place for cheer dance at the 2026 WACPC Division 1 birthday cheer state championship. Now I'm just going to read your name. [laughter] Alexis Wright, [applause] Brianna Welson, [applause] Carolyn Robersonson. All right, Nia Okconor. [applause] Haley Belunus. She is in tr [laughter] superstar athletes. >> Riley I Hermine Hermoline. >> YES. [applause] Stage Finley Wolf. She is at her first job. [laughter] >> Warriors career ready. >> [laughter] >> Amelia her [applause] >>
005Marana Jagger. Did I say that right? >> [applause] >> Rihanna Fiero [applause] have like just normal Mary Sarah. All right. And these are for our coaches. Um, Mosskegan Norway School Board presents this certification and grateful recognition of the Mosquo High School cheer coach, Kelly Peters, for her exceptional dedication, mentorship, and commitment to excellence. Under her leadership, the Mosquo High School cheer team achieved the outstanding season, earning first place all girl traditional small, and second place for cheer and dance. At the 2026 WACPC Division 1 Varsity Cheer State Championship, PRESBOKA. [applause] OH, you don't want this one. Katherine Lavar. [applause] Congratulations. >> Well, again, it's so fun to get to celebrate these, but we get these celebrations. This is the easy part for us. me know the countless hours of hard work and dedication that you
006guys invest. Like it is amazing to me the number of times I've been in that building late at night and you guys are still working so hard or you're in the weight room training. So thank you for your dedication. Like truly these situations are earned. Sometimes I feel like in mosqu we get a little bit spoiled because we have such high expectations of oh this is just what happens. This isn't what happens everywhere. It happens because of incredible hard work. So huge shout out to all you guys and to our coaches as well. Thank you for your time and dedication to this. Coach, anything you want to add? >> Uh, thank you very much for inviting us here and giving us this honor and um always treating cheerleading um as every other sport and activity
007in the school. We respect that. So, >> we are very proud of that and I apologize. There was going to be a chance apparently you guys were going to like lift me and toss me. [laughter] >> Thanks. [laughter] >> [applause] >> double [laughter] >> still warriors. >> Yeah. Okay. CONGRATULATIONS. [applause] >> All right. Next up, we will be bringing our first time ever classic 8 coach of the year, Mr. Joe Britt, for our boys. [applause] Congratulations. [applause] All right. The Mosquo Norway School Board presents the certificate and grateful recognition of the Mosquo High School ice hockey coach Joe Britt for his outstanding leadership, sportsmanship, and dedication to the Mosquo High School ice hockey team in achieving the exceptionally high honor of receiving the Classic 8 Conference Coach of the Year. Presented today, the 13th of
008April, 2026. CONGRATULATIONS. [applause] >> This is one of these accomplishes accomplishments that as well I think is something that is understated. Um we run a co-op program which involves how many other schools 14 other schools. So often times being a head coach of a program that's in a building brings communication challenges. Now imagine working with 14 other school districts trying to keep all the families informed, students happy, all the ducks in a row. um how you've built this program into something that is a pride um within our community is really something to be grateful for. So I get to walk in and I see his little kids also go to Bay Lane. So when I see his son I was like how's hockey going for your dad? And it's so adorable the way his eyes
009lit up. He's so proud of his dad. So these awards are special to us because it impacts a lot of students. But I never want to minimize that every hour you're spending at the ice rink are hours away from your own kids or your own family. So thank you for the sacrifices you make for that. So we're grateful for you. >> Congratulations. >> [applause] >> I got your good side job. [laughter] >> All right. So, our next up is I want to give it up just so I get the appropriate name. It's from the Nari um outdoor competition. Just one second. So this was from the National Association of the Remodeling Industry Next Generation Trades Challenge where schools were given an opportunity to come up with an idea. It was the backyard challenge, how you
010could make your backyard awesome, which seems like a pretty simple task. And then you got to see what our students chose to do and what our fearless leaders chose to do with this program. Um, the outdoor and what was it actually officially called? the manave >> man cave like whatever it is. It was like so envious seeing what they've built. It's actually still out there. The person who won the raffle still hasn't picked it up yet. Um it is so incredible. It is so beautiful what was done and getting a chance to see what other districts put together, what their teams put together. Um it was humbling to see how much we outperformed other schools. And no disrespect to them because they also worked really, really hard. But truly, I hope you students have so
011much pride in what was built there. Not only did it represent you, but it was a representation of our entire school district. So, it was a few years back where our community said yes to invest into our teched program and to take our facilities from arguably one of the worst in the state to one of the best in the state. We didn't have the opportunity to do things like this a few years back because we were crammed in a really small classroom with very limited space. Didn't have the tools and opportunities. So when we were at the table dreaming about that space, these were the kind of things that were out there where people saying, "Oh, wouldn't it be awesome if you guys are living that if and you've made our entire community proud." So
012thank you so much for your hard work for that. So if we could have our students please come forward and our coaches please come forward. >> All right, I'll read through one and then I'll just read your names. Hopefully I'll get them. Okay. The Mosquo Norway School Board presents this certificate in grateful recognition of Mason Sanders for his contribution to the Mosquo High School competing in the big backyard buildoff for the NARI NextGen Trades Challenge and earning first place for the Golden Tool Belt Award at the Nari Spring Home Improvement Show. I got you. >> All right, Skyler Kger. We get 28. Landon Lyman, [applause] Kaden Ramlfinger, >> Charles Dunville, [applause] >> Jackson Radish. >> They're at the track. >> They're what? >> Is that the track? >> At the track. It's a nice day
013for >> one schmalt. [applause] >> Samuel Cole, [applause] >> Dylan Bower, [applause] All right. And our advisors Ryan Anderson. [applause] >> Congratulations. [applause] And a little bit about our adviserss. So Tom is one of our teachers up at the high school and Ryan is the director of buildings and grounds at Mosquo Lakes and the time and the efforts that they poured into this as well like during school after school making things flexible so he could be away from Moskele Lakes to be here to support our students. The skills and talents you guys brought to the table were an inspiration to our students and the other thing that limits other places ability to have students grow this much is having the expertise and the investment from leaders like you. So thank you for being role models
014in every sense of the matter. Like truly you are having a huge impact. So very proud of you guys as well. [applause] Congratulations. [applause] >> Did you need pictures? >> I can get Thank you everybody. Congratulations. [applause] Should we recognize that we're all competing in other competitions right now track meet a job? >> That's awesome. >> We just called in that there's a new school record at the track doing all the senior jump. >> What? >> Wow. >> Anyone? Okay. Who won me? >> Okay, moving on. Public comment. Um, there is nobody signed up for public comment, so we will move on from there. on consent agenda. Motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> So second >> any discussion or does anyone want anything removed for individual consideration? >> All good. >> All
015in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion passes. >> Student representation. >> All right. you are. So, >> oh, >> uh, Tad is going to give it to you. >> I'm going to do my best to have the same enthusiasm superstar. So, again, I'm always impressed because it is lengthy. So, first up, our amazing elementary schools. Over the past few weeks, the third and fourth grade students at all of our elementary schools have been showing all that they know on the Wisconsin forward exam. Bane and Lake View's girls on the run teams have had their first practice and they've begun their journey towards being able to run a 5K. Uh Bane's Destination Imagination fine arts team placed fourth in the regional competition and is heading to the state competition. We're so proud of them. Students
016at Lake View have been working hard towards the 1 million minute challenge reading challenge, excuse me. Um Lake View's kindergarten, first and second grade students shown brightly at the spring music concert and their third and fourth grade peers will be performing in the spring concert in May at the high school's PAC. Mil Valley is gearing up to continue the tradition of the community garden and this is a tradition that is carried on from Mosquo Elementary where each classroom plants and takes care of one of the garden beds and then in the summer and the fall the fresh produce is harvested and donated to the Mosquo Food Pantry. Other exciting spring activities at Mil Valley include the fourth grade girls on the run team. Four destination Imagination teams competed at the March 14th and our fourth
017graders will get to perform at the PAC on March 20th as well. Similar to our other other elementary schools for our middle schools, the Lake the New National Junior Honor Society is hosting their Makea-Wish Spaghetti dinner on the 30th. They will be raising money through a pasta dinner and raffles to donate to a Makea-Wish child. Lake Denon is will also be having a fun and action-packed night of siege paintball this Friday if anyone is interested. Is that open to others? Does >> it might be something? >> Okay. A fun opportunity to put a bullseye and run through the middle school students. Sounds like a plan. >> It's all you. >> Mosquito Lakes. The Little Mermaid performance was absolutely outstanding. And just a huge shout out to all the actors, the stage crew, and the staff
018who made that happen. It really was an incredible performance. for our high school. Our juniors and seniors had an amazing time at prom this weekend. Everyone was responsible and safe. And a huge thank you to the student council for hosting such a great event. And our MHS drama club is excited to host and present their performance of Julia Caesar this coming week. And our spring sports are now in full swing. As you heard, our lacrosse team out there. Softball is off and flying. Track meets happening tonight. Boys baseball's off to a great start, as is softball. and uh boys lacrosse as well. It's a lot of action. Girls soccer also is offered. So that concludes our student report. >> All right, now moving on to the superintendent report. >> All right, first up we have
019our incredible crew here to present our technology and tilt update to the board. >> Hey, you have our slides. >> Oh, that's great. >> Oh, thanks Lori. Every year I'm like, you know what? I can I can do your guys' front if you want. And they apparently they don't want to be speaking for >> we are your librarians and we did at the high school. This is Jenny Reed. We made it to our site here. Yes. So also at uh Bailey Elementary, Mil Valley, Lake View, Mosquo Lakes, and Winston middle schools. So here is the future ready librarian framework. So the future ready librarian framework is a nationwide framework that connect that does help us evaluate our program and it gives us a guide for what we should be spending our time on and how
020we can make sure that Moskego is make uh is doing the best that we can in comparison with other districts and across the country. And so it helps give us a guide where should we be spending our time what should we be focusing on. So last year and where the bulk of our time is spent is actually in that top wedge with curriculum instruction and assessment. But this year we thought it was important to focus on uh professionalized personalized professional learning which and they define it as leads and curates learning experience that builds educator capacity in multiple literacies, critical thinking and instructional technology. And this year we have really focused on AI and have done various professional learning around AI and we wanted to highlight that for you today. So at the beginning of the
021year before school started we offered a prompting workshop to all staff on the um PD days. So it was optional but we did have people from each level come and they learned about prompting and practical applications and just how they could get started with AI um at the beginning of the year. and our administrative staff as well was able to come to that. >> And then in the last two months, we've gone to each elementary school and the high school and we've just reviewed the policy with them, our AI policy that's on the website, best practices, and then we did some application with them and showed them just some examples of how they can save time and they can use AI in their classrooms. So, we are actually going to do a demonstration with you
022guys, too, that we did with all of the staff. So you can see the fun. So this is the site edu gems. So it's created by Eric Curtis who works at equivalent of a CISA in um Ohio. So he was one of the keynote speakers. We were able to bring this back to our teachers. And a gem is a prompt that is made for you. So teachers can just plug and play in what they are. So today we would like to do an interview with an AI character. So we're going to ask for some participation. Now critical thinking. Think about a person or character that you would like to interview and an interview question. Laura, do we have the keyboard? Is that the keyboard and mouse? >> Oh, sorry. >> No, we'll do it. >>
023We can do it. >> So, for an example, like the elementary schools, they picked a literacy character from some of their readings. Um, I don't remember exactly what the high school picked for their character. at Mil Valley they did Jackie Robinson because they were doing biographies. So you you could pick a historical person, a current person, anyone. Okay. So who would we like to choose? >> For me it would be Florence Nightingale. >> Okay, great. >> Uh we will do ninth grade. I know. I swear I have what age? >> Ninth grade. I'm going to get closer. Okay. Hello. I am ready to be your virtual guest for your classroom interview. So, thank you. I am ready from this point forward. I will be speaking from the perspective personality and knowledge of Florence Nightingale. The
024interview may now begin. What question would you like to ask? What was hand washing like back when you were >> practicing? When you were practicing practicing >> typing in front of us. Is this >> No pressure. >> It is a pleasure to speak with such a geology group of students. You ask a vital question for while the concept seems simple to you today. It is a matter of life and death during my time particularly during the Korean War when I arrived at the Bear Cosmo. So you can see it goes on and [laughter] so >> I want to talk [laughter] at that. Okay. So the doctors believed in the Manassa theory. So a follow-up question could be could you define the Manasses theory for me? Oh my gosh. I mean, >> it's cuz we're watching.
025>> It is. That's what it is. >> Certainly, it is a concept that may seem quite strange to you in the 21st century, but for most of my life, it was the leading scientific explanation for how people became ill. So then it goes through. So we wanted to demonstrate to teachers that AI can be used uh oh how it can be used within the classroom. um to give kids an experience where we're not outsourcing our thinking. So that was a fun example. But of course on the eduge gems website there are there is an option for like social stories. So if teachers are trying to you know go through a scenario with students and talk about that there is do leveling. There are um ACT prep questions. So all the fun aside of course like
026the goofiness. There are some really helpful options for teachers too to just start to look into if they don't really know where to begin because our teachers have the knowledge, but we want to give them the tools to make it go easy. I know what an ACT question should look like, but how can I speed up the process of writing it to make sure that it's formatted correctly? Then at the high school, when Principal Davinka talked to us earlier in the fall, I talked to the board earlier in the fall, he brought up the building leadership team or BLT. So the BT team was really integral in coming around what do we want AI to look like at the high school? When should students have access to it? What does that access look like and
027[snorts] how can we make sure that we are assessing learning and not just having our students outsource that learning to AI because we know that their brains are so malleable. We want to make sure that we are assessing what they are thinking and what they are learning and how can we do that. So we did some professional development around how to use AI effectively in planning just like we did at the elementary schools and then the BLT team really came around how can we have teacher controlled use of AI in class and so we talked about that and what it means and then we came up with that common classroom and handbook language. So when you approve the handbook this summer this is what you will see or the additions that we have in draft
028form right now of the three different focus areas that we'll start using with students. So restricted you can't use AI is going to be assumed that unless noted all assignments should be done without AI. So that is the restricted level. That's kind of like common practice. Then focused is where there are certain ways that you can use AI and that is defined by the teacher for the student to check in with. And then permitted means that you can use AI in whatever fashion you have because the project calls for it. Because there are some areas of our school that really can use AI to their benefit and you have to learn, you have to go like really advanced math problems they can diagnose. Our tech ed department is really using AI. Our English department would
029like our kids to not use AI, right? And think okay so there's just those ways. So that is what we were working on and coming together with around the high school and working together to make sure that our kids and staff and the whole building is on the same page when it comes to AI use. Can I ask what um source you're using for citations >> because I see it to be properly cited because that's the thing I I I do a writing intensive at the college level and they are clueless on how to site work. >> So in general we use MLA formatting and the MLA handbook is coming out with different ways to site AI and it is ever changing. So that's why we want to whatever properly signed means at the moment
030what our teachers are deciding to do and that even varies within different class levels cuz sometimes it'll be like I use this AI or I use this prompt. It's looking different in different spaces and that's something that we are we will I guess the reason to put it in the handbook and the policy here is so that kids know that it should be cited and then we have to work on what that looks like based on current practices. with your unrestricted ones. Um, when I've gone to conferences where they've talked about AI, they say really almost you should be evaluating their prompts. Yes. And what they're actually putting in because that will actually detail whether or not they're comprehending the the conflict. >> So, how we have it set up right now is that AI
031is blocked and the teacher has to unblock it for that class period. So, it is not unblocked on their Chromebooks at home. >> That doesn't prevent them from using their phones, right? So, again, something else that we're trying to work on. So how much work is that now done in class when we were looking and going to those prompts? >> Also from a technology lens, most of if not all of those prompts are actually recorded. So teachers can actually look back and look at what what they were writing in the prompts to see how they got there. >> Yeah, that's good. >> Isn't there like websites where you can >> paste what what's AI >> into it in and there's always hidden characters in there that you know that it's AI. >> Turn it in
032does it? >> Yeah. As far as like the right conditions, AI cannot detect it. Mhm. >> They say they can. They There's a million claims saying that they can detect it. They can't. It's not It's not possible from an algorithmic health standpoint. That it can take an educated guess. It can get to like 80 90% but it will never be accurate. It's 100% accurate. What what those detectors are really good for though are um starting the conversation, right? Like this looks like it was AI generated. Let's talk about it. Let's see what it was or not. We can discuss it. It starts the conversation. What I like about it in when I use it is that it'll take all the coursework that the ch the student has and then figure out like how that person
033actually communicates and then when it turns in the work they're like you don't normally talk like this like this is not you. So I think that's kind of future. >> Another way that we're doing professional development is in the staff newsletters. So, it's a passive way, but we can hit every staff member that way. So, you can see there, that is the high school. We call it the pedagogical pearl that Brian loves that I called it that we're looking at. So, that high school was learning coaches and me and then our tech mentors tech turns putting in stuff. And then it's also how we uh use our tech mentors at the other buildings to add in different tips as we go along. So, just different ways that we're trying to touch teachers to keep professional
034development up. So last year we talked with you about curating digital resources. So we just wanted to give you an update. Um so some new digital resources that we have added this school year through the library are click view which was added K12. New Zomatic was added 18 and novel effect was added K12. Um, we're constantly looking for resources where we can support curriculum and um, be fiscally responsible. So like ClickView could potentially take the place of Edpuzzle, which is something um, buildings are paying for, or New Zomatic could take the place of New Zeal. So we're just looking for those ways we can support curriculum through our budget. And then just some statistics. So Sora is our ebook and audiobook platform. We've added over a thousand books this year and we've had 191% growth
035in checkouts on that platform this year. So, it's becoming really, really popular. And then paper books, we've added over 19,000 across our K12 libraries this year. Um, and we've had over 126,000 book and equipment checkouts, and that does not include Chromebooks. So, in our six libraries, numbers are looking great. So that's how we hope to be a future library future libraries questions. >> Do you have a question back to the AR related stuff um in especially in the high school level? Do you talk through or do you discuss or do do the teachers discuss the the need to vet the information that AI is providing to ensure that it's accurate? So yes, that would be part of any lesson that we would have that you would define and like make sure that what is coming
036back to you is good. Okay. >> Um and as you're going through so that would that would definitely be part of a lesson. I would say that we are working our way towards using AI for lesson creation. I would say that it was more like just a discussion right now of like how this is impacting us and where we are going with it. And I think our teachers are really um sharing with students as well when they are using AI and how they are showing their learning and their thinking. So like if you can show like the AI slot like if here's what I use and then AI slot came up like this way. So this is why this was a poor prompt. It'd be a great way to teach kids to do part of
037the policy right is that you have to be transparent in your use of AI. So that's what our teachers are doing. So when they're using AI it's more like hey I used AI to do this and how we're going through. So that's part of the policy and part of our practice that we are doing. Okay. All right. I think the one concern that I have is that we're while yes, it's it's definitely become much more useful and more accurate, there are still times when I use three or four different ones for work and almost daily I'm finding pretty significant errors and in what it returns. So, >> and I would say that that's why we chose to have AI be teacher controlled when it is open on the Chromebooks. So, I think that takes away
038some of that >> fear and that expectation that unless I'm giving you those explicit instructions to use AI, you should not be doing it to show your learning and show your work. >> All right. Okay. Cool. >> Thank you guys. They have been incremental in in AI roll out because AI is all technology and then teachers are the teachers. They bridge that gap purposes. Thank you guys so much for all your work on that. Um, where are my bullet points? Hello there. There we have [laughter] setting on. Sorry. >> You >> Oh, I didn't know it was stage. [laughter] The technology guy. >> So, uh, we'll take a look take a quick look back at at some of our current projects. We'll go through our our current statistics, take a little brief look at cyber
039security, and then take a little glimpse at our future projects. Um, kind of got to keep it high level. If you guys have any questions or you want to get into deep on anything, just let me know. We can we can take a gander. Um, from last year's goals, um, I uh those are the the pieces that we were aiming for last school year and kind of blending into this school year. We started out with improved communication platform. Um, in short, that's parents square. I think we talked about that we were moving away from Infinite Campus mainly due to the uh phone portion not working last year. People were getting 12 phone calls or no phone calls or three phone calls. We actually used it this year for our snow day. I don't think anybody
040noticed because everybody got one phone call and one text and it worked. So, um we'll go over to that completely over the summer and then by next uh by next uh fall we'll uh hopefully have that in place and ready to roll. Um, district cyber security incident response plan. I think I talked about that at the last meeting. Um, I think you guys saw that. Uh, we just put our cyber security insurance application in and I got to site that. So hopefully that'll bring our cost down for the cyber security insurance. It can't hurt anyone. Hope uh in infrastructure replacement cycle that is our switching in routing. We are at the beginning of our tenure replacement. With the current budgetary concern that on hold, we don't really have a choice right now. Um, we'll see
041where we can go the next year or the year after, but um, the there switches are 10 years old. Uh, we'll we'll replace them as soon as we can, but don't have it right now. AI roll it roll out. I don't really have to go into that. Jenny took care of that for me. And what I didn't put up there last year was the managers detection response. This was something I didn't want to put out there until I was sure we were going to get it. So, I found a grant that allowed us to elevate our regular antivirus to the next level, which would be a managed uh state. I'll go into that in a couple slides, but um that's basically what this last year entailed. So, some of our current statistics, uh we ran
042this from a technician standpoint, our our three technicians ran through 12, 1267 help desk tickets uh with an average closer time of 24 hours, so about once a day. Um we have a new technician that started this year. His name is Brian. He works at the Speed Lakes in Bay Lane. He's doing fantastic. Education's a little bit funny from a technology lens. I always kind of curious to how they're going to how they're going to adjust coming from a business world, but did great. Um, Chrome Pix statistics, we are actually down uh to 728 Chromebook repairs this year. That's down about 3 400 from last year. Um, which I love cuz out of those 700 Chromebooks, we repaired 60% of them. Last year we repaired 40%, we were paying them in for 50%. By us
043I mean our students actually repaired them rather than us having to sell send them out for uh repair. They fix them in house um which end up not costing us anything and they got to learn how to actually uh repair a chrome. Those are the statistics of actually what is wrong with the Chromebook. Those are both middle schools. If you take a close look, you'll notice that it's all screen, mostly screens, keyboards, touch pads, all the touch points from I'm going to grab this thing. I'm going to throw it across the room type deal. Luckily, the most of the actual uh devices themselves have been pretty stable. Motherboards have been pretty stable. Um all the memory hasn't has been pretty good. It's the usage that most of the air from. Ah, this is the manager
044detection response. So the big difference between our old antivirus and the new one is somebody handles the response for the for the incident when it occurs. Out of our malware threats this year we had 154. We had 46 last year so we're more than doubled. Um uh the amount of cyber attacks has increased obviously dramatically almost threefold for um so with only having three technicians to respond. We had a cyber security incident. the antivirus would lock it down, but somebody still had to respond to it. Well, they're at multiple schools, so it could take them all day for me. Even if they dropped what they were doing and going to the device, they they would it would take them hours to get there. Um, with our managed response, some I don't know, it's probably AI
045or partially AI, but there's a response at a at a national level where they lock it down and investigate it. the average response time is under 10 minutes which was timed perfectly with the dramatic increase in incidents that that we've brought that down to 10 minutes and we have nothing that was actually gotten looser outside of the environment. So it turned out really well really well programmed. Um really happy with it. Um by the way hat tools that's just us internally. Nobody tried to have tools. Uh what's coming up? Uh what's uh what's next? It's going to I think it's going to be a big one is the ADA digital compliance. So we are set to the federal um disabilities act mandates that at the October of 27 that we have to be digitally compliant
046for phase two of their roll out which means that all of our public facing websites and our public facing documents have to be in a certain um have certain requirements met meaning they have to be able to read by screen reader. They have to have certain contrast levels. So, we're going to have to redo all of our externally facing documents. I think it's going to be a lot of time. Um, we're still working on a plan for that. We have a year to do it, but we want to kind of get it in front of teachers before then the school so they can start planning their next other other uh lessons for fall when they come back. Uh, AI expansion, I think we're we're just getting into AI. Um, I think we're breaking a lot
047of new ground and I think uh we'll just continue expanding that. uh the uh application approval process and the alignment of devices are kind of together. So one of the things that we learned with AI is there's a lot of promises about how we don't use student data but they do. So uh we would have to we found out pretty quick that we have to look through the legal requirements of all these AI platforms because there's age restrictions in place for them. Um we also found that a lot of companies that we have been using are doing the same thing. They're they're saying, "Hey, well, this is actually 13 and up, but we're using at the middle school." So, we are going to have to start an application approval process where everything's going to have
048to get vetted from a teaching learning standpoint and then a privacy and security standpoint to make sure that it it meets our standard that we want to do. Um, there's a couple side benefits with that and a lot of times we have a lot of multiple versions of the same program that do the same thing. So we can kind of consolidate those and have one program that does this for the entire district and then get uh benefits of of budget benefits out of that. And the aligned alignment of the devices is very similar in that we have a lot of different devices doing different things. So I think we're going to try to standardize all the different devices that we're using to what it's actually needed rather than this needs this or that needs that.
049All in all that's kind of it in a nutshell. doesn't have any questions as much. >> So, like when you're saying the forward facing stuff that's ADA um compliant, are there tools that the teachers will have that will like whatever document they're in, we'll be able to convert it so that it's compatible? >> Yes and no. So, from like So, we're vetting the tools right now. Um it's too many for us to do from a department. So, teachers will have to do their own. Um >> the tools there's two types. So the website there will be a tool that'll tell them what's wrong with it. They have to go in and then adjust the website to make it compliant. Uh PDFs are going to be the big problematic one because PDFs are not readable in
050their native features. So they have to be either converted or eliminated. A lot of school districts right now are actually just going away from PDFs completely and just putting everything in Google. >> Um because PDFs for the amount of time and money that it's going to take to pull everything down, convert it and put it back up hours and hours. I know like CISA was said that they're not doing anything with PDFs anymore and some other school districts as well. >> That'd be fun. >> Yeah. I just and it makes me wonder too about like just file sharing and stuff like that. How much you have to regulate for that too. >> If it's internal to internal and it doesn't go to public or a large group, then it's okay. >> That is okay. >>
051Anything that's public facing that needs to be addressed. Okay. >> And that unfortunately includes dudes letters and any affiliate. So like if there's a club that's affiliated with us but put things through our website that has to be compliant as well. >> Okay. And then like the tools that the schools use like some more and stuff like that are they already >> depends on the tools. I think is pretty good about it. Um the new one parent square for example they have a a checkbox where we can enforce ADA compliance upon creation. >> So it forces you to put all the headers and contrastings in there. That won't be good because we're starting from scratch. So we can just turn that on and they won't know any different. But for ones like small that they'll
052have to be adjusted. >> Okay. >> There's no I'm sorry. There's no grant. You made whole documents. You have to change everything. >> Correct. >> Yeah. That was [clears throat] all the meetings that we went to. That was one of the bigger things that they were saying because everybody was like, "Oh, we don't have to touch archives, right?" >> Yeah. You have to touch it all. If it's seen, we have to make sure it's not. Okay. >> That's the first time question never came from over here. >> Yeah. [laughter] I tried to hold him. >> Andy get a hold of a lot. >> A lot of work. >> Yeah. >> And I guess public facing on the website. Does that include Google classroom? >> Yeah. That was going to be the that one I think
053won't be too that well actually Google Classroom will be fine. It's the documents that are shared via Google Classroom. >> Um that's where the teachers left kind of see what they're pushing out and either have it pull out that they come forward. But would result on that. [laughter] >> Is that a law just for school districts or is it for like health things or everybody? >> Yeah. As a matter of fact, EPI just pulled their site down. They're pulling their site down soon to do theirs. Some people are >> started getting started. So some some depending on population they were mandated by this April today, >> right? the our our community population is uh under 50,000. So we have another >> the bigger the population the smaller one that we have. >> It's good to
054be small on it. >> Maybe technology will come up with a way to make it more >> close the gap on that. So maybe comes with a platform at least% >> and that's today. So by next year hopefully Good luck. A >> lot of work. [laughter] Anybody wants help? >> Good luck. Thank [laughter] >> you're helping. >> I'm thinking that's good for like disciplinary actions maybe from the high school. You could say [laughter] >> they'll never do anything wrong. [laughter] >> All right. Well, thank you guys very much for your hard work. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> All right, the next item on the superintendent report. I really appreciate Jeremiah Johnson's leadership and spearheading uh the process and he's going to give us a brief update on our vacant land. >> Yeah. So, for
055a couple board meetings, we've talked about the potential of uh severing off some land over at Mosqua Lakes Middle School in Mil Valley. So, Mil Valley is along Rine Avenue just south of Fleet Farm. So, it's really become a commercial corridor over there and some folks believe it's pretty marketable. And then the back 40 essentially of Mosqu Lakes um would have the opportunity to build a potential residential neighborhood. We do own a home as we've shared in the past. That home is pretty dilapitated. So, it would benefit us at some point to to sell it even if it was just the the home itself, but we do have to maintain a drive that's like our emergency drive lane that accesses the school. So we did have a surveyor delineate all the properties. So Mosquito Lakes
056is now broke down into three properties uh versus two being the house and the school and then Mil Valley is now broke down into two properties as well and that's been approved by them. So the next step would be to come forward to you guys after we've talked to legal counsel and and ensure that these properties aren't needed for the school district and you guys would have to declare that this is excess no longer needed for educational purposes. Jerem, just so I'm just clear on these maps. So the page one, lot one and lot three are the two that you're talking about, not lot two, cuz that's where the school is. >> I'd probably be in trouble if I said lot two. [laughter] >> And then on page two, that would be bad. >> Page
057two is the lot that's on Racing. >> Uh page two is just a zoom in of >> Oh, of lot one. >> Yeah, correct. >> Okay. And so then the one that you're talking about for the one on Racine is the one on page four. >> Wow. Correct. Yep. >> And it would be lot one on there. >> Yep. >> And not lot two. >> Yeah. >> Fun fact, you used a mosquito high school graduate to draw these up. >> My only question on this. So if we do go forward and sell this stuff, how does the money get to the district? So like what can it be used for for how long? >> So the sale of any property just goes into the [snorts] it would be like assumed fund balance, right? Because it
058be revenue and above any expenses that we had. So it would be allocated to fund balance to be able to be used whenever the board wish >> just for that year or we can save it. The benefit of using the the sale of any property proceeds in the same year is that there's no tax impact if you're spending as much as your like if you're overspending your budget but you got additional revenues to support it. >> There's no tax impact. So there is a benefit. Um if you wait until the future um depending on where we are in the equalization formula, there could be a tax impact depending on how we used it and how much we used. Um, it could also be put into fund 46 for future capital project utilization or you know,
059however the board would wish to do it. Pardon >> chair on lot one by Mosqu Lakes. Is there the pond in there? Where's the retention pond in that? >> The pond stays on our property. It's on to the left of the school. Okay. Any other questions on that? All right. Then the last item in the superintendent report. Um just an opportunity to say thank you to Miss Katrina Beck, one of our Spanish teachers. Uh she was recently she recently authored a white paper that was published in a professional journal. The article experiences Thanks Andy. Good job. >> Examine Spanish for specific uses. Uh in the article, she utilizes her experiences with our Spanish for business and healthcare courses to frame out high leverage instructional practices from both a secondary level perspective and a college level
060application. So tonight in our um educational services meeting, we were talking about how our world language is under review and they were reviewing white papers from around the nation of best practices. It's pretty awesome to know that some of our own teachers are some of the folks writing those papers that even in some of the postsecary institutions and lacrosse for example, one of their professors reached out to Katrina to learn more about what she's doing because they were very intrigued with the practices. So just really proud of that team and uh the fact that they're contributing well outside of Mosquito is something to be very proud of. So that concludes the president's report or excuse me superintendent report [laughter] some kind of >> back off a little bit. >> Sit down. They don't want to
061see the student. You're like everybody now. You think you're done. You can do the rest of the meeting. That's fine. >> All right. Other reports. President report. Just congratulations to Bob and Jason for being reelected. We had no doubt. We're glad to have you back on the team. And second clerk's report. And we will administer the oath to Jason. Is there anything that they have to read specifically for the clerk's report? >> I think just the um the oath is >> that's it. >> Yeah. And then just noting that the canvas is in there, but I don't think you need to read it off. >> Okay. All right. So yeah, attached in there is the canvas >> of the the uh vote >> and Jason >> sweet off and happy. >> Thank you. I appreciate
062that. >> All right. >> Can you raise your right hand? >> Yes, I can. I, Jason Samorski. I, Jason Zamorski, >> have having been duly elected to the office >> having been duly elected to the office >> of the schoolboard member for the Mosquo Norway school district >> of the schoolboard member of the Mosquo Norway school district >> but had not yet entered upon the duties therefore >> but had not entered upon the duties therefore >> swear >> or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States >> and the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin >> in the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin >> and will faithfully discharge the duties of said office >> and will faithfully discharge the duties
063of said office >> to the best of my abilities. So help me God. >> to the best of my abilities. So help me God. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. [applause] >> We will do um Bob separate. Jason will catch up with Bob to do his separate, but we will do um a big one in at [snorts] the next meeting just so we can do one for him at night. Okay. >> All right. Board member reports. Chris, >> just congratulations to Bob and Jason. >> Jason, >> happy to be on for another three years. >> Lori ditto. Congrats. >> Thank you. Congratulations. And CISA had uh sent out um updates for their meetings. I have a meeting tomorrow that's in person which um kind of uh highlighted some of the students that are in their schooling
064getting scholarships and stuff. So that'll be kind of fun tomorrow cuz they do a little honor for them. >> Kevin, >> congratulations. Thank you. >> All right, moving on to committee reports. Educational services committee report. Um the committee met before the schoolboard meeting. We had a a lot of stuff that we discussed and there will be minutes posted after I go home and take them. Uh policy committee report they were and since Bob's [snorts] not here, I'll just read that. I'll be Bob unless you would like to be Bob, too. [laughter] >> Well, they do sit next to each other. Uh the the committee reviewed NEOA Special Updates uh update act 57 their last meeting and I believe there's some policies that we're going to be approving yeah tonight. um and business services. >> Uh
065we started discussing the WSB contract and its renewal and we'll bring it back for another review at the next committee meeting with potential alternatives. I believe we've also got a date scheduled for them to attend >> uh a committee meeting May 18th. >> May 18th. Thank you. And we also discussed student and family handbooks which um very nicely synchronized. So thank you. >> Standardized. >> Yes. >> All right. Thank you committee people. Lots of work. Okay. Moving on to resolution action items. Um, Neiola policy revisions, special update act 57, policy 1213, mandatory reporting of sexual misconduct policy 3213, student supervision and welfare and policy 8462, child abuse and neglect. >> Motion to approve the Neola changes recommended by the policy committee as presented. >> Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. >> Opposed?
066Motion passes. uh 2026 27 budget >> motion to approve the 2026 27 preliminary budget assumptions as presented. >> So second >> discussion. >> Thank you for pulling this together. Oh, you're welcome. Um the uh budget that we are building is based on the assumptions that were put into boards. Um we are still we are in the second year. This will be the second year of the brand new budget. Um so we do have some idea of what's in law right now, but there's still a lot of conversation at the state level. Something just came out today as well, how they're hoping to get closer to some resolution um on how to spend the budget surplus at the state level. So, um it could be tax credits back to taxpayers. It could be something to help
067reduce the overall property taxes. Um there is a big push to continue fully funding the special education aid which um as of right now was written into the budget this current year at 42% and has is coming in about 38%. um and then 45% next year and um in the assumptions we built in like 41% because it's never as much as what they um as what they they promise. So u we're hoping to see um I use that word lightly hoping um we are building it very conservatively. So in the event we don't get these additional funds we will have a balanced budget for you. Um but in the event that we do have these additional funds, it just provides us um additional uh revenues to bring in for our system. So just going through
068quickly on the preliminary budget assumptions page, the expenditure assumptions we've listed for health and dental insurance. Um 15% for health and 3% for dental. We've done utility increases by 2%. Um salary increases are built into the budget based on the compensation models that exist for both support staff and certified staff. um but also aligned to CPI which is 2.63% 63% this year. Um, according to the WERC, transportation and fuel, we have a 5% increase. We are in we are going into the third year of our three-year contract. So, we know that amount. Um, as far as what our transportation increase will be, the fuel um, we've seen about a 5% increase. Um, so we will be coming back with a transportation proposal um, this year. also for the next couple years. As far as revenue
069goes, we are running the assumptions based on the increase of the $325 per pupil. Uh we as of right now have no increase to the state equalization aid for the current bianial budget. Uh no increase in categorical aid and that's the per pupil categorical aid of 742 per student. We are budgeting the 41% for special education reimbursement, not 45%. um open enrollment funding for our regular ad is at 11,030 and 14,882 for special education students. So we built in the increase to the dollar amount, but we did not build in an increase for students. So any students above and beyond we have now will be additional support within the budget. Uh we are running all three scenarios of what things could look like if we have flat enrollment, a decrease of 50 and a decrease
070of 100. On the next page that we'll look at, I did build in the decrease of 100 because that creates the biggest budget strain for us. And so we want to be sure we're capturing all of those um expenses as a result of that. And then again, we try to continue to look at keeping the tax levy as low as possible. However, the way that the state has changed funding over the last couple of years, we are relying more on taxpayers to provide those increases and our revenue overall. We will not know the final ed um allocation of equalization until October. We won't know our third Friday account until September. Our property valuations come in October 1st from the Department of Revenue. Um and then the shared costs themselves that kind of fit into how
071we fit into the equalization aid don't come in until September October. So all of those items are still up in the air as we continue to talk about the budget. Um but again, these are just the assumptions that we're building that budget to bring forward to you. for the 15% for health insurance. Is that coming from somewhere? >> It is an estimate right now based on what we've seen the last couple years. Um we continue to have conversations with our health insurance company. They're running numbers um as of March. March was um there was an uptick in March for us. So, our um goal is to have those percent increases um finalized by June so that we know for open enrollment in July, people have the option to see what that looks like. But 15%
072right now seems pretty reasonable based on where we're at. >> Okay. >> Hopefully, it's less. >> Less, but >> well, the standard across the nation is at 10% no matter what, right? And then it's just how you're running as an organization, >> right? Yes, >> Utilities. I have a quick question. We Energy is kicking around another rate hike for next year and the year after and it's averaging 10% if they get it passed. How close were we on our utility this year? >> Um, [laughter] working with Jamie and Julie today just to try to squeeze where we could to buffer up specifically the high school. And we also got hit every with gas costs which was separate from the energies this year. There was a major constraint. So we're trying the best we can to
073squeeze every dollar we can. Even now you're running air conditioning on the schools until May first. So >> things like today be kind of tricky. >> So it's it's more mitigation and management to try to avoid or at least kind of >> defay the the expected potential increase. >> Yeah, that's part of it. And then we can also as we continue through the summer if things change we can make adjustments in that area as well. >> Okay. All right. Cool. >> When will we be looking at open enrollment numbers? [clears throat] Is that like June July? >> Starting May seat open the next meeting. >> Our seats are communicated. Families have applied meaning [clears throat] May 1st is when we begin to start to accept. I believe it's May 1st. >> Um so that's when
074we can start communicating to families. So again, it's interesting. So many pieces of the budget puzzle aren't known at times when you're trying to really solidify things. So um our fill rate historically has been around 60 to 65% of the seats we offer actually fill. Um we're hopeful and optimistic. We've opened more seats than we have in the past to try to offset that decline in enrollment. Um we did more communication and um subtle advertising this year, so we do have more applications than we've had in the past. So there's a level of optimism that we'll have more. So, but we won't really know. And then the other tricky part is unfortunately there are times where you get families who accept a seat and then school starts and they decide that they're not comfortable with
075the 30 minute commute they have to school to drop their child off and then they get back to work and then 30 minutes at the end of the day to come pick their child up and then sometimes they change their mind after a day of school. Um, so there's been some unique nuances that a little disappointing [clears throat] to experience the last couple years. >> Do we fill that though? We can. >> We try. Yep. So we have a weight list. It's just really unfortunate if a family doesn't choose to really make an informed decision about the nuances of the amount of time it might take to commute. And I understand it's a family decision, but um feels like you might want to look into that before you um submit an open enrollment application because
076then if they change your mind at that point, our fill rate really goes down as you get closer to the school year because often times families have just accepted. I'm on the wait list so I may not get a seat and then they go to the open house at their resident school and sometimes they're less likely to change their mind at that point. So, but we Jamie's police does a great job tracking down families and our building administrators do a great job bringing folks in for tours and setting the stage to welcome them in. >> Kirkland is just starting to break down break for houses. >> Yeah. And I had heard that there was a hangup on some levels with something in whether it was the permitting or construction that some costs were um again
077I apologize I don't know the exact that there was a hangup of some sort. So there was >> some additional costs that were being transitioned on to the builders which were then being transitioned on to potential home buyers. So >> not moving as quickly as we'd like. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> It's okay. We got my kids coming into the school district and >> we will take it in. >> Got a house and a little speaker. >> It this process, as everyone knows, is painful. No one wants to be in a situation where you're declining enrollment and being in backto-back years where we're having a reduction in force. Um, for what it's worth, I do feel proud of the way our team has approached this. Using our strategic plan as like the backdrop for every
078decision we make has an impact on kids. And we are making reductions not because we want to, but because we need to have a balanced budget and that is a hard part of whether it's public education or private business. This is the way the world works. Um the way our teams at each building and from the district office has sat down and looked at every single thing we do, where are there spaces where we can try to conserve some dollars to continue to reinvest in the things that we believe are the highest impact on our students. So, we'll continue to share more information about that um in the May board meeting as well with where those places where some of those adjustments have been made. But just um for a district that prides itself on
079taking care of its employees and staff engagement, uh this was a very emotional spring for folks and it may feels odd to say, but I'm proud of the way our staff has responded to a very difficult journey. like their love for the work really shines, but in some ways that just makes it even harder. But they're still continuing to do awesome work for our students and appreciate the team's efforts to continue to find a way to balance a budget. >> Any other questions for Julie? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed? Motion passes. Gifts, grants, and requests. Motion to approve with thanks the following donations. Lake View Elementary School Rim Rocker's performance valued at $1,000 and Rachel's Challenge keynote speaker, $160 anonymous donations, $500 from St. Leonard's Christian for uh formation, $750 from
080Moskeville Lions Club, $40 from the Gowen family, $200 from the Cusk family, and $150 from the false family. Second. The anonymous donations are a representation of St. Leonard's uh school district. >> Any other discussion? >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> Motion passes. >> You will find discussion items, information followup there, and then we are going to go back into another closed session. We will be returning for a vote after the close session. So vote for close session pursuant to Wisconsin statute 19.85 sub1 subc considering employment promotion compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility specifically contract nonrenewals. >> So moved. Second. >> Any discussion? Bill public. >> Chris, >> yes. Terry,
081>> yes. >> Lori, >> yes. >> Tracy, >> yes. >> Kevin, >> we are in close session. Any discussion? Uh all in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> We are journed. Everybody.