001We'll call this meeting to order. Schoolboard meeting March 9, 2026. Verification of meeting posted. This meeting was posted in accordance with open meeting laws. Attendance roll. All right, we do have quum. If everybody would stand als nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all motion to approve the agenda as presented. >> Any discussion? All in favor say I. I opposed. Motion passes and we're going to go right into number two, recognitions. >> All right. Well, our first recognition will have the opportunity to bring our dance team up front after an absolutely incredible performance again 2026 state championship event where they placed second place in the D1 kick and third place in the D1 pound team. So, if we could please have our incredible dance team come on up to the front. Well, again, this certificate
002just a simple reminder of the incredible work you've done. But what this cannot represent is the countless hours upon hours of hard work that you guys invest into your sport. This is a sport that you just show up to be great. You truly work so hard behind the scenes when no one is watching. So when the spotlight comes up and effort that you invested into it really has the privilege of the success that you had. Thank you. you certificate in grateful for high school dance team. exceptionally high for kick and third place for D1 at the WACPC division state. Ellie Ver. Samantha, Isabel, Evan West. Olivia, Emily, Kaitlyn, Sophia So, the wallet really sweet. Let's come Julia. Isabella >> Maline Draper. This is Quinn Kinsky. Rihanna. Oh, I got this one. Lauren Rogers. Olivia will
003have an incredible team incredible coaching staff. behind the scenes. The awesome work and dedication to helping our students learn and succeed is noticed as well. >> Rachel, thank you all. Congratulations to You guys try to get a picture. Come on. Yeah. Put down a good Where's my kids? seats. >> Yeah. All right. So our next celebration is one that truly warms my heart because oftentimes we navigate through our days as educators and folks who work in the world of education and there are just things that sometimes we take for granted. Every year we go through training um through multiple modes and one of the trainings that we received was on him maneuver and for all of us we hope that you're never going to have to use any of that training but a little over
004a week ago uh Myra Bartell who is the lead custodian here at Lake View in this beautiful building that always looks incredible happened to be in the cafeteria when a student came up um who was choking and was giving the signal for choking and without hesitation she immediately went to her training and was able to dislodge the object that was in the student's throat um and in essence very likely could have saved the student's life without missing a beat, without any level of panic. And the level of care and concern truly exemplifies what we believe it means to be a part of our system. So on behalf of our entire school board, our our our staff and our community, thank you for your quick action, for your investment and engagement in the training that you
005do and for taking it seriously. Um you truly do exemplify what it means to be a part of the One Warrior family. So, if you wouldn't mind coming up, we just want to take a picture and just thank you again. >> We didn't do a certificate because we didn't think there was a good certificate. Okay. Awesome. and that concludes our celebrations. >> So, um number three is public comment. Do we have anyone? Oh, all right. So, nobody signed up for public comment and we move on to number four, consent agenda. Motion to approve consent agenda as presented. Any discussion or would anyone like any specific item removed for individual consideration? All right. All in favor say I. >> I opposed. Motion passes on to student representation. Hello everyone. So at our elementary schools, Bayane had
006another outstanding year of fundraising for American Heart Association. As a school, they raised over $44,000, which put them at the third highest earner in the state. Thank you to Mr. Hzel and Mr. Carlson for organizing this event. And a special shout out to all of the amazing staff members who volunteered to get slimed by the highest fundraisers in each grade. Marchville Valley was also kicked off with ReadAcross America Week. The theme was champion kindness. Classrooms enjoyed guest readers along with you've been booked bags for grade levels to share that contain books that centered around the theme of kindness. At our middle schools, there will be an eighth grade career fair on Friday, March 20th at Lake Denon. This is a great opportunity for students to explore different careers they'd be interested in and even ones
007that they don't know anything about. For musicals, Lake Denon put on their production of Spongebob this past weekend. It was so hilarious and a great show for families to go and see. and mosquito Lakes will be having their Little Mermaid shows this weekend at the PAC with two sets of casts that are excited to perform. Spring sports are also kicking off at the middle school such as track and field with practices beginning soon. Best Buddies and the band at Lakeon are hosting a Culver's fundraisers night. Best Buddies having theirs on the 5th while the band is having theirs on the 25th. Bus buddies also hosted a spread the word day on the 4th prompting students and teachers to wear mismatch clothing or choose inclusion shirts to show how wonderfully unique they are. Mosquito Lakes is
008also starting their Musky Money Madness competition this week. This is a fun grade level competition where students can bring in coins to either add points to their grade bins or deduct points from others. At the high school, the MHS musical crew and orchestra performed their show of Strike the Musical this past month. It was an amazing show that showcased so much talent from our students. Juniors are also cramming in their last minute studying and review before they take the ACT tomorrow, which I'm personally so excited for. And drama club is also starting auditions for Julia Caesar, which is going to be their new show. Winter sports are also wrapping up with our wrestlers competing in state this past weekend. Our girls basketball team finishing their season with a hard fight. And our boys still advancing
009in playoffs. Now we're transitioning into spring sports such as track, lacrosse, baseball, softball, and soccer as they're hosting their child's weekend next and practices starting sooner. >> Thanks. >> All right, thank you. >> All right, moving on to superintendent report. All right. Well, it is my pleasure first to introduce our wonderful Lake View staff for their midyear report to the board. All right. Well, thanks everyone for being here tonight. I know we are rounding out your traveling board sessions on daylight savings, 70°ree weather. So, thanks for being here. Uh Courtney Peterson is our teaching and learning coach and she's going to be presenting with me tonight. Here we go. Okay. So, Lake View's academic achievement for the 2425 school year has been recognized by the US News and we have been placed in the top
0104% of elementary schools in Wisconsin. So, this really just reflects the Lake View staff, family, and the district's ongoing dedication to making sure that we're putting students at the forefront of every decision that we're making. All right. Next on our report card, academic achievements are very noteworthy. So, we're really proud of our accomplishments here. We're committed to being reflective and on our continuous improvement journey. So, knowing that each year brings a new wave of students with specific needs, we're able to identify areas that we want to replicate and then areas that we want to grow and learn from. All right, for student achievement, when we look at student achievement, it's definitely a strong point for Lake View. Specifically, this data shows that both in ELA and in math, we did increase in our advanced students
011this past year on the forward exam. In literacy, 75% of our third and fourth grade students received proficient or advanced. And in math, 83% of third and fourth grade students received proficient and advanced. So, these two data points did help Lake View earn a prominent 94.3 score for achievement. All right, for student growth. So while our growth grade path wavered from years past, we wanted to collaborate to secure plans in place to make sure we're monitoring and making sure all students are progressing in the right direction. So for first off, our school SLO has a schoolwide focus where we routinely go over data and in next path to make sure we're all consistent and on the same page. Second, our wonderful coaches, exhibit A and exhibit B, are just so resourceful here at Lake View.
012Their classroom is high traffic. students access them all the time. They intervene and extend and just making sure they're proactive as possible. Third is our curriculum. We are getting more and more familiar with our resources and we're increasing our ability to deliver the fidelity and integrity of each curriculum. And then lastly, we are committed to our PLC's. Um our teachers meet, excuse me, our teachers meet on a semi-weekly basis around literacy and mathematics. to make sure we're really monitoring student understanding of what is happening in the classroom. So, Courtney's going to go do a deep dive as to what that looks like here at Lake View. Um, so our commitment to student academic growth is a systematic practice. By rooting ourselves in our professional learning communities, we ensure instructional decisions are backed by evidence of
013student learning. We begin by analyzing where our students are right now and this allows us to see exactly which skills need targeting. We then align students needs with our curriculum pacing in order to keep students on track with grade level standards. We can then plan flexible grouping so that students have mastered concepts. The students who have mastered concepts can receive enrichment while those in need of additional support will be provided with scaffolds and reteing. Teachers then use formative assessment data to reflect and refine instruction based on their ongoing evidence. At Lake View, we aren't just looking at a single test score. We are layering universal screening data on top of our classroom achievement data to get a 360 degree view of every student. Our universal screening data act access acts as our safety net and
014it ensures that no student slips through the cracks regardless of how they are performing on classroom assessment. So looking at the achievement versus growth quadrants in the top right, we don't just celebrate high achievers. We focus heavily on high growth because that is the true measure of our instructional impact. This allows us to see if our practices and inter interventions are actually moving the needle. The change over time graphs in the bottom left allows our PLC's to see if a specific instructional dip was a one-time event or a trend that requires an adjustment in universal instruction. By layering all these data points, we eliminate the guesswork in our PLC meetings. We use the universal screening data to identify the gap and the classroom data to measure the bridge we are building. It allows us to
015pivot our instruction in real time, ensuring that by the next data cycle, every student has moved closer to that high growth quadrant. Um, the data analysis leads us to reflection. As we move further into the implementation of our math and ELA resources, we have so much to celebrate and areas in which we can continue to learn and grow. Specifically in math, we have a better understanding of the resource and day-to-day lesson structure. Something we are beginning to explore are the variety of additional resources that are included with the curriculum, such as concept quests for student extension opportunities and intervention materials available for students needing reteing and support. Just as we're finding our stride with bridges in year three, we are seeing similar themes of growth in our literacy instruction. Now, in year two of my
016view, we're seeing some fantastic blows in our foundational skills, specifically with our phonics implementation. We are going to continue to improve the gradual release of responsibility model and professional development of writing instruction as we move further into the resource. And while our curriculum provides the foundation, our building culture provides the momentum. To ensure our students see themselves as lifelong readers, we've implemented several events and incentives that turn reading into a community celebration. We just completed our Battle of the Books competition for second, third, and fourth graders. This provided a high level of student engagement and encouraged students to read a variety of books to prepare for the competition. Our one book, one school initiative brought our school community together to engage in this shared text, Dog Town. As all of our staff and students read
017this book over the course of several weeks, students had opportunities to participate in a robot dog building competition, weekly trivia, and reading with Juny, a very furry visitor. And as you can see in that bottom right photo, we had another furry visitor come in and kick off our one book, one school um initiative and help us conclude it. All these efforts are supporting a year-long goal to collectively reach 1 million minutes as a school. And we know that academic growth and student behavior go hand in hand. So when a student is engaged and supported, behavior improves and when behavior is managed, learning accelerates. This leads to our building goals we have been working towards in the 2526 school year. So our academic goal is by the end of the 2526 school year, the total population
018of students identified as needing an academic support will reduce by 25%. And then our goal around student behavior is that by the end of the school year, the frequency of behavior incidents will be reduced by 25%. All right. So, we know in order to hit our bullseye, we really need to have a robust system for students. So, this is going to take us into our PBIS system. So, next path has really given us the opportunity to analyze trends, locations, time of day, all those things that really want to like pinpoint what we need to focus our attention on. So schoolwide data is shared with staff and students and we reflect on what's going well and areas that we need to draw our attention to. So then up here our student recognition we really aim to
019ensure that students are recognized on a regular basis and supported throughout their academic journey. We've implemented various structures for staff to acknowledge students on a frequent basis to make sure that their achievements are being recognized, positive decisions and then their integrity as well. So, as a community, we really enjoy respecting each other and hearing about others successes. Morning announcements is one of those things that kids get to hear each other's successes and celebrate with them, but also just making sure that they're held to high standards as well. All right. So, I particularly really like this slide because at the beginning of the year, PBIS is set up for like a schoolwide expectations. And so, we revisit those, teach them very regularly and routinely. And it's also provides that foundation for which Lake View really lives
020on. From there though, the classroom is really customizable. So teachers with their students will identify areas of need that they want to get better at and they will incentivize and provide immediate feedback for kids to really kind of reward and work towards. So if I draw your attention to the red star up there, it's a very simple but really strong implementation that a kindergarten teacher does. So, if a student or a class is working on sitting on the carpet with behavior basics or behavior expectations, working on not shouting out, the teacher will just gently throw a pom pom to them. It's very low distraction. The kids just grab it, set it to their side. They accumulate these pom poms over time and when they check in with their teacher, they can turn it in for
021a sticker, a pencil. So, many pom poms would award them to be able to sit in the teacher's chair for the day. All very easy things, but it makes a big difference in the classroom. Then if you look at the blue star kind of going all the way up to fourth grade, um this teacher tied it in with the Olympics. So students were working on um not shouting out, working independently during work time and they were awarded so many points over the course of the month and should they meet their goal then they were awarded a pajama day. All of which they were able to have autonomy in deciding how their class operates. So part of our PBS approach is to make sure we regularly create those opportunities for us to come together as a
022schoolwide community. So building that camaraderie across the building is really refreshing and energizing. So whether it's a dress up day that we all coordinate to dress together or schoolwide activity promoting that one more year model we really anchor to these days as we have tons of energy and enthusiasm from students and staff. All right. So our students voices are incredibly important. Students in grades second through fourth get to take our student experience survey and so it really shows a positive reflection of their experience here at Lake View. So safety, learning, and relationships are the top priorities and top respondent answers. While we still are looking at treating each other with respect, those are areas that we're really looking at during unstructured times such as the bus and recess. All right. Lake View is highly regarded
023for students and the extra opportunities that they're given beyond the classroom. So, we really try to provide this holistic approach for students to thrive within. And these opportunities are made possible because of the Lake View staff. They dedicate their own time, whether it's the lunch hour prep just to give students the opportunity to be introduced to new extracurricular activities. All right. For the employee experience, I selflessly just love being a part of the school community here. the work we do matters and I it matters because you get to collaborate with some of the greatest professionals I've ever been able to work with. So when you I'm able to be surrounded by people who not only improved your craft, the culture really sets the tone for itself. All right. So then we're fully driven by our
024passion to work and we know that the work that we do has a significant impact. Our team is fully aware how we are in charge of shaping the future. So, we're focused on creating that environment with mutual respect, and our team works together to show that unwavering dedication to both our students and each other. So, we keep our spirits high by supporting each other through thick and thin, committed to the mission, and truly enjoying what we're doing, and making sure we have balance and perspective in all that we do. All right. The amazing staff at Lake View is the driving force behind what we believe is an incredible achievements and environments that we've set. This talented group of visuals works tirelessly around the clock and pours their hearts into the students day in and day
025out. All right. Our mission is to bridge home and school. Keeping families essential pillar in what we do. Collaboration with parents and caregivers really enhances student achievement, attendance, behavior, and overall attitude towards learning. Engaging families remains a top priority for here at Lake View. making sure that when we work together, we know that the benefit for the student is truly out outlasts anything. Last but not least, our parent teacher organization is exceptional here at Lake View. They volunteer their time and energy. They make meet regularly once a month to plan these really memorable experiences for our Lake View families and students. Some to just highlight are the Windlake food drive where students competitive edge comes out. The glow dance, dragon dash, and family fun night are really great high attend high turnout opportunities that happen
026in the evening. Then we have track side which is in the bottom right where they organized um an opportunity for students to get together outside on non-school days. And then last but not least, breakfast with my vet and the giving tree are ways that we support Mosquo and the greater community. All right. So, our motto, small school, big heart reflects a community where size is a strength. Being a school allows us to know each student by their name and deep relationships that we have with them. A big heart speaks to the culture and care and empathy and support where every student is known and valued. And then the lasting impacts highlights the school commitment to make sure students values and experiences stay with them beyond their elementary time. So that concludes our presentation. Um we
027just want to say thanks for giving us the opportunity to showcase Lake View tonight. If you guys have any comments or questions, we're here. Thanks. >> Sorry. Um so under the student responses >> y >> the top you know almost five ones relative to teacher principal um learning >> dropping below four with other students treat treating with respect. >> Yeah. >> Unfortunately that doesn't surprise me right from the standpoint of I mean your staff is fantastic and they're trying to get all the the to understand how love they are. >> Is there anything that you see that's even the like these are the top four. Is there anything these weren't the only four questions? >> So, kind of how I structured is I did our top three on the left hand side and then I
028did our bottom one on the right hand side. >> Oh, okay. So, that is the bottom one. >> That is the bottom one. Yes. >> All right. I mean, that's a tough one, right? I mean, how how do you get kids to treat each other with respect? Some of the things you're doing, right? I get that. But, thank you for that. explanation. >> Yeah, I Yes, I could have done a better job at that. Yeah, the respectfulness is just tough. Every year we really talk about that, but it really goes back to those unstructured times of there's just so much energy and passion kids have have on the playground that just can resonate and stay with them throughout the course of the day and it really impacts, you know, how they respond to that. So,
029we try to take it early in the morning when we catch them, but then you have the bus that you So, it's all the things, you know, but overall I would say we're I don't I don't have it memorized. um what our overall student response score is. It's very high, but that one is just something that we kind of have to just continue to plug away with. >> Well, I think we see that at all levels, right? >> Correct. >> To speak into all of their lives and tell them how important they are regardless of maybe what somebody said on the playground. So, >> yes. Yep. And something that's a little deal to us may be a really big deal to them. So, >> thank you for all that you're doing on that. And >>
030thank you. >> Just try to understand because how import is for them to go confidently into middle school uh and then confidently into high school is a big impact on their academic performance. >> Agreed. Agreed. Thank you. >> Um for the teacher the turn up the volume um for the teacher input of what their decisions are and stuff was the lowest one for them. >> Correct. So, do you have a means or a way where they can anonymously like suggest things? So, if they feel like maybe they don't um can't, you know, put that out there that they have a way or a means to do that. >> Yeah, we definitely have opportunities. We had a staff roll out survey um of staff meeting for that. And then we kind of just provided those operational
031times to just give us feedback ongoing. Um, but I definitely like to do our roundings and check-ins and making sure that even with my I am the gold leads and just have my hand in various areas of the building just so I can get that pulse. But, um, I'd like to operate under open door policy, but you know, try, but some things may come up that I had no idea. No idea. So, just continuously checking in with all stakeholder groups because that is a reflection from certified and support staff. Right. >> It's unfortunately been a theme throughout our elementary buildings and part of that has been the results of the new curriculum in both math and literacy is much more prescriptive than what it once was. So where we had had success historically was a
032strong curriculum and then it took years that our staff was kind of revamping it and identifying areas to improve. um when you adopt a new curriculum, all of that kind of goes to the side and you have to implement that curriculum with fidelity, which to our professionals feels like we're being forced to stay inside this narrow box as we ensure that we are doing it with fidelity. So that will also lessen as we continue to move forward and look at our data where students might be struggling and across our system where we had groups struggling, what were those additional things that our staff developed to help kind of close those gaps and take it to the next level. So, we are all watching that in all three of our elementary buildings and are optimistic that
033will improve. >> Yeah. >> It's lovely to see how much the parents enjoy your school and stuff though. I mean, their your lowest level for that one was like almost five. So, that was great. >> Yeah, we have a really great partnership with our parents. They've they've been in really steady space with like communication and they have just a rhythm and what they expect and what one's coming what's coming on the calendar next. So, it's just a very nice >> they know what to expect and we follow through on that. >> Yeah. >> So, just to piggy back off of what you were saying before, it being kind of like a a bit of a trend across all the elementary schools. Does that mean that there's something that is not necessarily school specific, but it's
034kind of like outside of even just the individual school's control to give that or mean like it's kind of because of curriculum changes and everything else. It's more districtwide than it is just specific to a school that >> I think anything that's new is we're just kind of, you know, working through some of the kinks. I can confidently say that there's really nice responses as they're in year two with the literacy curriculum. So, it's just it's going to take time and but the right supports are in place and um the nice progress that we've seen I'm speaking for literacy in particular kindergarteners last year now first graders like it's been really great. Our data has been really great which is a huge testament to the curriculum that we adopted. So, we're we're getting there. So,
035I think as we continue to progress, they're going to see some really nice benefits that kids are going to come in with. >> Okay. >> It's going to take time. >> Cool. >> Teachers that were teaching the phonics had phonics when they were growing cuz like my age group, we all had phonics, but then it went away and so maybe they're not used to teaching that type. You know what I mean? >> Well, and some of just to kind of go back to that original question as well. Um I just really want to highlight how incredible our staff are. um if it was as simple as having great curriculum to have great outcomes, we wouldn't be seeing the challenges we're seeing across the state of Wisconsin. So I think it was a really hard transition
036for a lot of our buildings that we had been so successful and not because the curriculum was good or bad but because of the magic they do with their collaborative teams taking a look at our data identifying what instructional strategies are working. Where are we missing the gap? How do we close the gap for the students who aren't there yet? How do we extend it for those who have it? But what made us great before this new curriculum was trying it out with fidelity at first and really getting a good hold of the strengths and where the gaps might be with any of the resources. So, we're very confident that as these years progress, that teacher voice that they're craving to get back and the voice in in the decisions that impact their job will
037also come out a little bit more fully because we really do have great people. Like I can't say enough how um the conversations in every building, each one of these data points was a point of concern for them that they're so driven by the outcomes for our students because they genuinely care >> and do let them know that you appreciate them >> because I know how hard like it was hard enough to try to figure out a curriculum in such a short amount of time, much less to have to have all of those changes at one time and and now that like you said, they're getting more comfortable. they might feel more flexible and start having better, you know, ideas on how to enhance that. So, uh, do share with them that we appreciate them.
038>> They're hard workers. They give 110% every day. And so, I do feel that they feel better having a couple years under their belt going forward. But they're an incredible group. They really are. >> I just want to just piggyback kind of on what everyone said. You know, someone on the outside looking in looking at where we were last year. our rankings and things and seeing where we're at this year. That's all they see. And we see what you guys all do. We see all the changes that were implemented that all the staff has been working to learn new curriculum, teach new curriculum. The kids are all adjusting to new stuff. There's so many changes that we've have had in our elementary schools in the last couple years. I don't want them to look at
039that and think that's the only scale that they're judged on. that we do believe in them and it is it it's really hard. You know, they've been sitting up at this top spot for so long and I'm sure that was disheartening for them to see that, but we have 100% confidence in all the staff that we have that we'll be right back there as soon as we get all this stuff worked through and they get through um back in the saddle where they're on top again. And I I couldn't imagine a better district to get us there. So, thank you to all of the staff that's working so hard and thank you for your support. Means a lot. Thank you guys for being here tonight. Appreciate it. >> Anything else? >> Thank you. >> All
040right. Thank you. >> All right, Essos, good luck following that. >> You guys are incredible and you did bring Tito, so I'm confident that you have the secret sauce. But, um, truly, we're our next agenda item. We're grateful to have such an incredible partnership with our Mosquo Police Department. Um, safety is foundational to everything that we do. Learning is a social process and at the basic level, students ha students and staff have to feel safe where they are. And the work that you guys do every single day is a huge part of that. So, it's my pleasure to introduce our SRO's to give our annual safety report to the board. >> Oh, are you going to do a wrap? No, >> you're going to have to stop. I'm talking to the cops. >> All right,
041as we prepare to welcome everybody, um I just want to talk a little bit about school safety in general. Uh this is a slide kind of captures everything public facing. And if anybody ever wants to learn more about school safety, we do a really good parent advisory team meeting where we dive super deep into all of our processes. It's always good not to put everything out in front, but uh what we can share is uh we have over 400 cameras in our school district throughout all of our schools inside and outside. Uh one thing that we really appreciate about the police department is the chief has patrols that come around each of our schools each of our days to make a point just to even be in the parking lots. And that's in addition to
042our uh police department. We have interconnected radios that connect each site to each other. So if there's ever an emergency, we can send messages uh throughout the district. Um we use visitor management controls, so we have fobs for all of our staff to get in. They're encrypted fobs. We recently upgraded our system, so we got all new fobs for the entire district, which was really nice to tighten up who has what and where and uh have good control over it. We use Raptor visitor management for three different purposes. One, people that come to the buildings are scanned into the facility. it's run against the their their IDs run against the national sex offender database and we're able to know who's in our buildings and make sure that they should be in our buildings. Two, we
043use it for scanning in uh volunteers. So, our volunteers that go on field trips or volunteer in the classroom. Uh they do a complete background check so that we have all of that for anybody coming into our buildings and volunteering. And then we have an emergency management uh program so that in the event of an emergency, we can send quick messages to folks about what to do next, what's happening, where to go if if that's the case. As a matter of fact, last week when we were supposed to be meeting and talking about this presentation, the SRO's didn't show up and it turns out there was something happening at Taco Bell. I'm not sure what exactly was going on, but when we learned more, we were able to put Bayane into a soft lockdown just
044to make sure something that could be happening outside the school that nobody comes in or comes out. And that lasted all of about 3 minutes. So, thank you guys. Um, we run everything through our safety team. So, we get a lot of calls from parents that might have concerns or things they see on the news or the new newest product that's coming out related to safety. And we're willing to do anything if finances are there and it's the right thing to do. But it's just good to get police department, fire department, uh, principles, anybody's opinion on these things before we go full scale because a lot of these things are incredibly expensive. They take a long time to train on and even get fully functional. So we want to make sure that whatever we do
045is sustainable from now until forever. We have Tito. I think still one of the only therapy drug sniffing dogs in the in the state and uh students love him. He does great getting around to all the schools. I think Adam will talk about him in a little bit. Uh we fully utilize Speak Up Speak Out. This is a platform that's run through the state. So anybody that has any concerns about threats, threats of harm, graffiti, any anything really can get reported through this portal and that gets sent to the state. They immediately go to work on identifying this the complexity of the emergency. They turn that over to the police department and administrators here and we all start working on it immediately. This is like a critical function I believe for school safety. Uh, I
046recently helped teach a safety class and there was probably 80 people in the room. This was just like a month ago. All school professionals and I asked folks to raise their hand if they're utilizing this and maybe maybe 10 did. So, that was a bit disappointing. Uh, this is a huge uh asset to our district to have a monitored tip line. The number one indicator of school violence and having success against school violence is having a culture of speaking up and letting people know if you see something, you say something. And so that's a perfect avenue to let people report anonymously any concerns that they might have. So super stoked to to have all this programming and we have a lot more happening behind the scenes, but always just like to share a little bit
047before we dive into our security program. So with that, just introduce each officer. This is a whole new slate of officers here today. Um so we'll start with uh Adam Rotekch. >> Hello everyone. Um formerly Adam Rot, but the easiest way is just to call me Mo. Um that's what we go with with my name kind of goofy. It actually fell off uh before coming in here. So it's kind of cool that we're doing this now. So just call me officer Mo, please. Um this is Tito. I know you guys have met Tito. Um we have continued evolved. We're trying to push forward uh to stick with being the one of one. He is currently and super close to getting firearms um in that it's actually the odor associated with ammunition. It's the black gun
048powder and smokeless gunpowder. Those are the two main odors associated with ammo. So, it's not that you can actually find the metal components, it's the odor associated with the ammunition. All firearms when they're made properly through all the chains that that are supposed to be are fired upon creation. So in theory, he should be able to also find a single firearm without ammunition in Theo's doing really really good. Uh to kind of touch on the Taco Bell thing, uh I thought it was an awesome first experience with him. That was the first time I've deployed him solely to find any issues. We went to find the the cases. Um, cool little note. As soon as one was found, Tito was all over it and it was super exciting. Now, did he necessarily find that specific
049one? No. Um, he proceeded to continuously pull me into a set of bushes. Like, maybe he was trying to be funny or trying to make me crawl throughout bushes. However, given the way that the wind was was downwind from the bushes. So, if you think about it, I don't mean to make this notion, but as the fire as it happened, the firearm went off into the air. The wind was blowing from the south to the north. The bushes were to the north of where the gunman was. So, it kept pulling me into the bushes. Super awesome work on Tito's behalf. Uh, gunpowder holder is very heavy. Comes down. I have no doubt that it was pulling up into the bushes. Right on the opposite side of the bushes were two other casings. So, I think
050Tito did awesome. I'm still learning how to read it. So, that maybe that's on me. Um, Tito's fantastic. The therapy, you saw his work tonight. Um, he lights up a room wherever he is. It's He never gets sick of it. Although he maybe seems a little tired right now, but if I were to release him, he'd go running around and he would have fun. Um, I love what I'm doing. I've been here since April. I'm very thankful for you guys who allow me to be in the position that I'm in. Um, I think we stand out amongst others. I've had conversations with other SRO during football games and other sporting events. Um, and I love being able to share my experiences and I get nothing but moments of ha, I got it better than like
051I really am blessed to be in this position. >> So that's me. >> Right on. Nice job. We have uh cheerleader X, Officer X. >> How you doing? My name is Officer X. I'm of course at Mosquito Lakes. I've been there almost a year now. Um, last June I went got deer trained. That way I can teach there at the school at Mosquito Lakes as well as St. Paul's. Um I think with the one-year anniversary about to come up, I think we've had a good goal at Mosquito Lakes. Um I my main goal is building relationships with the kids, being in the lunchroom, being in the class, being in gym. Just last week I did the pacer. I only did 18 laps. It killed me. But I try to do all I just eat pom
052pom. I try to be everywhere. All things all kids, not just the cool kids, the kids that sit alone in lunch. I will sit, engage them in conversation, see what's going on. Some of my kids like reading books. I'll sit down. We'll talk about books. I try to connect with each kid on the on their on their playing field. Build some kind of connection with them. I think that's the main thing that we should be doing in the schools is not sitting in my office. It's I'll be there being visible in the morning time. I try to be a firecracker. Get everybody pumped up. I always call it motivating Monday. Let's go. Let's go. Fired up. They kids think I'm crazy in the morning cuz I got too much energy 8:00. But that's just me
053how I am. I like to I like to give them a show and that's my thing. and that's always been me. So, I have fun with the kids. Like I said, I like doing sitting in lunch with one-on-one at lunch and kids come in my class. I don't think we should always just deal with the kids on a negative aspect. I think think it's more we should deal with them on a positive aspect. And that's what I try to do cuz most of the time a lot of these kids deal with the police, it's always negative. So, I try to be positive. They're working on something in the classroom or rockets, whatever. I'll go out and watch them do it or kick the ball in gym or play catch, shoot a couple hoops, which I
054suck at. But I think that's the main focus is being visible at the school and engaging the teachers and seeing who's doing what, who's the trouble kid, awake the trouble kid. And I think that's the main focus where we're speaking. >> Thank you. >> Officer Kitty. >> Hi, I'm Officer Josh Kenny. I'm the newest to the trio. Um, unfortunately, I don't have a Tito to explain. Um, and I don't I do I do fortunately have two guys that have been doing this for a little bit, though. Um, I just got rolling into this in January and it's been a really interesting experience. I've been a third shift patrol officer for seven years, so the even just the world in daylight is new to me. But, uh, I haven't had a chance to do a ton
055of individual stuff. It's only been a couple months. Um, so I'm really working on the relationship building. I'm getting to know the students. Uh, they actually call me Officer Josh. And then there's a few of them that call me Mr. clean cuz under this hat there's a lot of us like um but it's been it's been a really interesting experience been >> a picture can see >> yeah the same usually usually can't see me over their heads either walking down the hallway but um I think more importantly something that's been uh really helpful for me just kind of coming into this in a completely different role than what I'm used to is that I got a couple guys that also just started relatively recently but you know X got a ton of experience in the
056school so we bounce ideas off of each other all the time. So, yes, we have our own respective schools, but at the same time, it's a collaborative effort pretty much through every single thing that we have. Um, sometimes the lieutenant stops out at our office and we're not sure if we're in trouble or if we're doing something right, but so far with these pink guys. Um, what else? Yeah, I don't know. That's pretty much all I got. I'm still kind of getting used to it and I'm excited to be doing it and this has been a great move for me and my family and my kids that are getting ready to come to sporting events and everything too even though they're not from the district. So maybe we'll get them into the district at some
057point in time. I would say just be cool with it. >> All right. Thank you. Lastly, Lieutenant Johannic to talk about some of the data that we've collected over the past year. >> Yeah. So just a couple of the uh data points. uh we are able to track multiple different data points. One of the things we look at is calls for service. Um as would we be expected, high school had the most calls for service specific to our SRO's. These are just SRO's individual stuff. So if something's happening when SRO is not wrong, that wasn't included in these these statistics. So if they happen to high school on a Saturday um you know morning for example, something like that would be included here. But high school had 336 uh 39 instant reports. uh with June
058we had 106 calls for service and 25 reports and MS school had 50 calls for service and 12 reports. Um, again, as would be expected for citations issued, MSTO High School was the highest of the three, followed by Lake Denon and MSO Lakes Middle School. Then, Officer X also is tasked with any of the bus passing complaints because we do have a very good relationship uh with the school bus company as well, so they actually have video. Um, so when there are bus passing complaints, they reach out to Officer X and he investigates any of those as well. And that's something we take extremely seriously with the bus passing complaints. There's a lot of gray area in law enforcement. Uh, bus passing complaints is pretty black. pass the bus uh when the arms are out
059and the lights aren't receiving a citation because that's a grave and our grave safety violation. So um as far as special events and overtime worked uh in 2025 we have 21 additional events worked outside of normal hours. Um, and as far as special event overtime hours primarily worked by the school resource officers in the 24 25 school years we had about 184 hours and uh through December 31st we're up to 127 hours worked um rather than in addition to the regular hours work for overtime and special events. >> Thank you. And uh lastly, Chief wanted to say a few words. >> The microphone up here or I'll steal this one. just a strong. >> Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Again, thank you for the opportunity to speak here this evening. Thank you, Mr. Shanahan, for
060welcoming us. M Superintendent Irvine. I'm going to echo both of your words. It is about our staff and their care and commitment to what we have here. You've heard the phrase one warrior. I kind of stole that from Mr. McMillan. Uh but it is about relationships and partnerships. What you don't see here is the value. If you get tied up into citations, calls for service, but you're not seeing how many connections they're making with individual students. There is no partnership in the Mosqu Police Department that's greater than our partnership with the Mosquo Norway school district. If I can make that 100% the resource, and I call it the resource, are our children that are in these schools, including mine that you saw earlier here this evening. So please understand uh of how important this relationship
061to is to us. In addition to that, we've been asked through our labor attorney through Van Breezen for Superintendent Irvine and Lieutenant Johannic are actually going to be speaking at the conference about this relationship that we have with the city with the Mosquo Police Department and Mosqu Norway School District. And that's a testament to everybody working collaboratively to solve problems and to understand what our why is. So again, my staff and your staff and it makes her makes for great students. So thank you questions. So about a month ago, I went to an event at the high school. It was during the day and the parents were invited and um one of the whether a visitor or a parent, I'm not exactly sure. She got really nervous when she saw one of the officers and
062she turned around. She said, "Why is there a security guard here?" And I said, "It's not a security guard. It's supposed to be a police officer. Did something happen?" I said, "Well, hopefully not." Um she said, "Why are they here?" And I said, "Because they're part of our school." And you should have seen that just the body language completely relaxed. Conversely, what I didn't see is any nervous kids. They were all walking past and saying hello and things like that. And I guess to to kind of um go off what the chief said, the partnership and the way that our kids feel when you're there is safe. And um officer actually dancing with them is a huge deal, right? I mean, it's a it makes them feel like they don't have to be afraid, right,
063when Tito comes around and you'll eventually have the same thing, right? You don't need too much. So, thank you. Um, the fact that there's six of you here this evening on a Monday night at a schoolboard meeting uh kind of tells us what the partnerships like. So, thank you. Well, the only thing I wanted to just interject um be I don't know if you guys are going to leave after this presentation is that um I know I talked to um Officer West about this program program that's going to be coming on May 7th, but it's called Rachel's challenge and it talks about connections with you know everyone within the community and stuff to prevent school shootings. So, um I have flyers and stuff that I can give you tonight if you leave after this that
064you can get. So, I just want to make sure that you are aware that you can spread it around. It's a community event on May 7th. >> Just thank you. >> Yeah. Thank you so much. We're so fortunate um and fortunate to be on both sides of being working with you guys on that side, on this side. And um we hands down have the best police department. Um I don't think there's anything that we can ask that you guys would say no to and we always feel so comfortable about um if we need something in a school to be able to ask for something extra. Um you guys deliver all the time and anytime you walk into a school event, some of you are there and you're not even need to be there. You you're
065not even on but you're there. You're watching the kids. You're because you know them and you have relationships with them. It's the most incredible relationship we have that um invaluable. I feel sorry for other districts that don't have this because it's just it's it's it's takes a lot from both sides to be able to work together and do this. I do encourage you like if um things are happening that as an SRO that you're questioning or that you have concerns about to come forward and don't let them you know like hey I don't feel right about this to come forward and talk to the principal talk you can come to me anyone really um so that we can you know work through if there's any issues or things that you can think we can do
066better on our end to make your job better or vice versa um I want that to be a two-way street so that we can keep working together and continue to improve and make it always the best relationship that we can have. So, thank you to each of you for doing what you do and keeping us safe in our community. Thank you. >> All right. Well, that concludes the superintendence report. Thank you guys for your service. All right, moving on to the reports. Uh, president's report. Um, just, uh, thank you for having us here and entertaining us and all the beautiful artwork and everything that you do for us means a lot. Um, and then moving on to the purpose report. >> Two district residents, Chris Buckmaster and Barbraderator will assist school board member Tracy Blair
067with the canvas for April 7th, 2026 school board election. The board of canvas will be held on Thursday, April 9th, 2026 at the Educational Services Center, 4 p.m. Um, as a note, the board of canvasers will reconvene no later than 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday or 14th, 2026. If any amended statements, tally sheets, and lists are received after April 9th, from municipal court uh clerk, excuse me, for provisional balance eligible to be counted. >> Recently changed that date. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Uh board member reports. Kevin, >> no. Jason, >> just report Tracy. >> This is what I talked about before about the Rachel's George A7. So, >> all right. Committee reports, educational services committee report. >> So, as per stated in the minutes, just updates from our past meeting. Okay. Okay. And policy committee
068is no report and business services. >> Um for our meeting we had our state representatives uh workers and Maxi as well as Senator Bradley in attendance. Uh Julie was kind enough to put together some slides for them to uh take some information back to Madison. Hopefully help advocate on our behalf and give us updates on all the stuff that's going on right now. >> Thank you again. for all your work on committees. Moving on to nine resolution action items. Uh early college credit program and start college now. >> Motion to approve early college credit program ECCP and start college now SCN credits as presented. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor say I. Opposed. Motion passes. 2026 MNS K through8 Summer Learning Academy book. >> Motion to approve the 2026 MNS K through8 summer learning
069academy guide book as presented. >> Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I opposed. Motion passes. Superintendent contract approval. motion to approve the superintendent contract as discussed in close session. Second >> um and discussion and I'll just mention that in looking at um Mr. Irvine's contract um we went over as as a group we went over the things that um the work that was done and the goals met over the last two years that he's been in this position. um and he's meeting all of those goals and then some. And also it's very important for us to keep our staff um at or above median in comparables to those around here. So that is um the reasons why we change the contract um for Todd and that will be effective July 1st. All in
070favor say I. opposed. Motion passes. Yes, grants and requests. >> Motion to approve with thanks the following donations. Uh to Mosquito Lakes Middle School, $500 from Jacob and Melddis to support Mrs. War and Mrs. Rey's fifth grade team. Rachel's challenge keynote speaker. Um $500 from St. Athletics, $400 from Brooklair Excel Building Services, $200 from the Shrader family, and $100 from the Gioansza family. >> Who's first? >> Any discussion? >> Thank you. >> All in favor say I. >> I oppose. Motion passes. Um the discussion items tonight you find your followup information there for monthly financial reporting and support staff um and co-curricular hires resignations and retirements there. And that brings us to adjournment. Motion to adjurnn. Second. >> All in favor say I.