001I'm going to call this meeting to order. The schoolboard meeting Monday, October 20th, 2025. Verification of meeting posted. This meeting was posted in accordance with all open meeting laws. Attendance roll call. >> Chris >> here. >> Tracy >> here. >> Bob >> here. >> Terry >> here. >> I'm here. Lori >> here. >> Kevin >> here. All right, we do have a quorum. Um, we are going to forgo the pledge of allegiance since we just did a beautiful version of the national anthem in our annual meeting prior to this, which is well, yes, we heard it. It was amazing. That's like my favorite part of the whole night. Um, motion to approve the agenda. >> Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> Opposed. Motion passes. We do not have any recognitions tonight. There
002is nobody signed up for public comment. And we are going to move on to the consent agenda. Motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Any discussion? Or would anyone like me to remove anything on there for individual consideration? No. All right. All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. Motion passes. Student representation. Thank you for staying. This is a long night for you. I apologize. >> Okay. I'll keep this short because you guys are already at a pretty long meeting. So, I'll get mine done with. Um, for the elementary schools, on October 2nd, Bayane had their color walk, which was a really fun opportunity for the kids to raise funds for their school and earn prizes. Um, the week of the color walk was also super fun because they got to do spirit days,
003so they got to dress up with crazy hat day and hair day. Um, golden warts are also starting at the elementary schools, which is a good way to get rewards for being um, respectful and responsible. Lake View also had a glow party, which was so much fun for the students. Test Corners Fire Department um will be having their safety talk on the 21st and the 22nd. Um they come to the schools and just give them fire safety lessons, I guess. Um and lastly, all elementary schools celebrated United Day on October 15th. Um promoting kindness, acceptance, and inclusity inclusivity by wearing orange. At the middle schools, Lake Dun is excited to have their second annual foam run fundraiser on the 24th, which is so fun. They get to run through like bubbles. It's awesome. Mosquito Lakes
004PTO hosted a pumpkin spice fair yesterday on the 19th that had over 80 vendors. At the high school, um the clubs this week is think pink week. So, at all of our games like the boys soccer, volleyball, and football, um students are encouraged to go there and wear their pink to support breast cancer awareness. Student council is also having their spectacular event on Saturday from 11 to 1 at the high school. And for sports, one of our girls tennis doubles teams made it to state this past weekend. Avery Bule and Emily Rinol. They did so well they actually made it to the third round, but they didn't make it that far. But that is awesome because we have not had that in so long. Um the MHS boys volleyball team will be coming to Lake
005View for an all school matchup. um which basically they're just coming there and trying to get the elementary schoolers hyped up and having fun. So cool. And playoffs for fall sports is also kicking off this week. So good luck to all of our fall athletes. And that's it. >> Thank you. >> Okay, moving on to other reports. Um president report. Um just thank you again for everybody for the annual meeting. I know it's a lot to prepare for. Um and Just thank you for being an awesome board to work with. As I continue >> Oh. Oh, I'm so sorry. I I didn't mean I I so sorry. >> I was going to start expressively dancing my introduction to Mr. Beth Linka. >> It was at the top of my page under my book here. So,
006I take everything back I said. >> We'll get to that. It's important as well. >> And I'll resay it >> well >> after the superintendent's report. And that's I appreciate that. >> I thought you guys had read everything that you needed. >> No, you know, it is in my heart and my privilege to introduce Mr. Andy Babinka and the supporting cast. >> It happens. >> Just in case it gets wild, mostly because I don't I might trip for being honest here. >> Well, again, it is my pleasure to introduce Mr. Andy Bevinka, our high school principal. um gentleman I've had the priv privilege of working with for quite some time and his passion for our high school and the students we serve is second to none and appreciate the the team's commitment to this work.
007So look forward to hearing what you have. >> Thank you. Thank you. I just want to introduce the team. We have Miss Pro way in the back there. Hello Mr. Roberts, Mr. Dunar, Mr. McMillan, and also Mr. Mickley. So thank you guys all for uh giving us a spotlight for a second here. Um we're gonna the focus of the meeting is going to be on um kind of setting the page for what we plan to do this year. You can review the information from the 2425 school year. We'll start with that a little some little touches on that, but I really want to highlight where we're going this year. Um had a chance to have a professional development um day on October 10th. And one of the things I I shared with my staff was
008a quote from Dr. Jodie Carrington. Uh quote is and it had a nice little picture too on it. You can imagine it. um said, "Kids won't learn from people they don't think like them." And it's really a profound thing. Um and it drives a lot of the work we do as our entire system. We balance um both the the head and the heart piece. I think I point your heart's here, heads up here. But we um balance that work in what we do. We know that relationships and connecting with people is really at the core of what we do in our system. Um I I say a lot to our staff and they get kind of tired of it. I'm starting to get made fun of. I might need a new thing. Um, but I
009talk a lot about planting seeds and I use a metaphor of watering garden and watering plants and it just will not grow. It will not grow. It will not grow. In fact, in deserts it doesn't grow for a year sometimes and you occasionally get these super blooms where it like blossoms. We don't always see that. We might see a plant here, some plants down the time. That's work we do. I'm going to I'm going to switch slides. I'm not going to ask because I have like a clicker. I took it. Sorry, Todd. Um, some highlights from the 2425 school year. And really um this is work from the entire building. So I think that's a celebration. Um you can see it's the highest we've ever performed um on our composite ACT. Um we are as
010you know a PLC district. Um that's no different at the high school. The work we do is about continuous improvement. There's a really cool story about um Little Mosquito and Red there. If you go back to 201819, 2017 18, you go back far enough we're at 216 and there's this continued line like this over the last decade and that's us and I think we're at the high school get the privilege of being a reflection of that work happening at our lower levels where there's just this continuous line of work. The the school that's in first had a great year. Kudos to them. We did what we did. We just improved. We're trying to, you know, close those margins and improve. But the school that's in first in 2019 was actually at 239 and then they
011went way down and they had a good year. And I don't know that they have the same systems we do. And our system is the people in the district. It's the connections with the heart, building those relationships, believing in the kids and believing each other. And then finding the right strategy and the right curriculum supports to continue to build. So, so that's a huge celebration. And our celebration is really a K12 celebration. I didn't hit the right button. See, this is glory. This is why I should not have had the click. I'm back. Sorry. All right. There it is. Nope. Right one. >> Yeah, that's >> I want to go to math. Okay. Um, again, the the journey the journey to success is not a straight line. We were in first last last year in
012math. We're in second this year, but it really is a success. You can see that continued line of improvement. And we had this last year we had the second most advanced students we've ever had reached that advanced threshold and the highest tie for our highest ever ACT math. So our huge success. Our math teachers are really proud of the work they're doing and they're excited to see if they can make make it back to the top spot. But mostly they're they're excited about seeing the students in front of them and seeing if each of them can be the best that they can be. Here we go. Uh this is this is our ELA um on the ACT. It's the com the combining of um reading, English, and um writing. And for reading in 20 242,
013we were second with a 23.0, the highest score we've ever had in reading. And I know that as a district, that's been a f area of focus for us. It certainly was at the high school. It was our lagging area. Um building wide, we set a goal to have what we're calling a culture of literacy and continue that work. Um, we see students writing, we see students reading in areas where they're not traditionally doing so, solving word problems in geometry, doing explaining and doing thinking and writing in an applied math class. Um, so that work I think is we're just I think honestly just tapping the surface of that and we're hopeful we can continue to see growth there. But we're really excited about that and again you can see the story. It's been been
014in the 22s. A couple years before that it was in the 218 219 range and you can see that continuous work upward. I did. What is wrong with me? I think I have I have thick fingers. Um really exciting uh work in English. Um our English department, uh 228, the highest they've ever been in the English portion of the ACT. Fits right in that bubble of what we're trying to do in literacy. We want our students to be good readers. We also want them to be strong communicators in writing um and speaking and listening as well. That's really exciting. And I know that our English department takes a lot of pride in the work kind of clicking our way here. about middle of the year, I sent some pandemonium into our um our English 11
015team uh in a good way. I said, you know, let's try something different with writing this year. And then I was kind of like, I don't know what to do, you know, and they came up with a plan. Um a couple weeks later, they set a meeting like that we're going to do these things. Um they they talked about doing some um really explicit teaching around it, what to expect, and they also created an incentive structure, and we saw some really good growth. And again, you see a couple trend up there, too. And that's exciting. That was a big chunk of our overall ELA growth was through the writing. And I'm excited. I think we I think there's more there. That was like four three four months of pretty focused work on that. And I
016want to go back to and again the district in first had a really great year, but we're but we we're proud of that continuous improvement. And I'm not picking on the district in first. They're in first. You can't pick on them. But um I we love that that continuous improvement work. This is science uh tied for the highest score we've ever had. And if you go back, you can see, you know, 217, 221, 226, 229, 229. That's a really great story of things happening in our science classroom. We have we have biology teachers meeting weekly, collaborating, um, talking about how they can support our students that struggle. We talk about bottom cortile in our district. We at the high school, we refer more to our students who are struggling. Um, how do they scaffold assessments?
017How do they they teach differently to make sure that it's accessible to all learners. Um, so that's really exciting there as well. they want to get above 23 so bad right there. Um, students with IEPs, um, we've we've for for a very long time been in green, whether it's light green or dark green, and that's a really exciting thing as well. Um, little bit of dip of a dip last year. Uh, variations in populations are a little bit of a thing here because it's a smaller sample size. Um, our students struggled with the math portion last year as you saw earlier today. Um, we're we're doing some work with that. Um, we as a as a maths math group, um, trying to make, um, our students get up and make more math more tangible has
018been a focus. Getting them up on the board, getting them actually doing math a little bit. Um, it's definitely hopefully going to make some some improvement there. This graphic, I think we've shown some variation of this graphic for the last 12 years. It looks a little prettier this year because I put a one warrior banner on the bottom. However, that come had a goal to be over 40 since before the graph started in 2015 16 we were trying to get that number to go up. Um and again it's been slowly kind of chiseling gently angling up and then this past year we're really excited we got over 40 on the goal. Um what that really is a measure of in my head is a student who's really well-rounded in the skills that they have. It's
019a student who can math. It's a student who can write proficiently. It's a student who can read technically um and be successful. It's also a student who has enough scientific language and background that they can look at a table or a graph and draw inferences. We know that a student who can do that can go to college but can also be successful wherever they go. Um those are really pretty deep skills. So that's really exciting. I mean I when I saw that I actually double taped. I was like wow that's awesome. So all right so what's leading to our success? This is I actually cheated the slides from last year. Don't judge me. Um but really it's a big portion of it isn't it? There isn't a there isn't a fancy answer to the work
020they do. I you don't have to tell me you're tired of hearing about PLC's. I I right because you hear about it, but it really is at the core of what we do because if you want to continuously get better, that's the process. What do you want students to know, right? How are you going to assess it? How are you going to scaffold it for kids who already get it and then don't get it? And how are you going to measure it? And it it the reason it's the process is because once you've answered those questions, it begins again. The variable becomes kids come in at different points. and that's a great way to meet them where they they are. Um the work's constantly evolving because the teachers change and the kids change and the
021material changes, but that's the core of who we are. Some next steps for us more specifically because I know that's why you're here, right? Um our big uh my big three leadership focus areas at the high school have been and I think will likely continue to be although the things under them change, I'm focused on student culture, student achievement, and staff engagement. And I define those and I've my my team has heard this for student culture. It's the combination of do kids want to be in the school and do they feel connected and then also how do we support behavioral growth and it's that sweet spot between where those two things intersect. Some focus areas for us as a team this year. Um we've we've um really emphasized I kudos to my team because they
022they are huge drivers of this. Um having a huge administrative presence in the hallway. We can't be building relationships with kids unless they get to see us and get to know us and it's all of those thousands of positive interactions that I think head off negative interactions. Um there's a theory of law enforcement where if you police the small stuff, you don't get the big stuff. And I tend to believe with that. Um we've implemented a hall pass system here. Um the news this year, so this is very appropriate. Um we've implemented a hall pass system. We do not restrict the number of students um using the hall pass system. Um however, for us, it's a way to keep kids out of the hallway. I believe and our team believes and our staff have been
023very supportive of that students can't learn if they're not in the classrooms. We have to know where they are. we have to keep them on task and and create less a less disruptive environment. And then additionally, we've come back around our phone focus in the building. It's kind of been every year to be honest. We just keep tightening it and tightening it because we know that kids aren't winning the battle with their phones. They're designed to to manipulate our minds and and they're very addictive and distracting and they lead to a lot of uh social drama. So, that's been our student culture engagement piece. Some other bullets that I could put on there, we have our version of the high school PBS we call Spark Team. We're trying to create some positive incentives and some
024positive cultural aspects. Um, Miss Proop has been leading um the one warrior initiative with our um our activities department and working together with our student leadership groups from athletics and um activities to get our students to go to each other's events so that we really truly become that one warrior. Wouldn't it be great if the tennis team showed up for the swim team, right? Wouldn't it be great if at the drama club you have the girls basketball team? And that's the idea we're trying to promote is getting our student we're trying to get our students to lead it for each other. So we're really excited about where that's that's going to take us. Kind of working my way over to the graphic. I don't think any one thing I said is going to make us
025go like this. It's that incremental growth, right? You don't sometimes it's imperceptible. That me that graph shows the power of 1% better every day over time. I think that's a really cool graphic. Student achievement. We're going to continue to work on our PLC's. We have some PLC's that are a little further along in the work. uh some are some need a little push, some are getting refinement, continuing to work on our literacy work and find places that we can help our kids be literate. I believe really deeply that literacy, basic literacy and basic mathematics drive a lot of what happens outside of school and it leads to kids being successful and we talk about closing gaps for people over the course of their life. If we want kids to be successful outside of high school,
026they have to be literate. They have to be able to read the materials, documents, understand how to ask questions, how to listen, how to how to view a tutorial video, and then take that information into action. So, I think for me, that's a really deep part of that literacy work is finding out what it means in each space. As an English teacher, it was very easy for me. But what does literacy mean in a technical education classroom? It's a technical manual. In a science classroom, it's looking at a table and understanding what the data means and not having to have somebody summarize it for you. The last darker bullet there is staff engagement. um we will go nowhere without our people. Uh we are we are who we are because of our great teachers, our
027great support staff, our great administration. Um so for us that's really important. We we also know and Jeremiah has said this to me that's really stuck in my cross so to speak. Um the the idea that um staff stay together if they have a friend in the building, right? Or they have a colleague that they connect to. We talk about 90% retention. That's just a number. That doesn't mean a ton to me. when I walk in and I see people hanging out in the hallway before school together, that's a group of people that are going to be there and they're going to push each other to be great for kids. So, we we create at the high school big staff, right? Some challenges, probably 140, 150 people working here togetherness opportunities. Um, our staff engagement
028team that's led by Mr. Roberts does a great job um organizing events on Fridays for staff and all of those sorts of things. My administrative team also um helps to support I think Mr. Dumbar might have been the last one. We have an event on uh once a month on Thursday called answers with Andy. Horrible name. Did not choose this. Um what it is though is essentially a forum for staff to come together with challenges and they they share them to the members of the group and we they bring them together and we form them and it doesn't always feel good. I mean sometimes it's it's that work, right? We work in a really really good school and sometimes the problems feel like grits of sand, you know, but they're a grit they're a grit
029of sand. If we can get rid of it, it doesn't create the friction. It creates bigger problems. and we've come up with some great solutions this year. Mr. McMillan helped us out with a scheduling issue we were having happening having during the day. We're going to try something new. It might work, it might not, but that's what we do. We try new things. So, those are the core the really the core of what we do at the high school are those three areas. Speaking of student engagement, um we have we are we have a a goal every year we set to get co-curriculars um at 70th percent of our students involved in a co-curricular. We hit that for the first time last year barely. Um we're hoping we can stay there. we've been hovering in
030the high 60s. Um that's really really important work. Another goal we're kind of we always set is around um how students are treated in the school. Um that question changed on the survey. So it's not we can't draw the same information from it yet. Um previously the question the question now is students treat me with respect at the school. In the past it was students treat students with respect and the the phrasing of it really is a little bit different um because it goes from a large group to a single group. Um but we are excited to to dig into that and I think um again anecdotally I think we're seeing some good things there. Um some fast facts. This is the work from Mr. Mcmik and the connect academy um and all of the
031work he does with um the youth apprenticeship grant, the CTE grants and and getting kids into those cop those uh those workplace experiences. About 250 students had paid positions last year. That's outstanding. Average hourly wage was 13 plus dollars an hour. Um that was reported. We do know that some of our kids don't report which Mr. Mig and I actually think the number may be higher. It's sometimes not reported. Um there was $1.16 million in pay um year to date. That includes the summer work that reported by our students. That's outstanding. Those are those are real dollars in the pockets of kids. Um I think that a lot of times students learn a lot about finance through having to purchase things and have their own money versus their parents' money. Long believe that. Um, I
032also know students are paying for expensive things like gasoline, vehicles, and getting prepared for college and tech schools. So, that's great. Um, there's a metric that one of the um the work groups does in the United or in the Wisconsin where they talk about the impact on local economy. The estimated local economic boost is $ 8.2 million in our local businesses through the work being done. Whether it's revenue generated or money being spent down the line, that's a that's a really big impact in our community. Um, and we're blessed and we'll get to this more. We're really blessed to have some really, really strong partnerships to make this happen. This is not by accident. Mr. Mik, if you're still awake back there, this one, that one's for you because he's driving it. Uh, you can
033see the top five highest employed, highest rated qualities on the employer evaluation. These are what our employers look for. Really didn't change 24 to 25. I'm not shocked. Um, they reordered a little bit. Um, and I think one of the things that you'll see at the very top is attitude towards co-workers and adaptability is pretty high as well. dependability, honest. These are what we used to call soft skills when I was a kid, but we've rebranded like 38 times since then. But this is can people interact in a lot of ways, right? You know, and how do you interact with humans? One of the side byproducts that we're seeing with kids having the phones down in classrooms is we're having kids who are better able to do that and doing that a little bit more
034frequently. I don't know how to collect data on that, but I'm seeing it. It's making me h it's filling my bucket because I know that that's what they're going to need to have a full life beyond school. Um, I don't I talk my daughter's a senior this year here and I talk with her about a lot about her life isn't on her phone, it's actually out here, but it's really hard to break the cycle. Um, so I think that we want our our students to have those skills as they leave and they they they attend to the rest of their life. There we go. All right. So, what makes us special besides that banner at the bottom? Um, it is but really it is the one warrior thing, right? That that's what makes us special.
035Um, I'm going to start with the picture on the right. That's the you matter banner that was that our students hung out on the peers for peers night at a football game. Um really cool group. The peers for peers group um has grown so large they've actually had to interview into it. Um these are students who are committed to helping other students. Um and it's a pretty amazing impact. Um so if you see students wearing a um a Pierce for Pure shirt and either green or purple, that's what it's referenced to. Another thing that makes us that one warrior experience, we had about 150 kids uh sign up, excuse me, sign up to be mentors um for the the Warriors welcome back event for Warriors 101 for our incoming freshmen. Um these are students who
036have enjoyed their experience so much that they gave time over the summer to welcome the new kids coming in. And I think that's really powerful um that we have we have our students who like the experience so much at our school that they want others to have that same great experience and they've learned through their journey how to overcome some of the challenges. They wanted to impart that knowledge. It's exciting. Other things that make us special um that is uh on the left a welcome back for our teachers. Uh this young lady is a representative of our educator rising club um which is a club for aspiring potential educators, people who want to work in education. She organized um I think almost single-handedly a breakfast for our staff on this first day of school. Um
037and it was was just posing for the picture there with the with the big A banner. Um but she really Sophia really crushed that. Um middle picture is our first groups of uh students of the month. Um I got to meet with them um last week. One of the things that amazes me about our school and I think it would you too if you're walking through and meeting with our kids is we have 1630ish kids and something like the the top 5% is is something around 4.4 4 GPA, which when you go down with that and probably a 34 33 ACT to be in the top 5%. Which means we have many, many, many amazing kids that don't get some of those accolades. When I'm meeting with a few of our students in the month,
038I'm like, "Oh my gosh, you have such an amazing story. You have so many so many things in front of you that are going to be exceptional." It's been really cool. Um, we we we highlight um students based on their um recommendation of a teacher for the Warriors Way. So they have to they have to represent something from that that selection group versus strictly academic. On the right side is this is a this is a picture from our academic excellence breakfast in May of last year. Uh we had about 140 students of 400 that had above a 3.5 GPA in that senior class. Something that makes us special. We have amazing students really working hard. I don't even know how these pictures ended up on here. Especially the one on the left. Um maybe that's
039not a celebration but it is kind of fun. Uh that's uh during homecoming week that's the senior dress up day when they dress like seniors and they they like to crash out in a hallway and just kind of I mean just do the thing right and take pictures and they eat their butterscotches for a minute. Uh but one of the coolest things about this group is I asked them um to not do it in a stairwell because you can picture the stairwell when you got about you know 120 seniors in it and they're like okay we'll go do in the front. Is that fine? That is great. Let's have some fun doing it. So, we went up there and took pictures. Um, I just thought that their mindset around that was really exceptional because they
040still got to have their fun, but it didn't affect the operation of the school or put somebody maybe at an unsafe spot on a stairwell. Um, and they they definitely had fun. Um, a picture again of our building trades uh students doing some framing and other other tech things. I don't know what they're doing there with tools. Cool stuff. Um, kids learning to be future construction workers and builders of our country. Amazing stuff. Um, amazing stuff all the way around. I could kind of circle through a lot of these pictures, whether it's powderpuffs, robotics, a concert. Um the top corner there, we're um we're celebrating staff at a football game. Um we have the military celebration night at a soccer game. We have students coming in over the summer working on college essays or the
041one in the middle. This is a true story. Mr. Irvine, we'll call him Superintendent Irvine here, um came up to me after this game, and we hadn't seen this yet. And he uh this happens a lot to me. He does this. He asks me about things I should know about because he ran the building for so long, right? You can picture what that's like happening sometimes. And he goes, "Are the students still cleaning up the student section?" And I hadn't said anything to him about it this year. And I was like, "Ah, yeah, probably." And I point and they were. And the seniors the seniors just continue the tradition of previous years. And isn't that a good example of school culture is when the traditions outlift the people who started them, right? So, I think
042that was really cool. Thank you for putting me on the spot. And thank goodness it was happening. I don't know what would happen next, but you can see more celebrations here. You have a science classroom where students are learning. You have professional development opportunities. The bigger one in the middle there is a community member who's a professor at WM speaking to our our our um our formerly avid students. Um you have the stuff the s celebration. You have obviously an obligatory Tito picture. Um you name it. We have the little guys running at a youth soccer game. Um we have the Friday um band crew that comes in and does the national anthem. Live music every Friday for the national anthem. So cool. Love that. Oh, and then we also have our staff um skit
043picture there. Um and I knew I was told I if it was a video game, I would have only had 19% of the dance moves down. That's fair. All right, last two slides, I think, unless I added more. I don't know. Could have happened. It's a fever dream. Uh community support for our programming. I saw this online. I was on the Facebook page. This Mosquito Strong logo. I know it brings back some back memories because it came up during COVID, but it actually is the best of the best with our community. This is us coming together um with with with need. our community is so profoundly good at that when there's a need coming together. Um, we have a we have a a bunch of bunch of uh business partners that support our academic programming.
044I'm just going to read a couple that Mr. M spit at me the other day. He didn't spit them at me. He said that to me. He's not really prone to do that. But, um, here's some here's some that came up. Um, donating. We run these building trades classes and the tech classes and they're they're expensive. I mean, we need materials for the kids to do the work. um roofing partners um with roofing materials um Coach Domo, Michael Vidmar from Vidmar Roofing, certaintied um the Ner Foundation and next um their support of the NextGen Trades Challenge DNH Industries for for pallets of metal for you can imagine what pallets of metal would cost. Um great partnership with the Mosquo Police Department with their cadet program and micro internship and being able to provide speakers anytime
045we ask. Um we actually had officers in leaving a a self-defense class the other day. is really cool. Um and then obvious and obviously the work with the machine u the mosquito chamber of commerce um whether it's mock interviewing networking and community days. Um so that's very valuable. Um makes a huge difference with our programming. We are not able to go as far as we can without those partnerships and thank you Jim for cultivating them. He's a big portion of that. Um on the other side of the coin is that co is that co-curricular programming athletics and academics. These are just a few of the um the partners that we've have make significant donations whether it's turf for a football field whether it's uniforms whether it's um money for funding through friends of robotics whether
046it's a piano or drums this past year with the drum line with the friends of music I I can't even name all of them it could be mats and cleaning materials and wrestling but these these these largely communitydriven parent driven groups um are the backbone of what we're able to do um with our programming our parents and I've said this a hundred times our parents show up for our kids if we need something and the community pride in this community drives a huge part of what we do. Um I gave a a tour my like my first year I gave a tour from the class of 1974. I just did one from a class of 1985 and they were so proud of what we've become and they're they're also equally as proud of the little
047piece that that they are still here. like when they saw the bleachers from the North Gym down in the new wing, their jaw dropped because they they recognized that we aren't who we are without without being where we're from. So, it's exciting stuff. It's the last one. Does anybody have any questions? >> Great presentation. >> Awesome. Thank you. Appreciate it. >> Thank you, Andy. And that concludes the superintendent's report. >> All right. Well, I don't have a report now. Thank for keeping I have my glasses. I thought I had everything in line. Well, um, but thank you everybody for everything. Um, I'm just going to move right on to other board member reports. Jason, >> nothing. >> Lori, Kevin, >> no. >> Chris, >> nope. >> Tracy, uh, we had our CISA one meeting last
048week, Wednesday, can't even remember. um last week Wednesday we are also uh feeling a budget crunch too with healthcare needs so I could relate while I was sitting in those meetings um they are very much pushing um for topic-wise AI um information so it'll be interesting to see what comes through for that and other than that it's all I got >> thank you Tracy and Bob all right committee reports educational services committee >> so as per um the minutes. We are in the process of finalizing our academic guide books for 2627 and we'll be bringing a motion forward at the next board meeting. >> Policy nothing. >> Uh business services student engagement legislative advocacy committee report. Can we please make a motion to make that into an acronym of some sort? >> Eventually we'll come
049up with something. Uh we uh tonight we discuss uh discuss one of the resolution action items coming up um and that uh will come forward for approval related to cash flow borrowing. >> Okay. Resolution action items. Uh motion to approve early college credit program and college uh start college now credits as presented. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. >> Opposed. Motion passes. Resolution authorizing temporary borrowing. Motion to approve the resolution authorizing temporary borrowing in an amount not to exceed 4,150,000 pursuant to section 67.12 sub 8 sub A1 Wisconsin's uh statute with uh Northland securities as presented. >> Any discussion? >> All right. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> Motion passes. >> The 2526 budget. >> Um motion to approve the 202526 budget as presented. Discussion. >>
050Julie, can I just ask a quick question? In committee, we talked about the increase of8%, right? Um when I looked at last year's preliminary budget, it was a little bit more than that. So can you tell me the final numbers of last year compared to this year please? >> So the 08 was just the revenue limit itself. >> Okay. >> But we have funds outside the revenue limit that also can support um increases like open enrollment grants and other >> Okay. >> So that's the difference between the budget increase and then a revenue limit increase every time. Got it. >> Thank you. Any other questions? All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. >> Motion passes. 2526 tax levy. >> Motion to approve the 202526 tax levy as presented. >> Second. >> And discussion. >>
051Julie, did you want to go over any of that? I can. >> Yeah. Why don't you just since it's different? >> Sure. >> Sorry. Like right in the microphone. I apologize. Um so we when we set the preliminary budget in the annual meeting just a few um minutes ago, um the tax levy is actually up to 4.95%. Um that is a result of final numbers coming across the state um determining state aid amounts for districts which then in fact determines our tax levy. Um we also had additional an increase in um voucher students and when we have that increase those costs come through our levy and then as revenue and then we pay them out as expenses. So we're kind of like a flow through for that program. Um but an increase to that would
052also increase the levy as well. With net new construction, we are looking at an overall increase um of approximately 3.78%. Um because net new construction is about 1.17%. So that brings our 4.95% down um to what taxpayers will actually feel um generally across the board is a 3.78% increase. And again, this is um very specifically due to how the state is funding us. Um historically, they've given us revenue increases to grow our pot of money but then also supported us with state aid. Um and when they support us with state aid, our tax levy is offset. In the bianial budget, we received no new state aid. So we were able to increase our pot um by $325 per student. However, um without any new state aid, that increase has to be absorbed from the >>
053Any questions. All in favor say I. >> Motion passes. And the deputy clerk. >> So nomination nomination. I would nominate Tracy Blair to fulfill the deputy position. >> Motion to approve nominated board member Tracy Blair to be the deputy for the board election duties. >> Okay. So, discussion um because Jason is on the ballot, we need to appoint nominate somebody to run the just election piece of the um clerk duties. So, since Tracy has done it before, it made sense to ask her to do it again. Anyone have any questions on that? >> All in favor say I. >> I motion passes. Okay. So, moving on. There are no discussion items information followation retirements page. And then I'm going to um we're going to do a full close session pursuant to Wisconsin statute 19.8 sub
054for the purpose of considering employment promotion compensation or performance evaluation data of specific employees over which the board has jurisdiction specifically salaries and I need first and a second >> we will only return to open session to adjourn um and does anyone have any other questions Just a roll call, I say. >> It's a roll call. So, there's no other questions in roll call. >> Chris, >> here. >> Tracy, >> yes. >> Bob, >> yes. >> Terry, >> Yes. Lori, >> yes. >> And Kevin, >> yes. >> Okay, we are in close session. So, we'll move to where?