MNS School Board Meeting 07/14/25

001with authority. >> With authority. >> There we go. How's that? Is that good? >> Yeah. >> All right. We will call this meeting to order. Verification that the meeting was posted. Attendance roll call. Kevin, >> is he still with us? >> He's here. >> Chris >> here. >> Bob >> here. >> I'm here. Lori >> here. >> Tracy >> here. >> Terry is absent. >> All right, sounds good. We will then go to the pledge of allegiance. Chris, could you lead us in the pledge of allegiance, please? [Music] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [Music] >> All right, moving to approval of the agenda. Can I get a motion to

002approve the agenda? >> So moved. Second. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. That motion passes. All right. Moving to recognitions. >> All right. Well, unless you were living in a hole or something the past several weeks, you were probably absolutely enamored by what our warriors have accomplished. Um, I've had several different professional opportunities to get together with superintendents from around the state since summer started and the number of people who came up to me and said, "Gosh, it must be nice to win all the time." And I'm like, kind of one of those things where you feel a little bit embarrassed. But then I was like, you know what? It does feel really nice to win all the time. But what you need to understand that winning doesn't come easy.

003And there are a lot of people in the world who say they want to win. And there are a lot of people who say they want to be a champion. What separates people in the world are those who are willing to do the work to actually become a champion. Because it's easy to talk the talk. It's a whole another thing to walk the walk and earn the right and the privilege it is to be a champion. And what fills me with the most pride about this opportunity to recognize everyone that we're going to get to recognize tonight are the countless times I've seen you in that weight room absolutely grinding it. The time I've seen you out on this field in those 100 degree days working your tails off. the times when I've heard from

004your spare your parents that you're loading up into a car to drive down to X Y or Z for a tournament or there's a camp this weekend. The work ethic that you guys have demonstrated throughout this journey in each person who's here to represent your sport is the exact stuff that being a Warrior is made of. Winning isn't easy. Yes, it's nice, but it's not easy. And the reason there are so few great great championship type programs are because not enough people are willing to do the hard work to make that happen. So, please know on behalf of our entire community how much you fill our hearts with pride in the way you represent us. So, our first recipients that we're going to bring up are going to be our baseball state champions. If you

005didn't get a chance to tune into these games, you talk about an incredible three nights of journeying up to a beautiful facilities and things you almost can't even script. I'll be honest, I was like that final championship game, watching the way you guys battled, the way you guys continued to find a way to make things happen, the way you believed in one another and cheered things on and just the way the game ended, the walk-off hit and all of that, those to me are memories of a lifetime where one day you're going to be old, hopefully not as bald as I am, but you're going to be talking about these stories, what it meant to be there with your friends and your teammates and the things you accomplished together. I know you're going to go

006off and do far greater things than what that event was, but I hope that's a foundation and a reminder to you of what happens when you work really hard. You hold yourself to high standards and you work for something that really means something to you. So, if we could have our baseball team please step forward. >> Actually, just have the coach. >> We were going to do ours first and then we'll get yours. Yeah. >> Baseball players, if you want to come on up where we have a certificate on behalf of our school board. Who brought him here? >> I got to play. >> You may have to if we could keep the rip wrap down in the back. Girl soccer team, if you guys could watch that guy. >> Yeah, that guy. >> Okay.

007Yep. So, what I'm going to do, guys, is I'm going to read this first one. Okay. They all say the They all say the same thing. Uh, but I'm going to read this this first one all the way through and then after that, uh, I'll call out your names and then if you could come up and get your certificate, that would be great. Forgive me ahead of time if I screw up your name, I will do the best I can. Feel free to correct me. All right. Certificate of appreciation. The Mosquo Norway School Board presents this certificate in grateful recognition of Joseph Shaw for his contribution to the Mosquo High School baseball team, achieving the exceptionally high honor of placing first in the 2025 WIAA Division 1 Baseball State Tournament. Presented at Mosquito, Wisconsin day,

00814th day of July, 2025 and signed by the board. [Applause] David Miller [Applause] Tyish [Applause] Cooper went [Applause] Dean Docker not here. Okay. Mason Horn. >> Not here. All right. Tyler Grass. Tyler's not here either. Maddox Lassard. [Applause] >> Cruz Ramire Evans. [Applause] Jack Shy, [Applause] >> Jackson, Aiden Pearlberg. >> No. Okay. Dylan Jesus. He's not here either. >> All right. Jacob Cardellis, Andrew Roland here, uh, Vancouage, [Applause] >> Carter Nicolado, [Applause] >> Tyson Grulcowski, [Applause] Annaniel. Okay. >> Ken Tanzik's out here. >> All right. Kyle Rogazinski. [Music] [Applause] That's it. Right. You guys want to come in for a picture real quick and then we're going to give the opportunity for our coaches to say a word and then we have a special guest. So you guys make it way over this way a

009little bit. [Music] Nobody We'll give coach P the floor if he has anything he wants to say and then we'll bring up our special guest as well. Stay away from just on behalf of the mosqu baseball program. I want to thank the board first of all for recognizing us tonight. of course thank the community for all the support um not just throughout the season but through our offseason and um obviously our facilities are second to none and that starts with um all the support with the um within the community. Obviously thank the players for for their hard work that you touched on perfectly of uh yearround training and things like that. So I'm just very grateful and thankful to be able to work with with a group like this and I thank the parents that

010are here as well. Um I know that's a um a huge commitment from you as well. So, um, thank you again for recognizing us and we greatly appreciate it. >> We have some special guests here with another award. >> I'll have Senator Bradley read it. I didn't bring my glasses. >> Skip to the great part here. Uh, therefore, so this is an official citation from the state of Wisconsin recognizing the group for their awesome achievement of becoming state champions. Uh, and just real quick, it gives us a lot of bragging rights in the capital. So, we love getting to do this. Thank you guys. Uh, it's pretty awesome to be able to do this. And this essentially says, "Be it resolved that State Senator Julian Bradley and State Representative Chuck Wickers do commend and congratulate

011the Mosquo High School Warriors baseball team on their victory in the 2025 WIAA Division 1 State Baseball Championship." Congratulations. [Applause] Awesome. Congratulations, coach. >> All right. Our next >> these are coaches. >> Oh, yeah. >> Cuz we have uh we we actually have certificates for the coaches on the baseball team as well. So, if we could have you guys come up [Music] All right. Same drill. I'm going to read it and then uh they say the same. So, certificate of appreciation. The Mosquo Norway School Board presents this certificate in grateful recognition of the Mosquo High School varsity baseball head coach Jacob Paige for his exceptional dedication, leadership, and commitment to excellence. Under his guidance, the Mosquo High School baseball team achieved an outstanding season, earning first place at the 2025 WIAA Division 1 Baseball State

012Championship presented at Mosquo, Wisconsin this 14th day of July 2025 and some signed by the board [Applause] say the same thing except assistant coaches. So, uh, Kyle Pekawitz Josh, is it Breeder? [Applause] >> Paul Dilly, [Music] Cal Craftchuck. Thank you guys. Again, I talk a lot about the importance of role models in life and truly are grateful for what our coaching staffs give to our student athletes. Um the role models they are for our young adults and I'm going to kind of transition that conversation around being role models because sometimes as high school athletes, you lose sight of the impact you have on our future warriors. Um the number of times whether it was at the state baseball game or the state soccer game, some of my highlights were watching our young kids at those

013events getting so fired up and excited about you guys and watching you guys interact with our young kids. Whether it's the youth events like the girls soccer, your youth event where we got the little ones out there playing the game other than the time where I thought some poor little kid got knocked concussed. But that's okay. Those things happen to it. Toughens them up. But genuinely, you guys are role models far beyond what you realize. the way you conduct yourself on the field, not just during the good times and the the times of celebration, but when things aren't going well. How those kids watch you. They watch the way you react when there's not a great call or there's a very physical play. Trust me, you guys made a huge lasting impact on generations of

014warriors to come on both sides and then with our track athlete as well. So, I just want to say thank you. I I wore this shirt in particular because it's one of my favorite. Our women of will club is something that strives to help young females understand the impact you can have in the world. And I know I'm biased that as a dad of daughters, sometimes I feel like the world lacks as many strong female athletes as there can be. And what makes me proud is when we talk about your success, not just on the field, but in our classrooms and in our hallways, the way you mentor young other students, please know how much that is noticed and the impact it makes in our system. So really, really proud of you guys. Yes, winning

015state titles is also pretty cool. And I have goosebumps thinking this is the fourth time. There's like a path worn out from our soccer team coming up for these things. The success of that is just insane. So many people can't even comprehend that. Most people are lucky to have one happen in the time that they've been a part of a school system. To our seniors who are walking across that stage, which by the way, we did change some transcripts, so I apologize. Some of you didn't graduate and you're coming back one more year. Sorry about that. accident. Oh, just kidding. But thank you for that impact. So, if our girls soccer program wouldn't mind coming forward, we have certificates for you as well to recognize the incredible accomplishments that you guys continue to do. [Applause]

016All right. I'm going to read the certificate and then your names afterwards. So, a certificate of appreciation. The Mosquo Norway School Board presents this certificate in grateful recognition of Savannah Middlestead for her contribution to the Mosquo High School girls soccer team, achieving the exceptionally high honor of placing first for the fourth consecutive title in the 2025 WIA Division 1 girls soccer state tournament. Presented in Mosqu, Wisconsin this 14th day of July, 2025 and signed by the board. [Applause] Abby Artlet. Congratulations, Elsa Mau. [Applause] Congratulations. Yep. Ella Kenzor. Josie Kenzor. [Applause] Nina Hutchkins, [Music] excuse me, Riley Koopa. [Applause] Congratulations, Bella Middlestead. [Applause] ulations Jessica Fernella Sper [Applause] Mia Bailey Kelsey Morgan. [Applause] Congratulations Taylor Collins. Okay. >> Ah, Ashlin Chara here. >> Clara Mench. [Applause] Autumn Dib. >> Autumn's not here either. Sandy Middlestead. [Applause]

017>> Congratulations, Lauren Schindler. [Applause] >> Congratulations. >> Olivia Roseski. >> All right. >> Reese isn't here either. Okay. >> I don't know. She's not. That girl's not there. >> Molina's not here. >> How about Caitlyn? Congratulations >> Nora Augustine >> Maline Dhy [Applause] >> coaches come on up. [Music] All right, coaches. Certificate of appreciation. The Mosquito and Norway School Board presents this certificate in grateful recognition of Mosquo High School varsity girls head coach Lance Matthews for his exceptional dedication, leadership, and commitment to excellence. Under his guidance, the Mosquo High School girls soccer team achieved an outstanding season, earning first place at the 2025 WIA Division 1 girls soccer state tournament presented at Mosquo, Wisconsin this 14th day of July 2025 and signed by the board. [Applause] assistant coach, uh, Ben Hoey. [Applause] >> Stephen Curt,

018>> Lucasy, >> not here. >> Kate Pranster. We got Katie Shower [Applause] and Hannah here. >> So, if we could get a quick picture with all the girls and coaches and then we're going to allow the athletes to sit down. We'll get our representatives to present Mr. Matthew. Take a quick picture. You guys are good at these. I know you've done it once. [Music] Are you ready? Thank you, sir. >> Thank you, Warriors. [Music] >> Did you hear that? >> Yeah. [Music] Senator Brown, if you wouldn't mind joining us. Good to see you. Congratulations. [Music] >> So again, this is a citation again, one that you don't have to pay for, right? This is like a ticket. We are excited. You want to talk about bragging rights. Uh, so Chuck and I were just talking

019because this is the fourth year in a row we've gotten to do this and I think I'm the only member of the Senate that can say he's been here. He has a state champion for all four years of his term. And I just got reelected. So four more years for all of you guys. He's going to do four more of these. >> They don't plan on losing. So I think that's fair. And so what we have here be therefore be it resolved that state senator Julian Bradley and state representative Chuck Wickers do hereby congratulate the Mosquo High School Warriors Warriors girls soccer team on their historic 2025 WIAA Division 1 girls state soccer championship their fourth consecutive championship and the remarkable legacy. Congratulations Excellent. >> Thank you very much for Yeah, of course. [Music] >>

020All right. Again, as I said, this was an incredible screen. >> Oh, that's right. >> That's right. Thank you guys. If there's a person who does not like public attention, it is this wonderful gentleman. So, it is a privilege to give him the floor for a bit. >> Yeah. I mean, Coach Paige said it really well. Just a lot of gratitude for the community and the people that surround uh the building here. I mean, the staff at the high school, our administration, um the support that we have from from everybody just is what makes great teams able to compete and do their thing. U just a tremendous sense of pride for these girls and all that they've accomplished. Um it's it's humbling every opportunity we get to be together as coaches. We're just really grateful

021to be out there and to have um like my daughter be a part of the program and and get to hang out like Mr. Irvine said. They're they're great role models um in and out of the classroom. Um it's just yeah an an incredible journey. Uh a lot to be grateful for and appreciate everything that everybody in here has done to help support it. So appreciate Thank you, Coach. [Applause] And I know I'm biased. It's incredible to have such great role models in all these different aspects. So, and again, you can't have a strong program without great leadership around it. So, to everyone, the time you give away from your families and support of our student athletes is truly appreciated. I hope you understand the difference you make in the lives of a lot of

022aspiring young adults. I know these are all better people because of the your leadership and the role models that you provide. So, one more opportunity to recognize another state champion who again is not new to this floor. Uh, Ella, if you wouldn't mind coming up. Um, again, I have a little bit of a bias from having been a track athlete back in my day. Love the state track and field meet. It is just a really special place to compete. Often times, if you go to a track meet, you don't have a lot of spectators at it. And then you go to the up to lacrosse and the state meet you have roughly 10 to 15,000 people cheering you on and it's just an electric environment because everyone there is really a fan of the sport.

023So, when you get to an event like the two-mile where in your average meet it's at the end of the meet everyone's tired a lot of times it's dark and cold and you've been frozen all day long and there's not many people there and you get to the state meet and it's just packed the entire thing and then you watch a race develop and you see this incredible athlete who is one of the most humble kind caring people you'll ever meet if you run into her in the hallway you'll see this wonderful sweet innocent smile she's so kind and thoughtful and then this switch goes when you step on the track and this competitive warrior comes out for I don't know who would want to race against you because you just refused to lose. So

024this great race is happening. The crowd's going bananas. I happen to be at the fence along with some families that were from the school that was also in second second place kind of competing with them. They're like, "She's going to do it. She's going to do it." And they're going bonkers. And I'm kind of sitting here like, "She's not going to do it. It's really going to hurt her feelings in a little bit. Just wait." And they're going bananas. They're going bananas. And the gun gun goes off in the last lap and it's like she takes off like a rocket. I have no idea what your last split was, but how impressive the move you made was, it absolutely broke the spirit of this other wonderful young athlete who I'm proud of as well. However,

025the decisiveness of that decision and the confidence again of something that wasn't you didn't you won that race that day, but you run won that race. Every time I'm leaving, I'm seeing you running in the downpour in the blizzard or you're in the scorching heat. You're going back and forth doing your repeats. your work ethic truly earned that championship which is the fifth one am I right or is it okay so fifth state championship which is truly incredible thank you for being an incredible role model on the track on the cross country course and also in the classrooms I don't talk enough about their student um academic achievements but the number of students that are seated here today that are leaders in our AP classes incredible ACT scores have countless college opportunities because of what

026you do in our classrooms as well thank you for making the narrative to be student athlete in mosquito. You are a student first and you're a role model in those classrooms and on the field. So, thank you all. >> All right, we have a certificate of appreciation. The Mosquo Norway school board presents this certificate in grateful recognition of Ella Anchudes for her contribution to the Mosquo High School girls track and field team, achieving the exceptionally high honor of placing first in the 2025 WIA Division 1 girls 3200 meter run track and field state championship presented at Mosquo Wisconsin this 14th day of July 2025 and signed by the board. Congratulations So, unfortunately, we're out of state champions to recognize. I mean, hopefully we can do more next spring. I mean, there is at least one

027other sport maybe we'll get one for, but huge shout out for all you're doing. Look forward to cheering you on in your senior year. So, thank you. >> Thanks. Thank you. Did you get it all right? >> And that's now I threw this out of rhythm. That's coming from me. So, it's not really Thank you. Congratulations. [Applause] >> And you guys are unleashed into the free world because it's 800° in here. Thank you for coming in. I know there's a lot of other great things to do in the summer. So, thank you. Have a great rest of your day. You're welcome to stay if you want to learn more about games. [Music] Great. [Music] >> Everybody join. [Music] He was here before for Jason. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> All right. Well, moving on to

028the next uh public comment. Uh we don't have anyone signed up uh left that was here. Noah was here, but he had he left. So, he was the only one who signed up. So, we will move on to consent agenda. Can I please get uh a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> Second. >> Have a motion. Second. Sure. >> So Kevin was first and Lauri was second. Okay. Does anybody need anything or discussion? Is there anybody that needs anything removed for separate discussion on consent agenda? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. >> All right. Passes. Superintendent report. >> All right. It is my pleasure first to begin with welcoming Miss Arts into her first official board meeting as our new assistant superintendent. [Applause] I will just speak to my

02910 years within the system working with her. Um she was one who early on when I first started I was absolutely just inspired by her leadership, your commitment to our students and our staff and the way you navigate um good situations, but even more so those difficult situations, the way your care shines through. You're going to be truly an asset to our students and families in this role. So, thank you for stepping in. All right, our next opportunity is going to be welcoming Mr. Ryan McMillan to the board for our activities report to the board, our annual report. Well, first of all, thank you for having me. Appreciate it. Um, I know every uh athletic and activities director doesn't always get to speak on the school board, so thanks for having me here tonight. Even

030though it is a summer, there's a lot of other things we'd like to be doing, this is going to be even better. So, here we go. Um, great night. I think it coincides with the group we just had here. So, very fortunate to to have that as well. But, uh, as I get going here, again, a lot of things haven't changed in terms of, uh, who we are and what we're trying to do and where our mission lies and and trying to be comparable and competitive. In some areas, people are chasing us, but we need to continue to grow because we aren't going to get caught. Um, and so there's there's things coming down the line and and we're going to keep pushing the pace and uh, never settle, I guess, if you will. But

031we've done a lot of great things because we have a lot of great people. Whether it's a great school board, great staff, great students, great parents, um great future coming. Um great, uh city in collaboration and thinking and trying to work together with some conversations we had tonight. There's a lot of conversations and city partners that are potential coming down the road today. And it it will all be positive in the end. And that's great to see. And and uh count your blessings, too, cuz we are in a great community. We really are. This isn't the same. I drive through a lot of different ones all the time. See a lot of different spaces and places. And when we say we want to be the district of choice, there's no doubt in my mind if

032you do your homework, you're going to choose us. So, um, we're going to continue to improve and it's going to be good. But let's highlight some uh some fun as we get going here. Uh, first of all, our why. Again, we know through the last strategic planning survey, our community's highest responses were uh athletics and activities and our all of our co-curriculars that we uh provide and and we uh we get the emotions out of people, I feel like. So, in good ways, uh more good than bad, and it's it's a lot of fun, but you saw this in our referendum support and um a lot of our future families and things stepped up and showed up to the polls and and kept us working forward. Uh, also as we take a look at our

033academic achievement because really we're co-curriculars. This is an add-on to the school day um in partnership and trying to help grow what happens during those school hours from 7 to 3 at the high school. And uh I think we're helping with that as we take a look at the data and Mr. Bavinka always uh makes fun of me because I talk about you know you get in co-curriculars you get smarter and it's real. It's all there like you can't argue it. So it uh just keep doing sports and uh activities or the play or or FBA or whatever your heartstring uh connects with and uh your academics will improve. But I can tell you standing here with this if I wasn't connected to one of the activities in my schooling, I wouldn't be here tonight.

034I guarantee you I wouldn't be here tonight. That was my why for coming to school and and school worked out and everything's great and and you keep going down the journey, but it helps helps grow it. And then some of these achievements is what allows kids to qualify for a free schooling that they might not even know with the combination of rigor in both areas, not only academically, but co-curricularly as well um moving forward. So, a lot of good stuff there. the data continues to hold and hopefully we uh keep doing a good work of enhancing that school day. Uh to build upon that helping to enhance our school district and who we are. Some of these uh graphics you've already seen from you know our fast facts and who we are as a school

035district. But uh I think the co-curricular program jumping out over 70% of uh Whoops. What did I do? Hang on. I didn't know what happened. But anyway, um over 70% of our students engaged in our our co-curriculars. That is a very uh healthy number and that is awesome to see. Uh we talking with Mr. Babinka over the past week here. Uh we still think we can get better. We still think we can push that that margin forward because we know what co-curriculars can do for academic success and we'll continue to work at that. The job's not done. It's a great number that a lot of schools are nowhere even close to. Um, so we take a lot of pride in that, but we know we can uh there's a couple action steps and things that

036we keep working on to get better there. But, you know, when you start talking about our co-curricular program and you see this in the front page of the biggest newspaper in Southeast Wisconsin, uh, it just catches your I don't know what this was, but when I read it, I was like, "Wow, that's pretty cool." And then I realized we were one of the three. I was like, "All right, we'll take that. This is United States. Let's go." Um, so a lot of good stuff and again public perception and this is coming from families and people that have experienced what we have to offer and given ourselves A+es and the ratings from the the entity that put that together and and what the news picked up and so uh very proud of what our students have

037done, but also very proud of having the number one overall composite ACT score in Walks County. Uh, that is a a strong statement. So we've beaten you, you know, in the classroom and now we're going to beat you after school, too. That's kind of a lot of fun. So, not that we want to beat them, but we're going to compete. Um, building community. I think the most important thing that we can do from a co-curricular standpoint, we take a lot of of pride in this. You just saw two teams and an individual come up that helped build our community. Um, got the future engaged in wanting to be a warrior and stay in school and show up every day and do those other things. But we also do so much more intentionally outside of the

038co-curricular programming. And it's more about um connecting our community than it is any wins and losses. Winning's fun. We got two trophies here. Those are great, but this is what matters on the screen and and bring crazy as it sounds, we passed a ref run them and nobody ever thought we're going to bring bouncy houses into the deal and and allow little kids to run around in the middle in the middle of winter. Uh I know Julie loves that. But uh the biggest problem was keeping the superintendent out of the line and reminding them that uh this is for the little kids. Um, but a lot of fun with, you know, scholar athlete ceremony, uh, having to pivot this year and move indoors and and the families and students did a great job of handling

039that. Uh, girls lacrosse here in the bottom. Uh, four years ago, we started with really no youth program. Um, girls walking into our system that had no experience to now, you know, we got a line of 40 to 50 future warriors here greeting our high school girls lacrosse as they come out on the field, which is a very new opportunity. uh back then we got going, but also promoting the movie nights and everything else we got going on. Cabaret, bringing people together to hear good music, good food, and then uh also seeing one of our own, you know, get drafted. There's a lot of pride that comes with that from all the people that have touched this student athlete as he's worked our way not only through our system, but our local university as well.

040Um, and it's is part of who we are and what we want to do. Continuing on that note, you know, when you have student athletes take the mic at their own contest and stand in front of a whole uh community to spread a message about health and wellness and helping others and and creating a better community for other people. Phenomenal. You just saw Maddox Lassard walk in this room who's got every ranking uh in in the baseball world you could ever dream of. And he's sitting down at our elementary schools with students that are looking to get connected and helping out and helping uh spread good cheer and and do those great things out of his own time where he had flexibility in his schedule to be able to do it. Or our tri group

041giving the poinsettas out, you know, the youth soccer Mr. talked about in the middle of the game. um or the MAA coming down to our campus for the first time cuz we got a facility to host their >> uh 6 and 7year-old all-star game. I believe score was 50 to 29 or something crazy. Um so that was a lot of fun last summer. So yeah, it was uh we're we got a good offense coming so we'll take it. But um a lot of fun there and this is what it's about and and again our soccer team that you just saw. Yes, they won it all and they've won four in a row, but they also are doing special events for childhood cancer. Our volleyball program is helping um children's hospital, local hospital, and spreading goods

042here with the the toy drives and other things. So, um yeah, we are in a special place. This doesn't always happen, but this is this is what the kids and the coaches and the people get excited about. Yeah, we get excited about these things and winning, but this is what drives the ship. So, this is nothing more than have we experienced some success? Absolutely. Are there good things going on? Yes. It's a byproduct uh process and we are not done yet. We are inherently competitive. We are always going to show up and compete. Um but it's about building community. It's about making better people. It's about extending the academic school day and teaching the life lessons uh moving forward. And again, you know, record year in a lot of different spaces and places. Uh girls

043uh basketball has never won the class 8 conference since we joined. Um it's been a really long time since we've had a conference title in that world and they they kicked that door in. Obviously you met Ella this uh today with her state championships. Carter as well. Um and then obviously our soccer program they got four in a row. I think everyone started talking about as soon as they won the fourth. Now what's next? Well, there are some schools and programs out there that won five. So they immediately flipped the page and here we go again. So they're chasing. Um and then boys baseball. And I think one thing I wanted to highlight here from a a board perspective, you don't always know the impact that you're making when you're making decisions, but I believe

044and Jeremiah, you can help me here. Was it two years ago, 3 years ago that we put in turf out in the baseball? Uh two, so it was two years ago we put in turf. We enhanced our our facility. We also had booster club join together and helped get dugouts and do some of those things. City partnerships helped us get the lights, etc., etc. So, it's been a lot of different groups helping each other, but the last time our baseball program went to state in one state was when we hosted the sectional on our our facility. We had a good enough facility for summer baseball at the time to host the sectional. They won that sectional. They got themselves in the deal and uh lightning struck and away they went and won it. This time

045again, because of our investment of our school board, we got a facility that's top-notch in the state. We are able to lobby to get the sectional. We got the sectional. When we made the transition to summer to spring, it was very difficult. We're on the road. There's a lot of competition. We were traveling to a lot of different spaces and places. But now, because we got what we got, we were able to host at home. The school was able to come out during exam flexibility time. I mean, we had droves of, I don't know, hundreds of people walking out of our building, support the baseball team. And uh because of your support and your investment, our taxpayers and people showing up, it allowed them to have a different platform that other schools don't get to

046have. And again, we hosted the sectional, they won the sectional, they got in the dance, and then lightning struck again, and away we went and won the deal. So, um, awesome to hear and that's, you know, some that's the the purpose of why you always hear us pushing the pace to try to upgrade our facilities and know that it's not just our district, but it's a whole bunch of different partnerships to to make those things happen. Uh, what else we got here? As we keep going, break through through year, our robotics program, uh, getting the scholarship and qualifying for the special awards. Uh, we also have Jess Ferno, who is class 8 player of the year. She is also a state player of the year, which you'll see here in a little bit. Uh, neat

047story about Haley. She didn't know lacrosse until she came here. Picked up a stick, worked hard every day, was kind of a backup, you know, early on in her career. Kept working, kept working, got the starter last year. this year she was a state player of the year as a goalie. That doesn't happen in the sport of lacrosse cuz it's all about scoring goals and she was a rock for us in that and kept us in a lot of things. And um girls basketball obviously sectional champions football getting you know some of these aren't always just the the winning, it's the story behind it. uh behind Nah uh or Jess getting hurt with her ACL and coming all the way back to be where she is today or football experiencing a lot of uh turbulence

048if you will in the middle of their their season and finding a way to band together and keep leading forward um and pushing the pace and getting those types of things done. Um statewide recognitions, we had a lot of them with coach of the year, obviously the jury awards with the musical. Um, I don't know how many know this, but the Green Bay Packers chose our girls to go up and represent the state of of flag football where it currently is at one of their games against the Arizona Cardinals. We are one of three schools to do that. Four schools, I mean, total. And also getting recognized for doing things the right way. When you start talking about leadership and ethics and integrity, um, you know, we're doing we're doing where, yes, we are winning,

049but we are winning the right way. um and that we will continue to push on that and continue to grow our people. Uh sportsmanship up here in the top lefthand corner again, first time in 28 years, we've never been recognized uh for that award as a system or a school. Um, it it it took all of us from a collective effort to get voted on by our opponents, by our neighbors of the Classic 8 and every program together to get voted on to be high enough to score high enough in the cumulative points to allow us to to garner that uh award. So, that's pretty cool, too. And uh, Coach Joe Miki doing great work with our forensics program as well, getting his recognition at the National Sports Deal um, and moving things forward. Uh

050touching on sportsmanship again, we are neighbors of Walks County. The only thing that separates us from our opponents is a zip code and understanding at the end of the day it's a game, but and when we get to real life, we're all in this together. Uh this is a greater society and those that you see on the the screen, you know, helped uh lead us forward in our boys soccer program and some of the class sportsmanship awards. There's more coming from the spring season uh that we have not been informed of yet, but uh with the passing of our commissioner, there's been some things that we're catching up on now. And uh so excited to see what the next month brings from from that end of of things and going to the the Classic 8

051leadership summit, taking our student leaders and some coaches out to Okconam who hosted it this year. Uh or bringing in public speakers to work with our our athletic leadership council at lunch uh to continue to push our student athletes to be better people and be the people we want them to be uh versus just winning games. Uh, want to give a shout out to our our athletics and arts relationship, Jamie Beckman, Matt Wner, Matt Miller, uh, Jen. Um, h helping us out here. Whether we ever athletics ever needs a a singer or we need a drum line, we had a record number of sendoffs. I feel like this year there are sendoffs every other day. Sirens blaring trying to get work done over here. I mean, oh my goodness. But, uh, the cool piece is,

052you know, specifically the the drum line showing up at every different venue. They're in the hallway supporting whoever's getting sent off. They're out in the field supporting cross country. They're in the pool. They're in the PAC when we're doing our eighth grade orientation building community and selling our system. Um, and all the way up to the Rush Center in Green Bay in the middle of winter uh to support our girls and in the football program and everything else. or our best buddies walk on that cold uh rainy morning on sat Saturday morning I believe, right? And they're out there jamming away and it makes it just a little bit easier to get out of bed and do those sort of things and help people uh just create a better tomorrow or better today if you

053will. And so we appreciate them as well. Clubs are rocking as well. We got a lot of good clubs. We up to 65 programs and we continue to grow. A couple of highlights here is Ed Rising grew their club again. that's building future educators where they hosted um five other schools from our area. I know New Berlin, Franklin, um and some others came over for a great day of learning. Anything I'm missing there, Andy, on that one. I know they had you be the public speaker that brought you in. That was a great honor for you. That's cool. Pet Band's crushing it. Um Mama Mia, what a fun show that was. If you stuck around to the end, I feel like everybody was standing on their feet and dancing along. um you know some of

054the induendos that adults understood what was going on. The kids didn't even know they're just dancing to great music. So uh I like that. That was a lot of fun too. >> And then uh just a little shout out to our outdoor club that really has grown under again the leadership of Lance Matthews. Uh they were able to uh win their qualifying section on ice fishing this year and actually made this uh trip up to state lacrosse. So good stuff's going on. Dan Myron, if you see him, please let him know the great work he did with our robotics program. Unfortunately, he is stepping away to to move on to the next chapters of his life as well. But he really did a great job of pushing our program forward and growing that uh and

055enhancing everything that we've done and then qualifying um down into Texas twice uh one getting a special award uh to be able to do so. So, uh really excited about everything that's going on in our co-curriculars as well. uh pushing that forward and trying to build better people. We don't do it with just our student athletes, but we also do it with our adults. And uh this year, Courtney uh led and and Anita led this beating burnout at work. And it it hit me as this is really valuable as I dove into the work with our leadership team at the district level. Well, I said our coaches and our activities advisors need this as well because they're the ones that are grinding some serious hours. Uh where they really never leave the classroom. Some of

056these cats are going from 7 7 to 7 and sometimes 7 to 9 to 10 if they got film involved. They're grinding to the wee hours of the night and understanding what is healthy and what is not and where to draw the line in that work life balance and what is the secret sauce for beating burnout. as we get there in our staffs and we find that it's a great team. If your school board is a great team, when the storm comes, if you will, that team will get through it together much more um successfully than an individual standing by themselves or a divided ship trying to sail forward. And and uh speaking of storms and moving forward and helping bring in uh Mr. Coach Jones to work with our staff and and speak at

057our scholar athlete ceremony and talking about the Buffalo running into the storm. We know the storm is coming. Uh we just don't know when it's going to be here, but are do we have a strong cohesive team with all of us together to help us weather the storm uh and make a better tomorrow after the storm pass um and keep going. So obviously our our values and our purpose, it's what drives us. It's the reason we do what we do. Uh we don't do it to win trophies. That's not why we're here. We're here to make better people. Um, yeah, one warrior initiative lives on. Um, obviously our police department uh has taken this another step forward. Our obviously our school district, the superintendent uh have taken this now an even further step forward. And

058I truly believe that uh we are all in this thing together. And everyone asks, "How do you win? Why are you winning um this?" And I just respond with us. And they look back like, "What do you mean?" I said, "Us. It's mosquito. It's all of us. It's every single one of you sitting in this room. It's everyone that was just in this room that walked out and it's everybody else in our community that continues to feed into this thing and help us be the best we can possibly be. Will we make mistakes? Sure. Will we grow from them? Absolutely. Um but together uh we have a bright bright future and a very proud proud past. And that's uh that's what I get excited about and and uh why I get up and get down

059here every single day to have some fun. So, as we talk about the future moving forward, this is kind of where we've been as we we've moved through our chapters and and moving forward. And what are we continuing to grow on? Uh, bringing Maker Space, which is a new club with our new steam wing up to speed. We piloted it this year. It was very successful and helping push that even further down the the pathways and helping um Mr. Roberts, Mr. Dumbar were in those meetings with me as well. We had about 20 different staff members that came together over the last I don't know year and a halfish meeting uh to make sure that this is the right match for co-curricular to enhance the curricular uh and I think we found the sweet spot.

060So looking forward to seeing that and then uh continuing to build towards our other ambitious goals of facilities and other opportunities that can come down the line. And uh yeah, it is what it is. Bright, beautiful facility. This is fun. And uh we didn't come this far to only come this far. We're going to keep going. Uh you might have to tame me down a little bit at times, but uh we're going to keep working to find the best people, okay, and build the best facilities and best our community. And hopefully uh Mr. Irvine t spoke on in the committee meeting about how we have become a community center. We weren't always that way. Our doors weren't always open. Um and I I truly do believe if you have perspective and you have lived in

061other spaces and places and other towns, our school system and our school buildings and Jeremiah's leadership with his staff and some of the system improvements that we've made, uh we truly are community centers and that's what we're here for is to serve the community. So, thank you for allowing me to be a part of it and uh I look forward to where we're going. Any questions? I said a lot there. Sorry. >> Oh, sorry. Um, can you expand on the ice center or ice arena that you have listed from 27 to 20? >> Yep. I got to find this $30 million. >> Okay. All right. >> So, that's uh >> that's my goal. >> Just scary. So sad. Um, and then is and I think the idea of the tennis courts being revamped so that

062people can watch from the center and that definitely is a a goal that I'd like to see. And then thirdly, um, it would be nice if we could maybe do the same thing that we did for the boys football thing to have it for the girls soccer thing so we can display something for them like we did for the boy, you know, for the football on the stadium. Oh, like the state championship thing that's coming with their new scoreboard in about three weeks. >> Oh, all right. >> They'll have girls and boys on there, too. >> And then how about um are we thinking at all about building like permanent shelter stuff for them? And >> we we have a plan for that. We have to find the funding. Yeah. Um >> I think we

063we learned of a great solution. Instead of uh building permanent dugouts, there's another permanent structure that we um who was it? Whitefish Bay, maybe. Yeah, I think it was White Fish Bay. Somebody did a little bit of an upgrade to their their facility and caught our eye and said this is very doable and working with our soccer boosters and things. Hopefully we can find a partnership to to make that come to life, too. >> Does a scoreboard going to have sound off of it, too? Or >> uh still have the sound, but to build on that soccer facility, we do have a master plan to have a permanent structure on the west side that raises the elevation, the seating to 4 foot, much like our softball and football stadiums are. and then we can move

064sound and and game operations over to that side. But, uh, we'll continue to work with our donors and and find a way to make these things happen and see where their appetite is and what they want to do and how they want to do it and >> and I'm happy to see the resurfacing of the track. >> Heck yeah, that's awesome. >> Jeremiah's team and our track coach has worked very, very hard on that and they're in a good place. So, >> yeah, >> thank you. >> Thanks. >> You bet. We may have had it up there, but um how many students are in one or two coats? >> 1600 I think it was. Was that on the first slide? >> Yeah. I So that's almost that's >> No. So it's 70% of 1600. >>

065Okay. So it's 11 70%. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> So it um >> and we got to get we're going to keep pushing the pace on that, too. Hopefully one of these days I could show up and we're at 80%. Which would be uh awesome. Maybe we can bring some comparables too to other systems too. Um that would help with that number as well. So yeah, >> good question. >> Maybe it'll draw more people in with the maker space or this steam trades area that may not necessarily be sports and activity >> much like we did with uh when you say that it triggers me with e es eports, our gaming club. Uh we had 50 students that showed up that uh the instructor prides himself on knowing almost every kid in our

066our building and he didn't know those kids >> and they were phenomenal for us and they've been phenomenal and they you know they compete and they do a great job and uh so that's worked out very well for us. >> I've used your um your statistics about the one co-curricular and two relative to GPA and ACT. I used it for my son. Told him he's doing two things. Pick them. I don't care what they are, but you're doing two things. Right. And >> I really truly believe that that just makes a more engaged student, right? And a more engaged student results in better focus than and and a higher GPA. Do we ever we I'm assuming we do that on freshman orientation day. We show them that and if we don't, we should. Yes. But

067is there a way can we also u make sure that the parents know that because often times they need that little boost to say hey junior you need to be in one or two things. >> Absolutely. Yeah. That uh we can >> that statistic I think is remarkable and unfortunately it's shared to us but I don't know how much further it goes. It should go to everybody. >> I sell it pretty hard on that eighth grade orientation. >> Oh do you? People are giggling at me a little bit but >> Okay. All right. So you're in the auditorium hearing it and then you go to the the or the gymnasium and hear it there too. So >> we make a little handout with it though. That might be a good idea so that when they're

068leaving they have something. >> Can I can I add something? I think it's important. >> Ryan talks a lot about things that happen behind the scenes that you don't Sorry. I'm Ken. I want to be so Anyway, uh Andy and Brett and Jessica and I and Ryan see this a lot. You folks don't see it. Kids are involved in clubs and sports. Their adviserss and coaches are often key in keeping them on the right track academically. There is a lot of support there. We are well aware of all the conversations when a coach or advisor finds out a kid's struggling in the classroom a little bit, they're honored. >> Yeah. >> You know, so that's something that I want to recognize. You talk about all the hours >> our coaches and advisers put in. That's

069one of the other things that they do kids be successful. >> I think that's one of the hidden things that getting kids connected is that it connects them with a mentor that's invested and that they they feel invested in. Um, I was I I'm sure you guys have seen too a lot of times who when they're in trouble is we'll say, "Can I be the one to tell my coaching and it's like that speaks to the power of that relationship and and Ryan created using this teaching or with the staff it gives it gives the coaches a platform which people and make sure that it's not just about three part. >> Thanks Ken who's also a staff member. The thing that I like to see also is the alumni coming back and getting involved because

070I know um Dr. or Dr. Mr. Dick Clapper, he'll love that. I called him doctor reached out to my son Zach to talk to the class about like his job at the DOT and what he you know like it's kind of cool that you're bring mentioned when you saw Matthew doing the firefighting talking to the little kids. It's just it's kind of awesome when you get that re you know they're coming back and they want to still contribute. >> Full circle experience makes us stronger. >> All right. >> Thank you. Thanks for time. >> Thanks. >> Thank you Mr. McMillan. >> Next up the wonderful hard transition to our midyear update on uh our efforts for a drug-free environment. I think Anny's going to lead it off, but I just want to say like >>

071more of a two hitter. >> I feel like we're following Jerry Seinfeld. It was all fun fun fun. We get to talk about the struggle. >> Yeah, we had a fun intro, but I did want on a serious note, I did want to intro into this with a thank you to all of you. Um I think this is one of the things when I first started here to the district I had worked in previously. Um, and I think that this district has always been very proactive and I think it's been a big leadership push from starting at the school board through the superintendent through us ultimately in buildings um to do everything we can to make sure our kids are making good decisions that they're making informed decisions and then most importantly they're safe. Um,

072I think sometimes kids live in a moment where they make decisions but they don't necessarily think 2, three, four weeks, months, years down the line. Um, and I think the the drug-free environment focus that we do is really important. So, thank you for the support through it. Um I know that every year um that I've been here um part of what you ask at the end I'm expecting at some point is is what can we do to continue to support you? Um because I think that that the allin approach that Ryan talked with about co-curricular is also extend into this I think might need to missing the train. All right. >> Yeah. So I also want to say thank you to the board. I also want to say thank you to our PD um with

073our partnership. So, K9 searches, it has been something um that that we've we've had and if you actually look at this year, our ability to um actually have a little bit more of a greater frequency like especially in the building because we had K9 in the building. Uh I know that that is a partnership with our school board and our school and our PD. Um it really made it efficient. Uh so this year we did 10 searches uh in partnership with our PD. um three outdoor outdoor parking lot searches. Uh we had we had three indications. We have zero evidence which if you look at both our indoor and outdoor we had zero evidence was found. Um our seven indoor searches typically six to eight classrooms and then we're also rotating through uh different locker

074rooms. So that was it was something that we weren't really doing before. It was like wait a minute they could be you know things could be in there. So we wanted to utilize the time when it came to not only the bathrooms which we did do but let's get down to our locker rooms and search those. So, um it it it really made it easier. So, you're having uh canito in the building. It made it le much less invasive really cuz it, you know, you have a dog that is already in the building that's that has been seen. Um you know, of course then when the kids do get a peak of them, they're like, "Oh, they're Tito." Right? So, it's like one of those things where no Tito's got a job to do. We

075got to we got to go do some work now. So, uh so great thing to see though. Uh if we go to um the next slide, Mr. Binka. So if you look at our trend, I think this is really important for us to see. Um we talk we just talked about all the great things that we do in athletic activities. Well, we have we have things that we can say this is awesome as well. Uh if we look at our indications, our indications have gone down. Uh and obviously the last two years we've had zero evidence uh during those um during those searches. So that is that is phenomenal uh knowing that we are um keeping stuff out of our buildings and out of our parking lots. Any questions on that? Okay, so we'll go

076on to the next slide. Uh, so random drug testing, we know is another really important part of what we do. Making sure that our students um are, you know, not using um because even though you might not find anything at school, they could be using outside of school. This is obviously deterrent. uh you will find that our students um are in the testing pool if they have a parking permit or they are in club sport and when they do sign up for that they're in from that point forward. So if they've signed up for something their freshman year they stay in that pool throughout their high school career. Um do want to point out that we we look at the number of um the students that we test. So 15 per month. Um and we

077also have two of those students are tested for performance-enhancing drugs. It is not anybody that is that it it's students are athletes. It's not if you have only a parking pass or only a club. So that is tied to like a student athlete that would get peed. So that's usually a question comes up. So I just wanted to make sure to answer that um uh right away so you can see the drugs that are tested for. Um >> I would I would want to add to this one too. I think this this rings with me as a former coach as a really really important reason to get kids connected and get them involved in things is it puts them in the school and it gives kids a reason to say no in the face of

078peer pressure. They face a lot of peer pressure but knowing that there's this thing moving sometimes gives a kid an additional reason to say no especially when they're committed to something they care about. So, it's I forgot to I don't know if I ever asked this question before, but let's say you had a kid who was doing volleyball, which is a you know, a fall sport, and then they didn't do anything for the rest of the year, they're still tested for that full year. >> So, once once they sign up, so let's say let's say you have a someone that goes out for freshman volleyball, >> they've signed the paperwork, >> it is in the paperwork that even if they don't go out the rest of their high school career for anything, they are still

079in that pool. >> Okay? So, >> and what happens if they signed up for basketball but weren't do they then get added into the pool mid seme mid year? >> So, usually what ends up happening during registration is they the during during our fees and forms day and you fill out the all the paperwork that part of it there's the registration paperwork. So that paperwork is usually where the parents will sign that my student is interested in and once they say they're interested in they're they're put into you know the process of it and then obviously things are finalized with your basketball. But let's say let's say you have a kid that says I am interested in and so they're they're intending on they're signing up for they're sign off on the paperwork because once

080they say they're interested in something they're signing off saying that they're going to be in the court. So what happens? Let's say for instance that kid said, "I'm going to be interested in basketball." Tries out for the basketball team and gets cut. >> Are they still in the pool? >> If they sign the agreement form, pay the fee, they're still in >> they're still in it for the year of their and there's no and there's no schoolbased consequence. The consequence would be violation of >> Okay. >> Because you've agreed to a higher standard by putting your name in the pool. I guess I never even thought about >> because my kids are always in everything every seme to consistently daily make good choices, right? We don't want them playing a game of like I can

081make bad choices now cuz I'm not in season, >> you know, right? >> We occasionally do have like I mean this is a thing questions come up around and we have people who try to circumvent a little bit but I think it comes back to um the partnership with the family and families want their kids making the decision on snow is what it comes down to and it gives I always said the parents don't make the calls. It gives you an additional opportunity on a conversation with your kid, but use me as a letter. You know, like this happened in school. Um they're they want to know like it gives it it gives parents an indoor conversation. It's hard. It's a very big community. Unfortunately, the substance are very available today. Um >> and then

082what since we said in the last one that the percentage is what did we say? Um 70%. Was it above? >> Yes. >> But then parking probably increases that a little bit. It's probably >> 80% >> 1,200ish >> plus out of out of 1,600 kids that are in the eligible pool to be tested anymore. >> Okay. >> And so we'll look at numbers from this last year. Just you look at the number of kids that we tested. So uh if we look at the number of kids tested 150 which is the same every year. Just want to make sure that's clear. We haven't changed those numbers. It's the 150 kids every year uh that are in the RDT pool that we're testing. Uh so we had 10 positives here. Uh seven for nicotine only. Uh

083zero for marijuana only. And then we had two um two that were nicotine and marijuana positive. So that was that was nine of the 10. And then anytime you have a refusal, usually there's a reason for refusal and that refusal it test that counts as a positive if you refuse. So >> yeah. um with close to or over a thousand kids possibly tested is 150 enough. Um well it's good it's a good question. Um, we do I mean the data would suggest the just some background I guess uh pro health they do all the testing for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation employees. We often get questions from parents. So it kind of circles back sometimes we'll get questions about the validity of what is ProHealth doing. We're pretty pretty darn confident of their process. So

084even with a like perhaps a small sample size of 150 students, feel pretty confident that's a pretty good representation. Um and when we only get 7 10 positives out of 150, you know, I think you could extrapolate that out. I don't know that we would if we tested 300 kids a year. I I'm not I'm not sure. It's a good question that we talked about a lot. We hope that that's always a deterrent, right? Okay, when I sign my name on a dotted line, I know any month I could be tested. And that that has to be our hope, right? That kids take that to heart and they know that could happen. So, I'm not sure if it matters if it's >> 100 or 300 or 450, right? >> Yeah, that's a good point because

085in a kid's mind, does 15% or 30% make a difference in their choice? Probably not. >> And and for a kid who's really addicted, that struggles either either way. for the kid who's making decisions and on the fence and like hanging out, this gives them a deterrent. I would add to that because that isn't really a question. I mean, ultimately like what is enough? It it is we work a little bit of a time crunch if we're going to do it on a different if it were to change. I don't know that we could do more than 15 on any one given day because we have to complete the process before lunch >> and we start to get depending on the students and how frequently they urinate. We start to get into a space where

086it runs into a time crunch because not every kid can go on demand. So some of the kids sit and hold. We've had kids that could go for two up to be three hours, which then brings in the second point. The more kids we have, the more kids that are going to be missing class time. So there's aspects of it. They get a little complicated, but that is something for us to keep for sure because I I I don't think we're unique in the CEO that this is something our kids are struggling with, but it's something that how do you continue to make sure that kids, you know, there's reasons not to make these decisions >> because we're and I I agree with what Mr. Bay is saying about that missing class time. That's the

087number one thing that we don't want kids right missing class time and so we are very um intentional about looking at their schedules when we pull them and so we try to make sure that we're we're not impacting significant academic and so the more you have that could be but you're right it's it's one of those things I know Miss Proop um who's not able to join us tonight is is has looked into and is looking at other schools their numbers and percentages as well. uh she has started um looking into like what the numbers that other schools are seeing and also like not just the number of students they're testing but also like that their what you'll see on the next slide Mr. Bing will talk about is what are their results looking like

088too. Yeah, I would say with regards to RDT and K9 searchers, we tend to be in the top portion of the county and what the last time I checked, we're most the Walker County schools are about half give or take the number of can for example. Um I don't think it's a bad thing to be leading. I think it's a really good thing to be on proactive. Um a little bit small font. Apologize for that. I think the graph the graph numbers there so you can kind of see um random drug testing um trends you can see that the trend last year was uh with 27 positives you can see um you can see it's a pretty big decline um it's a success I consider that to be a success for students that are in

089co-curricular and have parking privileges it's kind of us leveraging it we did reach out to you can see you know it's it's a pretty big drop we did reach out to some other schools to see what they're seeing trends and it seems to be a pretty mixed bag. Some schools saw increases, some some schools saw declines. So, I don't know if it's something I would want to hang my hat on and say, "Hey, this is likely a permanent trend." But, it is a positive indication. Um, we did communicate on a number of different pieces home throughout the year about usage, too. Um, Children's Hospital had a really nice video we shared home. Um, I think it's pretty impacting. I think we're starting to finally see some of the research I'm vaping starting to emerge, and

090I think that's going to be really powerful to get to our families. I just saw a um a thing I didn't I meant to grab it. I had to look for it. It was uh you can buy these now. It looks like a key fob and you pull it out and it holds THC and like it never even occurred to me when I'm searching to pull on a keys a kids keys and it really like you're that's the space that these companies are putting us in now. Um and I want to get that kind of information home to families as they're as they're talking with their kids and looking around with the rooms and it's it's become challenging. So, we do have a slight trend line or it's positive though, but we do know that

091that that is not something that we're going to know. There's a lot of work to do there. >> You just wonder if it has to do with graduation classes like did this class that was trending upward graduate and now we're seeing I mean it you you'll have to wait till next year. >> Yep. >> That'd be wonderful if that was. >> You wonder. >> Yeah. I think there's a randomness aspect to it. So even year to year you do see some fluctuations within the data set. Um you know my my hope is that those messages are landing. I think that the early research coming out on baking is not good. It's annually more and that wasn't the messaging from say five years ago. >> Um this >> so some kind of indirect efforts also remember

092the whole program was put together 12ish years ago probably before any of you were even in this role when I was here as a as a deterrent right to help kids make good choices when faced with a choice to make good choices. So, some of the other things that can happen are if a student tests positive that has a parking permit, their permit would be revoked for a period of 18 weeks. Kids like to park here, believe it or not. So, um they if they can get that parking permit back sooner, they oftenimes would like to do that. And we can what we can do is with their consent um if they consent to automatically be in the next three months of the random drug testing pool. So they would be a student in addition

093to those 15 and they test positive all three months. They'll get their permit back in 9 weeks. >> That's we actually give them a good faith effort too. Sometimes that 9week period appears before they are even in that third month of testing. We'll give them the parking permit back. Good faith effort. Like we The value there is you just voluntarily subjected yourself to three more random drug tests. Like this is good for you as a student. Good for you as a family to be able to do that. >> I do want to add to that too, this kind of piggy back to what Bob said a minute ago asking about what's the right number. There were months where we were testing 22 and 23 kids because of things like this where they were carryovers. So

094at times the capacity of the testing is higher than just the 15 already. >> We would start at 7:25 and sometimes that finish till 10:30, you know, just solid with 202 unless I'm looking at it right. That math doesn't you ha you have to give them their parking permit back before their last test. Right. Otherwise, you're at 12 weeks and not nine. >> Right. Right. I don't You're right. I don't know if it's possible unless the unless the maybe the third test would fall like right away in the first couple days of that >> third month. >> And there are time the testing is a this is kind of getting a little bit into the weeds, but if a student tests positive for let's say on a 27th of a month and they tested positive

095for marijuana, we we would we put them into the pool, but they're probably going to test positive if the next test is only eight days later because because THC stays in your system because it's fat soluble. So there's there's weird overlaps that kind of get a little kinky with this, but I think with to Ken's point, it's a good faith effort for us to encourage the kid to give up marijuana and then hopefully see the negative result going forward. Um >> because even if the student tested positive during the third the third month, let's say they were negative and negative, they would then go back to the 18 weeks. So there's still there's still a consequence on one. Just a key move in that last section. Um, if a student uh has a violation of

096having a vape possession, for instance, nothing to do with random drug testing. When we have a behavior meeting with that family, we do offer the parents and say, "Hey, if you would like to, the parent has to sign off. You could put your student in the random drug testing pool voluntarily for the next two or three months, whatever the parent would agree to. So that adds a few kids each month also. >> And the kids are about 10 bucks a piece or >> I'm sorry. >> What was the cost on them? >> No cost. >> We don't charge what if you purchase as a parent. >> Oh, what you pay for a test? >> Yeah. 10, right? >> Yeah. Right. And the why behind that is it is incredibly common when a student is caught

097um that the students responses I just tried it for the first time this weekend I don't use this um it was a friends so it kind of gives the family a little bit more information to try to make sure they have accurate information because it really if it really was just a one time I just tried it they have a chance to prove it to themselves and they always educate the families as well yeah it's $10 for us but you can go on Amazon and get a 30 pack of testing at home kits for 20 bucks. So that >> I would say more of our families take us take that route rather than keep us in the loop. I think that um a lot of families want to take care of it themselves and kind

098of keep the school out of it going forward. But it opens an opportunity for families that maybe need it. Um and I think creates a great lane for education too. Um we very frequently it's it was my first time or it was not my number two and one responses. Um um number of other efforts um that um we we work toward each each you know year kind of tweak as we go as Ryan likes to say keep trying to get better and find different ways to do these. Uh something Ryan and I took on this year. He was really gracious. He gave some time with all of his coaches to start the year and do a call to action with his coaches to make it a point of emphasis to help them leverage that platform

099they have with their kids. Um I think it's something we're going to work on. We're going to continue to spin the message in a stronger manner. Um we Ryan does a lot with the leadership group um around peer pressure and like overcoming peer pressure and how to have the right tools to combat that because I think that's a big part of it is you know kids that want to fit in and we all want to fit in and I think that aspect of it is important that kids have armed with the right tools. Uh created educational opportunities for families including messages and resources in the parent newsletter. Mentioned that video earlier. I have if I can't find the exact video that I was watching the other day, my jaw dropped at my brother's house in

100Ohio. I'm going to find some pictures and I'm going to create a slideshow of it. It was some really really newagy stuff that the kid that the kids were able to get their hands on because of the internet. Kind of scary. Um, and I'm kind of hitting like I'm kind of searching a part of that often and it still drop my jaw of technology. Um uh health teachers uh include risks associated with vaping is within the curriculum and continue to to make that point about this they're teaching. Um the nicotine is included in the random drug testing panel so that that is being tested for um the D2 program through your choice um to live ARC offered as an alternative based suspension when we're able to do that and leverage that. Um the administration uses

101metal detectors um but metal detecting wants is a more effective efficient less invasive search tool. um that's been kind of a game changer versus every student that needs to be searched um being searched by hand. It's a lot less I would say triggering for kids to go through that way. Um it turns out a lot of the kids that are willing to try to make things when they know there's a metal detector usually just hand it over um because it's coming. Um and then we we have continued and I think we probably in the summer years now random breath flies at school dances encourage kids to come and be safe and good. Do you still have the vapor scene stuff in the bathrooms and stuff? >> Yeah, actually putting it in other bathrooms as well.

102>> And one thing to add to what you talk about, we start talking about dealing with our students or leading our students. We push hard on our peer pressure resistance strategies over the last two school years and teaching those nine different strategies. And the one that that this program always brings up is we give every single student in our system is an make an excuse is one of the deals we give them the excuse by having this program in our system and we we cover every school year about you know what is the number one excuse if you're engaged in our co-curriculars or have a parking pass on why you can't use random drug test bingo. um and everybody knows it and they can use it any time to help them get out of the

103situation with peer pressure getting dialed up. So, thank you for that, too. I think that um the platforms of our students, whether it's the the great soccer kids, baseball kids, whether it's Kira, who's the robotics young lady who won the national recognition, those those kids that are connected and they're in leadership roles and the roles that kids emulate towards when they're making great decisions because they have reasons to make great decisions. It's hard for the other kids not to want to be like that person who's setting a good example. So, I think that's a big aspect that I found, too. Any other questions? Yep. >> So, um, do you know what the distribution is among class, freshman, sophomore, or junior, senior? >> So, I don't have the exact >> for the positive test. >> Yeah,

104I don't have that. We can get that though for sure. >> It wasn't on. That's something that I usually ask you guys at each update if we can include that because and this is more systemic to if it's underassmen whether or not we want to look at to Ryan's point with the the peer pressure me messaging >> and starting that in seventh eighth grade because a lot of this stuff starts in seventh eighth grade before even get to >> without having to hard I can tell you anecdotally we struggle with our freshman walking in the And that that's where I kind of figured it was going to be >> just coincidentally today we we were pulling some behavior data to look at kind of planning in the next year. Um, eight out of our top

10510 most frequent visitors is a freshman and one sophomore. And I would say all of them have usage issues already and they're they're very young, very and I would say very addictive to nicotine and it becomes a constant battle with school then because you don't have the frequency that you want, >> right? >> So it shows the behavior shows up in other ways, right? It shows up in in like oppositional behavior, but really it's an addiction issue as a 14-year-old, >> right? It's scary >> cuz and and the biggest challenge I would see is they're already fighting the battle coming in when some of that can be addressed early on. We have a DARE program that ends at fifth grade and it seems like we do nothing between there and high school. That seems like

106the gap that we need to close, >> especially with health being a rotation that not every student gets in middle school. There's a percentage of our population that doesn't get that. same kind of concept, the ability to have um students who are in clubs and activities in middle school. Those coaches are also a part of the coaching sessions. He's talking about the call to action, >> but not every kid is connected in this, >> right? So, >> right. What I mean, and that maybe that's something else to look at is how what's the involvement rate in middle school for seventh and eighth graders? >> Like is it only 50%. Is it less? Is it more? and if there are students you're not reaching then finding other ways to reach them and let them know so

107that they're not finding it you know on freshman orientation that this is going to be happening and they're already kind of behind the curve. So >> has there ever been Ryan discussion with your ads from the middle schools and the principles about doing potential drug testing in middle school? uh not explicitly, but I I believe they would welcome the opportunity. Um obviously the funding and systematically they can make it work within the school. I think it would be great for them. They would not shy away from it knowing some of the hard conversations they have to have with students um that might get into some, you know, with our RP or something outside of school day that their heart will hold on. If there was no one, they would have done more, right? And I

108think that Andy, you talked about call action with the coaching advisor. That was one big aspect. Could you help us know who and how and when so we can go help teach and preach and grow and do those things? So, absolutely. It'd be interesting to survey the middle school parents to see if they would be for it because you would have to have a buy in of the parents to have them be tested. >> I think >> No, it's it it is a politically contentious conversation. >> Yeah, I I don't know where many districts around us have that. I know several were talking about it and then it got blown up because of the lack of parent support. So we could talk about our approach to that because again it's this fine line of we

109have the ability to do so as a school system because co-curriculars are an opt-in. So you can create additional expectations like this if we felt it was the right thing to do from a um a wellness standpoint. I mean, you see the positives of it with, you know, how you say you tell your son he has to be in two different activities because the grades will go up. And, you know, I'm sure you'd have the same effect in the middle school. >> And I think the the challenge is how addictive the substances that are available today are to the adolescent mind. And I think >> well, the thing that's frustrating to me is they're supposed to be 21 to get it. >> Yes. >> How are they? You know what I mean? That's the whole

110that's a whole another sideline scary >> but >> it's like they're not even supposed to be able to have the access to them. >> A 13 or 14 year old will always want to impress a 15 or 16 year old and that that nexus point that transition from seventh to 8th nth grade is like so pivotal for kids to not start forming addiction. Um because that's when you figure out who you are, right? I mean that's when you figure out really figure out who you are as a human. and to already be de developing addiction cycle, starting to struggle in school, maybe losing your co-curricular, you're just setting a spiral up where you see kids really struggle. Um because I I do watch and I'm sure you guys I think the group of kids that

111like freshmen that we're struggling with, they really are struggling too and they don't even know where to begin to start or stop. >> I say tap into the pediatricians because they can give patches and do all sorts of stuff to help those kids. Seriously, >> what is what is the um or when are co-curriculars typically for those middle school kids? Are they after school? So, I think that's another huge problem is kids in high school, I think, either have older friends or they can bike, parents feel more comfortable, but it's really hard when you're you have don't don't have a means of getting your child if they're going to stay after and participate in an activity. you work. Um, so a lot of it might be limited by parents and the kids that are in

112the co the activities may not be the ones that are the problem. >> Also, I was just asked they said it I'm sure it varies. >> I'm just saying it's it's really hard when the transportation is an issue, >> right? >> To be to be active. >> Good. >> Thank you. Well, thank you. >> Thank you guys. >> The final component of the superintendent report is just the contributions to the profession. Wanted to give a shout out to our Mosquo Lakes team. Um, recently we had Rachel Reeski along with Cassidy Bogler, Brley Hendricks, and Alli Tom present at the summer OAW conference up in Green Bay. um they were sharing some of the work on cultivating a high expectation culture and the strength of their PLC's and just the impact when you have a group

113of educators who truly believe in kids, the impact on a culture um of high expectations because when the teachers believe in it, the students feed off of that and respond and believe that they can do more. So, um it just fills my heart with pride when our staff is out there sharing the success that we're having because of their hard work and trying to help impact other private public schools as well. So, shout out to the Mosquo Lakes team. And that concludes the superintendent's report. >> Thank you. Moving on to other reports. There is no president's report. Um, board member reports start. >> I email you email that cease to stop. I'm doing it to the executive board. Is there anybody like should I go further into principles and stuff like that or how like

114how do you want that information distributed >> just by the way it was >> that's fine okay and if you think there's something that would be beneficial to principles or system you know like I would >> okay and we have >> I think I don't know I'm so confused because they've switched the um date that we're meeting to either the second Tuesday of the month or the third Tuesday of the month but I I think we don't have anything in July. So, it would be the second Tuesday of the month of August that we meet again. >> Just personal point of privilege. Um, when we talk about how wonderful our community is and how blessed we are, I just wanted to say thank you to everybody for your heartfelt support and prayers for the unexpected

115death of my brother. So, I really appreciate it. It meant a lot. The clocks are beautiful from both the school board and from the administration. So we got two of them. >> Jason, >> nothing. >> I don't have anything. Yes. >> Nope. >> Okay, moving on. >> Kevin. >> Oh, Kevin. >> Are you still there, buddy? >> I am still here. >> You have any updates? >> Not and thank you. >> That was it. >> Good. Uh committee reports, educational services committee report, none. Policy committee report is in there. We reviewed a few of the policies that we move forward to the board for next time and then reviewed a draft and we pushed that one off until next time for further review for the next policy committee meeting for further review. So, uh business

116services committee, >> um we talked a little bit about the preliminary budget. Uh there wasn't much to update on act 10. Had a lengthy phone conversation about the tennis court project. Um we did recommend that Jeremiah continue forward with his information finding um so that we have something more to to look at and understand and then WSB honoral nominees we finalize those and they'll be submitted. Um, one other quick note is because I will not be here next uh for the next board meeting and the next committee meeting. We'll still have to have that, but I'll be talking with you too about running that while I'm out. >> So, sounds good. >> Cool. Any questions? >> And honoring that though at a school board meeting or something the businesses. >> Yeah. Excellent. All right. Um

117moving on to uh 8 A which is resolution action items WASBY contract. >> Motion to approve the WSB contract as presented. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Is that you? >> Sure. >> Okay. >> There was anybody else. >> Okay. >> Discussion. I'm just curious um and I'm sorry if I missed it, but did we reach out to WASBY and talk to them about our concerns and get any response or any I'm not like obviously no promises, but just responses about how they were going to handle or I mean obviously they've gotten these same questions from other school boards. I did one of um the people that are on the CISA board um Larry Dukes is on the Wasby committee and he did send me a pretty lengthy email about um the benefits of being

118on in WASBY and stuff. I don't know if you want me to forward it to you or appreciate that. >> Okay, I'll take that. Yeah, we did get a breakdown but >> of some of the things that that we're getting discounts for and then Terry I think I mentioned the utilization but we get board doc discounts for licensing on that and a couple other things. I think your question is more to >> if they can address our >> Yeah. >> address our concerns and how they >> how they handle lobbying efforts and and other things >> and just in general how they um >> they just seem to lean one way more so than the other. I don't find them to be terribly neutral. >> Yeah. And I think if I remember right, you were

119saying that or Terry was talking with you about how directors and and other members get a second vote. >> Well, I I was going to mention that to Terry. So, the reason why CISA 1 has a vote is because CISA1 actually has a school. >> Oh, okay. >> Because they actually have students that they take. It's 250 students outside, you know, all through CISA 1. There are students that didn't quite make it in the high school setting. and this is like an alternative learning environment for them. So for them they actually have like a budget for their school and so that's why they get a vote at the table. So if I remember that when we chatted about this uh at the business services committee, one of the thoughts that we had is given if

120you look at it just from the financial point of view, it's at least a wash if not advantageous for us. But that's not really where the where the concern lies, right? The concern lies in >> the lobbying that's done that we don't support. Right. >> Right. And do we need to do we need to say, hey, we don't have an alternative quite yet, right? Whether it be using our own attorney or a plan. Maybe not alternative, but a plan. So, do we do one more year with the fully full intention of we need to have a discussion with the leadership of WBY saying, "Hey, listen, we're going to do this for a year, but you're kind of on the clock from a standpoint of how are you going to represent all of our viewpoints?" Y

121>> that's where I thought we left it off in that it's not a wholehearted endorsement for more than a year. It's a year to get us through so that we can have further discussion with their leadership about what our concerns are. But to lawyer's point, have we started those yet? Is that a Terry thing? >> Okay. Well, eventually business services would maybe have them come in >> as Terry made Terry made a very valid point in her behalf. She contacts the Wasp attorneys consistently and that's a free service that we use for because it's part of our invoice. Could it be a wash with the lawyers? Yes. But she also brought up a very good point. If we want to make changes to the group as well, we need a voice in the table. Yeah,

122we do. >> And if we don't have that voice, what do we do? Um, it is funny though because we had this discussion last time. It sounds like more Waca school districts are leaving WSY. I mean, I just got a text from a friend of mine that's part of Muano. He said they left, all the Waka schools left, Germantown left, and Monomony Falls left. And New Orleans on the cusp. So, >> so the question would be what did they replace it with? >> Well, that's what I asked him and he said will and I'm like well they don't really provide a lot that we were looking for in that regard from my research um being on WAB right now going through all the trainings because I'm the new guy here it's been very like valuable

123information. So, I mean that that's coming from me. >> Well, and I I'll always I I don't know if you guys ever do this, but go on to the capital chat and listen to that at noon at lunch. I'll listen just to see what legislation is out there, what's current coming currently and stuff like that. That's I mean, that's neutral stuff. They're they're they're nonbiasedly telling you this is what's on the docket for, you know, the legislature. So, I I don't know. I personally find them helpful. >> My concern is we just they get our money and then they're like, "Eh, we got them for another year." Whereas if you leave, it's like that is a statement. And I find that like even when they have their um motions, it doesn't seem like our input

124ever. And I know you say you got to be at the table to do it, but sometimes you also have to take the hard pass and say, "Hey, you're not going to get anybody's attention until you knock them over the head with a 2x4." So I I just have very doubtful that they're going to change their ways. >> I agree with you, Lori. [Music] >> To your point, I think this was a one-year continuation with the understanding that we re-evaluate between now and when it comes up for renewal next year. There also has to be something that replaces it. We can't just cut it and say we're going to make do with everything else because of the potential for the financial impact >> and stuff. >> Yeah. Uh but I but I think there needs

125to be then a um an effort to let them know that uh to say, "Hey, here here's far in advance. Here's what our concerns are. >> You've already lost a half a dozen school districts within Waka County. Um what what's the plan?" And if they don't have a plan, then we need to have a plan. >> Can the contract come with an addendum that they need to come up and talk with us and >> at least take the time to dialogue? >> Well, I think we can ask them at any time. >> Well, you can ask people, but they don't have to do anything, but if it's in a contract want to I mean, even Larry in my email said he would come talk to us if we wanted to. He's in the PWA district

126and they are signing on again. >> Yeah. ever is your board member. >> Well, so yeah, I think the the point would be the people that have the decision making, right? That are like the will the right people come out and talk to us >> even if they don't find us to be aligned with them, right? Are they willing to sit at the table and have that discussion, right, is what I think you're saying. >> Yeah. I mean, I'm just saying unless you've got something contractual, I I have my doubts that those conversations will happen and I think they need to happen because I think they're positive because when you always agree, you never get better. >> Julie, what's your thought on that from a contract standpoint to is it possible? >> Um, I don't

127know if they would necessarily consider it, >> but we can we can reach out and ask say our renewal is contingent upon this. It's not a contract, but it would be an email written communication saying this is our open expectation that you will come to the table with some people who can make decisions and hear out our concerns and give you x amount of time to come up with an action plan and how you can um help build our trust that you're representative of a more balanced approach to things. >> Okay. >> Can I ask a question? So what happens? What happens if we sign this contract? Let's say we give them 6 months and say and they still won't meet with us. Can we void the contract and get reimbursed for wherever we paid

128into it or is it through loss that money? >> I'd have to look specifically at the contract language. >> I mean there's really not a contract. It's just like a membership, right? >> I would say I would say we signed one. That's our we have it until >> time any any other kind of membership you can cancel you know membership too like you can cancel any membership you have so I mean I wanted to see why there's probably some some clause in the contract that lets you you know back out if you have to cause >> yeah not all contract I mean not all that you give them this time and Then they're going to be like, "Oh, it'll be on for another year." And they're going to no motivation or no no no first

129step to try to, you know, negotiate with us or talk to us and help us understand the thought process. And then we're like, okay. And we go back to the table like a year from now and all the same topics come up and like, well, you know, we can't wait another year, nothing happened, you know. So, I think the issue with not re renewing it right now is that um we don't have another plan, >> right? We don't have we we don't have >> we're starting this ball rolling way too late. >> Yeah. We we need to get ahead of it now for next year's renewal so that we have plenty of time to have the discussion to say what are our alternatives, right? Whether it's Will, whether it's somebody else. um do they start

130to have a membership type arrangement where we get legal services and things like that? Um so that's my only concern with where we are today relative to the membership. Um when does it renew? >> Um I believe the end of this month. >> July 30th. Yeah, we needed to have it before the board for approval this month. >> This month it's expiring. >> So if we don't renew any conversations with Bob Butler comes with a charge or just isn't successful at all after July end of July. >> Okay. >> Well, and any additional things that we do to keep current within this field is going to be coming at a cost because I will continue to stay current within the school board stuff and they have the most amount of information to stay current like

131to go to the conference and stuff and I know non-membership fees are higher than membership fees so there's going to be additional costs. >> This is probably the most discussions we we've ever had on WASBY renewal right membership which is >> aside from the committee meeting. >> No, no, no. I'm talking about in years past. Oh yeah. Right. like in years past, which should be a uh an indicator to them, right? Hopefully, like, >> hey, we we're moving I'm I'm not making the assumption we're moving forward, but we we're moving forward, but there comes some trepidation here and a lot of board discussion and this renewal is is up for debate for next year >> kind of thing. >> I don't know. That's kind of where I that's per that's I'm only one. Uh that's

132where I'm at only because we don't have a plan right now for how we handle the rest of it for the rest of the year. But if it doesn't if it if we're sitting at this table again next year and there's been no information and no plan, then I don't know how we can in good faith renew it. Well, I think we have to have a plan of how we're going to >> do the research and what we're going to do because I think we've talked about it, but there's been, you know, movement to look for other alternatives. And >> so, it's sort of like, well, if you're not looking for alternatives, you can't find them. >> It's also incumbent on the people that want to change it to come to the table with some

133stuff, too, though. >> To be honest, I agree. Like, you know, it's great to say we shouldn't do it, but to not have an alternative just means that you're pointing out a problem and not willing to come up with the solution. >> I just I don't know what people I know, you guys all say what you're using it for. I don't use it, so I use other sources. >> Right. >> Well, it's not that I don't use other sources cuz I belong to Will and I belong to other things. It's just that I feel they have a lot of good online information about school board stuff in general that I think is very beneficial and to go to the conference once a year and hear all of the different things that are coming up the

134pike about AI for schools and security for schools and for all I it's beneficial for me to know that stuff. Mhm. >> So that's why I I think this is an organization that yeah, I agree 100% that they are not always aligned with what we believe in. I 100% believe in that, but I still see beyond that and see the other benefits that they offer and that's why I would stand to renew. But that's that's me. >> I like your approach, Bob. I mean, we can renew the contract, but they're on notice moving forward. You know, if really no information comes by and they don't really want to talk to us, then we find alternative sources going forward. I can't imagine that they wouldn't have somebody within their building that is in their marketing or

135that is like I don't want to lose this account that would come to our meeting and >> yes >> and talk about why when I reached out to um Larry who I I think he's region se I don't I want to ask Brett because Brett knows everything about but I know he's a region something seven director or >> 15 okay So, he's very connected to it and that's why he sent me that. When I reached out to him, I said, "Hey, our board is considering not renewing." He sent me a whole email about here's all the positive things about, you know, what was to offer. So, >> yeah, >> I would think that they even he would be willing to come and talk because we don't have anybody in our region right now because Brett's

136gone. And that's why we got the mail the letter in the mail that if you want to be interested in running for that position, sign on. Okay. Any more discussion? No more discussion. Okay. Just want to make sure before we take a vote. Okay. So, do you want me to take a roll call vote? What was everybody like or just to take a general I vote proc I'm willing to do what is best for the school board. >> Yeah. >> I just have my reservations. >> Agreed. >> Okay. So then I I'll I don't necessarily need a roll call vote. I'll just All those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed. >> Okay. we will move forward and then we'll chat with >> I have some action items that I'll >> start working

137on. >> Okay, sounds good. Um discussion items. >> Anything for tonight or is it just a discussion? >> Uh the preliminary budget information which was discussed at the committee information. So it's the same information. >> Same in the same. All right. Um, any questions for Julie? >> No. Okay. Uh, information followup and we need to vote for a close session. We will reconvene to open session only to adjourn. There won't be any further business discussed after that. So, can I get Actually, we need to read it, right, Tracy? >> Do you want to read it? >> Terry typically does. >> Oh, she does. Okay. No, I can read it. I didn't. No. All right. Uh, so vote vote for close session uh pursuant to Wisconsin statute 19.851D except uh except as provided in 304.06. Did

138she go through all of this? Uh and and by rule uh promaggated under 304.06 considering specific applications of probation extended supervision or parole or considering strategy for criminal detection or prevention specifically district safety measures in Wisconsin statute 19.85 Five. Considering employment promotion compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the government body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility, specifically superintendent evaluation. This one we will take a roll call vote. >> I need a motion first. >> I so second what you said. >> Yes. Okay. >> Just just adding the sub ones to Sub one and subc. >> Okay. Uh Tracy >> I. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> And Kevin. >> Kevin. >> Yes. Okay. >> So, we will go into close session only to open back up to adjurnn.