001We're going to call this meeting to order of the Mosquo Norway School District on May 5th. Verification of the meeting was posted. Attendance roll call. Chris here. Bob here. Terry here. I'm here. Lori here. Tracy here. Kevin here. Merl here. Fantastic. Pledge of allegiance. If we could ask uh Mr. Zelica to uh as the newest member of the board, lead us in the pledge of allegiance, please. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. So, be we need to move this before we approve the agenda. Is that correct? Make a motion to approve it. Okay. Could I get a motion to approve the agenda? So, move. Second. Second. What was it? Uh,
002now discussion. So I would like to so this meeting is a little bit different in that we need to do a reorganization of the board and um the different seats and in order to do that so before we can do that actually I'm requesting that we move the close session and then after the close session to the end of the meeting and then also board resolution item. Why am I not 12B when we go back into open session? So, we'll have this meeting moving those two things to the end, which is the close session, and then 12B after we reconvene into open session. So, I'd like to make a motion to modify the agenda. So, second. All those in favor? I I Okay, so the uh that has changed. Now, can I we have a
003motion and a second to the agenda? So, can I uh get a vote on the agenda as modified? All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. All right. Motion carries. All right. That said, the next thing that we need to do is the board reorganization. How this will work is we will call for nominations uh and then we will do that three times. Once that is completed, we will then vote on that position and uh move forward from there. So the first thing that we need to do is we need to elect a pres president. So, if we could get a nomination for president to the board, please. I'd like to nominate Terry Boyer. Okay. Terry, president. One nomination for Terry Ber. Calling for nominations a second time. All right. One more time.
004Calling for nominations. One more time for president. All right. Uh, with no other nominations, all those in favor of Terry Ber remaining president of the board say I. I. All those opposed. All right, Terry. Congratulations. I'm going to move this back over to you. Thank you very much. Mhm. Okay. Okay. So, moving on for board reorganization, we are going to call for nominations for vice president. Are there any nominations for vice president? I'd like to nominate Bob Bowman for vice president. Any other nominations? And any other nominations? Okay, with no other nominations to be heard, all in favor of Bob being the vice president of the school board, please say I. I. Opposed? All right. Motion carries. Okay. Now moving on to board clerk. Calling for nominations for board clerk. I would like to nominate
005Jason Savorski as clerk. Any other nominations? Any other nominations? Hearing no other nominations. All in favor of Jason Shamorski being or clerk say I. I. Opposed. Congratulations Jason. And calling for nominations of treasurer. Board treasurer. I'd like to nominate Henry Cotney as board treasurer. Any other nominations? Any other nominations? Okay. Hearing no no others. All in favor of Lori Cney being board treasure say I. I opposed. All right. Congratulations everybody. Okay. Now that we got that step out of the way, we shall move on to appointing. As the board president, I have the honor of appointing our committees. And so for educational services, I'd like to appoint Lori Cotney, J Jason Savorski, and Tracy Blair with Lorie Cotney being the chair. You guys okay good with that? Yes. Uh for policy committee, Bob Omen, Kevin
006Zimmerman, and Chris Olga with Bob chairing. And for our third committee, business services, student experience, legislative advocacy, J Jason Simorski, Bob Bowman, and Chris Oliga with Jason as the chair for WASB delegate. I would like to appoint Chris Liga and I would be the alternative. Alternative alternative alternate. Yes, alternate. Thank you. And for CISA1 delegate Tracy, would you continue to be that? Awesome. Thank you. All right. All right. Now we can get on to the good stuff. The recognitions. All right. I would like to start us off with the recognition of Miss Jen Reditis for her award of herb fellowship uh recipient. This is an incredibly prestigious award that you have to be nominated by a family and also a colleague or a peer to some extent um who has great depth and awareness of
007the work that you do. Uh it has been an absolute privilege to get to be in the building and watch Mr. Dice work and also hear about the things her colleagues say about her. Um, I will say one of the coolest moments I got to be a part of this year was stepping into the room when they kind of went to say thank you to her and hearing teacher after teacher after colleague after colleague and seeing the students lined up outside of her door who had heard rumblings about this award. Um, wanting to come in and give her a hug and say thank you for the incredible work she does. So, it's my pleasure to introduce Miss Genderitis as a herb co fellowship recipient. if you wouldn't mind coming forward. Go in the middle. Go
008right to the side. I know. And this is really a lot of people don't realize this. Teachers love to be in front of students. They cannot stand being in front of everyone else. And she does not like attention. She was I think I told everyone, "Thanks, go home." You all recognize her. She was so uncomfortable. It was adorable cuz she does not like this. But all right. Congratulations. I'm going to read your certificate of appreciation. The Mosquo Norway school board presents the certificate and grateful recognition of the Mosquo Lakes Middle School teacher Jennifer Roditis in achieving the exceptionally high honor of receiving the 2025 Herk Cole Educational Foundation Teacher Fellowship Award. This award was given to a 100 Wisconsin teacher teachers being recognized for their exceptional leadership, dedication to their students, and commitment to education
009excellence. Congratulations [Applause] Perfect. Would you like to say anything real quick? Sure. But I'm going to look at them because they're students or former students. Um I was told to wing it because otherwise I would write a big long speech and I did anyway and I'm still going to wing it. So um I want to thank you all actually um for giving us teachers opportunity to kind of play around in the classroom and challenge ourselves and students and uh make mistakes and giving us that freedom to to really grow in our role so that we can be better for them. So thank you. Congratulations. [Applause] All right. Our next recognition is our incredible forensics team. So, if you guys wouldn't mind stepping forward. This is a group that it took Mr. Beinka just about half
010the school year to figure out what the four and six actually mentioned. You guys want to come all the way up to the front? You guys can come on. So, the accomplishments of this crew truly are impressive. the number of times I get an email from the wonderful coach Joe on the weekend that's kind of highlighting different things and every week it's like growing and growing and growing and growing the things that you guys do. It is really impressive. So it doesn't just happen by mistake. You guys work so hard at this and it really does make our entire community proud. So we would love to recognize you with certificates. I will have the pleasure of passing these out. I'm going to read them. I'm going to read through one and then I'm just going
011to say your names. Help me out with your name. Some of these names I'm not sure I'm going to get right and then Mr. Irving will have your certificate. The Mosquo Norway school board presents the certificate in grade recognition of Kira Peterson for her contribution to the Mosquo High School. So that's the robot. Congratulations. You want to get on? We're not switching students. We'll switch these much easier. Oh my. Hilarious. You guys have to act surprised when you get your Okay. All right. Let's start this over again. Everything I said, now I'm going to start th start it over. The Mosquito Norway School Board presents the certificate and grateful recognition of Allison Daniel for her contribution to the Mosquo High School forensics team in achieving exceptionally high honor of earning the WISDA state gold medal
012NSDA academic all-American. Congratulations. [Applause] Oh my gosh, this is okay. Jack [Applause] Hust, Kiara [Applause] Gford. This was different. Jack was a little different, right? Am I Jack and Ally? Okay. Jack, I'm gonna read yours. He did the WISDA state gold medal, WISDA communive critics choice award. [Applause] Caleb Paneas. Pony, [Applause] Peter, [Applause] Damian, Kira Rush, [Applause] Delina [Applause] Bowen and Claire [Applause] Schweitzer and then some not able to come but I want to read through them. James Larson, Anastasia Zakula, Kim Fang, Haria Haria, Haria, I knew that. Mirzy, Mirai, Brianna Retsz, Re and I think it's that's it. Okay. And now we would love to give you an opportunity to speak about this because as much as I can try to summarize it, trust me, coach does an incredible job sharing the highlights of
013um this isn't all of them. Uh we have 26 on the team this year. These are all of our state gold medalists. Uh some of the gold medals couldn't make it tonight. I do want to um point out Alli Daniel. Alli Daniel as of this year is the highest point earnner in the history of Mosquo High School forensics. Uh, hence the academic all-American which was announced. Uh, that's with the National Speech and Debate Association of which I'm going to brag a little bit more. National Speech and Debate Association. Uh, the team got honored as the leading chapter last year. Uh, this is the most points earned by a team in a in a season. And there are 23 chapters, 23 schools in the southern chapter of Wisconsin. They were number one last year. um they
014can only win this award once every eight years, so we'll have to wait. Uh but the fact that they achieved that and I'm going to boast just a little bit more because I'm very proud of them individually this year. Uh they earned several team trophies. Uh they took second place at Slinger, second place at Union Grove, first place here at Mosquo, first place at Brookfield East. They were sixth place state uh uh WFCA state winners. We had five semi-finalists from that state tournament and then they also earned the um excellence in speech award for WISDAA which is the other state tournament which is the top honor they can uh you can get in that association as well. So it has been a stellar season with this team. very proud of them. And I have one
015more award for your coach. The Mosquo Norway Schoolboard presents the certificate and grateful recognition of the Mosquo High School forensics coach Joseph Miki for his outstanding leadership and dedication to the Mosquo High School Forensics team in achieving the exceptionally high honor of receiving Southern Wisconsin National Speech and Debate Association Coach of the Year. Thank you. [Applause] The MSDA Coach of the Year honors high school coaches who reflect outstanding leadership and commitment to speech and debate activities. Congratulations. Thank you. [Applause] Grab a picture quick. Okay. Quick picture of our superstars. Who wants to hold this in the middle? K. And I do. Okay. questions. Congratulations, guys. Thank you. All right. And now we have the pleasure and the privilege of recognizing our incredible robotics team who is fresh off a trip down to Texas for a
016world competition. And again, those of you who've had an opportunity to watch them do what they do, it is really inspiring to see your work. So if our robotics team and coaches wouldn't mind stepping forward and we couldn't get it approved by the fire marshall to allow them to ride the robot into the space. It's a fire code. So, we appreciate your commitment to safety always. [Music] You guys can swing around for now. We'll get We'll push together. All right. I'm gonna read through one and then I'm gonna say your names. Sorry. I think they're all the same. Okay. Yep. I know. I got I got that one separate. All right. All right. Now we got the right team and the right certificate. All right. The Mosquito Norway School Board presents the certificate of grateful
017recognition to Kira Peterson for her contribution to the Mosquo High School robotics team achieving the exceptionally high honor of earning the regional first impact award, regional engineering inspiration award and regional excellence in engineering award presented this day 2025. So Kier, if you want to come up you congratulations. Congratulations. [Applause] I apologize if I mess up your name. Alexander Bower, [Applause] Aiden Roo, Br. [Applause] Casey, Fran, [Applause] Framan, Liam Freeman. I [Applause] got Elena Gallenburgg, [Applause] Mason in Sesame, NC [Applause] Logan Kasa, he's not here. Ilas Kazlowski. Kazow. Did I say the right person? [Applause] Asher [Applause] Malcron Naven Marine. Naven. Congratulations. Reed [Applause] Nelson, Richard [Applause] Quast, Na Nathan [Applause] Schvenki, Sophia Treezy, Erica Vely Carly Yncan as well. And we have one more award for Kiara for her contribution to the robotics team of
018re achieving the exceptionally high honor. The first robotics competition deans list award. Only 10 10 deans list award winners from around the world are selected from the applicable first deans list finalist. Congratulations. [Applause] Coach Myin, if you wouldn't mind sharing a little bit. Again, the amount of time and energy you guys pour into this, it's amazing. But with all their time and energy, these adults you see in the room are here all the time as well. It's incredible. So, thank you. Yeah. Um, so those that don't know, the first week in January, weekend in January, we start building a robot and we have about 6 to 8 weeks to build a robot um that is highly functioning um from scratch. Um it's it's really impressive. They put in a lot of hours. We're meeting Monday
019through Thursday, all day Saturday, sometimes on Sundays. Um, they really put in a lot of work. Couldn't do it without them, but also the mentors. We have about seven mentors that are around almost every day during that time, too, to help these young adults learn how to run a business. Basically, um, we we raise funds. We we do everything um that a business would do to get this done every year. So um we've done this nine years now. We've gone to 27 competitions. We've won 18 awards over those nine years. So it's it's pretty impressive. So I want to do point out um Kira. So each team in First Robotics, and there's about 4,000 teams, can nominate two students to be a deans list semi finalist. Out of those students at each regional or district
020competition, and I don't even know how many there are, one student, one student about 200. Yeah. one student from that is picked at each of those regional or districts to then go on to the world competition. At the world competition, 10 students are picked every year. So, Kira is one of those 10 for the efforts that she puts on puts out to um spread the word about FIRST, the volunteering she does at all levels of robotics and first and around the state. She does a lot. So, so very impressive. So, thanks. Congratulations. Coaches, you got to come in for a picture, too. Yeah, my bad. My bad. I guess we're going to be in the front. All right. Left knee. Left knee. Sorry. Cheese. I love robots. Thanks for all your time and hours on
021that. That is definitely a labor of love. Appreciate getting here and trying to like go through with me. Thanks everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. All right, we'll move on to number six, public comment. This is where somebody who signs up in the front. And we only have one incognito person here and did not sign up to I wonder what he said. He did he did not sign up to speak. So it's Wi-Fi. Uh we'll move on to the consent agenda. Uh motion to um approve the consent agenda. So move a second. Second. Any discussion or is there any items that anyone wants to remove for individual consideration? The only thing I have questions on is the yellowess on the summer schedule. There's like like they were just blank with yellow. Does that mean anything
022in particular? Summer schedule. Yeah. Summer school SLA. Does it just mean it's not filled yet? Does it mean that it's not filled or that it's not going to be filled? It's not going to be filled. It's not. Well, let me revise that. the speech pieces though. Um, we are not going to be filling the CC pieces. Okay. Any other questions or discussion? Okay. All in favor say I. I. Opposed? Motion passes. All right. Now we are to student representation. Okay. So, I want to start by highlighting the spring sports. So, girls softball plays against Opan tomorrow at Opan. They have a record of eight and four or second in the Classic 8 Conference and they're right behind Arrowhead. So, hopefully we can have a win and become first. Um, girls soccer is also off to
023a fantastic start to their season with a record of 80 and one. Tomorrow they have a game at home against at 6:30. So, it's a huge rivalry game. Um, boys tennis had a meet today and they also have a meet tomorrow in Deer for the annual the Pier invite. The boys have been working very hard whether they are doing singles or doubles. Girls and boys track have their varsity and JV home meets on May 9th and May 12th. All the track athletes are working incredibly hard as the championship season is approaching quickly with May being conference regional sectionals and a chance to qualify for the state meet in Lacrosse at the beginning of June. Moving on to academics. Um AP testing starts today and they'll last until the 16th. AP students are working very hard
024to pass their exams and are hopeful of getting college credits before they begin their college courses. The Mosquito Scholar Athlete Ceremony is on May 21st. This is a special ceremony that celebrates all the athletes who have also been succeeding in academics. We are so proud of all of our student athletes. And then this Saturday, May 10th, is the junior and senior prom. The student council have been working very hard to ensure everyone has a safe and fun time at the dance. It is being hosted at the Brookfield Conference Center and check-in starts at 5:30. Um, at the middle school, both the Lake Veron and MSU Lakes 8th grade band and choir are going to Chicago to the CIBC Theater to see a Broadway show. I'm not sure what they're seeing, but I heard they're very
025excited. um at the elementary school. To start off, Lake View has kicked off the month of May with their golden awards, highlighting many successes that took place throughout the month, both academically and behaviorally. April and May are full of celebrations like staff appreciation week, administrative assistant day, school lunch hero day, and bus driver. We are very grateful to all these parties for making sure that Lake View is an amazing place. At Bay Lane, there was an open house for 4K kindergarteners to explore the school and see all the exciting things that Bane has to offer. And then lastly, on the 9th, first graders at Mil Valley are going to the Mitchell dorms in Milwaukee to explore the science and learn about the plant. Thank you, Bella. Any questions? Thank you so much. All right, moving
026on to superintendent report. All right. Well, thank you everyone and thank you Bella for sharing all that great stuff. You bring so many really fun activities. Last week there was induction to Nash Honor Society, all these other cool activity where you see students shine. This week is teacher appreciation week and it's so cool to see the way our different PTA organizations step up and express gratitude for the incredible staff that we have. Um it really is I stand behind the notion that great schools happen because of great community and great families behind that. So, just a uh message of gratitude to the families who show up for that. The only item I have is just again a reminder and thanks to you guys who have volunteered to be a part of our graduation ceremony. Um
027that's obviously a very special event and it's going to be even more special for some of you who have graduates. But we're not going to name names for uh not to induce any emotional responses, but really look forward to that day. And I think Kevin had said it's going to be 70 and sunny this year. Um I hope so. Oh, was I hope it's going to be okay. I knew it was something like that. Can you make it that way? Not even. We navigated 35 degrees in downpour once. So, it should be and windy. Oh my gosh. So, thank you for volunteering to be a part of that. And that concludes the superintendent's report. All right, moving on to other reports. my report. Um, just a big thank you to all the teachers in our
028district for being amazing and um, helping our students grow to their highest potential. And I hope you're all spoiled all week and other board member reports. Chris, do you have anything? I made it here on time. So, I'm um, Jason Lori. Yeah. Sorry. I thought I had the new button on, but I didn't. So, you got to listen to my coughing attack, but um not sure it was all still there, but I just wasn't able to stand up and cheer for Jim, the robotics, forensics, all the kids and coaches in Kier. I mean, what a fantastic um honor it is to have all of you with us. So, hope you're all out there still and get the shout out. Thank you, Tracy. Yeah, I um thank Lori for attaching the hitchment. It's a back to
029school special for the CISA. So, it's got a list of all the different programs that they have available for the school year for um new teachers or teachers with, you know, wanting to get additional education and stuff. So, that's um attached to the agenda today. And then we have a special meeting on Wednesday morning um 7 o'clock um for just we have we're having issues with trying to get everybody there at the same time because you can just imagine with how many districts we're trying to get together um that we need to figure out how to um align our our meeting. So we're having a special meeting for that. But other than that we're we're in Kevin. All right. Moving on to committee reports. Lori, do you have educational service committee report? Um, as printed
030on the agenda and our next meeting will be on May 19th. Okay. And then it looks like you guys worked on the school counseling program and the library plan. That is correct. Right. Policy committee. No department. and the longest committee name, business services student experience legislative advocacy committee. We can add more on there. Thanks if you need more things to do. Uh we met on April 28th. Uh we did continue to review contracts and uh student fees. Um I expect that during our next meeting we're going to finalize those and push them forward for approval in uh June. So we will be meeting on the 19th. Thank you, Julie, for organizing all that. That's been a lot of work and trying to get all that together. Um, there is one other item coming forward tonight
031from the committee for approval and that's under resolution action items. All right, moving on to number 12, resolution action before and after school care contract. Motion to approve the 202526 before and after school contract with champions as presented. So second any discussion? This did go through our committee for review and um looked through the contract and you guys felt everything was good to move it over to us. So um any other discussion? All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. Okay. And we're skipping B because that will come after our close session. Uh so we'll go to C. the revised uh 202526 board calendar. Motion to approve the revised 202526 board calendar as presented. Second and discussion. Um we just goofed up on the date for May. So we just need to um move
032that to the first Monday just that we do our reorganization a little bit earlier. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. I. opposed. Motion passes. Gifts, grants, and requests. All right. Uh motion to approve with thanks the following donations as presented. Lunch warriors program $100 from Amy and Kurt Kilberg. So second. Any discussion? Thank you very much. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. All right. So, moving on to discussion items. There are none. Information followup. You'll find your monthly financial reporting and support staff co-curricular hires resignations and retirements. And that brings us to um a motion to go into close session. Read that. Where are you? There we go. Um, vote for close session pursuant to Wisconsin statute 19.85 sub1 subc considering employment promotion compensation or performance evaluation data of any
033public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility specifically f final notice of a teacher contract non-renewals. Some move second. Okay, we'll call vote. Okay. Chris, yep. Bob, yes. Terry, yes. Yes. Uh, uh, Lori, yes. Tracy, yes. Kevin, yes. Right. We will return into open session once we're done with this to vote on our um, resolution action item 12B, teacher contract non-renewals. So we will be taking action when we come back. We are closed. And we are um go back up here to jump. All right. Resolution action item 12B um teacher contract non-renewals. Uh sorry backed up. Motion to approve the final notice of non-renewal of contracts as discussed in close section. So move second. Any discussion? Okay, this is what we discussed and closed. Um all in favor say I. I.
034I. Opposed. Motion passes. Okay. And now we are voting to adjurnn. motion to All in favor say I. I. I. We are.