001In favor say I. I. Motion passes. Uh we are going to vote for close session pursuant to Wisconsin statute 19.85 sub one subc considering employment promotion compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility specifically associate principal hire. A motion to just go through the vote. We no we need a motion move second. Um the any discussion we will it will be a short close session. We're going to walk over to another room for 5 minutes or so and we'll be right back to continue the meeting. Roll call. Yes. Yes. Terry. Yes. Yes. Yes. Lori Tracy. Yes. Kevin. Yes. We are in close session. We'll be right back. [Music] Yeah, that's great. We are back in open and we are going to continue on to recognitions.
002All right, ladies and gentlemen, it is such an honor to have the opportunity to celebrate so many things. Um, I really feel grateful to be a part of this system because it feels like every month we have something else incredible happening and we have the opportunity to bring students and families forward to spread a little bit of light on the hard work that happens because um, sometimes it's easy to hear about accolades and yet we lose sight of how much dedication and time and energy and hard work goes into successes like this. So, the first group we're going to recognize is our incredible cheer team who had an outstanding performance up at state. um earning second place in one routine and fourth place in the other. Is that correct? Third. Third, second and third. Sorry.
003Um so if you would mind if we could have our cheer team please step forward. Should we start with the routine we worked out going on there? Yeah, I thought you guys like that. I would be impressive. They should have planned that. Maybe the public. So, as we're kind of getting the certificates ready, it is really fascinating. I had the privilege of being a high school principal prior to transitioning to this role this year and the number of times I would walk out at really late hours in the evening and the team would be working their tails off trying to perfect these routines and I would watch me be like, "That's incredible." and they'd be like, "Oh, no. We should have done this. We should have done that." Like, your dedication to excellence truly has
004what got you to where you are. And the skills you learn, trust me, will take you very far in life, no matter what you pursue. So, we're going to recognize the ones we have here. I'm going to read through one and then I'm going to go through all your names. Hopefully, I'll get them right. Certificate of appreciation. The Mosqu No Way School Board presents this certificate in grateful recognition of Anne Gallaghos for her contribution to the Mosquo High School cheer team, achieving the exceptionally high honor of earning second place in the large cheer dance and third place in the large all girls traditional at the 2025 WACPC varsity cheer state championship. Congratulations. Miss Nia Okconor, we'll get it down. Maline Schneer. We do watch graduation practicing warm Delaney Wolver Haley Velcunis. So I'm just going
005to read through their names just because they deserve it. Delilah Flash, Laura Lynkins, Morgan Kleski Leah Schneider Amelia Sen Ava Anolia Sophia Wallik Ava Waters ers Alexis Wright. Congratulations to all of you. Now coaches, and this stuff couldn't happen without incredible coaches who also give a ton of time away from their families as well to dedicate time to our warrior family. So, a huge shout out and thank you guys for your leadership and helping our young adults understand what it means to strive for excellence the way you support them and nurture them because there are a lot of emotions that go with the ups and downs of success and failure. A lot of people just take for granted that success just shows up and it does not like the amount of times we fall short
006of our goals and yet you rally together. So, thank you for the you network. So, a certificate of appreciation. The Mosqutory School Board presents this certificate and grateful recognition of Mosquo High School cheer coach Kelly Peters for her exceptional dedication, leadership, and commitment to excellence. Under her guidance, the Mosquo High School cheer team achieved an outstanding season, earning second place in large cheer dance and third place in large all girl traditional at the 2025 WACPC Varsity Cheer State Championship and Alyssa Frisboka. Yes, you got it. And then Calie Grenal picture. Oh, sure. Sure. You taking one. You guys do your thing and then we'll just squeeze in. There we go. Maybe [Music] Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you. [Applause] All right. And for those of you who may have been sleeping all winter long and also
007miss missed another really exciting time, our girls basketball team also had an absolutely historic run this year um for the first time in our school history making it to the state final game after a really exciting stretch throughout the entire season the way they battled. So we would love to bring forward our girls basketball team for their second place performance at the WIA state championship. [Music] And after the board meeting, tonight. I do believe our school board wants to take you guys on in the scrimmage. I'm sorry. Hey, when we used to do the dodgeball tournament, I did that against the softball team and that was not fun. That was painful. We did our own. All right, we lose back. Certificate of appreciation. The Mosquito Norway school board presents this certificate in grateful recognition of
008Brie Skate for her contribution to Mosquo High School basketball team achieving the exceptionally high honor of earning second place at the 2025 WIA state girls basketball championship. Riley Hill [Applause] Mallerie Glitch Tatum Min. Thank you. Cassidy Hemo. Hey, He told me hey mower. He told me I had to tell Josie Keniora Rachel Egg Molly Mcinan, Claire Spa, Anna Certo, Ashlin Anteline, Mave Coggins. Thank you. Samantha Brunner Anika Noel and Molina Fish. She is currently practicing at Farah State, I think. Is that right? So, she's already at the T1 pool practicing like pretty cool. again as she's getting those. Not only did we dominate on the court from a skills and a hustle and a discipline and a dedication standpoint, we also had by far the best shoe game out of any program in the state
009from our student athletes and and our coaching staff, which I'm a little disappointed we didn't get to have a gift. They're in a safety deposit box. Special events only. Thank you guys for making them have to bust them out. We appreciate that. All right. Certificate of appreciation. The Mosquino Norway School Board presents this certificate in grateful recognition of Mosquo High School head varsity coach Eric Losi for his exceptional dedication, leadership, and commitment to excellence. Under his guidance, the Mosquo High School basketball girls basketball team achieved an outstanding season, earning second place at the 2025 WIA State Girls Basketball Championship. and Brian Herz. One of my highlights from the entire season was getting to watch um some wonderful little fans that may be perhaps daughters of one of our coaches and then families of both of
010these guys at every event cheering them on because again the time you guys invest in this stuff. A lot of folks don't understand whether it's before school practices in the offseason or the number of multi-season athletes who are here. The time and the energy that goes into the success is huge. in addition to your time, the time you guys give away from your families and your adorable little ones. And your youngest one is how old now? 16 months. 16 months. And your oldest one is three. So thinking about what life is like when you have little ones, that time and energy you pour into these parts of your family are really appreciated. So thank you for making our entire community proud. There is so much that we get to celebrate because of your hard work.
011So know we're proud of you. I'm put my together. Uhoh. Back it up. Back it up. Get out of our spot. One sec. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you guys. And please thank your families too. Um we are going to and thank you for all the families for carding your kids all around. Like again, this stuff doesn't happen without families that are really willing to go above and beyond with all of that. So huge thank you for that. We are going to shift a little bit out of order. I apologize. We're going to jump to our Compass Award recipients. Um, so if we could have our first Compass award winner and just so you folks have an idea of what this is, our Compass Awards are something that we handle internally um, in collaboration with
012families. So these are nominations that community members can come in and nominate it. A staff member could nominate a peer. So basically, they're looking for folks who truly exemplify our mission and our vision. folks who rise to the top as the best of the best as far as people who every single day show up to ensure that every single kid in our building is finding their pathway to learning, growing, and succeeding. So, super excited and honored to re recognize these 2025 Compass recipients. One at a time. Sure. Tony [Applause] Kamacho, I'm gonna read through your thing. Just stay up here. All right. Certificate of appreciation. The Mosquito Norway School Board presents this certificate in grateful recognition of Lake Tenew Middle School building operations supervisor Tony Kamacho. Tony fosters a sense of community through his leadership,
013shows commitment and professional develop in his forwardinking approach to technology, and builds valuable relationships with students and staff. Congratulations, Susan Shipley. Congratulations. The Mosquito Norway School Board presents this certificate in grateful recognition of Bailey Elementary School Educational Assistant Susan Shipley. Susan is a mentor to her peers, shows genuine compassion for students, and is often sought out for implementation of strategies, leadership opportunities, and partnerships. Congratulations. Katrina, she is currently Oh, she is here. She's currently here. Congratulations. Thank you. The Mosquo Norway School Board presents this certificate and grateful recognition of Mosquo High School world language teacher and athletic coach Katrina Beck. Katrina is willing to devote any time to help students with academic help, is a highly trusted adult for students and staff, and is an inspiration to everyone she coaches. Abby Dro makes awesome. Oh,
014sorry. The Mosquo Norway School Board presents this certificate in grateful recognition of Mil Valley Elementary teaching and learning coach Abby Dro. Abby positively influences the academic and personal development of students, continuously fosters excitement and a deeper understanding of math, and as a champion for innovation and creativity. Linda Wendorf. The Mosqu Norway School Board presents the certificate and grateful recognition of Mosquo High School learning strategist Linda Wendorf. Linda creates a learning environment for her students that is welcoming, identifies and promotes staff strengths, is a mentor and a partner to many staff and families, and never waivers in her vision of her students becoming the best versions of themselves. Congratulations. We can't say thank you enough. The reality of these folks up here, these individuals probably are the last people that would want any type of attention
015like this. this is so painful for all of them. I really do appreciate your humility and your love for the work we do, but truly we have a great school system because of people like you and your dedication. So, thanks for being a part of what we do. Thank you very much. Thank you. Only person I've ever met who makes math so much fun. Every kid wants to be a math agent. like it's amazing. Great work. So, we have one last very special recognition. Um, and this is Oh, yeah. Sorry about that. Yeah, we're on D already. We're on D. We can't come back to this one. Um, again, I'm a cheese ball. So, stuff like this like really is emotional and powerful powerful to me and my heart. When I think about what makes
016public education great, it's people. It's people who understand the opportunity and the privilege it is we have to serve our communities. Not because the fame and the glory. Not because of this big huge paycheck you get. Not because of your time on the media being celebrated by everyone around you. Your commitment and dedication to our school board for 18 years. Is that correct? Yes. 18 years of hours upon hours upon hours investing in our community, investing in our schools so our kids would have the best possible pathway they could. when there were challenges out there, you were one of the first people to say, "We can do better and how can I help?" My first time here, I met you out at the football field and your pride in our schools as you talked about
017what it means to be a warrior, what it means to be a part of this community, what it meant for your family. Um, I personally can't thank you enough for your time, your mentorship, and your leadership of our system. You can't have great schools without great leadership, and it starts at the school board level. and the time that you've given to our community. Truly, I can't put into words how much it has meant. So, to honor you and your time here, we'd like to recognize you with a little plaque. And I think there's a few others that wanted to say a few things. Come on up, buddy. Another one who doesn't like the attention. Thank you. 18 years. eight years I've been with you on the board. You were welcoming. You helped me along the
018way. You were pe person that I could count on to call uh when when we were lost and we needed some direction. You're always there to help guide the board in some direction. And you're so appreciated. You're leaving a a lot um a big hole that we're going to have to to work hard to fill. Um you got a good coming in. I'm still going to call you and I'm still going to probably need you at the end of our meeting to be a parliamentarian. But you have so many skills that we rely on and you don't realize how many skills we depended on you for until Well, thank you. You decided to finally take time for you instead of everyone else. So, thank you for all of your years. Well, thanks. Yeah, 18 years
019is a long time, but you know what? It was worth every moment of it seeing where we were, which we were a very good district, great district almost, and just where it's gone to today. We're I I tell everybody we're the best district in the state. We got academics, we got athletics, got everything going well for us right now. And I'm confident the board members we have and the ones coming on. Hey, Chris. You going to continue down that road and with with some of the things we have coming, it's just going to be fantastic. So, thank you. Thank you. And thank you to your family for sharing them so much with us. Um because again, just like our coaches, we know there's lots of other things these guys could be doing with their time
020and energy. And the fact that you're willing to share them with us for such an important mission really means a ton. We have families as well. And trust me, my wife is like, "Wait, how much time do they have to be there again?" I'm like, "Yes, they do." So, thank you for that. Yes. And my wife and my daughter are here tonight. My youngest daughter, and I'm sure they're grateful to see me alumni. Let's go. It's been a long time. You probably forgot. Yeah, right. Yeah. Monday nights. You get them back on Mondays. Yeah. She's probably going to want me to do something else now. Find a hobby Monday nights or some mow the neighborhood in the middle of December or something. Well, thank you very much. If I can make a suggestion, I have
021it there on my desk, but the whole board got up there, got a picture with him. Oh, yeah. Yeah. like that. Like that. Come on, guys. I'll just you want to figure out 18 years he's been here, probably like three [Music] pictures. I know I only have one. So, all right. Thanks. Thanks, Rick. Okay. Did you want to share something? Yeah, we'll make you stand here. Is that okay? Um, good evening. I could not not come by here tonight. Um, I am Kathleen Weed Vincent. I'm from the Greenale School Board, your neighboring community. Um, I'm a current member of the school board and thank you um for allowing me to speak for a few minutes tonight. Um, it is a true honor for me to be here tonight to recognize Brett Hyde and his remarkable
02218 years serving on the uh Mosquo Norway school board. Um, since you were first elected in 2007, you've been dedicated and passionate champion for public education, not only here in Mosquo, Norway, but across the entire state of Wisconsin. Your commitment to student staff and the broader community has been nothing short of inspiring. From being chairman of the business services committee to clerk and now I think you're vice president or maybe you're just member now. No, I'm just a member. You're a member. He's been everything in 18 years. But he has you've taken on pretty much every role with integrity, purpose, and an unwavering focus uh for what's best for kids. But Brett, your leadership it has reached far beyond your home district. Since 2015, you've served on the board of directors for the Wisconsin Association
023of School Boards, where your thoughtful principal leadership has made a deep and lasting impact. In 2019, right before one of the most challenging times in in education, uh Brett, you became the leader of the Wisconsin Association of School Boards as our president, guiding our state with steady hands and compassionate heart. You also have served as the first vice president of the Milwaukee of the Wisconsin Association of School Board Directors and contributed numerous committees to two numerous committees including the policies and resolutions committee. Whether participating in annual leadership conferences, summer leadership workshops, or working behind the scenes, Brett, you've always brought a calm and wise and respectful voice to the table. On a personal note, Brett, you've become both a mentor and a friend to me since I joined the school board, Greenale School Board in
0242017. Your support, insight, and encouragement have been invaluable. I have learned so much from watching your examples of service and leadership. so much in fact that your leadership has inspired me to step forward and apply for the vacancy for the former seat on the uh regional director uh regional 11 director. I know if I get appointed I'll have big shoes to fill but I believe I've learned from the best and I hope that uh to carry forward your legacy if that does happen um and thoughtful service to our state state organization and the Wisconsin's public schools. Brett, your legacy will be felt for years to come. You've left a meaningful mark on public education and all of us who have had the privilege to work alongside of you. Thank you for your leadership, for your
025friendship, and your unwavering dedication to students. I wish you the best in the next chapter of your life. You've more than earned it. Thank you, Brett. Thank you. That's one of the nice things about being on the WSB and attending a lot of events. All the networking that you can get with other board members, not just the good, but the bad and and help navigating. Seriously, I mean, I've learned a lot of what not to do from other members when they tell you, "Oh, yeah, we're having this problem." So, it's been very beneficial that way, too. So, thank you and good luck. [Music] She's not [Music] Glory boxing guard. Did anyone turn? [Music] All right, we will move on to number 5A. This would be the time if there's any public comment. Um, nobody has
026turned any cards, so we are going to move past that. Um, number six, consent agenda. Motion to approve consent agenda. Second. Any discussion or any items anybody would like removed for individual consideration? All in favor say I. I. Opposed? Motion passes. 7A student report. Hi everyone, I am Ellen Ras and I am filling in for Bella tonight. I am a junior here at Mosquo and I am also um I'm the charity events representative for student council. So for here at the high school, the girls soccer team is off to an amazing start to their season. They have a winning record of three to zero after beating Nicole on Friday. Their away game is on Tuesday at Arrowhead and is their biggest game of the season. Their next home game is Thursday versus Whitefish Bay. The
027boys baseball team is also coming off strong with a record of 3 to one. Their next game is on Tuesday at home against Waka North. Girls in boys track have a meet today at Mcuano for their annual M Club Relays, which is a meet with only relays. That is why Bella is not here cuz she is racing. And then National Honor Society acceptance letters came out for their incoming for all the incoming seniors at Mosquo. The induction ceremony is on May 1st at the PAC. Moving on to middle schools. Both middle schools track season started for seventh and eighth graders and their home meet is on May 6th. The Lake Tune Jazz Band has a rehearsal on Thursday and the Mosqual Lakes ASL Club has a meeting also on Thursday. And then for the elementary
028schools, Bay at Bay Lane, the kindergarten students had an had an exciting in-house field trip where they had the unique opportunity to see, touch, and even hold a variety of animals. This hands-on experience experience allowed them to learn about different species, their habitats, and how to care for them. At Lake View, the destination imagination team took first place at the regional competition in the technical challenge category. Girls on the Run is being led by a third grade teacher, Jessica Kroska. The team has had several practices building teamwork and stamina for a end of the year 5K run. At Mil Valley on Saturday night, the choir sang at the Admiral game to show off all their hard work they gave in they put into practicing for the national anthem. That is all I have. Thank you.
029Thank you for filling in. Yes, of course. I'm sure you raised your hand with me. Let me do it. We have that. I'd have been under the table. No, I'm not me. All right. Superintendent report. All right. Sorry. As we bring up our first wonderful presentation, we have some special guests with us. I thought you were going to introduce us like Steve Library and Technology Report. with the drum line, too. Right. Um, we were uh updating and and revising our library plan and we figured, you know what, it's been a while since we reported to the board. So, why don't we do that? So, to kick us off, we'll bring in Emily Dmar and Jenny Weed, our librarians across the district, if they want to us off. Right here, Sid. Yes. Okay, great. Hello, everybody.
030So, I'm Emily Ditmar. This is Jenny Weed. We are so excited to talk to you today about our library plan. Who is in charge of moving slides? Opie. Okay. Okay. So, what you see there is the future ready librarian framework. So, this is a national framework that just helps guide us in how to talk about what we do. So, in the library plan that's being introduced to the ESC committee um at your next meeting, you will see delineations of everything that we are doing within each wedge. But today we are going to focus on this learner centered literacy because that is at the heart of everything we do is the learners and what they are doing and how we can make them competent in all sorts of literacy that the library can provide along with
031curriculum instruction and assessment. So that is the wedge that we're focusing on today uh for you. So within that wedge the two main things that we're going to focus on are our collections. So all of the books digital and print that we offer for you and then the instructional opportunities that we provide to all the students. So first um for our collection we of course follow the administrative guideline 2522A criteria. So when we're picking all our print and digital books um we offer multiple formats. So, of course, in person in the library, you're going to see all the print books that we have, but our students, third grade and up, also have 24/7 access to digital books on Sora. And we are working with Sora right now to offer K4 to 2 grade as well.
032And then, oh, um, the organization of those materials. So, you can see two pictures there. We have a middle school and a high school picture. They are broken up by genres. So they each have a different color sticker and then we label our shelves so students know where to go. And that is done in elementary, middle, and high school so they receive a consistent experience all the way through. So this is Jenny's first year in the district. So it was really great to see her and work with her as well. She served as a library aid for a while and was in the district as a social science teacher. So, she was really invested in our system um and just helped us continue to move along with the genre finding so that we can continue
033to offer our kids a seamless experience as they transition between buildings. So, the other thing to focus on is all of our learning commerce activities. So, we talked about our books and sometimes that seems to be the number one thing. Well, that is the number one thing you think of when you think of librarian, but there's so many more things that we offer and we want to highlight here um some of our passive programming. So that's programming that doesn't necessarily need us to instruct, but we can have out and have different activities for kids to do. So on the ACT day or the day before the ACT, all of the English classes come in and that's when I say that my passive programming becomes very active because we get every English uh class in and
034they're able to experience all of the things that the library offers. So you can see there we have like a Rubik's cube mural. They were making buttons. Button making was a big hit this year as you guys probably attest to a few. as you're coming through. Um, especially for like homecoming and like making their outfits and it's really great to have these activities out because then kids know when they need them for class, they can come and ask and I'm happy to pull them out. So, for example, we had the button maker out and then we put it away cuz we want to keep things fresh, but then they were doing their US history project and they had to create an artifact and a student came to me and said, "I need to make a
035campaign button. Can we please get out the button maker?" And I'm like, "Let's go." So then they were able to make that artifact and see what we had and keep going as they're going through. So every week in the high school library and throughout and Jenny will talk more about the other buildings, but we have a different activity that we feature every week. Right now we're doing diamond art. Um we have done stick together sticker art. We highlight different board games um for kids to play with. Last week we did books to movies. So, um, our display streaming platform, um, we were able to have the books out with the movie next to it, so the kids could see both and have access to everything that way. Um, at the elementaryaries, we have designated activity
036weeks when they come in during class because they don't come in for study halls. They're on a fixed schedule. So, they still get access to all of those activities during their class time. A little different. They're more like magnetiles or light brights. um they're not button makers at the elementaryaries, but we find age appropriate activities for them. And then also K8 um last week was National Library Week, so we invited the teachers in to do a different activity every day at all the K8 schools um so that they can see what types of things we offer as well. Um so if they want to use something in their classroom, they know it's available. Um then we also have all of our digital resources. So, you can see an example right there of a landing page.
037All of our schools have one where we um have a direct link to all of the resources that we purchase. And really, it's a safe place for students to go to get information from vetted sources when they're researching. And then we also have digital citizenship lessons that happen during library time um in the elementaryaries and middles. And our goal with those is of course to we're providing these resources now, but as they grow and age out of our system, we want them to have those skills to be able to vet the resources themselves. So it's kind of we do a natural progression. So at the high school then I create specific landing pages because we have so many databases that I can narrow down for various class projects and then they can directly they don't
038have to like sort through everything. like these are the databases that will be best for your project and that leads to collabor that leads to collaborations with our teachers as we go through so we can make those curricular connections we can help the teachers out with any research projects that they want so we can go and co-e together a lot of times I will start out with like getting the background on the databases and what might be best throughout the year and then the teacher takes over from there we also serve on the curriculum planning committee so that we know what new classes are coming up so that we can adjust databases. We can add in resources. We can let some go if some courses are no longer being offered so that we can be
039dynamic in what we offer year to year. So we make sure that we're on that committee to help guide and we have that overall our overall view of our system so that we are meeting the needs of all of our learners and all of our teachers. So those are the highlights. So you can see that's just one wedge of the many things that happen in the library and there's a lot that happens in that wedge. So we are happy to submit the library plan to the ESC committee and then hopefully to the whole board and that is a summary of what we do. If you guys have any questions for the library team otherwise we'll jump right into the technology side of it. Thanks. Nice to see Jenny virtually library. I do have a I
040just have a question. When when you talk about Sora, and I know we've talked about SOAR because that's an online resource. I mean, it's so easy for us to monitor what kids have access to in print because it's physical, but when the kids have 24-hour access to that, do we know and do we control the content to make sure that it's according? Okay. I just wanted to be I I knew that to be true and we talked about it another time. I just wanted to make sure it's always just so important that we have appropriate materials and today's world stuff gets snuck in in so many different areas. Yes. So there typically Sora is a ebook and audiobook support to a print book. So I can't say 100% because like a book gets damaged like
041it's a dynamic collection but in general we try to have one of each or there's always there's mostly print but then there will be an audio book and an ebook typically. So like parents can see all of the paper books and then there would be an additional ebook or audio book. So like the information is the same. It's just the format's different. So they parents can still log in and see what their kids are doing. So they have their student credentials. We are happy to share the student credentials with the parent. So they can use that to log in and see what their child's been doing. Okay. I knew we had set some stuff up. And then uh when they log in, what we program in is that Sora knows what grade level that child
042is at. And then Jenny and I curate the collection. So we choose what grades have access to what. Okay. So our high school right now is set up for high school kids and then 78 is a band, 56 is a band. Okay. We're going to have 3 4 is a band and then K through two is a band. We will get there by the end of the year. Okay. Right. I just have a quick question for you and this is curiosity. So what kind of and just ballpark it. I know you probably don't have the hard data. How much are kids using the digital um media versus print media? Because, you know, growing up it was all books. You had to do the book report, you had the card catalog and everything else that you
043had to use. And you know, here we are. I'm not going to say how much later. Um that the kids could look up anything pretty much online. Are they reading like uh classic novels online? Let's say like 1984, something like that. Or do they still prefer the books? It really depends on the kid and what they need. Okay. So, we're going to see our kids have access to Chromebooks. It's not the greatest to like curl up in your Chromebook, right? So, you see our kids with iPads and Kindles really the ones who are accessing um the ebooks, right? Because they have the technology that make it so easy to read. Audiobooks they can listen to on their phone and then have the print book in front of them or have the ebook up. So, it's
044kind of like a mix of what kids need. Now, if we take that's for fiction, right? So kids are reading fiction at all sorts of different levels. Now let's talk about research and non-fiction. My non-fiction print collection is much smaller than when I started here 11 10 11 years ago because the majority of what we need for research is all on the online databases. So that's what you're talking about with those landing pages before. So that's where you're going to find our kids going for non-fiction references that way for research. The exception would be like memoirs and narrative non-fiction. That's probably my biggest non-fiction section of the high school for audio books. Yeah, you would say similarly. So, it depends on what they need and we have resources for everything. Yeah. But they're still going
045to print sometimes when they need. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Because it is like a really nice pleasurable experience, right? And that's what they have when they're there. Like I don't like to read on my computer. I have a Kindle. I'm like reading in like different locations. Like I get it. But our audiobook subscription is bomb significantly too. and make the most of them when they're working out or doing other things or working otherwise. Thank you. All right. Thank you guys. Thank you. So, the technology update. Um I'll just kind of go through some highlights of where we were, where we are, and then where kind of where we're going next. Um well, that's and a little bit of cyber security sprinkled in the middle there. Um you guys might recognize that it's probably been the focus
046of our last three years here. The uh referendum project which is complete. Um on the back end of that some of the things that you wouldn't necessarily see is from the IT department. Well, in order to get that that uh that new practice facility and SEM labs and all that up and running, we've actually added 80 new computers and four labs. Um, we've also added uh 47 flat panel monitors and all the uh controllers to go with that. In order to make sure that we had coverage, we ended up adding eight switches and three different switch closets and about 40 access points to make sure every little nook and cranny of that has wireless access to it. Um, a little bit behind the scenes. We also added 40 phones um into those areas which also
047needed to be programmed and configured. Um, we kind of wrapped that into a complete phone replacement, which we did district-wide where we replace every phone in every classroom in the school district over the last two three years. Also, every phone had to be configured and we had to teach the staff how to use the new phones. Um, lastly, we just got done migrating to an EAC system. Uh, that should save us about 20 grand a year just from not using traditional phone lines. Um, which is nice. Also, just for the reference, I just wanted to take a look to see how much money we saved with the burying of the fiber that we project we did a few years ago. Now that it's all paid off, we saved over $100,000 a year just by burying
048those. So, that was good timing, especially when the budgets kept coming around. Perfect. Um, our current statistics, so help desk, we've done 1182 health tests this year. um seems like just a random number until you start thinking that that's only three technicians that are doing those 1100 uh health test tickets. So they're they're pretty good. Their average response time is about 21 hours. So they're getting about tickets in about a day. Uh which is good because they are spread off a couple years across a few schools. So sometimes takes a day to get to the other schools. Chrome repairs are about average for what they are for the last two years. We had a big a big repair uh rush at the end of the pandemic. It's like everybody the Chromebooks home and blew them
049up and they brought them back like but they seem to stabilize in the last two years. We were about average for as we what we've been at about a thousand. The nice part about the Chromebook repairs is our our VE center has done probably about 40 to 50% of those Chromebook repairs in house. As students have been doing more and more repairs that saves us money on trying to get them to TR. So, and they learn skills about doing chrome repairs. Hopefully, we can expand those numbers a little bit. Uh, Chromebook loaners are are are pretty up this year. Um, that's more so if I forgot my Pro or I don't have my battery charged or whatnot. I don't know if that's a trend, but they seem to go up every year with a bigger
050jump this year. Cyber security. So, um, we've had 46 cyber security events this year. Events are something that's pretty minor. Somebody downloaded a piece of malware and it didn't really go anywhere. Our system caught it. We have to go there. Every time something like that happens, we have to investigate it. We kind of put it up to that matrix and that how was the criticality of that of that event and what was the scope of the event. If it doesn't get past the eye range, it's still considered an event. So it wouldn't be classified as an incident when you're kind of looking at a whole system outage or a whole school being down or spreading like wildfire. Luckily, we have at zero incidents and I think that's pretty awesome. The kind of the reason we
051got there is from a multi-tered approach. So there isn't one big thing that kind of is the magic bullet to protect us for everything. Uh we use we use stat education and staff or staff education. We use MFA. We have EDRs. We have antivirus. But the the the crown jewel of all that we is the firewall and those are our firewall statistics from this year. That's our outpacing protection against anything that comes into our private network. So as you see last year, this isn't actually even a year. This is from June July of this year. We've had 199,000 attempted breaches in our network which the firewall has caught. We had 2600 VPN attempts. That's somebody physically trying to log into our network via our VPN. And if you consider all the vulnerability probes, we've had
052over a million of them and that's just from July. Our side firewall is a workhorse. So you can spend a lot of money on that firewall, but it's doing a good job. Um, by the way, these numbers are pretty common for anybody in education. Education is a target uh for for cyber criminals. They know that our budgets are small for for cyber security and that there's a lot of value there. We have a lot of people's personal information in uh banking. You'll see a similar trend and the same with government maybe a little bit higher. Um coming up on some future projects. One of the things that we'll be doing this coming year is going to be updating our IRB, our incident response plan. So like that matrix that you guys saw, that was actually
053pulled from our incident response plan. So we have a formulated process to handle any kind of cyber security event. Uh updating that will be on our goal two sheet this year. Um we're going to get an improved communication platform. I think you guys all remember the snow outage when people were getting 10 phone calls and so we got nine phone calls and there was no message. That's the third year in a row for that. So I think we're going to start moving on from that platform and going with it. That platform that we're looking at will actually encompass other platforms as well. So hopefully we'll look to eliminate a couple of systems with that platform. And lastly, we are looking at an infrastructure replacement cycle. Basically, that's a fancy word for saying we got time
054to replace all our switches. We have a lot of switches. It's going to be a multi-year replacement cycle. Um, but it's time to start now. They're they're going to be about 10, 11 years old, so it's time to start replacing them. That's kind of where we're going. Have you guys have any questions for me? I just have two. So, do the staff get training or some sort of inserving on like fishing for emails and stuff like that you guys have? Yep. From you you as part of our safe school training. Um they're they're mandatory. Okay. And then does anybody ever complain about our website and how sometimes when it comes up it's just like like a it looks like it's the um context page instead of having it be like the actual web page. It
055seems to come and go. I've seen that nobody's complained about it that I've heard of and it seems very transitional. Like I have seen exactly what you're talking about. Something with the host. Um yeah, we brought it up to them in the past. They don't really say it's a thing. Oh, we can't really duplicate that. So, it's something we can bring up with them if it is. Yeah. Is it I don't know cuz I've had it. Yeah. I have to refresh it every single time. Yeah. Yeah. It's like they always tell me the same thing. Well, clear cash and cookies, but it's something on the program. I don't know if that's a display. Um in the next two years there's is we'll have a bit of a website overhaul because ADA compliance is changing dramatically
056in the next two years. So, we'll have that change a lot. I'm hoping that kind of gets flushed out as we do that. Okay. Any questions? Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. That concludes the superintendent report. Thank you guys very much for your time. One last thing before I transition out of the superintendent report was just to again recognize the fact that we did again win the top workplace award. Um, so we had the opportunity to celebrate that this past week with our staff. Um, why that to me is such a a wonderful accomplishment because it's based on the voice of our staff. It's it's a survey that they complete and then it's compared to other organizations that value staff culture. So this isn't something that every organization is a part of. It's businesses who say
057we value our employees and this needs to be a target for us. So the fact that we continue to rise up in the rankings this year we were highest ever at fifth um out of large organizations and we again won the meaningfulness award which is based on how our staff answer a question around how much they believe their work makes an impact. And when I think about that and I think about buildings that are filled with educators who truly love what they do and understand that every single day we have the opportunity to change the lives of the kids in front of us. It just absolutely fills my heart with pride to know that our system more so than any other organization in this group understands the power and the privilege we have every single
058day to make a difference. So just grateful for the support of our school board and our community on that and our staff. Thank you. That concludes this report. Thanks for Yes. Uh all right, other reports. President report. Just again thank you Brett for all your years. Thank you. You will be missed tremendously. So I don't want to carry on. All right. Clerk's report. Um we conducted our uh board of canvasers tally on April 1st and those have been posted. And we also have two oath of office uh to conduct. One for a returning board member and one for a new board member. Um you want me to do it? Yeah. Okay. All right. So, why don't we have Chris come up first? Congratulations, Chris. You don't know what you're in for. You have no idea.
059So, we'll do the all if you just repeat after me. Okay. And put your right hand up. There you go. All right. I, Christopher Zigga. I, Christopher Zelga, having been duly elected to the office of schoolboard member having duly elected to the office of school board member for the Mosquo Norway school district for the Mosquo Norway school district but have not yet entered upon the duties thereof have entered yet the duties upon thereof swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States swear I will support Thank you the Constitution support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin and the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin and will faithfully discharge the duties and will faithfully discharge the duties of set office to the best of my ability
060of set office to the best of my ability. So help me God. So help me God. My name is And then we have your certificate of election. Thank you. That is yours. And also thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. You're all set to go. Thank you, Chris. All right. You should be proud of this. All right, you ready? I, Lori Bottney. I, Lori Bottney, having been duly elected to the office of school board member having been duly elected to the office of school board member for the Mosquo Norway school district for the Mosquo Norway school district, but have not yet entered upon the duties thereof, but have not yet entered upon the duties thereof. Swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States. Swear that I will support the Constitution of the United
061States. and the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin and and the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin and will faithfully discharge the duties of office set office and will faithfully discharge the duties of set office to the best of my ability. to the best of my ability. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations. Congratulations, please. One is yours and this is yours for your certificate of election. Thank you very much. Glad to be here still be here. Congratulations. [Music] All right. Congratulations, Chris, and congratulations, Lori. Okay. Um 9C board member reports. Brett, uh I just got a couple things. First, congratulations to Lori and to Chris. You guys do a great job. Again, um last week, last Friday, Saturday, I attended my last WASB board meeting. And just a couple quick highlights. they're
062changing or I should say they're adding uh a couple things to their learning platform including that the learning platform library will be free after July 1st. So something we've talked about debating whether it was worth investing in or not. Well, now it's free. So it's something we can really take a look at. Um Diligent which owns board dots is going to start forcing a migration as contracts expire to community that new platform. Are you familiar with that Ryan? Oh yeah. And there were concerns that we talked about including what about um uh um data archives, uh old board meetings, meeting minutes, things like that. So, um I trust you're on top of that. So, did they give you a timeline? No, it's as they expire. So, um they're they're just doing it whenever whenever they're
063due. So, and it's they haven't been real active about that yet, but it sounds like in the very near future. So, I'm guessing probably after the school year as they expire, they're going to start moving them. So, when does ours expire? Any idea? July, I believe. Oh, I think it's July. The they came out, they told us the same thing that was in the expire, but then W came back and said, "Well, it's not really." You can kind of choose. So, we're trying to figure out when we have to Yeah. They say all that stuff will migrate over. By the way, all the archives will just transfer. Should um we had a brief update from the WIA. They'll be discussing some proposed rule changes including extending summer camps for workouts for sport summer and fall
064sports and increasing the maximum number of games for freshman sports. So that'll give our kids an opportunity to play a bit more and practice a bit more. And then finally, we're looking at some changes to the policy and resolution committee in the delegate assembly after some of the issues that have risen the last couple years. trying to trying to get more people active in that especially in the deli assembly so we can get the votes in there so so we're making good decisions on that rather than just having a small majority do it so and I will miss you guys it's been a lot of fun and uh I you're you're all in good hands so you'll do well thanks you know where to find us I do a couple of things one congratulations to
065Chris um so welcome to the Lord. Um, and to Brett. Um, so Brett, you and I have served on this board for 12 years together. Um, and I have been continually amazed at your attention to detail and your knowledge of the guidelines, the policies, and just the proper operations of how things are supposed to go. Each one of us has a different skill set on this board, and that's what makes us, I think, a dynamic board. and uh you've kept us out of trouble, right, from a process standpoint. It's usually the other way around. Yeah. So, uh I know I've checked in with you multiple times throughout the years. Anytime I was unsure of a procedural issue, and I've just appreciated that that mentorship and uh that honesty that uh that you've shown uh along
066the way. Uh while we've always had a healthy challenge uh and we didn't always land in the same place, no one could ever question your dedication to students, parents, and staff. Uh in our discussions, uh just you and I, I've seen the love uh that you have for your family and the care for this district. And when you decided not to run at the end of the year, you could have packed it in. Uh but you stay stayed extremely engaged and you finished the last mile even the last meeting here right the last fight. Um you are a man of integrity and I am lucky to have served with you on this board for the last 12 years but I'm blessed to call you a friend. Thank you. Good luck in your school board retirement.
067Thanks a lot Jason. Um, just thank you for the the guidance that you've given me over the last two years, especially around the Roberts rules and trying to make sure I'm doing everything right and getting the right getting everything right with a first, second, and and when we need to do votes, I it's really helped me to kind of learn something that didn't always just come naturally. So, it's really appreciated and I'm uh sad to see you go, but at the same time, I also understand there's a time and place for for things where it's like, you know, it's time. So, thanks. I appreciate everything, Brett. Really do. And I'd also like to congratulate Chris and I'm going to congratulate you, Brett, because it's a next chapter in your life. Um, and like everybody has
068said, I think the thing that stands out most about you is your your true and genuine passion and always wanting to do the best and being willing to fight for that. I appreciated our time together that, you know, as we've said, we've I hadn't met you prior to getting on the board and now I'm proud to be able to say that you're a friend. Um, I share your love of bourbon as a little fun aside. Um, but I get Brett and I will continue to get to work together because we work together in um our district for elections as chief and inspectors. So, I look forward to being able to continue that and still share the time and passion that you have for community service and um knowing that you do it all with a
069big heart. Thanks, Tracy. Yeah, congratulations, Brad. I'm really happy for you to be able to step away in a good note and have some really great um achievements along the way cuz I think you were the one that were involved with the hiring of Joe then Kelly and now um Todd. So that's pretty impressive. Um and also I think um just your knowledge that you bring from the WSAV is just astounding. I'm sure you're a level five. You have to be a level five. You got to be a level five. Last week really. Oh, yeah. I was like, but but level five means that you've really put your heart and soul into it and I I really appreciate the knowledge that you always came to our our meetings with and stuff and I'm glad you
070can spend time with me and the girls, which is great. Maybe you can volunteer a little bit at St. Leonard's with me and some other committees and stuff, which would be fun. But congratulations. Thanks. Just want to say congratulations, Brett. You've been on the board about half my life. So, I had been a little bit of time. Did you guys bring the locker? Congratulations to Chris and Oh my gosh. All right. Now we boring stuff. Go back to the boring stuff. Uh, committee reports. Educational services committee report. Um, you want to go back to how reports? Oh, yeah. We didn't finish board. You can give it. You should have just given that. Okay. Sorry. Sorry. Um, no. So, tomorrow is our meeting for CISA 1 and I've been whenever we have a weekly um Sue
071always sends out a weekly email as to what's going on. I forward it to those individuals within our district that I think would be interested in them. Um, I know I did cyber stuff to the tech gurus down there and stuff. So, I'll look forward to that and then I'll um put the updates in the next meeting that we have. Okay, sounds good. Thanks. Okay, Educational Services Committee. Um, there was a lot of things that we covered in our last meeting. So, I just encourage you to look at the bullet points and we do have a um motion that'll be coming forward in resolution policy committee. So, we've had a couple of meetings relative to um reviewing the OLA policies as well as some things that we've brought forward proactively. So, we're going to see
072the majority of those I think all the one um in the resolution items. Business services committee. Um last meeting we had on April 3rd, there were a number of service agreements and contracts we reviewed um just for awareness and one will be coming forward as a um resolution action item. We also started reviewing transportation services um which was very informative and I appreciate Julie and and Todd's efforts and putting that information together. It's was very very helpful. Looking forward to having that as a quarterly review. So, excellent. All right. All right. Moving on to number 11. Resolution and action items. CISA1 agreement for services. Motion to approve the CISA1 agreement for services contract as presented. Second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. opposed. Motion passes. B. Policy revisions. Motion to approve
073the Neiola changes recommended by the policy committee meeting as presented. So second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. and the second third second set of policy revisions. Motion to approve the Neola changes recommended by the policy committee meeting as presented. This will be for 11C. So any discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. I. Opposed? Motion passes. And there is a third set of policy revisions. So for 11D this is motion to approve the Neil changes recommended by the policy committee meeting as presented. So move second. Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. New NEO policy 5411 is I tried holding it in. Do we need to make a motion on that? Motion to approve the new MEA policy required by
074act 20 recommended by the policy committee meeting as presented. Second. Any discussion? I have just one quick thing. On the bottom of page two, we still have the drafting note in there. Is that is that we are taking that out, right? Or is that something that keeping in for some reason? I don't have it online. I don't have I don't see it bottom of page Oh, page one. I'm sorry. Page one. That's Is there any reason we need that in there? I'd just like to make an amendment to the motion then to take that out draft. You know, you have to do this on your last meeting. Yes. I thought it was going to come forward lasting. I'll second the motion. All right. So, Brett first to amend second there's any discussion, but I don't
075think anybody is there does anyone have any questions or discussion on the amendment? Okay. All in favor of the amendment say. I I opposed. Okay. The amendment passes and then go back to the original motion with the amendment in it. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. That motion passes. Okay. uh 11F policy revisions a whole list of them there. Motion to approve the Neola changes recommended by the policy committee meeting as presented. So second any discussion. All in favor say I. I opposed. Motion passes and 11G policy commission committee was busy. Motion to approve the Neola changes recommended by the policy committee meeting as presented. So second. Any discussion? Thank you all of you on the policy committee for doing all of those. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. 11H eminence
076warrior pathway programming. Uh motion to approve the updated programming courses at MHS for the 202627 school year as presented. So moved. Second. Any discussion? I think it's been said this is going to be a great program. I think great change. So we're enhancement to AVID. moving from our away from AVID and created our own called Warrior Pathway program which will be so much more geared towards our students and our needs in this district. So, it's great. Thank you to every single staff member and all the committees that helped go through that and walk through that. That's a lot of work that they did on that. Um, so thank you. All in favor say I. Opposed? Motion passes. 11 I ELA fifth grade resource motion to approve the fifth grade ELA resource for the 202526 school
077year sold second discussion so this is replacing yeah the fifth grade resource was discontinued um and so since we're already using Sabbath for the my view for the K through four and we're already using the same company for six through eight. It my perspective is it made most sense to just plug that with utilizing the same resource. So, thank goodness to our teachers who have been so wonderful about um making that transition to the K4. So hopefully this will give something to them that'll be easier. We've learned lessons. Awesome. Thank you to everyone who worked on all that. Um all in favor say I. I opposed. Motion passes. We got long mystery here. Gifts. You want some water, J? Uh, yeah. Do you need a break? Do you need a break? I'm good. Motion. Somebody
078changed the recommended action, though. So, gifts, brands, and bequests. Motion to approve with thanks the following donations as presented, but I'm still going to read through them. uh to Mil Valley Elementary School, $700 from the American Heart Association for the Kids Heart Challenge, Mosskego High School Girls Basketball, $5,678.79 from the Mosquo Girls Basketball Association Incorporated, Mosquo High School Boys Lacrosse, $5,000 from MSGO Lacrosse Club Incorporated, $2,500 from Mosskego Lacrosse Club Incorporated, Boys High School, Mskego High School Cheerleading, $1,500 from the Mosquo Cheer Booster Club, Mosskego High School Outdoor Club, $500 from the Wisconsin Intercolastic Fishing Association, Moskego High School Boys Golf, $400 from the Mosquo High School Boys Golf Booster, $1,000 from the Wisconsin State Golf Association Foundation Incorporated, Mskego High School Girls Golf, $1,000 from the Wisconsin State Association, State Golf Association Foundation Incorporated.
079Skeo High School football, $535 from TJ's Roundabout. Skeo High School robotics, $500 from Bruno, MMC, NAC, and Tessier, $500 from MSE, $5,000 from Impro, $2,800 from Christopher and Carrie Mopin, $750 from PPG Foundation, match for Carrie Moffin, via Black Giving Foundation, $5,750 from Regal Rexord, $1,000 from Builders, Mosquo High School Boys Swim, $500 from Le Man's Tech, uh $63 from School of Bark, and finally, Mosquito High School Musical, $300 from John Almgardner. Thank you. Thank you. So motion second. Thank you. Discussion. First, thank you. Thank you. Wow, that was a lot of gifts. Amazing. Amazing. All in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. Okay, moving on to we have no discussion items. On number 13 is your information followup. There you will find monthly financial reporting and support staff co-curricular hire hires resignations
080and retirements. And number 14, we are going to vote to go into closing. Just real quickly before we go to that, can we introduce our new associate principal? Usually we do that in cons so just as she's here so we'd love to introduce her Robin if you would like to and so introduce you to um Mercedes or Satie as we call her Adam so she's an associate princ we also have in the audience um Abby Raone who is our new coordinator for um 124 teaching and learning coach over at Mil Valley. So, she's internal, but we'll be shifting over to district office. Welcome to both of you. Good. All right. Vote for close session. Thank you for touching that. Vote for close session pursuant to Wisconsin statute 19.8571. 85 sub 1 subc considering employment, promotion,
081compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility specifically consideration of teacher contract non-renewals and public employee of which we exercise responsibility. So move second. Um just any discussion we will only return it to open to adjourn. We will not have any other business to take care of tonight. Um, any other discussion? Uh, roll call vote. Brett, yes. Bob, yes. Terry, yes. Yes. Yes. Tracy, yes. Kevin, yes. All right, we are in closed.