001Thanks for coming everyone. This is the school district Joe Prescott regular board of education regular meeting. I'll call it to order. Subject section 1983 Wisconsin statutes. First item here, pledge of allegiance. Take it, Tanya. >> 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. >> Our next item is recognition of visitors. The public comments rules. Please approach a podium one at a time stating your name, municipality, and topic you'd like to address. Allotted time is 3 minutes per individual, six if you are representing a group that's present at the meeting. All comments should be directed to the board and not to their staff or other participants. The board will not act on any
002comments that are made during the meeting. The presiding officer may direct the district administrator to follow up with that individual at a later date. The public comment section will be limited to 30 minutes unless board action is taken. And as always, please refer to our public comment policy listed on the agenda for full description. Anybody at this time care to approach the podium and be recognized? All right, I'm going to move on. Uh, we'll go to good news. >> Who's first? Jim. >> Kayen Hillbrand. >> Yep. Good evening. My name is Kayen Hillbrand and I am the school board representative for the student body. And here is my update for December. Within the high school, so far students and staff have collected 30 toys for Toys for Toty drive. In addition, the student wellness club
003sold candy cane grams to staff and students this past week, generating some excitement surrounding the holiday season. Furthermore, the snowball dance is set to take place on January 31st at the conclusion of the snowfest celebration in the high school. Also, students from the high school choir, National Honor Society, and Community Service Club volunteered at an alpaca and antlers event earlier in December again spreading holiday cheer and giving back to the community. Within the middle school, there was a band concert on Tuesday night and a choir concert tomorrow night. In addition, the food drive conducted by the middle school brought in over a hundred items that were donated to the food pantry, which in turn supports the district's backpack program initiative. Lastly, all the schools in the district have had holiday themed dressup days this week.
004Thank you and happy holidays. Matt Smith, activities, athletics director, all sorts of >> All right. Uh, all buildings Malone is kicking off their last leg of the backpack program food drive and all four schools are participating this year and have brought in thousands of non-p perishable items that will serve to stock our backpack program and feed our community. So, awesome job by everyone with that. At the intermediate school, students have been busy bringing cheer to local senior to the local living senior center. Many have stayed in for recess and colored placemats at Thanksgiving and created Christmas cards that counselor Early will be delivering this week. I know that'll bring a lot of cheer to them. And at the middle school, they just finished up their second round of academic screening. Student learning progress has been
005steadily increasing, which is always great. Um, they're going to use that round of screening to select students for their next round of interventions in both reading and math. Congratulations, as we alluded to already, to the middle school band. Wonderful winter concert last night and good luck to the middle school concert. We'll have theirs tomorrow night for those who want to join that. From the uh high school side of things, student leaders, volunteer club students, and the student wellness club. They hosted the food drive, which we alluded to. Um an update, we're at 67 toys for the toy drive toy drive over this past month, and collect over a thousand food items for families in need. So, kind of everyone chipping in there at the high school doing an outstanding job. Uh we got to tip
006our hat. Shane Clawson and Zack Bon, they've kind of led the charge there from from their standpoint. Zach's our new NHS director, he called over 25 businesses for donations and they definitely stepped up huge for that. Um, then from the activities and athletics side of things, our one act play, um, if you saw Lost Girl this year, um, outstanding job by them. Some accolades they took home at state competition. We got some individual shoutouts. outstanding actor for Zoe Anthony, outstanding actor. Also, Zack Ogrren and then Kaden Johnson also outstanding actor. So, that them, excuse me, to get that recognition, outstanding. And then overall as a crew for the cast and everyone involved, they're outstanding technical theater, outstanding ensemble, outstanding director's choice, and the top award as the critics's choice award, which is basically a state
007championship type honor there. So, kudos to them. um from athletics, uh PHS dance team, which we know 32 state championships. If you've seen the banner that constantly gets updated, uh they went to the Monomony Invite a couple weeks ago and they got a double first place. And then at the highly competitive Little Shoot competition last weekend, they took home a first and a second. They'll have their conference um tournament that'll be January 10th in New Richmond. Um wrestling off to a great start under a new head coach, Nick Zjac. Lots of energy, excitement, um kind of getting that program growing with numbers. They'll be at Baldwin Woodville for a triangular um tomorrow night and then Somerset Friday night for anyone interested. Boys basketball 4 in one start for the year. U offensive barrage last week.
008Kfax was in town. We found out our scoreboard does have triple digits on there. We scored 101 points. Um so that was fun to see. And had Ellsworth tomorrow night for a big rivalry game there. And then lastly, our girls basketball team. Uh great NBC road win last night at Altuna. Um and then they'll be at Somerset tomorrow night also. So, go-karts and uh yeah, a lot of good news to celebrate here. Thank you. >> Thanks, man. Um first off, our uh Cardinal champion is Janelle Jan. Um I got to deliver this yesterday uh with Miss Duc and the best thing was there was a bunch of kids in the room and the cheering that they did well. Um I was talking about all her dedication to the students. um especially her patience, humor and
009joy, but also her work outside of school. Um she is instrumental um serving on the Prescott food pantry board and as uh Matt and Kaden talked about the backpack food program that helps out some of our kids who are so much in need has just been amazing and uh General is definitely one of our cardinal champions. On a personal note, I got to uh sub today for Mrs. Disci. Um, we do a drawing every quarter where I spend a day in the role of somebody else in the district and it was wonderful to be back with a bunch of the eighth graders. Um, and to be able to interact with him and work with him and learn about uh the Lincoln assassination. I actually learned things I didn't know about that. Um, also just to
010see the procedures and stuff that that are going on at the middle school. Uh, we didn't need anything, but the behavior uh protocols that they have at the school are very restorative. uh helps the kids deal with things uh and allows them to really think about the process of what they did. But it was just overall a fun day to be able to be back in the classroom for a full day and see what one of our teachers does on a on a daily basis. Awesome. >> All right. Thanks, Jim. We're going to move on to school business and we have the consent agenda here and I'll read this off. We have the n the November 19, 2025 regular meeting minutes and the December 10th, 2025 work session minutes. Finance reports updated personnel names throughout
011Neo policies as technical changes per district administers responsibility and Conan. Is that how I'd say? Conan or >> Conan underground utilities contract. I think that's it. So that's the consent agenda. Anything in there that the board wants to pull out for further discussion? >> No. >> Then I think with that we would entertain a motion to approve the consent and adopt the agenda for tonight. >> I move to adopt the agenda and approve the consent agenda. >> Second. It's a motion and a second. All in favor? >> I I opposed. That carries. Thank you. And we'll move on to let's see item B here is consider moving the January 2026 regular schoolboard meeting. So as you know the WSB convention is the 21st to the 25th. Our normal board meeting would have been the 21st.
012Uh so I believe the entire board will be in Milwaukee uh during that normal board meeting. So the 7th doesn't really allow us enough time. Although if we absolutely had to, we could do some emergency gen agendas. 14th would be a little bit of a tight turnaround for for the staff, but we'll make that happen if we need to. 28th is our preferred, but it basically depends on the board schedules. And I see almost everybody's pulling out their phone and checking their calendar. >> Start with the 28th. Anybody have any objections to that? Nothing. >> I I will be out of town. >> Anybody else? >> I'm double checking something. Yeah, I'm fine. Okay, I'm okay. >> Uh Jim, just really quick in a preview of January, is there anything that is going to be
013super critical that we want five before we ink this in as a 28th? when we go through today's presentation on the facility consolidation plan, I'm going to ask you to, you know, start looking at that in uh a couple things, but if we make the big decision tonight, everything else can wait till February. There's not going to be a rush to to figure things out. We can wait till February or March to make some of the other decisions. >> Okay. >> I guess my preference I just just for the administration would be the 20th path. You're fine with that, >> right? Corners down, too. Okay. All right. So, if you guys are, we can make a motion here. >> I move to approve moving the January 2026 regular school board meeting to January 28th at
014the Prescott High School Library at 6 p.m. to accommodate the WASB convention. >> I'll second. >> All right, we have a motion and a second. All in favor? >> I oppose. That one carries. Thank you. Move on to item C. Consider the 2026 27 academic calendar. 2027. Gosh, that's really >> there. Working on it. >> Perfect. >> All right. Well, uh, good evening board. Um, one of the pleasures of the teaching learning office is that we look at the academic calendar every year. Um, and then work with our PLC leaders and then also with our uh staff uh to look at preferences of the calendar, the way the calendar sets up, things like that. We present you with a calendar little change. Uh, Mr. Reef wanted to the process. Typically, I'd come to you in
015December and give you some options. You ask questions about those and then you've always directed me under an advisory role to survey the staff and see what their preference would be and then come back in January. um just to felt like we didn't need to do a twomonth process here. Um we already had calendars made. It's a very simple calendar um to next year. So just expediting it by a month and this allows people before the holidays to start looking at things and maybe planning family trips and whatnot around the following year calendar so we can have those conversations when they're around the table over the holidays. So one of the things is two years ago um typically every five four to five years we do a staff survey on preferences of sort of what
016what are the preferences that they have when looking at priorities at a calendar. Uh two years ago was the first time we were able to have a two week long spring break at that time. That's just before that counter is when we did the survey. And um you can see there that having a two full weeks at excuse me at winter break was the top priority. fall recess that's after parent teacher conference long nights that one week that aligns the MEA that was the next always when can we get out um ending earlier and earlier Thanksgiving break is basically tied with that um about having that Wednesday off prior to and then there's always that Easter Monday crowd and again only about 9% said that that was a priority for them. So with that in
017mind the calendar um gets flipped from one year to the next. We look at some unique things on the calendar. So this year, what is unique is that by state statute, we cannot officially start unless we ask for a waiver before September 1st. That is a Tuesday. It is before Labor Day, so it is early next year. Um there's 3 weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. So again, quick little turnaround there or the week of Christmas, I should say. Um because Christmas next year will be on Friday as well as New Year's will be on a Friday. And then Easter Sunday is extremely early in the calendar this year as opposed to late in April like it can get sometimes. So with all those in mind um with those preferences, different calendars were made. And you
018can see on the the tops of these it says option one and option two. But then if you look at the calendar, it actually says option D and option E because there actually were a lot more options that were looked at by the admin team and some of them just the way they laid out didn't look right. Um when we surveyed the PLC leadership team, they gave some feedback. One of the biggest feedbacks you'll see on both of these calendars is that August is pretty blank. That's intentional because on the next slide I'll talk about August in particular. But on each of these calendars, the unique things we have starting schools um on the 31st, that's that Monday just before Labor Day. And that being a full week of instruction, the admin team feels very
019confident of having our students in the seats on that day. Also on there you can see we maintain the October day and um December and November set up a little bit different next year again with Friday being the Christmas day. The question was, are we going to go into Christmas week? And you can see on the option on the left, we would come to school Monday and Tuesday, 21st and 22nd. Um, or do we maintain the full two week off in December? And that's the option two on the right. Also, this year we have President's Day off that's a long time between our PD day in January and then in March. We know that that's a long time for kiddos, too. So, that day is new this year. we maintained it um for this upcoming
020school year. The other big change was again because of where Good Friday landed was do we slide the week of spring break down one week which buys us a day and then take that day and take it off at the end of April. that would coincide with the end of the Wisconsin 4 exam in grades K8 long as well as the um the end of the makeup testing window for ACT preac. But it also would give us a little bit of time just before the AP tests in May. If you go back to four or five years ago, we used to have a professional development day in early May. Um and some people say, well, what are what are you learning about in early May? And it's really there's a lot of things like class
021placement, transition meetings, um wrapping up the year, uh assessment data, and setting us up for success in the fall. So, actually is a lot of value to having that day in May. However, it just hasn't worked out in the calendar. So, the calendar on the left had students getting out on the Friday before Memorial Day. If you remember four or five years ago, we were able to do that, have students out that Friday before Memorial Day. Um and the calendar on and that was again coinciding with coming to school the 21st and 22nd of December. The calendar on the right we have the full twoe break and then we um do not get out before Memorial Day. It actually pushes it back. When we surveyed the staff, and again this went out to all staff,
022bus drivers, custodial, teaching staff, the admin team, um 54% preferred calendar number two with the longer Christmas break and then going longer into June by those couple of days into June. Um and that was again, if you take out the people that had no preference, it really is a 60/40. If you look at the teaching staff and separate them out from the rest of staff, it's a 7030. preference of having the longer break and going a little bit longer into June versus having the shorter calendar and um not having as many days off. I intentionally left out August because that was one of the feedback that we got from the PLC leadership team was is there any way to look at August? August when they look at it on a calendar and you can look
023at option two. That was sort of the first option they kind of looked at is they said we only get two full weeks off in August before we come back. It seems like we're missing out. So is there any way to rework August? So you can see option one was created where at one point we only did have three in inservice days prior to the start of the school year. However, through our data dig, through our leadership team, we started adding that fourth day probably about 8 years ago. So, the floating day is what option one is. So, it's marked on there as August 2nd. Again, this doesn't impact families. It's only impacting our staff of when would they work. And basically what we're saying is you would have a floating day to come in
024and have time to set up your classroom um to work on some of your curriculum. Some of those things that you can do independently. Previously we did have a floating day but it was they had to work with their PLC and they had specific tasks to do. Well it's difficult to coordinate five or six people's calendar in August. If you only have to coordinate your own calendar. Um, but we were very clear with the staff is that one, this is going to be based on custodial schedules and if your room is or is not available, we're not guaranteeing everyone can get in the room on Monday the 3rd. All right? So, you have to work with your um principal and obviously custodial on that. Um, has to be approved by your principal and we would
025have a way for them to check in. Maybe it's a Google form. That's what we do for uh curriculum writing hours over the summer. So, what did you work on? What days were you there? We don't want someone to come in and just hammer out one 8 hour shift, but we also don't want eight 1-hour shifts either, you know. So, most teachers when they talked about it, probably two or three days is what they'd split their time up with. Um and that would under the understand that that would be a majority of the individual work time that they would get which just means the 24th, 25th, 26th we'd have um it feel a little tighter just because of district office um teaching and learning professional development those things would all just be on a little
026bit shorter of a schedule. We'd only have three days to schedule those out versus over four days. Right now teachers for the most part get more get a day of work time in the room, but it's split up. It's really disjointed. It's an hour here, it's 45 minutes there. Um, things like that. This would rake it all together so they can focus a little bit as well. The other part that you'll see is an option was it says floating classroom work day or days and and part of that is um because of the number of days we have in the calendar. However, when we looked at these options, you can see option number one, 70 over 70% of the people that have had a preference would like option one where it's a floating um and
027for the teachers, it's closer to 80% would like the float day versus schedule it out for me. So, the administration team is recommending this calendar. So, this is option two for the overall calendar, but then for August, it's the one with the flow. Here's the unique things about this calendar. Again, because of where Labor Day lands, um because of the 31st being a Monday, um we have 170 student days. Back before Act 10, we were required to have 180. We had a year where there was a bunch of cold days in a row. I think four cold days in a row. Uh Rob plays Rick was telling me yesterday that he can be called. Um a lot of schools had to add on a week of school at the end. Prescott we kind of did
028a hybrid. We added a few days but then we added time. Well that time has helped us because now the state doesn't require 180 days. It requires so many hours and there different hours that are needed at the elementary level versus at the high school and middle school level. And that's really where that difference of how many days over the requirement are you has partially to do with the requirement itself and then also our two-tier busing that we do with elementary um getting out earlier each day. So with the 170 days and again we've been 171 for the past 6 years or so. Uh at one point we were 175 but then we added time to the contract we added time to the day that changed all that. um maintaining that two week winter break,
029adding that day off in April, that floating inservice day in August, we're only at 107 where I had 170 student days, but it's 167 contract days for our teachers. So the contracts 100, excuse me, 187. So the contract's 188 days. So, what's not on this calendar is a second floating day, and it's kind of dependent on the board's decision on the consolidation of buildings. We know that that's happening. We don't know if it's happening this year or it's happening next year. it were to happen that this year is the date year we're going to make the move, we would add a second floating work date in August because a majority of our staff um signs the elementary core teachers, but even the elementary specialist teachers that are part of the intermediate will all be moving
030rooms again. Majority of the middle school is going to end up moving rooms. Um uh potentially if 8th grade comes up to the high school now, we have rooms up here. So there's an extra day that's not on the calendar. If the board says, "Nope, we're going to we're going to go to that a year from now." That gives us the flexibility of either dropping it in and communicating that to our staff that August is the drop in date, or is there a second day added in June to help them the pack up? Um and and the making some of those moves before they're gone for the summer potentially even. Um, so that's why right now there's only 187 that is showing, but it's really 188. That includes on the uh licensed staff contract um
031the three days for um national holidays. We have three national holidays in the contract and then two days or two eight hour days for parent communication. Used to be parent teacher conferences were very rigid. We used to schedule those every school. We moved away from that. The schools kind of schedule their own. Um the high school actually has three different parent teacher conference nights to align to their trimesters where the other buildings only have two parent teacher conference nights to to align to that. So that's changed a little bit, but it's still in the contract, those two eight hour days of parent communication. Um and then the other part that um Mr. brief wanted on the calendar and something we've we've talked about as a board before with the board is indicating inclement weather days.
032So on here you can see the president's day and the April day are triple starred um and the little key at the bottom shows that those are for situational dependent. you know, if the week or two before um President's Day in February, we have four or five cold days, we know we have distance learning. And distance learning, if you remember 2 3 years ago, we had multiple days in a row. And day one goes pretty well. Day two of having kids online, not so well. By the time you get to day three, um it's time for a break, right? So, if that's the case, we're just kind of putting these on here as indicators to our community that those would be potential days that we would look at turning on first before we would look
033at adding time to a calendar or adding a date to the end of the year. >> Questions do you have? >> Tanya, do you want to start here? You got questions? >> Um, yes, I can start. Um, okay. I know you just said this. We traditionally for six years have had 171 student days. Next year we're going down to 170. I know in the state of Wisconsin we're more about minutes and it kind of adds up that way. Why the one less day overall though? Is it just kind of how the calendar falls >> this year first day and where it falls and if we count that as into our calendar or is it still summer school but because it's a Monday can we have our kids here? The other part when we had that
034conversation before about the 170 versus 171 um if you look at the days over the requirement the high school and middle school even in this calendar are 1 and 1/2 days otherwise over >> right >> the previous time when we talked about 170 day that was to get out before Memorial Day was sort of the the driving factor there but that was also when the high school and middle school had 1 hour over their minimum requirement and that's when you as a board said no we want more on that. We want more cushion. Yeah, it's a minimum and we're over, but we don't want any. >> Okay, >> so let let me jump in there on this one, too. On that August 31st day, that's actually the next item on the agenda after this. Um,
035our intention is to run August 31st as the first full days of classes. The DPI says we cannot grade, we cannot teach curriculum and um we cannot uh count it against kids for athletics, etc. However, if we advertise and tell our parents that August 31st is going to be that first day of classes, the bell is going to run. We're going to run a normal bell schedule. It's that day where teachers hand out their syllabuses, where teachers set their ground rules and do all the stuff like that. We're going to run that August 31st as a regular day and count it as a summer school day or the other option which frankly we get funding through summer school uh hours if we count it that way. The other option the board will have after this
036is to apply for a waiver which the DPI has guaranteed we'll get and then we would have a true 171 on the DPI books. Um as opposed to it's going to be essentially a 171day contract but just the way that Monday falls um it counts technically without the waiver it counts as a summer school day. >> Okay. So that was my next kind of comment question. So I'm glad you brought it up. Um, I'm curious how the board feels about this. I'm just going to say I I feel like it's kind of walking a little bit of an unethical time. Like it seems we're telling families you have to be there, which we can't require families to be there in Canada summer school, but but we're telling the state that we're not. You know what
037I mean? And I I feel a little uncomfortable with that. So, I personally would rather I looked back at our calendars the last handful of years. We didn't have the Monday on. We had the Monday off anyway. So, it's not And I I know that that's important to you to have that Monday here in school with all of our students. And I guess my question would kind of ask a little bit more about the why for that. Um because we haven't done that traditionally. Not that we can't. I would rather just call it what it is though. Like it's either a required day and we lose funding. That's what happens. Or we really advertise that we want kids here. I know that we typically don't get a lot of the older kids here. We get
038a ton of our younger ones here and then we still collect funding. So, um I'd be curious kind of from your perception of why that day is so important that we require it of students or which we can't do I get but I don't know if you I don't want to use the word required but we can definitely make a move especially we um this fall K8 um especially K5 we get everybody we a lot it's the high school kids but we want to take that first Monday and encourage everything we can do to get our high school kids in there and counted as the full full week of school. Um I think we need the 31st one way or the other to kind of make sure that our staff has those three weeks off
039in August. Um cuz otherwise we're kind of either pushing we would have to add a day in June or we'd have to add the day push a day back into August um to keep those return to learn days. Um as far as whether we do a waiver or not um like I said we put that on the next item as the board. I've obviously moved here and I'm trying to learn the Prescott way. Um so no hard feelings either way, but um the waiver will be a slam dunk because we transport uh St. Joseph students and the DPI is actively out there encouraging any district that transports um private school students to apply for a waiver. And they said it'll take them 30 seconds to rubber stamp anything that you know that case happens. um
040which would legitimately allow us to actually just call the 27th through 28th real school days as well. >> Yeah. And like the flip side of that is we lose funding >> and that's a three-year rolling thing of losing our school. So So to me like we're it sounds like it's partly because we don't have another day in there. Like uh if we don't count the 31st as an actual day, we have to figure out how to add another day to get to the right number right of school days. we we'd go from 1 and 1/2 extra days at the middle school and high school to 2 and 1/2 extra days um at that level. And Tanya, I'm with you 100%. I don't feel great about this and I don't have a great answer for you.
041Um I think we tried to present >> one way or the other and I want to be open and honest and the 31st could go either way and that's why we put that as the next action item. Um >> so >> yeah. So I' curious what other people have their their thoughts on that. Um, I hear you on the I think you called it an ethical question. I I'm a little less concerned about that. I think that if we communicate it outright. Um, I think it's unfortunate that we're put in a position to have to think about funding. I think it's frankly kind of a joke. Um, I'm I'm I'm good with 31st. That makes a ton of sense to me. And I think if we just communicated out well of what the intent is
042and what our hope is, I I would think it would it would work well. Which if we do that, we can still call it a we can still call it a summer school day. But we can't get funding. >> I think it's wrong if we say you have to be at school this day. >> No, we would not say we're required. We're going to say we're going to say we're running a no bell schedule. We want you all here. Um the high school is running a no bell schedule. We're doing orientation, but yeah, it's definitely it is definitely not a required day. The first required day is September 1st. >> So if it's not a required day, wouldn't we have to report try and stuff like that? If it on the on the 31st it
043as a dad that's calling it summer school, but is that what we're saying to our families? >> If we pass the waiver, then it then it's a legit work day. >> Thanks. >> Yes. >> So, if we say it's summer school, the 31st, then we get funding for it. It's not required. Although we're going to try everything we can to get people here. We're not going to do certain curriculum. We're calling it summer school. >> Or saying that to families, too. >> Or we apply for a waiver and it's the it's the actual first day of school, right? And besides, you know, Pat made the comment about funding. The other thing, too, is the September 1st date is entirely controlled by two state representatives in Madison and the Wisconsin Tourism Board, right? >> There's no
044educational discussion about the 31st whatsoever. >> Yeah. >> And every school district's kind of in this situation and it's 6040 one way or the other. >> A lot of states have a deadline like you can't go before without a waiver. No, anything else >> um on that comment? No, nothing else. I don't know if we are we going on the room about that piece of it first. >> I just want to get some feedback on the 31st as a summer school versus full day and plan for a waiver. Helen, do you want to jump in? >> Uh yeah, I can jump in. Um, so I know why the return I'm assuming the return to learn day is shifted down so the teachers have that bigger break and they get they should have >> um I
045it's for me it's it's I would count it as summer school. So, like I get that you want to we want to get a full week and that's great, but we can count it as summer school and we've talked about this I've talked about this um with other parents too like cuz my kids are high schoolers and they're like I don't want to go ah they don't have to, right? But if you turn it into a service learning day or something, it's still not required but it's still counted as summer school. We still get the funding but it's purposeful for them. And I think that's where the high schoolers get kind of boggled up. Um, and I, you know, so I I would say it's a return to learn day. It's counted as summer school.
046That's how I would feel comfortable with it um being called and we start school with regular bells on the I mean, you can still do the bells on the 31st, you know, what you're doing, but um we start regular school on the first and then we don't have to mess around with the waiver. >> We make Vicki >> summer school is funded at a different level, right? like half. >> Yeah, correct. >> So then waiver is zero. >> So waiver would get zero dollars. Summer school uh it's an FTE calculation. You take the number of hours times the number of kids who show up that day uh times 60% >> for the first year and then 20% for the two years. >> So it goes to our student count and it rolls in for three
047years. So, it's a it is a big impact to not call it summer school, which why I mean I would and I also understand the we're really walking a tight line of of contact hours, too. Um >> Well, but I don't think contact hours we've got, as like Michael said, and as it shows here, we used to walk the line with 1 hour. We've got an extra day and a half and an extra 6.3 days. So, >> but if we don't call it a day, we're down a day. But, >> no. Yeah, we're at one and a half with with us not applying for the waiver. 2 and 1/2 if we apply for the waiver. >> Can I ask a question? >> So that's what I mean. This is Can I ask a question? Cuz
048our PMS and PHS have 1.5 days, right? And we've talked about um equity, but it truly if they're we have one and a half days of like basically snow days, right? Is that what that And we have Okay. So other districts the higher levels it's easier for them to go virtual too. So have we ever thought about Yep. I I know that as um kind of stinks a little bit, but if we have a couple days that we're where high school and middle school have to do virtual because there's there's inclement weather, but we do get this calendar that most of them seem to want. Is that a good tradeoff whereas and we might not never use it, but if we have those two days, um >> yeah, the 1.5 days in this calendar is
049more hours than we've had in previous calendars with 171. And the big difference there where that comes from is from how many Mondays do you have versus how many you know some calendars have two or three extra Mondays. You know when we when we had Monday December 21st and December 22nd on that Monday counts differently than the 22nd. So the calculations all come out. So for each one of these scenarios we run what would the hours be? So the 1.5 is more than what we've had previously in 171. The other thing that we did pilot last year and it worked really well is virtual at distance learning for our secondary and our elementary having a true day off for students but not for staff. Staff did engage in professional development um on a day and
050we piloted that to see how it would go. Could we could we do that? Could we have uh meetings with our staff um you know how many have to take care of children themselves when they're at home and things like that. and it went off really well. So, that's definitely a model we want to look at because at the elementary level, we we know that we're over by more hours than the state requires at the secondary level. So, it's definitely a something to consider. But the other part is we also know multiple days in a row. >> Yeah. >> Once you get past two or three days in a row, it's now it's time for a day off. Everyone just needs that. I just I kind of think been in enough court situations with stuff
051with school where you get interviewed and stuff and I and I think about like how would I explain this if I was being interviewed court-wise and they said so wait the 31st was that a school day? Yes. Well then why did you get summer school funding? Well >> we wouldn't say we wouldn't say yes to that question. It was not a school day. >> So then we shouldn't say that to our family. >> No. No. And we're not and we're not going to say it's required. We're going to encourage them all to be there. We're going to run the regular bell schedule. We're going to go there. But it's going to be defined as a summer school day and the first official day is September 1st or Yep. >> we ask for a waiver and
052we make it we make it a real day. But no, it's not going to be required if a >> volleyball player doesn't come to school cuz they got to work that day and they show up for practice that night. They're going to practice. >> Well, I think so. Obviously, my preference is that we say we call it a summer school day. We encourage people to come as much as we possibly can, but the first is the first official day of school. >> Mhm. And then we we know that we're not going to have a lot of high I mean we just know >> well we're not going to have a lot of high schoolers here whether it's the first day and it's not required even though it's the first day with the labor or if
053we call it summer school. So I guess for me high schoolers showing up or not that's not my concern on that Monday cuz they either will or they won't cuz they don't have to either way. So I look at it more as the for elementary for middle school if that's going to work out better for teachers if that's what they think is going to work. It's just a matter of what we call it. If we want them I don't know just a waiver it's a school day and they they will be there. High schoolers will be there. >> Yeah. If you file a waiver >> because of sports whatever. So, I I think I think it Yeah, we're kind of placed, but I think like it there's no reason why we can't have it as
054a return to learn day, do a service learning or do whatever and try to get as many kids there as we can and that's that's what you do, not call and not go over like that's the hard thing is when you go over syllabuses and you go over all this stuff, that's a school day. And then you get kids that come in the second day that haven't been there the first day and have to go through the same thing. And then you have behaviors and you're like, "Wait a minute." So just let's call a spade a spade and have them return to learn. And that's how I feel anyways. So I just I want to ask a question just so I understand and clarify if we make it a return tolearn day, summer school >>
055summer school day on the 31st. We're not advocating, you would not advocate that we would add another day to the calendar or would do we got to add another school day to the calendar? No, we did not. >> We wouldn't advocate for that because our hours are over. But if the board >> So the one and a half days >> the 171, we did survey staff on that. So if the board is really consistent, we want the 171, but we want to leave the 31st as a return to learn. >> Yeah. >> And then I do have results on what we would potentially look at for that. But if the board says we're at a 1.5 hour 1.5 days, that's more than what we've been in the past. the way the calendar lands out this
056year, maybe we're okay with one or so. >> So, if we did apply for a waiver and got that as a normal school day, we'd be 2.5 days over the requirement and roughly 7.3 or whatever. >> So, that's so we're basically saying here it's calculating it as a as a summer school day, >> right? This is within. >> Okay. All right. And it's really that argument of 170 or 171 days for the students. What I'm saying is between the 27th, 28th, and 31st, we're really over 170. We got the majority of our kids there for those return to learn days. It only officially counts as 170 for the DPI, but our kids are here learning starting on the 27th. >> I also, if we're if we are planning on doing a grade move, that extra
057day on Monday could be beneficial for a a summer school day to get let's just say eighth years can get acclimated, right? That would that be it? >> Fourth and fifth graders learning learns assume we're going to have a lot of orientation. >> Yes. >> Um type things we currently do for ninth graders would be um super low for our eighth grade. >> Yeah. Y and with fourth and fifth movement. Yeah. So I I guess I think we're all in agreement that we're not going to apply for a waiver. Probably we can make the 31st a summer school day and go with that. So, okay, with that said, I think we got that figured out. Is there any other any other uh dialogue here on the rest of the calendar? >> Did you bother on
058the rest? >> No, I'm not going to be be labor. You guys took staff. You guys put out some great options and this what appears to be staff's preference. So, >> anything down here, you guys have any any other dialogue on anything else on the calendar? >> No. If this is what we go through this every year, staff prefers it. So >> Michael, just one last question cuz you mentioned it on the previous slide. I thought it was we have one flex day in August that teachers floating day that teachers can use in those three weeks to kind of get if there's moves, you know, they can kind >> even without moves. So this this is just one work day no matter what happens. Um there's another day in the contract that isn't on the
059calendar right now that now we have flexibility depending on what the board decides that can either get dropped into August as a second workday moving or if we're if that decision is going to be later on then it would be added to the end of the calendar in June for staff only impact the staff um and then that would be a day for them to pack up >> and we don't know do you have a recommend so assume we're not we're going to make the Monday the 31st of school day. What would you do with that extra day then? >> So, we don't know yet until >> Yeah, we we don't have >> and we really don't need to know that at this time >> until we decide that we can communicate that. >> So,
060if we're going to move next year, we're going to add a floating day in August or something like that. If we're going to move the following year, it'll be in June. >> Okay. Okay. Got it. >> So, yeah, it's it's just not there. And that as far as that floating day in August, the principles will work with their staff that basically were just looking for a very simple, you know, short paragraph saying, "Hey, I was in on August 4th for 3 hours and I did this and I was in on August 13th for 5 hours and I did that." >> And that's that's all we're looking for. We're giving the staff that flexibility. >> I think that second floating day is a really good idea for the move in stuff. I think that's really >>
061I think it's great >> forward thinking there. >> There's just no way to put it on the calendar right now. >> Yeah. Yeah. All right. Any other dialogue? Otherwise, we can take a motion here >> or we can choose not to make a motion if we need more information. I guess I'm not I'm comfortable with it what it is, but >> Well, is this motion set up? >> Okay. So, approve the 26 27. Yeah. >> Uh I move to approve the 2627 school year academic calendar as presented. >> As as present there. Yeah. Okay, >> That's that one for >> a second. >> Sorry. >> All right, we have a motion in a second. All in favor? >> I oppose. >> That carries. >> Where am I? Uh >> D >> to consider an exemption
062an exemption for the next calendar. >> And okay. Yeah. D is to consider the start date exemption, which we've talked about. I don't know if you want to tee this up anymore, Jim, but if if we if we I'll just ask >> very very simply, we can get it we can get an exemption because of the private school thing as we've discussed in the past. Uh if there's any discussion, there can be discussion. If nobody makes a motion, then this just drops off. >> So this is if we want the 31st to be an official school day, >> an official school day, you'd have to make a motion. If we ask for a motion and no motion is made, then we move on. Can I ask the advantage to making >> that August 31st a
063school day? Kids are there. >> Yeah, kids are there. Kids will be required to be there. Um, again, it also and you know, we're we're kind of torn by the three the two or three different regulations that kind of work around this. Ethically, I feel good because our kids are getting more than 170 days of school. It's just officially counted as 170 instead of 171, which is what's been in the past. But we got 3 days of return to learn that kids are going to be in the buildings learning. There's kids who are gone today um who missed learning today. It happens, you know. Um let's be honest, Monday and Tuesday of Thanksgiving week, we got hunters who are out of the building and stuff like that. There's always those days that have more attendance
064and less attendance um than other days. So with that said, if we don't have any other dialog, does anybody want to make a motion? If we don't make a motion, then we just we basically move on and all this. We don't come back. There's hearing none, the board will take no action on this item. Thanks, Marty. I know that was you. I need to give it credit. That's okay. All right, we got to move on to item E. Consider directing administration to create a district consolidation plan. All right, this is the other big lift of the day. Um, let me get this up on the screen here. All right, this is a followup from last week's work session. Um, district consolidation plan. We're starting to drop the word plan C um just because we do
065have a consolidation plan that the board asked us to study. Um summary from last meeting, plan C keeps fourth and fifth graders together uh while utilizing our newest facility. We move the fourth and fifth grades to the middle school. So the middle school will be 4 5 6 7 and then eighth grade move to the high school. So the high school will be 8 through 12. The pros of this all buildings operate well within their ideal capacity. Again, when we talk about capacity through this, it is not maximum capacity. It is the capacity that we laid out in trying to have ideal class sizes as defined by our staff. So, we're looking at class sizes of 23, 24, 25 depending on the grade level, not the max, which uh if we hire an outside company
066to do, we put high school classes with a max of 35. So we're actually argue for 25 or 26. So the Malone would be at 80%. The middle school would be at 75 and the high school be at 62 or ideal capacity. It allows us to use the high school. It keeps our fourth and fifth graders together. It allows the eighth graders access to a wider variety of elective courses at the high school. Some of our cons, um shared staff for elective courses is going to be a challenge a little bit, something we have to figure out. And then the social impact of putting eighth graders in the same building as 12th graders. We serve our staff on plan C. Uh one thing uh Mr. Cosmosi uh has kind of been schooling me on is
067some AI things and how different districts are saying, hey, this is when this was modified by AI and then that was modified. So I'm going to try to lead by example. Um, a lot of this was uh filtered through uh AI to give me some of the categories and then I sat down and went through the comments one by one and made adjustments from there. But uh the strength and the positives is it optimizes our building capacity. It's financial efficiency because we save on the operating costs uh of running the intermediate school. It's going to keep our fourth and fifth grade together, which is going to allow our existing collaboration, vertical alignment, and shared support staff to be the same as it was. High school. A lot of staff seeing eth grade high school as
068a bridge or a seamless transition to prepare them for 9th grade academically and socially. So our staff is actually looking at as as an advantage including athletically because it would allow them to facilities like the weight room, high school coaching staff. Um potential for social emotional growth. Um if we take eighth graders out of the middle school, does that provide more grow or leadership opportunities for the sixth and seventh graders? And it eliminates the need to transport eighth graders to the high school for specific eighth grade classes. The one of the cons though right opposite of that is getting them back down to the middle school for practice. Some of our concerns again um stakeholders are worried about the location of various interventions and special education services. We really promised that nobody would teach in
069a closet and nobody would teach in a cart and plan C does work about that. But there are still a concern and until we start digging deep into these maps and these schedules, um, we can answer that question here in December. We hope to be able to answer it late winter, early spring. Um, teacher workspaces, same thing. How are the specials going to be there? Um, there's a lot of rumors out there. We don't want to be on carts. There was time in the history of the district where people were teaching out of closets, but we're not going to make that happen. Um, gym space, we've talked about a lot. uh lunch schedules in FIAD across four grades at the middle school. Um and then the uh $3 million question, the intermediate school gym. What
070are we going to do with that? Um again, a lot of time is really mixed. Some people said, "Let's make this decision as fast as possible." Some said, "Let's take our time and plan." That's coming up a little bit later in this presentation. and what the administration team does. Again, the social emotional impact for putting eighth graders with seniors. Um, special education space, uh, that came up at the work session. Several members are concerned about the future location and room spaces at the high school, especially in special education. And, um, kind of as an add-on to that, where is the PACE lab going to be housed? Um, one of the things we should consider is another one of the questions. Carefully evaluate the developmental and social impact of mixing eighth graders and fourth graders with
071seventh graders. Um, how can we limit their shared time together? Um, again, the detailed planning space is something that they really want us to look at. Um, this one we kind of talked about with the um calendar that we just talked about, teacher morale and logistics. Some of them are tired of moving. Uh there have been requests for paid moving days. Um the calendar that Mr. Cosmosi just uh presented and the uh one that the board approved does allow for one paid moving day where it is part of their contract. Um what they've really let everybody know is they want a direction not necessarily for us to move right away but a plan right away. Um, so we can start the administrators can start meeting with their staff and doing some planning and communication. Then
072the last one was kind of free comments. They want transparency and communication. Maintain clear and frequent communication with staff, students, and families. Prioritize student services. Um, they realize money is a factor, but we want to make sure that our tier three learners, our special education students, those kids who fall through the cracks are prioritized and not hindered by physical limitations and a long-term plan. Um, acknowledge that the operational savings may only be a short-term fix. This move should be a long-term uh, sustainable financial strategy. So now any questions on those quick and before I go into the finance projections? >> I'm just going to ask you guys have any questions about any of the comments there or >> comments? No, >> anything to react to. >> No, they're their concerns and their their comments and
073concerns. And so it's things we need to I think keep in mind and and make sure that we address. And in the board packet, there's there's a summary as well that's a touch more detailed than than my talking points >> as well. >> I think that these are concerns that like we probably all have too and that's why kind of the decision of what the plan is will help us cuz some of these we just can't even get to until we know what plan and then administrators will start to kind of figure that stuff out. >> And these have been consistent since day one we've started talking. So I don't no surprises are up here. Okay. All right, financial projections. Um, the board asked for, and my computer's a little ahead of me, the board
074asked for financial projections. So, uh, Ashley Bo, our new director of business services, and myself met with Baird, um, and we took our BARD model and we went through and changed, um, a lot of a lot of the different things and kind of came up with this is our is what we assumed. Um we can play with this and move this as much as the board wants. Um the one thing that I personally was waiting for was that applied population uh lab study for student count. We used a weighted average. Basically the kindergarten model, the kids who are physically in our building in kindergarten and we know we're coming in 4K and our best projections for three-year-olds. We use that model. We gave it twice the weight. um because the other models in tried to
075analyze the growth of western Wisconsin, the growth of you know the outer edges of the Twin Cities area and stuff like that. Um but the kindergarten model actually counted students in seats. Basically, if you graduate a class of 110 and incoming fresh or incoming kindergarteners or first graders are 70, you just lost 40 seats. Um, previous models that we had earlier on in this year, um, had a flat population the entire time of 172. Um, this one adjusts all those and we'll talk about those in a second. >> I'm sorry. Go ahead. Yep. Second. So, what you're saying is is that adjustment is made in the revenues that we see in the model. >> Yes. If you look um on your paper copy, which is going to be my next slide. >> I don't want
076to jump ahead. >> Yep. If you look across the top though, that's where all the numbers are. Um, one thing the board has talked about a lot is trying to catch up salary. Um, CPI for next year. Uh, right now everybody is predicting that raises will be around 2.81%. Uh, Miss Blow and I added 1% so that we would allow our staff to catch up to other middle border conference schools. So that first year we used 3.81%. And then bear generally years out cuz you have no idea what CPI is going to be years out. Um, we use 2% after that cuz that's what they use for their flat fees. This assumes no cuts um and no use of fund 46. Those will happen um if you when we get to the next one. And
077we're going to work to identify those cuts and deferred maintenance or what we can uh use out of fund 46 in the coming months. So, if you look across the top line, our current student population is 1,172. Next year we go down to 1,148. Then 1,122 all the way across in 203031 we're down to 1,088 students. It assumes the per pupil increase of $325, although that's even now in question. Um, and it includes basically a um 3.8% increase in salaries, a 6.9% increase in benefits. Um and then we put in 2.5 and 1.27 after that. Um and the B model does a fairly good job of assuming what state aids are going to be and what valuation growth goes. If we go with this model um with the 3.81% 81% in the declining enrollment, we'd
078be at a $518,000 deficit next year, a $1 million deficit after that, 1.15 $1.5 million after that. Our fund 10 balance uh drops below the board required 20% after 2728. Again, I want to stress that this assumes no cuts. It assumes a 3% utilities uh across the board um for anything we can't control um and then it holds flat things like paper purchasing and equipment and all the stuff that we can um but obviously we have no control over our electric bills etc. That's a base scenario if we keep running all four schools um and no cuts in budget. If we keep the immediate school in our um portfolio uh but have basically $110,000 reduction, basically that surplus deficit line um every number goes down, our deficit goes down by $110,000. The mill rates, etc.
079are all pretty much the same. Basically, we're just going to be spending less out of our fund 10. I do want to say that right now with the previous referendum and with what we've been doing in the past, our fun 10 balance is pretty healthy. Um, not to beat a dead horse, but I'm going to we're going to keep hoping that the state starts to come through and doesn't give us $0 uh in the 27 to 29 benium. If we sell the intermediate school and we get the whole $200,000 in savings, then we're looking at $318,000 in deficit our first year, $854,000 in our second year, and um 1.3 million after that. Again, that assumes no money spent out of fund 46. And we have a little about $1.2 million in there that we can
080use for a lot of our maintenance projects. And that assumes no cuts. And um there are some places to cut that will not affect students um whether it's well not directly affect the students in the classroom but we can look at some of our technology uh purchases. We can look at deferring some maintenances. We can look at uh different ways to trim out of that budget that we can save some of that money. questions on the finance part. >> Pat, do you have any questions here? I think you answered them. Um, appreciate the projections and and letting us know the assumptions that are being made. They sound they sound conservative, but unfortunately they sound extremely realistic. So, um, no, I don't have any questions right now. >> Tanya. >> Um, yeah, I have a couple
081questions. I think just on this is the first I've seen of the financial thing. So, I'm just trying to kind of read it and wrap my head around it a little bit. Um, >> so it says $110,000 reduction and I for some reason I I was just trying to find where I saw it, but I thought our operation that we if we went with plan C, moved move kids and stuff like that that we would be reducing closer to 200,000. Is it turning out to be more like 110 or >> so? the the two the 110 is if we keep the building in our portfolio and we still own it. It's closer to 200 if we sell it. >> Okay. And it's just operation. We're not talking anything related to staff. We're talking operational cost.
082>> All operation. Um so like the big part the biggest part of the $110,000 right now is we have a $55,000 cleaning contract with with with a company that's coming in and cleaning it. Um we could reduce staff a little bit. um our our utilities cost should go down about 10 to 15% cuz we won't be using as much of the building. Um we'll be closing a kitchen. That gets us to about the 110. If we if we sell it, then we get a little bit more that way. >> I I could be mistaken. I think you said, you know, the 110 versus the 200. I thought that that was the 110. The 110 was no students, but there would be a district footprint, maybe the district office. And the 200 was a mothball. Not
083sold, but a mothball. Well, we have if Well, we can't totally mothball it, but no, the 200 kind of assume that yeah, our cost pretty much go to zero. So, a mothball would probably be closer to 170 or 180. Um, I don't know what the utility cost would be on that. We haven't studied that yet. >> Okay. So, the 200 the 200 on here represents a complet actual sale an actual we don't pay a dime for utilities >> but right in fairness >> the cash in from the sale is not included >> the cash in from the sale is not included in that at all >> because it could be zero >> it could be zero >> could be million we could be selling we could be selling it for a dollar yeah so we
084haven't calculated that in there and we know that the gym space we'll get to the gym space but yeah that's vital as well so um It's not like that 3 million is just going to all of a sudden, you know, pop in regularly. And I don't know if we'll even get 3 million. I think that number may be a little high. >> So 110 is no Prescott students maintaining heat and electricity and Northwest Journeys in the basement. >> Correct. Okay. >> And potent I mean it's kind of for whatever we decide that buildings may be used for, right? like whether it's district offices or something, but essentially it's about $110,000. >> Okay. >> Mhm. >> And then 200 if we sell it or close to 200 if we left all it. >> Yeah. And I
085guess I I'm just in Pat that that was my other question was that money isn't embedded back in here. And so like that might change this third if we do sell it. We just don't know how much. So I understand. Um, I think the bad news here is is like if I'm looking at this that 2027, 2028's not going to be good no matter what, unless we sell it and we really put $3 million in. Um, but the other the other piece of this is is that just moving kids is only solving part of the problem. I mean, we still have to figure out other ways to do cuts unless we're selling the whole building and getting closer to 3 million cuz we're still going to run in deficit in 2027, 2028. >> And to
086be honest with you, to be fair training, um, the majority of districts are going to be running deficits if the state does not fix. >> Absolutely. >> It's so it's not I just want to be clear that it's not just Prescott. It's the majority of school districts in Wisconsin. Currently 82% of them are seeing reduced enrollment. Um and the funding model is based on students continuing to grow like it did they did in 1993 94 but frankly our birth rates are not what they were in 9394. Um so the state funding formula is is causing a lot of concerns in a lot of school districts. So but we can't just hope that the state of Wisconsin is going to wake up in 2027 and fix their funding model. >> No. And I I feel that
087we need to be proactive starting yesterday really with we need to look at cutting money out of the budget somewhere and and even if it's a little bit it's a little bit that we can put somewhere else. So the move the consolidation portion for me at this point makes sense. It gets us, I think, again, to the better capacity for the buildings. I don't like the idea of having, you know, the high school at as low a capacity use as it is. I think we've got the space we need to >> get out of that old building and and get kids into the the newer buildings. >> So, I I do have some comments about that if I could go on. Um, so future consideration, um, the district office staff, um, I think one of
088the reasons I was brought on was to make sure that the district office is serving the needs of our staff. Um, if possible, I think the district office needs to be in a building with staff. Uh, in fact, at the uh, sup cease 111 superintendents meeting last Friday, I just did a straw poll of about 15 of them and um that have their district offices outside of buildings and to a person they wanted them back in a building. Um, it isolates the district office and creates a disconnect between the students, the district office staff and our staff. Um, one thing on my listing tour in uh July and August was again to make sure that our customer service improves at the district office. Um, we can fit it into the high school easily. We can
089fit it into Malone easily because we're looking at 80 and 62% of our space. We have the space there and it directly improves the service to the staff. So, um I'm going to recommend that we put the district office either at Malone or the high school as part of this plan. Gym space. This is a um we need know we need to do further study. We're going to go Matt and I are going to go hour by hour, day by day, and break down how much we're using it. But for a quick discussion, um this is the current use of the intermediate school in the fall PCR volleyball practices. So, I'm not going to read to you. Um, but you can see how much it's used in the fall, winter, and spring. Uh, it's especially
090used in the fall and the winter. Um, spring it's community pickle ball and volleyball, but the yes, definitely early on in the uh in the year when there's uh, you know, snow on the ground and we still got mush um, depending on the winter. Uh, it's definitely used for high school baseball practices and uh, PCR baseball and softball. Summer ed. summer it's pretty empty. Um, everybody's outside enjoying beautiful Wisconsin summers, but uh, community pickle ball does go in there if it's raining and they have to go in there. Um, but we need to study the space further. We need to look at how often are we dividing gyms with a curtain. Um, we know that there are times that there's 12 kids on a on an entire basketball court going end to end and we
091could drop a curtain and put two practices together. Um, but we'll be able to come back in uh after winter break in January, February and give the board a more detailed report on exactly uh what our gym use is um districtwide. Um gathering space, if we go with plan C, the gathering space will need to move out of uh the middle school. There is room at Malone Elementary. There is room at the high school. One thing we haven't explored and haven't discussed with them, but is a possibility, are there other partners within the city that would make more sense? Um, they are sweet, wonderful people. I love stopping by the gathering space and talking to them, but honestly, there are people going in and out of our doors that don't go through controlled entrances. Um,
092we're not worried about any of them, but anytime the door opens, there is a very slight security risk. So, is there someplace else in the city that we could possibly partner with for gathering space? And then also, are you considering if we choose not to sell the intermediate school, that being a potential location? >> That would be a potential location because there wouldn't be students there as well >> besides our but that's a separate entrance. >> Yeah. Yep. >> Northwest Journey currently has 14 students age um 3rd to 8th grade. They'd like to expand to third grade to 12th grade. The rent is currently $1,950 per month. I apologize for the uh miss per square footage calculation. Uh they're telling us that they're not necessarily in the position to increase their rent. Um zero Prescott
093students currently. We had one transition out a few weeks ago. Um we have another one that's pending to go in in January because they allow us to cut the line. Um so when one of our students apply, basically they get to go to the front of the line. Um they're willing to be flexible for us um as far as location and um letting kids in and out. Uh possibly working to incorporate some more academic things. Um it's a nice thing. This is uh from our admin team meeting yesterday. It's a nice thing to serve our students and the communities in the area, but it's not a deal breaker to keep it. >> Does our Does Sandy go to the admin meetings? >> Yes, Sandy was in the room. Sandy Sandy approves the last two lines.
094She and I talked on the phone during my prep period today and she approved the last two lines. >> So what do we do with the intermediate school? We don't want this to be a giant part of this debate, but um again, ideal capacity right now um the Malone is 350, the middle school is 440, and the high school is 750. That gives us a total of,420 seats um students that we can handle. Our number never gets above 1180. Um below is a chart that shows all of our projected enrollments um throughout the 203031. Um our capacities fluctuate between 60 and 80% full and again that's on ideal capacity and not max capacity. So it's hard to argue that there is an that we need to keep students in that building. Um, the gym space
095is definitely a factor, but as far as educationally, classroom instruction, um, it's hard to educate or argue that we need that building. Um, there are multiple options and I really don't want them tonight, but I do want to put them out there because there have been community members asking, there have been people reaching out. So, um, a lot of the plan C movement, a lot of the building consolidation can happen tonight, um, before we make the decision to keep or sell the intermediate school. Um, there are multiple options. Uh, keep the building and try to rent out spaces ourselves or partner with the city. Um, we know Northwest Jury would like to expand, but they can't necessarily pay more rent. Um, we have not done a deep dive into are there other nonprofits that we
096would allow to come into the space. Um, it's not my first choice because then it gets us more in the landlord business and less in the education business. That's a personal comment from me. Um, sell the building outright enough for enough to replace the gym by adding on to the high school. We have one $3 million evaluation. I'm working with two other companies to try to get them to come in and give me an evaluation. No luck yet. Um, I think I'm even a lot closer with one of them. um sell the building to someone who leased the gym space back to the district for 100 years. Um that has been done in other districts where they have sold the building but lease the gym back to the community or to the school um for
097100 years. And um we're always open to other options. Anybody's welcome to send uh options that they see to myself um or make an offer. But um there has been, you know, there is the possibility with the gym where it's located that that can be um separated from the rest of the building. Um whatever we decide to do, we need to communicate with the city of Prescott and the community around us. I know a couple community members reached out to uh myself and the board yesterday and today. Um we're going to keep having meetings as far as staff goes once we get this done um or where we're at. I'm planning on having uh basically a building tour to listen to staff building by building by building in January. Here's the task we came up
098with. Here's the task list that we need to have done to figure out how to move grades four, five, and eight. We need to come up with a fourth and fifth grade schedule. Are they going to be at the elementary level? Are they going to be at the middle school model? How does that impact sixth and seventh? What's the eighth grade schedule going to look like? Where are the room assignments going to be? Where's the district office going to move? We need to analyze our teaching load and see what that's going to change. A lot of that will be specials and elective staffing. We have staff that do a wonderful job going to two buildings. Now they're going to go to, you know, maybe alone and now they're alone middle school. What's that going to
099look like? Ideally, it'd stay very similar, but we can't promise it's going to stay the same. Lunch schedules, how are those going to work? um the fact that a fifth grader has to eat different food than a sixth grader. Uh we got to find a moving company and a date to move and we got to figure out all the gym space. All of these depending on what mode of education are we keeping the fourth and fifth grade at the elementary level and sixth and seventh grade do they stay in middle school model? How does eighth grade fit into the into the high school schedule? And what do the staff need? And then all of this is going to affect our counselors and it's going to affect our principles. Um, obviously if Mr. Cosmoski is no
100longer the intermediate middle school principal and goes back to his down to 100% job as teaching and learning instead of his 125% job, the 130% job he's doing now. Um, what does that look like for our principal team? If we now have four grades in the middle school, are we going to have a de students or an assistant principal there? Are we going to share assistant principles? All of these are questions that we don't have answers to yet. So, we sat down and met for about 4 hours on Tuesday as an administration team and um went through the two options. Option one is transition in the summer of 2026. The decision by the board would need to be made ideally tonight and all decisions from then on would pretty much have to be made by
101administration. We do our best in January and February to get staff input, but it would have to be very rushed um because we're going to have to have plans in place by next February or March. We would definitely keep our programming as is for next year. So, the fourth and fifth grade would just basically move spaces and stay in fourth and fifth grade. Eighth grade would probably become an island to itself in the high school. It does allow us the instant savings of roughly $118,000 in building costs. It allows Mr. Cosmosi to be a little more flexible in overseeing the changes and teaching learning changes. The biggest con is that it offers very little time to consult with staff. The other option is to wait a year and do this transition in the summer of
1022027. decisions can be made as a team in each building. It gives us time. It gives us, you know, roughly a year to really work on these plans with our building. Um because we can work from February 2026 to February 2027 and have meetings. It would keep the programming as is for next year. And we would change both the educational programming and the building assignments in 2728. It delays the savings of $110,000 in building money costs. um we will save that next year because the will be running as is this year. Um it allows the board more time to decide what to do with the intermediate school and the big thing is it allows principles to meet with the new staff. It allows the high school administration to have meetings throughout that year to meet
103with the eighth grade team and the middle school administration to meet with the fourth and fifth graders. So, I wasn't here for this, but I got some really good education with the administration team. Consider this. When you move third grade to Malone, the decision was made over a year. They were allowed time to meet with the Malone administration, the Malone counselors, and the Malone teachers and really plan the move. When the intermediate and middle school switch buildings, they only got a few months to plan. So, how did the staff feel about those? Did they prefer the full year to really plan it out or did they prefer switching buildings fast? There are staff out there who just want to make the move as fast as we can and get it done. But as an administrative
104team, um we're recommending a transition in the summer of 2027. It's going to give us time, a whole year to plan the new schedules and programming changes. Um it's going to allow us to look at the maps. It's going to allow us to work with the community uh for a smooth transition. It's going to allow us to meet with the counselors and plan the schedules. We can make the summer 2026 work. Um but again, if we move this summer, a lot more of the decisions are going to be made um with just within the administration staff. Um you know, I can imagine Mr. for me sitting down over over the next month in his house at 8:00 at night drawing up maps by himself as opposed to being able to sit down with his PLC
105time and bring in four different maps over 3 months and have conversations that way. Just as an example, Mr. Igo, Mr. Cosmos will be doing all the same situations. I like it. Um, >> no. Yeah, I didn't do anything with it. >> Questions. Who wants to start? Anything down here? 50. >> So, we wait the year. What is that? So, that puts us in the That would put us at that 1 million. >> No. >> It would put us more in the summer 2027 for the 2728 school and fiscal year. >> I'm asking fiscally how much that would like. So that would close us to 500. >> Yeah. And that's that's conservative. I think we can cut that number as much as possible, but you know, Ashley and I will start going line by line
106in January and trying to figure out how how much we can cut here and there and how much we can move and what can we push back um going there. So >> before we jump into because I did I had some questions about the bar stuff, too. So keep going, but I don't want to jump in after you're done here. >> Okay. And then no matter so if we keep it if we wait till that extra year, we've been talking about I think it was $750,000 of repairs. Is that right? If I >> So we have a um within 2 years we have $175,000 air handler that we need to do if we keep it operating as a full building. Um my understanding from uh realtors and people who are the understanding that if it's
107turned into some type of um other situation, they may not need a full air handler because if they divide the building into different sections, then each section would get a smaller air handler. And then 5 years out, we're recommended 3 to 5 years out, we're recommended to get a new roof, which is $565,000 in 2025 money. Um, you can only imagine that's probably going to go up 10 or 15% in 2028 money. However, we have seen no leaks or no damage in the roof. So, that's something that we could look at starting to spread out as long as we can. We're replacing the roof in sections. >> And most of the maintenance for our school buildings are based on timelines. Correct. >> Yeah. But there's also other things Mr. Cole Moski and I were talking
108about other things too we can do with the intermediate school um where we could possibly cut back some of our maintenance costs and recoup some of that $110,000 next year. Not all of it by any means, but I think with some creative staffing. Um it'll stretch our custodians a little bit, but with our creative staffing, we could probably cut some of the custodial costs in that building by I'm completely guessing. So, I want that on the record that I'm guessing maybe $30,000, $40,000 a year. It would mean some classrooms are only cleaned every other day. Uh the library is used uh is taught in a couple hours a day with students. So, if we can move if we can move that uh to maybe the library is clean twice a week instead of every week
109or every day as it is now. Um so, we could cut back on some of that. Um, so and frankly we do some of that when we're short on custodians. Um, cuz as you know we always need subcustodians and sub bus drivers. So there are days where we have two or three custodians sick and staff steps up and dumps their own garbage and takes care of their needs cuz we have a wonderful staff. >> Yeah. I So you got the bar model up. You didn't get a chance. I so one one difference from what we looked at previously in other years is that the enrollment projections are not flat. >> Correct. >> And I just wanted to point out so like we have roughly going into 26 27 it's a 24 student drop. >> Correct.
110That's based on this year's kindergarten and this year's senior class. >> But we do do we know I mean we're going to have next year's kindergarten that we don't know. Is that >> Well, we we have an estimate from the 4K. Yeah. That's where that comes from. >> Yeah. So, we count our kindergarten cuz they're physically in our building. >> Yep. Yep. Okay. >> And we're estimating 4K coming to kindergarten. >> So, that number give or take >> two or three. Yeah. >> Probably probably pretty accurate. And then the following year is like - 26, I think. >> Yep. >> And then we kind of start flatting. It's - 7 - 17 - 10. So, I mean, it's it's a steady enrollment decline. I think that's that's good to have in the model especially now
111that we've you know done the population study and we know we have more information on where the population and the growth is is definitely declining. I think after you past 5 years it's probably not as reliable but usually those studies are good for the first you know 5 years or so it's pretty pretty accurate unless someone comes in to completely blow that out of the water right. Um, can you go to the ideal capacity sizes of the of the uh >> The buildings. I just want to see that again. >> Can I show something really quick though? If you remember back in October, we passed a balance budget of zero with a $0 surplus deficit. It's currently for this year at minus $53,000. That is straight because we had five students uh move out of
112the district. So our our numbers are driven by our population. I just want to make that point quick. So this is our ideal numbers. >> So we know we're going to be fine in three buildings as long as the the enrollment keeps keeps decreasing. And it doesn't seem like there's going to be I I just wanted to understand this again cuz we're looking at the the three buildings capacity 350 440 and 750 >> 50. And I was just like I went through this. So yeah, if you base if you base class sizes, so for example, in Malone, kindergarten through 2 grade, we have an average class size of 21. 3, 4, and 5, we'd have an average class size of 23. And then um for 6 through 12, we'd have class sizes with an average
113of 25. If you do the numbers by the number of physical rooms, and we didn't pay a company a lot of money to do this study. We literally just had our principal sit down and count the number of rooms and multiply them by 25. Obviously choir, band, some of the other classes are bigger, firewood's a little bit bigger, but with an average of 25 um in our core classes, you get those numbers based on the number of rooms in the school. It's not counting offices. It's not counting intervention spaces. It's just counting main classrooms. >> And the reason I just want to bring this up is I'm a what if guy. Like what what if that survey was what what if we had a huge, you know, uh development go up and brought in a
114lot of kids? What would happen? I'm just I'm just hypothesizing here, thinking out loud. Even if we did have an enrollment >> increase, we have we have a lot of room. >> We have 200 students. >> So, I mean, it's it's a no-brainer that we're going down to three buildings. It's an absolute no-brainer to go down to three buildings. Whether we do it next year or the year after, I just I wanted to point that out because we've had that conversation come up a lot. Like, have you thought about what what if we do go down to three buildings and now we need the space? I think it's pretty obvious that if we shift eighth grade up to the high school, it balances us out to the point where we can absorb a lot more
115enrollment if that were to happen at some point. >> It looks like we have the ability to absorb 300 to 350 kids. we'd need that many more kids for us to say, "Wow, we >> just I want to I want to kind of close the book on that because I think I think >> the whole building, >> it doesn't make any sense, you know, to to even consider keeping four four buildings in our portfolio at this point without >> construction minus the gym." Yes. >> I mean, the gym is a deal breaker. We can't we can't we have to have another gym at some, you know, if we get rid of the building. So I those are the things I I want to just call up the enrollment projection on be um the the one
116thing that isn't factored in and I know this is difficult to to put in the model but you lose students sections are going to be reduced at some point you know to keep the classes. So yeah so this does not include um any any reduction in staffing. Um the problem with the with the state funding model is they will say well you lost 45 kids you should lose two teachers. Well 45 kids spread over 12 grades is only four kids per grade. So it's not like you can cut an a third grade teacher because you lost four kids in third grade. Um so there is definitely some changes and our hope is that we would take the time over the next year and a half to really figure out where that is. And I'm not
117going to sit up here and lie to anybody and say there may not be staff reduction charges changes. I don't think there'll be any staff reduction changes based on the move into the building. But if we go from, you know, last year 1,216 kids down to, you know, 1100 kids in 4 years. Yeah. We're going to have we're going to have staff reduction cuz we've lost 125 kids. >> And that that's not factored in here. And that's not final. I think I just want to point that out because it does look very jarring when we see the amount of money that we're going to the surplus the deficit. Um >> we're definitely going to have to keep an eye on that as we go here. I just want to point that out. That has nothing
118else to do with the conversation of getting to three buildings and what our options are. I just wanted to point that out. So that those are my questions for now on on the on the data and if you if anybody else has any questions on data but otherwise we can >> I had a question too on the bar model um remind me what is the percentage of our fund balance we need to keep it at >> 20% by by uh >> current board policy the board can change that to anything but 20% is pretty much considered um pretty much considered a statewide standard and what's recommended um anywhere between 20 and 25% is >> that baseline on this end just cuz you're at the 200 >> just I would just add though too that that
11920% we've looked at that in the very recent past >> and to go and anything below that I think we all >> said we won't do it >> we won't do it >> and and the biggest problem with going below 20% is we are money in waves so January we get a we are very high because we get all the state property taxes in, but then um there's some really lean months between aid payments from the state um and stuff like that. And you don't want to start doing short-term borrowing. We have a million dollar short-term loan just as a safety thing. We haven't touched it in anybody's memory that I could find who worked in the district having ever used it. But you don't want to start having short-term borrowing with super high interest
120rates. And if you get your fund balance below 20%, that is a real possibility. >> And I I just wanted to point out with this slide up here that I brought up that 2027 2028 is really the year that we're going to see some problems. And I just wanted to point out that it does say our fund balance is at 22%. So if you just like quick blush it, but really that deficit of 1 million has to come out of that fund balance in order for us to make up for it. So really we're below the 20% that 2728 school year. >> I'm I'm going to correct you with actually what you do is you take you take it you take the 5.3 from 2627 as a fund balance subtract the 1 1 million54,000 and
121you get that number. It's 28 it's 28 to 29 that we >> That's great. >> So can I piggyback on this then? Because if we're truly going by board policy here on when to when to do the move, whether it's the following fall here or the fall after, it doesn't. From a board policy perspective, we're still over 20% fund balance at the end of the 2027 28 school year. Either it would matter. So if we want to slow down and and and do you know give more time we can we can >> well I think more time but I think waiting till that next bianium I think that I think we can wait till 26 27 or the sorry after next year to move it. That's right. Yeah, that definitely changes my opinion knowing that
122>> and and that and that was factored >> Mike that was factored into our >> discussion of in transition of 20 summer of 2027. We take a we take a you know I think we chop a little bit off that $110,000 just by you know frankly a little bit less maintenance on the intermediate school because we know we're not going to have to we're not trying to keep it at an educational level for the next 10 years. Um but yeah, so we'll probably, you know, we're probably sacrificing ballparking 70 to $80,000 to wait a year, but we do have the reserves to make that happen. And it allows us to do slowly and have lots of conversations with our staff and um you know, make sure that that that it's a measured change. That being
123said, if if the board decides tonight to have us move next summer, we can do it. The administration team will will, you know, buckle down and get it done. But we're just not going to have that time to meet with staff and really get them on board. It'll be a little bit more of a a jerking of the rug than it will be a gradual transition. Well, it just seems like there's got to be a lot of uh a lot of thought put into scheduling, a lot of thought put into arrangement um of buildings, of classrooms, all of that sort of stuff. And and there yeah, there needs to be a little more methodical treatment to this, I think. So, >> I agree. I I'm thinking every I'm guessing there unless anybody has any other
124thoughts on on when to do a move. I mean, we haven't even >> First, we got to do the plan. >> Yeah, we haven't done the plan vote yet, but if we're going to talk about move >> that's that's that's actually what we're asking. We're asking you to approve this plan and at the same time pick either the summer of 2026 or the summer of 2027 because what we've heard loud and clear from our staff is they just want to know. >> Gotcha. Um so I'm okay with the summer of 2027 too especially. Thank you for the clarification of those numbers because that does but if if we didn't have another year it was why are we kicking it down the road? But um I just want to make sure that within this time frame
125we start not only planning for what those moves look like, which I know our admin team's going to do an amazing job with that and working with their teams and stuff, but also um have the community listening sessions, the community surveys about the building cuz I think at that 27 move date, we also have to have a decision before that of what we're going to do with that building. Well, yeah. I think once this decision is made, then that's when yeah, start opening it up and start figuring out how to how to get input and just getting all the information out to everyone. But in this in this time frame for next school year and the remainder of this school year, I do think that you know Jimmy had said that you think there is
126some savings to custodial that we can do. And I kind of feel like that's just something we should have everyone looking at is is some money savings somewhere to just to help with this process because we know exactly what the budget's going to look like. and and there's like the 53,000 we didn't expect to have five students gone. We have five students gone. So there's always unforeseen things that pop up. So I think if we can start everybody in the the how can we start saving, cutting back, what do we need to do? Um >> yeah, >> just I I think just start being proactive. We we can't cut on our state legislature. We know where they're at, what they've been giving the school districts, and it's not much. And and we are not the
127only ones in this position. So, I think we've got some great minds here in Prescott and in the district. We just need to start getting creative. Yeah. And I I I don't want to be like too negative on this, but like we also have to probably start doing some cutting of stuff because we don't know if we're going to sell the building or not. So we can't if we decide not to sell the building in 27 28 right before we can't just decide we're going to cut that much out of our out of our fund and even if we do decide to sell we don't know how much we're going to get. So we have to put ourselves in a position that we're now for next year starting to think about what we can do
128to slim down our budget because we can't take a huge hit. >> I mean we'd have we'd be back in the same boat as we were doing a referendum a year ago and we don't want to be there. So, no, I think I just um you know, we've we've read all the feedback. We've talked to a lot of people. We've listened to a lot of people. I know that um consolidation is tough. Um and I just want to hit a little bit on the eighth grade to middle to high school. I know that that model sounds really really off to some people and I get that. Um, but Wisconsin has a lot of models, right? There's 12 our K12 schools. There's um everywhere from what we have now. And so I I do trust our
129staff and I do trust our admin more than anything. And I think that that model, if that's the model we choose, I think they're going to do amazing things with it. But know that this board understands that um there's intrepidation with that. We understand that. That's a tough cuz it's different, right? It's a tough thing to look at and swallow and um just know that we're always looking at every angle and we have your back and we we we trust that you whatever model we decide um we know that you'll do the best you can with it cuz you always do and you're awesome. But yeah, >> are we ready? Anything else, Pat? >> Uh maybe just I know I know we're getting close, right? But the last time we went to referend time flies,
130right? And we're already looking at the end of the second bianium at 2829, which per the modeling we dip below slightly our fund balance, but we do get really close. Um my my opinion is that we got to give this next year and a half to do the planning, but I also just Captain Obvious like call to action because like time's out. Um, right. And so unless something significant happens at the state level, we have to and and we all know it takes a year to to any change to take effect, right? Um whether that be a referendum, whether that be whatever it's going to take a year. So yeah, I mean, I think I think the right answer is to get us through next year with the current model. Take that time to plan,
131but we got to go after that and >> there's just no more time to borrow right now. All right, I think we're ready. Somebody wants to make a motion here. >> Can I ask that we put this school in the motion? >> Okay. I move to accept directing. I'm sorry that seems odd, but I move to accept directing administration to create a plan to transition fourth and fifth grade to Prescat Middle School and the 8th grade to Prescott High School for the 27 2027 28 school year. >> I'll second. All right, we have a motion to second. All in favor? >> I opposed. That carries. It's a big decision, you guys. Good job. I think we're making the right move here though. >> So now to totally go the other way, I'm going to ask
132you to spend console bringing this in January. Um we have a lot >> just to so we're done with business. I just want everybody to know that we're moving into information discussion. We're done making motion tonight. So info discussion for here. >> My apologies. No worries. Um so we're going to bring this to you probably in January. So this is just kind of a heads up. Um, we are the only school district in the middle border conference and the only school district I can find within um, a 40 mile radius that does not pay long-term sub is basically what's called a bachelor's plus zero. So, if you take our initial teacher salary and divide it by 190 days, you get $236 a day. Um, this would be for long-term subs. We have a lot of
133uh paternity and maternity leave coming up this spring and um to attract teachers a long-term sub. So if somebody goes out on maternity leave for 10 weeks, we're asking the substitute to commit to come to 10 weeks every day uh do all the grading um operate the lesson plans and take care of all that. So, um we would be we are looking to increase the daily pay for those subs that s sign a long-term substitute uh contract to $236 per day. Um I can't tell you when uh all these maternity and paternity leave are going to start, but it would cost us right around $15,000 for the rest of the year. Um, but it's really going to get high quality typically retired teachers. I'm taking commit to covering for our staff on maternity and paternity
134leave for about 10 weeks. So, that'll probably be coming in January if you want to give me any feedback now or through email. >> Did the state change when a retired teacher can become a long-term sub? No, it's still the 75 days, but the part of that contract is you can't sign a contract that's more than 180 days. And we luck out that most of these contracts are under 180 days for um and it can't beund it's 180. You can't work for 180 calendar days is what it comes out to be for one company. So, this does not fall under the early retirement thing. So, if we could find a teacher in Plum City who retires in December, we can hire them January 1st as long as we only keep them for 10. Yeah, basically
135under 3 months is what it ends up being. >> Okay. >> Anybody else have any questions or concerns about this one? >> Um, yeah. It says that um to match other districts in the NBC. Is that do all districts pay at that rate or you're saying that's the average? >> They they pay the 263 comes from basically taking your the lowest pay scale in your salary day divided by the number of days and that gets you per day rate. >> And that's how most everybody else >> that's how the vast majority of districts in the CIS 11 area do it. >> Okay. And have we been having a hard time just finding long-term subs? long-term subs are harder to get them to commit. Um I don't know if Mr. Figgy wants to comment, but I
136know he's got a couple coming down coming down the pike in his building. >> Yeah. >> Four of them. So, four of them at the high school. >> Yeah. >> So, um >> for them for you. >> And then do we have anybody currently in a long term a long-term sub here currently? Uh >> we have one right now and we definitely have a conversation with that person and make sure we take care of them. Yeah. >> Okay. lot of lot of spring babies here at Prescott. >> So hopefully they stay in the district and that'll increase enrollment. >> Um the Chamber of Commerce um has an educator of the year nomination. We are going to use the same nominations as last year. Um we are going to what? >> Same process. not sorry not
137the same person the same process to get our nominee um the administration team is going to come to that we then typically submit multiple names to the chamber and they pick the final candidate uh that's not selected by the school district and then the chamber annual dinner and educator of the year announcement will be on February 11th 2026 they moved that off of the third Wednesday so it didn't conflict with one of our board meetings is that correct >> that is the first time I think So, they moved that. So, >> you're put it on my calendar. I Yeah, I uh I pointed that out. I I asked the chamber with some of these events in order to get the school district to participate and be involved since we are members of the chamber that
138>> hopefully, especially for this one, we can get it off that uh date and they did. So, yay. That's good. >> Nice work, Vicki. >> I'm not going to take all the credit. I just made the suggestion. So, it's good. All right, that's it, Jim. That's all I got. Short info discussion. We're going to move on. Uh, recognition of visitors. Same rules apply. Anybody want to be recognized at this time? Cuz you're thinking about it, but it's not going to do it, are you? Don't wait. Okay. All right. We're going to move on. The board will consider a motion to convene in close session under exemption 18851D. Um consider specific applications of probation, extend supervision or pro or consider strategy for crime detection or prevention school safety submission. So, we will take a motion and
139a second with a a motion with a time and a second and then we'll just do a all in favor and then we'll roll call in when we get into close session. Um, are we going to be taking any motions come out? So, we'll come out of close session >> and if we have any motions, we'll take action. But I doesn't sound like >> we shouldn't have any motions for actions. >> Okay. So, we need a motion. >> I move to convene in close session under exemptions 1985 1D in room A17 at Prescott High School at 8:00 p.m. 8. >> What? She's pitching >> go 7:59. >> What are you going to do for 15 minutes? >> Well, we waste it every time. Every time. >> What we like to say? >> Dang. I'll second.
140>> All in favor? I >> I >> oppose. >> All right, we will go into close session at 8:00 p.m. >> Not a very close session, we're back into open session and adjourn from open. is so fant.