Prescott School District February Board Meeting

001welcome this is the school district of Prescott Board of Education regular meeting I will call the meeting order subject section 1983 Wisconsin statutes our first item is to adopt the agenda and we do have some changes yeah the administration would like to recommend in information and discussion both of these uh adjustments were duly noted so it's not changing uh that it wasn't noted by the community but for flow we would like to take info and discussion items B and E and put them into Item B um it'll make sense with regards to um kind of the process of funding and things and then the other one is to take information discussion letter C and F into one presentation for Michael kosmowski otherwise there are no other adjustments from the uh Administration all right if everybody

002gets that we can take a motion I move to uh adopt the agenda as presented with the two changes to uh the Ino discussion sections a second all right we have a motion in a second all in favor hi hi opposed at carries and we're going to go Pledge of Allegiance Helen would you care to lead us pledge ofion to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all and we have next up is the recognition of visitors or public comment rules are always as follows please approach the podium one at a time stating your name municipality and topic you'd like to address a lot of time is three minutes per individual or six minutes if you are representing

003a group that is present at the meeting all comments should be directed to the board and not to other staff our particip our other participants board will not act on any comments that are made during the meeting and the presiding officer may direct the district administrator to follow up with that individual at a later date and finally the public comment section will be limited to 30 minutes unless board action is taken to extend so at this time is there anybody that would like to be recognized at this time all right we'll move on thank you item five good news yes um our student representative is not here but Mr iGo is going to represent the administrative team coach Smith Oh coach Smith is taking in all right with Sarah and then we have a special

004guest all right kicking it off uh couple things on the activity side our dance team double state champions for both Jazz and palm that was in Lacrosse a few weekends ago so awesome job to everyone there involved coaches dancers everyone in between uh very welld deserved the the work that they put in there um our PHS Acappella group St Croy sound they had the honor they were invited to attend the ichsa the International Championship of high school Acappella probably the most prestigious competition um that we know of talking with Miss cth about it and that was in Oak Creek last weekend and they went down and did an outstanding job um representing us there was teams from Chicago Milwaukee um all over the Midwest that we were competing against um then lastly we had three

005girl wrestlers Advanced to sectionals that'll be this Friday at oakair North so congratulations and best of luck to Addie elop Charlotte Kellogg and Savannah Whiting as they go to try to advance to State this Friday thank you very much principal D and I am here to introduce Sarah paros and Cindy flaming from Aton Apple um they every year around this time um always um come to the school board meeting they're good stewards of our school district and they always do a presentation usually at this school board meeting so I'm going to introduce them at this time hi I'm Sarah with afap Orchard I'm here with my mom Cindy and my daughter McKenzie thanks for inviting us to the school board meeting tonight the teachers and staff in the Prescott School District are truly remarkable for

006example last year we supported Prescott intermediate its one book one school program by providing a copy of the book A Week in the woods for each student and funding immersive activities as a mystery reader I saw firsthand how the entire School encompassed The Experience students read in groups teachers read aloud and even administrative staff joined in Beyond reading students engaged in Hands-On projects listened to guest speakers and adventured on a memorable field trip to kinck State Park where they played games created nature art and roasted sores many for the first time supporting this program was incredibly rewarding and with funding to last through next year we're excited to see what's next in our line of work we wouldn't be where we are today with thinking without thinking outside the box and stepping beyond our comfort

007zone it's how we've transformed a combine into a playground developed a fantastic tour program and extended our Seasons to harvest produce throughout the summer and fall the world needs more creative thinkers and we must recognize that not all success achievement or progress can be measured in tangible ways we're proud to support initiatives that offer alternative approaches to learning and encourage outof the-box thinking it's like the popcorn analogy popcorn is made in the same pot with the same heat with the same oil but the colonels don't pop all at once came across a great quote that says comparison is the thief of Joy we've witnessed firsthand how the positive impact of flexible seating has been particularly with our younger students last year we helped provide whiteboards and supplies for the Intermediate School to help transform their

008classrooms into building thinking classrooms Studies have shown that movable vertical whiteboards can promote a more conducive environment for group collaboration with longer and deeper thinking the teachers have put their new equipment to Great use and shared very positive feedback and how these tools have enhanced their teaching the elementary school has been resourceful in creating classrooms with the items they have available but classrooms haven't been completely outfitted with whiteboards we were told by many staff that transforming their classrooms is one of their top priorities recognizing the value of supporting local we we strive to conduct as much of our business within the community as possible we have our meals for our crew catered locally purchase most of our farm equipment from nearby dealers and work with local graphic design shops for our materials we've partnered with

009the Prescott School District to provide fresh apples for the Nutrition department additionally we've donated fresh produce and funds to the Hastings food shelf and the Prescott food pantry this winter we've contributed funds to support students at St Joe's and continue to sponsor various local nonprofits and initiatives whenever we can as I mentioned before investing in future Generations is much like farming some Investments show immediate results While others require time and nurturing before you see the payoff as Benjamin Franklin said an investment in knowledge pays the best interest we're thrilled again to Once offer to Once offer two scholarships to graduating seniors this spring the middle school is planning a courage Retreat coming up in March for the 7eventh and eth graders we are sponsoring the program and have already submitted the payment of $3,745 so

010they could secure that date this year we would also like to support the elementary school with funding to finish Furnishing their classrooms into building thinking classrooms with a donation of $3,500 we would also like the top off the angel fund with another $5,000 our donation in total to the School this year is $2,245 tonight we'd also so tonight we'd like to donate the remainder of this year's donation in the amount of $88,500 and through the past eight years of fundraising efforts for the Prescott schools alone we have been able to donate over $75,000 to support the students of Prescott awesome we encourage you to take The Road Less Traveled and embrace the journey ahead be kind enjoy the little things and get involved in the community never forget that even the smallest gestures can leave

011a lasting impact as my Angelou said I've learned that people will forget what you said people will forget what you did but people will never forget how you made them feel thank you Prescott for your continued support over the years we're so grateful to be the far more memories are made awesome thank you thank you for all you do but also for your engagement with our parent group as well so you uh definitely have tentacles in many areas so thank you sir thank Youk and for superintendent quick update I just wanted to uh thank our uh parents for their patience and also for uh allowing our uh the kids back and having them bundled up it was really good to see the buildings with students back in I know it can be difficult uh with

012distance learning and uh hopefully the mother nature releases the gra as on our thermometers and we can see warmer days ahead so um thank you very much all right thank you Rick we're going to move on to school business first item is the consent agenda and we have a lot of stuff in the consent agenda I'm going to try not to screw it up uh first one is we we have the January 15 2025 regular board meeting minutes Finance reports person all report for non-licensed staff 8ighth grade trip to Washington DC for 2026 and Mike I just wanted to kind of just interject uh the reason that this one's in consent is it's a overnight trip but it's one that we've repeated and so um the board has asked us to put those into consent

013y thank you the next one is consider YMCA renewal of school age care and I know there are some changes to the contract um are some wordage word changes down uh on item number four in the contract there uh hopefully folks got to see that the next one is bridging brighter Smiles mou and that's a dental program yeah exctly and that's an annual program that we've been very beneficial and recently Prescott Foundation assisted with some funding so appreciate that collaboration as well and then we have so I wanted to make sure before you read them all off um I'll put up the we're about to adopt many technical changes from Neola um and so rather than have to list through all of them um they were duly noted I'll put up the spreadsheet and then

014obviously as you go through there's technical changes and then there's tier one where the board has the opportunity to make or pull any of them out for discussion and so I wanted to make sure that uh that occurred but also be able to share um all of the policies uh that you are reviewing I think there are 51 yes 51 in consent tonight so the item that we're that's in consent technically is accept Neola School Board technical updates and changes for the following board policies version 34.1 per District administrator responsibility and we have uh documents that we review policies 1 through 19 follow directly into technical changes for consent and then TW policies 20 through 51 are straightforward without substantial changes Mike I do I do have a couple of policies that i' recommend we

015pull out y so that's my first question is there anything that the board would like to pull out it sounds like maybe we do yeah yes so go ahead Pat you start yeah I had um um I had policy 11:30 3230 and 4230 all of them related to each other okay so line 34 1130 ethics and conflict of interest and line 42 uh 32 30 ethics and conflict of interest so and then one more 44 oh I see what you're saying on sheet I'm looking on the agenda so on the agenda it was line 20 it was number 27 I'm sorry I'm going to back up which ones was it on the so it'll be 11 policy number 1130 ethics and conflict of interest that's number 21 on on our agenda yep okay number 27

016on our agenda yeah ethics and conflict of interest that's policy 3230 and then 29 on the agenda which is policy 4230 conflict of interest yes okay that's three of them p t did you have any I would just pull out the fund balance one just so we can touch base on that we 6235 policy 6235 number 35 and you're good Tanya yep Helen do you have any Vicki do you have any no okay all right so we we will pull out those four policies that we stated if there's nothing else I will will adopt the consent agenda as presented with those changes any objections to those all right we're going to adopt we'll consider that adopted so now Rick let's talk about those should we We I think we should adopt what we can first

017yep we adopted the consent so that's done do you have to you usually motion second on that no no I just I just I just adopt the consent and if there's no objections it's adopted okay so we're done with item we're we're done with the consent agenda item a um do you want to just do consider personal reports first and then our no stick with the guns here and and go with this we we let's roll through these policies quick okay give me a second I'll put them up so that you can see them we always go right after consent yeah it's very second you3 635 can't see and is it okay do do we want to try to vote these one at a time or do you want to should we go through them

018all first what's easier maybe one at a time so at a time confusing okay although friendly I think um the three ethics ones are almost all identical yeah but so I think you could take those as a package all right so what I have put up is 11:30 it's a copy of the ethics conflict of interest um understand just again just to orient anybody that's watching um anything in green our new uh words or language that have been submitted by Neola for review um my understanding is B um just as a comparison is new language um each of the board members uh took 10 and kind of reviewed them and uh clarified and asked questions and then we're kind of review those now as a group so Pat yeah um and and you're right all

019three of them are are very related and my biggest comment was around B right here so the new language of administrative employee shall not directly supervise a relative employed by the district or employed in a position uh contracted for by the district and my questions um pertain mostly I would I recommend uh this be in the policy however um specifically maybe coaching and some of what I would consider consider some of our extracurricular I think that this would potentially be problematic um I think within the district and Mr Smith would probably know better than me but often times there's there's you know a father son mother daughter relationships there's there's uh there's there's there's Brothers sister so there's there's relatives M and so I think this would be a tough one um we should consider

020revising some language yeah and just to be clear so um the way that the are set up they have a very specific kind of like um do a decimal system for Library so 1130 uh specifically uh pertains to administrators and then the other ones will be licensed staff and then the other ones will be support staff so in this case it's specific that administrators um shall not um professional employees or officers shall not directly supervise a relative y um by the district or employeed in that position um and it completely if you can word Smith it or if it's to the degree possible you know that we avoid it um that would be kind of the um suggestions or you in small districts in small towns this is really hard right so the one question

021is from an administrative level um if an administrator a principal has a spouse should they be directly reporting to that administrator and maybe I should clarify in reviewing of these three really I think my only my only hesitation is with 4230 which would be you know non-administrator and non-licensed staff I think mhm um so 11:30 and 32:30 are probably okay um but wanted you guys to be able to chime in on that I'll bring up 4230 so this one um support staff right so administrative the other one will be um licensed staff and then support staff so this one is specific about support staff and it also does talk about supervise a relative um that's employed by the district you can see that in the Arts you can see it in PCR you can see

022it in um Sports and so one of the questions would be do you want to try to adjust the language on this or strike it and my only so before we even start here too is is we do I know in the district we have so I don't know what coaches we'll just use coaches we'll stick with coaches there's probably some other examples but um I'm we have coaches that are also licensed staff so is that a problem or as a coach now are they I don't know would they fall under a support staff um um or not so maybe another layer do coaches have direct reports though assistant coaches but do they actually report to the coach I mean good question I would assume so I they should so so I'd ask assistant coaches

023report directly to head coaches yeah that be their directly okay and they do get evaluated at the end of the season okay right okay it look different different so really maybe I you know maybe we need to Define which which policy coaches fall under I don't know if we have right now in the district um coaches might be our only example of a conflict here I I'm trying to separate if maybe there's like a licensed staff versus a non-licensed staff cuz I'm thinking like teacher aids or something um there's what about lunch service if you lunch service there's family what if we separated it licensed staff does that or is that still too um not cover enough maybe so is what you're saying we should take 1130 and 3230 okay they were which are administrators

024and licensed staff and um the intent would be to avoid them supervising other licensed staff that that they're related to Y and then 4230 which is support staff employees we could potentially just strike this language yeah I think it's going to be hard I mean we there's a lot of family that works within that's what I'd be worried about is we'd be possibly losing our preventing uh potential hires because of this policy change the alternative is that maybe they direct report to somebody other than like the principal or something that's what I'm wondering if we can phrase it if if possible report to someone else or like human resources or whoever might be the other appropriate yeah but that would be that might get tricky because that's unique for a lot of people then Rick

025is it so up here so kind of trying to um gather this is policy 3230 um if you want to try to do it here or we could come back in March 12th I think we should come back and kind of understand what we're what we're talking about here and so would it be fair what we're looking at is no change for 11:30 and 3230 would be uh admin would not um directly um supervise another licensed staff member uh licensed staff member wouldn't um supervis another family member that's licensed and then for the um support staff support staff will just take out take it out I do so for 3230 though um cuz we talking about that that's a license it says professional employees though so I think to me that's different than licensed staff

026so we should either Define that differently or mhm okay okay all right so I'll I'll make sure that we'll come back to those three um on March 12th or our next uh meeting okay okay all right and then we had one more right the fun balance the F balance one yeah I'm trying to pull it up but if you pull it up there which one number 35 it' be correct all right T did you want to kick this off um yeah I I just wanted to pull which one is this 4235 is that right 6235 Y and pull it up in front of me too cuz I can read it better that way um okay so there is there is just a couple I there this one has hardly any changes to it it was

027one of those minor changes so I just really wanted to pull it Forward more so we could just make sure we're aware fund balance we made a lot of decisions this last really year and a half around our fund balance and it's something that we're going to be continuing to monitor um I believe that this is something that has not changed from previous years but the fund balance is expected to be um or at least our policy is that it's 20% of the prior years's um expenditures and so that's something that would continue with this one um so that was one thing and then I actually did have a question down below there's a whole bunch of different I think it's a through e there's different kinds of fund balances we have um and we

028like identify which one ours kind of fits under do you know which one ours kind of because I kind of thought the unassigned fund balance but then it also says right in there that the board discourages the maintenance of unassigned fund balances yeah so we do have assigned fund balances um we rarely use uh restricted but um unassigned just means it's the overall Surplus that goes in assigned typically happens at at the end of the year when um kind of around covid where we were um not spending money for curriculum we were then taking any money that was in that budget and then earmarking it to that um during some of the construction there were assigned funds assigned funds usually have a time limit um but they're they're basically um done so that there's um

029things that kind of are ongoing across years where they might get paid in July versus June okay so that those things can occur um so it's just the different cards and they have different UH responsibilities where the board action um restricted funds you know are what you have for your bond holders um so that is are dollars that are uh in typically fund 38 39 and then in this case where we had an operating Levy in 2022 that falls into Fun 49 okay and so again it just goes back to that there's certain buckets and we even though money to off our bonds we can't use it to pay for something else okay and then I would assume we have some unassigned funds because like when we our deficit spending for example at the past

030I I do know that we kind of nothing gets spent without agreeing to it whenever there's anything from the board and that's part of policy too that we agree to those things yes um but there is dollars in there that if we get into a pickle with something that they're not pre-assigned to something else yeah other than our bonds that are restricted a majority of your money is in unassigned okay well in having a majority of it in unassigned which is kind of what I thought the line right below it says the board discourages the maintenance of unassigned fund balance and I just wonder if we need to take that out well it's in it's basically in concert it's a seesaw or a balancing with the 20% okay you know so you're trying to what

031you don't want to do is have it too big where it becomes a surplus that's not meeting the needs you're collecting the money to deliver on the programs but up above we know that there are going to be times where historically we've had to take um a short-term loan and we've made it now for uh through another year and uh I don't see it in your future so that's great um and so those are the things that you just have to kind of balance okay I agree with you I don't like that verbiage but it makes sense what what Rick just explained so I maybe just we leave it and I was just attaching it to like the e it says unassigned balance and it describes that but then right below it says we discourage

032from the unassigned balance so it just seems counterintuitive it does so but I'm fine I'm fine keeping it there and I can uh if you want to wait till our next board meeting I can reach out to Neola and I really appreciate cuz obviously when um the admin team we're looking through 61 of these um you don't get always to this detail I'd be happy to look at if there's any modifications that they might recommend and bring them bring all these four back on it I mean I don't I don't think it's going to change the intent of it so I'm okay with not doing that but the clarity was nice it was good discussion okay discussion on here anybody want to should we we can make a motion on this one for 6235 fund

033balance I move to approve policy 6235 fund balance I'll second all right that's a motion in a second all in favor I oppose that carries all right and now last those other three policies will come back in March so thank you all right we're going to move on item C consider personal reports for licensed staff and if I read this right there isn't any there are no resignations there are no retirements and there are no new hires we have a consistent HR uh Staffing if anybody wants to sub though this will be a public service announcement that people let are snowbirds uh leave us a little bit uh lean but there are no Personnel reports for tonight fantastic so no motions are needed all right item D consider first reading of the updated or new

034Neola Schoolboard policies version 34.1 and the first one is a policy 5330 administration of medication emergency care I just got a okay got to have that one up of course it's the one I didn't have I apologize so this one is reviewed by Amy Krauss who is our registered nurse understand just a reminder a registered nurse also operates under the um guidance of a physician and then we also have Mel uh shat who is over at U Malone Elementary um what is new about this policy as soon as I get it up to your screen is that we are acknowledging that asthma for the most part is something that is pervasive and can be quite debilitating um we have had um uh options where we do have um Naran within our system for drug overdose

035we do have other things for students um for immediate uh urgent or crisis and so what they are looking at is being able to um include um the ability to have um Bronco dilators for the school district so that um in case there was an emergency and the the inhaler wasn't at school we would have one that's designated at each site um understand it cannot be administered without apparent prior medical authorization and approval um and it has to be done in consultation with the medical director at the beginning of every year you know we have those emergency cards and medication cards um our RN is trained so really what we're asking is that it is a significant uh event that could occur and we'd like to be able to have that on site um should

036that emergency occur any questions here no Vicki I did notice that one spot was changed um at the beginning of the policy to read school district there are a few other places where it says board that we need to edit to school district I just want to make sure that all those get caught sure and get changed there's another one yeah there's they're in a couple spots so just make sure that those are all edited on this policy in particular yeah yeah so there's search and replace yeah search rep so at the beginning where it said the board shall not be responsible for the diagnosis but really it's kind the board shall permit the board yeah okay okay uh Tanya any questions on this one um not really I mean the bottom part is kind

037of the main changes right otherwise it's been in place I would say I noticed that uh students in possession of medication and it includes like sporting events and stuff and maybe it's just something we let our coaches know about and stuff cuz I I mean I think kids bring ibuprofen I see it all the time or the pain medicine creams and stuff like that and it says that they can't have that and so I I I feel like they should be able to have that but I also understand that you got to monitor it too so maybe it's just letting the trainer know or the coaches know a little bit about this as a reminder I don't want any students to get caught up in something like this over ibuprofen okay is that a is

038that a policy change on this document then or are we just I don't it's not a change I guess it just never was something that caught my attention it's it's okay but maybe now that I have a high school athlete I pay a little bit more attention it and if I for at the school level um as long as families basically ibuprofen and things like that are able to be accessed um it's just that it has to be pre-approved by a parent and they can go to the any of the our nurse AIDS and things like that I would assume Matt with regards to Athletics it could not that students aren't doing that it's just I'm wondering if the trainer you know could be the one that's in possession of it it just says students

039are prohibited from possessing using carrying or Distributing in school at school sponsored events on school grounds so it sounds like they shouldn't have it in their bags at all or anything right and so I just think it's either either if we're going to keep it in there which is fine I think it's just sharing it with coaches and maybe an alternative is the trainer or the coaches I don't know maybe there's a design I don't know how that works but I mean the kids use some of this stuff and as a first reading can can maybe that section of it be looked at and sure analyzed I think we'd be hard pressed to be honest to say any of our sports teams don't do this yeah already kidle the headache right okay any other areas

040for us to review that was my again this is this is different this is our first reading it'll be coming back automatically y okay anything else Pat me okay uh um let's do the other one and then we'll and then we'll go to the other one go to do a motion it looks like so 7540 Rick right yeah uh yes and this one is related to uh our district provides each student with an email account um obviously you know with our 6121 to1 with Chromebooks it's required and necessary for their um access to Google classroom um somewhere between 3rd and fifth grade depending on the teacher and the programming that also can occur the primary change here is that um students are prohibited from using any District issued email or password for district issued email

041accounts for personal accounts in the third party services for example setting using that for Facebook um X Instagram Pinterest YouTube Etc and then it does put in um an aster if you will without authorization of the principle and the reason that that's in there is as you know both with our digital music and learning um we do use YouTube some of our students create it we have YouTube channels understand that those are within our firewall they are protected they don't have the ads that kind of thing but I did want to uh make you aware that this is an ad or um both for for cyber security but also for uh protection of students who are under 13 pad any questions on this one no questions Tanya I do have a question um I was

042going to skip you it's just because I also some of the policies I read had to do with um cyber security and training and all that kind of stuff and I just want to U make sure if it's not already that this is included within that training I would say say and it might be but making sure kids know cuz when they get their first email address they often don't have another and just making sure that they're really aware that this is only a school you cannot use this for anything else cuz things start to ask and they don't know what to do so it might already be in that training but that's just a pull out well um and to that effect I did want to make sure that you knew we have met

043with our technology department um and our admin team understand that all of our families signed when they receive the Chromebooks uh acceptable use so there's kind of a onetoone exchange same for the students we are looking at um at Middle School it's will be part of the student handbook and that student handbook will already has some language it'll add yeah and then there is a new um basically it's for child protection of online um uh authorization forms that have to be signed if we're using certain programs and so we are going to build that in and so the administrative team is modifying um uh a document that will be part of our fall kind of return to school where parents will sign off on that okay and just maybe explain it yeah perfect does the

044statement somewhere along the line where you're listing x Facebook Instagram do we need to say that this is not an inclusive list this is there's others I think etcetra says that that I mean because people will see you know that might be something where kids see it or parents see it and go well they're not doing those three yeah like including but not limited to it says Etc in there so wonder if that comes I mean just something as simple as that if that works no I think that's helpful yep and then I have a question do students when they do fundraising for um their programs their trips their Sports trips their whatever things are going on and it is because we do get electronic mhm requests now from students for things is that an

045acceptable do they need to have a student email to say sign up for those fundraising things and are they using a student email to sign up for those fundraising a lot of times it's their cell phone numbers okay okay I had just gotten one so I didn't know how it was connected to what so okay good question Helen no I have no questions all right they look good um so we'll we're going to take a motion here for these two policies and there was changes to both of them yep I have uh yep I have them written down and we'll make those edits and we'll make sure it's part of your board packets for the regular board meeting in March had replaced the word board with school district I think was one and then revisit

046the the language around IB ibuprofen medication medication okay and then for this one just some small suggestions on the including but not limited to for services third party Services right exactly okay so those three all right anybody want to take a crack at this uh I move to accept the first reading of the above noted policies version 34.1 including um uh edits as summarized by Mike just now um these policies will receive a second reading at the next regularly scheduled board meeting I'll second all right we got a motion in a second all in favor I I opposed that car thank you item e consider school pictures request for proposals for three-year contract we're going to have Rick Montreal come up he's uh apprised you with the other slid so now we have the resolution

047couldn't wait to get up here yeah good evening board um yeah this all started a couple months ago I came to you with sort of a backstory about how we got to this current situation about going to picture RFP again and part of that started 3 years ago as we were doing doing the same process um that led to the last 3 years of service and and I kind of documented again the why and the how we got here um and then last month uh the update was basically we had four proposals um and then the team that had representation from each building there was a team of five of us uh we've gotten together then in the process and did the evaluating so now tonight I come to you with our our selection um

048from the four proposals I just wanted to point out we did um Rank and rate each of those rfps that came in um using criteria like quality and performance and that entire list you can see up there um we kicked it around a couple meetings and um after the consideration of what we were looking for and what would be the best fit for us we decided to go with kill photography um some of the I I would say the main variables that drove our decision were there things that fit what we were looking for well uh basically customer service uh Services Beyond just the school photos uh their timeline performance and references and and I think one of the key things that we found out was that last thing they are servicing six middle border

049schools right now and when I reached out to them um I got a really good sense that they kind of had it figured out with schools our size our demographic so that to me and our our team made the most sense so are there any questions about that at this time Vicki No anything Helen no question Tanya I have no questions no questions sounds like you did a lot of homework here so yes it looks great Rick thanks okay thank you rck all right we can take a motion on this one I move to approve the administration recommendation for kahill photography a second for wait oh sorry wiser blank for a three-year contract starting with 2526 school year through 2728 yeah to serve as PSD school pictures vendor a second you were just excited well

050there was a long pause there was a long pause long all right we do have a motion in a second all in favor I I opposed that carries and we'll move to item F cons consider the human growth and development advisory committee and I'm going to have Michael Kowski come up just um you know that we've had uh some updates on this uh what is unique about the human growth and development advisory is that in statute um we have to have a a broad swath of the community and Michael's going to walk you through the Slate of people that uh requested to be part of it and walk you through the process evening board um like I presented last time as Dr spuza said um there's different statutes around human growth and development and if

051a district decides to um do human growth and development education then there are certain things that we have to teach as well um whenever there's a curriculum adoption or an basically overhaul of that curriculum then we have to form an advisory committee that will then look at the curriculum that the teachers have created and then advise the school district on that curriculum part of that work of this committee then will be looking at what are the things we are required to teach in statute and then developmentally and at what grade levels are we teaching them and then advising on if they would suggest an adjustment um as you can see in the statute um we're supposed to have a group that consists of parents Staff healthc Care Professionals clergy and District or other residents of

052the district also in statute it um it does say that no one group except for parents can be more than 1/5 or 20% of the overall group go ahead Rick um so one of the things is just how big of a group do we want is um part of that depends on the goal and task um fewer than five people you typically are underrepresented more than 15 somewhat difficult to operate and make decisions um however this group is more of um sharing viewpoints and opinions um and recommendations to the board so the be the group you have for that the more knowledge you're going to have in in the room the more Advocates you're going to have um the more input you're going to have because they're obviously going to talk to other people in

053the community as well um so the next slide uh talks about the demographics of the people that applied again we U posted this both on our Facebook page and there was an email to our 4K through 12 families in early January um and then by the end of January we had 19 applicants um from our community that appli to be on that you can see that the names are on the bottom and then our three staff really are the the three Health teachers that help develop the curriculum will be delivering the curriculum as you can see on the different percentages there um it's difficult somewhat to separate people out because they've identified that I'm a parent but I'm also a healthc care professional so you can see that that percentages um is over the 20%

054because eight of the parents of of our students are also healthc Care Professionals I don't know that we need to go through though and um assign oh you're representing the healthc care field and you're representing a parent that's difficult to do right um and then just true members of the of the residency or of our district without students we have one one person that fits into that category but all but one are also live in our district there is one that's open enrolled family that want to be part of the process as well so even though percentage wise again depending on how you want to like we know in data you can find all different ways to slice and dice it the recommendation we have is that given that this is an advisory given that

055they're they're going to give you a broader sense and a broader um feeling of our community and what our Community Values um the recommendation is that you would adopt all of them as this into this advisory and that will then trigger our next step which will be reaching out to them trying to set up meetings sort of timelines commitments um so people know what what they're getting themselves into and then again being able to go forward with that we know that with this large of a group 21 people you're never going to find a day in time that works for everyone but then the other part is do we still do we still allow them to have that input and I think we we would right do we want their input sure they're not at

056that initial meeting we can always do follow-ups or you know just give provide them with the information to allow them to to do that as well so that is the recommendation is again this first step in the process is that you need to adopt uh or have a committee recommendations is that you adopt everyone that applied for the committee Tanya any questions here well Michael um your recommendation was 5 to 15 people and I understand your reasoning for going a little beyond that it's like an handful more people and stuff and um so I'm fine with it as long as you are I know that some of the worry is just productivity and all that but I I do think my um experience with this kind of project is that some people will fall off

057and not participate in the long run or it just doesn't end up working out on their schedule so yeah yeah so it sounds fine to me yeah the other part is we do we do teach at four different grade levels you know so we depending on how they want to organize are they going to look at all four grade levels worth of curriculum or are there some that are more interested at the middle school level versus the high school level and they'll kind of divide themselves yeah yeah yeah that was a looks great is there some sort of a term length of the committee you are they very vague in statute of does this committee how often do they there's nothing in there of how often does this committee need to meet it's just when

058there is curriculum development and right now we are piloting a new um curricular resource so that's why this is coming up now otherwise in my 20 years here I've we have never had an advisory Comm that has done this this work uh and given the board feedback on our curriculum sure so little bit of this is going to be kind of feeling out yep I have no other questions thanks yeah Vicki and since there isn't the you know a strict schedule how many times you meet that sort of thing so then there probably isn't like we need everybody to attend every meeting we don't you don't know as far as what you're no in other districts when reached out they've said we've just never followed that state statute we've never done that so I said

059yeah we have done that um we won't name those districts we won't name um again there's no police the police is local control right so so what's our local control here do we want to be meeting multiple times a year I know when I first started in teaching and learning I tried to get an advisory committee put together and the only person from the community that was interested was Marshall linth who formerly had done curriculum development in the district um so how often will this group need to meet or feel like meet you know this could be something that's ongoing once a year meeting but really if nothing's being revised I don't see the the the need for that as well so I think part of that will be sort of this committee as well

060is how often do they feel like we need to come back and revisit it or is it just when there's a major overhaul new curriculum new resources that we're using Okay Helen I don't really have any questions good for following policy and the group looks you know well diverse so that's good so yeah thanks Michael looks good thanks Michael all right anybody want to make a motion here yeah I move to approve our human growth and development committee as a slate presented by Michael kolski of teaching and learning I'll second we have a motion in a second all in favor I I opposed that carries all right Adam G accept the lumber donation for Presa High School Tech aded yeah teched Department continues to do amazing things um and also partnering with the community members

061anytime the district receives contributions of an excess of $5,000 it doesn't have to just be recognized at the board level and is and I apologize I didn't check on the pronunciation but is it Harley hotk all right um has donated um Lumber and also trees for our community ed that you know we're doing the planes and the kils and that has uh hit a level of $1,225 awesome is great pat anything on this no no questions no no questions at all I think it's I I have just really had fun kind of following the progression of this program so it's fun to see the community getting involved too it's it's great there's some more great things coming Vicky I don't have anything this is spectacular hel kind of piggyback it's amazing so yeah I know

062it was recommended to us but it's one of the best decisions we've made to approve the the supplies that they need to build the stuff or to cut it up and the wood chipper or the wood uh cutter and all that so awesome take a motion here I move to accept the lumber donation for the presc at high school Tech program of 8ou $1 18,22 I'll second that is a motion a second all in favor I I opposed that carries and we're on item H except yep so afteron Els uh during um good news after apple afteron apple I that to I just recognize it's a apple Sarah I'm just hoping I can get a ski pass from you um so just wanted to thank them again for their ongoing contributions to our district and

063it hits in so many different levels um truly appreciated I wanted just verify with Michael cuz there were it was an additional my understanding tonight of $88,500 okay and that's what we're kind of accepting but there have been previous that I think reach over was it 75,000 last okay so tonight we're kind of acknowledging the 8500 uh that was earlier uh presented all right any questions or comments down here Helen no Vicki No Tanya well I feel like we I'm going to comment here just because it's super super amazing we're very thankful um this is the orchard my family's always gone to and as a teacher this is where we went for field trips and um it's just really fun to see them participate and give back in our community and I think one of

064the things that I think is I I just think really unique and I really appreciate about it is they seem to really do their research and what the community and the building is looking for needing rather than just this is what we want to put it towards it seems like it's a really collaborative approach to and thoughtful um approach to where this money goes and um these are it's not a small small amount of money and it's and it goes really far and it has a big impact so it's been it's cool it's really fun to see and I'm I'm definitely makes me proud to be part of this community when these things happen you know yes Pat no no well said I have no other comments agreed thanks Tanya for mentioning that and we'll

065take a motion here I move to accept the afon Apple donation in the amount of $88,500 to fund 21 gifts and grants I'll second right we have a motion a second all in favor I I opposed that carries we're on to item I consider the PSD speech team overnight trip for the state speech event Matt Smith our activities director yeah so uh State High School speech trip it's in Madison and it is an overnight that's why we're here it is an annual one so we've gone to it for every year that we' had um students qualify for it um currently 25 members we'll see if they all qualify or not we're hoping they all do um kind of the reason we're here is Tanya span Hol a great job of leading this program for year

066she crossed all the te's D at all the eyes we have co-advisors this year an crestley and Allison Langer have taken it over they're doing a wonderful job but just making sure everything's on the up and up uh that'd be fund 10 then for for our expenses and then any offset expenses above and beyond would be fun 21 which they're fundraising for right now so they'd love the opportunity to go down there and continue strong program and and show what we got at State all right any questions on here Pat you know when when when we send other teams to state right um you know the district picks up a portion of those costs and those routinely come out of 10 as well right yes I just I couldn't remember how we did that so

067no that's uh no questions good uh good luck to them right I'll pass on though message T do we send them off on like a bus and the parade and all that kind of stuff too um they can do yeah the March champions from the other schools yeah yeah that's it's awesome I'm proud of them I know you brought up Tanya spel and I think she carried this program for a long time and was probably like an unsung hero of this program and stuff so it's it's great to see that um it's still going strong and and there's new advisers in there that are really taking the lead so it's awesome Vicky so when does a qualif happen and when would you know they've had um subdistricts and then they'll have um between Hudson and

068Aluna and man Nomine I'm trying to remember which one I top my head is actually the qualifier I believe it is middle of March around there so we'll have probably two to three two to three weeks before we'll know for sure so um not putting the the cart in front of the horse but we have reserved rooms already just in case we're not good idea I have state res so we're uh not to jinx anything but we are making sure we're prepared okay so yeah so I just since you didn't have the number and you're already starting the fundraising and all of that sort of thing early I was just curious as to what was going on since you don't know exactly how many you're sending starting early is good so fantastic Helen yeah no

069questions I think this is a great program I'm still throwing it's not called for6 anymore that they change that you and I both yeah exactly but I think these this group of students are aming so I think you'll be great see and I I grew up with North Dakota we called it speech no it's forensic call it forensics well and actually that they they changed the name forensic they have moved back to speech like when I yeah I always knew so no CSI yeah thanks Matt side topic take a motion here I moved to accept the overnight state speech trip for April 11th and 12th I'll second Motion in a second all in favor I I opposed car that carries and we're on to the last item which is consider moving the March board meeting

070did we miss something nope I apologize yep it was kind of hidden in there yes so um because of spring break uh there's been a recommendation to move the board meeting to March 12th one week earlier at 6:00 p.m. at Prescott high school media center any questions on this one my my only question is as as previously discussed I will I will not be in attendance at that at that board meeting all right and the rationale is it's spring break week we looked at the week after but we're doing superintendent stuff that day so this is one of our best options superintendent search stuff we'll get into hearing info and discussion probably so um yeah we'll take a motion I move to approve moving the March board meeting to March 12th at 600 p.m. in

071the Prescott High School library a second all right we have a motion in a second all in favor I I opposed that carries thank you we're moving on info and discussion first item is a superintendent search process update and I suppose you're looking at well that that goes to you but I'll start with uh the website is been um uh continuing to uh keep people informed uh there is a survey that is open and continues through Friday 21st Saturday Saturday Okay so it'll go through Saturday and again uh that's available on the website with a QR code um and that'll be giving information and then there are some focus groups that are occurring starting tomorrow and Friday but I think the other questions uh some individuals may have I think for the board is just

072kind of what are some of the dates beyond the focus groups that that are happening kind of in March oh beyond the focus groups I was okay so let's just back up a second here so the survey is available on the website so anybody can anybody can fill out the survey and and really what that is it's it's just a it's a it's a one pretty much a one-page survey that is gathering information on on uh what what qualities we we are as a district and what we're looking for in a superintendent so anybody can anybody can fill that out and there's comments that you can uh and it's really all in um in in faith to to gather information to build a a a profile uh of what the next superintendent what the qualities

073we're looking for in the next superintendent so that's that's what the survey is for um and I'm kind of weighing it here because I was looking at this earlier but the the focus and then the focus groups you can you can you show the focus group schedule Rick I can so the focus groups are designed to do the same thing except uh to have basically dialogue around around this and uh we're hitting many different segments uh district office staff all employees there's uh Civic groups staff in all the buildings parent community members have an opportunity to admin the admin team has a focus group uh high school students and then basically there's there's at least one opportunity maybe two I think at least one opportunity for a virtual meeting for for anyone that wants to

074join as a in a zoom call and that's uh down at the bottom there on February 26th oh 26 sorry so I I I would encourage any member of the community to if you if you're not falling into one of these other focus groups to to join that uh Zoom meeting and and provide feedback there it's it's an opportunity for everyone in the district uh to to provide input on what qualities what what what the district does well what the district needs to work on and and super and qualities that we want in our next character characteristics and qualities that we want in our next superintendent um anything to add on on that piece you guys um Andrew do you have any indication of how many surveys are getting completed at this time um I

075spoke with Stacy Richie who can does the um surveys and all provides can the portal and she said that um the response has been really great um she hadn't heard from students so I think could send it to um um and she said those started coming in immediately um we'll do another push here till the end of the week to get as possible and that those focus groups to discussion might help them aot I think and um for for people that cuz we're miked up here and it's recorded So Andrea had just responded that um that the talking to our agency um the survey they're coming in the community is responding the students are starting to respond now too which is great and there'll be a final push this week and Andrea um and I

076don't know I know that we have some events within the community like home basketball games and stuff like that can we put QR codes just like out there when cuz I think there's a game like there's parent senior night awesome we can take that okay yeah that'll be perfect then thank you all right and then I think I just want to call out a couple other dates that are important applications for the superintendent uh application process is that were those are closing on February 28th and then you know we begin the the the round the first round of interviews and I believe we settled on the first round of interviews is that week and I I'm just trying to find the date you guys I probably have it on my calendar here or something or

077something it was March 8th it's a Saturday we're going to be C we're going to be doing all the first round interviews on a Saturday March 8th uh the school board will do that and once that process is done uh that it gets narrowed down to three finalists uh there'll be a process around that that our uh hya will help us and facilitate us to narrow that down um for the for the three finalists or two or three finalists we're going to end up hopefully having two to three to maybe even four I I guess I I I the recommendation was three but I think it's really up to the board to decide so once the finalists are decided and and notified there'll be two important days and the first one is a day in

078the district uh that each finalist the finalist will be in on the on the premises and they'll go from building to building and meet different groups of of staff and employees and and just different groups and uh students uh and and get a chance to to meet and uh meet meet the different groups and I remind me does anybody remember is I think that's just basically meet and greet right I don't I don't believe they're they're getting grilled with questions at that point are they no I I thought they had kind of sit down and in conversations and then we would get I'm pretty sure we' get live feedback as to what is that is that yeah I think the purpose they're they're going to be touring meeting with different so that was the day

079that's in that day that that superintendent day in the district is on March 26th which is a Wednesday so all the feed yeah you're right now I remember because all the feedback gets collected and disseminated to us and then Thursday March 27th is the actual final round of superintendent interviews that that the board will be conducting uh so that that all happens and we hope to have a finalist um at least in at a board level selected that week after the final interviews and and then we move forward to with the rest of the process to try to bring you know the background checks and all the all the all the other stuff that goes behind the scenes to to the negotiations for contracts all that happens and then I think that's we'll be shooting

080for sometime in April to have that hire approved uh in in April sometime early April so that's that's kind of where the process is at it's going it's been going really well uh hya is they're really energetic they're really positive I think they do an excellent job they're very thorough um the the technology I really I it's it's a lot different than it was 10 years ago but I I just I I'm anybody else have anything to add here I I don't know if I'm all over the board here but I just want to any I'll open it up no I I I'm I'm excited there's one of the reasons why we went with this agency was because of how many Outreach opportunities and different ways they're trying to get feedback from the community um

081and I I think that's really important for all of us in the search is that we have some of that feedback and so um I think so far they've they've done everything we've asked them to do they've been great and as a community member if you have opinions about The District how it's run who should be running it where you want us to head um you know which many community members do as they should um I would encourage you to to go fill out the survey the city of Prescott also has a survey so you could also do that survey while you're at it and um um give us some feedback all right anything else Pat do you have any comments or no the only comment is uh hway has got their dashboard up you

082know so we've got a we've got a live look into the applicants and and and all of that and I was on there today and they seem to be doing a great job it's today and excited to uh keep moving yeah Vicky um no I I don't know how you guys it's a lot of information and having done it 10 years ago I don't know how you did it when you had everything on paper and and we're we're handed stuff this ability to to comb through the information online for us is is really nice to be have access at our fingertips for all of this so um yeah I like what hya has done so far and and yeah I'm excited I'm nice to hear that we do have community members hopping on the survey

083and and diving into that that's great um got one more rest of the week to get her done so looking forward to that yeah I think it's all been said but I I like the fact that hoi um all the stakeholders can have um their say um from the community to the students admin um and so on so um yeah it's a it's a my first process my first time doing this process so it's an eye opener um it's yeah Mike's the only one who's been through this yeah but it's uh it's going well so that's good uh maybe just one note in case there's any potential uh applicants out there so just to back up that all this information that that the board has access to is confidential names are confidential they're not released

084and that that's on purpose uh the the only time this superintendent candidates names will be released are in that final round that's when that's when the the finalists get released that their names get released otherwise you know you run into issues with some people may might not want to apply if they know that you know their name's going to be out there so I just I want to I want to point that out the the first round of interviews that's all closed session for lack of a better word it's it's close to the public but um that's that's by Design the final round when the when the when the finalist names can be revealed that's open to the public and the names are released at that point so uh again yeah really excited about the

085process so far uh hya has has been has been great for us and uh we look forward to giving another update here next month uh we can move on Rick we'll go to Item B which we're going to roll item e and B together correct so we had promised to kind of give people an update on a standing item about State funding 101 um and we didn't want to have to do it only when the community or only when a board was asking for money through an operating Levy um this time of year is extremely important for our community and for our school board and we are asking for a call to action understand that the governor uh released his proposal and budget last night uh um that recording is available he presented that at

0867:00 that is the last piece before um kind of the action occurs the assembly and house are already passing bills you had a primary yesterday for the state superintendent and it's down to two candidates and that'll be finalized in the vote of April 1st obviously then you have um the governor and these are all proposals and they have to negotiate that I think for our community um it is important to try to make sure that they understand um things that we talked about and here's a slide that shows the distribution of each student and how much money they bring for enrollment by membership and one of the things that we all know is that Prescott public schools for this current fiscal year we are receiving $1,399 if you look on this chart you can see

087that we are in the bottom we didn't even make the chart we're in the bottom of fourth we're in the below the fourth percentile in the state of the 420 districts but this is an amazing span you can see that it goes from 11, you know 500 all the way to over 16,000 per pupil so part of the um formula is based on first how much money a child that crosses the threshold brings with him or her and that it's different by district and so there's a lot of work that's going on trying to make that more Equitable and so that there isn't the biggest Gap so they're trying to shrink that range and I think it would be really helpful for people to be able to just be aware and to think about that

088secondly is that as we kind of move through um understanding the demographics of Wisconsin birth rates in wiscons son and for Prescott Public Schools we are looking at funding across time so go here first funding across time based on enrollment as you can see in 2011 2012 we were just over 1,300 students and if you think about if you were to draw a trend line up to 2016 and you had a demographic study that was done um by the University of Wisconsin Madison and we also were over uh en uh over capacity in many of our facilities and also had Portables that was the time when you were able to pass and a community supported this building a new facility that has given us great opportunities for new programming from Community uh teched from uh

089fax from our theater program Sports uh and the like it allows us to collaborate so there is are many benefits for that it was the first re uh reoccurring where we had a operating Levy uh for um put in place we started a plateau through 2021 and that was our Peak enrollment and then you can see that our enrollment is and has been declining such that it is below where with and when we opened the high school this is more to say that this is a both and we understand that we are funded by pupil and we are at the lowest end and funding for public schools for the last 16 years has been below inflation so it's we are very happy and proud that the community supported uh another referendum to be able to

090provide operating but but it doesn't and can't um accelerate us past 16 years of trailing inflation nor can it uh Leap Frog when you're at the fourth percentile this is said primarily for advocacy at the state level but also for us to better understand that we are funding survival not necessarily a windfall right and so I wanted to make sure that people kind of understood uh this slide where the red is is the state average with regards to revenue per member and then blue is Prescott and so you can see in 2016 was that operating Levy it was a renewal so previously it was every four years we had to go to the community and that four years to the left of that uh vertical line showed that we were kind of staying consistent with

091the state average in Revenue we were able to then we would have fallen below if we didn't renew it and it continued you can see from 2021 forward is that we started to lose ground to the state that's why we're at the fourth percentile that's when we came back in to have an additive operating Levy that's stacked on top of the previous one right so why are we talking about this it's because this is the year where legislation will provide the funding for public education over the next 2 years for 25 26 26 and 27 and that's important for us to be and ask our community to stay vigilant know that there are many programs that were funded act 20 early literacy at $50 million that money has been held hostage by The Joint finance

092committee it is never going to be released and see a classroom in the state of Wisconsin and to me that's a travesty I think we need when the legislature approves Appropriations they have to stand up and back those promises it's hurting and harming students it's hurting and harming our staff secondly is that with declining enrollment we can't then we know that our revenue streams will go down even with the bump up with the operating Levy I want to be clear we have looked at the forecast model and my goal is to work with Cara to have for you before um the late spring a proposed draft budget for next year at this point we are looking that the revenue based on enrollment will be identical to this year you will have the same amount of

093Revenue coming in as you had for this year and so as costs go up these are some things that I would encourage our community to uh better understand that 100% of school districts in Wisconsin do not get enough enough funding to fund special education programs that are mandated currently we take 1.8 million out of fund bucket 10 and put that into special education we need to provide those programs they're the appropriate things to do we're just asking the state government to stand up and increase it from 30% to 60% as recommended um secondly it was mentioned last night is that um they want to make it uh um basically fund sufficient meaning when they tell you they're giving you money for special education it will be sufficient to cover whatever percentage they choose whether that's

09430 35 40 right now it's fund certain and so what happens is as there are more special education costs it drains that bucket faster um the other piece is that private and some charter schools are getting funded more than public schools currently we're back down to 30% on funding for special education and we believe that that is one specific area that should go up one of the headwinds I just wanted to make sure that the board was aware and we've talked about this now for two years and it's a um somewhat of a uh concern would be that fund 50 is our food service uh we had projected a loss um we are trending with better Revenue than projected but our expenses have been cut but we're still going to lose $75,000 that will wipe

095out its fund balance by law they cannot be negative and therefore we will be cross subsidizing next year I would say that most of that is due to not prices it has to do with decline enrollment we have four facilities for kitchens it is I know the board and one thing I won't be able to deliver for you before my retirement is Vision 2035 but I think you have a great opportunity with the participation of our community Through The Sur uh survey the focus groups some of the curriculum that I would really encourage the board to continue with the partnership and engagement of its Community to talk about how we can look at um making adjustments on our end to tighten the Buckle so that we can be more efficient um and I think that

096fourth kitchen fourth Staffing it's uh it is going to put a drag on uh the syst system but I know that you already have that on your radar and are looking at that so um one of the things I just wanted to ask is if you had any specific questions about um other things our community could advocate for or ways that you as a board could be engaged Pat any comments here on anything no no comments um Rick I appreciate you know the reminders and and obviously um upcoming elections very important um I I think um excited uh for um you know the new superintendent search I think those who are going to participate in some of the uh the surveys or some of the um the community engagement uh events you know that developing

097the uh Vision 2035 along with the board is going to be really really important work um like we said before the uh the referendum was passed um you know we knew that this was still going to be continuously uh fragile we got some work ahead of us uh but it does provide us the opportunity um you know to uh to make informed decisions um to make uh you know timely decisions and do what's in the best interest of the district but that'll be really important work of of our next superintendent in the board yeah Tanya uh Rick I really appreciate the Simplicity of these slides that you share because every you never ceased to have new ways to share this information with us and this was just really nice and simple in a graph that's

098just really easy for us to see here um I share in the frustration and concern you have when it comes to school funding specifically in Wisconsin um and one of our concerns we've been talking about for about a year now and Michael's shared with us too is our reading program and we've always been a little worried that the state's not going to deliver on their promise to help fund that or to fund it and it sounds like and I I read the the information to that it's not going to be funded at this point and so um just continuous reminders to community members to families that are advocating for children and advocating for schools um and I I believe advocating for communities is that um we continue to get State mandated requirements of our staff

099and of what we do as a as a school but yet they're not funded and so even though we did pass a new operating Levy it's re it's re um occurring it these are the things that it it doesn't consistantly account for we we now are paying for this we we're not getting the money that we were promised um we're really just back to kind of writing equal almost still under the state but um with being at that 3.8% in the overall State funding um I don't know with overall State funding um we're going to keep dipping down below and these are the things that we just keep pulling out of that that limited funding that's going to dip us down faster and faster so um it this this uh reoccurring referendum isn't something that's

100going to fix the the problem for us and so keep advocating keep talking I heard special ed up to 60% I really hope that passes um am I correct Rick that some of the choice schools are being funded or private schools up to is it 90 100% 100% so some thank you Sandy some of those schools are the the private schools using federal dollars that don't even have all the same requirements as US state funds yep um are are up to 100% funded we're at 30% so it it's a frustration I think our voice reaching out to people legislation writing things for newspapers all those things are what all of us can do I know I for one could do a better job at that that's all I have well said picky yeah it's it

101it was a kind of a blow hear that all that money that's been set aside is more than likely going to go back into the general fund for the state when the schools so desperately need it our I mean we've done a Michael and his team have done an amazing job to really make sure that they knew this was coming how are we going to get there we know we are going to have to do it let's get their sooner if we can so we're a little prepared little more prepared for it but that doesn't make the budget restraints any easier um so to hear that we're going to be more than likely not getting any of that money just makes it then a little more frustrating if if there are other things that they

102are thinking public schools need to do one of the things I saw was testing of our water what can the school district do testing our water here in the school we get city water that's a city C's priority how how is that now the responsibility of a school district that's some proposed legislation and we could do it but if they're not going to fund it again that's something then that falls back on us so I think some of these legislators have great ideas they just need to help school districts follow through on them um everybody in these buildings wants to do the best job that they can for kids um and everybody is trying every day but the state is forcing communities to really stretch that dollar and and continue to go back to taxpayers

103to ask to meet these mandated programs um that the state is throwing at us so I yeah I I don't know what the future holds for us this referendum did give us some time to plan ahead we know what um the declining enrollment looks like we've we've known that this is coming we know we've got four buildings we've got a lot of things on our radar so I I think yes having the opportunity with um a new incoming superintendent and to sit down and really Hammer this out with um is the next thing that has to happen so that we can keep these doors open here in Prescott tellen anything there yeah I think a lot of it's been said but I think it comes down to as well there is stuff that you can

104do um make your your word known write letters it's easy to make these decisions when you're not looking at people's faces and so just like the school board right we you know before I was a board member I was here because I wanted people to see this is what a teacher face look like this is what's who's in your District right and this board's always done a great job on like they know that there's someone behind you know there's it's not just a name it's a teacher right there's a person behind there doing it so it's easy for these these the state um to make these decisions when they're not looking at students when they're not looking at the teachers um if there's a way to get to um the capital and make your make

105your side known whatever that side is um I think that's where we need to be right now um writing letters um really asking those questions like you said this was for ACT 20 you said this was for reading where is it you know the teachers are doing their part um we're getting trained and I say we because I am one we're getting trained we're doing all this stuff now the districts need to be reimbursed so they can actually do what they need to do so just making your presence known and um getting up to Capitol Hill writing letters talking to your congressmen we have um people in the area that you can talk to um we can't be quiet now we have to be loud so H you guys pretty much said it all I

106I I'll just go back to I'm very great I'm very thankful that the Prescott community supported the last referendum I we would be in a really tough spot if they didn't um and and that first slide that Rick shared kind of said it all to me I mean we're in the bottom four% of the entire state for state funding it's ridiculous um and and yes um we're we're getting close to the median on that second slide that Rick shared we're getting close to that average but that's on the back of the local taxpayers you know it's it's because we have a strong community that supports our schools uh that puts us at just below average for State funding and look at what we're doing with it I mean the the the results that the schools

107in in our district have shown are we're at the top academically in just about every category across the entire middle border our our Performing Arts is amazing our our Athletics is absolutely amazing in crushing it it's for what for what the community members of Prescott get for their dollar is is far more than the state average far more and so I I I'm very thankful that we have such a strong Community uh of support and I know this last one was really tough was somewhat polarizing uh the referendum was but in at the end this was it was absolutely necessary to keep us moving forward at least for the short time short period of time here so uh Rick what else where are we moving just wanted to just uh for the board report just

108wanted to let you know that um I think it was Pat yep the clerk had to sign off uh Jackie Montreal uh before she left helped us with the final January count so schools within the state have to report membership on the third day in September and the second Friday in January um the total count is 1242 um the main reason I bring that to your uh attention is that this goes back to building a budget um the numbers for January and September lock in um Equalization Aid because Equalization Aid always Trails enrollment by one year the levy cap is set by your enrollment in September and summer so the levy cap that's the formula that tells you how much you can Levy and then this part will be how you end up uh uh

109rank ordered with Equalization this is um we on the previous slide are going to be working on giving you the forecast model so we're locking in Equalization um again one additional piece uh to help you um I can share with you that we're projecting that we'll have 35 fewer stud students enrolled next year which is about uh a decrease of $400,000 that's why our Revenue will be about the same the good news is if and when enrollment starts to pick back up you will see a gradual acceleration it's easy to plan when you're growing it's harder to manage when you're decreasing um but that operating Levy goes on the base so you will move off the fourth percentile so I just wanted to let you know that the difficulty is is that there's a bunch

110of referendum that passed or went yesterday uh shout out to M because M was going to have to uh uh deauthorize as being a district and it passed its referendum by 2: one uh so good for that Community um but then in April you'll see many more districts going so all I can tell you is our per member uh pupil Aid is going to move up we will no longer be in the fourth percentile I can't tell you it it won't go above 50th percentile but you're going to jump out of that piece okay so anyway uh Pat signed off on this uh we are looking at a decrease with a overall average for membership next year it's based on threeyear average and our estimate on that three-year average would be 12 uh 1,256 students

111so so whatever per pupil times it by 1256 and you'll start to know what the revenue is all right all right all right that's what I had for just advocacy thank you for the board for talking about different ways I'm going to have Michael come up and share some of the um work that he and Shantel have been able to do um based on one of the priorities uh that you had promised both to our our staff Rick just so I can get us on track here we're basically on item C which is combined with f yes so teaching and learning update and then the PDP teacher lenser yes okay I we I not that I want to talk about this but conference yeah oh yes so um yes WS so hold on findm CNF

112for a second here Mike and Tanya joined me at the conference in Milwaukee um and we wanted to be able to share um some updates and sessions that you participated in um and I know that there you sit with the wsa trying to work on a delegation Lobby for um Statewide and then also do you want to talk a little bit about what you said in um sure I'm reflecting back um so I went to a couple of different trainings what's unique about this conference is that um there's probably about 50 to 75 different kind of at least um sessions you can choose from so we all tend to kind of choose different tracks and so I went to one on attendance and some kind of uh strategies to increase attendance that's a that's a

113concern across many districts um in the past tample of years five years um and then I also went to um multiple ones on staff retention as well as some contract pieces that uh as we dive into looking at um how we compensate our staff license and non-staff and that um some of those some of those were great to go to and um had some really great ideas and things to talk about and think about and um as we look into that more I'll be able to pull some of that stuff forward so yeah um one of the things and we've kind of talked you know like are are these things that we can and can't do and one of them was about having um districts that are self-insured and stuff like that so there's there's

114a lot of things that are kind of going on that are a little bit unique and stuff like that that you know we just don't know that much about yet but yeah yes all right uh thanks Tanya and then my I I went down to the WB Convent uh delegate assembly to to basically Advocate um on behalf of the school district some of the in vote on resolutions that were brought forth to the WSB uh meeting there was 12 resolutions were brought forth 10 of them passed and I'll just couple points the big the big one I would call out was just the advocacy for school funding and um that that was one of the that was one of the ones that there's a blue ribbon commission that kind of Advocates um there's I think

115they had 20 um 20 facets of of funding that they're that they want to advocate for at the state level uh mainly just so it to to sum it up it's really just funding for public schools is what is what they're at is what the resolution advocates for it to to kind of sum it up and then the other one that didn't pass which um was interesting I wanted to call out was uh the there was a resolution to decouple public and private school funding so keeping so private school funding would be decoupled from public school funding and it failed and the rationale I think the from the folks that voted know was if if private school funding gets decoupled from public school funding it can become a lot easier um to actually give more

116public or private school funding because if you're if if they're not coupled now now they can they can start cutting out more money for private schools uh to get the state the state can cut out more money for private schools uh if it's not tied to public because if it's tied to the public bucket then it then it has to be um it's it's it's a yin yang so that's if if it's coming from if public schools are if private schools are getting more money is coming from us well it's it's more of a a a balance is is kind of the the way I would I doing a horrible job explaining it but basically uh it it failed for for that reason makes sense like because if you were looking at budgeting thing you

117could say hey we're going to 90% put the the money into private schools or or public schools vice versa so this makes it so and the I think one of the examples was in Arizona this happened in Arizona and it really crushed the public school funding because private schools were getting more in more money thus creating a a bigger gap of of spending uh between public and private schools and it crush it crushed the private schools and I think part of part of what this does because it's coupled doesn't it then if more money comes out of our Public School dollars because it's going into vouchers because of that formula that we have from the state that actually allows us as a public school district they give us that op they give us the we

118ask your taxpayers for more money cuz we said you could be up here well we took it away but you get it from your local taxpayers so if they decoupled then we lose that as an option and we just have to go with what we have so that was part of my understanding with it too that and I think it kind of ties back into just asking in our community to stay and a call to action to watch the legislative uh process of how funding uh moves forward between now and the end of um June and again this is these are resolutions on behalf of the WSB To Go lobby at the state level it's not we're not passing law it's just it's it's a it's a stance on it's a position on particular areas

119of of school all right all right rck go now I have Michael all right um so the update I have from teaching and learning is um our teachers who had PDP it's under uh Pi 34 the restructure of linger licensure for uh Wisconsin teachers that happened in 2005 um through 2018 and one of the one of the things is that um that's come forward is that the the school would like was to look at uh potential alternative compensation models for those people because the way that compensation at that time was all by credits through universities and previous to this that was the way that teachers maintained their lure was through credits to universities then in 2005 the state said anyone knew you have to do a a professional development plan anyone previous to that can

120stay on the credits or switch over to a professional development plan um however the way that most schools were set up was steps for years of service and leans for credit or college credit because the better trained you are the more valuable you are to the district um there never was though developed a model at the Prescott school district for the people that were still getting that professional development through this professional development plan but then the compensation for that um and yes there was different Schoolboard members different superintendent um at that time we did have collective bargaining we had all those things and that just never happened so um Dr I talked with HR and myself about facilitating this conversation with the this group of individuals first identifying this group of individuals who are they

121do they have the same understanding we do um part of it is collecting the experience of what it meant for them to go through a professional development plan and what did that look like um and then how do we present the board with models or feasible models for you to consider so one of the things we do whenever we do something major like this is we use the guiding change principle in concept of just let's review our context and reality and what was a PDP and what did it look like and um they had to have a team and part of that team was you had to have peers you had to have an ad administrator you had to have someone from higher education as part of your team they had to be reviewing your

122um professional development plan as you went through this 5-year process um the other part of that um plan is what did you do with the teachers that already had the license shirt um basically they were moved from that initial to that professional license right away um and then the option of that so this group we sent out to the entire District just to make sure that we had the right understanding and the right people targeted of people who completed a professional development plan while they were a member of the Prescot school district and we uh reviewed what the pi 34 lenser stages were in our understandings you can see some red showing up the red are the edits from our meeting so we did meet with this group um not everyone can can meet as

123you know we put out doodle poll we do the best we can it was scheduled for Monday Monday we didn't have school we we really wanted to meet with them just to get the ball rolling because part of this is as you're talking about budget part of it will also be can this be rolled into the budget for them um and then just we we didn't have anyone that we knew of that was on the master educator we confirmed that so we reviewed the context reality we have eight people that have identified themselves we have our desired results so desired results again recognizing the value of that professional development so some were recognized because they did the college credit because they were required to um they could have went to the PDP these people did

124did not have the option to jump to the college credit they had to be on the PDP so but we need some things that align budgetarily um rewards that staff for their enhanced uh uh practice that they have carried through um you know create viable and reasonable options for the board to consider and then sort of that how not toose or that Center column of you know and the first one is failure to comply with state laws and policies one things that's different is that there is no collective bargaining anymore so and an advisory role um with the people that were on pdps to advise the board on potential models that they're going to they're going to develop and create based on what they know what um other data they can gather from other school

125districts um again we want it to be um sustainable um we basically um we don't want anyone operating outside of the work group but the other part is you know that the the favoritism towards one group versus another the credits versus the PDP action research versus the PDP um because there's people that did pdps that that did take college courses but they but they didn't take them for credit right so is a PDP a PDP or is an action research something different so that these are all those things that that work group has to struggle through and that's why HR and myself are trying to guide them through that process so that way um we can take that input team that stakeholder voice and design options around it so we really walk them through this

126decisionmaking um protocol that you guys have seen through Teamworks and really discussing the choice makers are the board the board is who ultimately has to make this decision we're going to work in an advisory capacity to do the leg work for the board and then come up with viable options for you to consider and again part of it is because we know you're into the budgeting process for next year um sort of self-imposed timeline of when when can we feasibly have this this work done um and then also of these eight people the input team versus the design team you know a group of eight working on this isn't a terrible isn't a terrible number but we also know that we have people on there that are multiple head coaches young families so um as

127long as their voices at the table as part of the input team some I can see taking that options others that want to get more into the trenches and really understand and help on that design then they'll be part of that design team so we met with them um today after school um we walked through this process um talked about the different teams and what what does that mean um and then Rick if you can go to the next slide and then sort of our sort of our wrap up of it was um again we're facilitating it um we have eight staff members we did collect some initial data part of the difficulty of initial data some of this stuff is from 15 years ago and you're trying to remember the other part is just

128the way that um during the PDP the the DPI had a website Q quality educator initiative that's where you built everything so trying to resurrect artifacts from 10 15 years ago is uh difficult and everyone's experience was a little bit different so working with that group of what were their Collective experiences how what was their PDP some people reported you know a lot of work in years one and two and not so much in years three and four and other people said no I didn't really do a lot of work in years 1 and two and it was actually 3 four and five that were really um and then part of it also is we also did have a mentorship program at that time where we paired them with a peer they did go to

129U River Falls met with um people from DPI from seesaw 11 that help them with their pdps as well um so just understanding what that looks like because some people started those in different districts and then came here like one person came here two years before their license expired and they basically had to start over and do everything within two years so they had a condensed timeline to get their PDP Rewritten reove approved um how much of that was self-imposed versus um the university um check off you know the people that that read through their PBS so that's what we that's what this group needs to understand is where is everyone um and then how are they going to come to a consensus of what would be a reasonable viable um sort of finalization to

130this PDP that has not existed since 2018 so that's our initial meeting um again only a subset that were're able to be there we shared out the slide Deck with everyone along with sort of the the talking points always at the end of a Teamworks thing you always what are the talking points CU people are going to ask you what are you discussing you know what are the things that we're going to share part of it is is not that we want to necessarily um hide behind closed doors of what we're talking about but part of it is is also when you don't have all of the context and all of the background information it's very difficult to take something out of context so we had that conversation as well so that all was shared

131with the group of eight um we have a new uh doodle poll out there we're the plan is to meet in early March and then in late March and then again in April with the self-imposed timeline of having some viable options in front of the board in April for you to then ask questions about give feedback go back and retool those options and then a potential decision by May nice okay that's that's sort of the the goal that we kind of put on this work team um there's a lot of work that has to happen between now and then though so right okay that's where we're at uh any questions on here Helen or I don't think so not yet Vicki so this is to try and capture that group that got stuck in the

132middle is what you're trying to to figure out the compensation model at the time only had for credit so there were people that did the PDP and doubled up and did the credit and then there were some people people previous to the PDP that just stayed on the credit well and then and then people that had the PDP that never did any credits and I know but they may have audited classes that first year when I started on the board there was you guys had sat down done a whole salary schedule knew how we going to do this how we going to move forward and had some ideas on how we could people could move ahead without taking college credits how they could do all of that sort of stuff and it just never came

133the the in District Credit model right and then who's going to do the leg work and put all that together that we kind of have that that is it's not it's not this it could be part of this though as a viable option we are looking at that yeah I think with not having that as a state requirement anymore like needing those continuing education credits to move up move on all of that sort of thing um I think adding that looking at what you've got adding something like that in so that it does encourage our staff to want to continue to learn to want to move forward and and our knowing that they're appreciated for doing that that this is not an extra effort on my part just for me but that I'm appreciated by

134this the yep the board so thank you tyy anything um remind me did we go with so we're doing a job study which is kind of it seems like a little bit of what you're doing to was it a lay group that we went with yes okay um and so Mike how is this work kind of Michel how's this work working with what they're working on right now cuz I I believe we probably should be getting some information back from them pretty soon too um and so does this will this kind of help feed kind of of our decision making when it comes to salary as we get that report and stuff like that too I think that will help you as a board I don't see this group um you know being part of

135that part that side of the discussion is more of what would be a acceptable viable option of what we were to do with this group and then obviously if it is compensation then to me that would then does that align with what AA is providing you okay well I I mean I appreciate this is a group that we needed to do some work with I know we had a um kind of a listening session with some staff members I was just looking back at my notes I think it was back in like December is wasn't it you guys um and this was one of the things that really came out and teachers were um some teachers there you know would fall within this group but really just advocating for their colleagues and their peers and

136stuff of of something that they saw as some an unfairness or an injustice within that system and so I appreciate this I appreciate the voice that people are are able to um add to it and I think like kind of where I'm at still like until we get this job study right it's like this will just be more information as we start to decide how are we going to write some of the the imbalances that have kind of occurred for the past 10 years or eight years within system so yeah great work thank you for doing it and um I I'm looking forward to seeing it yeah Pat anything no no comments yeah thanks Michael really well done to you and Chantel thank you you've done just behind the scenes to get those eight people

137um identified and the surveys that went out and the communication um really appreciate also our staff being willing to come forward and participate the good segue though this was in is what Michael just described was a subset of uh a historical uh kind of uh issue that we wanted to rectify and had talked about now we're moving into the job study um we have had multiple calls uh Shantel will be meeting with them tomorrow as well um we had put out a survey to our staff um and we um reminded them uh during the um snow days off uh the last two days to see if we could uh boost up and we've um over 53 respondents out of 100 um so that's pretty good um participation um what we were asking and also asked

138the board was trying to identify who are the comparison groups and so on we kind of talked about this last month with regards to the methodology and benchmarking the salaries both for licensed and non-licensed and external um we talked a little bit about that there are 421 districts within the state we are part of 41 districts in C 11 and then we're uniquely situated right on the border of Minnesota and so um I did meet with um our admin team and we kind of put forward what we thought would be um kind of assumed um uh comparison groups and so obviously the state of Wisconsin ceca 11 and then middle border and we'll talk about which districts fall into the middle border and then whether or not there should be other um we did then

139talk uh with um Tracy budworth and um eight Representatives we had two teachers from all uh from each building so there were and we uh went through and talked a little bit about some things that they wanted to see out of the job study what the process would be and then when those reports would come Tracy and I then met independently um and we kind of went through and now we have the survey as of this uh afternoon so um basically I would say is that the state average C 11 and the middle border are all aligned there's consensus and you'll see some graphs coming back um then there also is who are neighboring districts um and obviously River Falls and Hudson are highlighted because they were most referenced in comments and also because they

140could select other or do a rank order so I wanted to kind of just call that out with color other ones that were noted were St quy Central a lot of it has to do with how St Cory Central has a unique um Staffing model um and they have a tiered system so that was something something and that matched up with consensus there are some smaller districts in our Arena um they were not necessarily seen as viable um more so from our staff consensus and then obviously we don't lose a lot of staff to those um districts um what did come through are just other districts just to let you know Somerset and Baldwin are part of the middle border but I put them out there because they were referenced a lot and then oak

141Clair um which is a bigger one then we went into the state of Minnesota um the admin team had looked at Hastings Redwing and South Washington County um in addition Still Water did come up and then in our staff survey uh the most frequent are the top three that are highlighted Still Water was in fourth place um and slightly different is that they also on comments had identified inrow um Heights and Cannon Falls um we did here's people have asked who makes up the middle Border in Aluna as you know has joined the middle border and it replaced New Richmond um then we did want to make sure that people understood that enrollment kind of matters because the number of students that you have presents a different scale ability um what I did want to

142share with you is that we have enrollment from 2023 and 2024 we're trying to get full-time equivalent so how many staff do they also have and then what I can share with you is if you look at the final column it's a very different scenario if you're losing students than if you're increasing right and the only District that has a subset of change is Altuna with a plus 100 what happen there yeah yeah um additional districts uh again came in with Hudson New Richmond River Falls and Spring Valley remember New Richmond had been part of the middle border um and so you can kind of see the average decline among all these districts is about 71 students Rick it's not ranked by enrollment because Prescott is the lowest enrolled School in the in the middle

143border right I just I'm calling that out yes and I think it was alphabetical yeah okay that's how we listed yeah yeah then we did uh give to the school board the opportunity to kind of weigh in in on how you would rank order um just the different things that we talked about again it was done independently this is the first time you're seeing it it was gives you just an opportunity to kind of see what the administration had said what um the eight teachers representing each of the two buildings and then also the whole staff that got to vote in um you can see that there was a little bit more uh waiting uh with regards to cesa 11 and middle border um in a similar way Elmwood Plum City and Spring Valley were

144low and and then there were some um recommendations um with regards to our staff the only difference between the school board and our staff was that the staff did highlight Wisconsin um highly um in a similar way you can see Elmwood Plum City and Spring Valley were not so that's why they were we um put a strike through on those um then with regards to um let's see now we're talking about Minnesota uh you can see from the board right now kind of South Washington County and Hastings were put up there um not so much for Still Water um and then when you look at our staff um kind of falls into a same stepwise uh regression we do have um other names that they have put forward um wanted to get your input or

145thoughts um our goal is then to send this forward this table forward to aera so they can start um making sure that these districts are included in their data set um and also allow you to filter it out so that you can see representations either by those subcategories Minnesota versus Wisconsin and the like so the table that you put forward is that first table that we looked at at the beginning right yeah yeah okay so this kind of summarizes everything but I wanted to also share the picture of uh the results I guess are you looking for comments or anything anything glaring Omission or and you'll also have opportunities to give feedback as the reports come into to yep Helen any I'm looking at it now no nothing I mean we kind of know you

146know we're looking at River Falls we're looking at like the schools around us um yeah nothing no it just I was curious to see how the board's responses lined up with mhm the staff responses and that sort of thing in admin and yeah I I it looks as though we're all in agreement as to where we really need to to concentrate so M great Tanya uh no this looks great I I you have that other thing mentioned on here Somerset Balwin and oir and I assume right if I Somerset and Baldwin are part middle board and that's why they're not highly yeah okay yeah I think it looks great I like the variety of um some of the school districts within our conference all of them really um and also the um school districts that

147our staff often leave to too which is um not in our conference so yeah yeah Pat no other comments it'll be interesting to see if you know if we get some more data on on the full-time employees per District that'll be that'll be interesting M yeah I this lines up with kind of what I would I mean I think we're all on the same page here and the staff I mean they they have a lot of input on this and that's that's good I think that you know and at least the board somewhat pretty much lines up with what the staff was kind of looking for as well so yeah this is this is good information Rick so I think I don't I don't think we're we're not looking to change anything or we're good

148to go all right all right so we are moving on to item D pupil count update no that was the one we moved forward so now going go e huh for kindergarten so I did the pupil count with the you got it WR you got it written wrong D andb yeah I I I do make mistakes all right so we're going we're going to e i was Wonder I don't I don't yeah I thought so we're going iing the 4K agreements with Community providers so I just wanted to um thank our three Community providers uh February 7th Sarah dusk our elementary principal also overseas and supervises kind of the 4K program um wanted to thank her we uh had we have two different types of agreements we have the original um articles that were part

149of the contract and then we have a memorandum of understanding that every 3 years it updates the difficulty is uh no one had ever gone back to the Articles and so I we presented those and there were things in there that weren't happening it's kind of like policies right you don't that you kind of migrate away from them and so we uh presented them with a document we went through very similar to what you do with a policy is there anything on there that you don't currently do we talked a little bit about on an annual basis there was a rubric that was being used to evaluate the program but that hasn't occurred because they meet on a um Sarah do you guys meet weekly or is it no it's like once a month once

150a month so they meet on a uh once a month and they give feedback back and forth we talk about curriculum we do observations so we are recommending that that article would be removed um there was something specific about funding but that funding really was addressed in the moou and so we've asked to strike that out I was able to get those edits out to all three of our community providers um we have emails that came back to confirm that all three are now agreeing based on the edits that we'll share with you is that the articles that we would ask to kind of strike uh and become the platform are in alignment with what our meeting said so what we said matched our edits and then um in all fairness I just wanted to

151make sure is that um during these times uh we given the we've been in the low end with regards to per puple funding um we have not adjusted the rate over the last 3 years and we are going to go back just to check with regards to um the previous M us a lot of that had to do with the freezing uh that we weren't getting increases in per pupil and so we were unable to pass that on um they are going to be asking and would like us to come back with a proposal Sarah and myself to you um with regard to maybe some considerations on that um and we wanted to be able to just make you um aware that um we're supportive of the U partnership that we have um some of

152them do have some contractual agreements and so we do want to try to have something coming back to March or April latest so that they obviously can uh plan for their future uh next year as well um so we'll be uh following up with you um you'll have access to that um agreement so that you um in March could at least approve the Articles and then we would talk about compensation uh for that program anything tan no sounds good Pat no questions any questions on here no all right thanks Rick we'll move on uh item eight is recognition of visitors anybody care to be recognized at this time I'm looking at the one person all right thank you uh we'll move on to item nine so the board will consider a motion to con convene

153and close close session under exemption 19851 C which we'll discuss and an update on employee one and then two other employees and then one e uh to discuss uh vendor contract one and vendor contract to so we will take a a motion in a second and then uh I guess a roll call I moved to uh convene uh in close session um at you guys okay with uh with 820 sure 820 in room help me out 17 17 117 that's right there I'll second we have a motion a second let's just go down the line pad yes I Tanya hi Vicki hi Helen hi I am and I as well we will convene in close session at 820 p.m. thank you