001fly there. >> Right. Good evening everybody and welcome to tonight's uh regular board meeting Monday, April 20, 2026. Like to call this meeting to order. We have met compliance with all official notifications. Roll call, please. >> Shelley Mowen here. >> Nick Olsen here. >> Sarah Schuber McCone here. Laura Gapsky, Katherine Gman >> here, >> virtual Nick Schumacher here, President Steve Olsson >> here. We have no comments by members of the public. However, at last Monday's meeting on the 13th, Kyle Smith who's in attendance tonight and who did not bring us treats like he brought in himself. >> Just kidding. >> Thanks, Kyle. We like to have fun. Um, spoke on the teacher salary increases and stuff. We appreciate that Kyle was here to give us an update on on on that salary increase. Disposition of
002minutes from March 16, 2026. >> Oh, I am sorry. We forgot budget. Pretty hard looking. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Not only did I forget that, but then I forgot what I'm supposed to read at the beginning. >> No, no, I was like actually I feel like something was missing. I don't know. >> Really missing tonight. This meeting is a meeting of the board of education held in public for the purpose of conducting the school district's business and is not to be considered a public community meeting. There is time for comments by members of the public during the meeting as indicated on the agenda. Members of the public
003wishing to address the board on any of the topics included on tonight's agenda may do so by signing up on the public comment signup sheet prior by the entrance prior to the start of the meeting. The board requests refraining from making any comments involving personally identifiable information about students, staff, or administration. Comments should be respectful, focused on the items being considered by the board and will be restricted to 3 minutes in length. And that's what I'm supposed to go to. Comments by members of the public. We have not disposition for minutes from March 16, 2026. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. Motion a second to approve the minutes from March 16, 2026. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> Motion carries. >>
004Report from our superintendent. Do you want to take that as your opportunity? >> We can. Um, let's see. Last week we did hear from Mr. Jensen and he gave a Great Lakes update. Tonight we have S or Superintendent Principal Haroldson. Haroldson to give us an update about the high school. Welcome. >> Right. Well, thank you. Thanks for having me. So, yeah, this is probably not as long as my ones at Great Lakes. I haven't dug into the data quite as much uh my short time at the high school, but just want to provide some brief updates. Uh the first one actually I I think I was talking to Amy last week and there were some questions about the antiape presentation. So, I wanted to uh share a little bit about that. When Amy said that,
005I'm like not sure which group is doing it. Well, my research led me to uh find out that our pledge makers group is going to be presenting some anti- vape material uh to all the Keystone class at the high school, the freshman group. Um focus is going to be on impact of commercial nicotine and tobacco on students and families. Um they're going to be sharing some resources that are available in the comm uh community um in the case uh any of the students need help uh if they're having some struggles with that. And then they're going to do an impact activity. Uh it was described to me is they're going to write an anonymous impact card describing their experiences with tobacco nicotine use or um the tobacco nicotine use of others like that they whether
006it be friends or family and how it has impacted uh them. Um that is next Monday, April 27th. I'll probably try to get down and check some of that out, but that was just anformational item that I think came Thank you for looking into that. So that's that's what that's about. Um celebrations, I'll start with that. A lot of celebrations. The high school um as I've said since day one is a it's got a wonderful staff. Um as you're going to see, there's some great work that's underway. We're just trying to um put this all together. Some celebrations I do want to share. The first piece is our internal attendance process. Um, one of the struggles as I was transitioning to the high school with Kate was kids just walked in kind of, you know,
00720, what would you say 20 25 minutes late, first hour, kids were not getting on time uh, to class. Amy had come to me and said, "Ryan, can we move this tardy time from 15 minutes after the bell to 5 minutes after the bell?" I said, "Certainly we can." >> And that actually came out at the staff listening session. >> Yeah. Right. No, I kind I do. I was there in December, too. >> So, I said, "That's fine, but we're going to need to have some process for kids that are still going to violate this knowing that it would happen." So, >> um, basically, we put together a process. It does include like some lunch detentions. If they get the five or the 10 tardies, the premise of that is to make up the time
008you're missing. Um, eventually eventually it ends up resulting in an ordinance violation where they have to go and talk to the court commissioner. The court commissioner's been very supportive of that. I mean just trying to make sure that um some of the kids that get to that level are getting educated on why it's important to be in class. You can see prior to the policy implementation up there, those numbers are the tardies we had per day. Um so if you look at our high point I uh in December we've come down about 49%. We've cut those tardies in half. Um I haven't looked at April's data yet, but that's just one celebration we've had. I'm really hoping in the fall um some of these little things that we would just expect of kids will not
009be a conversation we're having much of anymore. In fact, the other piece I will say when this started it was a little bit overwhelming cuz it's oh my god we're going to like we have to follow through because we had some lunch detention lists that were quite long. >> Um we're down to like between two and six kids in lunch detention at this point. So it's not >> and the lunch detention too like Andy Gransky did it. I know some of our admin team have done it. We try to educate them, figure out why we not get into class. Um, so I mean that's part of it too, having that conversation. Um, I put up there an improved phone policy. I feel like we started off in February when we adjusted our policy, it was
010a lot better. Um, I've been hearing in like some of our department meetings or even just some individual conversations with teachers, we might need to kind of come back around to that and push in a little bit. It's maybe gotten a little bit laxed in some spots. Um, that's important because I think it's I think it's uh limited some of the congregating that we had going on in the bathroom. So, I think some of the vaping was linked to that. So, that's that's kind of a success. Now, next year, a year from now, I don't really want to be talking to you about basic things like phone and attendance. But, like, we got to get these things addressed first because it's really frustrating for teachers when these things are going on. Like, the attendance when
011I got there, it's like I can't even start teaching till 10 minutes in. Well, we can't really have that. It's a lot of instructional time, you know, kids aren't getting there. So, that's improved. Um, another celebration and I probably will have this document available to share with you uh in the fall. We're working on our mission, vision, commitments, like getting consensus on that document. So, March and April, I drafted up some things for this is our school's mission, our school's vision. It is connected to the district mission, vision, values, but it's a little bit more specific to like what our teachers and our paras are doing dayto-day. So, I drafted it up based on a lot of individual conversations I was having. Teachers have all had a chance to go through it, provide feedback. I'm
012using AI a little bit, too, to help me uh kind of reddraft the mission and vision. Um, this Friday, I'm hoping we're going to look at whether we've got consensus on it. When I say consensus, I'm looking on a scale of five are a majority of my people at a three, meaning I can live with this document, a four. I strongly support this document, or better yet, a five. I will champion this document. Um, this isn't just a piece of paper on a wall. It's something we need to be able to go back to and uh needs to be a living breathing document for the decisions and things we make moving forward. Um, lastly, I want to talk about some systems and structure work. A lot of this is not in place yet, but it's
013all planning for the fall. Um, floor-based leadership model. Uh, what that basically means is we are in the process of moving our APs and our deans out of the main office and finding them office spaces on the floors. Um, I know when Kate came in, when I came in, we've talked a lot, Heidi, about just being out in the hallways and being visible and accessible, which is always a balancing act because there's a lot of administrative things need to happen that are behind closed doors. But I know the teachers, I've had them uh just make some remarks that they like having um that access out there. So, we are looking at moving them to different locations on the floors. Probably a little similar to the middle school. The only issue is our high school really
014wasn't set up for that. So, we're kind of having to do some makeshift things, but I I give the APS um a lot of credit in that. They're very on board with it and have helped me problem solve some of that stuff. Um advisory reset um we are going to be resetting our advisory structure, um which is very good, but I think we're a little bit inconsistent in terms of delivering like core curriculum for like our social emotional learning, which I think is an important piece. uh we talk about like executive functioning skills, teaching kids how to become adults. Um we're going to be doing kind of a reset of that and that that'll be something I can talk more about in the fall once that's underway. The RNR room, the reset and return room,
015taking a page out of Mr. Liieber's uh book um to hopefully be able to get kids some DBT skills and access uh without writing as many referrals and getting them back to class. Right now, our system for behavior um is pretty reactive. Like we need to get some systems in place that maybe can bring those referral levels down, give kids more immediate support. Um senior mentors is coming back, Mark Campbell and Jackie uh Olsen. Um two awesome veteran teachers. We were talking about like systems of support for behavior and mental health and they came to me and said, "Hey, we did this years ago. It kind of fell apart during COVID." So I'm, you know, Steve, that so so that's been wellreceived. I've been telling staff like making this building a great place. It means
016sometimes it means going back in time and pulling some practices that maybe have gone away um from the past. I'm looking at Steve because Steve and Bill and uh Kent and all those gentlemen that were up there working had some good things. Some of it is that, but the other piece of it is is we need to look there's some progressive things that we want to do because our situation is probably a little bit different. So, it's combining those those things. Uh core teacher intervention is we did make some classes for next school year a little bit bigger. When I say bigger, I'm talking mid to high 20s. Nothing like out of control. What it's going to do is it's it's going to free up some of our teachers to do some tier 2 intervention
017for kids that aren't showing mastery of like the essential standards. Um really excited about that to get some of that in place. Those are some celebrations. Um we've got challenges too. Um and I think there we're kind of in the same conversation like um moving into next year like a hard reset on processes. I talked about the attendance a little bit. Um, when we get to next school year, I think like writing referrals and communicating to parents is something at least what I've gotten emails and things from parents we could maybe do a little bit better job with and be a little bit more systematic with. Um, talking about like criteria for things like emergency uh calls of the classroom, making sure we're using our resources um appropriately. I guess I think sometimes our deans
018are getting pulled into some things that maybe aren't as high of a priority as the more serious things they need to deal with. Um guidelines and processes. Uh been spending some time with the department chairs on some of these things. The field trips um making sure we're kind of doing an audit. The kids are out of the building a lot is something I've noticed. So we're doing an audit of field trips like and looking at connection to the curriculum. Does it have to be every year or can it be every other year? I don't want to take opportunities away, but just making sure we're a little bit um I guess more diligent with that and does student every student have equitable access to it. So, I know in some cases we probably are fundraising for
019those and kids are getting equitable access. In other cases, it's up to the parents family to pay and we've got some want to make sure every kid has an opportunity to do those things if they're connected to the curriculum. Um fiscal cleanup. Uh, this is I mean I just met with David last week, but just trying to get our budget lines to read more accurately. I don't I think it's been a long time since the budget lines at the high school have been relooked at and redone. So, we're working on that. Um, you know, even making some adjustments to how we do things with updating stipens or there might be some things with how we do classroom coverage that if we're if we do it a little differently, we could save a little money. Um,
020so that piece is going on. Um like I talked about lessening the burden on our tier 2 resources we do have. This kind of ties in with the processes and procedures like um maybe doing an audit of how we write referrals or when we write referrals that need to be handled by the deans. Some of it is like the processes we use for kids to access the counselors. I just think if we clean that up, we can use those people more efficiently for some of our higher level behavior supports. Um last thing maintaining what has traditionally made our high school grades like keep the number of uh course offerings including those AP classes. We are still my understanding is we are still one of the high schools on the higher end of those offerings. So
021even with some of the fiscal challenges we want to make sure we're keeping those great opportunities for our kids and um you know leading the area and hopefully the state. So I mean that's kind of where we're at. I I Oh, CPR card. I I've got the link on there. I wasn't involved in this in August. I look forward to being involved in this when we get to Oh, you're going to take me away from my talking points. So, can we go back to that real quick? People can look at that. Um, so the building goal is done on on math. Um so basically focused on increasing overall math achievement um as a overall and also within some subgroups like the low socioeconomic status and students who have special needs. Um couple points the team
022has done excellent work like in terms of monitoring and coaching our teams on their PLC processes the way they're working in teams analyzing data making instructional decisions. Um, and when Ann does put that back up, we're working on the system. So, go ahead and put it up there. Um, Ann, because it it has that piece in there that's scroll down just a little bit. So, if you see the part where it says creating a plan for reviewing EMLSS guide book and developing through two learning plan for all instructional staff and we are working feverishly to get all that stuff on the table. Um, and we are going to have some adjustments to our system and I I can't wait to come in and show you uh the diagram and what that looks like in the
023fall. But like we're trying to get everything on the table. Like when I talked about Mark and Jackie, like they came to me, it's like we need to move on this now because when it gets to be summertime, I want to make sure this is moving so we can start putting it together. Um down the road, I think we'll probably have a task force as soon as the fall to look at schedule structures for the future because I'm not sure if we're set up as good as we can be even in the master schedule yet. That's not a change I can make next year because the schedule's already underway, but uh we'll have some further conversation on that. Sorry, it's a lot. I'm just kind of giving you a rundown of where we're where we're
024at. Um >> it's a great school. Um just looked at the rankings the other day. We're on target to be number one in the state, Amy. Right. >> That's right. >> Right. So, I'm very proud of the um the folks I inherited and look forward to hopefully what'll be many years of work to come and um make it any good place. Any questions or anything for me? >> Can you talk a little bit more about the scheduling sketch or task? >> Yeah, you like the task force. Yeah. Okay. So, here's what that's kind of about and I'm kind of going off of uh I get a lot of um stories from staff members like, "Oh, we were looking at this like five years ago or whatever." So we talk about like giving core instruction like
025tier one instruction those essential standards in ELA for example. We talk about a system so kids get automatic access to additional time and support if they didn't master that essential. I'm not sure that our current traditional structure sets that up as well as it could. So one of the it might be looking at blocks. It might be looking like a hybrid a block skinny schedule. It's going to be pulling in some other um ideas from other high schools. Um, I don't even know that we will make a change necessarily. I do know they did have some conversation about that and I don't know if Steve was still there or not, but I know talking to like Jason Kalin, Andy Wolf, and some of them, it sounds like around CO they were really close to making
026some changes that just kind of fizzled away because we were dealing with uh uh uh that piece. So, task force would just be a conversation. I don't even know if it's the best. I mean, right now we have a pretty traditional master schedule. And so, I think your point is bringing staff together to see if >> you've exhausted all those options and we're doing the best that we can and maximizing our resources. >> And I also think too like some of the stuff we're putting in, it'll give just a little taste of what this could look like. And I mean, if it's going well in those pockets, maybe we can come up with some ways to make it even more systematic. >> Sure. >> Um, automatic, I guess. >> Yeah. And I think you have
027enough veteran teachers yet in the building. I have had conversations about block scheduling, about skinnies. So me addressing to, you know, gather that information back from them and >> y and actually it came up at the department meeting in March. I think there's mixed views which is why we need to talk you know through it. I mean there are some people like yeah put me straight blocks and others that would say never. Maybe there's some you know >> hybrid of some sort. There are I mean there are model there are models out there and um I don't really care for Hudson too much but I know they uh um I I don't I know they do have >> a couple >> they do have a couple ideas that I'm willing to to listen to but
028um I I think that's just things we need to look for look at >> senior mentors now what what what will be the process how are we going to choose >> y okay so here's the process right now and And actually Mark and Jackie, I pretty much told them last Thursday, get started. Um, this is a great idea. They had a DVD and some presentations they had done. They are reaching out to teachers, um, I believe with a criteria and teachers are going to start populating that with the current junior class. Once they get that, they are going to send this back out again to staff to make sure we're hitting. >> They got to be good. I mean these the the thing of this too is it benefit it doesn't just benefit the freshman
029that they're like working with and coaching. >> Um it benefits the senior um because some of these >> uh kids based on past experiences have become social workers and teachers. >> Um they gave me a couple specific examples and so that's where we're at right now. Steve, I mean I just gave them the gohead to kick this into gear last week. I was super excited about it. Um, it's just taken a page from the past playbook that I think needs to come back. I don't know all the reasons why it went away, but I'm I'm excited and staff are excited, too. I brought it up at the SLT meeting and there were a lot of like, all right, like we're maybe making some making some progress here. >> I think COVID and changes in leadership
030are your primary reasons why some things >> co I think is the reason the scheduling piece, some of the system piece died out and here we are six years later and we got to come back around. So, yeah. Other questions? Oh, >> thank you. Very >> said DVD. What is that? >> Oh, it was a DV. It was just >> Yeah. Anyways, so great great group. I'm honored and privileged to work with them. So, if you have any other questions, let email me or call me and I'll I'll try to answer wherever I can. All right. >> Ran, I just want to say thank you. you know, this uh I feel like not that other principles don't, but that you really listen to teachers and get input and they feel like they have a voice
031from what I've heard from. >> I'm trying. It's also balancing too in a building that big trying to like we got to do some things while we're listening. I mean, it's >> Yeah. simultaneously, but uh it's I'm also impatient as can be and I'm like there's I I mean there are some things that need to be different next year and we're doing what I think we can without like you know that because some of the bigger stuff it's culturally we need to talk more schedule something we can't do right now. So >> yeah, you can't get everything done but I think >> they know that you're listening and I think that's super important. So I appreciate it. >> I'm trying to. >> All right. >> Okay. Thank you, Ryan. Um Steve, I have one more.
032Our student rep wasn't able to join us tonight. So, um, I'm going to skip to Caitlyn. You've got a quick update for us. I know we primarily wanted to hear about a recap of Superior Days, but we know that you got a lot other things, too. >> Um, okay. So, yeah, I I I did hear maybe mostly Superior Days, but also maybe a few other things. So, I have a little bit about several things, and we'll kind of go through that. And if there's things we need to talk more about or you have questions about, um, I'm happy to do that as well. Um, so starting with Superior Days, uh, this year we ended up having nine Superior High School students, um, present at Superior Days. So, um, a little bit smaller group than the
033year past, but definitely a solid group of students who represented us very well. Um, and who I think would have would have done all of you proud if you were able to see them in action. >> Um, so very similar to past Superior Days events, um, students participated in a full day of legislative lobby meetings. So depending on what team they were on, they had um various meetings with different um legislators or representatives from their offices. Um they also attended um some agency meetings. Um one in particular that we um mandated they all attend um was the meeting with DPI. >> Um so they were all present for that. um you know a few other experiences and things. They had um lunch with Representative Straoud and Green. You can see that picture in the middle
034was after the launch. So um they were able to, you know, hear on a slightly more direct scale from them and be able to to ask questions and um engage in some conversations with them. Uh one of our students, Jack, introduced Governor Ivers um when he came to speak with the group. So, um, several cool experiences that way. Um, for our students, we had a mix of new students and returning students, um, which is always nice to see, especially if we're able to, you know, now that we've been able to go a few years in a row. we have some students who um are able to kind of step in and and lead from those experiences and um kind of help the the newer students out who might not be as familiar with how things
035work and what to expect. So um that was that was good. >> Can I mention one thing? >> Um we had a we weren't originally planning to go just as a reminder. Um we were thinking we would go maybe every other year during the budget season. um that's probably the most impactful time to go. But then we had someone who offered to pay for a smaller delegation of students to go. So just a reminder that's how that why we had a smaller group this year. >> Yeah. Yeah. So we um Yeah. So and that's why it was Yeah. numbers wise and also kind of the the last minute nature of it. Um the um W extension and the county found some money and had a few spots for some of our students. Appreciate it. >>
036Yeah. I think questions or other thing I mean I think that kind of captures most of it but anything it feels like I've left about that experience >> just thinking about next year because it it will be then you know so what what are the thoughts or how can we support without putting additional stress on already a very >> tight budget cuz I would like to see it continue I've seen it firsthand make a big difference and I think it also helps educate the community about what public schools, um, how it's funded and what it looks like down in Madison. So, I mean, my goal is to utilize David again to try to get some sponsorships. Um, I think that just gets a little bit challenging. Um, >> we it was a little bit of
037a challenge last year because not necessarily all the businesses that we approached really supported the platform that was being pushed forward by Superior Days. So, I think they were struggling a little bit. They wanted the kids to have experience, but they were like, >> it's not necessarily the narrative that we are personally, you know, advocating for. So that was unique and >> and a a very, you know, reasonable >> uh issue. And so I think we just got to balance that again. >> Um I Yeah, I think that's our plan. And there's there were some grants and some other opportunities that we'll tap into. You know, it just it's about $10,000 to send our students down there. So when you consider the transportation, the hotel, and all of that. >> Mhm. I mean, I like
038the bigger group, but I also think, you know, nine sounds reasonable and less chaperones. Um, >> and it is important for them to hear from students even if we're not on the doing the same topics as superior days committee because >> the Superior Days Committee likes having our students there like they add a lot of value and they're always well prepared too. So, heck >> yeah, they are. >> Getting them prepared. >> I would like to say especially ours. Yes, they're very last year. Those poor kids. >> So, and I think you know the hope too like this year obviously it was a little bit less minute. We didn't think we were going to be able to send them and um you know so I think especially having >> a few that had got previously
039helped. They were able to help get some of those new students up to speed. But I think you know we were fortunate last year that a couple things fell into place. one that Superior Days, you know, adopted school funding as one of their issues. >> Um, and that we knew about that ahead of time, right? Um, because sometimes with the actual Superior Days organization, like their timeline doesn't always get the information out super far ahead of time to delegates. Um, but knowing that that was one of the issues and that, you know, obviously the write up and the information was coming from us, I was able to start prepping students and working with them, you know, earlier. Um, which then obviously is a a benefit to to everyone. So hopefully that will be able to
040happen again next year if all things go as planned. >> Great. You do a really nice job. Thank you. >> Um, couple other things. I'll try and keep it brief but a few updates. Um senior projectwise we are as I'm sure Heidi will attest living in the we have 60 more of them this year and it is almost May and that does not mean that 60 more of them finish their project in the fall. That means that almost 60 more of them are trying to finish their project now. So, um we are are in the thick of that for sure, but um we will we will get them all there. It will it will happen. Um we have one final like big presentation night um May 6th during the Spartan Fiesta. So, if anyone wants
041to come join us and talk to some kids about their projects, we'll have all all of them that are on the list right now are there about 55 or so um set up to talk about their projects. So, just a little plug for that. You can see some great artwork, you can see some senior projects, you can manufacturing our open house, too. >> Um so, you know, just a a little recap, a little reminder of how this is set up. Um you see in that picture a couple examples of students sharing um what they did. All students um do career research and community service. Um so they talk about both of those components um during their presentation whichever presentation option they choose. Um and then obviously we work to build experiences 912 that lead them
042up to that final experience in their senior year. So various career exploration opportunities, um people coming into the building, opportunities to go out into the community, and then obviously there are community service that's required each year. So that the idea being that we build up to that senior year experience um where they then kind of do that deep dive into some of those things. Um we're also gearing up for the class of 2027. Um, in May, I'll be meeting with all of our juniors to talk about kind of where they're at, what needs to happen in the next 12 months or so, um, in order to make sure they're ready for graduation. So, this is kind of the the overlap time of year. Um, and there's a lot going on. Um, but there's a lot
043of kids getting a lot of stuff done, so that's exciting to see. Um and that kind of leads into just a couple ACP academic and career planning updates. Um we had 11 at least um of our career experience days. So those are days off campus um where we visit, you know, local employers, education institutions, things like that based on different career clusters. Um so we just did one not too long ago around business and marketing. So we went to Maurica's We spent about an hour and a half um with various staff from Mauric's talking about you know their business and and marketing and different um careers in that field and then visited UWS and Fondelac that day to learn about some some post-secary training options too. So students get to sign up for those based
044on interest to kind of explore more. Um, we had 65 different guests um, represented at our three career fairs this year. Um, some people attended more than one. We had some groups and organizations that were at multiple fairs, some that were just at one. Um, but that's, you know, 65 different um, guests and organizations and employers and education institutions that um, were present right in the school um, for students. And then we're currently in the process of doing kind of a audit and update of some of our career readiness work using the um updated career readiness standards that were released this year. So um we've done some work on some universal experiences that we know students have and then on Friday um our departments are going to start the process of looking at um some
045of those standards within the context of what's happening in some different classes and different departments so that we have a an updated vision of what that looks like and can identify some gaps and things that we need to do some work around next year. See you. >> That's where we're at with that. >> Busy spring. Yeah. >> Right. >> Lot of things going on high school. >> Oh, yeah. >> All the time. >> Well, thank you for the updates. We appreciate it. And >> thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> That's all for my report. >> Great. Uh we will move on to our committee report. At this time, I'd entertain a motion to move the budget and insurance to the first report. >> By y'all, thank you. >> I'll make a motion to
046move into the f first report. >> Second motion second to move the budget to the first committee report. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I oppose. Motion carries. So at this time like to welcome meeting tonight members of March Mcclennon agency who will be providing a presentation about the health insurance premium. >> Welcome is actually virtual and Jenna is going to run with a quick presentation on the health insurance video. >> Father, aren't you supposed to be on vacation? Well, I am uh working remote from Florida for two or three weeks, but I will be back in uh Superior. I come and go as business dictates. And uh >> y >> right now uh that's where you'll find me is in Florida. But um >>
047I' I'd like to make some in >> I'd like to make some introductory comments before my colleagues that are with me tonight. Um Jen Champa at the podium and Jen Cisco. Um we're facing a very challenging health insurance uh renewal from Medicica. Uh we've had this on our radar and have been closely following this along. >> Did you hit me? >> Hello. Can you hear me? Okay. There. It should be good. >> Maybe someone hit that. You can talk. Can you hear us? >> Yeah. Can you hear me? Okay. >> Weird. >> Hold on a second, Bob. While they fix the speakers here. >> The days aren't there. >> Hope it's not sweaty. >> Testing. >> I just >> Can you say something again, Bob? >> Yeah. Can you hear me? Okay, >> better this.
048>> Can you move that that volume? >> Better. Can you hear me? >> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Uh, this is better. Can Can everybody hear me? >> Yeah. >> Oh, yeah. Good. >> Okay. Very good. Um, we've been working on this since January. And um to give you a little bit of historical background, when Medicica became the carrier uh 2 years ago, uh the attractive feature was the narrow network product that favors as Entia that provides a 20% discount and a 20% uh reduction in premium versus the network that they offer uh for the employee. to go anywhere that they want virtually. Um, unfortunately, Medicica FA is is really in a deficit position on claims that have been paid out versus premiums that have been collected. In 2024, that deficit was about a $200,000 delta. Um,
049in 2025, that's escalated to $2.3 million. So, um, we've known that, for lack of a better word, uh, the claims experience has been running hot. Um, we've looked at seven different fully insured carriers, two different self-funded options. We've looked at a variety of different funding mechanisms and different risk sharing arrangements uh from healthcare reimbursement accounts to self-funding and where we've landed on this with Medicica um we really are not finding unfortunately better options in the marketplace after uh a very extensive review of the marketplace. What we're looking at is a unfortunately a 38.3% increase in premiums. Um, we feel that the the products that the employees are allowed to select from the two Medicica options and the HSA plan design that still is the uh the best plan design for the employees versus some of
050the other options that we explored. But uh Jen is going to take you through six or seven slides here tonight that show you how we got to where we are at. But the one thing that I would say is if Medicica had an opportunity to do it over, they two years ago probably would have started their premiums 10 to 12% higher than where they came into the group. Um, year two they had a 12% rate cap. They could not adjust their premiums any higher than 12%. So, the combination thereof, starting their premiums at probably 10 to 12% lower than they should have and then having a 12% rate cap. And then on top of that, the perfect storm is we've got a significant amount of claim activity. Those three items combined um put us in
051the spot that we're in in terms of a deficit. Um, we've got a few solutions from a health >> lost again. >> What a dangerous faulty cord. Thanks for that. need to donate. >> Where's Dan? >> Hello. >> There we go. >> Okay. I I've I've kind of made most of the introductory comments that I wanted to to make. I'm going to have Jen guide you through, how we got to where we are at, what this looks like on paper in terms of the spreadsheet that she has prepared, and we are certainly here to answer all of your questions tonight. So, I'm going to turn it over to Jen. >> Thanks, Bob. A second. We're going to bring that presentation up. There we go. As Bob mentioned, I'm Jen. With me is Jen Cisco. We
052both service the district's benefits and assist the administration with their day-to-day duties and servicing and obviously the renewal, how that shakes out. Go to the next slide, please. is the clicker. >> Oh, that's right. Sorry. Who said that? There it is. >> You have the power. >> You always have. Thanks. >> Okay. So, a a quick recap. Um I rounded up. I don't know if that's probably the scary number 39. It is 38.3%. Um there was uh some decrease in enrollment over the last year both in subscribers which are employees and members overall. To give you an idea um I believe like Bob said your premium paid was about just over five million between five and five and a half million and your claims were at 750. Um you had 31 high class claims. These
053are claims totaling 50,000 or more in that last 12-month period and 28 are still active as of this report, which is about I would say four weeks to date. So hopefully one dropped off would be nice. Um Meta's underwriting actually calls for a 73% increase to the rates. Um, if you were to look at group experience and what they would need to adjust, it would be a 79% increase. And if you looked at the community, um, factoring in the community uh, groups, it would be a 55% increase to rates. Um, and they're stating or letting me know that a third of the renewals premiums is set to go towards these things that already exist. So a highle summary of the utilization medicica has let us know that a majority of you don't have a kind
054of high high cost claims but you have a lot of utilization specifically in areas of office visits emergency room utilization carrier utilization um they let us know about 14% of your population utilize the ER during this uh reporting period just 50% of over 50% of Betica's benchmark for utilization. They noted that 87 out of the 185 ER bids were deemed non-emergent meaning here. Right? So, this is an area that we see that we can probably help with education with the members and hopefully give them some other options and resources uh for some of this care that would be outside of an emergency setting. 3.4% 4% of your members are driving 47%. Um ultimately um like they said some of the things that we could focus on for utilization that that are high in areas like
055emergency room and urgent care is to give more education on like the virtual care options um and maybe some wellness benefits that come with your group medical plan >> like a nurse online. I know I've seen so you have options. So let's look at it this way. Emergency room, most expensive, >> right? >> Then you have urgent care. >> Then you have your primary care, which we all know not the easiest to get in, >> right? >> Then you have um teleaalth, which is not necessarily cheaper than primary care. It's more of a convenience for you to have access wherever you need to. And then you have virtual care options. These are video options. And with the Medicica plan, you you have two options. you have a virtual and an amwell um both giving uh
056different options to access a medical professional in different formats. Some are video, some are just text, you know, information, whatever makes that member feel comfortable in communicating that. Um so hopefully we can get out some more information and communicate that so the members are aware of that option and hopefully make them feel more comfortable making those choices versus a trip to the emergency room. >> Sorry. Well, I'm just trying to understand. I know you have a presentation, but like because this is like, you know, a lot. And I remember like you could call the hospital, a nurse would call you back and talk you through like, yes, go to the ER, yes, go to urgent care, or we're going to schedule whatever type of appointment you need. Is that that is still available? >> Yes.
057Okay. I'm sorry. It is still available. Yeah. All members have access. The number is actually back on the back of their ID card. Okay. Well, sorry. Thank you. Yep. >> I think the one of the things that we talked about though with that last time is really helping people understand what that virtual option is. I think uh some of us are confused about that as the tellalth option and it's not the same thing. >> So, I think we just need to help people understand the the costs of that. I like how you just described that continuum of the most expensive option to the least expensive option and when that makes the most sense for them. >> So would you plan on having some kind of session to inform teachers on what that looks like? >>
058I think it's going to be layers of communication. I think it's going to be lots of different types of things. It could be email reminders. It could be in-person sessions. It could be um reminders during our professional development days. It could be lots of different options. But I think our experience has shown that they need it often in different ways for them to really understand >> which is not unique, >> right? Which is Yeah. Which is with everything. >> Yeah. And we want people to go like that's what you have insurance for. That's what like makes me angry. But what was the number of like how did you how do they figure out whether or not it did require ER or should have been care? >> So Medicica uses an algorithm put together by New
059York University. don't know specifically how the algorithm works. I did do a little googling just to get a a a better understanding. >> Yeah. >> Um so they take the information and they look at it in different ways. For example, they would deem non-emergent. Now, mind you, this is a broad overview. I'm sure there's more information. >> Um immediate care not required within 12 hours is deemed non-emergent. um emerent primary care treatable which is means it probably needs to be treated within 12 hours but it could be treated in a primary setting. There's emergent preventable avoidable again urgent you know emergency uh care is needed. However, do we need to promote more preventable preventative office visits? Right? Are we not getting the care on a regular basis to help avoid these types of emergency visits?
060And then obviously those that can't be avoided and needed attention. >> Okay. Yep. >> Uh another area where there's high utilization as well as pharmacy, but this is a trend that a lot of groups are seeing. um do you have a higher instance of specialty pharmacy members as well as high higher specialty spend than average. So 68% of your pharmacy spend is from specialty drugs. Uh in the non-spety drug um area high utilization is shown in di diabetic medications. It's pretty high. Um, now obviously there's medications like Mangjaro is Epic. They're out in the marketplace. We've all heard that they have been used off label for weight loss. Your uh plan design is set up to only cover that drug if the individual has a type 2 diabetic um diagnosis. And so there's prior authorization
061practices in place when a member gets prescribed that drug. Um and there's some other things that are coming. You know, some of these drugs they're getting um bioimilars are coming in the market which kind of help drive down the cost. Not a lot, but there are. But it seems like a new shinier better mag comes into the market. So it is it is a big cost for your food. What is the So we have 1.5 million of our claims as 7 million. >> What is that percentage for the >> uh just roughly 20% I believe. >> I mean how's that compared to the regular average? >> I don't I didn't look that up. I apologize. I am seeing though that be a very common factor 15 to 20% I have seen with other groups their
062pharmacy utilization um but pharmacy utilization as a whole or specialty drugs right which Medicica notes is higher than average I'm assuming they're book of So, I want to review what we were able to market for your group. You can see we did um did mark it out to actually six fully insured um carriers. Um I did note some some just said we did apply to quote. They didn't exactly give me a reason why. One did let me know they don't have a narrow network solution which points to the fact that they can't provide the savings that the Medicica acco or the essential networks and provider group. Um we did get one quote which I thought was great because it gives you an idea of what these other carriers were more than likely coming up with
063their when they went through the process and evaluated it. And I'll show you that in the next slide. We did also do a search and market the self-funded just to get an idea of again where does the district sit in their ability to potentially move risk to a self-funded situation. And again, we have found that is it's just not a competitive as you're fully insured with medical you need to do it. >> Oh, it just I got a little too crazy. Okay, I know this is not super easy to see. Hopefully, it's in your packet. You guys can all take a look. Um, can I just say this outside? It says out loud. So, five declined to vote, right? Correct. >> Okay. and one quoted but is not competitive. >> Correct. >> Yeah. Which is
064up on the screen so you can or on that spreadsheet just so you have an idea. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> So the first um two columns are your current plan designs. Your passport plan design and rates are on the left of those block two columns and the essentials on the right just to give you an idea of what that looks like. So current rates with current enrollment um is just about $5.5 million a year with the increase that's going up to approximately 7.6 million a year. I do also want to call out and note that the deductible is going to change. It's going to increase by $100 in the in the single level. I believe it's um $200 in the family 20 to the 95. Yep. Yep. >> That's in order to stay HSA
065compatible. That's IRS guidelines and rules. They set them every year. Your out of pocket has to be set here in order for you to contribute to housing. The So, your renewal again, like I said, is coming in at 7.6 million. The next set or my what is referenced as alt number one is we did look at um setting up an HRA structure to see if there would be savings to the district. What that does is we start with a base plan of 8500 single deductible and the district buys that down to get the member to the 34. Okay. Um, so there's a level of risk because we never know, right, what our claims are going to be. Um, we had our actuary look at it, we had medical look at it, and if you were
066to implement it based on the actuaries calculations, what they expect the district would have to cover for that that space in between the 3,400 85 still puts you in at approximately 36.4% 4% over what you currently have. And again, there's a level of risk in there. So there's no guarantee that that dollar amount actually the H would require wouldn't actually be greater depending on utilization. The next set is just to give you a view of what it would look like if we changed the out-ofpocket structure. If we went from the current 3,400 to the 4,000 um single coverage, it still is a pretty minimal difference. It would instead of the 38.3 with the renewal, it would be 34.1 um increasing that out of pocket to the members. And the far right column is what United
067Healthcare shared with us. >> Oh, nice. And so I did not get any proposals, nothing written with dollars. United Healthcare was the only one. So I'm actually kind of thankful because you can assume the other carriers that declined to quote probably came in roughly around this dollar. >> So if you were to change in a fully insured market, you're looking at another potential $2 million increase over what the renewal would be. So looking ahead, if our claims this year match the premiums, what does that look like for next year's? >> Um, well, it depends on what what they call medical trend. Uh, they forecast, right? So on average, I see anywhere from probably 12 to 15% medical trend. It kind of varies by carrier. Uh so they would they would want to account for that
068increase >> at the very least another 10 to 12%. >> Next year >> in my opinion it's a very strong likelihood. Yes. >> Well, you're on record saying it. So I'll just >> depending on your utilization. I got to throw that in there. >> Sorry. It's nice trying. Yeah, >> that that's the skinny version. Um, I know you guys got some other information you can look over. Do you have any other questions for me or for Bob? I just want to I know David and you guys have been meeting a lot uh since January trying to get this down and looking at a lots of different options. So, I just appreciate. >> Yes. And thank you for being here today. Wish we had a better outcome. >> Is this pretty I mean are you seeing
069this for a lot of other districts or businesses? Is there things have been successful to somewhat curve it a little less sweet? I if I could offer this um I I really look at this as an aberration um again because I feel like and no one's ever going to wish that savings away that we accomplished two years ago by making the change to Medicica. But when and Medicica is not alone in miscalculating the um the healthc care inflation that we have experienced during the last two years. So again, it's starting out probably 10 to 12% lower than they should have, then being handicapped by that by that rate cap, and then having a very very high cost claims year that we're currently experiencing. I can name on I mean in 38 years of doing this
070I can on one hand tell you the number of times that we've had to deliver a rate adjustment north of 35%. It's probably happened in my career two times. So I I do believe that it's a function of underpricing the product two years ago, having the rate cap, and then having some unusually an unusually high claims year. So >> I also had I don't look at this as being the norm. I really don't. >> At a superintendent meeting I had on Friday, there were three other districts that are experiencing 35 to 40% increases on theirs as well in our in our region. same like oh >> I don't know if they have medical but that was the insurance increase that they were getting still >> well we're lucky that we can use medical because those
071that are two hours away they can't go to essential only plan because essential doesn't exist out there you know a small group of hospitals don't have a neuron network plan um one thing just even to put a bigger damper on it is like when they said hey lock me in at 10% a 10% lock in is we are going to double our second biggest expense within 7 years. Um it's it's not sustainable and that's where more discussion take and how we can handle this expense. This $1.8 million the district is taking but it did stagger us at $1.8 million is moving us from a surplus to a deficit when we go in for for our budget next year. >> Um we also had legislators at the meeting with the superintendents on Friday. Uh and they
072heard us loud and clear saying there needs to be >> a plant fit because everybody's experiencing increases, but this is this is dramatic. >> So they heard us loud and clear on that issue. We need a statewide solution. >> It's not just this is just >> everything everybody across the board >> healthcare is just outrageous and it's all just catastrophic insurance for everybody across the board because nobody can just these deductibles are are crazy. Yeah, >> we want people to get the care. That's like why insurance is to educate as Jen mentioned, you know, letting people know, please don't use the ERS or primary doctor. You know, we see it a lot with the younger generations that are doing that. So, if we can get those times, you know, make it mandatory for your employees.
073They have to show up to these trainings. They have to understand, you know, going to simply as going to Walgreens or CVS that have the drive-throughs, those are the more expensive places to get your prescriptions. You know, getting that consumerism out there. When we have to get new tires for our cars, we're going to shop around. When we have to get an MRI, we don't. We take the piece of paper the doctor says and we go there. We can shop around. We can look to see what's most affordable and to educate people to let them know that by making those choices themselves and educating themselves, that's what's going to make a difference. You know, buying cheaper pencils obviously isn't going to give someone a raise. But by them making those smart decisions and educating people
074on the consumers, their healthcare, that's what's going to help you in the long run. >> The only work hold on you have a Jeez, cat got his >> think I'm gonna take this figure with me though. >> Jenny Jenny, >> not yet, Bob. Sometimes we see now. >> Oh, can you >> This is only over here, but >> Oh, can you Yes. No. Is that better? Does someone keep touching? >> The keyboard. >> The lights just came on here. Ann came on. Bob, can you say something? >> Is this any better? >> Oh, I think we're good. Okay. Thank you, Bob. >> We'll have to have somebody looking for you, Bob. >> Yeah, >> thanks, Bob. That's a wrap. Have a good I think I think we'll wrap it, Bobby. Appreciate you taking time from
075Florida. Ben and Jen, thank you very much for being Thank you. You don't have state press. Okay. >> I would with these numbers, too. >> All right. The next order of business is the action item gifts, grants, and bequest. Administration recommends approval to accept gifts, grants, and requests received in March of 2026. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion a second to accept the gift grants and requests. Is there any further discussion? >> Thank you. >> We appreciate it. >> Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. I. >> Oppos. >> Motion carries. There was oneformational item before the presentation just you know that expense revenue page and then theformational items fund 10 revenue and expenditure preliminary reports over that report with us has lots of money in the profits
076right now but >> yep little bit to accept the budget insurance committee report. >> Motion second to accept the budget insurance committee report. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Car. >> So you know people that are listening so they can hear everything loud and clear. So I think if everybody watching can thanks. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. All right. Personnel negotiations committee action items. Administration recommends approval of the April 2026 new hirees and separations report. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion and a second to accept the new hires and separation report from April 2026. You will notice that there are a number of new entries listed in red for your perusal. So that's two. Isn't there I thought Mr. Hip was on there.
077Oh yeah. So two math teachers Molly's being posted then or you said you're going to keep it. Oh, okay. >> Tough to find good math teachers. So thank you. And to see a long time prayer professional, Clarice Peterson is retiring. She's been with us many years. >> Is there any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> Motion carries. I'm sorry, Katherine. I got to wait for you. Administration recommends releasing Lauren Miller, speech language pathologist from SHS from her 2526 school year contract for her request effective March 20, 2026 with the liquidated damages provision waved. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion and a second. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I >> I >> opposed.
078Motion carries. Administration recommends approval of the updated job descriptions and IT restructure for the following positions in the professional category. We had a presentation by our IT director Dan Whitaker explaining the proposed changes to the department structure attached. We will take each one of these separately. Technology specialist one. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion to second. Is there any further discussion? None. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Technology specialist two. >> Should approve. >> Motion second. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. network administrator. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion and a second. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >>
079I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Administration recommends. >> You forgot. >> Student information systems coordinator. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion in a second. Is there any further discussion hearing? None. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> Motion carries. Administration recommends approval of the changes to the employee handbook for the 2026 2027 school year per the attached summary. >> Motion to approve. Second. >> There's a motion and a second. Is there any further discussion? I did uh update that language with the sick type. It was a little bit more clear. >> Thank you. >> There any further discussion? >> Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Administration and the personnel negotiations committee recommend the salary increase for teachers for
080the school year as listed below in the attachment. Full salary increase was ratified by the SFT on March 26th, 2026. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion in a second. Is there any further discussion? >> Hearing none. Yeah. >> Abstain. one abstension. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed? >> Motion carries. Administration and the personnel negotiations committee recommend the salary increase for support staff for the 2026 27 school year as listed on the attachment. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion to second. Is there any further discussion hearing? None. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Administration and the personnel negotiations committee recommend the salary increase for the hourly professional staff for the 2627
081school year as listed in the attachment. >> Motion move to >> second. >> Motion in a second. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Administration and the personnel negotiations committee recommend the newly created salary schedule for salaried professional staff for the 2026 27th school year as listed below in the attachment. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion in a second. Is there any further discussion? >> Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. I. I >> opposed. Motion carries. Administration and the personnel negotiations committee recommend the salary increase for the administrative staff for the 2026 27 school year as listed below in the attachment. >> Motion to approve. Second. >> Motion in a second. Is there
082any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I opposed. Motion carries. >> Motion to accept the personnel and negotiations committee report. >> Second. >> There's a motion and a second. Is there any further discussion? >> Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> Motion carries. Operations committee action items. Administration recommends approval of resolution 26-01 establishing the attendance area for super superior learning academy for the 2026 2027 school year as submitted. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion in a second. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Opposed. Motion carries. formational items at the committee the whole meeting on April 13th. Director Corey Karen provided an update on the new direct we
083introduced Corey that evening >> and his name spelled wrong just so we know. It's two Rs. >> Two Rs. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Karen. >> Oh Karen. Sorry. >> I was wondering the same thing actually. >> He did provide us with updates on the Bryant school project and the middle school project. Motion to accept the operations committee report. >> Second. >> Motion and second. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I I >> opposed. Motion carries. Teaching and learning committee. Informational items. The following updates were provided at the committee of the whole on April 13, 2026. Jennifer Willoughby, director of early childhood and family education, gave a presentation on the Indian education. Kate Tesh, director of continuous improvement and assessment, provided us with the state assessment
084update. And then Amy provided us with the uh yearly schedule of when state testing is conducted in our school district. >> Motion to accept the teaching and learning committee report. >> Motion in a second. Is there any further discussion? >> Just a reminder of the powout that J. >> Thank you. Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Policies and rules committee. Action items. Administration opposes the approval of changes to the following policies based on the recommendation. Administration recommends approval of the first reading of policy 3340 grievance procedure. This policy is being updated to match the current act 10 laws. Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion in a second. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I.
085>> Opposed. Motion carries. First reading of policy 1213, administrators, student supervision and welfare. The policy establishes a standard of care to protect student safety by clearly defining behavioral boundaries for all staff as required by 2025 Wisconsin Act 57. The updated language mandates that parents be notified of sexual misconduct reports by 5:00 p.m. on the same day or noon the next day if the report is received on the next calendar day. A new comprehensive optional section on appropriate staff and student relationships further safeguards students by explicitly prohibiting boundary invasion invasion such as grooming, inappropriate digital contact or unauthorized transport. Violations of this policy may result in the disciplinary action up to and including termination and may be reported to external agencies as required by law. >> Motion to approve. Second >> motion and a second. Is
086there any further discussion? >> Amy, how are people being trained on act 57 or you said we're just waiting for additional resources, right? >> Yeah, they typically will give us some resources either through the superintendent association or nola or there are some um legal uh agencies that we partner with through the superintendent association as they provide those to us. So >> a slippery slope >> like Mhm. >> Yeah. tough. Okay. Thank you. >> You guys going to put out new training for the actit like grooming one. >> Oh, awesome. Thank you. >> And then we'll add it to our public school works as a module that everybody would have to complete. Cool. So that's you have to have that in place by the start of next school year. >> Wonderful. Thank you for that. It's
087helpful to know. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. First reading of policy 3213 for the professional staff student supervision and welfare and the same language up in the 1213 is included. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion in a second. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppos opposed. Motion carries. First reading of policy or really this is the second policy 8462 child abuse and neglect. This policy establishes a comprehensive framework for the mandatory identification and immediate reporting of child abuse or neglect. It requires all staff to complete department of instru public instruction DPI training within their first six months and every 5 years thereafter. A critical update aligned with
0882025 Wisconsin Act 57 intergates specific reporting requirements for sexual misconduct by staff members carrying severe disciplinary consequences for a failure to report. By strictly prohibiting investigative delays by staff, the policy ensures that law enforcement and child welfare agencies can intervene immediately to protect students and preserve evidence. The changes are required for policy compliance with Wisconsin Act 57. >> Motion to approve. >> Motion in a second. Is there any further discussion? >> Yes, sorry because I nerd out on this. So, like I see, yeah, it says what Molly said, but like this does happen in a lot of school districts, the investigative part of it. So, like what are the consequences? Cuz last year in Minnesota, they ended up passing, you know, criminal charges for schools that would not follow like if they pressured someone not
089to report or if they were interfering with the investigation. I don't know if Wisconsin has something akin to that, but like how would the district handle if someone did try to go on their own and investigate it versus follow the policy? >> Well, I think part of it has to do with the training that they're and and we've talked about this when it comes to all cases of uh reporting child abuse. Like when when you have sus when you suspect it, >> you shouldn't be doing your own investigating at that point. that is that's work that has to be done by experts. And so I mean I would say if we're providing training and people violate and don't follow the expectations through that training then there would potentially be consequences depending on the nature of
090what happened. Does that make sense? >> Yeah. I've just seen it happen in even local schools. So like that's why I worry about like >> what are the consequences I guess but I suppose it's going to predict the situation >> what happens cuz like we have progressive discipline so it could be a warning it could be a written discipline it could be time without pay could be immediate termination depending on you know I think it depends on >> what happens but I think we've got that progressive discipline process in place to kind of help >> and then I I wonder like with the policy 1213 and 323 13 violations of the policy may result in disciplinary action. I don't know if we had to have language like that in there, but >> Mhm. >> it
091would be good to be consistent. >> So, is that handbook language there like the how? Right. >> Molly, we have not added handbook language regarding this policy. Right. >> Correct. Now, one of the things Molly has talked about doing is taking a look at the WASBY handbook over the summer months and seeing where our current handbook deviates from the WASBY recommendations and bringing that forward to you guys probably in the next few months. That could be something we discover in that review >> that we need to do some updating because we've had some policy changes. >> I just think about like the cell phone contact, right? like >> needed and also you know >> not good in a lot of situations. So >> okay >> sorry thank you so much. >> All right any further
092discussion hearing? None. All those in favor signify by saying I >> I >> opposed. Motion carries. >> Motion to accept the policies and rules committee report. I'll second that >> motion in a second. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. I. Carries. Other reports by members of the board. So, it's not a report, but it's a recognition and a thank you. Nick Schumacher serving his last um meeting with us with our group. Certainly appreciated the three years we've all been able to work with you, Nick. Um you bring some humor, you bring some enlightenment, you uh bring a wealth of knowledge, and most importantly, you bring a perspective from not only a community member, Nick, but as a parent. And uh that's one thing that
093we all have to be cognizant of is is the voice of our parents and our community. Can't thank you enough for for the time you spent with us. >> Thank you, Steve. >> Thanks, man. >> Yeah. And I'll just say thank you to all you guys. I appreciate the uh grateful for the relationships. um uh this is cultured for sure just to be a part of it and I'm thankful for what I've learned too like it's been a lot in three years especially that first year but uh you know having an understanding of what really happens within the school district. I think sometimes as community members we can live in a vacuum district or within our local, you know, area. You know, being able to see and understand like there's a lot of well a
094lot of districts that struggle with the same things we do, >> right? It's just it's it's a vacuum living in vacuum thing where it's just we feel like it's just, you know, about us. So, um, I have appreciation for that perspective now that I didn't have before. So, yeah. Thank you. >> Thank you. Any other reports by members of our board, district and program program highlights? Anything else? >> Mention we are um scheduling spring school board visits in May. So, look for those from an we. We've got our staff development day, our last one of the year coming up on Friday. Um, we had the honor of having this the um Superior Douglas County leadership group in our middle school last week. We have them come in um annually and it's a different group of
095uh community leaders who come in and learn about the different education systems. They visit Maple, Superior School District, WS and then North D. And so, um we had an opportunity to show off the middle school and it went really well. And then um lastly, we are kind of in that final stretch of summer school planning and registration. So that is there's a lot happening in May coming up. >> Reminder to board members, if you're planning on being at the graduation to make sure and let Ann know if you haven't done so already. >> Salute the service that's coming up service. >> Yeah. >> May 18th. >> Yes. the one third Monday in May. >> Still trapped. >> I saw that. >> That's different. >> Location. Yes. >> Lot more room. Show the high school off.
096>> All right. Consideration of bills and pre-approved bills. >> I'll make a motion that we pay the bills. >> Second. >> There's a motion and a second to pay the bills. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Entertain a motion for adjournment. Motion to adjurnn. >> Yay. >> Second. >> Motion a second to adjurnn. Thank you and good night. >> Thanks everyone. and see you later.