001Good evening and welcome to tonight's regular board meeting on Monday, March 16, 2026. We have met compliance with official notification. Roll call, please. Shelley Men >> here. >> Chad Gman >> here. >> Laura Gapsky >> here. >> Nick Schumacher here. President Steve Olsson >> here. >> Nick Olsen >> here. Sarah Sha Mcone excused. time. Would you all please rise for the pledge of >> allegiance? Aliance 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. 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 a time for comments by members of the public
002during the meeting as indicated on the agenda. Members of the public wishing 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 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. Comment should be respectful focus on the items being considered by the board and be and will be restricted to 3 minutes in length. Action taken at today's meeting will be final approval unless otherwise noted. Don't see that we would have comments from members of the public. No. >> Disposition of minutes from February 9, 2026. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion. Second to approve the minutes from February 9, 2026. Any
003further discussion? Hearing? None. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Next is the report from our superintendent. >> Okay. Well, I have oneformational item tonight. We have um Jason Kalin, our principal from Bryant, here to give an update. And our student rep already gave us update this meeting. So, I come up. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Welcome. >> Thank you. Welcome to winter >> again. >> Mr. Schultz already yelled at me for having too many slides, but I'm a visual guy and it's not going to take any longer. It's just a good representation of what I'm here to tell you today. >> I just love that you called her, Mrs. Schultz. >> It's not working. >> Is it on on the side? >> Mhm. Is it plugged in? >>
004Turn it on and off. >> Oh, there it is. Looks >> like it's red. Yeah, I >> was pushing the wrong button. We're good. Good. >> Yep. Yep. >> Okay. Lots of pictures for you today. Um, school celebrations on the left there. We won, which is a huge celebration for us. Uh, that is Mrs. Bunch Lady. That was our snowman contest. Um, and then that's one of my kids, Ezra, who named it Mrs. Munch Ladies. Um, down below in the lower left, just to kind of illustrate um, what we're doing with our monthly focus. Um, those are two of our monthly winners. they just won their entire class. Um, a pizza party or a root beer float party or something. And that's what we go off of for our monthly focus is like, uh, this
005month is about honesty. So, when we see a kid being honest, we give them a green ticket. They get to put it in a drawing. We draw two classes and every month that happens. That's part of our big assemblies we do each month. The top picture is our fifth grade at Spirit Mountain having a good time. And then that one that's kind of mixed there. Um that was our skating day out at the 58th Street rink. That happened in February. We finally got some really great weather for that. And then after that, the kids had so much fun. My um family engagement coordinator put together a skating day at Westman Arena on the weekend. So >> um little bit of culture at Bryant. We have the Lon Opera there thanks to uh the Edward Johnson
006scholarship. Um our I think our music teachers districtwide use that scholarship every year which is awesome. Uh it was a great um they were on actually on NBC I think they were oh >> doing something there was a special on them but it was a great presentation and then some of my fifth graders got involved. >> Yeah. >> Uh and then Mrs. Gordon had a little uh coffee show at Empire Coffee. She had a several of our kids get to kind of put up their artwork and whatnot. And um I just love that that they get out in the community and get to show off some of their stuff. >> Yeah. >> Uh this is uh part of our big celebration about reading and what we've done communitywide, but then also in our building. This
007is an event that our PTO and family engagement coordinator, Sarah Burke, was put on. We did a bingo night in conjunction with a book fair. I think we have three book fairs scheduled for the year. We've already done two. Um just really trying to get our kids engaging and fun in in reading. Um we have our monthly readers um that come in. Every class has a monthly reader. Dr. Starzki's on the right. >> Oh, am I? Yep. >> Oh, there I am. >> Um aren't you paying attention? >> Oh, I can't see that. >> Sorry. I had to fit everything in the page. >> You're the tallest kid in the picture. I >> am. >> Um I've been a part of it. My mom comes in. We have several grandparents. We have parents that come
008in. Um, so each classroom gets a monthly reader that um, my family engagement coordinator Sarah is doing an amazing job. Um, she coordinates that and gets people in. And then every month we also have a huge bulletin board in our front hallway where we put on a reading activity. Um, and she did this over spring break where the kids do reading bingo and it just encourages them to engage in reading outside of school and then um, when they complete it, they bring it to the main office. Mrs. Booker gives them a little ticket, puts it in a bucket, and we draw five names at our monthly assembly every month, >> which is great. >> So, just one more way that we are trying to engage our kids in reading outside of the classroom. >> Um,
009we had several kids go to the middle school for Battle of the Books. Um, here in the lower left are five of our monthly winners from one of our monthly reading activities. Um, so in this one here, they got posters um from the book fair, the PTO. What they'll do is they'll take the money that they get um from the sales of the book fair. They'll give us free stuff and whatnot and we buy we get things to give back to the kids. So, it's awesome. Uh we also have um a big book library at school. So, every time a kid has a birthday, even our summer birthdays and our vacation birthdays, Mrs. Burquist brings them down. They get to pick out a book for their birthday. >> Nice. >> Um we have coming up.
010Um actually, no, we have that. That was an event with Deborah Martero. She's an author. She comes in and um she did a a kind of a a read story time book signing type thing. A real author. >> Um one of our monthly activities we did author letter activities. And this lower right here we actually got an author to respond. >> So our kids would read a book and then they would talk about um what they enjoyed about the the book and they sent them to the author and we actually got a reply. So we were really fired up with that. So good. >> And then of course some of our monthly winners up there on the top right. So we're really just trying to put a lot of emphasis in let's read for fun
011>> and it's it's helping. Climate and culture at Bryant are really strong. Uh behavior is still very positive even though we had a little slight spike before spring break. >> I don't think you're the only one. >> Um we just did the uh the the Nate test which is our nation's report card in fourth grade. got probably the nicest compliment from the um lady Janelle. She said, "This is the best two classrooms I've been in in a long time." >> So, felt really good >> uh to leave with that. >> Um our implementation of our CPR card, um we've added a couple of more defined performance indicators. I'll talk about them in a sec. Uh and that's really helped us really identify like target what it is that we're, you know, measurable components of our
012CPR card. And then our winter data, which I'm going to show you here in a second, it's trending in the right direction. It doesn't look like mesmerizing off the charts, but it's trending in the right direction. And the reason why it's not off the charts is because I think our progress is appropriate and um we're our students at risk are almost not at risk any like almost all of our kids are not at risk anymore. Our goal obviously is around reading. We want 83% of our students to be above uh the lowrisk benchmark. So we want them advanced or proficient and um right now we are at 72%. So you can see it's slow growth but our experience and Kate could maybe um attest to this. The winter benchmark test is pretty difficult and it
013all come adds up to like where you are in teaching the students and what they're asked to do. Um, we usually see not a whole lot of growth from fall to winter, but winter to spring we see a big jump. >> There's a lot of disruptions too from fall to winter. Yes. You think about it, right? >> Yeah, >> there are. So, just to give you an example on the left, that's my kid, fall winter. On the right is my first grade, fall, winter. And what I'm showing you, this is early literacy. This is one of our tests that we use, age web plus. It's what we report on for our school um read plans and and whatnot. But you're noticing it the bigger the green is the better, right? >> Y >> um we
014are taking and reducing our kids who are at risk which is the red. >> Yeah. >> So that's fall to winter. That's that's K1. >> This is 2 three >> that is four. >> Nice. >> Wow. And I need to make a quick little plug with some statistics that if you go back to uh well I think on all of these the way that you have them sorted but you're looking at the 40th percentile and that's on the high average range of being at proficiency. Some some the state is only looking for us to measure kids at the 25th percentile. So I just want to give you extra credit for the movement of kids all the way up to the 40th percentile. >> The 40th percentile cutoff. Correct me if I'm wrong Kate but it's
015the green. >> Yep. Yeah, >> the green and the yellow right there. >> So, anything green and blue on these is um above that 40th, right? And it's, you know, we every kid who's in the yellow or red, we have intervention plans. We they're in EMLSS, maybe they're a special education stu. I mean, we are literally we have a plan for every kid at school. Um, which is great. In math, um, it's not that it's not one of our goals to increase in math. Obviously, you know that. Um, but we are we have commitments that we have as a staff where we are we're practicing our math facts and fluency during every RTI session. Um, we are committed to increasing our math talk, having a collaborative approach to teaching math in class. I love seeing
016the kids teach one another a strategy that works for them and it's an aha moment for another kid who's looking for a strategy that works. Um, on that note, you know, at the bottom bullet there, it's teaching students to use multiple strategies. I I see a lot of um mentor u fulin boards in our class where the teachers have multiple math strategies um that are probably a lot better than the grandpa math that I use um that the kids always tell me. Uh and then of course we are consistently upping our game when it comes to math manipulatives and visuals. So trying to do those to focus in on again decreasing um our at risk students and and building up. So this is my my K1 in math. >> Oh, >> this is our 23
017in math and this is our four five. And granted four five you don't see a whole lot of movement there. The math at 45 is a different animal than the math at other levels. We're talking um this is where they start to get some of the concepts that kind of blow your mind like fractions. I mean the first unit of the year they are throwing fractions in fifth grade. That's like it's tough. Um but they're still doing great things. I mean they are working really hard. So that's our data and that's our fast math. So that's that's another one. So we had a couple of tests there. We had automaticity and then we have our fast map challenges. I I I I don't know that there I mean I don't want to say that there's
018not a challenge every day, but to bring to the school board and say that there's a challenge. It's hard for me to come up with one. Okay. So, what I wanted to do is kind of celebrate the fact that what we had as a school challenge with our new literacy curriculum is no longer a challenge. And I believe I can speak for our staff by saying that yeah, it took a lot of time to get used to to dig into it, but our fidelity is true building wide. Um we're using all components of it from the reading to the writing. It's hard. It's robust. The kids struggle with it, which is good. It's a productive struggle. It's not something that they can't handle or that we don't want to use. Um, it is wonderful. Um,
019we're excited about next year to think about what our kindergarteners who are using it are going to be like in first grade and so on and so forth. Uh, we believe that it is going to we're going to see significant gains over the next three to five years. Um, and I think our teachers are so comfortable that we're now using some of our staff meeting times to do more vertical teaming and they're talking about what formative assessments work at fifth grade level compared to third grade level. And that conversation, I think, is allowing them to see the progression of what we're asking our kids to do K5. Um, and it's helping them kind of understand the the path that we're taking with this new curriculum. So, what was a challenge is no long. The only
020challenge I could really come up with and >> Oh, no. >> I'm going to smile. >> Okay. I don't know what you're going to say. >> Our construction project. >> Oh, okay. >> Um >> I would agree. >> They they were in over spring break and it's frustrating because um you would think that they were fixing the place up, but it's it's gone backwards. Um, so it's just continually having to ask my teachers to clean areas and do this and prepare and then it comes in and it's not done well. So I am meeting with um the the supervisor on Thursday um or actually no tomorrow at 4 and we're going to do another walkthrough. They committed to fixing everything that was undone or ruined. Uh we lost several of our blinds. paint was on
021some just frustrating the big work like the the construction of the building, the brick work and whatnot. Couldn't be happier. The windows are amazing. It's just the finishing stuff and the components. It's it's just getting to the point where enough already. Let's have it done. Um so that's really the only challenge that we have at Brian right now is just getting that wrapped up. >> But we feel really awesome. It's uh it's a good place. >> Good. If you get a chance to come in, please do. >> They will this spring. >> Yeah. Um, and then I don't think I have anything else on there. CPR card is there. Do you have any questions? I'd love for you to come in and see what we do with our interventions. Um, because you know, I talked
022a lot about Sarah Burquist, our family engagement coordinator, PTO. They're doing a lot of that fun stuff outside. our teachers are in the they're in the trenches and what they do with interventions and how they plan with our EMLSS and our sped teachers um and how they share kids um even cross grade levels. If we have a student who's not reading at a particular grade level, we give them what they need when they need it. Uh it's awesome. >> Um I know she reaches out too for volunteers to read in classrooms, right? >> Yep. >> You guys might be interested in reading in a classroom. >> It's fun. Yeah, I think she did. >> I can read. You can read, can't you? >> I tried. >> I I got to read the Lorax before spring
023break and some of those words. Y >> I had the first grade teachers laughing at me as I was trying to pronounce the words. And >> do you get to pick your own book? >> I actually I asked the teacher librarian to help me because they know so many amazing books that they all give me great recommendations. >> If you want a book, you just want to sign up. Sarah will have a book ready for you when you get there. >> Yeah. >> so I think what what changed is the fact that you know you're here giving your presentation and stuff and then when we come to the schools >> Nick and I, if I recall right, you said this this past fall, we want to get into the classrooms more and see more of
024that practical work that's going on with the students, >> see some of the new um literacy curriculum. That might be nice. Yeah. >> Yep. See things in action. >> Yeah. If you got to see some of the resources that they have to access like the hands-on stuff. That's what I really like about the new curriculum is the the kids are reading, they're annotating, they're they're they're they're learning the skills of a good reader and then they're talking about today I taught class because we were short. A lot of people got stuck on vacation. Um I was teaching on vocabulary. We were just reading an article and we were circling words that we didn't understand and we were going over vocabulary. But that's planned part of the curriculum and the resources are there for to to
025do that. >> So when Ann reaches out this spring around site visits, >> it might just be good to say here's good times that they could come in when they can see some different things. >> We have reading rotations happening. >> Yeah. >> At every minute of the day because that's how we schedule them so that our EMLS can >> Oh, nice. Yeah. >> And these are all components of the science of reading. Yeah. >> Yep. >> That old curriculum is based on it. >> And the phonics piece has been a huge win. >> My uh the teachers that >> in the past in our old curriculum where they had said that that part of that curriculum was weak, they love our phonics right now. >> And you know when we need to supplement, we
026have some resources that we supplement with during our intervention time with our kids. But everybody gets the same when it comes to reading in our classrooms. I think reading at home there um have been some new studies coming out that I mean just kids reading overall since smartphones and onetoone the laptops the one to one and I'm like oh my gosh I almost regret like that we did that although you have to in the society but that has >> books >> yeah since kids got laptops one to one and smart devices the reading scores have plummeted and we can only do so much at school and you you know, thank you for your teachers for and Kade and and Crystal and everyone that was a part of that new curriculum. But at home, even as
027a mom myself, it is so hard to get a 16-year-old to try to read like and and if we can foster it at this age and get them loving it and exciting, >> find great authors. >> Hopefully, it'll take it just really all parents need to try to keep kids reading at home, too. >> This monthly program has been fun. >> Yeah, it looks >> we're posting pictures. you come into our into our main office area to the right, there's going to be pictures of our kids are they were bringing in reading bingo all day today. >> Love it. >> They did they did read over break. >> Yeah. >> And um it's great. >> Excellent. >> So, >> thanks Kayn. >> Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate all that you do. Thanks. Good evening. >>
028Take care of your family. That's awesome. Stay warm. >> All I Oh, no. I have some action items. Do you want to go over those? >> I'll take them. Sure. All right, our first action item, consideration of overnight field trip for John Cordellski, the Northland Senior Retreat at the Superior School Forest. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion and a second. There. Any further discussion? Hearing? None. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Opposed. Motion carries. Consideration of overnight field trip from Spike Groupi for the SHS robotics team to attend Win District 7 Rivers event in Lacrosse, Wisconsin. >> 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. Consideration
029of overnight field trip from Spike Groupi for the SHS robotics team to attend Wind District Mcuano event in Mcuano, Wisconsin. >> To approve second >> motion and second. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I oppose. >> Motion to accept the report of the superintendent. >> Second. Motion second to accept the report from our superintendent. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Board committee reports. First, the teaching and learning committee action item. Curriculum resource approval. The administration recommends the adoption of the following curriculum resource to support elementary math courses. These resources are needed to meet 7-year curriculum cycle needs and content area standards. Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion and a second. Any further discussion? I know Kate
030is here. >> Yes, I think Kate's here for Christmas. >> It's here. If there was any questions, I know that we did receive one from from Sarah. She was not necessarily overly concerned, but that the timing making sure that it was not going to conflict too much with all of the new reading curriculum and everything. But Amy explained to her that, you know, it's really that math process is not fully implemented. It will be two years. >> People who are excited and interested in piloting the program and then the following years when we'll implement. So they'll have two full years to implement the literacy curriculum before introducing the math curriculum. >> And act 20 was not optional. It was the state statute imposing that. We already had the plan for the math that came down
031and paused that. So yeah, sorry Nick, did you have something else? >> I was just going to say the the pilot teachers will work the kinks out with stuff and they'll collaboration with >> being part of the then they'll help plan the implementation and the training and the support needed the following year. I think >> yeah, I think it's a I think it's a good mix of things that need to happen and way we can it's manageable. Um, so those who are ready can >> jump on board and help support those who weren't stressed about those lots of new things. But I think Jason that as the year goes on with literacy feeling more comfortable and less stressed. So that also now gives us another year after this year. So for those who aren't interested
032in the next year, I think it's a good plan and you'll be successful to have other leaders on board else too and knowing what here's what's really critical or here's what's hard, here's where you need to spend more time or here's where don't worry about this, it'll be okay. So >> yeah, it's a successful plan as well. Kate, with this new MAP program that that we may be approving here, um, with your experience with math and you reviewed it, I'm sure, you know, what's your take on this program? >> Yep, I'm super excited. I think we have a lot of teachers excited. I think I don't have the specific details of the years that Crystal shared at our last meeting. It's been a long time. Yes. I think one of the things that with anything
033new, um, there's always new pieces to figure out and and figure out how they fit in how you teach in your classroom. But I think what's exciting is anytime we have a new resource kind of guiding us in, you know, my work as a principal, my work as a math teacher, it it's a fresh start where everybody's on a really similar page. And I think that provides really great PLC conversations, vertical teaming conversations, finding out where we might have some gaps. You know, as a school board and as directors, we've been in a lot of meetings looking at a lot of data around our map. And I think what's what else is exciting is we're not just grasping at random acts of what do we do? We're saying here's the data. Here's how we created
034a strategic plan and and we're moving forward on some of those actions. So, I think the excitement is it's a nice it's nice to all be on the same page because the longer you use a resource both as a teacher and as you watch teachers as a as an administrator, the easier it is to kind of say, "Yeah, yeah, I know how this lesson goes without using all of the pieces." That's just natural. I did it myself frequently. So, I think the nice part about a new resource causes everybody to just reset and make sure we're not skipping things, maybe even unintentionally that ultimately will help our kids. So, I think it's an exciting next step, but it always is a little more work when it's something that you can't just do how you've done
035for good a good amount of seven to 10 to 12 years. I think >> I think it was like almost 18 years, >> right? new new it was just a new updated manual. >> Yep. >> So, >> how does it merge with our secondary agent? >> It's the same. >> It is okay. >> So, that'll be a nice a really nice uh kind of linear >> continue. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Any other questions? >> Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Opposed carries motion to accept the teaching and learning committee report. Second >> motion and second to accept the teaching and learning committee report. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Budget Insurance Committeeformational items fund
03610 revenue and expenditure preliminary reports were provided to us. Approval action items gifts, grants, requests. Administration recommends approval to accept gifts, grants, and bequests received in February of 2026. Secondly, a second to approve our gifts, grants, and bequests. Another >> very generous. Yeah, very generous. Any further discussions? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Personnel negotiations committee action items. Administration recommends approval of the March 2026 new hirees and separations report. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. lot of retirements again. So, thank you. I know they'll have the salute to service. That date has been set for May 18. >> 18 Monday. Monday. And then go ahead. >> Oh, I was just going to say um do you want to acknowledge our new hire for the facilities
037director? We done that yet? >> Okay. >> He's new on this week >> and so he'll be starting in two weeks from today. >> Cory K. Yep. >> And we did have one uh additional retirement head at Coke at Cooper. So, a lot of years of experience and uh certainly can't thank these people enough for the dedication that they put forth for our children in our district. >> And the principles, Molly, are um very busy right now with the hiring process. So you'll see next month some new hires as they're going through the hiring process right now. >> Aren't speech language pathologists pretty challenging to hire? >> Um that position we will not be well I'm not sure if Okay. >> Yeah. I mean Okay. >> But at one point we discussed that um we
038were in a position where we we thought that we have enough people to cover We always evaluate whether we need to replace folks if we're able to absorb um those positions like uh we have a couple high school positions that we don't need to replace because we're able to absorb some of those classes with the department. And so we'll we reevaluate all of these positions to determine if they need to be replaced or if they can be absorbed. And ideally if we can make reductions through retirements and not have to do layoffs and things that's ideal. So >> there's a lot of years experience of our elementary school lot. Holy smokes. Yeah, we have a lot in middle school. Yeah. >> All right. Any further discussion? >> Hearing none. All All those in favor signify
039by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. >> Motion to accept the personnel and negotiations committee report. >> Motion second. >> Motion to second to accept the personnel negotiations committee report. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Opposed. Motion carries. Legislative committeeformational items. Although the state assembly has adjourned its regular floor session for the year, Speaker Boss has publicly stated that the legislature could return in a special or an extraordinary session to address the state's projected surplus once negotiations with the governor reach an agreement. Those conversations are ongoing. where negotiations last stood. Back on March 2nd, legislative leadership had offered a package that included 200 million to meet the commitment to special education categorical aid reimbursement targets of 42 and 45%, approximately 500 million for the
040school tax levy credit to support property tax relief, 1.4 billion in an individual income tax rebate. Today we received I don't know if all of you do get the team public email >> WPEN >> WPN. So what came out of the Wisconsin public education network today. Finally, we have a common sense proposal on the table that would responsibly address the funding crisis and exacerbated by a wolfy inadequate state budget. The new proposal LRB-6488 introduced by Representative Phelps and Representative Cruz would use funds Wisconsin has now to meet the needs our kids have now. We see the proposal circulating for co-sponsorship here. The plan and which deserves bipartisan support, funds special education at a sum sufficient 60%. Gets new equalized aid directly into classroom, provides property tax relief, and reduces need for keeping the lights on
041referenda and responsible use of state surplus to fix a budget that sold our kids short. These are all just plans that these people obviously have to work together on to see how much movement they're they're going to have. Um, as I did the last time, I will be constructing a letter with David Koi and sending that off to our representatives in support of this plan >> from our board. >> Okay. Of course, we always urge the public to do the same and send their letters of support. >> Motion to accept legislative committee report. >> Second. >> Motion second to accept the legislative committee report. Any further discussion? Hearing? None. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed? Motion carries. Administration proposes the approval of changes to the following policies based on
042Neiola recommendations. Second reading of policy 8510 wellness to approve. >> Second motion a second. Maybe you were going to have an update on there. Correct. >> Yep. And made some adjustments based on our conversation last meeting. Um was duplicative or whatever. >> Yeah. >> And you put encourages. >> Yeah. >> Motion in a second to accept policy 8510. Is there any further discussion? He none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Opposed. Motion carries. Second reading of policy 6152.01, waiver of school fees or fine. Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion to second to approve policy 6152.01. Is there any further discussion? >> Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carried. Second reading of policy 6320 purchasing. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >>
043Motion second to approve policy 6320. Is there any purchasing? Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. >> Second. >> Motion and second to accept the policies and rules committee report. Any final discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. I. >> Opposed. >> Motion carries. Operations committee action items. administration recommends approval of the purchase of two special education buses from Wisconsin bus sales for a total of $298,234. One bus will be equipped with a wheelchair lift. One bus will be modified to have a flat floor throughout the bus. Both buses will be dedicated slow solely for special education. One bus will be used to transport students from the local vulture school. >> Motion to approve. >>
044Second. Motion second to approve the purchase of the two special education buses from Wisconsin bus sales for 298,234. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I opposed. Motion carries. Informational item at the committee of the whole meeting and update from principal Kalin. Facility update. Motion to accept the operations committee report. >> Second. Second to accept the operations committee report. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Other reports by members of the board. >> Did superior days happen? >> Yeah. Yep. the kids coming >> February 10th and 11th. >> Um, do you I don't know if I've got them on the schedule to present. Do we have them on the schedule to present? >> I mean, >>
045I don't know if we necessarily have them on the schedule, but we could definitely ask Caitlyn for April. >> Yeah, I thought you were going to have Caitlyn come is what you had. >> We had her. I want to say she's on the calendar for April. >> Oh, cool. Okay. >> She's She is too. Yeah, I'm I don't off top my head, but I think Yeah. >> Song made up. Let's go. >> Well, the reason the reason I think it's on April is because I asked Ann whether we were going to continue to have an ACP update or not. And because she does ACP updates and she does project updates, but then she also did the >> days. So >> it would be nice to I know we were almost not going to send students.
046So I'd really like to hear from the students of the value. >> She is on April. Okay. All right. Thank you. >> Thanks David. >> We have spoken in the past about sending thank you cards to people in the community who make donations to our school district. And I'll be sending a thank you card to Kathy Nim who donated $2,000 to food service balances in honor of her brother who passed. >> He was a clergy at Essentia and donated to our kids lunch balances. He wants to keep his tradition going. >> Oh, sweet. >> So, I'll send that on behalf of our entire board. >> Thanks, Steve. >> Any other district or program highlights? I think just important this is a very very busy time of year. We've got student enrollment. Um we're in the
047middle of that. Open enrollment, transfer requests, those kinds of things are happening now. Our forward and our ACT testing are starting. Um end of the quarter three will be here shortly, couple weeks, week or two. And then um spring sports have also started. So it's just a busy time here. >> When's the deadline for open enrollment? April 30th is the open enrollment, but we really I mean that's the deadline, but I feel like we take them beyond that. >> I mean, when do we start to reach out to um people in our community that perhaps their students are attending an online school someplace else or um in our community and not attending our public schools. Sarah Bianca has helped us communicate out to all families 8th through 12th grade for next year. She'll she kind
048of has been doing that on an annual basis for families who are specifically accessing an online program that's not ours. She's just reminding them that we have an online program and that was benefits to enrolling at our high school because you can participate in our our activities programs. Um so she's reaching out and doing that. She that's kind of ongoing, but that will happen again more this summer. >> Um, I got a chance to go to the Lon Opera that they had at Cooper. Super cool, super well done, engaging. The kids uh were uh pretty wideeyed. So, it's pretty cool that they got the kids involved and they kind of walked, you know, in between the kids and, you know, some of the kids got to do get up and do some of this stuff.
049Really well done. It's fun. Oh, I do have one other thing. So, contact or contact Chris for Chris Kintop and myself about our resolution and everything. Oaklair did city council finally passed theirs. Chris Hembach's going to get us the information of the steps that the Oaklair school district took with the city and then we'll meet. Our plan our plan still is that we think we should have to get the mayor and the uh county chair, Mr. lever um at the table with Chris and I so we can give the same message and that we don't have to start chasing our tail like we had to last fall to make sure that this information gets on because we've had the s significant price in in the bus that we had to pay. We're we're going to
050be having some other costs with the three schools that we service and it's important that this this information gets on our tax bills that we receive. >> Yep. All right. Consideration of bills and pre-approved bills. >> Motion to pay the bills. >> Second, pay the bills. >> Motion a second to pay our bills. Any further discussion? >> David, any highlights? >> No, it's pretty standard. Um, kind of on the dawn days a little bit. Uh, this month is when budgeting for next year really ramps up. So, we're on par for budget and everything else so far this year. So, did you collect all the payments then from the municipalities? Well, >> they saw um but the last the big one that we just had was on February 28 or something like that. So, yeah, just
051catch up and then tomorrow our grand paid 6 million on our bond payment. So, it takes all that. >> Bye. bank on that bond. No. >> Um, one other thing I'm just wondering just um with the increase in gas prices, are you seeing a difference on what you projected for bus transportation from that department or are we still pretty much on par? >> 80% of the payments prom. >> Yeah. >> Well done. Okay. Thank you. Right. I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second to adjourn tonight's meeting. >> All in favor signify by saying I. >> I am Amy. Do you have to go get Kate or can I have five can?