001This is it. >> Yes, sir. >> All right. >> Are you good, Ann? >> We're good. >> All right. Here we go. Good day, Monday, February 2nd. Welcome to tonight's committee of the whole meeting. Like to call the meeting to order. We have met compliance of official notification. Roll call, please. >> Laurowski, >> here. >> Sarah Schuber McCone, >> here. >> Shelley Men, >> here. >> Nick Olsen, >> here. >> Katherine Gmont, excused. Nick Schumacher, here. President Steve Olsson here. 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 [clears throat] meeting. There's a time for comments by members of the public during the meeting as indicated on the agenda. Members of the public
002wishing 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 block 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 focused on the items being considered by the board and will be restricted to three minutes in length. Are there any comments by members of the public? Okay, you will hold off then on your report. We're going to move then to the first committee report, the budget insurance committee report. We have a presentation tonight on our 2425 audit. Welcome Brock. >> Did he join as a presenter? >> [clears throat] >> You have it muted. >> We don't hear you. Hey,
003there we go. There we are. >> Perfect. >> Hopefully hopefully I wasn't causing the dilly starting there. But, uh, yeah. Uh, good that you can hear me now. I can see you. I can hear you now. So, that's all good. Um, >> perfect. >> Uh, I think I can share my screen. Is okay if I do. So, I've got a handout I'm going to go through. >> Yep. >> Yes. >> Perfect. Okay. Let me get that on the screen here [clears throat] and you can tell me if you see that or not. >> You see the handout start there. >> Nope. >> Yeah, it's right there. There it is. >> If it's big enough to see or not, but uh All right. Well, I'm Brock Gian. I'm uh a principal in charge of your annual
004external audit. Gonna I just got a two-page handout. I'm going to run through some of the highlights there. Uh I'll go through those pretty quick. I probably won't touch on all the numbers or the results on there. So, if you have any questions, just chime in. Maybe just start out here just by recognizing your team there. Uh did a very nice job. Um I think uh our our audit adjustments, the adjustments to the books that we proposed, you guys are down. Timing was really good. Uh I might say, well, hey, you're here in in February 2nd. How how good could timing be? But I will reassure you that it your team did and our team did just about everything possibly could. Uh this year we had the unique um experience of having the federal shutdown
005impact our timing. So when they were shut down uh they we were waiting on release of what's called a compliance supplement. We use that and we have to incorporate that into our audit testing and documentation and ultimately reporting. So we were on hold for for a few months uh waiting for that to come down. So there isn't anything anybody in in that room there could have done differently or us to maybe get here a month earlier. uh somewhat the nature of the beast for all Wisconsin districts this year in all single audits across the country. But uh good news is uh result of that is is uh positive [clears throat] and the alternative would have been hey we could have issued separate financial statements in December. Uh we could have met and talked about the
006results there. We would have had to hold on and issue a second report at a later date for the single audit the federal single audit piece and that would have just been a lot of unnecessary cost and time. So, we did not go that route. We just uh waited it out and issued everything at one time. So, hopefully that part makes sense. Uh the the way this summary works, I cover some of the uh audit reports and opinions we issue first. Um and then similar in the past, I've got some financial highlights that follow. So, uh a couple things of note. This auditor's report section that is the booklet itself. We've issued an unmodified opinion. That's the highest level you can get. Means all the amounts disclosures are materially correct. So what you strive to
007achieve the second section and third really the management letter and the compliance section that kind of goes together. So we're looking at your internal controls and we're looking at your grant programs primarily there. And two things the first two there one and two uh those are ongoing reoccurring items and nearly all of our clients get that same thing. It means we propose adjustments to your books uh because we're external to your controls and and auditors. That's just a yes no type of deal when when we do help with that. And the last one is um you don't have a whole slew team of CPAs in the back office there doing the books, segregating every possible function for controls. You do what you can and people have multiple responsibilities. And when that's the case, we rely
008on your controls to make things everything's on the up and up. And we didn't find any error or fraud because of it. It's just a simple you're not going to hire more people to resolve that particular uh number one uh item up there for lack of segregation of duties. Those are not new. Hopefully those make sense. Uh the third one there, the signed medical consent for services, that is new. That's a part of the compliance federal audit testing that we do in state testing. So we're looking at your grant programs. Um every year as auditors, we don't test 100% but we are we do test quite a bit. We're actually required to test 40% of your total annual federal and state expenditures um and the compliance with those. And it ends up being quite a
009bit more because that's a minimum. And when we roll in programs, every once in a while we have to cycle new ones in that we haven't tested in the last two years. That was the case here um where there's a form that needs to be signed. Wasn't happening um during the process during the year. And uh so that's again one of these yes no type of things. It was addressed uh after it was noted. So I don't expect that's going to be a a finding you'll see going forward. So >> Brock, this is Amy. Can I ask a question? >> You bet. Yep. Um I [clears throat] had just I just wanted to clarify that we've updated this process since this finding was shared with us, but can you just reiterate um how this was
010discovered um this year as opposed to previous years knowing that the process it's something we do every year? >> Sure. Yeah, good question. Um, so let's talk a little bit about for instance, we are the we are the ones that flushed this one out just because we ask for certain testing documentation. You guys provide it. We look it over. Yes. No. There was an approval on these forms. We looked at um the the program the special ed that we tested. We don't we don't have to test that one every year for example, right? That's one of these that we cycle in. Certain programs we have to test every year because of the size or risk or whatever our assessment is on it. So this one we we brought in probably haven't tested this one in
011a few years and because of the nature and timing of the testing that we're required to do outlined by the compliance supplement. Um it's it's something that that uh that end up being flagged during the audit this year. >> So it was just a kind of a random sample that was pulled this time and it was discovered through that process. Right. >> Absolutely. Yep. >> Okay. >> Yep. >> Rock, will there be a followup next year then um on this same area? Do you have history of of Okay. Yep. So, what'll happen here? There's a couple things. Um, uh, DPI has a bit of a oversight process here, too. So, when they see these compliance type items get identified and audit, they're going to issue a letter saying, "Hey, we either agree or don't agree
012with it." You're going to get the letter say, "Hey, we agree with what was reported there. What are you doing about it?" The um the other part related to what we are responsible for doing is collecting your guys' thoughts on a corrective action plan. Uh, there's a there's a corrective action plan for all three of these items listed here. And that one is going to say your corrective action is hey we took this act action that we consider the issue resolved. What's the followup to answer your question would be hey we know this as an auditor the subsequent year we do follow up to make sure what you said you were going to do actually happened. So that would be the ultimate followup um uh during the next audit cycle. >> Thank you. Exactly what
013this was is whenever we build to Medicaid, it is required by federal governmental grant that the parents or guardians sign off saying yes, you can build Medicaid. And there was one student in which we didn't have a piece of paper where a parent had signed off on it. So we're now out at risk of losing, you know, we're out at like $200 or something to Medicaid through this student. So it isn't uh or we just weren't doing it. Who was it? >> That that control needs to be tightened to make sure that we're ensuring we're checking off that it's cough every time. And Dena has already been working on that as well. So, >> thanks for that, David. That's helpful. I better understand. [clears throat] >> Yeah, good questions. >> Um, okay, moving down here
014a little bit. Just a few more things we help out. Let's talk about the general fund. So, this one I might shrink this down. Hopefully, you can still see it or you got copies there handy. So it is important to note when I talk general fund as an auditor um that is a combination of funds 10 and 27. I realize for you that's general fund uh and a special education fund but we have uh we have to combine [clears throat] those for reporting purposes. So um when you're looking at these numbers it might look a little bit different in total than what you're accustomed to if you're looking at budgetary documents or something. Um couple highlights here that I'd point out. uh it's going to point you to this change in fund balance and you
015can see the trend here positive trend for four straight years you're able to that's that's your revenues are exceeding your expenditures for the year and in this particular year for 25 I would consider it a very good year in the sense that um you did have positive results of 2.9 almost 3 million and that is in spite of if you will two big events that you were able to contribute to other funds you were able to make a $3.5 million fund to your funds 73. That's your OPED or your postemployment benefit trust fund that's out there. You're able to fund that. Uh there's been this big liability um that's been out there that you have an actuary work with you and come up with uh a liability for. You're able to fund that better this
016year than maybe past several years. And then you also um funded your capital projects fund fund 46. So you moved a couple million dollars over there too. Those are transfers out. those would be expenses, if you will, um that contributed to this result here. And in spite of that, you still came out ahead of the game. So, very good results. Uh we compare these three shaded rows, your unassigned reserves or fund balance to what you spent for the year, the 62 million, and you hit that ratio at the bottom. Each year, I I talked to you guys, I've tried to point this out as well. We like to see, you know, at a minimum, not necessarily a target or even something as far as you'd want to um entertain going under, but uh at least
017a minimum of 25 to 33% and that's only 3 to four months of reserves. That's the way you should look at that. And you're certainly within that. You've been there the last right in the ballpark here the last four years. And uh the trend has been positive there, too. So, uh the general fund, you always want to see that one doing well, and it is indeed doing that here for you through 25. going to move you down a little bit through here. Uh we do talk about some of your other funds here, but I'm going to move you down to and those are all trending fine. Your debt service fund, you're going to see a little bit of growth there. So here you do levy some dollars and you have some interest that's being accured
018from the funds that you hold and um you have principal and interest you're paying and some fees. So when you have an increase over the prior year, that means primarily because the interest that you earned is is able to grow this fund. The good news here is you have nearly 1.5 million to be able to apply to a future budget period. You don't have to use it next year. You could use part of it. You could use all of it to help fill in a budget um deficit for for the purpose of paying principal and interest though. It's got to be in the debt service fund paying for principal and interest. You would have you could re maybe uh look at your levy and what you're doing in any given year. Eventually, you'll have to
019use the 1.5 million towards principal and or interest in a future period. So, keep that in mind. It's good good uh good reserves to have for that purpose. Flexibility. U mentioned earlier here you've got some dollars set aside for capital projects. You got fund 49. That's the 7.9 hadn't changed. There's no activity in there from the prior year. Um that is available to you going forward. And then this uh fund 46 long-term capital improvement plan mentioned before you were able to transfer $2 million from the general fund to help fund this capital plan of yours. And uh that's the primary reason for the growth in the reserves in that fund. Going to wrap it up here with your long-term debt obligations. You didn't issue any new general obligation debt during the year, but you did
020pay down some principal. So you uh paid down 5.6 million. That's why you're seeing this drop from 67 million down to 62. So going forward, you'll pay a bit less interest, which is good. And then down here is a summary of your other debt long-term obligations. These are your benefit plans you have in place. So on so forth. You do have some finance purchase agreements. That's a different type of debt. That's where equipment financing pretty much. Um what maybe is a what might stick out are a couple of negatives. And what does that mean? So here in the OPE single employer, that's your plan. And then you've got this uh multi-employer pension, the WRS plan. That's the one the state controls. Both of these show a negative number at some point. And that's a little
021counterintuitive because this is a section that summarizes debt or obligations, right? So when you have a negative, that would mean you have an asset to record. So I'll talk you through that quick. If you remember what I said in the general fund, you were able to fund your OPED trust with $3.5 million during 2025. So you were able to transfer money into that fund to help fund your long-term liability for district provided benefits. So you had a liability out there calculated by the actuary of 3 3.5 million. So when you put you paid your normal benefits for 2025 and then you were able to fund the fund further with three and a half million. The actuary at the end of the year said you've got an asset on the books of 457,000. So you know
022the good news here is you've got a a a plan a plan that's fully funded. That's that's u uh not super common in Wisconsin schools that you were able to get there. So that's great news for you in the district. It gives you ability to maybe not fund it in a given year going forward if if you have budgetary constraints otherwise in the general fund for example, right? So it's great to have that kind of flexibility plus have this this benefit already funded. Um down here, this one is a little less out of your control, right? This is your WRS plan that the state administers. They hire their own actuaries to come up with numbers there. It's a multi-billion dollar plan. You have one small part of that and I say small and it's millions
023of dollars but it is the retirement system uh benefit. So the plan itself either has an excess or a deficit and back in 2022 it it was at the positive. it was overfunded and that has swung over the the years from uh overfunded to underfunded and the last three years here it had been slightly underfunded and that's why you brought in these positive amounts or these liabilities on your books at year end. It's not something you control. You continue to pay your WS benefits as you go and uh the plan will come up with their their uh the status of their plan at any at the end of any given year. You just bring that on your books through some accounting. Um, so, uh, no no points to to point out there other than that.
024I think I'll wrap it up with that. So, if there's any questions that I can answer, I'm I'm at your disposal yet. >> Yeah. Any questions from anybody? >> Thank you, Brock. >> We appreciate your time, Brock. >> Yeah. Thanks for getting me on early. think of any questions after this, just funnel them through finance and uh Dave will help will get me in touch and we'll answer your questions for you. >> All right, thanks. Have a good evening. >> All right, moving back to the Are they here? >> Okay, >> you want to finish this committee report? >> Yeah, let's warn. No pressure. Wow. Are there any any time out there? I was in her sports mode. All right. Next up isformational January 2nd Friday count which is attached our review. What is what's
025the comparison [clears throat] then from where we were in the fall to now >> lost two kids. >> Two >> pretty good compared to other years. >> Yes. >> One thing I like to see is we actually went up on open some kids. on the open enroller side. So, um usually we see a bigger drop than this because we usually have like midyear kids graduating in December and that. So, we didn't see a big drop. Um hopefully it's just sign flattening not losing kids in the middle of the year. Probably still of course we'll see the drop next year because graduating class, >> right? So, nothing surprising. Any other questions from anybody on that fund revenue and expenditure report? David, >> we are right on right on budget and some of these numbers some sometimes
026you guys will see the numbers be a little different because this report has to be printed out early and we're giving the agenda at time. So like last week we ended up January 31st. So that's not in these numbers. So that's why sometimes you see numbers that are different. I run the numbers at the end of the month so I can see where we're actually sitting and we're right right on par. We're our expenses are down compared to last year which is what we were anticipating. >> Sure. So supposed to be >> all those differences are primarily because of when you generate the report versus what we did last year. >> Yep. >> Great. There's one action item. G uh gifts grants be requested. Administration recommends approval to accept gifts, grants, and bequests received in
027January of 2026. >> Generous. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion to second to accept the gifts, grants, and bequests for January 2026. Is there any further discussion? >> Awesome. >> Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. There were no discussion items and thus that concludes tonight's report by Catherine. Good job. Thank you. [clears throat] >> All right, we are ready. [clears throat] >> Welcome. [laughter] >> Why don't you guys stand over there just for space? >> Hi guys. >> Welcome. >> Hi guys. >> Hola. Come over here, too. Come on over. It gets >> turn. >> All right. So, at this time, we do have Danielle Parish, our Northern Lights Elementary School principal. >> Well, thank you for uh for having us. We
028are very excited. Um most of our presentation today is going to be about celebrating the kids and but I do have a couple things that we're going to also talk about. Um the biggest celebrations right now we started our um snow club which is an afterchool event we partner with Spear Mountain and we started that three weeks ago and we finished our first session. Are any of you guys in snow club? Yeah, we got a Yeah, we are. Right. >> Super fun, wasn't it? Yeah. So, Snow Club is we go up to Spare Mountains three times in a session. We do two sessions and the kids um for a fee of I think it's less than $70. Um they get three three-hour lessons to learn how to ski or snowboard. It's a phenomenal deal. >>
029Um so, that's one big event that we have had recently. Uh this week we're beginning our winter celebration. We actually have good temperatures and we have snow which hasn't been the case for the last couple years. Um, so we were out snowshoeing and crosscountry skiing, uh, sledding. Um, I don't think we had anybody else skating yet, but we've got some skating happening. Uh, we have received a grant from over the last few years, uh, probably in the last four years, we received a couple of different grants from the city of Superior and we were able to buy cross country skis. We're able to buy uh skates and uh we're able to get some sleds uh so we can make our winter celebration amazing. And we of course we have curling because we have just broken
030on staff. So we have curling happening and it's Olympic year so the hype is really high. So lots of fun happening with our winter celebration. Um, another opportunity for our kids coming up is going to be our kindness retreat, which is something we did last year as well with our fourth graders. And our super duper staff, Chrissy Plash, is helping with that, and we'll introduce her in a second. Um, that's um, we have a group that comes to the school and they spend an entire day with the kids on team building and working on problem solving. And fourth grade seems to be a good year for us to really work on building positive relationships and problem solving. Um especially in February. So we focus at our kindness retreat uh with our fourth graders in February.
031Uh just a ton of school pride. We have so many talented kids in our building and we're going to you're going to get a sneak peek of a couple of the kids a couple of the things. Um but Ann, could you play the video? This is a video that David Koy and one of our teachers put together. for reviewing expectations for our students. >> [laughter] >> Javana. [laughter] >> [laughter] >> Thanks. >> So great. It's just fun to celebrate the kids and see them in different through different lens. Um I didn't have an opportunity. I probably could have, but I was too busy cross country skiing with the fourth graders today. Um, you know, we're we were celebrating our um our fifth grade boys basketball team won their tournament this weekend, so we celebrated them
032in our navigator this morning. Um, but we have a very special group here and it's all about what cool things do we do at Northern Lights. So, first off, I want to thank Miss Plash. Miss Chrissy Flash is our counselor over at Northern Lights and she has been for many years and celebrates school counselors. So we Chrissy gets herself involved in many things that help make our school as wonderful as it is. So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Miss Plash and our kids. Oh, I think I just started the video again. How do I advance it without Okay, why don't we come out here, friends? >> Yeah, come up. You can even come in the middle here. >> Come up here so you're not blinded by the >> projector. Where do
033you want them facing? >> Yeah, they're very perfect. [laughter] >> No bra. >> All right. Um, so I'll I'm gonna I'm just the host of this club. They're really the ones that brought it together. And um I'm going to let them talk a little bit about what it is. So I'm going to let Noelle start us off. >> Sage Romania. Okay. Now, um Roman is going to talk a little bit about Roman and Tanner are going to talk a little bit about how the club got started in the first place. So, one of um our classmates wanted to learn Spanish and he got went to the library and got a Spanish book. Then he went to our um counselor, Miss Plash, and asked if we can start a Spanish club in her room. And she
034said, "Yeah." So we do um every Wednesday we go to um uh Miss Pash's room um our research done. >> It started with a little group of kids. Then it become a allowed to every fourth grader in at Northern Lights. >> Wow. And Tanner was actually the the one who brought the idea forward. >> Wow. >> Yeah. It was his his plan and then we all jumped in and um and worked with Tanner to to bring it bring it into fruition. Mari, why don't you share what we do when we get together? >> Every Wednesday during recess time for like about 25 minutes, we go to Mrs. Plaster's room and anyone in fourth grade if they want to learn Spanish, they can come to Mrs. Plaster's room and we watch videos about how to learn
035Spanish. >> Very nice. Cool. and Sage. Do you want to share some of the things that we've learned together since we've started? >> We have learned numbers, colors, we have learned seasons, and we have learned how to say hi, and a little bit of conversation. >> And then Natalia, you wanted to share what we like about the group. Uh I I like it because because well because I wanted to learn Spanish for a long time also that that I that at a family reunion I did not understand medical dad. [laughter] >> That's a good reason. >> Yes. Is there anything else you guys want to add about our group? >> [clears throat] >> We can connect with people who we don't know and we can learn things that we haven't learned before in our group.
036>> Also, if there's like a foreign exchange student, we can like talk to them and like tell them like what to do. Did you know we have field trips when you're bigger too in the high school? You can travel to countries where they speak Spanish, too. >> Yeah. >> The high school teachers will be so excited when they >> have a great face, too. >> I know. It looked like moms and dads want a a photo. Do maybe they just want to turn this way. And if any moms and dads don't want to get a photo, I just >> I saw that. So, I'm like, [laughter] >> get in there. >> [clears throat] >> Spanish clubs in the background. >> Has one more thing that she wanted to teach all of you. >> All right.
037>> What does that mean? Okay. >> [laughter] >> Wow. Say that together. Say it one more time for all of us. >> Well, thank you. >> Good job, guys. >> To scooch out this way. >> Thank you guys. We're good. So we >> winter >> week celebration >> as they're walking out. >> You know, there's the talent at Northern Lights. We we're going to have public speakers. We're going to have pro aletes. We're [laughter] going to have TV personalities. Um it's been a lot of fun. So our celebration really is just all about the kids today. There's a a lot of great things happening, but I really wanted to focus it around our kids. So, real quick, uh, some of our challenges, you know, we're still continuing to work through our new learnings, uh, with
038the reading curriculum, but I do have to say our momentum is building. Um, excuse me. We just checked in with the teachers, uh, last month and there was a lot of positives that were shared as long as well as some very honest, transparent feedback of what we still need to grow, what areas we still need to grow in. And I think as a district, we're working hard on listening to the teachers and supporting them through that. Um, another challenge is, you know, just ever changing the landscape of our support staff turning over and making sure that we have the right people in the right spot. So, we are continuing to work through that as well. And of course, we have to talk a little bit of data. I'm going to keep this part quick because
039that was way more fun and you've already talked a lot of numbers tonight. Um, our goal at Northern Lights is we wanted to see an increase in the amount of students achieving above the 40th percentile in math and reading. And you can see what our our growth gains that we're striving for. And this is going to be achieved through the work our PLC teams are doing. Um our PLC teams are doing such great work. I'm really proud of them. They really have taken ownership for the learnings that they're receiving from their colleagues. Um you know, when you look at our winter data, there's good things. We're we're trending in the right direction and Kate's going to share some uh data on that. But, um, things are moving in the right direction and I'm just really
040proud of our teachers for their, um, what they're doing, their PLC's. They're putting themselves out there and they're they're recognizing, okay, I can't do this this way anymore. What how can I change it? And they're working together to to make that happen. So, uh, questions. >> How's it going without David? >> It's terrible. No, I'm totally joking. Um, Jen Hill Rico has filled in for our dean of students, and she's been at the building for she was a classroom teacher, then she was a special education teacher, and now she's moved into a dean of students role, and it's going really well. >> And of course, we miss Dave cuz he is incredible. Yeah. >> Uh, but she's stepped in and we haven't really skipped a beat. Okay. >> So, that feels good. and she's, you
041know, I we've worked together long enough that she knows how I operate and I know how she operates and we kind of work well together. So, I we're having a good time. >> And I was at Great Lakes last couple days and things are going very well there. So, he's happy he told me that. I checked with him. [clears throat] We did have wig wig day on Friday and he didn't get to wear a wig. He was [laughter] a little disappointed about that. >> Any [clears throat] other questions? Thanks for your flexibility with the agenda. >> Thank you. bringing it in. That was fun. >> That was fun. [clears throat] >> That's all I have for my report tonight. >> Jeez. >> All right, moving on to the agenda. Operations Committee. Sarah, >> I have
042no action items, no discussion items, informationational items. Pat is here from transportation to give us an update. You look lost. The clicker click. >> It's right here. [laughter] Well, hi everyone. Um, this is the transportation update for 2526 year. And to start off with, this is most of my staff. This was the last or Christmas our uh in our annual gathering there. Currently, we're at 26 full-time drivers, two full-times aids. We have two part-time drivers with two part-time aids. um that consists of we cover on a regular day 28 routes. 2005 of them are general education routes and the rest are midday and 4K routes and we also have three special education routes. Equipment uh we have 31 total buses that drive each day. Nine of them are diesel 22 propane. Average age of those
043buses are at six years right now [clears throat] they're around 112,000 miles. So they're they're getting up there in age. Um this slide right here is this bus is not in use anymore. It's our uh haunted bus uh that we do every year. Uh it's a for us we go to the um I think we hit we had four or five events this year there and hit three or more schools. Uh we had conflicts with timing so we couldn't get them all but we set up the drivers volunteer. They dress up in costume. We hand out candy um and we hit uh every place that'll have it. So it's the drivers really enjoy it this year. We've been kind of making a little bit bigger each year. Uh this year the big addition we got
044the skeleton that we got to add in there. So I think that was a the big hit for for everyone. >> So support for operations, the biggest one is Fabric Garage. That is where the majority of our buses are kept. That is where all of our maintenance is done as well. They do an outstanding job. I cannot talk them up enough. They It's not a job for them. their their blood, sweat, and tears are in those buses and we always have we've never had a spot where we haven't had a bus to go. So, it's it's really great working with them. Voyager now this year, actually, I think it was November, we finally brought all of our routes in house. Uh, previously we had Voyager to was at least doing one route for us, but
045we were able to bring it all inside. So, now it's all of our our own transportation, but if I I we have an excellent relationship with them. if I did need them. I'm pretty sure that well I know I just mentioned they'd help us out with whatever we needed. >> Uh Mariner Mall, four corners, that is the other two locations that we do keep our buses. Uh a lot of that just for where uh drivers live. It's uh for ease of use for them. For fuel the majority, like I said ear propane buses is what we use. Uh we p main reason for that is the cost of fuel. I can get that for a gallon of propane for a dollar. That's a lot better than uh than diesel which is around probably between 430
046450. So we did switch propane providers from KOMO to Feral Gas this year and I can't talk them up enough either. KO was good but Ferrell specializes in providing uh propane for the school districts. They were able to get our operations. We got some training from them and they're also keep for regulations as well. So they're very knowledgeable in that. So uh that's been a very big success. The middle school is where we do all of our propane fueling. And so we do have plan contingency plans. If we go down, we can go do feral gas themselves. So we tested that and knock down wood. We haven't had any problems yet this year. Um but we are ready if we need. [laughter] Um >> that was good timing too. >> Diesel uh don't have as
047many buses or uh buses with those primarily quick trip and then we have four corners gas station which services about one bus. So challenges for this coming year. First one is washing. Uh Superior Truck Wash out of the blue over Christmas break decided that they were not going to allow public uh utilities or any to use their facilities. >> So that put us in a little bit of a lurch. >> There's not a whole lot of buses being washed when it's 20° below zero, but now it's starting to warm up. Um there is no other public uh bus washes uh in Superior and so we are trying to bring it in house. It's >> we finally washed our first buses this last Friday. Still a process. We haven't ironed out all the kinks yet. >>
048Where do you do it? >> Uh right at So that's Fabic Garage and it's going to be inside their building. >> Um they have one area that has a drain. The problem is is that they don't they have other customers besides us so we can't guarantee an open drain or an open bay for us to bring it in. So, we're still working on timing, but we're we're getting there. So, >> next one is Superior Learning Academy. Uh they informed us that we are going to be providing the transportation for all their students starting this coming year. At a minimum, it's going to add special education route. Uh we also have some additional questions that we are going to be asking. The first meeting we have of them is this week. So, we'll be working through
049that. Uh, Athena is that's our routing software. We uh, Edgelog Logistics is who provides our routing software that we've used. Uh, they start I think I found floppy disc from 1996 which is the install date. So they they have updated as the years have gone by [clears throat] but it is it it's old there. >> So I'm confused. Are we changing? >> We are changing the same company but then now it's going to be called Athena. It's based correct. They they're actually getting rid of what that they provide and just transitioning to Athena. That's all web based, which is important because we did host some on our own server, but that's not going to be supported anymore. So, for on a security basis, too, this will be done. Training for that actually starts this week
050as well. >> Assuming you're working with the tech department, right? >> They're familiar with it. So, >> okay, just checking. >> Uh and then last one is for this year is our sped bus pure, special education bus pure. We're looking to get two of them. uh the bus for the it's about a $5,000 difference between a propane and a diesel bus and that's going to uh we're think about so 300 to well probably about $310,000. Uh our current fleet we have five and they're all at 7 years old and they're also all propane buses. So we're going to get at least one diesel in case something happens um we won't be completely stuck. So >> can I ask a quick question? Um Dave, do you have any sort of anticipated cost for what it's going
051to the added cost to our budget to transport students at the supporting [clears throat] academy? >> So it's going to be a full-time driver. So that's going to be looking at after salary and benefits around 50 and then we'll have to bring in a bus that's going to be dedicated to that route because 27 of those kids is a full road on the specialist. So >> So what do you think about gas and mileage and driver? Do you have a an estimate at all or not? Uh when I diplom it's just under $200,000 a week. The big thing is it is hard to get somebody to drive special education bus and that's a pretty it's a hard position to fill. You need a a driver that isn't just driving kids around that is a counselor
052and you know when emergency happens they have to have the ability to to you know correct that situation. So, um, we're lucky we have, I think, the best bed drivers you're going to find in the state, but it's going to be hard to find. So, fuel, >> it's hard to be a bus driver to begin with and then trying to do that in addition to meeting diverse needs >> can be a challenge. >> Yeah, it's crazy. The stuff they do, the patients they have, the they love every single one of their kids and they can tell them about their families and everything else. It takes a takes a special degree to be able to drive a bus special. So when you say we were informed that we had to like what what changed like why
053is that? >> They were doing it in house and I think they're growing is my assumption but they weren't able to do it all on their own in their own va >> and were required to by state. [clears throat] >> Okay. >> So that makes me think of another question. Right. So I I know I would like to see and we all agreed we'd like to see move forward the transparency and vouchers and charter schools. So like if we're able to eventually get that on our tax statements something that we inhouse have to cover that wouldn't necessarily show um >> it's a cost that we incur but is is expense that we take on to support that. I do think that we could add that transparency piece at least on our website when we, you
054know, have budgetary information that could be a disclaimer we could have on there, but I don't know if it could be on the tax statements. >> It's it's it's just going to be an incurred cost for that risk. Um, we currently do it for May and Cathedral as it is their own bus cathedral. >> We're able to work with them well enough to figure out the schedule, >> right? It's just Pat's been working on this since he heard about it. Figuring out this is a lot of detail. The location there is not that's an industrial space, not a educational school. So, we have to figure out how that's going to work, >> but Pat's been working on it. Um, there's actually a DPI thing that comes out on Wednesday about it. So, and then Dina's
055been on it as well. >> So, just to be Yeah, go ahead. hear your difference. Go ahead. >> I just want to like this these additional expenses that we will have are like it's a whole another staff person that's only designated for the Superior Learning Academy route. Yep. Okay. And potentially a bus. >> A bus. So this is what I'm looking at. This is going to be $200,000 in expenses for next year. That is an unfunded car. an additional expense that we will take on next year that we don't have >> and it's not that we're against supporting all students learning it's just we are the only ones required to they are not required to >> sorry go ahead were you going to say something >> I was going to ask minus this are we
056fully staffed >> correct we are we are not hiring right now >> subs and we have subs available >> select >> and [clears throat] Then last question. What is a floppy disc? [laughter] >> Dust impedrint. It was in the floppy disc. >> I was impressed. >> Where are these where are these kids at? I mean all over our community and >> 27. They're all within um Superior. And which I personally find odd. What I think is that they were turning away people that were out in the rural because they couldn't support them. And so what I have a hunch is is that it that ridership number could grow as they are now no longer responsible for that. >> Yep. And they can't share the same bus with public students. >> 27 I >> if they
057expand out into the county and there's additional children out there. >> Yes. If they're going to provide the transportation. >> No. No. Can we on our bus? >> We we will. Correct. >> We got to look at it, but then it comes into an IEP thing. We do it sometimes now where we have to put an on bus because it's just cheaper to have a an aid on there. But um then you run into issues where you know some some of these kids are extremely high needs and you can't the thing about this is it's a special education voucher school. So the students who are in this school often have unique accommodations in their IEP that you can't accommodate on a traditional route. Is that safe to say? So doing a approximate $200,000 budget for
058this. What do we spend now for Marinana and Cathedral? Sorry, that's totally just like [laughter] >> No, the difference is it's not a special route like they're >> they're on routes that already are going. You know what I mean? So this is like a totally separate route for them. I I was a student that we had the cathedral kids on my bus and everyone got on the same place like they just walked over and then all got dropped off in our neighborhoods. >> So the expense side to that is one and they work with us so that we can we pick up Marinath at 2:45 so we can bring them all the way into town to the middle schools. We pick up the kids at 3:05. Cathedral is the same thing. We pick them up
059at 2:45. We still dedicate at least two two hours a day, maybe a little more on drivers to to do the cathedral, the Marinatha, the fuel of course, because we're driving back and that's [clears throat] a lot of ways that you and I didn't see where we if we have this driver pick up the Marinatha kids, he's already parked at four corners. We can just pick them up and it's we try and save as much as we can. But the other part is if we have the day off, but Marinatha Cathedral won't have the day off, we still have trans bus to go there. Do we pro provide transportation for their field trips? >> We do not. >> Um, the other question I had was about secure locations for the buses. The other the mall,
060they're all secure locations. Is four corners a secure location? >> Besides being rural, >> we we talked about that many years ago. just the need to have buses out there in the event of an emergency like if they had to evacuate the school or so >> and came out. >> Some history is that we prior to Amy coming on right around that time, there were best drivers that were able to take the buses home, the ones that lived out in the country cuz it was closer for them. And so that was a part of when we had to change that. Um, obviously it frustrated and angered a lot of our bus drivers, a longterm bus drivers and so that was a part of that negotiation as well to park them out there. >> Then have
061to drive all the way in. >> Right. Right. >> I think it's a cost savings as well because the people that park at four corners are the ones that live near four corners and if they live out by four corners they're going to want to they usually run the route next to their house. That's their community. So instead of driving into town or to Fabbit to start a road over by the forces school, they jump on the bus to the four school and just start. >> Um I think before you end, we all have to acknowledge the Spartan on the screen. That's quite impressive. >> So that's good, right? A little bit [laughter] of but yeah AI but is an early adopter in AI. Yeah, I was gonna say that AI generated, but hey, >>
062I thought it was Larry. [laughter] >> Yeah, >> Pat isn't really great at the transportation side. If you guys don't hear a lot from Pat, that's a really good sign because I remember back when I was here, I would talk a lot as the transportation person. I am super thankful to Pat the position he's in. I have not got a full driver since manager. So a lot of work in the background and you know he does a great job and he's fully staffed. I was never fully staffed and he got rid of Voyager so he's done a great job after I left that position. >> You should let Dave go earlier. [laughter] >> Hindsight's great. >> Yeah. >> Thanks Pat. >> Thank you Pat. [clears throat] >> That concludes my report. >> Then we shall
063move on to the personnel negotiations committee. Nick Olson. Two action items. Administration recommends approval of the February 2026 new hires and separations report. It's a long one. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Have a motion and a second. Any Discussion. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Opposed. Motion carries. The second item, due to the variance in contract cycles, administration recommends the renewal of following administrator contracts that expire on June 30th, 2026. This list does not reflect other administrative contracts that expire in future years. >> Motion to approve. Second >> motion and a second. Any discussion? >> Just to reiterate that we the administrators that are not on this list are still going to be here next year. They just have a different expir expiration date. because we gave them the
064option of a one. >> People will either have a one or a twoyear and depending on when they um sign their contract, their end date would differ. So, >> any other discussion? >> Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I >> I motion carries. >> Zero discussion items, zeroformational items. And we shall move on to the teaching and learning committee of Nick Schumacher. >> Okay. No action, no discussion items, informationational items. We got a bunch. Crystal Incident, director of curriculum instruction on staff development days. >> Hello everybody. Um, I don't always at a meeting take time to explain all the stuff that our teachers do on staff development days, but I thought that you might be interested in knowing about what we're doing next week because it involves some community support and some
065cool stuff. So, next Monday and Tuesday, our students won't be in session. We have staff development and um on Monday next week in the morning, our teachers have grade level meetings or content area meetings. Um, so they're doing things like our elementary teachers will all be at Cooper, um, continuing learning about our new literacy resource and actually they're going to look at writing samples from students and and talk about how the writing piece is going. Then on Monday afternoon next week, we have what we call choice sessions. And we've been doing this for several years. And when we survey our teachers each winter and spring about staff development days, they continue to tell us that they really appreciate some component of choice during our staff development days. And that's hard to fit in if we
066have just one staff development day sometimes and our principles need to work on goals and looking at data. So the February time is usually when we can fit this in. [clears throat] and providing over 300 teachers and principles with enough sessions that feel like their actual choices um takes a lot of work. So we usually have to have between 25 and 35 sessions available because we have people pick two things to attend in the afternoon. Um so um I sent that to Ann so she could just put on the screen. So I'll also just pass down in case you're interested just one paper copy if you want to look at it. Um, so we have 32 sessions for next Monday afternoon. A lot of the people who on their own time volunteer to lead these
067sessions are our instructional coaches, our principles, um Amy and Molly of course are leading sessions, our directors, >> Troy and Jen, that's awesome. >> Yeah, a lot of our um shared leadership team, [clears throat] our future ready leaders, we have leaders from all over our buildings who are willing to do sessions. We also this time have uh 16 people from the community who are coming in to help lead sessions. Sometimes when we have topics that our teachers ask a lot for around supporting mental health and trauma-informed practices, we our counselors and Jane of course our social worker can always help with those things, but they get spread a little thin when we're always asking them to help. So we have several community agencies coming in to offer sessions. We also um have some good partnerships
068with the College of Saints Scholastica and they're sending several staff members like they did last year to help lead some of our sessions. So, and of course Lori Dons has sessions about outdoor learning. Um we have lots of choices. So, I just wanted you to be familiar with that's what we're doing. It's pretty exciting. So, [clears throat] Crystal, I mean, I've had the opportunity to do this in all the districts I've ever worked in. There's never been this depth and this quality of options for teachers. like this is really comprehensive. >> Have they already chosen these? Have they seen these already or is there like they find out day? >> So we we've tried both things over the years. What we found is that people who are facilitating really like to know how many people
069are going to be coming and do I have mostly elementary people or high school people coming because that might change how they facilitate. So we have for the last couple of years had signups. So that adds its whole own component where people need to sign up for the sessions, look at the menu, etc. And then the facilitators are sent a list. They were sent that late last week saying, [clears throat] for example, Amy knows how many are going to be in each of her sessions. >> It's going to be riveting. >> So she can gear [laughter] her her sessions accordingly depending on who has signed up for in the loop with the soup. >> Yeah, I did borrow I did borrow that title from another superintendent in Wisconsin who does something else. But >> yes,
070>> so people sign up. Um, of course, if they need to change their mind last minute, they can. We're doing all of these at the high school. And then we end the afternoon with each school having a space at the high school to sit down back together with their school staff and their principal and debrief all the things that they learned. Um people have also requested in the past, can we have a minute to like process what the heck we just learned? So we spend the last 45 minutes of the day in their building level groups doing that also. And then on Tuesday, um, all day teachers are at their buildings and their principles are leading them mostly in work that's around their CPR card and actions for their specific building and looking at their
071data. Um, one of the things all schools will be doing next Tuesday is um, looking at the student perception survey, which is one on our district CPR card, surveying our students. Um, it's part of our strategic plan under student engagement. So, it's worked hard on the surveys. The kids are taking that survey this week, right? Yeah. And then the teachers will analyze the data next Tuesday. So, I just wanted to share with you about our plans for Monday and Tuesday. Does anyone have any questions? Can you email us that? >> Yes. >> That paper that you're passing down, that'd be great. >> Will there be soup? >> I'd love to. >> I think I'll have coffee >> because I also said it's gonna be a conversation and coffee. I know. I'm mixing it up. I
072should have really stuck with the two one. I know it's >> your session. >> Go ahead. >> Yeah, I'll email this to you so you can see all the sessions. We also have the second annual pair of professionals. >> I meant to mention that. Yes. >> Yes, that happens. >> Does like breakouts for paras. And so that's that's something that the paras have really appreciated in recent years. I I'm just taking a quick glance and I know you scanned through it, but like I like the balance between, you know, education and innovation. Um, and then also I'm just noticing now like a lot of um, you know, mental health focused things and and that's something that we often hear from teachers is um, the toll um, that just this world is taking on them and
073um, I like that selfd driving of what their needs are. Nice job. be a good pattern for teachers to have enough to choose from that they pick one thing kind of related to the teaching and learning in their classroom like the instruction or assessment stuff and then they can often pick something that's more in the mental health or supporting the classroom climate. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> All right, Jennifer Willoughby, summer school update. Exciting. >> You were thinking about summer school, weren't you? >> Yeah. >> You have to attend. Well, I know it's a little early to be thinking about summer school for all of you. However, I've been thinking about summer school for months. So, this feels late in the game for me to share this. Um, but I'm sharing tonight about summer
074school because we start registration in February on the 26th. Uh we decided to push it earlier this year uh so that it coincides with our winter conferences so that all teachers could have conversations with families and say, "Hey, you should send your child to send send your child to summer school and it's open so register right now." >> Awesome. >> Um [laughter] so I'm going to just kind of give you a rundown of what we're offering and it's a lot. Uh we have a lot of great things planned for the summer. So, elementary June 15th through the 25th. Um, and then July 6th through the 16th, we're going to be off the week of the 4th again. So, we'll have two weeks and then a week off, two weeks again. Monday through Thursday. Um, we'll
075have incoming 4K classes, K through 5 elementary, will be at Bryant and Northern Lights this year. Um, we decided to alternate the schools to help with building and grounds and cleaning and all that good stuff. So, we're excited to be at those schools. Um our we're going to have summer intensive reading offered this year also um to be in compliance with act 20 and our requirement for that um any student who is currently on a um personal reading plan in the third grade um will be provided the opportunity to come for the summer intensive reading program. Um we'll offer drama camp at the high school again. That's for incoming 4th through 12th grade. Uh, we'll have secondary summer camps. So, I met with the middle school and we're going to shake it up a little
076bit this year um to try and get some more interest in our middle school and high school age students. Everything will be at the high school this year. We're not going to be at the middle school. Um, so our secondary group from 6th through 12th grade will be at the high school. We're going to offer two week camps. So, kids can potentially essentially take four classes this summer. So, there's two sessions per uh twoe rotation and then another two weeks of sessions they could sign up for. Also, it also allows the flexibility. You know, kids go to a football camp and they go to a basketball camp and they're gone. And so it allows the families the flexibility to say, "Well, my kid can only go for these two weeks and they're not going to
077miss anything, but they're not going to be able to come for these two weeks because they're, you know, busy doing other things." So, we're hoping that that um is an exciting piece for families this year that they'll many of those classes will also be open for students up through 12th grade. So, we're excited about that, too. Um middle school teachers kind of took the lead in planning a lot of these options. We decided to focus on enrichment fun activities. Um so we'll have um an introduction to digital art like a Canva class this year. Um we'll still have kids in the kitchen. That's a hot topic one. Um fills up every year. So we're really also being we're hoping to be able to offer that to more students who haven't gotten in in the past
078because it's been full. Um so yeah, we'll have a lot of fun things. Um we'll still have orchestra. Um, and then the band will still practice for the 4th of July. So, that's all happening. Also, um, we'll still have credit recovery at the high school. We're going to offer geometry again this year at the high school. Um, and then we'll still have Spart and athletic development. That will start on June 8th and run until July 22nd. Um, again with that week off over the 4th of July and um, Monday through Thursday only. We are ending on the 22nd because the 23rd is our summit happening at the high school. So, we didn't want the two programs to collide. So, we're ending a day early technically for um our programming there. But, we'll offer the four
079sessions for Spartan Athletic Development again um for the different uh times for different age you age groups. Um, we're excited to offer it um at the high school for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders this year. And we changed the times of that beginning class to fit into one of their sessions. So, um, so students will be able to ride the bus home. There won't be that an overlap of Spartan Athletic Development running too late, so then parents have to pick up or having an additional bus come. Everything will fit right within the original bus routes. Um, and then we have afternoon options. So, I've been working with community centers to kind of uh community agencies to kind of figure out what options we have available to families in the afternoon. So, [clears throat] we'll have
080the YMCA will offer summer wrap care at Northern Lights um [clears throat] Monday through Thursday and they're also going to offer rape on Fridays all day um because that was a um that was something I heard from families. So it was a barrier of why they didn't send their kids to summer school because they had no care on Fridays. So the YMCA will offer that care Fridays from 7 till 5. Um UWS is offering a Jackets afternoon adventure camp. That'll be Monday through Thursday 12 to 4:30 for students K through 5. We will bust the kids to UWS if they sign up for that program. um the summer playground program. Obviously, we will continue to bus kids to that program if they select that as an option. And then I've also been working with the
081DNR. So, we're going to offer they are going to offer hunter safety classes at the Superior Trap Club, two of our four weeks uh of summer school. We don't need any more transporting. We will transport to the trap club for that program. >> Wow. >> Um so, all of that's on the website. We have a whole afternoon options page available. Um students will register in powers school again. Transportation will be part of that registration. So everything should hopefully fingers crossed be seamless this year in just one registration and everything gets put in the same place. Uh and that will help our bus routes and help us communicate with principles on what the bus routes look like. We'll have um flyers and information ready on that conference day, February 26 when elementary conferences conferences happen and
082hopefully we'll have a great turnout. >> Amazing. >> Any questions? [laughter] >> Thank you, Jeff. >> What a buffet. Jeez, >> I said what a buffet. >> What a buffet. There there is a nice buffet this year for sure. >> Thanks everybody. >> Be hungry. All [clears throat] right. Kesh Agr midyear update every time she does it. Ask them. >> I still don't know. >> Chair of [laughter] our committee gap reduction. >> Steve not now. [laughter] >> All right. Everybody else had really fun things to share and I do too. Looks a little different. >> Uh by statute uh we have to share with you some updates around AGR achievement gap reduction. Uh it's a grant we receive from the DPI. Of course, it's not all of the cost uh to reduce class sizes. That's
083how it started. Back in the day, it was called Sage. Um now [clears throat] it's called AGR and it looks a little bit different. Essentially, the state gives us a menu of things to choose from in in order to address uh needs at our elementary grades K one, two, and three. So it isn't an entire elementary uh program that we we utilize different supports uh specifically instructional coaching uh and support through that model to really help our teachers because reducing class sizes to 18 to1 uh isn't fiscally a thing we are able to do anymore. And of course the state I don't know what the grant dollar amount is that we received but it has never been even close to half of what it would cost to do what we're required to do. So they
084changed it added in some uh strategies around supporting kids with needs. So essentially the process is that the principles I work with the principles to support them with the data gathering and then sharing with all of you. So, the principles all do their own report to the DPI every spring. And so, me being here right now, what I like to do is just give you a little bit uh of information around the data that we track for AGR and then the principles report out to the DPI and submit these reports in spring. So, we set goals around students meeting the benchmarks by grade level, by assessment. So, in kindergarten, we're looking at letter word sounds and letter naming as our two assessments that we track. And then we're looking at number sequencing and number identification
085for math. So, those are kind of the four assessments we look at in kindergarten, fall to winter to spring. And we use a combination of Ames Webb and FastBridge because those are the two assessments that we track our data from. First grade, we transitioned to word reading fluency and oral reading fluency. And then we use the early math composite, which is a composite scored on a few assessments within FastBridge. And in second and third grades, we use the adaptive reading and the adaptive math as our two measures. So in terms of obviously I could read you all the numbers from all the buildings, four corners does not have to do an AGR report uh as it's tied to there not being a title school. So, it's just the other four elementary schools. Um, so we
086track it by every grade level at every building. It's a lot of numbers. Here's the summary that I'll give you. Uh, we've seen really nice growth from fall to winter. And then, of course, I'll track it again in spring. So, in spring, we'll look at not only the the amount of students who are meeting the 25th percentile or higher, but we'll also look at the growth from fall to spring. So, we're looking, we want kids to hit that 25th percentile, but if they haven't, then we're indicating did they did they show growth, they just haven't yet hit that benchmark. Um, we all we are also seeing growth from fall of last year to fall of this year. So, in general, our kids are coming in performing higher than they were last fall as they move
087up, which is another indicator that we like to see in the district, not not so much that they're tracking at the state level. So that's just my summary of that because it is very specific by building. There's a lot of data points in here, but just giving you kind of that general trend. We're tracking principles are all doing that within their uh strategic plan CPR cards as well. Okay, there you go. >> Thank you. I thought >> you know when you start off by saying I'm required by state statute [laughter] it's going to be good. >> Thanks Mr. President. >> Oh thanks >> policies and rules. Shelly. >> Right. We have some action items tonight. Administration proposes the approval of changes to the following policies based on Neola recommendations. First reading of policy 1461. administrators
088unrequested leave of absence fitness for duty >> should be approved. >> Second. >> I just want to point out that the the three are together on your agenda because the same changes are applied to each of the different employee groups. So you see the changes are the same. [clears throat] I can those that's additional re enforinforcement language has been added and cross reference to policies have been updated matching all employee groups motion to approve any other discussion >> oh I'm so sorry >> like we're waiting >> okay >> I think you got doom sep right >> different policies you have discussion [snorts] hearing none All those in favor signify by saying I >> I >> opposed. Motion carries. Reading of first reading of policy 3161 professional staff unrequested leave of absence fitness for duty. >>
089Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Any other discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> All opposed. She carries. First reading of policy 4161 support staff unrequested leave of absence fitness for duty. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Any other discussion? Hearing none. All those in f in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> All oppose. Motion carries. First reading of replacement policy 5310.01 01 emergency nursing services plan. This replacement policy is provided to more fully incorporate the requirements of administrative regulations regarding the development content and review of emergency nursing services. Adoption of these revisions is recommended to ensure compliant policies. Likewise, it is recommended that the districts coordinate with their nursing professionals to confirm that an appropriate and comprehensive plan is presently in place. Recommended for
090compliance with statutory requirements. >> Motion to approve. >> Any discussion? >> Is this the same name as the replacement policy or is it a different name? >> Um, you emergency nursing services to know that we just >> Yeah. [clears throat] >> Just want >> Thank you. >> Any other discussion? >> Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> All oppose. Motion carries. First reading of policy 7450, property inventory. Changes to this policy reflect better governmental accounting standards board and educational department general administrative regulations requirements and also removes the reference to capital assets since those matters are contemplated in policy 7455 accounting system for capital assets. These revisions are recommended for clarity and continued compliance with the law. Motion >> to approve. >> Second. >> Any other discussion? Hearing none. All
091those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> All oppose. Motion carries. First reading of policy 7455. Accounting system for capital assets. This policy adds the appropriate useful life for capital assets based on the governmental accounting standards board. >> Approve. Second. Any further discussion hearing? None. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. [clears throat] >> All opposed. Motion carries. First reading of policy 8500 food service. This policy is being revised based on direct feedback from the Department of Public Instructions School Nutrition Team. The S&T conducts an administrative review on a five-year cycle for all Wisconsin school districts. As a proactive measure, Niola collaborated with the S&T to identify and incorporate recommended revisions to all policies reviewed under the AR. In addition, changes were made to address any corrective actions reported since update 32.2.
092These revisions are necessary to ensure compliance with the law. to approve. >> Second. >> Is there any discussion? >> Amy, anything on your end? >> It's more than anything. Nothing that we're not already. >> Okay. >> One of the legislative priorities was transparency and ingredients. Um that was a it's not I I don't know what's going to happen with it, but that was a proposal legislatively that was brought forward. >> Yeah, we've been watching. >> Yeah. >> The other thing sort of tied to this is we have our meeting tomorrow with a district um wellness committee who's going to be making some recommendations to the wellness policy that's sort of tied to this and it is huge. So that's why we have a big committee. Sarah's helping me and sitting on that as well as
093other um people. But we'll bring bringing that forward in March and it aligns to this. [clears throat and cough] Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. I. >> All opposed. Motion carries. I have noformational items tonight and no discussion items. This ends my report. >> All right. Thank you. That concludes our committee of the whole meeting this evening. We thank everybody for being here tonight. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> No. What are you talking about? >> Other matters. >> That's for the committee. Would you like to bring up anything from that committee? [laughter] >> Fine.