001yes you do your part and then we'll go through the I'll read the resolutions for me so we're going to briefly go through um a few drugs they have a lot more information in the budget book that I sent out um this one's just kind of taking that and putting it into a summary so when we'll go through some of the highlights first of this year's budget and then we'll kind of get into more of the actual expenses yeah this is the most current because you sent one out this afternoon I didn't get a chance to print that one out but yeah all right sorry correct that is going to be just if you could point out what the difference is where there was two comparative costs all right that was just more information for
002you guys to look at um so a couple key areas for the 22-23 budget is that we are looking at a bill rate of 6.78 cents that's down two dollars approximately two dollars from last year's Miller rate um last year it was 7.91 uh we are right on par with the state average State average went up 14 as well so when you see a large jump like that and you can't really give your dentist go down a little bit um so the on that when you see that conversely you're going to see your receipts through the validation has increased so we did receivable 1.5 million more in Equalization 8 this year um that's about 4.961 over last year um the revenues are sometimes slightly increased this year because the federal stimulus funds as well as
003that foreign the levy has decreased by 2.75 million that is that this is due to the declining enrollment those 78 ftes last year we still had on the um the 1920 uh school year because it is a three-year rolling average on the eftes in that year I believe it was about 4 500 students and that has fallen off thus our three-year rolling average has gone down a lot and then it also the show is look at them and decreased in the actual development how we're going to close that gap between the 2.75 and so we if we decrease 11 by 2.75 but we increased our Equalization a by 1.5 so there's still a gap there right how we're going to cover that Gap is with us or that's how we use faster funds to balance
004our budget this year there was no increase in perfumeful Aid there was no increased increase in the base revenue for remember we're still at ten thousand special education categorical AIDS will be increased and as I mentioned we will be utilizing after two and three funding for the budget this year we talk a lot about fund balance and we'd like to just go over some points of what fund balance is because I think there's a misconception that it's actually discussed in the bank but it's not physical cash that you can go get out of the bank so these are just a couple of points that we talk about um unassigned fund balance is the residual classification for the general fund it represents total assets minus liabilities the way we increase our balances when we have our
005Revenue succeed our expenses at the end of the year whatever we have exceeding we'll move that over to fund balance it's decreased when the inverse happens when expenses are over revenues and then the job well there's no perfect answer for how much a school district should have on fun balance the general rules about 25 to 33 and we have diligently been working to get over that 25 percent you'll see in the next slide that this year we have last year we tipped over it a little bit this year now we're creeping up on 26 percent well done this is just a graphical this is taking what I had said about the declining enrollment and just kind of showing you how we get those calculations there's a weighting factor for each category of students preschools a
006half back or a 0.5 those 4K students are at 0.6 and then kindergartening grades one through one through twelve or at a one factor so down to 43 18 on the three-year rolling average and again that down those 78 ftes on the revenue sheet this is the revenue limit worksheet that here is the link this is the one that I had referenced in the last meeting about the most important document that you will see come out of our office and again you can see that it ties um there's a couple there was there's the 4318 which ties back to the other sheets and then again you can see it general assembly is down but overall Levy's down I think we were about 22 last year we're down in 19. this you addressed the point about
007Millwright um that although it's good news this year if you're concerned maybe so you know the the main goal for our office is to keep that bill rate flat year after year that's kind of what you want to see because then you know that when it's sent out to the constituents and the taxpayers that they're not going to see those large fluctuations uh one way that we do that is through our debt service Levy so The Debt Service Levy is what we call outside of the limit I am not bound by Statute to Only La Via certain amount for Debt Service payments we can increase those Debt Service uh dollars that we Levy in order to keep that military flat um unfortunately when you see such a large increase in employees values you can only
008Levy so much on The Debt Service to be reasonable if I was going to Levy enough to make us flat for this year in terms of the mill rate I would have had to allevitate about 12 million dollars in debt service which is unreasonable so while it's great this year that we're seeing that decrease um you know if something were to happen in that recession if we entered into a recession then you would likely see that that Mill rate's going to Skyrocket a little bit so we like to just have those conversations to let the community know that yes it is done this year we do our best to keep it flat but if we do go into recession you will see it increase the bed yep this is what we are proposing for the
009funding budget that you can see that we have audited information from 2021 on audited as we haven't finalized everything or got the final classes the final audit packets and editors for 2122 and then the budget for this year most importantly we are presenting a balanced budget for this year again says that we are using Master funds to help balance that budget and as our funds already done the end of this year thank you this is just taking that information um dollars and then it I always find that it helps to show the graph of how the revenues are coming in and where we're coding them to so we received 70 of our revenues from the state we named Equalization Aid that we received 19 are property taxes and nine percent are federal Federal monies that
010we received so you know if you're a property rich person they talk about this would be inverse you would see that the 70 would be property taxes and then the the lower percentage would be the state aid again this is just corresponding with pld expenses and how we were how we code out the expenses and what the how they fall within the actual overall budget that District no surprise that the largest categories we have for salaries and benefits and then the services and then the transfer list on 27 meaning that 127 is its own fund but fun 10 is required to balance it at the end of the year so whatever uh expenses are over from the revenues when it gets the end of the year we make a transfer out of fund 10 in
011order to balance that fund 27. and so why that's why it's such an important conversation when we talk about that categorical Aid percentage uh getting increase at the state level because right now it's only at 30 percent you make a pretty significant transfer um right around six and a half million I would say per year if you averaged it out over to fund 27. so as that categorical Aid percentage goes up at the state then our transfer goes down in front 10 meaning we have more fun ten dollars to spend with the craft level system yeah any questions again resolutions I get to read them yeah you can do it okay sorry you just do that I have a lot of fun all right we have our resolutions this is a 2022-2023 budget for the
012school district of superior the administration recommends the approval of resolution 22-06 the 2022-2023 budget for the school district of superior trying to find out where 2206 kind of see it on here all right that's this one all right I will read it then we'll vote on it all right be it resolved that the general fund including state and federal grants of the 2022-2023 budget of the school district of superior County of Douglas state of Wisconsin is established in the anticipated sums of 57 million 384 755 dollars for revenues and 57 million three hundred eighty four thousand seven hundred fifty five dollars for expenditures be it further resolved that such expenditures be as set forth in the expenditure budget booklet dated November 1st 2022 of the school district of superior's 2022-2023 budget information booklet which pages
013are Incorporated herein by reference be it further resolved that the prior service liability of the 2022-2023 budget of the school district of superior County of Douglas state of Wisconsin is established in the sums of 682 175 dollars for revenues and 682 175 dollars for expenditures it resolved that The Debt Service fund of the 2022-2023 budget of the school district of superior County of Douglas state of Wisconsin is established in the sums of 8 million 747 651 dollars for revenues and six million seven hundred twenty five dollars six million seven hundred twenty five thousand three hundred nineteen dollars for expenditures be it further resolved that the Community Education fund of the 2022-2023 budget of the school district of superior County of Douglas state of Wisconsin is established in the sums of 106 532 dollars for revenues
014and one hundred and six thousand five hundred and thirty two dollars for expenditures be it further resolved that the food service fund for the 2022-2023 budget of the school district of superior County of Douglas state of Wisconsin is established in the anticipated sums of two million 997 291 dollars for revenues and three million five hundred thirty four thousand six hundred seventy six dollars for expenditures be it further resolved at the 2022-2023 budget is approved by distributed to the proper officials of the towns Villages and City comprising the school district of superior approved by the Board of Education of the school district of superior this first day of November 2022. move to approve second the motion in a second is there any discussion hearing none all is in favor signify by saying hi opposed motion carries
015all right I read the short one first action item School District disappears the tax levy certification the administration recommends approval of resolution 22-05 school district of superior tax levy certification and I'll read through that resolution introduced by the Board of Education of the school district of Superior Wisconsin appropriating this the necessary funds for the operation management and administration of the school system for the fiscal year 2022-2023 and authorizing a tax levy to be spread on the tax roll of the city of superior town of Oakland town of Parkland town of summit town of superior Village of Oliver and Village of superior Municipal bodies corporate in Douglas County Wisconsin for the year 2022 whereas the Board of Education of the school district of superior has authorized the sum of 57 million 384 755 for the general
016fund 106 632 for the Community Education fund and nine million 430 367 for The Debt Service fund to be appropriated for school purposes as more fully appears in the schedule of Appropriations and in the budget of the same board of education for the uses and purposes therein expressed which said budget is hereby made a part of this resolution as fully as if the same were Incorporated in full herein and whereas the effort said appropriations of 57 million 384 755 dollars 632.9 million 430 367 are to be financed as follows general fund from estimated revenues exclusive of General ad valarum taxes city of Superior 75.762325 or 7 million 949 306 dollars town of Oakland 4.035072 or 358 598 dollars town of Parkland 3.864469 percent 356 916 town of summit 3.899067 percent 136 dollars town of superior
0178.930798 percent 573 Village of Oliver one point two one five one six seven percent one hundred and nineteen thousand three hundred nineteen dollars and Village of superior is at 2.293102 percent 258 352 for a total fund ten of 10 million two hundred thirteen thousand two hundred dollars foreign service fund prior service liability from estimated revenues exclusive of General ad valorum taxes city of superior Wisconsin I'll just read the dollar amounts okay city of superior 531 382 town of Oakland 23 971 tone of Parkland 23 859 ton of summit 23 472 dollars ton of superior fifty four thousand seven hundred eighty five dollars Village of Oliver seven thousand nine hundred seventy six dollars Village of superior seventeen thousand two hundred seventy dollars for a total fund 38 682 715 dollars The Debt Service fund from estimated
018revenues exclusive of General ad valarum taxes percentages are all the same city of superior 6 million six hundred and eight thousand six hundred fifteen dollars town of Oakland 307 141 town of Parkland 305 700 Town of summit three hundred thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars town of superior 701 968 Village of Oliver one hundred and two thousand one hundred and ninety eight dollars Village of superior 221 208 dollars for a total fund 39 of 8 million seven hundred forty seven thousand six hundred and fifty two dollars next we've got the Community Education fund from the estimated revenues exclusive of General ad valorem taxes percentages remain the same city of superior 82 996 dollars town of Oakland 3744 dollars Thomas Parkland three thousand seven hundred twenty six dollars ton of summit three thousand six hundred sixty
019six dollars Thomas Superior eight thousand five hundred fifty Seven dollars Village of Oliver 1246 Village of superior two thousand six hundred and ninety seven dollars for a total fund eighty of one hundred and six thousand six hundred and thirty two dollars total general fund tax Levy of 10 million 2 13 200 total prior service liability 682 715 total debt service tax levy eight million seven hundred and forty seven thousand six hundred and fifty two dollars Total Community Education tax levy of one hundred and six thousand six hundred and thirty two dollars for a total tax levy of 19 million 750 199 dollars whereas the State Department of Revenue has certified the following Equalization valuations city of superior 2 billion 264 million thirty seven thousand two hundred dollars town of Oakland 102 million 132 100 town
020of Parkland 101 million six hundred fifty three thousand one hundred dollars town of summit one hundred thousand or 100 million six thousand nine hundred dollars ton of superior 233 million four hundred twenty two thousand dollars Village of Oliver thirty three million 983 300 dollars Village of superior 73 million 581 100 for a total equalized valuation of 2 billion 908 million 815 700. be it further resolved by the Board of Education of the school district of superior that the school clerk shall ascertain the total of taxes levied for school purposes and so apportion to Levy to the governing bodies within a school district of superior be it further resolved at the board of education of the school district of superior certified to the clerk of the city of superior the clerk of the town of Oakland
021the clerk of the town of Parkland the clerk of the town of summit uh the clerk of the Thomas prayer the clerk of the village of Oliver and the clerk of the villages for their portion or share of the said taxes and these be entered on the tax roll of each Municipal unit approved by the Board of Education of school district of superior this first day of November 2022. move soil growth second Motion in a second is there any discussion Hearing nunnels in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed motion carries a lot of numbers uh okay so that takes care of the two action items for the resolutions do you have anything else for the that would conclude the budget budget hearing and with that we're moving to the committee of the whole agenda
022uh informational items did you want to go with student first okay Brian first yeah fifth grade math lesson thanks for coming Ryan I know you got conferences yeah no it's all good uh updates okay a great start to the school year I agree I do okay okay and I'll stay pretty close in about five minutes okay like just a great start I think probably echoed by other principals that have been here uh at earlier dates um common theme is celebration so on this slide is like all 60 some members of my staff including the cooks that feed our kids every day the custodians that keep our schools safe and clean the paraprofessionals who have worked tirelessly to make sure we're giving support to kids that are behind and also some experiences to kids who are
023at or above grade level because I put these people up there and I just want to say like publicly before the board how proud I am of all these people for everything and done to help us have some Success Through very clearly difficult years um talking about celebration one of the things I've been using with my staff to try to springboard into like where we're at now is just looking at our data and and when I put that slide of those people up there um I think they're tireless work with kids along with our families and things they've done at home have helped us uh get through this pandemic successfully if you look at the left hand side uh looking at some data before the pandemic 22 percent of our student population was below basic
024on the state test after the pandemic 14 percent if you look down at the third row same thing with math we're seeing less kids in that below basic category so considering the disruptions of the last two years I am just thrilled that that is getting less um the other thing it looks at if you look at the second and fourth column we've actually seen an increase in the percentage of kids that are uh uh proficient or Advanced after the pandemic than before the pandemic in both Ela and math now four percent increase um typical year I probably wouldn't be like really fired up about that but coming off the pandemic when I anticipated possibly going backwards quite a bit um I'll take it um so anyways just to give you a little bit lots of
025celebrations to start the year but also want to tell you like our talk a little bit about our goals for this year too um we have two academic goals and we're very academically focused right now um and we're using data from Fast bridge I'm sure Kate has talked a little bit about that and right now if you look at the far right bar in English language there it's about 54 of our students um are at the 40th percentile or above on the appropriate Ela measure and the second one shows our math math looks a little bit better in the fall um 68 or are the 40th percentile or above so the reason I chose 40th percentiles because on the fast bridge data that I'm learning more about is new for me um kids below the
02640th percentile on the national um uh the national percentile rankings are deemed as some risk or high risk so we're trying to get more kids into into the low risk or Advanced categories that's my rationale um talking about goals by the spring we want 85 percent of our kids in the low risk or Advanced categories in both math um and in Reading I feel this is a robust goal I know Kate was out at my building Kate's here somewhere I'll tie her into the presentation she was out there just on October 20th and we kind of went through this and this is just the way it needs to be I don't know whether I'm going to come to you in the spring and say we hit it or not but if we're going to give
027our kids a chance at doing well in the state assessment and more importantly doing well in life we're going to have to make this a reality so just giving you a little bit of idea where we're going I'd be happy to talk on the side about some of the actions and things we're working on within math and Ela um you know so that's all great like I said the theme was celebration and I kind of went with you with the technical stuff first I say the better stuff that you probably want to hear for now um it's been a normal school year so if you look here it's awesome I mean if you look the far left we got a PBIS assembly we re-establish the behavior expectations at our school I know of behavior and
028mental health was an issue across our district and we struggled at times last year um we were no different at Great Lakes so really put a big emphasis on that bringing the whole school Community together was just an awesome uh thing it's kind of covered up you see that big Coca-Cola bear that was one of our PBIS celebrations and you know we had some theme days and such really made a big deal out of the homecoming it was a nice way for us as a school Community to celebrate good behavior field trips are back I believe that is the school for us with my fifth graders um another school Forest picture on the far left log and load so we're getting all those normal things back that maybe we didn't have um the past couple
029years and then we just had recently a trunk or treat um another update is we have disbanded the PTA and we have moved to a PTO at you know Brooke uh bringing everyone into the presentation here a really good job of spearheading that effort and got that set up and events that were just so much fun and so awesome and I love the 80s outfits coming back with Ghostbusters Top Gun and all that stuff at the time um but it was really nice to see Dad back um you know like it used to be and I'm excited about uh you know some of the activities we're able to have moving forward um looking ahead I don't you know we've got our holiday Splash tour coming up um that's really a fun thing where the kids
030get to trade in some of the splash tickets they earn for work respect belong and we get a lot of trinkety-like gifts and such and they get them for their parents or their family members the the idea is giving um I know many of our parents are going to get uh candle holders and some knickknacks that maybe they prefer not to have around but it's it's a good thing for the kids they love it um celebrating service November 11th we haven't done this for a couple years but we kind of tie this in with Veterans Day we'll be having a fairly big assembly we get some veterans from the bong Museum we invite like our police and fire department in and we just kind of recognize their service to the community and it's really a
031nice presentation kind of a little patriotic too it's kind of a nice thing that we haven't had for a few years Winter concert December 16th yeah I mean that's kind of where we're going I'm not sure if I missed anything that's all I got tonight I don't know any questions I sounds fantastic okay I just uh I have no doubt with the extra math homework this year that you'll reach those goals we have you know that's one of the strategies backfluency they just have to have their facts and yes um we've kind of simplified that it is simple but I think it's going to make a difference from The Next Step because math was a little harder to get uh moving forward than reading um across multiple data points not just the state test so
032um anything else right for the record I like your PowerPoint all right staff members uh they would give me a hard time this is this is how I function and we appreciate it and I I have my own issues I got to work out okay you can go back to conference yeah thanks Ryan all right I have one more item that's not um our um student reps uh Aaron is here we didn't leave you off on purpose all right so to start off uh football went good we had a great turnout we sold out on all of our tickets we had minimal behavior problems while at the dance and students we're sort of students actually had a voice in picking out music we had surveyed them ahead of time and then brought that in there
033was a little couple kids were not too happy with it last year about the song choices but it worked out this year and then uh this past week we had Halloween week we had a pumpkin fun which was kind of like how we did Elf on the Shelf last year and we had a couple winners get uh cookie cakes and this was uh during their lunches uh we also had a guess the amount of candy corn which was a Google form or we had like a base full of candy corn and they could scan a little QR code that went to a Google form of guessing how many were in the jar and then we also did door decorating with all of the advisories which there was a pretty good there was pretty good participation
034with that there was a lot of different unique doors and we hope to continue this with all the different holidays and stuff as well and all right good feedback from the students with doing advisory challenges as well and saying that they want to see similar things as well yesterday we did a costume contest which we had a lot of new costumes and we had a lot of entries as well uh we didn't end up doing the hospital hallway this year but instead we did all of the prior listed things during the week during the days to actually be able to include everybody not just the kids who were able to stay after school and then we'd be looking forward to new opportunities to help out in the community not just within our school and we
035have sent out a student survey that we'll be going through this week and we should be able to have an update by next month's board meeting with anything that we need and winter sports started uh uh I don't think that started quite yet I think the meeting is this week something's coming up okay all right good job thanks Aaron thank you all right there is also one action item uh consideration of the overnight field trip uh the advisors Pete Conley from the high school for uh a trip to Chicago Illinois from March 1st to the 5th for an AP biology Evolution field trip move to approve second the motion in a second is there any discussion hearing none all's in favor signify by saying aye aye motion carries that concludes your report so we'll move
036into committee agenda starting off with the teaching and learning committee which was Steve O but I'll take this one it's there's no action items there are no discussion items we had three information items it's three presentations starting off with an update from Crystal hintzmann our director of curriculum instruction on staff development day finally brief um I just wanted to let you know a little bit about what our staff development has looked like this fall obviously we had our days before school started where we have a lot going on including our family open houses Etc but we've had two Staffing of the day since no we've had one since school has started and then we have one coming up on October 20th we had a staff development day our teachers spent the morning during that time
037in what we call subject area committee groups so at the secondary level um they're with their content area teams kind of also known as departments is often what we call them and then at our elementary level those subject area committees are are what we refer to as our grade level teams so all of our elementary teachers were at Cooper that day um you know it's a nice big new space that people like to spend time in so we've been Gathering them there and they're in their grade level group so for example all first grade teachers from across the district gather together so they can do some PD together around some specific things that are needed this fall it definitely is around the shifts in our math standards and rethinking some of our things are on
038math instruction and assessment and then they also spend time going over decisions on things maybe report card related standards Etc that we really need all the teachers in that grade level across the district to have a voice in and have some discussion around at the secondary level um oftentimes in our subject area committees those groups meet as a 612 group if they have something specific that they need to work on as a larger team so for example our 612 Math teachers gathered together to do some scope and sequence work and also to talk about those same math shifts and unpacking some standards and expectations just like our elementary teachers did and then of course the teachers had a lunch break and then in the afternoon they spent time at their buildings and the principles designed
039to those agendas a majority of the agendas from the buildings were focused on things around our safe and responsive schools work and our continuous Improvement plans where principals are working on those goals they set with their staff and looking at data kind of just like what Ryan described and then on November 18th we have another staff development day coming up this is a little new for us to have two so close together I think it will be helpful for teachers to have not that much time in between so they can come back to the conversation on November 18th we're going to start our day all together at Superior high school and have donuts and then we're going to be all participating in a training about about building resiliency through building relationships with students um the
040last few years our community has hosted what's called a nurturing the Northland conference and several of our teachers and counselors and some principals and Carrie Saunders of course have attended that one of the main facilitators or the main facilitator of that named um Rick Griffin he facilitates that and he is going to come and be our trainer on the morning of November 18th we're really lucky that we were able to get him to join us and then we'll have a lunch break and then in the afternoon on November 18th our teachers will go back to their buildings and print schools will Design those agendas again probably some safe and responsive schools work their continuous Improvement plan and goals work and then doing some debriefing from the morning on what we've just learned about so they
041can have conversations around what implications that might have for their building and the students that they see about that of their specific schools so that's a little bit about our staff development day and then we'll have a long break and we don't have any more staff development days until February any questions all right next we have an update from Carrie Saunders our director of diversity equity and inclusion Carrie Hennessey Mental Health and Family Services coordinator and Jane Larson our district social worker on Mental Health Jane is not with Okay good evening um you'll notice Jane is is not with us I do have her permission to share that she was involved in um pretty serious car accident she's okay um but definitely banged up so she absolutely wanted all of you to know that she's
042happy to come back another night I mean she it is incredibly passionate about this work um and you know it was a concussion and such yes she can't be here tonight so I assured her that all of you would understand and I'm just really excited um to introduce Carrie Hennessy who is our family services and mental health coordinator she has stepped into the role and really taken so much of this on and been a leader working with our counselors and we're excited to share a mental health update with you tonight thanks so I'm just going to give kind of a broad overview about what mental health kind of looks like because I know that Ryan even mentioned PBIS and what tiered Services looks like in um Great Lakes at Great Lakes specifically so we are
043familiar with the mlss process the Equitable multi-level systems of support right so this triangle you've seen it it sometimes is upside down going from the larger Universal down to the sum and then to the few and it's important to be able to use that framework when we also think about mental health and what that means right so when we talk about mental health um it is something that we all have so that is a universal need um everyone in this room has mental health some people might have um some struggles with it at times so they might need to trap it or tap into some of those some supports and interventions or even a few of our students might need more intensive support so we're going to talk a little bit about that so we
044have this graphic for you and I'll try and do whatever so you can kind of see that this chart shows elementary middle and high school and it's that same language all students at that Universal level some students and then few students what they're able to receive so austrians are receiving guidance and that's through counselors to be able to work with all of our elementary students through all of our schools to be able to do some learning and then include second step in the classroom so that's our social emotional learning curriculum that supports empathy emotion regulation problem solving and being able to work through career career awareness and then also being able to um just identify who they are and how they fit into the world with other human beings right it's something that we want
045for all of us to be able to do Middle School at that level you can see that the bar is time lessons are built into the day as along with second step in advisory High School school you can see our time lessons is there as well and that is something that's been in place a little bit longer than at the middle school so yeah sixth grade bar uh it's Universal all sixth graders at the middle school and then all ninth graders at the high school and then when we look at some so that's going to be some of those intervention pieces and you can see it for a small group with counselors and then also social workers at the elementary our social worker focuses on insurance prevention and that is to be able to identify
046and support family reducing needs and barriers that might come up for individual kiddos because we want them at school we want them to be able to access their learning and so that's a big piece of providing mental health support right um but also having at the middle school and high school those counselors and social workers middle school has started has started using check and connect as well so I've had the I had an opportunity to be able to meet those mentors and they're phenomenal they are doing phenomenal work to be able to get to know some of our kiddos and be able to do a check-in and to be able to connect with them to be able to find out a little bit more about what's getting in the way overcoming some of those obstacles
047so that they can simply be able to support their learning and then same thing with at the high school level and when we look for the the small groups for counselors and social workers and then for some students that's more of that one-on-one support or intensified small groups depending on the needs for the kids right yeah okay um I just want to talk a little bit about Savers um it is a product update you just dropped in at any point uh it's part of uh the fast Bridge uh progress monitoring assessment Suite that we switched over to um social academic emotional Behavior rating scale so it sounds really fancy basically it's a universal screening tool that it's used to identify student risk for General Social academic and then emotional behaviors the big big purpose of
048this it's twofold but primarily uh schools are going to use that school-wide data for decision making around the collective student performance at that tier one level so everyone is getting the counseling everyone is getting the Second Step how are we doing what does what what are what does her data look like um you know if we're seeing some issues with that we might have to go back and you know talk about Second Step Counseling like do we need to tweak or adjust anything are we following the scope and sequence um and then we could use individual student data to indicate uh students who may need additional support so that will help us make sure that we're serving the right students in our small groups that we have throughout the building um is this done once
049a year so I'll get into that yes that's a great question I think I have it on here so um just like our math and our reading the plan right now is to do it three times a year where this is brand new we are working through we might only do it two times a year but for sure for sure two times a year um the math and the reading is done three times a year I just noticed with I asked because I noticed the questions that I looked at from my kids I know sometimes it can change even based on the time of year or the day it really can and then my second creators was like are they even gonna understand this but yeah it was good really exciting uh just just to
050see what we learned yeah it's one piece of data it's a snapshot one day right like you know we so we have to ask questions that's just the first thing that we look at and then you know if it really doesn't go along with what we're seeing we would use of course other data sources um so it does involve a teacher rating scale for all students K through 12. uh it takes about three minutes per student and it is pretty basic Kate 19 questions 19 questions and I think some of it you know it's some kids get pretty straightforward and other kids there may be some where you pause and have to think a little bit more and obviously our teachers know their kids really well which makes this you know appropriate if we don't
051you know we're not doing this on 500 kids at a time and I think that's the power of all of the relationship building and all of the work that we've done to really get to know kids absolutely um and of course we were intentional and you know we started this assessment um just like two weeks ago so you know we wouldn't do this the first few weeks of school we wanted to build the relationships and get to know the kids the math and the um reading is done earlier in the year um so that wouldn't be you know welcome to the classroom I'm just meeting you and now I'm going to fill out this rating scale nope they've had time to really develop and get to know each other um the students would do their
052rating scale beginning in second grade so second through 12th grade uh they say 15 minutes as the mall said they would need for that um in those two sources of information are used to determine interventions and supports that kids might need um legal notifications all parents received a letter describing Savers and were provided instructions for acting their student out of the self-assessment which is called my savers that's a lot of information uh but it's important because it's brand new and it will be good to see what the data shows us and ours were provided the actual survey up front to you didn't have to request it which was really nice as a parent just because you could see it without yeah I think it'd alleviate some of the questions that you have as a parent
053like well what what are they going to ask yeah definitely okay so we want to talk about some additional programs and services that we offer in select schools um the whole Squad I'm not sure if you all have had an opportunity to learn about this but it is a phenomenal peer-to-peer program that I believe was implemented last school year so Jane um with the mental health Grant had trained um a selected group of students like they had to apply and have parent permission to be basically peer supports for their peers who you know were struggling and needing some support maybe you know just feeling depressed um and when you go to the high school you can see at least for sure last year plastered all over was a number that they could reach out to
054for help um when I was there I would see the whole Squad in the cafeteria set up just for that awareness piece they have sweatshirts and so just kind of getting that word out that you don't always have to go to an adult like you there is a cluster of peers that were safe for you to talk to um so I think that's really exciting that we have that and then there's been a lot of work with staff training regarding youth Mental Health First Aid um and that is uh training it's six hours really um is just for anyone who works with youth they should really have this training um we were at a training with our food service staff and they were so appreciative to have the training to be invited because you know
055what they see the kids every single day and sometimes they know more than we do especially at the high school level when you're going you know to so many different classes um I I mean the number of thank yous that we received like they just really really appreciated that so we have had counselors social workers the School nurses administrators the high school teachers it's offered throughout the year so proud that we we have that support too you want to talk about what we did before Sunday so Elementary counselors we were able to come together um with support from Nami which is the National Alliance on Mental Illness um there is a local um group that includes Douglas Tony and then also part of Ashland that we kind of scooped up here recently to be able
056to show additional support to our neighbors right but then also the state level so this actually was a training that was brought to us from the state level of Nami and they came in to be able to train all of the elementary counselors on mental health checks so it wasn't like new profound information that counselors didn't know about mental health right however it was organized in a way that was able to be condensed into a lesson to be able to talk a little bit about what mental health is how we can encourage that mental health again that's not that Mental Illness but that mental health and so that information is going to be shared out um with families as the time approaches each school it looks a little bit different because you know each School
057looks a little bit different um but January February time is when um we're they're going to be able to introduce some of the work to destigmatize some of that mental illness through having positive um interactions and and coping strategies and really focusing in on that um and then the last one the last little point there you can see is the representation from the school district of Superior and uws and Nami that partnership amongst community members to be able to come together um to be able to do a suicide prevention and facilitating suicide bereavement support groups for children and teens and that's super powerful and I want to break that like long definition of what it was the training was apart because it wasn't just um support groups for suicide bereavement it was understanding like support
058groups and how that can look from a more a broader perspective um not just for teams but also how that might be in children but how it might also then carry over into additional supports for family members as well and then it also talked about bereavement for suicide but also specifically and we could pull that apart and talk about bereavement in general so loss and grief and what that looks like and so the information that was presented by the American Foundation For Suicide Prevention was phenomenal so as I stand here with a master's degree in School counseling and mental health and like the experience that I have there was so much learning that was still able to occur in there and it was fantastic so I really do appreciate that we were able to pull
059together not only as a district but with some community members as well so Jasmine Harrelson on NAMI but also part of the school district Jan Larson our high school social worker myself and then we had some members of the uws and knowing to be able to join too so it was really great and Nami helped support getting us there so our partnership with organizations outside of the district has become a really important piece to be able to continue to encourage strengthening what we already have right that's the walk so our Community Partnerships again so that's a big piece of um what I'm talking about and it's using some of the local agencies that are established or re-establishing especially as we're coming through the pandemic and what that looks like for mental health in the crisis
060that is developing across our nation um but we have done additional support to strengthen those resources as it has to be redefined a little bit right there's more virtual options but then there's also how do we get everybody back into the schools how does that look how do we develop that um and so being able to make sure that we continue to strengthen those and there's some familiar supports there kazda soar who is pushing into Northern Lights um and Cooper along with middle school and high school and they are a therapeutic agency we have lschc who is struggling with hiring some therapists and getting some quality therapist providers at the moment but that's in a result of of what has been happening is throughout the last couple of years but they are now looking at
061being able to get back into supporting our schools a little bit more clearly here in the next few months which is really exciting um and then Northwest Journey still collaborating with them and then the encouragement Clinic which is no this school year and coming into our schools and being able to support for kind of a short-term skill building mental health support so if they also are able to provide some support without insurance due to the collaboration that they have done with the city and some of the grant writing that they've done so again that collaboration with these organizations is key and it's super exciting to be able to be part of that process as you talk about that my the feedback I continue to get from counselors and principals is it seems like a lot
062of Partnerships but there's limited availability and you can see not all schools are necessarily getting all the same level of support so yeah but it looks like a lot of Partnerships is it safe to say that not all of the student demand is being met because of lack of services yeah and as we have seen that increase of Need For Students like that's definitely difficult and of course the referral process is still six to 12 months out for some of the organizations and so I know I am pretty optimistic and like excited about the collaborations because they're there however we need stronger and more and we need individuals to want to work in these clinics we want individuals to be able to want to stay in our community to be able to strengthen our mental
063health support for our kids so um those are important let's see if those reimbursement rates right yes exactly yeah there's not much incentive to be a provider in Wisconsin I mean the the being so close to Minnesota yeah it's especially driving out to the country schools too they're even harder pressed yeah 100 yeah that it's really to kind of pig you back on those two during the board visits we made a point to talk about mental health and resources in the schools at every school we went to and the big I think eye-opener for me and Brooke can probably tested too at elementary level it wasn't equal across the board by any means yeah one school might have had a couple of these resources one school was struggling just to have one of them based
064on the agency yeah it seemed like all the schools had to I guess apply or contract their own it's not maybe district-wide Contracting for each of these resources per school um in like driving for Corners like Superior those are non-build hours people are going to drive 20 25 minutes so they're not going to do it you know so it's you do have a district-wide agreement with all of these agencies and I'll use soar as an example soar used to be available in all of our all of our buildings however they filled up and so if if a student for example at um Bryant has needs they can't access soar now because SAR is full if that makes sense so um they all had access but because of the limited availability of some of the agencies
065or the lack of therapist um they've lost some therapists across some of these not all schools have the same access now right so I guess the questions how do we get all the elementary schools to have the same access or at least the same chance um really it's from my perspective is the agencies don't have the capacity to serve all of our schools that's my understanding I'm looking at care because it's reflected in our community too I mean it's not just who's able to come into the schools but also what's available outside of the schools as well right and accessible and the bottom line like you said we don't have access to a quality therapists who are able to come over and prefer to work on the side of the bridge if the travel time
066you know is an issue and I mean we do work closely with the school counselors um definitely they're not off on their own to just figure out who they're going to partner with but we could definitely do the tele Health um which the younger students at the elementary level can definitely do that they know how to work this technology better than us and we wouldn't leave them in a room alone to connect with the provider like there would be you know the counselor someone in close proximity but that is definitely something that we can talk about with the Counseling group and with these mou's that we have with these different agencies in the dream world we would have agencies like knocking on our door wanting to partner especially at the the schools that are yeah
06725 minute drive time that that isn't billable time so we have to get creative and we're very lucky to have Carrie because now we do have more of a coordinated um process and you know starting at the the district level and just more support to free the counselors up a little bit Yeah so did you say some of these Partnerships they spend more time in one school that there's not time to get to the rest or I think that it has more to do with like the therapists so there's more at the middle in the high school level more consistently whereas I think um it's difficult to be able to have access to both mental health or I think what's important to understand is these folks are don't have like offices right up in our
068schools so for example students who might access soar at Cooper they had a specific referral that went directly from that family to that agency and they are just able to access those Services while at school at Cooper so all the services you see for like soar and like Superior Community Health Center those are specific referrals that families have specifically requested so um just so people understand like they don't have office hours like Monday and Wednesday where they can just work with kids those are set up specifically with kids and families who've requested those services that makes sense okay okay we're almost done so we felt like do you want to introduce that and then I can talk about a little bit so aoda like okay this is part of our mental health um contribution to
069being able to understand because there is such high rate of comorbidity between mental health and Alcohol and Other Drug abuse and so it's important to be able to at least um give a little bit of time and awareness of what that looks like um so that we can address that this is a need alcohol and drug use can be maladaptive response to needs to manage our emotions right or things that we're moving through and being able to provide opportunities to learn additional um coping mechanisms and strategies is super important at the educational level right and then it also is a way to be able to offer uh prevention right so you want to talk a little bit about the different levels yeah so you know at the elementary uh really the um preventative measure is
070built it's embedded within our second step curriculum so the skill building and uh like the refusal skills uh just that's that's kind of the general what's happening at the elementary level Superior Middle School uh we have our social worker and then myself are trained in in-depth and something called not on Tobacco in depth is something that students would be referred to when they are um found to be vaping okay so instead of getting a ticket we're getting suspended it's an alternative to that so it's a mandatory like required program that they go through typically like six sessions um and once they complete that then then they are they get signed off and they wouldn't get a ticket or have any other kind of um cumulative measures because they they went through in depth um which
071is part of American Lung Association the other program not on Tobacco is uh a self-referral and it's a tobacco cessation program so it's highly effective there are students who request it um that group is not up and running yet at the middle school but we do have it um at the high school and Jane did that with I think she said seven students last school year the the not on Tobacco the in-depth we can't even get through all the kids because I mean it's it's an issue so we have to get more people trained and have have um more of the in-depth courses but we're doing we're plugging away at that so those are free programs offered through American Lung Association and with really really they're good slide again yes last slide there's a lot
072of information up there um and I think that that's an important it's just connection to be aware of the Partnerships amongst um the community members in the school as well so um being able to Miller growing foundation and uws initiative Gene Larson is on a committee that works with this initiative to be able to um collaborate and be able to respond to needs directly affecting mental health and well-being um and then there's some of us from the the district I know Amy and myself have joined some Community type meetings to be able to talk about the the work that they're doing um right now where they're at in the process they have surveyed and identified needs within our community and now they're trying to implement some additional supports and so there's more information out there
073from them as they're doing the work however how that affects us in the school district is being able to offer some educational options for some of the identified needs for mental health and well-being in our district amongst our students for prevention but then also for staff and being able to find ways to be able to respond there's some other pieces that they are working on and developing but I only not like that much about it I think it goes back to your point Ed that I think the primary goal that they are focused on is how to expand surfaces because not all students have access to those Community agencies and so how do we how do we attract those providers here that may not be attracted to come into Wisconsin so that's that's one of
074the main areas they're looking at and the good thing is that the hospitals are also yes that's a big piece of it um from counties people to go to universities yeah wide variety of stakeholders because yeah there's the counseling department at uws so that was another area they were hoping to tap into you know but they have to be supervised but at least being creative about the gaps that we have for the entire Community yeah absolutely yeah that does conclude our presentation for I don't know if we went over sorry we're pretty passionate about this thank you Carrie um are there other questions that any of you have I mean I know I would be happy to to you know have additional conversations Carrie would um you know if things come up but we hope
075to have updates that we've added more providers especially you know to the schools that that don't have as much support thank you guys yeah thank you thanks all right our last update is from Erica Hutton Parker our interim director of student services and special education on our third Friday special education count good evening so I just have a short informational update for everyone um so our fall account data currently we have 696 students who receive special education services as you can see this visual breaks it down by building and also eligibility area um our teachers and staff worked very hard to get all of our data in the system as we had many transfers in this year we are still seeing transfers in so just know that this number is going to fluctuate throughout the
076year at any given time um overall as a district our population of students who receive student communication Services is 16.47 percent and um if you look at the trendline data over the course of several years our special education population is just on a downward Trend along with our district enrollment it just kind of mirrors that so where we are this year compared to last year at this time we are down with 14 students what's the percentage compared from last year you know you said about 16.47 what was it last year 16.94 so just a little bit less okay I'm sorry 16.74 for this year uh last year's 16.94 so just Stone slightly okay and so that's all I need all right thank you and please that concludes the uh teaching and learning community report but
077that will move into Budget Insurance committee um we have one action item grants and bequests Administration recommends approval to accept s received in October of 2022 here motion to approve second I have a motion in a second is there any discussion any further discussion hearing none all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye all those opposed carries I have no discussion items and no informational items so that concludes my report thank you next up we'll have the operations committee with Steve Peck okay I have no action items I have no discussion items but I do have some informational items uh from our buildings and grounds director Bobby matherly welcome everybody I'm a little bit of hype over here on this topic so that's good it's going to be important for Mr Aaron Johnson
078over there only because you represent the students of the high school you're a senior you're going to be carry all this information you don't get the utilize what's coming down the pike here so uh we're finalizing the design on our um and I don't have a PowerPoint design on our High School uh restroom Edition and tomorrow Ari myself is going to be presenting to Amy and and Shannon the design that that's currently uh that we currently have nailed down we're going to go from on the second floor we're going to go from four toilets and two urinals we're going to add nine toilets and five urinals or total add okay the total is 13 toilets and seven urinals and obviously this is this is what our current design is we're going to have to see
079see budget numbers you know once we see budget numbers and we'll have to go from there and possibly you know hopefully get everything installed because I've been up there during during the changeover and it and it's not good if you got to use the restroom I'm sure Aaron can yeah there's been a lot of feedback even just this year already that it's getting clogged up right now yeah that was the second place that's the second floor so the third floor we're gonna uh we went from four toilets and two urinals we're adding six toilets and two urinals so that's going to give us 10 total toilets and four urinals we finalized the design last week with the high school staff the admin staff over there just picking out you know uh finishing surfaces colors and
080stuff like that so tomorrow we should hopefully have a little bit better understanding of uh uh the budget is going to be involved in it and then we're hoping that this we can get this out to bid shortly after the contractors come back from deer season it can be on the ticket for uh the start of summer next year but not only that we're really hoping to get some of those better bid costs done during the winter time instead of this time here I can't remember is the second and third floor do they mirror each other so will it be the same or are they different it's going to be different okay no there's some offices and things that are a little bit different okay impact the design yeah we're taking over some spaces on
081the second floor that's right or we're utilizing common yeah okay that's right Aaron did show us a little bit of the idea but you got any questions all right thank you thanks Bobby thank you Mr President that's all I have all right thank you next up we've got policies and rules committee Laura I'm a handful of action items here Mr President the first is consideration of resolution 22-04 requirement of not nomination paper slash School Board positions move to approve second we do this annually yes at this time any discussion all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye opposed motion passes the second is the first reading of policy 5728 regarding student activism this is based on the recommendations from Neola you can see in green is a couple just two minor detailed changes
082here move to approve second um just to point out again uh last month you guys looked at a a group of policies recommended by aniola this is another set of policies for you to to review out of that same volume of updates um many of the updates that you're including this one might just be improved language and I'll talk specifically about another one that talks about some statute names that need to be aligned but this one's just changing the language okay uh any other discussion all those in favor please signify by saying aye opposed motion passes next we have the first reading of policy 5880 regarding public performances by students uh Administration proposes the approved changes to this policy based on Neola recommendations move to approve bye any discussion this is adding a sentence here
083and then including the word approves cleaning up language again all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye opposed motion passes the next is the first reading of policy 6152 student fees fines and charges Administration is proposing these changes to policy 2430 based on Neola can I get a motion in second no to approve okay uh discussion uh I noticed that it's including the McKinney event vento vento act uh information regarding students that are homeless um and talking about uh not creating barriers for students in co-curricular activities or other fees regarding academic programming and then adding cash handling as you can see uh for staff this is consistent with what we currently do all right any further discussion all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye opposed motion pass the next is
084the first reading a policy 74 50 property inventory Administration approves uh proposes rather approval of changes to this policy regarding neola's recommendations this was a larger one move to approve second chance is there anything you want to say about this one this is just I think dividing what we currently are viewing um it's the five thousand dollar value in there and just go back up to the top of the acquisition costs anything that is equal or two great people are afraid of the five Health scholarship value and just doing some parameters you could add some language around computers and technology devices which we didn't have um with the in terms of the technology piece we added the network and Technology part of those equipment purchases and tracking just what we currently do thank you any
085discussion questions all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye opposed motion passes next is the first reading of policy 8500 uh Food Services Administration proposes the approval of these changes based on Neola recommendations um this is including uh discrimination policy or statutes that I saw um there was one question oh sorry can I get a first love to approve thanks one thing I noticed under dietary modifications um the second sentence it says must be submitted within and then it doesn't say how many school days um so I just thought we should definitely have conversation around that as well with the parentheses sorry I don't have that for next week yeah I don't know the things we'll talk to Jamie yep yeah that's a good idea to get his input on that and then
086if a student transfers in that'll be different then they can submit that when they transfer if they okay and they'll be accommodated still yeah I mean we I think that's what we already do um yeah it's x amount of school days from the time that the healthcare provider gives them the prescriptive dietary modification so we'll add the date for next week or dates I should say any further discussion okay all those in favor please signify by saying aye opposed motion passes uh the next is the first reading of policy 9270 home based private or tribal schooling again Administration is proposing these changes based on Neola recommendations to approve a second um this aligns with current state School students any further discussion or questions all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye opposed motion
087passes I do not have any discussion items or informational items this evening all right thank you Laura with that we'll go into the Personnel negotiations committee Mike's not here so I'll take it a couple of action items tonight first one is the administration recommends approval of the November 2022 new hires transfers and separations reports as presented motion to approve second option in a second is there any discussion welcome to all the new hires there's no other discussion that all is in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed motion carries next the administration recommends the updating the following job descriptions and the support staff category English learner El assistant motion to approve second a motion in a second is there any discussion just looking at Molly see if she had anything to say we worked with
088Carrie on this we just updated we had to move polls for another position and this was aligning with the Epi standards for an English learner position you've had not updated the job description for a while yeah so I consulted with other districts and DPA updated their English learner policy handbook they have a comprehensive handbook and that was done in uh January of 2020 so that definitely needed and this is a result of increased students enrolled in the ell program correct the numbers doubled so if uh for the 12th last year 24 this year and we need several our newcomers so it's it's a big shift for us okay all right is there any other discussion so is this posted already after we approve this there I mean will it be after we have it with
089it already oh okay you can't act on it until you approve it but right you can't hire right they'll collect resumes yeah any further discussion hearing on all in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed motion carries there are no discussion items no informational items uh so that would conclude the Personnel negotiator committee's report last we've got the legislative committee with because there are no action items no discussion items some informational items first off record States Surplus confirmed should enable more school funding and next state budget state of Wisconsin and its fiscal year on June 30th 2022 with a record positive balance of 4.3 billion according to the new state annual fiscal report released today by the state department of administration that report also confirms that Wisconsin has a record 1.73 billion and it's budget
090stabilization fund for the rainy day fund you can click there and read the article second DPI releases District certified 2020 to 23 General school aid amounts Department of Public Instruction release certified state general school aid amongst each school district will receive during the current 2022-23 school year by law the DPI must certify these eight amounts by October 15th each year you can click to read the article both those articles were taken from philosophy legislative updates and you can click on link and look at those yourself as well and that's fellow guess all right thanks Ed that takes care of all of the committee reports are there any comments but members of the public tonight are you sure a couple times no all right if not then the meeting is adjourned thanks to everybody remember yeah
091eventually right I was borrow I get it