001Is there any concerns or changes that you would like to make to the to the agenda? If not, I entertain a motion to approve the agenda as presented. >> I move to approve the agenda. >> I'll second favor. >> Opposed? Motion carried. Is there any public comments? We'll move on. Um, superintendent support. >> Yeah. So, uh, summer's in full swing. It's hard to believe it's the middle of July. Ivy and I were just in Chander meeting the other day and feeling like, how is that almost the middle of July, I should say. Um, it's going so fast, but our uh, year-round employees are hard at work. So, custodians are I don't know if you've noticed the elementary white uh pillars have all been sandlasted and are in the midst of getting painted and it looks
002fabulous. Um a nice update to that building and uh still working through the referendum planning and project work here at the middle school high school. nothing new to report out on aside from some banners that we're going to have mailed just in time for homecoming to hopefully display at both buildings and be able to um maybe even consider the the downtown area, but we'll kind of have to play that by ear. So, as more uh meetings take place and get toward that RFP process this fall, we'll of course keep the board updated on all of that. Um, so big thanks to our custodial crew and our food service crew for keeping our students fed over summer and our buildings safe and clean. Uh, and summer school, I mean, Adventures Every Day, our social media is
003capturing all of that just beautifully and just makes me want to take part in summer school to be honest. Maybe I could just be a chaperon one day. Uh, which is great as but what we've been doing is busy uh, administratively getting ready for next year. So, planning our back to school in service and all of our professional development planning. Um, and just talking through, you know, what is that all what is that all going to entail and look like as we head into the 2526 school year. Um, if you haven't uh noted, the bannual state budget was uh signed into law by Governor Ivers back on July 3rd. And while uh what we had really hoped for in education didn't completely come to fruition, we certainly made some gains and some progress toward improved
004funding. So, we're we're happy about that, but going to continue to advocate for our students and for uh what we need to maintain our buildings and our staff at high levels. Uh district office is getting ready for the audit in the next couple weeks. We're onboarding and getting ready for new staff um to be joining us. And we have uh some new students enrolling in the district. So some open enrolling and and a few new ones which is fabulous. Yeah. >> Do you know the numbers that we're at as >> I don't think you quite have that. I feel like the August meeting will be the perfect meeting because we've had lots of inquiries in the last week and lots of paperwork and lots of tours every almost every day. >> Almost every day. Yeah.
005So just incredible um to see the desire to want to be a part of our be. Yes. Yes. Something to celebrate. We'll bring that to the August meeting for everyone so they'll know exactly where we're at. >> And can you also bring like the historical perspective to that too? We've seen that before in other meetings, but I'd love to have that context that all I've got. I'm glad I read the wrong article or the article I read was wrong about the special ed funding. So, I'm glad that because I the first time I read it, it was that it was going to be 35 um% increase this year and 45 next year and then it was really 42 this year and 45 next year. Right. >> I read when you read it, >> did you?
006>> I did. >> Yeah. And I was just like, darn. >> But it did. It was 42 for this year. So, that will be >> It's still a darn like 40%. All I'm saying is 42 is better than 35. >> Yes. Yes. When we read the the higher number, I think that was the 35 was the initial projection and kind of I guess negotiation. >> So they had been able to reach more. >> I think it's incredible that they didn't increase the budget otherwise for the schools. >> Yeah. >> You know, really did >> incredible as in shameful. >> Shameful. >> Yeah. The state did not change. >> Shameful. >> Yep. I I don't quite understand how that can be, but I um have appreciated the the Facebook articles about the summer school and you
007know how cool for the kids to be sailing and fishing and you know doing some of those lifelong um you know hobbies that they can take out. >> Great. Well, and the art instruction is like phenomenal at summer school like like real like not just like you know I mean this is like real instruction by like real art educators that like aren't necessarily teachers in the district. So it's really great perspective. I just my kids are doing this week and just loving it. >> Great. Summer school is such a nice time to be able to bring all those things in for the kids >> in different um like different ages within the same classroom. I think that's really been also a summer school. >> Yep, for sure. All right, Julie, anything from CC 12? No
008needing uh finances. Okay, so um end of the year, you know, like fewer supplies, seems like we're um closing up like more grants, lots of activities, uh like some DPI and payroll and all of these kind of like business as usual. So, um, so just kind of like noticing some of these themes of like, uh, you know, summer and just not as much, you know, classroom supplies and this thing or that thing, but plenty of, uh, wrapping up field trips and it's always just great to see how, um, how out of the school um, experiences our students get, you know, which is great. Um, a lot of like soccer themes and the activities, you know, obviously this month it's been really great to see that road of the soccer team. But anyway, um didn't I
009didn't get a chance to dive in to the um approved budget expenditures to actual, you know, that we get that statement. I usually like to review that with Janet um because of the 4th of July, I didn't get a chance to review that with her um this month to answer any question any of your questions. So, if you have questions about that budget to actual or about um this kind of like year end and where we stand and how we're doing with our fund balance, um I may not be able to answer them this month. Um but otherwise, the uh statements and everything are fine and good uh good organization as always. Um so, I would move to approve the June 2025 financial statements. >> Second. Any questions, comments, discussion? All in favor? Motion carries.
010All right. Consent agenda. >> Second. >> I'll second. >> Any discussion, comments? >> All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carried. We're going to have a fast meeting today. um individual action items. Um the adoption of the standards is a yearly um exercise that we go through and is there any comments? A little bit about >> Yeah. So um each year we adopt the Wisconsin state standards and that applies to all content areas and uh grade levels throughout the district. We also uh cross reference with national standards when appropriate and when available. Um so we'll continue with that practice. Um last year we were organizing a common format districtwide and that's something we're working on linking on our new website. We had it accessible in our previous website but it really was difficult to read, difficult
011to access. And so um now that's in a common format. We're going to make that really easy to access not only for students and for families and community members but also for teachers as we're working together and collaborating. So, um, we're excited to share that with the board in the future. >> I have a question. >> Um, I'm assuming that 4K is included in that curriculum. >> Yeah. >> Is there any type of curriculum or anything that you're following for the the preschool? >> Yeah. That kind of thing. >> So, both 4K and the ELC uses the WEIMO standards, Wisconsin model early learning academic standards. And um yeah, so they each have their kind of gluccom pacing guides too for them and it's a similar format and they divide those up by age as well.
012>> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Um do they ever do any type of um just assessment testing with the the really young ones? >> Yeah. Yep. So 4K we do it it does kind of fall under the early literacy. So it has some of those same requirements, not all of them though. Um but we also do just a little bit more general um assessment of skills, social skills, math, um you know, all of those. And so uh 4K has a report card, but instead of doing grades, it's just comments. It's just a narrative of their development on those standards. >> And then for the ELC, we actually have two different assessments that we use. They're both recommended by Youngstar. Um so there's a portage guide and then there's another one and I can't think of the
013name of it right now. >> Gold maybe. Um, no. I could look at my consent for sure, but um, both of them show a pretty comprehensive outline of where kids are at, where their individual strengths, uh, what are some challenges they might be facing, and then we share those with families at a parent teacher conference each year, and we monitor them throughout the year. >> We do these screenings for kids coming in. >> Yeah. Yep. So, every spring we do that. We open up to the full community. Any child between zero and five can come in. We pair it up with like an enrollment for 4K, so families have access to that. Um, but we also do that and that's a nice way to help families um, if they do see some lighting skills and
014they can either access resources through the school or through the county and we invite a county representative to come in and partner up with them too. >> Okay. Do you have the turn off for that? >> We do actually. Yeah. Yep. Sure. >> All right. Any other questions about the standards? Need a motion to approve those? I move to approve the adoption of the academic standards pursuant to state statute 118.30 a >> second. Any other discussion? All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carried B. >> I'll make a motion to approve the 256 school board meeting dates. I'll second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed? Motion carried. I move to approve 2025 26 launch prices. Second, any discussion? Um, you know, it sounds like there's some like requirements from DPI that we raise these
015school lunch prices. Um, can you just like review one more thing? Like are we going to be on budget with the school lunches this year? I know that this has been kind of like a work in progress trying to also improve like the school lunches and the quality and all these things. Like kind of can you just like since it's right here, can you just talk about it a little bit? >> Yeah. So, yes. Um, Washurn has historically expected to not finish balanced in food service. like it's been pretty traditional to be about $50,000 in the red and have to make that transfer from 110. >> Um so moving forward the goal is to as much as we can balance because otherwise we're forced to go through this calculation and we have to raise prices.
016Not that we wouldn't raise prices due to food costs and costs for personnel, but it's nice to be in control of that and not be dictated by the state in that manner. So, yes, our participation rates have been low. Um, they've gotten lower. We've been working with our food service director on how do we improve our participation. So, we have kind of two things working against us. food costs are higher and human resource costs are higher, but we also don't have as much participation and we were already functioning in the negative in the past. Um, so food service is an area of improvement, great improvement and Janet and I are working really closely together. Um we have over the last couple of weeks running through different scenarios like staffing wise, what do we need? How
017do we increase those participation rates and create meals that are nutritious and desirable and also within a budget that's realistic um so we attract more people um participation rate >> kids buying school lunches. Yeah. So it's definitely an area of improvement for the district >> and something we are on. Okay. >> Has there ever been a a survey of the students of what they would like to see with the meals? >> Yeah, we surveyed them last year actually. Um, >> pizza. >> I know. >> I think we saw pizza in exclamation marks like everywhere on the survey. It was really cute. And she I think they said there was all kinds of >> There were some that you knew that they were really cute. Yes. So, we did and um Erica's working really hard to
018incorporate. So, when you do make a this is I've learned a lot about food service in the last 12 months. And so, each year you do we do a commodity order and that's set in about February of the prior year. So, the commodities for this year were ordered last February. And I don't know if you recall, not this February, the February before, right? um food service at that time was very very up in the air and then Dr. Wyder was doing a lot of the menus and the ordering and so the commodities that were ordered were not really there were just things ordered that we hadn't used this year that were maybe not all the things kids always want to eat. So, we're starting fresh. We have a new different perspective. Lots of whole foods
019that we put on a quantity order, very different plan. I think it was just, you know, it was just lots of change in personnel at the time and it was like we have to do this order and just the things that were put on there weren't as, you know, high quality. So, changes in >> So, other than pizza, did you learn anything from those surveys or was it all basically the those kind of comments? We wanted to re surervey them to get more information, kind of dig deeper. Um, >> it is a tricky balance because what we're finding kids like the highest uh days for the highest number of lunches are maybe corn dog, pizza, some of the things that are less food. Um, and then some of the lowest ones are like the homemade
020things that >> or usual. Yeah. So, I'm hoping that pairing it with some of our nutrition education, helping kids try new things. Um, building up that excitement over time. Um, and it's like kale chips. We had those the first couple times we ended up tossing them out because they didn't get eaten. And now kids are in Tre Elementary kale chips and like parents are even noticing at home that kids are asking for kale chips because they tried them. They left them and now it's part of our our menu. So, I think it will take time, but I think we can find that balance. >> Yeah, we're trying to figure out how to how do we do that? Is it sort of a second option that's maybe a little more experimental? Do we do an experimental
021meal like once a month? >> Is there a way to get any kid buy in on that? Like um >> yeah, I know >> student involvement, not student involvement like, hey, we're cooking, but like or maybe >> any sort of involvement in in choosing menu, figuring out a menu. I mean, those are life skills, too. >> Yeah, for sure. >> They do harvest things from the garden. That's exciting when they >> stop growing and now I see it on the style bar. Like is that like a class thing that you could rotate around >> bring in those high school students to help out? >> I feel like yes, I think through like some of the planning work. Yes. In the kitchen itself is more stringent expectations like planning. The second graders love >> you know
022kale chips and think that they're being for that >> week of the month or something great chance have input a different month would be cool >> and I would advise to not not forget about those older kids too >> those are the ones that we actually see our participation the lowest >> is middle school high school right now um we are having some discussions and we'll bring that to the board should we want to move forward with possibly closing ing our lunch since it's wide open right now for preschool um would be a great way to like incentivize students to >> yeah to eat maybe not all but might have more. So we're trying to think of every possible scenario and angle in terms of improving our >> our participation rates and if any of
023you see resources or have any resources please let us know. >> Thanks. >> Yeah. How how is the delinqua that counts? >> That is a great question. I do not have an answer for you, but I can find out. I I want to say overall we had really great uh notification weekly. We still do for management for all food service andor sports related like anything outstanding. And I know Heather and I've talked Heather Jobeck who um works through all the activity accounts and all of those pieces has said that vast improvements relative to the past >> and the food service though >> in all areas because that was a big problem before. >> Yes. I don't think it's quite as big of a problem. I do think there are still a few um instances where
024those numbers do run up and we are making personal phone calls and and working through payment plans when we can and like you know wanting families to know where there's sports end to help recover um those charges but we of course will not deny a meal to any students. >> So it's an ongoing piece. Is there any settlement out and about yet about um funding from the feds on school lunch? >> We have not heard any updates other than just like all federal funding right now, it's all frozen. Nothing is being dispersed. So, we're um in a holding pattern pretty much around everything. >> Yeah. So, we're waiting to see. I wonder if anybody at the state level is making any plans of what happens if I know advocating for it. I don't I don't
025know if that doesn't come through. I think the expectation is that the law states that, right? Um yes, but whether or not that is we'll see. Okay. >> Motion. >> Any opposition? Motion carried. >> D. I move to approve the milk bid for the 2025 school year. I'll second. Any discussion? All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carried. B. I move to approve the grad bid for the 2526 school year. >> Second. Any discussion? All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carried. >> Move to approve the WIAA membership renewal agreement. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carried. G. >> We move to approve the 2025 2026 book and book. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> No changes. >> No. >> Any other discussion? >> All
026in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carries. Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> And we'll be enjoying having you here and in a new position. >> Yeah. Thank you very much. >> Um >> Great. Is there a second? Second. We are ajourned. >> Yes. It's