001the agenda as presented. Motion to approve the agenda as presented. I'll second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Um there is a public comment. If you would like to speak for public comment, each person has three minutes and it's their time alone can and cannot be passed on to anyone else. Uh if you have concerns or comments about individuals, those are not appropriate during public comment times. So please don't so say anything that would identify circumstances or a person or a group of people directly by what you say. Be respectful. People on Zoom are welcome to join the public comment. Please put your name in the chat. Anyone on Zoom. [Music] There was nobody online. No one online. Get that. It's turned off. It just shut down. But we do have folks in the
002audience. Nobody's on. Nobody's on there anyway. Um, is there someone that would like to make a public comment? Oh, wait. No. Okay. So, move on. That's fine. Um, superintendent. So, last day of school with students on Friday, June 6. So, great end of the year. Staff and students were out in the community enjoying the day and finishing up testing, closing up classrooms, uh, taking home all the laughter goodies and garden work. uh which is really great uh and it was wonderful to see and be a part of our high school graduation along with the school board. So, thank you to all of you for attending and congratulating our graduates as they walked across the stage. I'm really proud to say that we have 100% of our students this year graduate um from senior class, which
003is something to really celebrate. Um the dedication and hard work of our staff does not go unnoticed. Uh, summer school starts next Monday, the 16th, and right now we have 150 students signed up to participate in summer school, which is just a phenomenal number. Uh, we're excited to welcome them and have them back. It feels like we didn't really have a break at all, but they'll be out doing amazing things. We'll be sure we update our social media page, our website. Actually, we had that go live today. Um, so sorry about any hiccups that people ran into as they were um, accessing things, but we wanted to make sure we could do it before summer school started on Monday and have everything rolling. So, thanks to Cody and Matt Larson, Cody Czech and Matt Larson
004for all the work. And it is a work in progress. Most pages are are pretty well up to date, but there are a few areas you'll see it'll say under construction or, you know, we're just getting things updated and that'll happen over the next few weeks. Uh, let's see what else. The the soccer team, I was hoping to be able to give an update on that, but they won. Oh, they did. They won. Oh, wow. All right. So, Hawk girls soccer will play on Saturday for the final game before state. Um, if they should be able to accomplish that, that would be so fun to celebrate. And we're wishing them luck in Saturday. And then one uh final thing, we uh received a Wisconsin reads recognition for English language arts proficiency across our district. And
005we received a really nice I'll pass this around a note from the president, a plaque, which I just wasn't able to bring up with me and a really nice book on uh researchbased strategies for improving literacy outcomes. So, we're excited. Ivy and I were drooling over the book earlier to to get started on um continuing that great work because we have such an amazing team. So, I just wanted to to share that as well. Well, thank you for that and thank you for that because that's that's terrific. Yeah, it's a great it's a great recognition. Really nice. Wonderful. Um Cisa, I just have one comment about your report. Um, I like the website. It's easy to maneuver. Very clear, I think. Oh, good. Um, yeah, I was I was impressed with it. Oh, good. Yeah,
006I really like it. We spend a lot of time in it like in house going over it and checking it and making sure. There's probably something we've forgotten, but we'll get it added if we if we did. Thank you for that feedback. Thank you, Cody, for back there behind hiding behind there. That's really nice. Okay. The CISA 12, we had our uh reorganization meeting um and elected new board members. I got elected again, so I'm on the board and a representative. Um, we approved the preliminary budget. Um, and the meeting schedule and that's just about it. It's pretty business-like meeting. When you meet, do you meet there at the office or do you meet um someplace else? No, we meet at um hotel show again. Okay. And that is working out for CISA to do
007that. Yeah, it's working out really well. Good. We get opportunity. So, we get to try all kind of new food there. We always get a different menu. That's perfect. Good. Thank you. Um approval of financial reports and bills. Yes, I went over the financial reports um last week and uh and if you have like specific questions, you may have to defer um Janet at another time was not able to prepare this particular week, but um but everything's always like straightforward and super organized and really uh trying to think if there's anything that came across. um a lot of like activity like uh physical activity and like some reimbursement for like the um or some expenses for like physical education which I just always really appreciate like kids being active and getting together and working as
008teams and I feel like our PE is doing that with these some of these expenses I've seen and um and uh and that was that was uh that was it um so I would uh move to approve the financials for May Is there a second? I'll second. Any other discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Um the the link to get into those was not highlighted on mine. Correct. Oh, it may not have I probably didn't update it in your version, but it is online. Yeah, I'll do that right now. Consent agenda to approve a second. Second. Is there any discussion? All in favor? Opposed? Motion carried. Um discussion items. We have a staff recognition of Beth Reed. I just have a little background on Beth. Beth began working for the district in 1996.
009She served in many roles. Title one teacher, an interventionist, third grade teacher, a Spanish French teacher, the Nordic ski coach, track and cross country coach, a new teacher mentor, and an AFS advisor. She was selected as teacher Frasier teacher of the year in 2018 and 19. and she obviously was integral in all aspects of student life in elementary, middle, and high school. Um, I had the privilege of being able to work with Beth and she was a great colleague and great to work with and we're going to miss her and do we have something? Yeah, we just wanted we when we recognized Beth, we shared some photos. Um, so I just asked Kobe to share Prophase uh a little bit of the historical Yeah, go ahead and click through. So, we had to embarrass her
010just a little, but it was fun, too, because she almost looks the same. Yeah, she has changed a bit. So, we were telling her that um she's she's very timeless in her in her years at Washurn. So, I think there's a couple more. Well, there she looks. Oh, yeah. There she is. She graduated from high school in 1983. Oh, no wonder she looks quite a bit younger than if that was high school. She does have that 80s hair going on. And then yeah, that was it. So, we were able to collect, we celebrated her and had cake, provided a gift, um gave her a really nice floral h flower arrangement for outdoors. Um and I'll have to bring um a picture. We were able to locate these really old DuPont plates. It has a picture
011of the original DuPont school. Oh. Um on them. And so we gave her one of those as well as a mug, you know, that have the Washford School District on it mug. So she was really grateful for that and it was fun to make her smile. Good. Yeah. Very nice. She for sure. And then the we'll go on to the prayer teacher of the year recipients. Yeah. Maybe do you want to we I don't know if we want to walk through all the little guessing games or not. If you want you could flip to the next one. Um as you know Fraser teacher of the year they must be here for five years. Um and then just making a really big impact on um both students and on their colleagues um in the community. And
012so uh we take nominees or nominations from the staff themselves and then there's a committee that meets together and selects from that list. And that's always a really difficult decision because um I serve on that committee and each year we give a second several several people because we have such an incredible staff. And then when we go through this with our staff um at the end of the year meeting we like to give little clues. So we share what do the colleagues say about them? What do students say about them? So as you kind of read through this you can see like students say this person makes them feel happy. They trust them. Colleagues really lean on this person. Um they're there to help them with whatever they need help with. And then as we
013get to going then we start to give clues or really start to give it away when they joined. Um what are their degrees, what kind of experience they have. Middle school counseling starts to give it away. We like to put in little jokes. Um this was uh this was Jen Lutz and she was the most frequent winner of the Sir Walker award which was something that Milford done over the last couple years and just gives us a chance to recognize. Um and as you know Jen lets our middle school counselor and she just makes a huge impact on students and staff every single day. So she welld deserved by her for sure. Good selection. Yeah. And then same thing for elementary school. uh go through what how colleagues colleagues describe this person um the priorities
014that they have in the classroom and you can see how this reflects our priorities as a district and as a board. Uh when I ask students about this uh teacher these are some of the units that they really love. You might have seen some of these represented on social media and then um seem to give some clues about their history and their background and the recipient of elementary school was Miss Norris Schwinspire. So second grade and again just a huge impact on students on staff and great community connections. Um that second grade group goes out into the community. Um my son is actually a second grader and he was just talking to me about Mayor Motiff and how he has an idea he'd like to share with her because he went on a field trip
015and he didn't know about mayors didn't know about how that worked um until this year and then now he's seeing how that can apply to his life and how to make our community even better for it. So it's just one of many examples of how she's impacting our students. Nice. Yeah. Very nice. That's really cool. Thank you for presenting that. Yeah. um the safety drill review and annual seclusion restraint restraint report. So that's something that we report up to the board each year in June. For seclusion restraint, they check the middle school high school get zero instances of each. At the elementary, we have zero incidences of seclusion and two instances of restraint. And so that's the smallest number that we've had in recent years and something we're going to continue to strive towards eliminating
016um altogether if possible. When it comes to safety drills, we um complete all the required drills including fire drills monthly, severe weather drills, and our safety drill drills or lockown down drills. And so each of those um are very consistent things we've practiced a lot over the years. Um but this year in efforts of continuous improvement, we've expanded some of those practices. Uh we always collaborate with the Washurn Police Department, but this year we're able to work with both the fire department and the EMS team um after hours to talk about our building with the layouts, what we can do to best support them in an emergency, how they can best support us. And that was just really appreciative for our community helpers to reach out and take that time to support us and ensure
017we have the best plans in place. And then um two staff members, so me and along with Homer Moore, we just completed the train the trainer for the Alice training. And so that's a way that we can improve our our safety drills um to ensure that we have the best possible scenarios in place um for staff and students and it's dependent on the situation in front of us. So uh we will be making some changes of course for next year and then even moving forward we'll continue to update trainings and update practices um so that we're as safe and secure as possible. So we haven't been using the Alice program here before this and we will be next year. Yeah. Yep. We'll still work through uh what the implementation timeline looks like. Um and if
018you've gone through that training before, you know that there is um quite a bit of training involved with it as well as practice both for staff and for students. It's also something that will be different for our families and our community. So we want to be really proactive in that communication, make sure everybody understands what we're doing, why we're doing it, how we're doing it, um how we can do this in a very trauma-sensitive way that's still supportive of students and yet is going to be most effective if an emergency situation arises. So that will be next on our our list of summer projects to roll out that plan. So you do you have a plan yet about how you're going to start with training with the staff or So we know that we're going
019to utilize the platform for some uh online hourlong training and then Homer and Ivy were able to get even more detail on the in-person piece. So, my understanding is there'd be some online component, there would be an in-person component, just even more teaching, and then there would be some scenario work to do with just staff and then followup information kind of through lessons with students. Uh, but no scenario drills um other than potentially like meeting at a rally point um is one drill that I think um schools will do. And Ivy knows way more than I do at this point because she's an instructor. So, I said we're have to sit down and I'm going to have to learn from them and then we'll plan out all the next steps. The biggest challenge we'll have
020is that we have limited inperson uh time with staff. We only have two days before school starts which we all know fill up very quickly and we want to give staff time in their classrooms and planning for you know instruction. Um and aside from that, right now in Washurn here, we don't have another in-person day uh during the year. So we we have some ideas around um working with staff and curriculum council in terms of kind of redefining and rethinking some of that, but going into next year, we'll have to be thoughtful because we haven't quite made those changes in terms of time. Yeah. But we're excited. I think it's definitely a great um it'll just be such a proactive change for our staff and our community. I I I really appreciated the training when
021I took it. It was um it made you look at things a whole lot differently and um and like you said much more proactive instead of just stuck in your head. Yeah. Hope it's not happening. Um, okay. The school district partnership with Basil County and I see we have a Basil County person here. Hello. We do. In the event that you have any questions that you'd like to ask, representative is attending. This is Kelly Weslin for anyone who might administrator for county. Great to see you, Kelly. Uh, so uh we've been working hard on uh together Mark Ables Allison and Kelly Westland. Um Ivy and myself and I know Sandy attended a meeting almost a year ago I can't believe it to talk more about how do we build a partnership between Bayfield County and
022the school district of Washurn in order to provide um outstanding child care to our community and our employees within both uh systems. So we've brainstormed many ideas. Uh our long-term goal is to hopefully make an expansion uh option in our ELC. More specifically, we have one classroom, and Ivy can speak to this more than I can for uh birth to two. Um and it would mean breaking up birth to 12 months and 13 months to 24 months so that we could in fact care for more children where those needs seem to be the greatest. Our weight list for babies is the much largest weight list. And what are we at right now, do you think, per babies? Um, we average around 20 to 30 families on the wait list for infants. Yeah. And how many
023can we have right now? Eight. Eight. And if we had two rooms, how many could we have? Okay. It would double then. It would double it. Yeah. So, we'd be able to then focus on one infant room and then one for that um kind of 12 to 24 month or 13 to 24 month. So, uh so we've been talking a lot about how we can make that happen. We all know we're working through um Ivy filling the shoes of the director and she's doing an amazing job, but in terms of an expansion, it's just not in the cards until we can have a director in place to take on that role and responsibility. Um so we brainstormed and came up with a financial support opportunity where Bithville County um as a pilot year was going
024to support our ELC with $20,000. Um and in you know conjunction with that we will move Bay County employees to the wait list under our staff um that are here at Washurn um in order to hopefully fill the void um that they're feeling the heartache around child care. And then if we can and we are hoping to add to those numbers, we can see even more families be served because like I said, we want to attract economic, you know, people here for our economic development and child care is a huge piece of that puzzle. So, um, we're going to make it a priority and, uh, keep plugging away to make it happen. This is a great step in the in the right direction. So, the money will support staffing, training, potential expansion efforts. We're also
025in conversation around grant opportunities and are there ways that we can um support each other in that like room changing that may need to happen um with with the other pro part of the program then the little older kids. Um how many do we have there and how many do we have on the waiting list? Yeah, significantly less. Um our weight list is usually pretty small for the preschool room. now that we started the 4 day or the 5day 4K program. Um and so although there has been a wait list throughout the school year, it was appro maybe five families for the preschool room and with the number of students graduating into 4K next year, we should be able to just about eliminate that weight list for the preschool room. So um as time goes
026on, we should be able to stay on top of that. The toddler room kind of es and flows. Um as the baby room increases, that shifts over the toddler room because oftentimes families not getting until after they turn two. Sure. And so, um, that one sometimes it can be short and sometimes it can be pretty lengthy. So, how many can you maintain in there? How many kids can you have in there? Um, in that room we can we do up to 10. Yeah, the ratio would allow up to 12, but with that side of the room, 10 feels like the right match. So, okay. And how many do you think we have on the waiting list? Uh, right now, just guess off the top of my head, I'd say probably 10. 10 families. Um, do
027you have any idea how many people would be I mean we might have some county people on there right now. It might be just a matter of jostling them around to put them on the list in a different order. We'll just move them up to the top of the list once our is signed and delivered. And I think we have four I want to say it's about four families. There are four that are currently on the wait list with Washurn. And um we did circulate sort of an informal internal survey and there are a few folks that you know indicated that if it were an option then they might be interested as well but at this point they're seeking other other um possibility but I can tell you that this is um it is a
028critical issue as far as our ability to attract workforce and to retain them. Uh today we have some or this week we've got somebody who's out because they couldn't find child care. Uh and and so it happens uh more often than we'd like. And if there's anything we can do to collaborate to to improve the situation for all of us, that would be really fantastic. Well, I think that's I think it's a great idea. I mean, I I would like to get more places available for the daycare and both the toddler room and the baby room. Yeah, we're hopeful that we can continue to grow our programming. We just have to know that we have the right uh sustainable uh leaders in the right places to make that happen. And I want to be really
029thoughtful about that. Sure. And staffing is always an issue there. Seems like it's hard to maintain staff. Is there an issue with physical space? Like in in your dreams, you have enough staff and everything's in you. When do you max out physical space? This would m Yeah, one one room of an expansion would max us out at the elementary. Yeah, there would be Yeah, all rooms are currently in use, but we could do some creative shifting to support one of the room shifting to over to the ELC, but then would probably be next. I just like it because it's another opportunity to do education or to provide this like opportunity like Ruby learning and outdoor education um for our youngest learners that's not like department of instruction dependent and we can really do it like
030the wash way to your point of like getting the right sustainable leader there you know like what a what opportunity for our community. So hope and like these kind of partnerships are just so essential for that kind of work, right? Yeah. It really will open a door for us to be able to think creatively and expand in the right way. And unfortunately fortunately unfort Ivy's done such an amazing job. Um those shoes would be hard to fill. So we're we have high we have a high bar, but we're we're pretty hopeful that we're going to find find the right person. We and we had advertised it a couple of times last year and then we just were able to get into a rhythm and felt like the midyear time would have been a challenge. But
031now summer's here and Ivy and I are going to revisit that and re-evaluate, you know, what that should look like for posting and that and it helped I'm assuming with um your duties on that when the financial part went down to your office. Yes. Yes. That would help tremendously. Yeah. Office has done great with that. Yeah. that that's been fabulous. We would not change that. We would maintain that structure. Um it's the weight list monitoring, uh tours, communication home, you know, the handbooks and the website and all of the like kind of daytoday operations. You know, the little things that pop up um here and there, which we all um can attest to. that doing that on on top of an entire building of of students and staff can be overwhelming and also exhausting on
032days that have higher needs. So, um just to be able to have someone in that role and and likely they would serve in a a teacher role and in a director role. So, we would have someone working in in kind of a dual capacity, especially since we moved the financial pieces to the business office. Good. Do you have any thoughts about um any changes that you would like to see into that program at this point in time or um we're working it's great it's such a great staff and it is hard to hire new staff who have such a phenomenal staff right now. Um that is a concern for expanding is how to add on that same quality and experience. Um but even just today we're working with our youngst raider um came in to
033work with us and she was just super impressed with the quality of interactions and care um ongoing suggestions for little tweaks in the classroom how we set up our music station and our vocation um we had DCF come in to do um just check for all of our requirements and um yeah so I think we are always we're all engaged in continuous improvement we meet monthly as a staff set goals work to monitor and achieve them so I think there's lots of great things in the works um I'm excited about some of the possibil that lie in front of us and I'm hopeful to add more people to our team because I think we need them. Okay. Well, I hope it's a it's a working collaboration with the two entities. I'm glad we could work
034this out. This has been kind of in the works for years. Yep. So, good. Cheers. All right. And we will have that later on on the agenda to act on that. Um so first we're going to go on to the individual action items and approve the second reading of the um number of policies that we had last month or the first reading. Um I move to approve the second reading of the policies as listed in the agenda. Second. Is there any discussion? All in favor? Opposed? Motion carried. And now we're going to talk about the early learning collaboration. If I move to approve theou to establish a collaborative partnership between the school district of Washurn, ELC and Bayfield County for the 2526 school year. I'll second. Is there any other discussion on that? Um just
035that it said like uh it said pilot um but then it's just like and we might want to like continue doing it. So that means just a different like a more set in stoneou like if the pilot is successful right is that yeah it's let's try it for a year see how well it goes and then we can you know figure out what the next with the intention of like we want this to continue this by that all in favor opposed motion carried um see I move to approve 2526 C shared service agreement. I'll second. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. I move to approve the summer cleaning contract with Northwoods vac and cleaning supplies for the elementary school. I'll second. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. I move
036to approve open enroll students for the 2025 26 school year. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Opposed? Motion carried. I move to approve the CPI of 1.5% for the 2526 school year. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Opposed? Motion carried. I move to approve the 2526 preliminary budget. Second discussion. I guess I I have a question regarding that. Um, I was looking through it. So, does that I didn't see it including any like state aid. Is any of that changing that or did I miss it? I know it's hard to predict, but I didn't know if that was in there before. I see state a categorical and then general categorical $49,312 and state a general 3,26,474. Did you increase that a percentage or so or did you just leave it as
037it was this year? No. So, it is the same. That's the part that's the most challenging is that we're approving a preliminary budget, but we don't have a budget from the state. So, these numbers will change once we have that information. And then I feel like maybe it might be worthwhile to go through it a little more line item by line item once we have a more set. Um if we you know we will do that at the annual meeting but it's always nice to do that ahead of time just so that everyone has full understanding and and this meeting would have been great but yeah this is a preliminary budget based on like it's all approximation right now which makes it challenging. I was on a call with DPI yesterday so there was a
038joint finance committee meeting today at 1:00. Um, I so wish I could have like been a fly on the wall and I know would know exactly, but there will be information being shared in the next 24 hours likely about sort of where things are falling. Um, but as of right now, yeah, we're still it's still a waiting game. And will we have something by the end of June? We don't know that either. We might not have it until October. Right. So, for now, we're just we're uh taking our best shot on, you know, where we want things to land. Okay. Is there any benefit to comparing this to other years? Okay. So, Janet would normally have had both years on here, but she is still waiting for final numbers from some of the like transportation
039and lisa. So, as I was like pushing her, she was like, "Oh, I'm so close, but I want to make sure I have all of our bills paid before I put a comparative number." So, again, we'll have that for you. Maybe we can shoot for July. That's just nice so we don't have all those like extraations. It's a little bit easier to follow. It'll be so much better to have the end of June is the end of the financial. The end of June is the end of the fiscal year. So, we'll have everything rolling over and it's just crunch time right now with so much. was kind of a stressful time in the business office. Um, so when I saw this, I was like, "You're working on 2425." She's like, "I know, but I just
040couldn't quite get it there across the finish line." So, we'll have I will have that for you. Great question. Okay. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. And now I need a motion to go into close session. I have one motion to go into session. Is there a second? One second. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carried. Thank you all for coming.