Board Meeting 3-28-22

001all right i'd like to call this meeting of the west almost milwaukee school board to order uh mr could you please leave us in the pledge pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god and indivisible with liberty and justice for all right thank you very much suzette would you please call the role yes mr sikich president ms deal here mr burns president mr ustruk here this is just um mr keller president here proper notice that this meeting has been posted in accordance with the open meeting laws of the state of wisconsin are there any uh modifications to the agenda this evening there or not okay well then we'll move right into the superintendent's report right good evening so i am

002here on behalf of dr lexmond and we're gonna start with our return to in-person learning so we'll go through our guiding principles external health metrics and internal health metrics as we have and then our focus on student achievement and next steps so as we talk every week about our guiding principles just a reminder that we focus on our safety and well-being learning that works for all responsiveness and flexibility and practicality of implementation so our health metrics have been updated so the week of march 25th is what you're seeing on the bottom row our covered burden status in milwaukee county remains at moderately high level although it is going down slightly our coveted burden status in west allis west milwaukee is still in the high range but is going down has gone down from the march

0038th week that was last reported in our metric three a percent positive in milwaukee county going down slightly from 2.6 percent to 2 percent and our 4th metric percent positive in west allis and west milwaukee remains the same as the march 8th week at 2.9 percent caitlin i'm sorry interrupt can you go back to that one side i think that's actually uh incorrectly marked uh so for the west house of waukee school district it's listed at a lower uh burden rate than the county i just think that that we need to change it to moderately high and to change the the uh color to yellow because it's at 53.32 versus 70. oh yes this one should be yellow instead of orange yes and it should also be moderately high versus high it's very close to

004being got it the number was changed but not matter okay so that should be moderately high on the bottom and should be um in in yellow so make sure to update that next week thanks so much and then in our internal health metrics we have our just both are trending in in the right direction oh so i should say the march 25th week was um 0.23 as a district positive case rate so it did go up slightly but still is in in the green so in the low range and then our quarantine percent is zero percent for the week the current week march 25th caitlin can you just talk up a little bit oh sure yes thanks shane thanks so next on our agenda is our summer school plan so information did go out today

005to families so our 4k through 5th grade course offerings are listed here we have 4k jumpstart we have 5k jumpstart ninja sports readers theater book club cafe be a math magician arts and crafts oogy science and stem and design and summer school will take place during for those grades this year at hoover jefferson and mitchell so sign ups will start april 4th for families on skyward and for intermediate schools we have courses offered page to stage room redesign summer sports murals for the community esports intro to film batter up which is a baking exploration class community partnerships and lunch and learn focused on literacy and math and for intermediate summer schools our students will attend their neighborhood intermediate school and again sign up starts on march i'm sorry sign up starts on april 4th and

006same with our high school summer school we have our courses that are offered are with credit recovery as always and then there's ged 2 and for credit attainment we have health pe personal finance and strength and fitness and then our students will attend their current high school for their academic for the for summer school and then as we look forward it's already march 28th so we're looking towards the end of the year we'll continue with in-person concerts and events and we're looking to continue to return to normal and currently are planning for proms and in-person graduation events so those those things are in the works and as we have more information they'll be presented to our board and that concludes our update on in-person learning next is our legislative update so the us department of

007ed released new cte fact sheet to help guide sr-3 decisions and um there's nothing really groundbreaking or earth shattering in this information but we'll review it and bring anything that's important to our board in our community in terms of sr3 cte eligible expenses for district recognitions tonight we have a number of them so in recreation we'd like to recognize noreen murray for commitment and dedication to serving our department programs and the greater community marine was recently recognized by the den scouts of madison noreen has served as the building supervisor for scouts events at madison throughout throughout the years they stated that narena is always so supportive of their events she understood the importance of scouts for the kids and always made sure they have their meetings or make sandwiches for a food bank or host

008their blue and gold ceremony which was where they recognized her she was a big part of their den and noreen is a significant asset to our team at wilson we want to recognize and thank britney sugden amanda hendrickson caitlyn dresdo for leading the garden club we also want to acknowledge the hard work of ally cardwell britney sugden amanda hendrickson and cecily lyons for starting our very first pickleball team thanks for creating authentic learning for our students after school hours and at wilson we'd also like to celebrate keira holman our third grader here at wilson for earning the title of 2022 future chef for our district way to go kira at pershing we i want to send a thank you to kira osler shaw emily martin melanie foland and nicole ellman for creating our first ever

009girls on the run club at pershing a group of 15 through 3rd through 5th grade girls will be working hard for the next eight weeks to prepare for their 5k celebration at american family field on may 6th at walker a huge shout out to the walker team teachers for all of their work organizing and preparing students for their presentations of learning that were held on february 24th the event was a success and that is thanks to the teachers working and preparing our students thanks to heather kinsel bailey kowalkowski leanne gleason amy zeiger morgan noster karen raymond jane robinson krisha hines stacy christensen patrick collins jennifer skawitz and jennifer streeter that man the first great team sarah mcnamara molly wengard rachel deary and callie stefan recognized the whole child as a learner as they dove into

010healthy living unit that included community partnerships and the many resources and staff within their building and a shout out for a project led by music teacher shannon shimoyama and second graders from miss della and miss heidersheit's classes they featured they were featured in a music video sponsored by the center for language education for the winter olympics in china and that video is linked on our website which is super cool at madison a big thank you to crystal prakie for creating operating and maintaining all of our social media platforms including instagram which is brand new to madison this year at west milwaukee we want to give a shout out to mrs ruiz mrs pepperocki and mrs conahay their students researched a greek mythological character and put on a living wax museum complete with costumes props and

011trifled information boards students completed a feedback protocol gallery walk combined as a sixth grade community giving purposeful feedback for students prior to their whole class presentations and at irving a big shout out goes to michaela miller caroline aiello tyler hartman and kelsey dean hammer who have coordinated irving's first eco club this group of third through 5th grade students have teamed with the kinder kinders 5k students they attended a recycling program at keep greater milwaukee beautiful and are exploring our community recycling systems and how we can protect our resources and in other information items we have an update on our referendum planning so dr stewart is going to walk through the share um presentation as we go through it so i wanted to start with our progress in terms of finances when we were in this

012planning stage of our project we did get a number of questions about what happened with our financial struggles and are proud to share um just this slide that has two headlines that are really significant in in reflecting our progress so the one on the left is from 2017 during our financial struggle that our current administration inherited and at that time we turned to our taxpayers as one strategy for an operational referendum to help resolve this 20 the 17.5 million dollars in overspending and the answer to that operational referendum was no so we understood that and um there were another additional steps that we took at that time to put ourselves in a better financial position um those were really difficult and involved cutting positions and freezing pay and right sizing are scaling back on our

013number of staff within our district office um and that really helped write our finances so the headline on the right is from three years later october 11 2020 and reflects the new position that our district you know got to and maintained throughout the years so at this point we're proud of that incredible progress and it puts us in a really good position to be able to focus on our next pro project which is our our facilities along with our financial inc our financial progress came an increased credit rating so just like individuals have a credit rating our school district also has a credit rating and this is really important for a number of reasons but one of those is that when you have a higher credit rating lower interest comes along with that so when

014when we would borrow for a project such as this referendum project we that comes along with lower interest rates and that higher credit rating results in millions of dollars in interest saved so it's safe to say that if our credit rating hadn't increased we one probably wouldn't be looking at this project at this point in time but two is a really good time for us to be looking at it because we have this higher credit rating and it's a low interest rate environment so those two items combined results in millions of dollars saved in interest in such a large project dr lexman has been putting together referendum quick fact videos so we'll watch two here tonight they're two minutes or less and we'll go through two of them and the first one is on the

015history of our of our high schools hello and this is a referendum quick fact today's question explores the history of our high schools and i received the question didn't we always have central and nathan hale and why would we change that well the story of all of our schools is captured in a book titled 100 years of the west allis west milwaukee schools and i'm going to share some photos from the various iterations of high schools so the very first central high school which was the first comprehensive school in the community was built or completed in 1920 its location was 7510 west national avenue and if you're familiar with 75th and national avenue you know that building is no longer there but that was the first central high school there was also west milwaukee high

016school we now use it as west milwaukee intermediate school it was completed in 1927 at its current location at 5104 west greenfield avenue then there was the first nathan hale high school and this may look familiar to you this looks like central high school because that is the current location of central high school but it started as nathan hale high school at 85th and lincoln and then there was the new nathan hill high school which was completed in in 1968 at its current location on lincoln avenue and that led us to the new central high school so when the new nathan hill high school was built central high school moved out of its original building into the former nathan hill building and it was renamed central high school and later expanded in 1987 and that

017may lead you to wonder what happened to the original central high school it was later used as john dewey jr high school and after extensive fire damage it was torn down so the the point of this story is that schools evolve over time high schools evolve over time and the evolution is really to match the community and student needs and so the referendum is really about the next evolution of our high schools and this has been a referendum quick fact and we want to remind you to vote on april 5th fascinating story of our history and the next video that we'll show here is again two minutes long and this one is on our high school enrollment now and projected into our future hello everybody this is marty lexman superintendent of the west allis west

018milwaukee school district and this is another referendum quick fact um today i'm focusing on an interesting question posed by a parent and what she suggested is because we focus so much on the overall declining enrollment maybe we should just focus on so what is the enrollment projection just for our high schools and i think it tells a pretty compelling story so right now right total high school enrollment across our two large comprehensive high schools dot gain shared journeys is over 2500 and that sounds like too many students to go to one school however if you look at where we are four years from now and then four years later right so in 2030 we'll be at 1923 or graduating class of 475 and every class after that is in the mid to upper 400s but

019then if we take out the dotkey enrollment and dot key is a school that should range between 200 and 300 students so if we take out 250 students from dot key we now have 1673 students and it is not academically or financially viable to run two high schools of 840 students in buildings large enough for more so i think this is something to think about we have an opportunity right now while interest rates are low that we can create a modern high school that really is a point of community pride where everybody comes together around our students or we can wait five years and a future school board will have to face the reality that it is no longer financially or academically sustainable and be forced to squeeze all the students in at hail so

020i just think it's something to think about and i appreciate a parent asked that question and this has been a referendum quick fact [Music] sorry about that we have a number of those referendum quick tech videos that are out there they're on our website and are being pushed out through our social media channels and our board is also recording a few of them as well so those will continue to go out through april 5th and are really a bite-sized way to get information on our referendum so we welcome our community to review those videos as well another piece of the referendum partnership which is really important for our community and our students in the future is matc's guarantee in our career and technical education spaces so matc has guaranteed that if if our referendum were

021to pass and our school district is building the facilities matc will equip the facility so they've stated that in excess of a million dollars of equipment is what they would be equipping our cte classes classrooms with and in addition to this it really creates a partnership in terms of diplomacy and our high school students will be able to if they are knowing what track or what career they're looking for in the cte field will be able to complete all of their high school courses and leave our high school with an associate's degree at the same time so there's that partnership which is important for high school students and also important for our tax payers in our community because both of us are taxing entities of west allis west milwaukee communities and instead of both of

022us creating duplicating spaces we can do it together where we create the facility and matc would equip the spaces so it does not replicate the need within our community and together we can partner and make more efficient use of our resources and another important piece that we've gotten number of feed of feedback from our community through our referendum sessions through our social media channels um and our facility planning email we've heard about the transition plan that was presented to our families and their transition plan was the original intent and spirit of our transition plan was to get our students who would be graduating from our new school together earlier to create these experiences as one unit and we heard from families that the number of transitions that this created for our students who would be

023in high school at that time was disruptive so we actually went back to our architects and construction management firm and they were able to rework their plans so that all of our students will maintain enrollment at their neighborhood high schools until the new school opens to all students in 2627 so that's a change from what was originally presented so all students will remain maintain attendance at their current high schools until the new schools open for all students in the 26-27 school year and again that was in response to feedback from families who thought the transition plan where students would attend a different school and then after transition back to the new school was too disruptive too many transitions in their high school experience so um we thank all of our family and community members for

024coming forward with that feedback and we took it um to our construction management architect firms and we came to a really great conclusion together so um we're happy to be able to present this update and then we also included a quote from right architects and cg schmidt and this also went out in families two families in a letter on friday and the statement reads it is feasible to adapt project phasing to accommodate construction at the hail site while it is still being used to ensure that staff students staff and visitors will be both safe and productive most of our education projects involve working directly next to students and teachers during the school year and both firms have extensive experience with school additions and renovations our teams know how to plan schedule and communicate to make

025sure to get the job done to mitigate noise dust and excess disruptions and it is more common than not for these firms to be doing this construction while schools going on because most most of the time they're renovating schools that are currently exist where students are learning so um they confirmed that this is possible and so we heard feedback and we moved forward with a plan that better suited our families and then finally we have a couple more information sessions coming up one's this week thursday this is virtual the link is on our website on zoom and then on saturday we added an in-person session at west milwaukee in the intermediate school library at 10 am and that one is welcome again to any families all of these are welcome to any families or community

026members who are looking to learn more about what the referendum um the rationale behind it and what it means for the community and our students and we also added two zoom q a sessions for people that will just want to have a maybe have a quick question or are looking for some more information on specific topic but don't need to listen to the whole 30 minute presentation so again these two zoom q a sessions won't have a presentation but are just a space for anybody to pop in and ask a question or to just listen to other questions that are being asked so again these zoom links are on our website and these two zoom sessions will take place from noon to 12 30 on tuesday and thursday of this week and that concludes the

027superintendent's report thank you very much we will move on to public comments just as a reminder if you willing to address the board you have three minutes to do so please state your name and address before beginning your comments the board will not be able to engage in any questions or dialogue from your communications but if there is a response required it will be done so by the next regular board meeting if you do want to participate there is an online signup form that is required to be used so if anyone is listening via zoom who'd like to give a public comment please utilize a link in the chat to be able to sign up to do so otherwise i will call them in the order that they have been listed here on the form

028for me so without further ado mr john molly my name is john mulling 3850 south pole drive new berlin west dallas west milwaukee school district has been in a deep hole since the 90s and now that we're finally climbing out of it they're going to put us back in another deep hole with this referendum i want to talk about the elephant in the room this board and superintendent have been deceitful and dishonest with the information that was in this packet and i'm going to mention three ways you were dishonest first of all the dotted line swimming pool you didn't put that on the budget you didn't put this at the 149.8 because that would have probably put another six to eight million dollars 150 some million looks a lot worse than 149.8 and the question

029is how in the world are you going to pay for it in the future i suspect with another referendum so we're going to be caught with another one second for months and months and months you've been talking about 149.8 i don't know if you've noticed in the past one or two months when you go to the grocery store the gas station things have gone up precipitously eight percent in the last month an eight percent increase to 149.8 is is uh 16 million extra dollars that would make your project 162 million at an eight percent increase that means every screw i-beam rebar sheet of sheetrock is going to probably cost at least that add that to this maybe six to eight million for a swimming pool we're talking 168 to 170 million i got that figure

030from an architect that was six maybe six million dollars but the third thing that really angered me in this pamphlet the only read statement in this whole thing is on the back page that reads if approved the total meal rate is estimated to be less than it was in 2020. guess what when i saw you use the word 2020 the red flag went up and i smelled a rat and guess what i found a rat because in 2021 my taxes went down and you didn't want to use that number because if you're going back to the other mill rate my taxes are going to go up 6 to 7 again that's why you did that little trick and i hope people recognize that fact my taxes will go up again six to seven percent if

031you pass this referendum it makes it appear like you're saving money when we're actually raising your taxes again and putting you right back in the hole that's devious that's deceitful but you know what that's the mo of this school board and the superintendent you're trying to put lipstick on a pig and sell us the pork and i ain't buying it finally i hope that all the people in west allis west we're walking to berlin pull out their tax bill because here's the comparison 2020 to 21. you got to do it for your taxes look at do you want to pay that number or do you want to pay the 2021 which i saved 7 on my bill and remember it's for 25 years thank you mr joe mikolai check joe michael jack 3355 south russell

032court new berlin we do not need 150 million dollar referendum to build the taj mahal at hale this equates to twenty thousand eight hundred dollars per student at the current enrollment just let that sink into your thick heads twenty thousand eight hundred dollars that also equates to fifty eight thousand six hundred fifty dollars per high school student of all high school students currently registered seventy seven percent of students are school district residents and twenty three percent are not west dallas west milwaukee residents you expect the taxpayers that trust you here are the major reasons taxpayers should not number one a 20 million dollar pension loss with half of that amount being borrowed money after this debacle gross overspending and deficit budgets the failure of the last proposed referendum and mr unelected educate lexman who went

033behind the voters back and got a loan for quote energy efficiency and after that board meeting mr unelected educret went to hide in the bathroom when reporters were going to question him about that next the loss of 843 000 to a scam associated with the building of a rec center not a school building a rec center no heads roll miss catlin you should be fired it's all but it's only taxpayers money by the way i would suggest that anyone interested in finding out how careless and callous you are with taxpayer money to look at the nearly 100-page west allis police department report on the investigation of the 843 thousand dollar loss that you want to sweep under the rug another point the school board makes is matc will pay for some costs associated with the

034with the schools and you'll use federal government funds i hate to tell you geniuses but federal government funds and matc funds are taxpayer funds you cannot be trusted all your backhanded dealings you serve the teachers union and the administration as proof of this i would like to bring the voters attention to the proposed march 21st not open to the public closed meeting between mr lexman and the board the purpose of this meeting was to discuss 20 seconds was to discuss a super superintendent of valuation and contract discussions there is no reason this should be a closed meeting but this is how this board and mr unelected educrat operate you should be ashamed of your actions and inactions vote no no no no and no thank you very uh much chuck kornowski my name is chuck

035kornowski k-o-r-n-o-w-s-k-i i live at 2158 south 90th street west dallas two two seven i agree with everyone here that just spoke about the referendum and i reiterate everything that they both said i won't repeat everything they said i myself [Music] have three children who went through the west side school district they graduated and they have good jobs in ge healthcare i'm i'm also affiliated with sheriff david clarke if you check my name out chuck kornowski you'll see my photo with sheriff david clark and also i'm a grassroots supporter of the upcoming governor kevin nicholson who has many many uh uh he had many conferences on critical race theory throughout the state which will be eliminated the uh i'm encouraging everyone in west allis we the people of west southwest milwaukee to vote no against this

036referendum you have single parents retirees cannot afford this amount of taxes in the future you can look at different things so support the school if it survives new brown and other school districts are using naming rights we have we have businesses here in west allis west milwaukee a large one is ge healthcare you have as an example our stadium they use naming rights american family insurance we have to think a little smarter and wiser i'm encouraging everyone in west allis west milwaukee we the people to vote no on the referendum thank you all right thank you very much uh mr steve broadwell steve bradwell went to 965 west ohio court an irving first grade teacher hung a blm poster in her window last year marty fully supported this as part of a legitimate class project

037claiming blm is not political another teacher at the same school at an online training class this talented teacher had no bad reviews during his 10-year career and earned multiple pta awards he was dedicated to his students people attending his training class briefly noticed his recent web searches for blm marxist plm violence and white privilege myth the principal said she had to report him to hr for this he was targeted for reasons that had nothing to do with education and from then on so besieged by negative feedback that he resigned the district then had the audacity to offer this teacher good job references in return for his silence which he declined and told his story on the dan o'donnell show the hypocrisy and vindictiveness of this district is unmistakable supporting a first grade teacher imposing her

038controversial political view on the first graders in an attempt to please those above her with her display of woke anti-racism juxtaposed that with a teacher being destroyed for a privately held opinion not in compliance with your narrative and you blame the difficulty of holding on to good teachers on salary alone noah you echoed marty's notion that blm and you added in lgbtq are not controversial issues the district's controversial issue policy 2240 is one you claim the district follows and enforces 2240 states instruction is to be related to the instructional goals of the course study and level of maturity of the students the issue does not intend to indoctrinate or persuade students to a particular point of view the classroom shall not be a forum for staff opinions workplaces issues or personal interests do you seriously

039think that introducing blm to first graders complies with his policies and that they have the maturity to critically discuss blm this is obviously indoctrination by both the teacher and this administration this district has an agenda that diverts resources for controversial dei programs into this district's curriculum in an effort to replace parents in kids emotional and moral rearing and forces teachers to face their own racism and white fragility your agenda no doubt contributes to the district's declining enrollment and bottom 10 performance in the state and the rise in emotional problems you've cited you ask for more and more money for a shiny new building thinking this will solve the district problems this episode is simply another set an example of your strategy to start at a young age to use students as tools in your push

040to create social justice activists just like the book title still in hoover library read in this room by john a few months ago a is for activists thank you very much all right the next one on the list is uh mr gary schultz i believe he is on zoom brandon if you switch over the audio can can you hear me you can hear me yes sir okay i was having a microphone problem thank you my name is gary schultz 1238 south 54th street west milwaukee wisconsin 53214 so i had a chance today to look at the two referendum fact videos that were shown earlier in the meeting in one of the videos dr lexman makes the following statement the point of the story is that schools evolve over time high schools evolve over time and

041the evolution is really to match the community and student needs and so the referendum is really about the next evolution of our high schools but what we have here in this promo proposal is not really evolution evolution would be talk about true change as compared to where we are now this referendum is nothing more than a new version of the traditional suburban high school with all the amenities on a single campus so let's talk about the match of community and student needs what community and student needs are matched by building the field house addition at a cost of 12 million dollars when the district already already has a field house that can be renovated and become the region's premier high school indoor athletic facility what community and student needs are matched by building the performing

042arts center at a addition addition at a cost of 26 million that includes a new auditorium when the district would still have the auditorium at central that has gone through recent updates and could be renovated saving millions of dollars in another referendum quick fact video dr lexman states or we can wait five years and a future school board will have to face the reality that it is no longer financially or academically sustainable and be forced to squeeze all students into hail this sounds more like a scare tactic dr lexman makes that statement in this referendum fact video without providing any any evidence to back it since the school board is the boss to dr lexman ask your employee why he made that statement in a video released to the public without providing resources to district

043residents backing that statement and finally i would like to thank school board member kristen kaiser for reminding our community of the great things that are happening at docky and the district's improvements to daki that will allow docky students to rise to new heights there is a question residents have been asking don't we need a new high school because project based learning model requires model learning modern learning spaces wawm currently runs a project-based learning high school docu the original docu was built in 1934 with additions in 1937 to 1950. daki continues to receive improvements the students at daki do amazing things in this facility which has had no major additions in the past 70 years one of the reasons for given that one comprehensive high school is the need for spaces that support project-based learning here

044is a problem why is it that pbl can be taught at documentary but sorry mr schultz i don't have the ability to tell you if time left or not oh that's fine you know so that's fine your three minutes is up so okay thank you for your comments um if there's anyone else who would like to leave public or provide a public comment to the board um i am going back to the list right now to see if anyone else had signed up oh mr may had signed up uh so uh i'm just going to say this now um so after mr may goes if there's anyone else who is watching via zoom who would like to provide public comments to the board please sign up via the link at the that is in the

045chat all right sorry brandon can you switch the audio back for mr michael may are we good to go yep go ahead all right yeah thank you hi my name is michael may i'm representing a parent group called yes waw schools uh we're a consortium of parents dedicated to the positive aspects of our district and we are in favor of this referendum i wanted to uh quickly respond to the previous comments about empty threats and referendums in 2017 there was another referendum put before the district i was an operational referendum and the threat at the time was if it failed cuts in elementary music and art would likely have to happen as well as consolidation or increased class sizes and those things did happen when the referendum failed so i i fully believe the district

046and its budget constraints when they say things will have to occur now i'm going to read to you some of some comments we see we receive from others because you probably don't want to hear my thinking on this so i'm just going to share some quotes and as i get close to time just feel free to cut me off so uh i want to read these out shane c says i'm voting yes for the wawm referendum because i care about west allis athletics as a parent of the junior huskies we walk into other schools in awe other teams walk into central or hale and we're embarrassed a mark he's a grandparent he says support for our schools is important for our entire community it is essential that we provide the needed upgrades for the children

047in our community so they can grow up and make it better they deserve this we deserve this john verbose a parent and business owner stated improving and upgrading our school facilities in an effort to modernize our district's learning techniques is a long-term investment into the value of our community reducing the number of school buildings grants our students access to better programs and class offerings quality education is the foundation of a community's overall value and a primary draw for the new residents to buy and live here danielle n a parent and early childhood education specialist said we will never move ahead as a district if we don't fully invest in the educational experience that children deserve if we look to pass mistakes as a reason not to right the wrong we are bound to flounder now

048is the time to support wawm schools an ounce of prevention is worth a pound a pound of intervention i i also want to encourage people if they like they can visit our page at facebook.com yes w-a-w-m a couple other quotes as a high school counselor i've seen the benefit good dual enrollment opportunities can create for teens and the like and are sorry and like the matc partnership for that on-site learning districts that can pass referendums supporting their children attack attract new families and i hope west allis can show its support of our future regardless of having school-aged children in their homes stephanie umstad a parent i support the referendum because i have five children in the district the possibility of improving their schools with updates is very appealing i'm also looking forward to having a

049high school that can house all the students in west allis as well as the potential partnership with matc again i encourage people to visit us facebook.com yes wawm make sure to vote on april 5th and if you have the opportunity to do so beforehand please feel free to do so through early voting at your city hall thank you your time your time has been seated mr broadwell i'm doing my best here thank you very much all right mr may thank you um i didn't get your address at the beginning of your statement um could you please provide that quickly here sure on the forum as well 2375 south green links west allis thank you all right i don't see anyone else signed up on the uh public comments sheet at this time and so i

050will close public comments and we will move on to item number eight which is board reports we'll start with item 8.1 which is the review of the board calendar uh so today is march 28th and at 6 pm we have a regular board of education meeting filed immediately by a workshop for sodexo food service and then on thursday march 31st at 6 p.m we have our our final virtual community information session and the link is provided on our website and can be received other after various other methods if you cannot access our website for some reason and then on saturday april 2nd at 10 am we have our final community information session this will be in person at west milwaukee uh intermediate library then on monday april 11th at 5 30 p.m we have regular

051board of education meeting this is starting at 5 30 p.m not the regular time of 6 00 p.m due to some scheduling needs of dr lexman then on monday april 18th at 6 p.m we have a workshop health insurance request for both request for proposals rfp discussion to look at what we're going to do in the future for our health insurance and then on monday april 25th at 6 pm we have our regular board of education meeting with newly elected board members taking their oath of office and then immediately finally we have a workshop for the proposed 2223 budget and preliminary tax levy number one moving on to committee reports um item 8.2.1 employee engagement and culture mr keller okay thank you noah um we met on march 15th um discussed a few topics the

052first of which was exit interview data so that's something that we continue to look at as we look for to identify trends in terms of people leaving the district um the past two years have been fairly consistent on the number of resignations 19 to 20 we had 71 20 to 21 uh 79 however the first two quarters um of this year are slightly um at 47 uh whereas the year before that or um actually 1920 it was 42 um in 2021 it was 14 individuals that had resigned um the majority of the individuals that leave our district usually do so april 1st through june 30th and then we'll lose about 25 to 30 from july 1st through the end of august typically the information we're getting is that new position or new assignment is the

053number one reason for resignations followed by retirements um and a lot of the feedback in terms of what we could do to prevent somebody from leaving um the most common response actually has been nothing and that's been followed by salary and then stable and consistent leadership um we reviewed 20 to 2022 to 23 contract language um contracts were last reviewed by legal in 2017 and there needed to be some updates um we discussed what those would be um that was shared with the union preps um the following wednesday and i believe that is our agenda to discuss later this evening in terms of the renewal contract process this year everything will be done electronically uh individuals will receive their contract electronically the contract will be emailed to them via their district email uh individuals will

054be able to accept the terms of the contract using docusign um it'll also send periodic reminders to those who have yet to sign the contract and will eliminate the cost of envelopes delivering and processing um and actually in the past the building principles had to collect assigned contracts and for the hr so that duty will be eliminated um we did have an early retirement update again this was as of 3 15 but um there were 20 individuals that were eligible for the program letters were sent to each individual as of that date we had for that accepted um but they do have until april 8th to accept the package um finally the last thing we talked about was the new compensation model update just a reminder excuse me in august of 2021 we instituted what

055was a bring to average compensation model so we talked a little bit about how that ultimately ended up impacting all the teachers i believe about 52 of our professionals received a wage increase um the average increase was about 800 and actually about 811 so um one of the things that we talked about is that while this is a good first step um we're not entirely sure that this addresses the concerns that we have in terms of being competitive with other districts um and making sure that that is not a reason for individuals leaving so we'll continue to take a look at that and see what some of our other options are um in that regard that is our update all right thank you very much does anyone have any questions for brian or the company

056jane what is the final day that um staff can hand in their contracts i know it's done electrons electronically now but what is the final day do we know that i don't know that i think that might be talked about later okay i'd like to i'd like to know that and we can also have a discussion about that at our next um committee meetings as well it's usu it's usually sometime in may when it's the second week in may okay um that they have to return them by so okay and the other we can confirm that for sure yeah any other questions or any future questions for the committee to consider oh okay move on to financial stability and efficiency uh ms carr i believe you're providing this report yes so the financial stability and

057efficiency committee met on thursday march 24th we were joined by a brown and brown consultant to discuss health insurance rfp which i learned is the process where the district opens up requests for proposals it's called requests for proposals from other insurance providers it was the job of the committee to decide if we needed to bring this to the full board to discuss and we felt the need to do so we will be provided with more information at our workshop on monday april 18th uh we also discussed the upcoming referendum and the need to continue our communication efforts as a board we talked about adding more community events to our board sign up sheet so we could provide our community with the correct and honest information and in turn motivate them to get out and cast

058their votes all right very good thank you does anyone have any questions for jane or the committee report not about this just to jump back to the contract i've got a copy of it here and it says this contract is not valid unless signed and returned by the professional educator within two weeks of receipt so there's not a specific date so two weeks that's what i wanted to know so they have two weeks okay thank you jeff okay any other things uh for chained to uh the finance committee to consider for future meetings all right seeing none we'll move on to our board member reports of community events does anyone have any uh community events they would like to report on this deal um so ms carr and i were lucky enough to attend this

059sodexo future chefs competition last uh no the 16th um it was a lot of fun there was out of 150 submissions there were six students elementary students that were chosen to present their recipe it was i mean it was phenomenal they all cook much better than i do so um unfortunately i forgot i was going to grab all their names so i just want to say congratulations to all six of those students um they did a phenomenal job and it was it was really cool to to go there and experience that so that's all thank you i second that emotion [Laughter] uh does anyone else have any community events they would like to report on all right i would echo uh ms steele's comments i was lucky enough to be asked to be a judge

060for the future chef competition and so on that was the second year i was able to participate in that and it's always a very big honor uh to be able to taste and then provide uh within caleb was there too as a judge uh to you know provide feedback and listen to why they selected the dish that they selected the theme was a movie or book a story and they had to make a dish that was kind of based off of that it has to be healthy um and then you're you're they were kind of judged on how easy it was to make you know taste and things like that so i always love it it's great to see how excited uh the students get to be able to you know they they work with

061uh seductive employee who helps them kind of put everything together and they learn how to use a lot of the instruments used in culinary arts and so it's great to see the participation from our students and i believe this year they had over 150 submissions which was a record by far i guess uh if i'm wrong and uh so it's there's a lot of interest in our our district for this event and so it's great to do it i want to thank steve and his team for putting it on because i think it really brings a lot to the students in our community and i'm looking forward to be able to expand it to um intermediate in high school as well in addition um i also attended uh the marketplace at hoover elementary um you

062know fair warning my daughter was a participant so i was there as both a board member and as a parent but for a nominal fee 50 cents a ticket you were able to purchase tickets and then students had basically come up with a business that they were going to generate a product for that you could uh purchase things from so my daughter was doing um nail polish and so i did i did have one hand painted because you know father i want to make sure i'm giving business to my daughter's business but there was people there who had uh tomato plants on other vegetable plants that they were selling there were bracelets there were maps i also purchased a map that was created by one of the students of hoover elementary so i thought that

063was a good thing to keep because both my my children did attend hoover uh so i thought it was a great event and they were raising money for a brewers field trip that they're gonna have later this year and um it was very successful they were able to raise enough money to completely cover the cost of the trip uh so that was a great event as well so i want to thank the hoover staff for taking the extra time to work with students to figure out what they were going to do and then make sure that they you know generated the the materials that they needed to do it and organizing whole things so that was a great thing to participate in as well okay so that's all that i had so move on to

064our consent agenda this evening we have item 9.1 the uh minutes from our regular board meeting from march 14th we have the um 9.2 the employment summary item 9.3 the supplementary contracts and item 9.4 the financial summary does anyone need anything separated if not i'd look for a motion move to approve second moved and seconded any last minute discussion not discussion but just a comment i'd like to give a shout out thank you to janet delacott human resources who did designate who was early retiring and a regular partner thank you oh i'm sorry i apologize yeah uh so we have 9.5 approval to issue 2223 regular teacher contracts to eligible teachers and 9.6 the approval to issue preliminary non-renewal notices to teachers i just want to double check their approval to issue that's just for

065getting them out it has nothing to do with the language of anything else specific correct yes this is just approval to actually um put them out to the staff that's what i thought any other question should come we have we have a motion to approve so looking for a second second moved and seconded any other last-minute questions or discussion all right all those in favor aye aye aye heather you and i i correct hear me all right thank you very much that passes move on to our action items for this evening our first one is item 10.1 girls hockey co-op for the 22-23 and 23-24 school year uh mr marion do you hear me yeah just bringing this uh for annual review there was some new t new teams in the co-op and every time

066there's a new team we have to submit a new application so this is a sport that we've had the opportunity to add in recent years and looking forward to continue adding it with the board's approval and the new members of the co-op okay any questions check justin where do they play their games they play at the ponds in brookfield off of calhoun nothing's at the pettit it's possible they could have away games but we're in a co-op led by brookfield central any other questions if not i look for emotions approved and seconded any last-minute discussion all those in favor aye opposed all right that passes thank you very much move on to item 10.2 international travel high school spanish students to guatemala and belize summer of 2023 uh good boy helfenstein which microphone it doesn't

067matter they're both hot okay all right careful i'm bridgette boy haltenstein uh teacher in west allis west milwaukee at nathan hale since 1991. um i am hoping that this will be my final international student-led or student trip um to do a study abroad and uh to do homestay and to do some travel we're going to repeat the guatemala belize trip that we did in 2017 and just to kind of give you a quick picture of what it was um i'll just want to show you share this very quickly with you these are just some pictures of what our trip entails this is the same exact one that we'll do again this time in 2023 so we take our students to school they go to school for a week they have about four hours of spanish

068a day um in very small groups as you can see each one of those is individual classes this was our whole group we had about 22 students that went last time with uh three teacher chaperones and one um my husband we pay for him to also accompany us and he was our gentleman uh adult but also we tend to have more young ladies than men or young guys participate um we like it when there's an equal number but that's kind of how it works uh this was a one of our trips that we went on we go to chicanongo which is one of the most famous indigenous markets as you can see this was pre-pandemic because we were pretty tight also walking through the indigenous market the students have opportunities to barter to buy all

069kinds of really cool goods to take home we again we have the spanish classes at an international at a spanish school um they do all kinds of uh classes for normal like adults uh business people religious people college students and of course high school students this is one of our trips to lego lago de atran uh we did a volcano hike some students chose to ride horses up to the volcano others walked uh we did do zip lining that is currently closed but hopefully we'll do it again as long as it opens by the time 2023 runs around uh then we take a small plane as you can see to tikal to color some of the mayan ruins they're on the other side of guatemala and um then after our trip to tikal we actually

070take a bus about four hours to belize we will have to cross the border um walking across we did it last time we visit a school here you can see at the school which is really kind of i find fascinating they had the same pbis themes that we did back in the day and this is the school in belize the little the kids were actually on um summer break or like they had like a vacation and so they came to school on this saturday to to entertain us that day saying their national anthem and theirs did their pledge to belize and uh it's kind of just shared with our students um we also have a trip planned to a select tight and stalagmite cave you can see that the kids got to kind of do

071the tarzan thing and do some jumping into the water while other students went in the canoes into the cave so we kind of had like different groups doing different stuff um finally our trip ends with three nights at la isla bonita that madonna sang about i fell in love with san pedro right um and it's on the the ambergris kai for the key and it's in belize so we take a boat out to the island and then that's what you see in this picture we're all going out to the island we stay on the island in a um you know i don't know like a two-star three-star hotel and then um we do they have most of free time we do plan a trip to um snorkeling i always require that we have several days

072on the island because i want to make sure that no matter the weather our trip to go snorkeling with nemo and all of his friends won't be canceled last time when we went um it was super cool because um we were able to swim with nurse sharks and me being kind of the crazy one jumped into the middle of like 15 nurse sharks and all the students were like but you know it was cool it was fun so um so yeah but it's it i mean these experiences are so like out of control cool that our students will remember them forever and as you may or may not know um this is like the 11th trip that i'll be taking with students if you approve it um since 1993 and um 220 students have already

073traveled with me in the past over the last 20 some years and i hope that um maybe 30 years um i hope that uh that they continue traveling and usually this is like their first big trip away from their families and it really helps them um you know have that itch to travel and to see the world and so so that's that so this was our night 2017 and hopefully you'll let us do it again all right any questions well i was thoroughly exhausted while watching all of that that's jam-packed it is it's what a wonderful experience you're offering thank you anything else i did one question you mentioned specifically central would document absolutely any west allis west milwaukee student the only requirement is that because it is a homestay and a um school opportunity

074they have to study at least two years of spanish so they're supposed to also be currently enrolled in spanish to participate that's been the rule just because they have to do that they're in pairs sure in houses and they need they need to feel comfortable that they can like ask for things and talk to the families and stuff makes complete sense yeah move to approve second moved and seconded any last minute discussion all those in favor aye opposed [Laughter] all right we'll move on to item 10.3 which is international travel hail ap english and ap social studies students to london england july 2023 uh ellery and kinsey please come on we don't have than anything yeah we always want to know can we go that's the only time you do this trip for 30 years

075then you better yeah on your last trip do actually have a slideshow that i present to the parents at parent meetings but i didn't have it all fired up and ready to go so now i feel badly about that um so bob and i have traveled since 2013 to various places in europe depending on kind of where our fancy takes us and what we're doing curriculum-wise and how many students we have this trip that we are looking to do next year is just to adjust to the uk we're looking at specifically england um the main reason that we decided not to travel to various countries like we have done in the past is because of the tentative nature of kovid we want us to be in one location for the duration of our stay in

076case somebody gets sick or something happens so um we will be in london the entire trip but we do have some day adventures planned to bath to oxford university to stonehenge um harry potter studios which we did last time which was an amazing kind of nerdy but amazing um and lots of time just getting around london which is in itself you could be there once and not see everything so um that's what we have planned for this time around i don't know is there anything you'd like to add about um i mean we as we plan our trips we usually have like a short list of places that match both of our kind of curricular needs we both teaching ap spent a lot of time diving pretty deep into both literature and for me history

077and so london is one of the probably the most rich western cultural you know cities that we can visit so an art too yeah yeah between both of our classes we both do a lot of actually literature history and art is art and music and so i think we've always kind of gravitated around london most of our trips have incorporated at some point just because there's such a rich amount of history and culture there questions promotion move to approve second moving second is any last minute questions or discussion all right all of us in favor aye aye thank you very much thank you bring me back [Laughter] okay let's move on to item 10.4 approval of revised professional educator contracts ms marshall good evening i'm sorry i uh don't have anywhere exciting to travel to

078so i apologize for that i'm going south in about an hour so you know um just very quickly before we get started jane that the contracts are due back on may the 11th and they will go out on april the 14th um what we're um asking um before you is um we sent the contract language uh to legal counsel for updates last time it had been done was in 2017 and it is just a best practice to ensure that we are up to date legally on uh anything that we are sending out so that is what you have okay any questions or comments this has nothing to do with compensation models or anything like that no this is just the contracts for next stop i just want to make sure i don't know if it's

079like something that's right it's a legal legal language yeah that's funny any other questions or comments yeah um we were looking at these in our committee and we had the question about the pay out for breaking the contract that get looked at at all yeah the liquidation damages uh basically yeah yeah that the liquid uh dation uh damages have um been in the contracts they came about after act 10 um and it was the spirit in the intent of the liquidation um damages is to reimburse the district for recruitment cost and they really came into play when teachers started moving around to different districts i i thought that we were not going to be sending these until we had actually identified that whether or not we were going to remove that or not well that

080is what you guys need to decide tonight if you want to proceed or not um we did bring forth that question too legal they did indicate to us that the districts that they do work with do have the liquidation clause in there it also is very um i find that it's also an incentive for folks to let us know their intentions if they're going to stay with the district or not um because they're the amounts are different as the time gets closer what we don't want to have happen is that we have a the people don't let us know and then we're in a struggle to provide a qualified teacher in that seat in the fall that to me is the worst possible thing that could have happened we do find as we did study

081that about 60 of the people do let us know most of those come um in may so it just does give us a fighting chance to try to go out there and really find the best qual qualified teachers i just to not have a seat is is very troublesome i will not sleep well can you repeat the dates they go out and have to be they will go out electronically on april the 14th they are due back on may the 11th so like not a big thing so then why is that sentence in there about the two weeks that is um before anybody who's hired after that date that when we present a contract to a teacher they have two weeks to accept or decline the offer so it's really more it's it's geared towards

082um the the people who come afterwards other questions and comments i'd like the first uh thousand bucks or whatever the first date money pulled out i don't agree with that and it being put in after act then is just a stick of teachers rather than actually doing anything to keep them supportive [Music] the fees are different for each country yeah i mean i i don't mind the one in august [Music] i don't have to pay money if i leave my job see that if someone gives us three months so i don't uh i don't think we can amend these here they would have to go back to legal if we pull anything out i think to get final approval on that that would delay contracts is that correct well what would happen in that case

083if you do wish to delay that is that we would uh proceed with the current contracts as they read okay um and then the changes are going to affect the uh 23-24 contract here oh i see all right that is what actually did happen in 2017. not sure okay so we don't have to sign a second contract right so what we would do if you decide not to move forward tonight is we will go with the old contracts but the old contracts do have the liquidation fees in there so i i want to be uh perfectly clear on that so basically we would vote uh what is it in front of us and if we voted against it then we'd have to come up with that correct something else that's okay can we pause it

084once i did have one question about the differences between the contracts i should notice that for for full-time regular staff there was three tiers based on dates but for limited staff and part-time staff it was just any time after the contract that signed it they had signed that they would have to pay a thousand dollars is there a reason why it's not tiered like the full-time regular staff i would assume and again i am making an assumption here it has to do with a limited term you're basically on a one-year contract it's a different type of employment okay and again that is my assumption so anyone else have any thoughts on the removal of the the penalties before august for this well i i'm thinking i disagree with brendan but because it would you know

085we wouldn't be moving forward with that anyway until the following year i would be willing to hold off on it so that maybe we could you could convince me you know what i mean like i i either way we're going to go through with this so i'm thinking that i would be okay with with waiting the only thing i would ask is there any legal risk because of the change because there was some substantial changes to the verbiage in the contracts that were put forth is there any legal wish ricks that the district might undertake because we're not updating the language not that i'm aware of because you've had the current contract that is in place you have been utilizing that since 2017. again the spirit and the intent of going through this this was

086to you know keep with the best practices uh but again this is what happened back in 2017 the uh changes to the counter language was after that year's contracts went out so it this would not be impressive okay other thoughts sorry if i could add marianne did some research too into the time frames in which our educators are informing us of leaving and i think this is important in this conversation the time frame before up to june 30th the majority of of teachers have resigned at that point in time and it aligns with the first fee which helps us in recruiting our best educators in the springtime before summer so i just wanted i think that's important in this conversation just to note that the time period in which our educators are informing us that

087they are leaving our school district is before that first fee is is instituted which is helpful in recruitment thank you for sharing that because i think that's important because having that fee there might be spurring some of those decisions a little bit earlier as opposed to putting us a little bit behind the eight ball further down the road um again i look at things from the recruitment perspective since that's the world i live in and i know the challenges that we have in filling some of the roles um some of the specialty teacher roles that we have and the reality is i mean other districts are doing it too um and i'm a little worried about being put at a competitive disadvantage so to speak of doing it differently than everybody else's i mean there's

088an argument about whether or not it should be done at all and i get that but if everybody else is doing it i think until we come up with a better plan um i'm worried about removing that what was the date people let you know yep the time period is april 1st through june 30th okay so but we so but we do charge if it's after june 15th to july 1st it's 500 so we actually so and so i can i can i kind of see what brennan's saying that first part if we're getting most of them or by july um or june 30th but at the same time i mean i've never worked in teaching but i also know that you know not everybody is going to give you that the amount you know

089like in the areas i've ever worked in it's always required to give four weeks does everyone give four weeks no so my concern would be like like um brian is saying if we have teachers that aren't like you know that it's just a really hard spot you know like our special editor or something that we can't fill i'd like us to have as much time to work on that because before even four weeks we already have teachers coming in by mid-august some of them so i mean if you're putting your you know saying i'm changing it august 1st i mean that puts us at a very big you know disadvantage it's you know three weeks we still got it and there's also it's just that we pick up a teacher we're like okay you're hired

090you know there's other procedures we have to do and stuff like that so um i'm i'm feeling kind of cautious about removing that i think that kind of protects us in a sense that it make a decision you know are you going to be with us or not i mean so that's kind of where i'm at jeff i just need a couple of numbers caitlin or in the past like year two years how many people have paid liquid data damages we talking about a lot or a few um i don't have that that number in front of me and i apologize for that i can tell you from looking at the data the majority of the resignations came in around beginning to mid may saying i'm resigning as of the end of as of june

091the 11th because i typed it enough that i remember june 11. i'm talking to like three four people yeah we're wasting our breath the other thing too is a lot of times if they're after that time frame and i'm speaking from the experience that my wife who is a teacher has had as the other district who's recruiting that person after that generally pays that amount so that they don't have to come out of their own pocket i understand that's not 100 of the time but it does happen a lot of the time because they want that person they obviously offered them more salary and the person's willing to either eat the 3 000 or 1 000 or 500 or um exactly exactly but if someone's willing to eat three thousand dollars that says more about

092the community that we're developing here than it says about that person because why are they willing to eat three thousand dollars to go somewhere else and not stay with us so i think that that really makes it so that we need to look at what we're doing to keep people not necessarily what we're doing to like prevent them from moving so i think the biggest thing about this for me is just protecting our students and i think that leaving us in a lurch um i mean as someone who has been a teacher the majority of teaching openings happen between april and june 1. that's where you see the teacher openings so if you're after june 1 you're looking for a teacher all the best teachers have already got new jobs we're looking for i mean

093that's pretty as presumptive because i got hired in august 28th before i started working so i'm terrible then um that's all right no that's not right that's not the norm i will i will let you know my first teaching job was hired three days before school starts so yeah i got hard three days after yeah so i don't i don't think it's a matter of the best or the worst or the brightest or not i i think really if we want to attract teachers we need to look at the culture that we're developing and i think that this is just something of that come that came through after act 10 that is for us to um punish rather than encourage people to stay so and that's that's where i'm at yeah um i'm gonna tell

094you right now i'm voting no based on i want to see the numbers changed i would like to see dates changed i would like to see some things changed i'm a teacher that's in this situation often as a current teacher on the board this is something that my school also has language and it's exactly what brendan said it's not fair the teachers are penalized it's an open market for everybody and so i'm not saying um i disagree with every other part of this i'm saying no because i'd like to see a change in how we do it that's how i feel like my vote should be today i did i i do not look at it as a penalty or a punishment i look at it as kind of like well you're breaking the contract

095there's a restocking fee like i look at it as this is a business and uh and so we do have this fee and you need to be aware of that when you sign a contract you stay to that contract and if not there is just a fee for whatever for that business and i don't think i don't think that teachers look at it as a punishment at all i i don't know i can't speak for all teachers but i know that in general i mean it was just like oh yeah you're going to have to pay a fee if you break i mean that's my husband broke his contract yeah they didn't charge him but there's other businesses i don't know i mean i just don't think it's i get it know teachers i mean

096one business i was at if you didn't give four weeks they'll never hire you again so i mean you know there's right there's things jeff yeah i just as we're sitting there i've been retired for a while but i retired the year of that i'm positive that we had liquidated damages in our contracts before that maybe not these numbers but there was something there because i also appreciate it right the other thing i was thinking of that anybody who said this that you know this isn't done in other professions my profession i don't sign a contract so it is a little different we're comparing apples to oranges from that perspective my the profession i would work in i can leave it at a time and the only repercussion is that maybe my clients don't necessarily

097have the coverage maybe my direct reports need a new manager but that can be worked out internally pretty easily again to your point in this case we're kind of safeguarding the students to make sure they have the appropriate people in place to make sure that their education is ultimately not impacted and again i think if you know it's been mentioned multiple times before i think that you know ultimately if if these districts want those teachers enough they're going to pay it anyway it's usually not going to be a loss to those individual teachers so just my thought heather did you have any comments you want to make on this no thank you sorry my audio is a little off i'm getting in and out but i'm trying are you sure um the only other thing

098oh i'm sorry jeff well this one is uh when you said you were dead were you against just a thousand or all three tours um i think that i'm well honestly i'm against all of them but uh that said i do also see the need to make sure that we do have um someone in that chair for the school year so i understand that there may be a necessity to it but there's a difference between having it where it's a three-tiered piece versus like if you leave without giving us a month notice we're going to do it you know and then and then that's the breaking of the contract but i don't when they have three months ahead of time i mean the 500 bucks just seems punitive then maybe just take it back to

099committee and you guys could work those kinks down we just have to go one year because i hear what you're saying right and we can't change that here right right right and that was what that was my first question is i thought that that's what we were going to do and i didn't quite understand where we were at so thank you another thing i do notice not all districts tier it some are just three thousand dollars no matter when you break the contract you thought it seems 3 000 is the is the number that is used by a lot of districts for breaking the contract it just depends when they apply it it might be immediately after signing turn the thing in if you get on april 14th turn in april 15th decide you have

100better offer you want to go somewhere else you gotta pay three thousand dollars um i'm i'm glad to see that we have it here so at least it isn't that way because it is easier to find teachers earlier in the process than later um so i mean i personally am worried about losing staff later i mean i said even june even june 15th is late to try to find a teacher um and so i think that having the money there to try and encourage people to make that decision and do what they feel is best for them and their family sooner rather than later with the understanding that some people will get opportunities later on when other districts have this happen where someone leaves in july and they're looking for somebody to fill in that's

101a better opportunity for them but the point is is that for us in our district we have to make sure we have enough staff to teach our students and we don't want to have ap we've run into that where we didn't have ap teachers we couldn't teach ap classes because people left so that's my concern as someone who's married to a teacher i think it'd be great to not have to have to worry about that but at the same token i think that it safeguards our district um if the the majority of the board is wants to do something different you know i'm open to looking at that but right now i would vote yes on the current proposal because in front of me so can i just ask a clarifying question so if we

102don't do anything today because we're going to bring it back to committee is there anything else in the changes that you would like us to look at so in other words it's only that one thing that's holding us back is that correct is there anything else i think for me personally i didn't like the fact that it was tiered first for full-time staff but not for part-time or for limited term staff even those are one-year contracts i think it's i think we're in the same boat as trying to find somebody to fill those positions unless unless there's data to show that it's harder to fill a part-time or a limited term staff versus a full-time regular staff that would indicate that we want to make sure people are darn sure that they are going to

103break their contract that's why we have a thousand dollars because that's that's like other districts where it's just whenever you sign that contract if you break it you're paying a grant um i would like to see it tiered the same way or something similar unless there's data to support not happening if we move that way okay see and i and i kind of saw it more as with the limited term and the part time that i would see though those and maybe this is wrong you can maybe answer this for me marianne are these those positions that are more tend to be maybe not signing in may like are these this to me when i think like limited determined stuff i'm thinking someone that maybe like are they sending the contract at the same time

104that are full-time normally no exactly because to get someone to um take a limited term contract is uh difficult uh what you would what i have seen in my short tenure is that um uh it's it's positions that come open like they're gonna be here from january to may that's what i was kind of thinking so then it would kind of make sense when we have that one because we don't know when they're coming on you know like you know maybe we're bringing a special ed teacher back to cover something i don't know what i'm saying so that's kind of how i read it and that's why i want to clarify other questions or comments so at this point sorry frank uh you think you were going to cover what was going to ask i

105just wanted to make sure that we clarified procedurally what we need to do this evening so jeff can correct me for wrong we can take no action on this means that there's no no motion no second and then if that happens then nothing happens it stays the same you can go back to committee other things can be done to it if you're brought back in later time if people feel that they want to move it someone could motion it and there would be a second obviously and then at that point we would we would vote based on the vote would be the decision you can also move it back to committee because if there's no action taken it's going gone it's going out okay so we'd have to have a motion to move it back

106to committee if that's what we want to do motion to move it back to committee okay so we second a motion a second to move it back to committee any last minute discussion or questions before we vote all right all those in favor committee just for clarification then we will proceed with the contracts going out on the 14th and they will be the current um contract language yep that's our only option i just want to make sure that we're all um clear i won't be doing that just a question does that change any of the dates by going back to the old one okay thank you marianne thank you thank you thank you very much all right uh 10.5 approved foreign policy updates from the july 2021 as a second reading mrs winter thank you

107so you did all the hard work on this one the way that our policies work now in terms of approval is that we have a first reading at committee of the whole which we've already done so that was on february 28th all the policies that are either revised new or deleted are listed in the exact summary for this action item tonight um so they're all listed in there and the just going back to the process the process of these i've gone through october 20th 2021 as an executive team we reviewed these these are the recommended policies from neola so you know it is two dumps a year basically one's in july what's in january this is the july 2021. october 21 2021 we reviewed them as an executive team and brought them forward to a

108workshop on january 31st 2022 so our board you guys went through these and had a few updates that were made so those then came to the full board on monday february 28th as the first reading in committee of the whole they stayed in committee of the whole for one month and are then being brought forward tonight for a second reading which is the last step of these all of these policies and we'll do that process twice a year with these neola policy updates that will come forward every january and every july so this is the july 2021 neola policy revisions and there have been no changes no recommended changes since they were last brought to the board a month ago on february 28th heather do you have any questions on this no all right moving

109second in the last bit discussion all is in favor aye aye opposed all right that passes thank you very much all right do we need a recess before the workshop like five minutes [Laughter] there's one workshop all right so let's let's take a five minute recess and then we'll proceed with the workshop all right we're in recess yes oh yes efficiency sodexo food service mr kazar thank you for joining us this evening thanks for having me uh so tonight oh there we go thank you so i just want to do a little overview of our program uh this school year we'll start off by looking at some participation numbers a little bit of elementary news that i have for you an introduction to chef matt who is also new this school year with us give

110a little update and show you how our video screens are working that we just uh installed at the end of the school year uh we have a new uh intermediate concept um as you spoke uh earlier i got a little bit of slides so those of you who are not in attendance can see our future chef competition and then we'll follow it up with some questions so this slide right here i was just looking at some numbers and i use as my base the 1920 school year which of course was our i guess last normal school year so i took the numbers from september through through february and then of course for this current school year i took the same so so the red the red bar there just represents overall i mean i took

111participation of course uh because of declining enrollment but the the red the red bar just shows what our overall uh uh participation is with the breakfast program and then and then i took uh the purple graph represents the uh i have on here the bic but it actually entails all of the 10 uh cep schools so back in 1920 um the 10 schools were where everyone does need free uh that represent the percent of the that population that eats breakfast and then we actually have a slight increase with those numbers out of those same 10 schools this school year but but that i just wanted to check because of um with this clear on the seamless summer um contract that that we're running the entire population gets to eat free so i wanted to look

112at the remaining schools to see if they and indeed they are taking advantage of the free breakfast and then again i think the same thing uh on the lunch side um and again it just it just represents looking at the lunch numbers on the nut cp school so right now we're we're doing about uh 2 300 uh meals a day for for breakfast and another 4 500 meals uh just just for lunch um some exciting but delayed news with supply chain um the bad two words that we can coincide with this school year um these are the five schools that uh we're currently able to cook um items on site in these elementary schools really prohibited on on size of kitchens the top three represents the ones that just came on board and when i

113say come on board they literally just came on board because we finally got some ovens and some other equipment installed so before the um before the break we we actually um started prepping these items up in those three three kitchens and the picture here this is one at irving so what we did in these kitchens where we could we installed an electric convection oven and then to the left of that you can kind of see a it's an undercarriage counter freezer so it's multitasking i didn't lose counter space for prep then underneath can hold the items that we're going to be uh cooking up that day and this just shows the uh the pictures of some of the pizzas that were that were prepped on site because right now um we're still challenged on some

114of the smaller schools with the small kitchen so if we do have pizza on that day that's literally um put in the oven as early as 8 30 to handle the volume that we have and then it's put in a warming box transported on the truck and then and held again until until lunchtime so we we really can notice some of the the quality improvement on some of the items and then uh like i like to say the the saucy items like the spaghetti's mac and cheeses today we had chicken alfredo in elementary schools those would still continue to come from the the two based kitchens which are hill and west milwaukee so we're pretty excited about it and the kids actually know this too with the pizza and everything um that just in time

115cooking versus heating and holding is is a much better method so um [Music] this slide right here um introducing and i'm sure most of you have probably met already um matt baier who's come with us this year we did a little reorganization when my admin moved to to florida on me we kind of restructured some uh outsourcing some of my financials and um our bartolonia my ops manager is is handling some internal things which afforded me to this is the first year we've we've been able to take on a salary chef who's who works the entire 12 months uh pre-pandemic we had chef rodriguez with us who was um hourly and he only worked during the the school year so some of the benefits that that we're seeing with matt he's again his background has

116been with the bartolotta restaurant restaurant group local he has a passion for for working with students and my staff so in addition to improving the skill set of my employees it's showing here that matt has done some taste testings in elementary schools with fruits and vegetables getting them to try different things trying new new items and then we've also the video that just finished on here um he's just completed a round of doing some in-house display cooking in the intermediate schools and that will continue into the high schools as well in a rotation that way and the kids really get into that they're inquisitive about his um background how he got to where he was i did silence this video because one of the students asked him how much money he made but but uh

117uh matt does a great job working with the students and he's getting to be well known uh in the district i just had a conversation with with sue miller today because we have a fruit and veggie grant and she's wondering that maybe we can partner with matt on days that uh some of the fruit and vegetables are distributed to to go into the classroom so we'll be working on that as well i was going to say something completely random we have a free food veggie and uh fruit program at my school that the kids get every day and something that's really helped was like little cards of like information of like where something's from or what else could be related to the kids get into it i just want to try it so that that

118uh with each of the five schools we have the the on-site coordinator for the fruit and veg program should be developing and working with with um those program but that's a great idea so yeah so um this this part um been a little extra work for me but but it's a lot of fun and it's exciting the the new video boards that that we installed in all the schools and it it could be as um playing on the far left shows over at hill high school where we have um screens that are at the entrances get into the schools and we have videos and entrance to the cafeterias the lower right shows what an elementary screen would look like to show our daily lunch features i can advertise my weekly breakfast with the students i've

119worked with about half the schools now where i'm giving rise to an individual with within the school and they can put content on there as well um in the upper right uh in the schools that have the area dedicated strictly to meal programs like in the in secondary schools and some of the elementary schools they have it's called entertainment screens so there's a video content that that i can control i can also give control to the schools to put their own content on and central's been doing a great job with that so we'll be at um some of the highlights of the their athletic teams that will be showing during lunch time this particular one you can take your phone with the qr code and find out how to make this smoothie we also have

120um educational videos on food preparation garnishing and stuff like that um some of that especially in elementary schools that there are some um trivial time on there but in the secondary schools the students can use their phones you you're simply giving a number on your phone you cannot type in your own name for your for your individual team uh and the results will show on the screen but for the elementaries the the the answers will pop on the screens and the kids um actually get into that and are pretty excited about it so a lot of endless possibilities with this um i think i attribute um no you had mentioned and so did amy earlier with the 150 entries that we had this year and i think i think this helped me out a lot

121because i can advertise throughout the day on this i actually put up some pictures from prior future chef competitions to get the kids interested so um they've been they've been great you can do a lot of things we just kind of hit the tip of the iceberg with them um this next program is foodie this is a new concept a new format for intermediate slash middle schools and uh sodexo um with the pandemic they only had they had two school districts last year one was in my district manager's uh region which is up in fairville minnesota there was another one out east and so this year was actually kind of a phase two of reformatting our middle school concept and um of course i volunteer i like the challenge i wanted to do something new

122so then of all the ones so i at the end of the day there was um six other accounts and i was one of them i was selected to do this and it can come with some growing pains as well but um it's kind of invaluable because then i can take the feedback from the kids which i serve because i'm a little [Laughter] self-centered with with what i want to do with the kids in my district so i want a voice so the good the good part is that that we were picked for this and then a lot of the big difference is um when i was a little apprehensive um in years past pizza was on everyday nachos around every day and then the hot sandwiches run every day we kind of pared down

123where they're not on every day and they were alarming on that and after the initial shock by some of the older kids it was interesting and talking to some with the pandemic um the transition one is wasn't as big as i thought because back in 1920 um the eighth graders now they only had five six months of being a sixth grader before we we changed um so it wasn't as drastic to move but but they accepted it and got some feedback from them so now we paired down to how many offerings maybe five and instead of uh eight or nine on a day and we can do the five do them well and we can um batch cook instead of mass produce in between as well so um just to show you some of the

124new food items that we do have they're looking at some of the taste profiles and expanding on the palette of what a middle school kid student would eat some some popular summer's not the one on the upper right these are called rice and noodle bowls which are not as popular we are getting some movement on those more to the female student population but i'm providing feedback um to our company because we we work off a national menu so uh they want to know what the feedback is and based on maybe the repetitiveness of it we've actually have the the smoothie bowls which are a menu item that is compliant with the national school lunch program so you're getting your protein and your grains in here and it's accompanied with the fruit and vegetables that we

125have offered that day too um so that has been a popular item uh this is just a little sneak peek done on uh this these particular sides of robert west milwaukee so we're utilizing the uh the screens that you see here and this is uh showing a line that i think it was pizza day we also had an italian pasta on board and then we had a cold item i think there was a chef salad offered that too as well um then here's just a few more pictures on the left is frank lloyd wright on the right is lane um picture underneath what i what i've done this year i've um i usually have meetings with with the schools and i've gone through the um the intermediate schools i like to do a focus group

126with the kids and especially this year with the intermediate age students because i want to know what they think of the foodie program and they gave me some good feedback um i always like to take away something that i can do and do a change based on that meeting that i did and over at franklin right um of course the kids want um salt more so but i we have to watch the sodium content so that that was a no but we came up with the solution that so now we have a spice bar and we're gonna implement it in all the secondary schools um a little bit of salt in here that's not gonna hurt but we have you know with some peppers lemon pepper some cajun seasoning um red pepper flakes that they

127can um spice up the meal as they so needed that that they can do um over at west milwaukee we heard that after we build our sandwiches we put them in a wrap when they put them in the hotel i'm at a hotel pan the bottom of the bun we heard from the kids um is getting a little harder but it sits in there so i found a foil wrap to change to to alleviate that problem and using uh increasing the moisture content in our warming units to avoid that so the the students actually came up with some some good feedback for us i asked them about the menu what they would do to change it um what new menu items they would like to see so i'm taking that information and bring it back

128to our company so we can uh do things even better better for next year so um another part of the concept is instead of just steaming a vegetable we're trying to um enhance the flavor of that vegetable so here you'll see some mexican corn uh in the middle is it's called the low country green bean with some seasoning on it a little bit of bacon in it and then uh we tried roasting our vegetables so versus steaming the broccoli we're taking that broccoli roasting it with a little olive oil and um and i think on this picture here we have a little bit of a red pepper flakes for uh for hot or broccoli that the kids are actually eating which is a good thing and then on days it's kind of nice with utilizing

129with match because his duties um during meal periods are making a presence in the school so if you'll take these vegetables and just whether the student is eating with this or not or brown bagging and let them here try this see if you like it kind of thing so um this is something brand new um i just found on our sodexo website and do a little it's like uh inquiring in it with um dpi and the fact that um trying to help out some of the students that choose not to eat with us and brown bake it from home because without the case now in order to get at that milk you have to pay for it um so by by offering a fuel pack so what we're doing we're starting to do is we're

130pre-packing a fruit and vegetable in bags um and that way if the student um they simply don't eat with us they can get at that milk for no charge because we can count this as a reimbursable meal because we have three out of the five meal components so we hand them the other fruit and vegetables that are pre-packed they can grab their milk and then there's no charge to the students so we can give them a little cost savings that way is that available at all schools yeah we're just starting it because we'll start and i want to wait for the final approval from dpi but they're already doing it in oklahoma but sometimes interpretive of what the rules are sometimes i want to make sure we're following the rules so i should find out

131any day so um we're coming up to our uh our annual future chef competition as like noah said uh this year's criteria was a favorite book or movie for those of you that don't know this is actually national competition throughout all the sodexo towns throughout the country um as you can see on the right is our esteemed panel of judges so in addition to noah and uh caitlyn chef matt was in there but um the student in the middle uh interesting story um his name is josiah he goes to central high school he's a senior this year and when i was talking to dr reed earlier in the year and introducing that to him somehow they made a connection um and dr reed almost been working with josiah um his attendance he was being a

132little um challenge getting getting to school and still pork but but he had an interest in the culinary program so man actually has been since october has been taking him every thursday after school into the central kitchen and teaching him some of his um culinary skills and improving his skill set josiah is in the culinary class um over at central high school he's doing great this year and he's on track to graduate and um just found out matt had helped him he just got hired um with the bartolotta group yesterday i think he's gonna work um starting working with them as a dishwasher but then he'll work up and start working into some other areas as well so um nice young man and i met him actually for the first time at future chef so

133we asked him to be one of our judges that stay so he's doing really well um okay real quick yeah this one said teleport i had an option to speak with josiah as well when um while we were just kind of waiting for the judging to be done and let everyone else have a sample of it and he really expressed the fact that because he was able to do the culinary arts here at central it really made school worth wild for him and he really had goals he loved the fact that cooking allowed him to do essentially whatever you wanted to do if you wanted to do burgers you want to do this he cooks all the time at home so i just really thought it illustrated a really good point about this one student

134had this one thing that encouraged him to come to school and that was culinary art so i want to please please pass on my uh my kudos to matt for taking that absolutely absolutely so for those of you who haven't been attending here's a quick 30 second video of what the kitchen looks like when they're um in their competition the name of our finalists are on the right here so this year um we ended up with three third graders and three fifth graders um how it works is based on the criteria my ops manager by myself will sit down without looking at names and schools um that are put in entry and then we'll we'll we'll try to find the best that meets the criteria and um so as you can see here um there's

135three honorable mentions students um kennedy is a third grader over at hoover uh rebecca is over at walker and delilah is a student at madison and so what we ended up doing is once they prepare their their entree in the kitchen they'll come out into the cafeteria so all of our guests that are invited can see the see what great things they do and they each get their own individual table and we encourage them to decorate it based on the theme of what their um the recipe is and they all did a great job so um here's our second uh second place uh person uh jalen is from madison and and nathan is uh fifth grader from from walker third place and then uh you mentioned earlier curia kira is a third grader at wilson

136um came on as our is our overall winner and and the pizza that you see in the upper right-hand corner that the crust is actually the the watermelon itself and then she put cream cheese on it and various fruits on it so it was very kid-friendly colorful piece of preparation so so what's going to happen now is i was one of the earlier um events across the country there there's still some events going on through i think mid-april so kyra is done cooking but her recipe moves on and then sodexo will select regional winners and the fingers crossed we've actually had two regional winners in the past so she will get bigger and better prizes than than what were given to her on on wednesday the 16th and then um should she be a regional

137winner um then it goes down to five national finalists and if she's selected for that it's uh she'll she'll have to create a youtube video and most votes wins so we're fingers crossed um i have to say um for whatever reason i usually do my event late march but 1920 or march of 20 i did it just the week before we shut down so but it's kind of um i didn't uh the the winner then she did not go on i can't remember her name off the end she did not go on to a regional winner but the really cool thing with her which never happened before is her recipes was selected as part of sodexo's marketing program so this year in it so um she's actually on one of the posters um with her

138with her name and and the school district she's representing so that poster is in all the sedex accounts across the country so i wanted to get a picture of that on here but i forgot so um um so we're pretty proud of that so and steve can we share kara's recipe and our book inspiration because it's really creative a recipe yeah oh absolutely so kira's book was the hungry younger caterpillar and her recipe the watermelon pizza was everything that the caterpillar ate in the book it was incredibly creative and healthy and metal i think that's truly why i mean they were all amazing recipes and delicious um and hers just stuck out as through the criteria yeah um it's interesting obviously the most fun day i have in the school district is when i get

139to go around to various schools and let the kids and the principals because they get competitive know that they have a winner and when i talk to them individually right off the bat is i ask them if they watch cooking shows on tv and that they all rattle up two or three so um they're all excited and uh it's we had a lot of fun so and i did commit um to know that we i did not forget um we will um we don't have a um sodexo sponsored event for the for the um older grades but we're going to do one on our own because i know they're getting they can do it just absolutely amazing things so that's going to get on the books that we're going to do so i've been bothering

140steve for a couple of years yeah like i just got a schedule then i have to do it so um and with that at the end of my presentation you have any questions on anything i just um so an environmental footprint so that um we no longer have the styrofoam correct or do we and what's that looking like and then a follow-up um wondering if sodexo has ever thought about doing anything with composting all of the the food waste or would we think of it doing anything like that yeah as far as your first question with the the styrofoam it's um it's just it's just hit miss we we only we don't use it because i really went to a basket and some parchment paper okay um but when earlier in the in the school

141year when i had some absences and so forth we didn't move to that unfortunately didn't want to and then we moved right back via to the basket or in the secondary schools of washable um the only school that is on a styro in a secondary is central just based on their dish machine and so forth but i'm looking at and i think i found a more compostable um versus a styrofoam okay and then as far as composting um with the schools we are actually partnering at madison so we're doing it there already so i'm just kind of on i know wilson's got a pretty strong program um okay back there you know with um their greenhouse and stuff like that so we've been um on and off doing it there too but it's definitely something

142that we can i would encourage you to keep going yeah um i know we had some supply chain issues and everybody in the whole country is having now we've been having any more concerns about just like you know quick meal changes at all yeah you know at the start of the school year there were some that we kind of ironed out and it kind of precipitated a little bit now it seems uh the the things that are in short supply now or any of the um pre-breakfast items that we use for breakfast in the classroom we're struggling on that right now um and then [Music] today i was just we're at the mercy sometimes of our distributor if they're if they're having um labor issues i'm getting like trucks or not like today as an

143example one of my uh my biggest school or um my distributor forgot to put this repellent of frozen items on the truck so there is a menu change tomorrow in the elementary from uh from a french toast and we can do a pancake so we're trying to keep it as close to what the menu was and then we will go online and change it the boards in the schools are reflected as well and then especially in the elementaries we use a google doc so when the the teachers in their classroom take a meal account they have the updated menu item as well so there should be any surprise when the student goes to the cafeteria and then follow up um do we have i know there are guidelines in place but do we have limitations

144on how much a child can take especially like our football players and wrestlers and lifters like i often hear they're still hungry absolutely and and absolutely because if i take you know in uh high school as an example if i take that uh sophomore cheer petite cheerleader i have to serve for the same portion as i do as the senior offensive lineman so there are regulations that we have to follow now as far as fruits and vegetables goes they can take as much as they want yeah that is a challenge and that's where we're kind of looking at flavors and seasonings and stuff like that and from a secondary standpoint and even a lot of the elementary schools um they can get more items but it's called a la carte because like we can only

145serve so much to a student because then we're going to break that nutritional we have the menu is analyzed over a five-day period so we have to watch and it's based on you know elementary middle school and high school so it's even more probably more prevalent when i'm serving a k-5 student uh the hot dog might who literally would take two three bites out of it versus the fifth grader who would eat the whole thing and still hungry kind of thing but those are the regulations that we have to follow steve is that federally mandated yes it is it's it's federally usda it's all the same all the nutritional guidelines are all the same is there any way to supplement that via the district i'm just i'm not making it do more work i'm just

146is that a thing or is it we have to almost federal because that's worth of money and supplies i guess we right we have to follow that the only you you couldn't i think you could use any funds out of fund 50 to support additional food items um you know if if the item is you know it can be if they're some uh whatever fund in a school that they would have to pay for that second item um i can't even charge for a second meal i can't have a second meal button on my registers it has to everything has to be a la carte so a lot of regulations oh i know yeah i'm trying to fight a loophole um you mentioned the schools where you were able to start moving some of that

147food prep on site and i know you mentioned the challenges of some of the smaller schools are you still kind of exploring any creative options we have because my concern and you might even mention this as well is food quality is going to be a little bit better when you can't get on site absolutely so what does that look like in terms of some of those smaller schools and maybe creative options in terms of doing some of those things um [Music] creative options for me right now is begging the principal for more space [Laughter] because we have the funds to accommodate to make it create a bigger space um um [Music] so there's an opportunity that way uh trying to try to trying to get more space is you know when you bringing uh some

148of the kitchens are extremely tiny and i would like nothing better than than to do that because the kids can notice as well too um get some outdoor ovens for the nice ones and i think that with the evaluation that we're doing especially at the elementary now which ones we're going to move forward with and which ones that we aren't going to go for with it that'll help that will help and then we can use funds and identify because obviously if there's more kids going to a school we're going to have to feed more kids and so it might be something that we work into the plan of what that transition looks like is expanding the facilities at the schools that are there so we can do more on cycling yeah absolutely yeah yeah 100

149i'm i'm on board with that right and fun 50 does have some limitations in terms of construction um so yeah yeah you can't you can't build new you know we will get all the areas that we could you know have an allowable cost in fund50 and speaking of just um just as a reminder that we do have fund accounting in school districts so fun 50 is completely separate from our general operating budget and that's why when steve says there are funds available that's in fun 50. so that's completely separate from our funds and if we can have our legislators change the allowable cost within 150 and allow those to use in our culinary programs that would be amazing but right now that's not how the law is at a state level it's a federal regulation

150so and of all the things that we do food service is probably the most one of the most regulated things that we do in our school district and those are federal regulations so um i do have one final additional thing i just want to send a thank you to steve fasner for the incredible above and beyond way that you run our food service program and we recognized national school breakfast week two weeks ago um at our board meeting and we just wanted to send a thank you to our incredible school food service staff so we have just a little plaque for our all right i did have one question yeah so you mentioned the safe summer school program the funding that allowed for us to be able to feed all of our students for free

151um and that by all it's gonna it's gonna end on june 30th right so it is so school nutrition association they're still fighting um legislation on that uh and talking to people at dpi they're not as positive but there's still a fight out there too to go that route yeah so yeah i know that we still would be able to fund students who qualify for free reduces across over the summer and into the next school year do have we thought about from are we able to use 150 to expand that to everyone one that we had done previously is it something we've discussed about doing yep that's a great question so there is so steve in earlier in his presentation he talked about cep schools community elibility provision and those are schools where all students

152eat breakfast and lunch for free and that's based on the percentage of free introduced students direct certification so students are directly certify for free reduced lunch as it stands right now um and so there's an option to have cip cep school district-wide and then there is a a cost to our district which would come from fund 50. so steven are just talking about that analysis today so we're working through those numbers and what additional costs we would have we do get a percent reimbursed ad like at the free rate or at the reduced rate yeah so it works right now that they identified cep schools anyone that eats at those schools 88.08 percent of them their district is the free reimbursement right the remaining percentage would get the paid reimbursement rate so in my preliminary

153calculations with the whole district like that percentage would probably like an 80 20 is what it looks like it'll probably be so we're working on that now and our ideal scenario would be to come forward and say this free seamless summer option that is ending as june 30th is ending and we would hope to be able to continue to provide female free meals via this cep district-wide but we're wearing weighing those working through the dollars right now is there any um lobbying going on on behalf of school districts to continue this free meal there is yeah i just thought i was wondering how actively is it through without like your consultation we're part of or the laundry cooper partner is the statewide the federal level right yeah but i was just wondering because there's a

154lot of things that students don't fill it out or whatever it doesn't get done other people were embarrassed so no thank you can you hear me all right sounds good all right well then if there's other questions uh i would look for a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn move and second it all in favor wow thank you very much thank you