Board Meeting 6-14-21

001i'm going to call this regular meeting of the west dallas west milwaukee school board to order mr sikkids could you please lead us in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you very much suzette can you please call rome yes mr ustrap here i came here here mrs carr here mr sikkid president mr burns here mrs kaiser here ms deal here mrs justin's excused president lee here proper notice that this meeting has been posted in accordance with the open meeting laws of the state of wisconsin are there any modifications tonight's agenda no okay so now we're gonna open up for public comments as a reminder everyone

002who has a public comment has three minutes to speak please state your name and address uh before you begin talking and there will be no discussion or interaction with the board this is just your opportunity to provide any comments you might like us to know and we will the district will respond to you either at the next floor meeting or privately depending on what your comments are can we remove our mass when we're speaking my name is john mulling um 3850 south pole drive i'm in the district in new berlin that is in the west house west milwaukee school district and i was going to start out by asking marty lexman if the west allis west milwaukee school district because these already teaching critical race theory or they're planning to do so i just wanted

003a yes or no answer but i know you guys don't like to answer questions well i'm telling you you better listen to the distant thunder because there's a storm brewing there's a revolution of parents and grandparents that are preparing to take back their schools and their curriculums and it could be curriculums or curriculae i've looked up the pronunciation critical race theory has no business anywhere near our schools it's based on a marxist philosophy and i said marxist marxism initially marxism pitted capitalists against the working class they knew it wouldn't work in america because we took too much freedom under our belt so they changed it now from class to race i have a article i'm going to give you from in primus and hillsdale college it says critical race promotes three ideas racial antagonism that

004sounds good collective white guilt or white privilege and segregation basically all white people are the problem of all of the problems we presently have in our system white males especially are considered white supremacists and i gotta ask you do i look like a white supremacist what a pile of crap i'm supposed to have white privilege let me give you my story of my life as a white privilege my mom and dad had to work their entire lives to support us i started a paper route in fifth grade weekly every sunday at 4 30 a.m i got up to send out the journal i worked my entire life starting from 15 every summer every easter every christmas break to make money to pay for my college my mom and dad couldn't afford a nickel i worked

005my ass off in high school i got a i got a i want to say diploma i got money to go to college my mom and dad didn't give me a nickel i graduated magna laude without a diamond deck and i did it because i worked my ass off not because i'm white i worked my ass off i got where i did because of it martin luther king must be rolling in his grave right now he was a great man and i think we all know it and we're undoing everything he's done everything we've gone backwards and if you're teaching this stuff in school as good as spitting in his face how dare you how dare you i admire the man and so should you let me talk about equity and equality equity is the

006big word now bs equity is mister if you can wrap up your comments your three minutes are up okay i'll be quick equity gives everyone the same stuff whether you deserved it or not equality gives you the opportunity to do whatever you want and get whatever you want according to the declaration of the independence all men and women are created equal they didn't use the word equity it's time we start teaching the fundamentals in our school like the constitution the bill of rights reading writing and the math mathematics and not how to organize a protest march for god's sakes you better start listening because i'm hearing more thunder and i hope you start listening to parents demands because they're not going to ask anymore they're going to demand and i sure hope the hell you

007guys are going to listen thank you i've got a cut i've got a copy of this article from hillsdale one for every one of you and i'd like to put my comments in the i want that in the notes and i want my talk in the notes thank you thank you mr molly robert carroll robert terrell oh one second mr grill mr malek mr malaycheck would you please put on your mask sir it's unconstitutional [Music] are you vaccinated are you all vaccinated thank you raise your hand you're not they're not listening to you all right mr trail you can okay thank you my name is bob terrell i'm white with a human skin under my color i'll be straight to the point why as decent human beings are you in favor of this critical race

008theory mr terry i'm sorry never helped again can you please state your name in your address for the record oh i'm sorry okay uh robert taro 1500 south 92nd street apartment eight um west allis wisconsin five three two one four thank you should i start again yes okay thank you okay my name is bob terrell i'm white with a human skin under my color i'll be straight to the point why as decent human beings are you in favor of this critical race theory propaganda look every person on earth who isn't a racist knows that it's not the color of your skin that matters it's the content of your character so said that black man martin luther king who was the greatest leader of anti-racism on this planet critical race theory is marxist propaganda that's meant

009to stir up trouble in our country it's historical if you can cause a major conflict of some kind in any peaceful country then the radical socialists and the communists can much more easily take over why it's because both the frightened common woman and the terrified man on the streets want to have a strong hand to take over the government in order to keep the peace they don't want rioters burning their houses down which goes for all races critical race theory is not an instrument for destroying racism it is a stalinist and a hitler-esque technique for destroying democratic republics you must eliminate this lie from this institution and its programs and never let it in you do not want to be dues of a criminal propagandist political movement that ultimately only wants to rule with an

010iron fist now hey pay attention my best friend whose name is willy he's a black man and a christian minister he has always been my closest friend ever for almost 30 years now we don't hate each other and he's never on no account reminding me his christian brother that racism is all this white man's fault thank you very much thank you mr turtle chuck granowski mr kanowski asked my name is chuck kornowski i live at 2158 south 90th street in west dallas and i represent the west allis west milwaukee people we the people i'm on facebook with sheriff clark these face pasts are unconstitutional you do not have to wear your face mask you do you and i will ask you all to step down because you're not following the constitution all of you you're

011not following the constitution you work for us mr kanowski can you please you know what you listen to me you listen to me and you listen to the people of west southwest milwaukee you know what sir you wouldn't answer if you answer us if you got had your vaccination you would not answer us you could be passing all your uh immunities or immunities to the people of west allis this is unconstitutional we had a burger mask rally with sheriff david clark just recently you do not have to wear a mask you drank the kool-aid all of you you drank the kool-aid thank you mr kanowski thank you and we're coming after you you don't want to step down now fine you better you better step down you can you can resign right now because you

012know what we could get a bunch of bobble heads mr karnowski what teacher with the teacher's union on it we don't need you we can have bobble heads up there and say with the teachers union and have a bobble because that's what you are bobble heads thank you mr kanowski if you're not going to put your mask on i need to ask you to leave call the police i will go ahead we have to wear them over our nose yes mouth and nose they are adam those two at the end so i think that kind of leads us doesn't it because they're not wearing theirs right at this point we'll pause the meeting until mr konowski either is able to put his mask on properly or is removed by the police you stepped down not

013following your constitution your bobbleheads all of you steve broadwell too bad marty's not here tonight because uh my visit is prompted by his april 20th letter of this year in response to the joke mr broadwell can you can you please state your new berlin one two name six five west ohio court i gotta take this off i can't breathe uh in response to the george floyd death mr broadwell everyone is underneath the same rules here no you don't have them over their nose who doesn't have them over their nose these two bill pulled up just keep speaking sir please please put on your master you realize how ridiculous this is especially considering if you all got your vaccines okay anyway too bad he decided not to show up tonight uh this is my first visit

014to a school board and uh prompted by his april 20th letter and my daughters went to hail and i'm here as are these other folks because of my concern of critical race theory being introduced throughout the country to our young with its focus on race your letter mr lexman who's not here talked of hopelessness helplessness anger and fear certainly many people felt at least some of those emotions especially considering the reaction to mr floyd's death from marxist organizations like blm yeah founded by three marxists i'm sure you all know that right uh an antifa burning and destroying parts of many of our cities fanning the flames of these emotions are people like ibrahim x candy who you saw mr lexman who's not here who you saw fit to quote in your letter kendy judges everyone

015and everything based on race and continues to pick at the scab of racism his writings and statements are juxtaposed to martin luther king's famous quote in which he implores us to judge a man not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character why not focus on somebody like him instead of ibrahim kendy and other black leaders of which there are many that have positive messages and would provide a more uniting response to events like these no mr laxman instead you choose to use this terrible event to launch this district's crt program never let a crisis go to waste right you did not use crt specific nomenclature in your letter but instead use crt linchpin terms like equity and social justice standards terms which were repeated ad nauseum in the candidate

016forums prior to the election it seemed at times as though it was more of an interview for a social worker's position than than candidates for the school board it's not real clear how far down the crt rabbit hole you've gone so far but it is definitely here it's very obvious kendi is a divisive figure who if not a card-carrying marxist is one with very strong proclivities in that direction proof of that considering his goal to eliminate racism is his comment that racism and capitalism are conjoined twins and the only way to truly eliminate racism is to eliminate capitalism makes one think he might have another agenda this is who you mr lexman who's not here choose to hold up as inspiration other candy comments the use of standardized tests to measure intelligence and aptitude is

017one of the most racist policies ever devised to degrade black people this statement and the anti-racist policies and practices candy pushes would be considered what ian rowe maybe you know him a black intellectual and fordham trustee insists our soft bigotry of low expectations this could have terrible unintended consequences such as one example cited by journalist natalie wexler about a young black boy who wanted to be a lawyer however after being introduced to crt concepts he told his mother mom there are these systems that prevent black people from accomplishing anything fact is lots of white kids don't do well in those testes either many factors other than race contribute to success or a failure of an individual but not according to candy another one when talking about amy coney barrett our our newest supreme court member

018some white colonizers adopted black children and civilized these savage children the superior ways of white people using them as props in their lifelong picture of denial while cutting the biological parents of these children out of a picture of humanity what nonsense and this is who he puts in his letter candy and crt claim this their systematic racism in the country if so how do you explain very successful black men and women attaining very high and influential influential positions in this country like barack obama and clarence thomas not to mention influential thought leaders like thomas soule mr bradwell your three minutes is up can you please wrap up your comments okay well uh your statement mr lexman who's not here that for our black and broken families who fear that this will be one more time

019will justice will not be served does not nothing to uplift and give home but is very divisive you said that our schools need to be anti-racist does that mean that up to this point under your leadership this has not been the case just one couple more senses while the george floyd death was an awful thing to watch these incidents are far more isolated and random than the media want and the left wants to characterize them as therefore perplexing as to why they would drive a school agenda or focus you know i've got i'll have to visit you folks a few more times because i've probably got about 12 minutes here so we'll see you next meeting thank you very much julian mcleycek my name is joe mikolajek address is 3355 south russell court new berlin

020first off i'm talking on another subject but this critical race theory is ridiculous and this equity stuff is ridiculous it is going to come back and bite you in the butt almost guaranteed now i would like again i would again like to tell you about some of my views on the 20 21 22 proposed budget and tax levy student enrollments have been decreasing for a number of reasons one reason is because you didn't have school open yet every year the school district budget increases something's wrong with that i would also suggest members sikich ustrick and justum pay particularly close attention to all the comments made here tonight enrollments are declining the budget should not increase i have a suggestion that will certainly save millions of dollars discontinue using the teachers union controlled wea trust program

021for health insurance after act 10 was passed many school districts have kicked the wea trust to the side and they have saved over 3.2 billion dollars that's billion with a b i want to submit as part of the record an article describing how the kenosha board of education recently saved approximately 20 million dollars booting the wea trust i want this put in the record please why has the school board continued to use the wea trust for health insurance i think i can answer that question it's because this school board and administration is a bunch of teachers union lackeys let me repeat that teachers union lackeys in summation i would like to say no budget increases no tax levy increases i'd also suggest you not try to confuse taxpayers by telling them that the mill rate

022is decreasing when the tax [Music] tax levy is increasing because property values are increasing that's not going to work too long no proposed referendums for increased spending or backhanded tricks that were played when the last referendum failed mr lexman knows about that i would suggest you start putting the citizens taxpayers and students ahead of your buddies in the teachers union do you have any questions for me i didn't think so thank you thank you [Applause] looks like we have one person on zoom that wraps up the in-person public comments so if there's anyone else who's watching zoom right now uh who would like to make a comment please post in the comments or the chat that you would like to make a public comment so right now we have leah zacharias i'm speaking to request

023that you remove the district mask mandate and allow masks to be optional i keep hearing that you're following the science and i want to know what science show us peer-reviewed scientific studies what data shows that masks are still necessary state and city mask mandates have ended and there have been four cases reported in west allis west milwaukee last week four new cases that is school districts that have ended the mass mandate weeks ago never had a major outbreak please look at the surrounding school district's data waukesha school district of 14 000 students ended their mask mandate may 12th there were six cases the day that the masks were removed and there's now one case and zero closed contacts the vaccine is available to all staff and students 12 years and up the virus has never

024been a threat to children under the age of 12. what data and science are keeping the mask mandate in place my kids can go everywhere without masks except school you're elected to represent the students and community members i ask that you do what's in their best interest for the student's social emotional well-being as it is also what's in the best interest of their health remove the mask mandate for the 2021-2022 school year thank you [Applause] uh as i do not see any other uh posts in the chat and see anyone else in person who would like to give comments i'm gonna close all the comments at this time and we're to move on to item 7 the superintendent's report good evening thank you um and again marty apologizes for not being here this evening as

025he is out ill um so the first line item on the superintendent's report is an update on a return to school plan which we do not have any new information to report on our return to school plan at this time as school has been completed we do have lots of things going on for summer school at the present moment but we'll have more to report on that in the next couple of weeks as we start to see what our enrollments look like for summer school next is the legislative update from the state legislators the state now expects 4.4 billion more in tax collections according to the legislative fiscal bureau the state is expected to take in 4.4 billion dollars more through mid 2023 than was anticipated just four months ago this means lawmakers will have

026nearly 3.8 billion dollars more in the 21 23 budget than they anticipated that is even after the state transfers more than 800 million of the additional revenue growth to wisconsin's rating day fund the legislative fiscal bureau now projects that the state will finish the current fiscal year june 30th with a surplus of 2.6 billion dollars 816.1 million dollars more than previously estimated um governor tony evers today called republicans proposed state investment in k-12 education paltry and said vetoing the entire document is on the table unless they add more money evers proposed 1.5 billion dollars in general purpose revenue with another 41.7 million in program revenue and segregated funds the joint finance committee approved a 128 million dollar in addition general purpose revenue for k-12 schools while adding another 22 million in other state funds they

027also approved transferring 350 million in gpr to this budget stabilization fund arguing it could be used for educational purposes down the road though lawmakers acknowledged it could also go to other expenses as well the u.s department of education has warned that the k-12 package proposed under the joint finance committee would not meet the maintenance of effort requirements to qualify for the federal stimulus money under the covet 19 packages and there are no federal legislative updates at this time so we'll move on to district recognitions and we have lots of exciting things to share this evening from our entire district this year students from west allis central west allis nathan hale docu project-based learning high school and shared journeys earned a combined total of 2.9 million dollars in scholarships we congratulate the class of 2021 and

028wish to recognize these top students from west allis central high school the valedictorian was alyssa matthews the salutatorian melody swift the top 10 students included alyssa melody dominique malheur malik suleiman jennalin ruxy samantha engel desiderio lopez benjamin page laurel thompson and savannah hike at nathan hale high school the valedictorian was joshua truschon salutatorian lucas krajewski and including the those two in the top ten with katrina sinclair patrick kirkpatrick iii emma seafeld natalie gumia brendan compass amelia bader sydney showton and killian peterson um note patrick and emma have the exact same gpa in there so they are actually a tie for four and or for number four um under communications and community relations special thanks to principal matt lesser assistant facilities manager tim detloff and the technician brandon schumich as our and our custodial staff for

029going above and beyond and planning and assistance with our outdoor graduation ceremony also a huge nod to beth koehler who has been living out at the athletic complex for about a week now getting everything prepared for the ceremonies including wishing away the rain so we want to give beth a big shout out for her work and getting us ready for graduation in our leadership and learning department the wisconsin rti center recognized school programs celebrated school progress in expanding refining and sustaining implementation of both positive behavior intervention systems and response to intervention this year franklin elementary school was recognized with the bronze level award at nathan hale high school senior josh trashon has run the fastest 3200 meter race on wisconsin soil he set a new record for 8 minutes and 44 seconds for the 3200

030meter in recreation and community services we would like to thank the west allis central black student union for their generous support and partnership together with the bsu we are bringing the ko tai dance company to our community for a free workshop on wednesday june 30th 2021 and at west allis central john riddell placed third a bronze medal finish and the power equipment technology competition at the skills usa statewide competition john had to take online tests submit a resume and put together a video showing his skills by doing a virtual engine tune-up for the judges and that concludes our district recognitions tonight and we have no other updates and information item at this time okay thank you very much ms raymer i will move on to the board president's report we'll start by going over the

031board calendar so today on june 14th we have a regular board of education meeting followed immediately by a workshop on the proposed 2122 budget and preliminary tax levy number two on june 21st at 6 00 pm we have a board workshop with consultant muslim attorney from huron consulting group on june 28th at 6 pm we have a regular board of education meeting uh talking with action on proposed 2122 budget and preliminary tax levy on july 12th we have at 6 pm we have a regular board of education meeting on monday july 19th at 6 pm we have a board workshop meeting the first one will be going through the the fact team findings so very important one there and then monday july 26th at 6 pm we have another regular board of education meeting so

032now we'll move on to item 8.2 which is the board committee reports we'll start with the communication community relations ms kaiser uh nothing really to report last meeting we have introduced amy to the team and what to expect and looking forward to our next meeting and getting stuff done all right thank you very much move on to uh the employee engagement and culture mr keller all right ours is a shorter report as well currently we're working with building admin to fill all of our open positions to get us all staffed up we're also working with building admin to finalize and roll over educator effectiveness and working on communication and video discussing our newly approved compensation model great anyone have any questions about that okay uh do any board members have any community events they would

033like to talk about mr sikich mr president this is not necessarily a community thing but i just wanted to pass along to members of the community the loss of two former west house west milwaukee teachers mary nolak who was at central for a long time passed away and dick menken who was a football coach at west milwaukee and wrestling coach and over a 30-year teacher in the district and also was very instrumental with the power lifting and the bodybuilding at westall wisconsin state fair uh passed away down in florida oh well thank you so much our condolences to their families but uh kristen i think i was going to say it was an honor for the first time getting the handout diplomas at hale it was a lovely day the sun mostly stayed away and

034uh very well put together beth obviously runs a tight ship and it shows it was wonderful yeah thank you amy um i just want to say excuse me say thank you to the flw and next gen community for inviting us to their tiny house open house it was phenomenal the kids were given a budget they had to design their own tiny homes and incorporate green elements to it so it was a really fun experience and um i it was really enjoyable great thank you anyone else i do want to comment on the two uh graduations i was able to participate in and for uh docky and for central it was a a great time i think everyone was really happy to be able to have it in personal graduation and i will say that the

035confetti cannon certainly added something uh to the the ceremony that we're dealing with so i thought that was great too as well all right with that move on to our consent agenda item 9.1 is our approval of minutes items 9.2 is our employment summary and items 9.3 is our supplementary contracts does anyone need any of this separated out if not i look forward to approve second let's move in seconded all those in favor opposed all right that passes and move on to our action items our first action item is item 10.1 wiaa senior high membership renewal application for the 21-22 school year and ms strasser will be telling us about that i believe she's on the zoo thank you mr lee and uh mr marion from wastala central's here with us as well uh via

036zoom and uh mr lucas um is at a playoff game so unable to make it but we're just here tonight to ask the board's approval to renew our applications with um the wiaa to participate um this is a requirement of the wia that the board approves both the nathan hale application and west allis central application by august so we're here to seek approval to just renew our annual memberships with them any questions otherwise they look for a motion so moved second moving second need for the discussion if not all those in favor opposed all right that carries thank you very much on to item 10.2 science materials adoptions grades six through twelve mr hengel all right good evening [Music] let's try this one maybe not two try two that was a 75 chance all right

037um so uh thanks for having us back we'll make that a little bit bigger that kind of small um we had workshop about three weeks ago for our science resource adoption incredibly proud of the members of that committee like i know deidre has explained in many of our adoptions steve will talk about in his we merely guide the process um the teachers are really leading the discussion and and going through and digging into the resources as that's kind of been our our way that we've been handling those situations over the last five years because i will never teach out of the science book so i feel that i shouldn't choose it um so in our conversations they um you know we're asking excellent questions making sure that everything that we were going to adopt or

038we were going to look at was representative of every of all of our strategic planning our equity beliefs our deeper learning or equity through deeper learning so all of those pieces using those as touch points for looking at our resources with the kind of adaptable nature of where we live today they decided on a lot of open source um i would say resources because they're adaptable they change all the time and they're updated all the time so i kind of provided some just like 30 000 square foot or 30 000 foot views um of where we landed so um our gizmos which is an online lab simulation we actually purchased that out of the pandemic this year teachers loved it this was probably the number one request we bought at the high school level this

039year and we'll continue to move that into the middle school levels define learning is a project-based learning management tool um so you can see our cost there of about a hundred thousand dollars for a six-year contract that's with a 30 discount we were able to negotiate um i was just on the phone with them on friday uh our 6 8 science is looking at open syed um which also provides professional development um and there's a thing like a nationwide conference that we're looking at having some people to go through for two to three days in july um and then as you heard from the from the members of of our little committee um and the feedback from you guys as well that we're really uh wanting to get that hands-on piece that has sometimes been

040missing in the last um few years we want to bring that back to our science pieces so they're busy they've got their all proposals for their little learning kits that they want to put together and um you know even some things like microscopes and dissection materials and having that hands-on science piece really come back into that middle school biology ap biology has been using ck-12 for the past couple years and then also purchasing some ck12 professional development curriculum writing time which is with all of our pieces um new microscopes lab materials um chemistry lab materials physics uh one of our texts as you guys probably remember ap texts in order to get that little designation in the course catalog they have to be within 10 years our ap text is 10 years old this year

041um so we'll have to purchase a new text for that and then um anatomy and physiology one and two anatomy and physiology two is a new course it was approved two years ago but we never ran it just due to low enrollment and so um but they're using an open source text it's the same one that they use in anatomy one but then also having some curricular curriculum writing time is it's a new course having some lab materials getting those important dissection pieces in anatomy and physiology and then agriculture is also nude course approved two years ago but it did not run this past year um so uh supporting them with a text just a class set of texts um and then some lab uh lab materials i believe which is um in the form

042of a i'm uh the words escaping me right now what do we have a docu with the fish uh aquaponics aquaponics aquaponics slab i keep wanting to say horticulture no budget in there for a cow right now or any chickens or anything like that yet um so you can kind of see our total there for our 612 resources yes jane question you mentioned something about a conference can you tell me a little bit more about what that would entail sure so there's an open syed conference in july that we've had a few teachers actually these these guys are waiting with baited breath for me to send them an email tonight that we were good to go and they're already meeting tomorrow at 9 00 a.m to get started on putting some things together so there's

043a conference um just because it's more of an open source textbook it's a little bit new for us we want to provide some professional development and they have individual coaching sessions that you can you know purchase obviously through for a cost um but it was about i think it's a thousand dollars a person for a three-day virtual conference of like here's how they develop the units here's how you can use them tailoring them to what you need so our goal is to have at least one member from each school so from west flw and lane to attend that and the cost for that would be say that again uh it was a thousand dollars a person for three days virtual yes when we spoke in may uh may 17th on this the i think the

044initial budget was a little less than what we're hearing tonight is this i want to know if i can't see if caitlyn see there's a beam but um she's over there is this still feasible within our budget that we already planned and discussed back in may yes well short answer yes um long answer is we have to if we have things like professional development so most of these things we're purchasing this fiscal year with um when we talk about our budget relocation um most of these items are purchasing this fiscal year things that have to happen each year like professional development that expense has to hit that budget so that's those are the um items that we're working through with leadership and learning and getting in leadership and learning's budget so that that can be

045supported each year so yes short answer is yes it is supported in budget and is a thousand dollars a person for professional development normal for virtual that's kind of insane to me uh that's probably a little bit on the on the lesser end that's usually cheaper um usually conferences if you're attending in person are going to be about a thousand hours plus you have all the travel costs okay of getting someone there so it's pretty pretty reasonable and usually typically uh professional development that we would hire or if we would have like a one-on-one implementation coach is usually about 250 to 500 an hour online not even in person some of that is some of the uh increase in the cost as caitlyn and i were talking about is like uh the defined learning six-year

046contract is um we were able to get another 15 to 20 000 off if we were willing to sign a longer contract um so instead of it being about 40 i think the original quote was like 48 50 000 for three years um we were able to negotiate a better deal for the longer term okay any other questions related to the online costs you know so these are one-year costs three-year costs and we talked about if you know how how long and how how long we could get usually by multiple years you get a better deal so our you know all for all the online resources that's the three-year cost so it's yeah so this is what does that work out to be about 13 and a half thousand per year for we pay per

047site license um so with the with having docky hail you know we have six site licenses so that's about 2500 a site license is how they go that and then uh same thing with defined learning they charge you for a site license so if we see increase or decrease in enrollment that doesn't really matter whereas there are things like alex or um we'll talk about in the tech plan with cami that's a per user site so um deidra knows as i try to be fiscally responsible i negotiate those every year so we look at you know as we've had declining enrollment we're not paying for an extra 400 seats i call them and say hey last year we had 8 100 students this year we have 7 800. please adjust our contract to reflect you

048know 300 less users and typically when we do that you know at 12 sometimes 20 dollars a user it saves us six seven thousand dollars um which obviously you know we can put right back into the classroom um and some of the costs are heavier this year around some of the consumables because well less consumables because they are more equipment driven we have some of our science programs that are using microscopes or materials that really aren't functional anymore or they're borrowing materials from other schools and having all of the proper equipment in place at each of the schools is a one-time investment for now until you use those for quite some time before they wear out again and you replace them the curriculum writing in this one especially given the fact that we're going with

049some op-ed resources is a lot heavier for this first summer and then that curriculum writing gets written into our leadership and learning budget every summer because every summer those documents need tweaking um the one thing we couldn't buy up in advance were some of the consumables for science it's a bad idea to try to store dissection materials for six years um you know that's not advisable um so those are some of those things that we'll just have to build into our annual budget for replacement for those teams i was going to ask that i wanted to make sure that we would have that as a line item moving forward so that we weren't coming in situations where you have kits that are missing things and you can't yeah yeah i haven't taught biology for about

05014 years but it looks like the shelf life for a for a dissectable material is about four to five years so working on that yeah but many of the um you know as many of you know i taught uh physics at hale and um in having conversations with the physics teacher at hale the physics teacher at central i went over by dan's classroom which used to be my old classroom and it's everything that i had purchased 11 years ago so it's the same sensors that you know again five out of ten of them might work um and so we're looking to kind of replace that and just you know start fresh um with the with the newest pieces for our kids for the microscopes is do we have a company that comes in and we

051do those yep okay yes we do um and you know obviously that's dependent on what the breakage rate is um they usually have every other year they have we have a company that comes out and fixes the microscopes and i want to say off the top my head it's about three to four thousand dollars for each school every time they come out so that's replacing stage cl stage clips cleaning oculars you know all that kind of pieces we can talk offline but that's usually done annually um regardless of breakage to prevent is it preventive sure and so um i can have some experience with that perfect any other questions about this adoption if not i would look for a motion move to approve second move in seconded any further discussion all right all those in

052favor opposed all right that passes all right thank you very much thank you i want to leave we will move on to i can scroll up here item 10.3 the social studies materials adoption grades is grades 6 through 12. mr carr well thanks for having me back again as we talked about several weeks ago our team of in the social studies adoption broke up into the high school and the in the intermediate uh levels the intermediate level uh team had spent a considerable amount of time looking at several different resources and settled on as we discussed a couple weeks ago tci is going to be the resource that we we feel most comfortable using um those who hearken back to that conversation three weeks ago the initial price that they quoted us is considerably more

053than what is currently in this adoption which worked out well um after talking with our representative from tci she was able to kind of bring things back together and and we're using online resources rather than hard copy uh text to send home with kids makes it much more malleable useful tool should we have another situation where we have a snow day and we've got to send a kid it's going to be at home with them so that was very uh it was nice to see have them come and meet us at a price that was going to be cost effective for us at the high school level we have some outdated texts no doubt about it and uh that team put their heads together came to understanding that the um the u.s government text was

054going to be it wasn't it was as good as the other one and um it just was it was very old so we just want to update the resource we use we also wanted to purchase online text similar reason as before it's just a much more useful more flexible resource for kids to use so um came to that that price point that's in the executive summary our economics text is outdated but they still are looking at some of the resources that they would like to consider so um rather than push something forward that we weren't 100 percent confident with we're going to continue to look at some of the resources we might want to use with economics having said that adam's price and my price when you put them together pretty good it wasn't intentionally

055that way but it works out so um and then uh but i'm hoping you guys can see fit to get us moving forward the tci resource is going to be a considerable change for our teachers to utilize and the professional develop they are also eager to get started with the professional development that makes them most familiar with the online resources and utilization of pushing that out into the to the students so if we can get this going i can get the professional development started with our with our teacher team so question about this adoption very happy to see the cost came down not really my doing but i was happy to accept it any other questions um mr car just one thing we i know during the workshop we talked about tci was one that

056was being looked at as well as choices and then the executive summary mentions tci is the main one how many components from choices was it decided to pick and you know like roughly what they were about there was one particular teacher who's a real advocate for the choices program okay um it was and there was no he was he really likes the concept of the program he's he's he's already resourced himself through um it's not going to be a matter of he's okay with not purchasing choices at all so he's going to just we're going to use he's comfortable using tci and then resourcing with the sources that he's already using so okay so so the choices is not part of the purchase got it okay thank you that wasn't exactly clear all right uh

057any other questions if not i would take a motion move to approve second moved and seconded any other discussion all those in favor aye opposed all right that passes thank you very much thank you okay we'll move on to item 10.4 the crossing guard service proposal approval for 21 to 24. uh mr norris good evening everyone it will be just myself tonight even though mr hamrick is listed um but thank you for having me i wanted to discuss with you um item 10.4 crossing our approval process so to give you a little background all you have in front of you but just for some context last summer the police department notified the school district that they would no longer be budgeting for the crossing guard allocation in their budget and then moving into the 21-22

058school year that would be the responsibility of the school district so i had spoken with caitlin about that last fall and so we initially did an internal analysis to see if it was potentially possible that given our current staffing allocation if we could staff that and manage that on our given the staffing that we have and so through the internal analysis we thought looking at our current staff the times that the staff would need to be at the stops and the proximity to their location where they're staffed at it was it was nearly impossible to do that and that was just to make it logistically work and then when you factor in other items such as the insurance to ensure something like that the ability and the cost to train and provide the professional development

059not to mention um which i'll get into in a minute the cost to have backups in place and then equipment we thought that it would actually cost the district more to do that itself so given that analysis we looked at moving into an rfp process to get bids from local agencies to do that what we did is we contacted other area school districts in proximity to us in local size to develop a list of agencies to get some feedback on who they've made who they might be contracting for services with and so we use that list to begin an rfp process what we did find is that a lot of local school districts either you know use all city management services itself or our the police department does the crossing guard services for the community

060so what we did find which i thought was reassuring is that the school districts in local proximity and size who have this need are using this agency so that was good news when we finished our rfp process we only received this one rfp which is from all city management the good news is that we are currently using them this is who the police department contracted with they had great scores we contacted references like shorewood um toasted city of waukesha wausau some prairie districts of similar size and proximity and all of them were very pleased with the services if you look at the cost increases the one thing i'll note is that the the 5.3 increase almost all of that increase goes to the employees that is that is due to a one dollar increase in

061the salary for the crossing guards i felt more comfortable with that in communication with the agency all city management their response was that you know we need to try to get employees and we need to make sure this is staffed it's one of the things in our organization that i think people forget about a lot but they can't go unstaffed you know that would be a disaster waiting to happen so um that was that was a good thing and the last thing i'd mentioned is that mr shore contract attorney lawyer did review the contract they had some rebuttal and discussion of litigation language for i'm sorry contract language in the contract prior to it being in front of you tonight all right any questions on this piece if not i would look at emotion second

062it's been moved and seconded no further discussion all those in favor aye aye aye opposed all right that passes thank you very much okay move on to item 10.5 approval of additional open enrollment seats for the 21 22 school year mr norris and swimmer but maybe just mr norris i'm back up um the second item i wanted to to go over is um for many of you this is a an annual item that we go through and discuss um for me how i look at this is it's a good discussion to have because it means we're consistently and constantly reviewing our enrollment and responding to the needs of the families who are are applying into the district while being referenced to where we're at with you know how many students are currently enrolled versus how

063many students we're expecting with projected enrollment so the two the two things that i wanted to discuss tonight and on the front page of your agenda at the bottom and as you can see um is is looking at in-person additional seats for open enrollment for next score so in person i want to highlight regular education in person students so the number there is 68 and how that number came to be is the first thing is nearly half of that 31 is in 4k so at this point we would expect to see about two-thirds of our projected enrollment with 4k and right now we're at about 150 of 400 students 400 being the projected enrollment for 4k next year so we're a little uh we're below where we should be the 31 represents the 31 students

064on the waiting list for 4k so we have 31 students that applied for open enrollment who did not get accepted and so given our current enrollment at 4k i feel like it's appropriate that we would look at least look to move to approve those students for regular education in-person seats the remainder of the students on this list are going to be that same calculation up to the 92 percentile with students where there are waiting list students in grades so where you see a zero in first second third fourth and fifth we have open seats we don't have a waiting list so should a family come in and need a seat if they are regular education we could look to approve them because we have open seats other grades we do not in 12th grade we

065have no open seats those six students are students who are currently att are prior to school ending where current students attending had moved out of the district and are calling asking to come back for their senior year and so i looked at our senior numbers we absolutely can make room for six students and so that makes up the 68. so that's the first piece um the second page is um i'm sure was i'm sure there's been discussion on the virtual school and so when i met with the directors on open enrollment seats in person i also discussed you know similar to what wauwatosa does would it be appropriate to open up seats for virtual school students only i have received a number of emails from families who are on the waiting list specifically asking hey

066we just want to go to the virtual school is that possibility and i said you know you know can you hold on for a week you know and they're very you know as long as we're in gate we've been engaging with them they're very understanding but that represents 10 students per grade the the 10 i came up with is that it's hard to know what grades a lot of the families we might get interest in and so that's where we came up with 140 it's very unlikely we'll fill even half of that but i would hate for us to have five per grade and then a sixth ninth grader would apply and then we might be back here again so that's where we came up with 140. um and that that i guess that's that

067all right uh anyone any questions about the open enrollment seats uh just one note under the recommendation it says approve 38 additional seats i did that the breakdown actually totaled 68. yeah so that's a eriker at the error i'll fix that sorry about that yeah thank you i i noticed that while i was speaking i was like oh the one thing i had to get right you know sorry about that no worries any other questions so aaron um we talk about how um kids coming into the district or kids enrolling out of the district we usually like to balance that are we finding that we are in balance so far have kids opted to come back compared to coming out and where are we with that like yeah that's a good question and it's one

068thing that i think we would all agree is a is something that as a district we'd like to see that balance come back to light i think you know if i had to go off my off my memory we have about 750 ish students that open enroll in and we're just over uh either high 1200s or low 1300s out to answer your question for next year it's hard to know where we're at with that because res non-resident districts meaning where students are leaving to don't have to report if those students intend to intend or do intend until the third friday count so at this point it's unknown um but i can tell you with the virtual school one of the things i've been working with leadership and learning specifically deidra and katelyn on is in

069open in opal which is the dpi portal where they have we report who's open enrolled to us and leaving because there's an exchange of funds ultimately right what i've been doing as i filtered on any district that does offer virtual school and i've been able to try to isolate that into removing seniors right because we don't have next year data down to 300 families and students so a school services department is fielding and making phone calls those families essentially letting them know like you may be a family who is attending a non-resident district for purposes of virtual learning and that's something we offer and so i i've made about 50 phone calls myself i have gotten a ton of really positive feedback um not always like we're going to come and enroll but it's like

070one family kind of gave responded to me with like this is the right thing to do they she had said that she'd heard about it and her her neighbors had asked about it and so to me it was like this conversation precedes you it's gonna go beyond you and so even if those families don't come back you know you don't really know who's gonna walk in the door because of that conversation so um i think that outreach is something that i would like to do across all students not just the 300 virtual students and i would encourage that yeah i feel like we have some time here and that um we need to do our due diligence to get those kids back in our district so um and um it feels unbalanced to me and

071i think we need to do something about that one of the one of the things that is a bit of a surprise i'd say is that of the 1300 um i believe it's just under 800 families and are enrolled in milwaukee public schools and you know and some of the outreach that i know that i have done but specifically that precedes me you know with uh with bath and jeff borland is that a lot of those families the reality is a chunk of them i don't know what to what degree our families who moved here but had their kids in a k-8 or things like that and so i think some of and that's where we see the increase in sixth grade and in ninth grade it's some of those families coming coming to us

072when it makes sense for them so well i agree completely with you that we should be reaching out and that's something that we have started doing i think that um we'll see some of that continue but yeah sure and in a really exciting update that we didn't get the news in time for our board update this week we did get the charter school grant um so we were fully funded for that one so thanks to the many many hours that adam and i were able to put in on that one and do some of the revisions and so that part of what we allocated funds for in the grant was to be able to do some radio and tv advertisement for families to know that we have a virtual option and so we are hoping

073that that helps in our promotion efforts to let families know that that is an available option to them to open a role to us which is where the extra seats also became important tonight to make sure that if we do advertise that families can come here for that that we have seat staff for them other questions erin do we have any numbers on current enrollees for the virtual school yet or have we not allowed that because we haven't officially opened it or yeah at this point you know i can speak to the open house that we had so i know we were um i correctly from dj but i think it's around 100 families were interested and so you know how many of that translates into enrollment will be a good question um i think

074a lot of things depend on where how things go in the summer but i mean to have a hundred families initially is is really positive i feel like doing locals or current families those are the current families that we had said that we were offering that option to and so those are a hundred families that likely would have open enrolled to someone else who's offering a virtual option should we not have done the work to get the virtual charter open and so um uh ryan johnson who's gonna be overseeing the he's gonna be the principal part time at the virtual charter he is working right now with aaron and with our technology department on enrollments and how do we handle some of those pieces so that we can get a firm number so that we

075can start hiring the teachers and start getting those pieces going so that the virtual school can be fully ready to go in the fall and especially since quite a bit of the grant funding is tied to professional development and planning that we intend to do in the summer now that we know we have those funds available to use that'll allow us just to increase our efforts in that area to make sure we're ready to go so i was asking about the seats just because so they're currently our students in our district so if they shift over to virtual are they going to be taking a virtual seat or or is that going to open up a seat in our in-person school it would if we had for any family that shifts over from like at

076a seat at central to the virtual school it wouldn't necessarily open and open up an open enrollment seat unless we came back and had this discussion again which is what i intend to do because i think that projections are just projections until we start getting butts in seat right butts and seats until we start having those actual numbers of actual enrollments and we start seeing oh franklin is low we can add in this then it's you start looking at this again you know but yeah that's kind of where we're at with the virtual school it's like we need to have the seats open that way when families when it starts to be school's going to be in five weeks and families start to have this where am i going to go next year it's like

077then they show up and we don't have seats open they go to the next community that's kind of what that's my opinion of what happens yeah the goal is to just take some more measured steps when it comes to those things and be monitoring it more closely throughout the summer so we didn't historically used to come back for more open enrollment seats and aaron's doing a great job at just watching that enrollment and saying hey this would be practically where we could pick up some of those seats so that we're not staffing classrooms that aren't fully that aren't full in the fall and so it'll help us manage budget and all of those pieces as well any other questions if not i'd entertain a motion move to approve any further discussion if not all those

078in favor aye aye opposed all right thank you very much mr norris all right thank you i'll move on to item 10.6 the technology plan approval 21 to 24. mr hengel there's my notebook i have a paper copy i got really excited waiting in my copy machine this morning because i haven't done that in like a year and a half but sometimes it's better to have a paper copy if you can take some points on thank you for having me thank you thanks okay don't just turn right to the last page on the budget everybody gets all excited about that part okay so um technology plan round two so um [Music] you know i sent this out um with the um stuff on friday in the packet so this is kind of like our you

079know our whole kind of plan where we where we have our goals together and things like that so just some some overview pieces on page you know there's some background information on page four of where we've been this has just been kind of updated since our last technology plan to include uh decisions that we made in and um you know now we're nine years into an ipad chromebook and other district purchase purchase instructional devices so we did some updates there put in the new strategic plan as that was again one of our guiding documents for our for our tech plan we wanted to make sure obviously we're hitting um two major columns uh the success in life and college and career readiness and then the financial stability and efficiency as well so updated that on

080page seven again a huge thanks to all the people who put in hours on the committee and you know had great conversations talked about where uh where we're having successes where we're having opportunities for growth so thank you again to those people that are listed there and then um kind of some goals when we looked at it uh you know that i that success in college and career readiness um these are very similar to what we had before um and some of our goals are it's like a yes no like do we have a learning management system or do we not have a learning management system and some of the pieces um are where we will send out year-end surveys to get some data back uh as you know this is it seems like so

081long when you say it's a three-year tech plan but really two years from now we already start writing the next one so um also one of our goals is to make sure that we're getting employee feedback um as you know that's that's ultra important to us it hits in into our also our other category of our strategic plan um so just a couple p like highlights um you know in our first goals around uh the integration of academic and career exploration and using our model for graduate profile that's new from our last um our last tech plan the last tech plan was centered around academic and career plan but this idea of having a you know increasing a digital portfolio and a digital presence for our students so when they are leaving us in uh

082in 12th grade and heading into whatever their post-high school experience may be we want them to have some sort of like a digital tool that's our goal have a digital tool that shows that progress towards a graduate profile and that fits right in our strategic plan so that was an update um on page uh the the goals for effective teaching using digital tools you know just this idea you know we're going to provide that professional development we want this to be something um that is not like a really nice coaster um we want the tools to be used effectively so we provide that professional development a number of those opportunities come from our own staff we have some great not only innovation coaches deeper learning coaches principals but teacher leaders as well we have a

083number of teachers who are out there earning apple uh certifications who are earning google certifications and um coming up with just great things uh we as i know that deidra has talked a lot about um how we run our workshops for professional development where we're highlighting people that are showing equity through deeper learning and we're visiting those classrooms on those professional development days uh hopefully in person in the fall so having that on there um and uh on page 10 you know these are kind of like our our equitable access to information resources and technology these are kind of the ones that are like we either have them or we don't um you know having digital media tools they're either present or they're absent so that's an easy one for us to give feedback for

084you guys on um is our goal is in a board update at least once a year to kind of be providing those statistics for you guys of like yes we have a learning management system uh yes we are providing digital tools these are the digital tools as that was important to us as a committee to keep you guys informed but also from your feedback to make sure that you know you guys are having that information as we're making decisions moving forward as well um no other real changes um like i said on goal number four on page 11 um you know starting that new tech plan in the summer of 2023 um which seats doesn't seem very far away um and then also uh per suggestion last week having that quarterly and uh quarterly breakage

085rates reported out to the board in a board update as well we are still working on that for the end of the year right now i sent out a survey to all of our innovation coaches post our last meeting and i heard back from about half of our schools and right now as they're they were just collecting devices last week many of them were looking through them today um kind of a figuring out what those breakage rates are and i would say six of the it was six of the seven schools responded that zero to ten percent of their devices were like may need a deep cleaning or may need like a screen replacement so um i would say that's probably right on par where um we would have expected having those devices been home

086for almost a year and a half um and so but again those have to be checked like one device at a time so for central who's accepting a thousand devices back in hales getting 1 300 devices back um that will take a little bit of a little bit of time but most of the elementary schools said that they're about zero to five zero to ten percent of breakage and that could just be a screen breakage um or it could be something shoved into the charging port as well um so we wanna make sure that a quarterly report to the board on what breakage looks like for those devices also included in the plan that was an update uh as well so on page 12 um our so our recommendations which we kind of went over

087last time um you know balancing that leases with outright purchases i'll scroll up here if you're so that way people at home are okay um so balancing leases with outright purchases caitlin and i have talked many times with bruce and frohn and kevin in technology about like what is the balance obviously we're not going to like lease speakers um for classrooms but what does a chromebook lease look like would it be advantageous for us to use the appropriate funding in a three-year lease versus a four-year lease things like that um obviously we want to you know so in in instances where it seems feasible and appropriate we want to reduce our lease costs and reduce those interest payments so it might look like a shorter lease investing in those ipad cases which we know came

088out of the last tech plan which was like that was huge as we saw one to two percent breakage versus 10 to 15 percent breakage uh six years ago um and then also that idea of not replacing the whole fleet at one time so um not saying like okay let's just take you know we've we've talked about um in the workshop of we have a number of ipad fives that are coming kind of out of their useful life that need to be replaced but we also have some sixes that have at least another year in them uh bruce just found out that the update for the operating system will be on the sixes for this september so we should be able to get another year out of those but then so we're not taking all

089of our devices and replacing them all at one shot because forecasting of what does that look like in 2027 and making sure that we're able to plan appropriately for that and balancing devices obviously across multiple schools and different grade levels so tiering those devices to prevent the need for large scale device refreshes in the future and then re reselling our old technology having that obviously be um like we talked about the the resale value right now is very high um so we're seeing um hopefully a good buy back portion for us that we can put towards other things right yeah okay um and then also um you know that we kind of have our our district needs assessment results there um looking at that the big thing for us pushing down those ipad sixes where

090we have about um is about 800 of them and obviously you know that'll depending on what those grade levels are of where where they'll kind of end up but pushing those devices down to that 4k first grade level continue to support multiple platforms to ensure that the district technology is being used intentionally and then respecting the voice of staff and then um you know like we talked about our recommendation is the chromebooks that are there's about 700 chromebooks that are going out of service and allowing those devices to be able to be uh taken home for students that may not have a device at home that way they're not taking a device back and forth um and having an estimate of let's say if uh you know 500 of those devices go home across the

091number of the high schools and intermediates we would still have 200 left that we can use to support classrooms as well but then they're not traveling with them back and forth which obviously increases an opportunity for breakage um and just some follow-ups as well we did send out a survey to third fourth and fifth grade about whether a device would be appropriate to go home or not and we got responses from i think it was 57 teachers and about 80 percent of them said that they would not need a device to go home for third fourth or fifth grade with a number of also open comments of um i think especially after this year a lot of people felt it was really important to like let's get the kids a break from technology play with

092your friends play outside get that fresh air and i think that was great for our staff to be able to have input on that and then also to have that commentary of you know like let's we talked about uh with ela we've got a number of books that kids are available so like let's send a hard copy book with the kid home and have them read out of that text and engage with those books and get the smell of a good book and all that that goes with that rather than you know being on an ipad and um you know using dream box at home or something like that was that the plan then to not have devices going home with any that was our recommendation um and then and then using those devices so

093the the chromebooks that'll go out of service um they're not of huge value to us um but being able to use them for kids if they did need a device to to be at home and we'll you know a pending approval we'll create a new contract and bring that forward and talk about you know what that looks like as well as we'll update uh we'll need to update all of our forms and everything too all right any questions on that part before we get to the last page okay perfect all right so um our last page um kind of budgeting out just uh per year over the course of the three years of what that looks like so i'll start on the left column so um this would be our our apple lease cost for

0943 500 8th generation devices and then that also includes uh 220 apple tv replacements at the elementary level as we talked about a lot of those are um 11 years old they haven't been insert been able to be serviced since 2017 um and they drop out and and that just i mean when you have a device that's 11 years old so that's our lease payment um right there for those 3 500 devices that's a three year lease that also includes no um apple applecare as we talked about that you know applecare is 50 an ipad for three year coverage that covers breakage on screens battery life broken cables broken power cords but again as we kind of have reported and and technology like we're just not getting those things back so it would not cover

095a um an insurance claim if we're not getting the charging block back it's just if like the charging block is missing one prong um but again that's uh you know that's that's our recommendation is to not have that um so we're talking about leases and things and i am new to the board but during the pandemic we had to purchase some extra technology like the owls and all of those things did we lease those what will we be using those for in the future is there any innovative way we can think of to continue that use or can you talk a little bit yeah so like um the owl cams we we purchased those outright um and we have we've talked about using those um for admin as you know like uh we have people

096who drive all over the place and are spending time in their cars but us having administrative meetings our usual thursday meetings where people can just zoom in and we can put the owl cam in there and then have people be in the space as well we've talked about continuing to use them in some of cte departments as that's where some of them ended up now and some of those laboratory pieces shifting them over to virtual as well so that would be a decreased cost for virtual school um although now that we have the grant that's a little bit of a different a little bit of a different dynamic but yes continuing to still have those available for staff to check out um you know there won't be any virtual kids in the space um you

097know because they would we wouldn't be having the the two options but they're still can be used for recording labs and things like that as well so yes we do own those on those outright okay um and for the most part the ones that we purchased last year are being put to very good use by our staff um with an increase in the number of people using those for student projects and reporting out on those throughout the year so those none of the what we purchased last year will be sitting on a shelf without being used going forward good okay thank you yes okay so i'm still in 2122. again this was that max absolute max number um for projector replacement um at the elementary and secondary level again the idea that you know this

098we might have a projector that's not um what we call our our standard but it might have a thousand lamp layer hours on it we're not just going to tear that down and throw it away we're going to use that until it's no longer usable and then replace it with um with our our standard and so this would be the absolute max that that would be we might never come close to that number um but we kind of wanted to put that max amount out there that would be carried out over the life of the plan again using those pieces to um to the fullest extent that we can that we can get out of them um the keyboards for ipads again we use those um for uh technology classes they use them for state

099testing that's a one-time cost we would own those that's why it's a the forty thousand uh one time purchase and then zero and the other two that's for uh just taking they're about fifty dollars a piece taking the number of elementary students that we have multiplying it by a quarter because we already own about a quarter um so if we have 4 000 elementary students we'd have about 2 000 keyboards available um some of those are in plastic bins we ship them back and forth to schools if they're like oh you know the whole school needs a keyboard for their ipad okay i'll send mine over and then you send yours over next week so there's a lot of sharing there as well which obviously increases that something from sitting on the shelf and then

100moving down to our chromebook so that's a total cost we have to get a lease prepared but that would be a total outright cost if we were to replace those 700 chromebooks that are going out of service and then if you look right over to the next one uh that's our largest fleet of 3 111 chromebooks that will be going out of service those again still will have some residual value um we'll still use some of those for devices to sign out if um you know a student needs a device at home next year but i would imagine that we would be able to sell a large number of those back and be able to have that buyback money applied to um whatever caitlyn you know decides she she knows how to do all that

101stuff she's great at it um yeah it says least to be prepared so yes going to lease them are we going to buy them uh we're going to lease them but that's our that's the current cost of what they are right now we're not sure if there's a cost increase next year so that's the least cost yes okay um and then our digital access tools that's cami uh and zoom that'll probably be a little bit high as um we're able to get some zoom uh cheaper pricing through cs2 and negotiate some contracts we won't have to have as high level of zoom next year but a lot of like we discussed a lot of families uh like that option for um for conferences and and things um as such speakers we talked about that that's

102again a one-time purchase to make sure that those are available for all classrooms uh locked storage carts again a one-time purchase we're replacing the ones that are like you can just see it behind that pole over there the big huge metal ones it's a little bit those weigh about a hundred pounds just without any chromebooks in them but replacing those there's about 20 left in the district that's again a one-time purchase and then our pieces down at the bottom looking at some project management pieces as uh we talked about um we'll be busy teaching micro-credential classes and um so having some extra help in order to remove asset tags and collect all the devices and remove covers and things like that as we have a number of projects in technology and in leadership and learning

103to manage over the course of the summer and then the contracted work for installations was again a number that we wanted to make sure that we have in the budget so if you think about um if an outlet needs to be installed somewhere for a projector or if something needs to be moved um where we're contracting that out if we can't use our own obviously district staff um but there's some instances you know where you have a different throw and a projector so the outlet needs to be moved over like four feet we'll you know we'd put in a work order through our own uh department and then if that wasn't able to be covered we wanted to to build in a budget for uh for that as well um it's i think that's pretty

104much it for me at least anybody have any questions i have a few questions yes um so we mentioned about uh surveying staff uh for techused each school is that something that we're going to do start doing on an annual basis on a semi-annual basis what are we um you know because we didn't really have that information for this tech plan yeah and i don't want that to be the case moving forward because i really think we did that for our last tech plan that's how we landed on what we used that's why you know lane has ipads and flw uh and west do not and so um what is the plan for that moving forward so that we make sure that we are getting before we go to these three these leases in this

105large amount of money to get devices that i want to be sure that the schools still want slash need for what they want to teach because the staff turnover that we might have the teaching styles the new things that come out every year might change drastically what they want to use and then i want to have wow we bought all these ipads but you know actually now we want chromebooks because that's what we're that's what we need to use yep um i do we do actually now that as i'm looking at that in our recommendations we do have number five respect the voice of district staff when choosing future devices um but i think it might be more i thought i had a goal an objective in here and how to assess was sending out

106a survey um but i think it might be more appropriate to put in goal number two on page nine um district will provide access to technology resources and digital platforms in an online learning environment that is 24 7 accessible survey of teachers evaluating usage of platforms and um probably like uh devices add that in there okay and that's gonna be done on what regularity yeah so you're looking for like how often right yeah same yeah so um so like yeah okay this is where things are moving so yeah making the next tech plan we've already done this work we know we've got to go so um my my thought on that is if we survey annually and we might expect there might be an expectation that there's change so if we send out a survey

107next year and it's like oh we want to get rid of ipads let's say let's just say lane we want to get rid of ipads and go to chromebooks there might be an expectation then that we're going to follow through on that so i would um i would say if we put that in you know we have a goal on starting our next tech plan this summer of 2023 i think then that maybe some language around sending out a survey in spring of 2023 so we have that data moving forward okay okay i will i will add that in there and then when we have to vote i'll i just want to make sure we're checking in we did that before yep yep i think it's important we don't buy stuff that people don't want

108to use or don't like to use because the previous staff did for whatever reason yep correct i mean the survey last time actually altered quite a bit which schools got what and so certainly that's important to do as you know technology has certainly evolved and our use of it has evolved especially with this last year exactly um so chromebook cases i asked about that last time especially with the ones that we might be checking out for kids who don't have devices at home is there any i don't see a spot in here for chromebook cases is that something that we found to be not needed bruce bruce actually has a chromebook case uh sample so in our in our faq there is um the chromebook cases is this the one that's 28. 2023 i think

10923 or 28. uh i i see 28. so 28 so 28 a case that is something that um if we are having a device uh go home that might be something that we could add into the budget for those uh devices it's very very sturdy anyone else want to see the chromebook case um okay so that's not currently in the budget you said you would have to add it in yes okay 20 bucks a piece now you mentioned that you know there's a 700 going out of service this year and there's 3 100 going on service next year i presume those are two different model numbers yes correct any ones that we kept over from this year we would presumably replace with some amount of the ones the next year correct yeah okay obviously trying

110to you know sell back as many as we can as that has a you know does have a little bit of a residual value for us it doesn't have a residual value when you're trading like 50 but it sure does when you trade in 3 100. so do we have any idea of the number that we we would keep back for the purpose of being able to give the students who needed them i think that would probably be responsive to what we see this year of people wanting to check out a device to stay at home and then we would be able to allocate that for the following year so is the plan to keep the entire 700 this year for that purpose or i would say we would see how many people would want

111to check one out and if we do have the opportunity to sell some of those 700 back we certainly would do that like if we get 200 requests we could sell back 500. okay and so that's happening this fall that's not happening this summer yes that would happen in the fall we you know there's a little piece of um we're having kids use devices for summer school as well so we've got devices that are being used in that so we can't like close out and and sell back right away so um we have to be a little bit mindful of that as well okay but yes we would not want to have like 500 devices just collecting dust where they're out of service and we could sell those for parts and right i didn't know

112if you had like a ballpark number comedy if you think you would because we're going from 700 to 3 100 obviously we don't have all of those yes yes i didn't know if you had an idea okay so that's good i mean the last thing the question about high school one to one so that was brought up during the workshop of moving high school to one to one um but in the description i didn't really see that i saw parts being purchased for high school is that has that one-to-one uh plan changed uh or you know or are we moving to only having carts in departments um we have that's what our model is now that is when we talked to the committee they were like yes could we use another cart yes that again

113that could be some of the 700 that could be used for that purpose and putting a 30 allocation in another department um but in the surveys that are in the group that i had for secondary they were not like oh we need one to one carry them around every day go home um they were more concerned with um them not coming back not coming back charged again on the going home piece and when we looked at uh like we looked at in the workshop we actually have more devices than our one to one but with the common school purchases and that's where it just gets a little bit tricky like hale has you know i think that hail has like 1400 almost 1500 devices with only 1 300 students um so having more devices in

114there was we didn't feel was necessarily fiscally responsible um but just being like dj mentioned you know allocating where if you're gonna say um you know there's kids that are using alex in math class not having nine algebra classes that are all going to be doing alex scheduled at the same time sometimes and then that helps alleviate some of the pieces of needing a lot of chromebooks because what happens is you usually end up needing them for one or two hours and then they're sitting dormant for six or seven hours the goal is to have the one-to-one technology accessible in the school but maybe not necessarily checked out to one student at a time and checked back in at the end of the day just that we have enough devices that at any given point

115in the day every single student within the building could be on one and that that would be okay so in all essence it's one to one but different than this year where we said you get one you get one everybody takes them home and back to school that's kind of just a different approach to getting access to the technology so the common school funds was the problem last time this would not be being purchased yes this is straight yes sir yeah straight us or so we wouldn't and that was a lot of the conversation that we had in our committee is when we're looking at the number of devices that are in destiny and we're saying you know hey you actually have 1550 devices and yet there's only 1250 kids i don't know the hail

116off top my head but it's the how the devices were purchased and how they have to be allocated and oh you can check them out for two weeks and then you got to bring them back and and so we're trying to avoid that was one of our main goals was to just avoid that um and as you remember that was 2017 where we had to make some difficult choices and uh that was the choice that we made in order to best serve our students needs is we want to get those things out of fun 10 and into a little bit more of a creative solution so eliminating that a lot of those devices are the ones that will be um out of service next year will be a lot of the common school funds purchases

117because it was that was five years ago okay okay and then it would still fit to use those with people with stuff that need to check them out they would still follow the rules yeah okay all right that's all the questions that i had anyone else have any questions that maybe my question stirred up no all right well if not then have a promotion i do have that just the one language change of um so on page nine yep uh it would be survey of teachers evaluating usage of online platforms and devices and then uh how to determine success would be the percentage of teachers increases uh using online platforms and then it would be a survey to be sent out in the determined success survey to be sent out in spring of 2023 to

118all teachers and administrators you can just add that right here okay anything else i'm good thank you any other questions or comments all right back to entertaining a motion move to approve with discuss changes second grouped and seconded any further discussion if not all those in favor all right opposed to that all right thank you that was much more streamlined thank you thank you very much for all the work on this i know it's a lot no problem thank you so all right we will then move on to item 10.7 individual contract extension of administrators and at world employees which is mrs reimer yep um and so this is an annual item that comes to our board each year this is for the approval of the contract extension to administrators so our administrators are on

119a two-year rolling contract but yet we issue a contract each year typically this comes to the board a few weeks earlier than this but as we had some administrative changes that were happening we wanted to make sure those were all completed before we go forward the at will employees are the employees who are with us on an employment agreement from year to year and so our deeper learning coaches are on an at will contract or not well at well employment agreement as well as some of the office staff that we have here in our support staff within the building and so this just gives us permission to go ahead and extend contracts to those individuals you don't have any questions on that if not i'd look for a motion move to approve second then moving

120seconded in our discussion all those in favor all right opposed right that passes okay all right so that concludes uh our uh regular meeting we're gonna take a five minute recess before we start our workshop so we are in recess all right just want to bring us back into order here for the beginning of our workshop the border could be nope that's not it uh so caitlyn uh item 12.1 proposed 2122 budget and preliminary tax levy number two all right good evening so we are talking through next year's budget at this point so this is a preliminary budget and each year we approve a preliminary budget for the next year before that year starts so our fiscal year starts on july 1. and again just the prelim budget because in october is when we approve

121our final budget so everything not everything a lot of the factors we'll see tonight will change and that is just what happens with the preliminary budget so we'll talk through assumptions projections and again those words just insinuate that things could change so we'll talk through what next year looks like tonight but before we do that just a first quick congratulations to all of our seniors who graduated over the last few days we had luckily great weather and just an incredibly odd year so congrats to all of our seniors so our agenda for tonight we'll review our budget assumptions so again um when we don't have all the info we have to make assumptions in order to have something to project so we proceed with assumptions during our preliminary budget we'll review the state budget updates

122and there are a lot and hardly any at the same time preliminary budget scenarios and options for next year and then mill rate projections along with recommendations and then discussion for our preliminary budget approval which will take place at our next regularly scheduled board meeting which is june 24th so starting with our assumptions so i kind of broke these out this time into two different groups starting with our revenue factors and both of these are dictated by the state budget so neither of which we know right now we are currently assuming we are assuming a zero dollar increase in our revenue limit per pupil so there's two different per peoples we talk about one is inside the revenue limit one is outside that one outside we call per pupil categorical aid this one we're calling

123revenue limit per pupil cap revenue limit per pupil and we've you we're using a zero dollar increase in the revenue limit per pupil we're also using no increase for our special ed reimbursement rate and both of those were items that the governor's budget before it went to the joint finance committee had increases in which we assumed wouldn't last so the joint finance committee we're hearing discussions that they're saying no increases right now so we've changed those assumptions to include no increases in both of those revenue factors and then on the expense side we have a few assumptions made a bunch of assumptions made as well so the first one that's listed here is 8.5 health insurance increase so with um our negotiated contract we were able to have a rate cap for the first time

124in many years so we have a rate cap for next year and the following year and that's on a calendar year so the rate cap for next year is 8.5 percent and it could come in lower but that means it can't go higher than 8.5 percent which is good because at this point last year we were using an assumption of 20 increase based on our loss ratios so 8.5 um that's a huge swing when we're talking health insurance especially because it's such a large bucket of expense for us so the 8.5 is what we're using at this point just because it's our cap and we can hope that it comes in lower and we find that renewal out that rate increase renewal in summer late summer so as the budget moves forward we'll have that

125nail down at some point soon as well we also have factored into this budget a 1.23 cpi increase for all returning staff and then also fully funding the implementation of our newly approved teacher compensation model so our board has prioritized teacher compensation and staff compensation which we've heard over and over throughout the recent months and years so we are prioritizing that within this budget fully funding that so that means for next year the 200 annual increase and then the retroactive micro credentials so if you can think of the timeline throughout the next year 21 22 is when teachers will be taking those micro credentials so this summer and then throughout the year that they're taking them for the first time and then the next year 23 is when they'll receive that compensation for those however

126we have some people who already did micro credential courses and a few of those do count and so going into 21 22 is the year that those retroactive micro credentials will be compensated once those individuals complete the necessary follow-up and the reflection so that is budgeted into our assumptions for next year as well we also have an annual item 325 000 is what goes from fun 10 to fun 46 each year so essentially it's a fun 10 expense and that funds our turf field replacement plan which is in fund 46 and that's an annual item per our schedule to stay on on track with um redoing that the turf fields at the complex and the turf fields are fully funded now for the 22 replacement and this would be part of the next cycle but

127that 325 000 is included um to stay on track for the next cycle of their replacement plan and it um the preliminary budget also includes an open enrollment out expense increase of 1 million from the current year 2021. so and that's that's essentially trend so we see each year that that open enrollment out expense increases approximately about a million dollars each year and so that's why that one million dollar increase is included going from this year into next year and then finally on this slide we have school budgets at 75 allocation so we have an internal formula that basically is a per pupil along with a free and reduced lunch factor percentage and we have um that kind of calculates then our school building budget and the last few years we've had to make some

128choices there um in order to balance our budget so moving into next year currently in the current the preliminary budget we have a 75 allocation rather than that full 100 allocation so it's important to remember i have this slide every year that the budget is very much in flux at this point in the year it's like jello lots of things can change however this year especially when we go into a new state biennial budget so it's always the odd years the big state works on the 21 23 budget then the work on the 23 25 budget where we have a lot of unknown factors that are really a big deal in our budget so they could mean significant changes for us if they go from one thing to the next so we'll talk through what

129some of those factors that we currently have budgeted if they changed what it could look like for us but before we do that we'll talk about what's going on with the state budget so um bottom line is there it's just politics there's a lot of politics going on right now the budget is currently with the joint finance committee so the joint finance committee is the first step in editing the bill they basically took the governor's proposed budget and just threw it away and started from scratch in terms of school funding and those revenue factors that we talked through so they're currently editing the bill and honestly daily we're getting updates about oh we're hearing this we're hearing this we're hearing this and um i that's like a real life picture of what i look like

130every day when i read those emails because they truly do like fluctuate and honestly right now really doesn't mean much i mean it it does in grand scheme of things i suppose because it's a recommendation but ultimately what it goes through many iterations until the budget is finally approved by the governor um towards the end of summer even into september so we're getting those updates daily and i'll give a brief kind of high level of what we're hearing now which again is just what we heard through today so the joint finance committee is apparently supposed to be wrapping up their conversations by thursday and what we originally heard from evers evers original budget that went to the joint finance committee was that there was 1.5 billion dollars dedicated to school districts and the current budget

131that the joint finance committee is talking through they're dedicating just 10 percent of that to school districts so that's a significant shift from what the governor started with which you kind of expected which is why we were conservative from the beginning but and we had we were budgeting a 50 increase in per people and right now the joint finance committee says zero so um even more conservative than we initially thought we should be uh let's see what else oh the we heard earlier in the legislative update that the joint finance committee plans to set aside 350 million dollars into a new budget stabilization fund that they say is for education however we've also agreed that there's nothing holding them to utilizing that for education so legislators could change what that's for nothing holds them to

132to that factor and then another huge factor that we just learned in the last few days is that in the 2123 biennium we're hearing that there's projected to be 4.4 billion with a b more dollars in revenue than we anticipated originally so the hope is that those dollars or some of them at least go back into education and the state would still be in a good place so with those we'll move into our budget scenarios and they're in a very manageable place for next year so historically we've proceeded with a deficit preliminary budget at this point and then throughout the summer and early fall we work to balance our budget and then have thus approved a balanced budget in october many years dating back so we'll work through the same process this year and then

133open up to recommendations uh before we close tonight so currently our worst case scenario is with the assumptions that we talked through so with the zero dollar increase in the per pupil within the revenue limit and within with zero dollar increase in the special ed reimbursement rate so where that puts us right now is about a deficit of one million seventy four thousand dollars so basically our expenses are more than our revenue by about a million dollars little over a million dollars those are with that's that we assume to be our worst case scenario so with all those factors that we did super conservative now that we're getting joint finance committees discussions this is where we're at but there are many factors that could change so let's talk through what some of these could mean

134for our budget so if instead of a zero dollar increase in the per pupil within the revenue limit we get a 150 increase that could mean 350 000 more in revenue for us if our health insurance increase comes back at five percent instead of the 8.5 percent that could be 200 000 less in expenses than our current worst case scenario budget or if our open enrollment out expense increase if the increase in that open enrollment out expense is less than a million like we budgeted from our current 2021 expense i just put a hundred thousand dollars um that's a question mark because it's completely unknown but what we're working through right now with which aaron talked through earlier is our virtual charter school enrollment which is kind of step one in reducing that open enrollment

135out expense and he's as you mentioned he's making phone calls and getting some positive feedback from families about oh i've heard about it which is i mean super cool like we've heard oh this is great to know but then the oh i've heard about this before it made us feel like okay so this got some momentum going um and the each each student that then comes back into our school district instead of open enrolling outcomes back that's 8 100 approximately that we save per student so if if all all three of these things happened which again they could any number of them could happen or in any different amount um say open enrollment expense increase the open enrollment expense increased 200 000 less than the million that we budgeted that would be a 200 000

136savings in that area if all three of these happened and the dollar amounts presented that'd be about 650 000 that our deficit would be reduced by which puts us at what we're calling our best case scenario so our best case scenario the the revenue in this example and the expenses just increased or decreased by the numbers that we saw in the previous slide which ultimately puts us at a deficit of about four hundred and twenty four thousand dollars so in summary we're calling this our deficit range of best case scenario 400 000 to a worst case scenario of about 1.1 million dollars that we have to essentially balance by october which is not unmanageable and we've made some decisions in recent years that allows us to balance the budget without making this really without affecting

137students at all it's kind of like when we talk about balancing a budget what least impacts students what's the farthest away from students so we have some options the first one is this is why we talk through our assumptions so you know some of those big things that are in our budget as expenses or as revenues removing the 325 000 transfer from fontan to fund 46 and the benefit here is that we are currently a few years ahead of schedule so that schedule for replacing the turf fields we're a few years ahead of it so not budgeting the 325 000 expense or that transfer from fun 10 or general fund to fund 46 doesn't hurt immediately but at some point we'd have to build that back in the next option is utilizing fund 38 fund

138balance to cover our difference so we have 3.8 million dollars we made a large transfer in 1819 so we had a good um year financially in and our board made the decision to transfer make a large transfer from funtime to fund 38 and what that did was allow us to have some room for years in which basically we had a tough budget year but um ultimately we were kind of thinking long term when our declining enrollment either stabilized or started going the other direction because that's when we're going to see a change in our revenue limit so which we're seeing this year because last year we had so many our enrollment declined at a greater rate which gave us more revenue remember some of those conversations from last year um but the next thing i

139wanted to show was this little graph about why does this help our general fund fun time so utilizing fund 38's fund balance so each fund we obviously we work in different funds each fund has its own fund balance generally we talk about fund 10's fund balance as like the fund balance so we have this 3.8 million dollars in fund 38 fund balance and the reason why that could help our fund 10 budget is that when we take our total revenue limit that's um the tax levy that's from the revenue limit we the very first thing we have to subtract out is the fund 38 debt payments so if our fund 38 debt payments are less because we can use the fund balance that's in fund 38 then our fund 10 tax levy is higher so

140that means just more more revenue goes into fund 10 because less has to go to fund 38 because we utilize that fund balance in fund 38. so those plain and simple are the two options that i would recommend moving forward with in terms of balancing our budget for next year and both of them are pretty painless in the in the short term there's another option which is kind of what we're hearing um not ideal but sort of what the joint finance committee is suggesting we're hearing that schools don't need additional funding because they have these esser or federal funds to utilize however we also know that it is not necessarily responsible for us to utilize one-time dollars so federal funding this one-time federal funding for ongoing operational expenses but what we could do if we

141decided we needed to we have 250 thousand dollars in regular ongoing cleaning supplies so we could take that portion of our budget and instead dedicate it to esser but then when esser runs out we have to figure out how do we fund those cleaning supplies again in our regular budget so something we could do but not ideal because these are one type ones go ahead so are those cleaning supplies the normal that we'd be getting not the additional ones that we got for exactly normal okay okay so talking long-term planning um we can figure this out in the short term this year it's relatively painless but we do need to plan for the long term so we have a number of strategies that we've already employed um and i'll talk through some of those now

142and we'll also have another workshop with um sometime during the fiscal year of 21 22 or upcoming fiscal year to talk long-term financial planning because we always talk like the next year but we have to talk big picture long-term in order to set us up um in a good position for years to come but some of these factors that we're already doing the first one which we've talked through a number of times tonight is our virtual charter school so as we are aware our open enrollment out expense is one of our largest buckets that kind of continues to grow and we're trying to change that and swing it the other way so we've talked about the phone calls and such that we're making um just have to give a shout out to aaron norris and

143mike thrande on the operational side of things are pretty much ready to go in terms of our charter schools so they've there's been a lot of things we had to do in skyward they built a new entity in skyward the enrollment process has been now if um it is created so that's just about ready to be deployed and then dj and her team are working on the instructional side to continue to create that instructional programming that really sets us apart in the charter school from the others that exist in terms of that deeper learning framework we also talk about our long-range facility planning so this isn't a strategy that necessarily helps us next year or the next year or even five years from now but this is really a 10 20 year plan that addresses

144needs long term so we we do know that we operate more space than we need we also know that aging buildings cost more over time so similar to an aging car your car gets older and older and it needs year after year more and more and more money into it to keep it going like it used to so a building works very similarly and i appreciate steve eichman for that analogy because it kind of made everything make sense to me because i'm not a building expert but those cip needs are what will continue to go up and up each year similar to an aging car and we've done a really good job at managing our facilities over time and even our architects and construction management companies who have done the analysis in our buildings for

145six months came back and said wow we're impressed because our buildings are averaging 75 years old and are still functioning to the level that they are so shout out to our facilities team for managing our buildings as they have over the years but there is a point at which a 75 year old building is going to just cost us exponentially more and more each year especially if we're operating more space than we need that we have to address so our fact team is coming for i think it's july 19th that we have a workshop and that is i don't even want to call it step one because it's really like step 30 in the process of our long-range facility planning so that is continuing to move forward and then we've also talked tonight about our

146hiring strategies so not automatically posting a position when one opens over summer or late summer but rather reviewing the need especially with our charter school opening up and where those are there staff shifts that have to happen and do we do we need to post that position so those are ongoing strategies that we're already taking into place and we will have a whole budget workshop on our long-term planning going forward in the 21-22 fiscal year um almost last but not least we have our mill rate projections so our mill rate continues to drop and this is for a number of factors one of them is that our revenue limit as a whole is dropping and one of the reasons for that is because it increased so much last year with because our enrollment our enrollment

147declined at a higher rate than it had been um and then another is that our equalization rate is increasing so as our communities get to use the word but less less property rich compared to the state average which ultimately is what the equalization aid formula does um we get more aid and then our tax levy goes down so tax levy and equalization need to work like a seesaw so when one goes up the other goes down and that's what we're seeing then with our with our meal rate and then another factor is that home values are rising as we know the whole market is kind of crazy and so when the total equalized value of our homes go up there's more value amongst which the tax levy can be split up so we take our

148total tax levy divided by our total equalized assessed home value and that's how we get our mill rate so when the value of our homes keeps going up our mill rate will continue to drop so all those factors is what is enabling our mill right to continue to drop and again so right now we're projecting about a 50 cent decrease from current year which is almost a whole over a whole dollar less than just two years ago and that graph really says a lot because we were at a steady rate ish for um the better part of a decade and it really has dropped significantly in the last few years and then i also just threw on the slide what does this actually mean for a home owner so basically we take the mill rate

149times for each hundred thousand dollars of property value so for somebody who owns a home that's about a hundred a hundred thousand dollars of equalized value not assessed but equalized value we multiply um eight twenty eight dollars and twenty one cents by a hundred and that's eight hundred and twenty one dollars is the school-based portion of the property tax payment and so on so um anyone could do the math on what that might mean for their home and then just one important note that even though a mill rate is decreasing if somebody's value of their home has increased at there's some there's some rate than where that breaks even right so like even though the mill rate is decreasing an individual's property tax payment might actually go up if your home value has increased at

150a higher rate so we just have two final slides here so this one is discussion recommendations and then the next one is simply next steps so we currently would be moving to approve our budget our preliminary budget for 2122 in the worst case scenario format which is what we would be utilizing the current assumptions from the joint finance committee budget proposal and again it's normal practice to approve a deficit budget preliminary budget in june and then we balance it by october so um any changes to the items that we talked through tonight that would um that we want to bring forth for the june 24th budget look to the team anything so we're we're comfortable just going with what we have for the budget with the deficit shown with the understanding that it's a preliminary

151budget and lots of things still need to be understood and changed and determined before we can come to the final one beautiful and then simply what's next so we will continue to watch for state budget updates in the relatively near future we'll have our health insurance renewal which could mean some potentially big dollars um changing in our budget we will continue to await federal guidance on sr3 so this is one we didn't talk about tonight but we have no actual guidance yet on sr3 funding and that is a significant um allocation for us so once we know more we will work creatively and collaboratively to make a plan with staff input so definitely an important part of our plan moving forward to gather staff input so we'll once we have more information on exactly what

152even sr3 can be spent on because we don't even have that guidance yet um we will work with together staff input and then finally board approval of the preliminary budget will happen on june 24th is that the wrong date it's just 28. 28th wednesday or something i'm just gonna change that right now the 21st of the monday so it's easy to make the on june 28th and then at the same time we'll approve committing the four million dollars that we talked through at our current year budget amendment meeting um approving committing the four million dollars of fund balance in the current year for retirement benefits and that's all i've got so any other questions were we given a date by the trust on when we could get our premium rate no and our our renewal

153is on a calendar year so even if it comes in july that's still you know significantly before our renewal year any other questions just thank you for your hard work on this yeah yeah looking as good as it can look all right well that will end our workshop we will now take another five minute recess to end our recording and we'll be going into our closed session meeting recess