Board of Education Meeting: 12.9.25

001Good evening. I'd like to call this meeting to order The required public notice of this meeting was sent to community newspapers incorporated in Metropolitan Press on December 5th 2025 and posted on the doors of the district office Additionally meeting notices and agendas were posted on the district website and distributed to the city of Brookfield and the village of home grow for posting Let the roll call show that all board members are present As previously mentioned, Superintendent Mark Hanson is currently on a planned medical leave and Assistant Superintendent Emily Greiber is our acting superintendent. Until he returns, thank you, Emily, for being here tonight. Will you please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance led by Abby Welch. I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for

002which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. May I have a motion to approve the agenda? Thank you have a motion and I didn't was that Sam. Thank you a second by Sam. Is there any discussion? Hearing none all those in favor of the motion, please say aye aye Thank you that carries on voice vote and our first agenda item of this evening is the high school representatives report Emily you want to kick this off Thank you for being here tonight and for taking the time to prepare some responses We will start out with some of the updates and celebrations that you have at each of our high schools How about Brookfield Central kicking us off tonight? Absolutely Starting out strong at Central, our AP exam registration

003has increased by over 100 exams since we last reported. So we officially have students registered to take 915 total exams just for first semester AP classes alone. Additionally, Launch students recently concluded presentations at district office and are now looking forward to presenting again at the Sherin Lynn Wilson Center for their showcase event on December 12th. This month in activities highlights one of our biggest events was the 38th annual Golden Harvest Thanksgiving dinner Which BC student council hosted on November 20th? The event was incredibly successful with over 150 senior citizens welcomed into the BC cafeteria To enjoy a meal and spend some time with our student council members Additionally, Unified Sports recently hosted their first practice of the season with the most participation they've ever had, and they are particularly grateful for recent donations from the

004Elmbrook Education Foundation, which has allowed them to provide athletes with more gear ahead of their first game. Moving to robotics, three BC FIRST Tech Challenge teams competed in the Showdown in Sheboygan Qualifier Tournament on November 22nd, with all three teams advancing to state. Individually, Team Hazmat ranked first and won the first place Inspire Award. Team Air 418 ranked third and won the robotics game. And Team Superstellar ranked 13th and earned the third place Inspire Award. This past Thursday, 88 DECA members took their district tests and are currently looking forward to competing at districts this Saturday. And yesterday, 40 HOSA members took their regional tests and are looking forward to their regional leadership conference on January 10th. And finally, Stucco Christmas Clearing Council is currently collecting donations during fourth block classes to sponsor Christmas gifts for

00515 kids. Collection wraps up tomorrow, and we have raised just over $2,000 so far, so we're excited to see what our final push tomorrow brings. Moving to our arts highlights, the BC Fall musical Something Rotten had an incredibly successful run at the Sharon Lynn Wilson Center, performing for sold-out audiences. With the close of that show, the theater department is already looking forward to the first BC Black Box winter musical, which will be Little Women. Auditions were held this week, and the cast and crew are already hard at work preparing for performances January 29th through the 31st. It's an eventful time for the music department, with a successful band concert held yesterday at the Sharon Lynn Wilson Center, and the Choir and Orchestra combined concert coming up tomorrow at the Carroll University Shattuck Music Center. And

006additionally, True Blue Acapella recently qualified for the International Championship of High School Acapella. Kicking off our athletics highlights to finish out, BC recently held a College Athletic Commitment Day on November 20th, where senior athletes Rachel Horing, Emma Duff, Norma Glesinski, Dylan Romero, Henry Gritzmacher, Vincent Bitter, and Colton Simmelman were honored. And to wrap up everything, we are excited to report that all winter sports are up and running for the season. Great thank you so much lots happening at Brookfield Central as always all right Brookfield East Yeah, so I'm going to start off with our arts highlights. So in our drama department, we recently performed Pippin, which was a really good turnout, and that was last weekend, and great turnout. We had a couple nights. UW South's jazz ensemble played for all members of band, and

007that was a really nice performance to watch. BEHS held its 49th annual Arts and Craft Fair on November 9th, so that was a little bit of a go, but it was over 200 artesian boots, live performances. and it was a great experience. On the women's vocal group Genesis sang the national anthem at the Pfizer Forum for the girls basketball game not too long ago. Onto our athletic highlights. On November 17th, BEHS senior Caroline Wanozak won the state championship in the 100-yard butterfly swim event. The girls basketball team started their season with playing at the Pfizer Forum and generally just winter sports are kicking off and getting into the swing of things. On to academic highlights. On November 11th, 2025, BAHS was rated significantly exceeds expectations by the state with a score of 84.8 on the

008latest report card on the DPI. We are nearing the end of our first semester, which means new classes. People are excited about that. And AP Review is going to kick off sooner than people might expect and launch students, which is what the... Central team also touched on. On to activities. On December 13th, the senior class is hosting a school-wide pickleball tournament to all students and faculty with prizes. And numerous fundraising events are happening around the school. Like there's a Canes fundraiser. The French Honor Society had a clothing drive. There's a Women's Alliance Club TWC drive. And BEHS Stucco had their kids night, which helped take over 90 kids to allow parents to have time off. from their kids. All right, thank you, Brookfield East. Okay, the area of focus for tonight's questions was around student

009parking, and it sounds like you've got some exciting feedback to share, so we're looking forward to hearing that. There were three questions. The first was if you could redesign student parking lot and parking policies from scratch, what are the biggest changes you would make, and why would those changes improve your daily experience? The second question was what are some of the biggest hidden problems or unintended consequences of the current parking system that you don't think the administration is aware of? And then third was thinking beyond just the number of spaces, how could the school better use technology, communication, or student involvement to make parking smoother and fairer for everyone? So those were the spirit of the questions. We will start with Central since we started with you first. celebrations at brookfield central we have a

010pretty good system in our back parking lot however our front parking lot seems to be struggling students are frustrated when they come back from off-campus classes such as classes at marquette launch east etc because there aren't any available spots in the front parking lot some days and we only have our front doors open throughout the day so students are forced to walk around the back which especially in the winter can be frustrating We want to monitor trends in the front parking lot to see how staff parking is being used because a lot of students come back and they see that staff parking is available, however, we cannot park there. So that can be difficult for students when they know their spots in the front, however, they are still forced into the back. And we discussed

011keeping the back doors of the school unlocked for a few minutes at the end of the day to allow students to grab things from their car because a lot of practices students will want to grab, say, their basketball equipment. However, they cannot get back in the school. So there's no real way for them to get it unless they want to carry it around all day with them, which can be a little inconvenient. So some hidden problems as we talked about with the front lot there are a number of students who don't travel throughout the day parking in this front parking lot which leaves these spots unavailable so students who travel will arrive late to class and may miss important information so we want to find a way to monitor who actually is leaving throughout the

012day versus not and beyond just the number of spaces and the overall flow of the parking lot we want to utilize our previewing the week more to help clarify parking and traffic flow patterns. because we have our previewing the week which our principal uses to help discuss say winter driving or pulling into and out of school which has helped students better monitor like throughout the morning and evening how they get to and from school however throughout the school day there's a little gray area some confusion so if we can just discuss more how to utilize the front versus back parking lot we think that could be beneficial to help reduce some of these problems okay what about Brookfield East So starting with the first question of wanting to redesign the parking lot, an overwhelming amount

013of students replied saying that we should create more spots, which has been an addressed issue for a while. But seeing that we still don't have enough, as one of the largest issues in the second half of the year is when underclassmen get their licenses and apply for parking passes. Parking passes are actually oversold to an unmatched ratio to parking spots, so students are left to park illegally. And additionally with creating more spots is also to creating wider lanes. So for example, we have a back entrance, which is not the official front entrance of the school, but we hope to widen the side entrance turn as most recently there was a head-on collision there due to the small space, the turn, and the speed. Initially we're looking for better regulation so still more widely known speed

014limits that are actually enforced so the only speed limits that are shown is one at that side entrance of 50 miles per hour and then at the front entrance 10 miles per hour which we have an additional entrance but there is no like speed limit shown there. Additionally, implementing more stop signs and speed bumps as unfortunately students still speed and because of the lack of student crosswalks and those stop signs, many students have the risk of being hit. And then additionally, assigning spots based on seniority. Additionally, we're also looking for potentially doing a staggered release. So release buses first and then grade levels to save time and space in the parking lots. Next, for some hidden problems are the accidents. The amount of students who have been rear-ended, T-bone, and even head-on collision, and even

015students just being nearly hit is overwhelming. Additionally, time to get out of parking lots. Without leaving class early, running into the parking lot, rushing, and speeding your way out, it can take over 20 minutes to get out on the main roads. Additionally, we also have unorganized movement. So without someone properly directing traffic and proper directions, buses end up getting clogged in the lines of cars, hindering how fast they can get out. Staff park in student parking lots, and parents try to cut their way through students trying to leave. So thinking beyond just a number of spaces, utilizing your school, we obviously are thinking of assigning parking spots so seniors get first pick just by simply preventing underclassmen from taking those spots and spots overselling and then relying on carpooling. Additionally, having a traffic controller just

016to properly direct merging and zippering in as that is one issue that many drivers do not know how to do. And then it's usually also just increasing larger lanes and spaces so then we can have a proper room for having two lanes of opposite flow of traffic. Thank you. Some quick driving happening at Brookfield East. Board members, do you have any questions or comments for our students? Mary? Thank you guys for being here again, thank you for all the information I know last year one of the launch groups addressed the issue of parking when you come back from launch classes did Were you guys part of that? Did you discuss their findings were very similar years about the front parking lot at Central and they were talking about More prominent colored stickers because you need

017a certain sticker to be in the front and I don't know if that happened Or if it happened and it didn't help Do you have any feedback on that? Yeah, I can speak on that a little. While I wasn't in that group, I was in that launch strand and talked with those students. And one idea they had for Central that was not implemented, but a lot of us Central students did find interesting, was putting colored stickers on parking passes for traveling students so we can better monitor what students are coming from launch or from another place. And then that way we can make sure that the people who travel are in the front and people who don't are in the back. One problem we found with this, which I think is the reason it wasn't

018implemented yet, was when students have doctor's appointments, they're not going to have a sticker, but they can't park in the back on those days. They're going to have to park in the front. So that was one issue we wanted to look at before implementing that. But a lot of us Central students found that really interesting and thought that would be a good idea. So we are interested in expanding that idea in the future. Sure. Similarly I wasn't in that launch strand but I was also concurrently taking lunch at that time so and I knew the students were a part of that project. At least speaking for East part we didn't have the ability to basically have the stickers but they also had the idea of creating more parking spots in general so over the summer

019they did expand our blue lot which is by the baseball stadiums. But other than that, we unfortunately did not really expand any more spots in the other lots. So once again, we still had the issue of the ratio to parking passes sold in the actual spots available are just outnumbered. This is a real problem and it affects learning time and I appreciate you guys reopening this conversation. I think there's maybe things we could learn about how much overselling is happening and if that number's gone up. I found out today that since the third Friday, our Brookfield East enrollment is over 1,400 and so they have continued to grow and that may not be directly. Corollary to how many cars but I'd be interested to know how many requests come in and does everybody that requests

020get a pass and the overselling goes up and I don't know if overselling is going on at Central too. Yes But I think it's it's something worth taking a look at in that it affects learning time there's some calculation behind that because there because the senior privilege and because of some of the traveling if they only sold the number of spots in the line many would sit open so that there's a bit of a science to it we haven't quite mastered that yet kind of like they used to sell over flight or for tickets for flights right so All right. Well, thank you guys for that. It was really informative. I feel the passion. It's coming across very thick here. So I appreciate your interest in that. One quick question for Lucia and Abby. On

021the Brookfield Central, if you have to park in the back, you have to walk all the way around to the front of the building to get in? Yes. Yes, you do. It's just difficult. In the winter, it's just difficult, especially because it's cold and, like, all students having to park back there, now you're taking more time, especially to get to the front. It's not a very quick walk to get from that back parking lot. And further in that issue, once all the spots towards the front of the parking lot are filled, you then have to go all the way to the back of that parking lot, so that's adding distance to your walk. So it just becomes difficult, and it's taking up more time than a student being able just to walk from the front

022parking lot into the office right away. We also have parking spots on the side But I think a lot of students don't want to utilize these because it can be really difficult to get out We have two clear exits just for students. However, our third exit is a lot of parent drop-off So students who park on the side are competing with those parents to get out of the lot So I think that's another reason people are parking all the way in the back instead of using Utilizing those spots on the side when they get back And then real quick, Brooke Felice, I noticed that your suggestion was seniors get first pick. How did the underclassmen feel about that one? Surprisingly, a lot of the underclassmen actually suggested it as most for just for seniority and

023in that a lot of seniors do have siblings that are underclassmen. So just relying on carpooling, which obviously is a lot better for the environment. But yeah, it was just mostly underclassmen who recommended that as they do want to give seniors the chance to, you know, have some power to their title. Well, thank you so much for sharing this information. I'd like to say that I attended the Thanksgiving dinner at Brookfield Central, and it was marvelous. The food was excellent. I didn't dine, but the people that I talked to said the food was amazing, and the music that was played and singing that was happening from the choir and the band folks was just outstanding. People, as I went around the tables, people were raving about it, so kudos to all of you for that.

024It's the, I don't remember how many anniversary, but many. is it 40 50 60 it's a long number of years that this has been going on so nice work that the student council does too i understand they raise the funds to purchase the food that is offered at that and i think that's really quite outstanding so that's um wanted to Give a hats off there and also your generosity with the with the Christmas Clearing Council is really impressive and wondered if the students shop or if the Funds are given to the council or do you guys wrap or how does do you know how it works? Yeah, we get to be involved with the process from start to finish which is actually super exciting So once we raise the funds our executive board goes shopping

025together We go to Target super early get a bunch of cards get to shop around for all the children And then we have a big wrapping party the following week So instead of a regular meeting we'll put on Christmas music sometimes bringing breakfast and have all the student council members help wrap these gifts And then the executive board, again, gets to go and deliver these presents to the families. We get to meet them, talk to them. So it's a really great opportunity, not just raising money, but really getting to see the impact firsthand. Nice well done well done. I'd also like to say that your as Sam said your enthusiasm around the parking issue That's been a common theme over many years as I've sat at this board table And it is a complicated thing

026with people coming and going and doctors appointments and whatever it is I'm interested to know whether whether this information that you've collected now is Shared up through the building leadership and if there's groups that are appointed to carry it forward or how how does it go beyond the information that you've brought to us tonight yeah so in preparation for all of our school board meetings we have a specific committee of our student council called council relations that does go and meet with mr gritzmacher our principal every month and we discuss these questions so particularly in this month when we discuss parking He was absolutely very interested to hear what we had to say, especially when we brought up the staff parking lot and saying that there might be unused spots. He immediately said that he

027would be interested in looking at that as well. So he's very involved with our student council and really does help us to act on and find more information regarding these issues, which has been very exciting to see it taken just beyond sharing the information here and to really see it actively in our school. Would that be the case at Brookfield East as well? Is that how it works with you guys? Not exactly. So we don't have a board or committee or anything that talks with a higher up person who has the ability to make these changes. But this is public sentiment that's spread throughout the school. And I'm almost certain that the principal or vice principal or associate principal could have heard of this and will be implementing changes. Or we could further that later.

028That would be great. Well, thank you. I appreciate your being here and sharing this. It's really helpful. And one more quick thing. Unfortunately... The Central Orchestra and Choir Concert is tomorrow night, and we have a meeting. But I did want to point out to anybody that doesn't, or maybe we can get out of our meeting soon enough to catch the end of it, there is something extraordinarily special about our Winter Choir and Orchestra Concerts at Shattuck Auditorium, and I do happen to have in my calendar that next week on the 17th is the Brookfield East Choir and Orchestra Concert at the same place, and I will be there because of... puts me in the holiday mood. Any other questions or comments? Okay, thank you, representatives. You've been super helpful in your report tonight and appreciate

029you coming each month to report to us. You're welcome to stay, but we understand that you have a lot of things going on in your life and we understand if you need to go. Our next item on the agenda tonight is the Citizens Forum. This is an opportunity for members of the community to discuss with the board. items that fall within the responsibility and purview of the board but are not on tonight's agenda. If you would like to speak, we have forms over to your right. We do have a couple of requests to speak and there's a list of expectations and requests that we make as you speak to us, but we do have two requests to speak. The first request is Caitlin Dunn, a resident of the district. Caitlin? Good evening. Thank you for

030having me tonight. I appreciate your time I am the mother of four children two of whom are currently in school in the district and the other two who will be joining as they get older I'm here tonight to ask for a review of bus number one at Burleigh Elementary I'm asking for your engagement and curiosity and with the goal of fairness and equity for all of our students within the district I'm asking the board to consider if there is discrimination based on where we live and how our bus route has been determined. I'm also asking that if the board could engage in thinking about this and if, as they consider this, location really is an issue to look at the neighborhood that my family lives in and consider whether or not we're district appropriately we

031physically live closer to Brookfield Elementary from a drive-wise perspective than we do to Burleigh and I'm wondering if that's coming into play here So I wanted to share a little bit about my experience We moved recently last year. We were in district at Brookfield Elementary And we moved two miles north and are now in the Burleigh district our experience last year with the buses I think is what is pretty typical of our school system The route was run in a way that if you're first on in the morning and you have a longer ride you're first off in the evening and you have a shorter ride, which is really bringing a fair experience to all students. That is not my experience in the new district and on our bus route. We are experiencing a first

032on and last off bus route. And what that's meaning is that my kids are experiencing a really long bus ride. We're having an experience where the bus ride on the way home is reaching a 60 minute bus ride, which is very long. We've been in touch with the school district or the school system about this to look at the data. And so my questions to the board would be to help me follow up on this. My questions are, you know, Has the bus route really been considered to see if it can run first on first off and what would the implications be to students is the data that the bus company is giving to the school accurate because the Data that I'm hearing from the school is different than what I'm experiencing i'm asking that

033the school board consider whether or not there's any discrimination unintentionally occurring to students on this route based on their race and ethnicity and i'd ask that you consider what an extra hour a week or a day means for my kids it's five hours a week 200 hours a year and 2400 hours Our second request to speak is the resident of the district, Angie Pingel. Welcome back, Angie. Good evening. I'm here tonight on the eve of my son's 19th birthday, and it's a significant time of change for my family. As we plan and prepare for my son's next steps, I want this board to know the significant role that Fairview South has had in our lives. Ben started at Fairview South at the beginning of the 2018 school year. He was 11 years old. He wasn't

034fully toilet trained. He had no functional communication at all. He eloped out of the building at every chance he could get, continued from elementary school. He loved a huge puddle right at the entrance to the playground equipment. And when he'd elope out of that building, he'd run straight for that puddle and plop right down and wade in the disgusting, dirty water. I got called many times to help get him out. Thanks to Rick Domach, he put snow fencing around that puddle to keep him out of it, and I'm even more grateful today because that hole no longer exists. Rick had it filled in. Progress has been slow, but it's been there. The dedicated staff at Fairview just kept at it. Three months after starting, he was fully toilet trained. It was a miracle, but not

035really. It was the result of caring and experienced teachers. deciding to make the bathroom more comfortable for Ben. This teacher got him a padded toilet seat, and she decorated his stall with things that he liked. She figured out how to keep him sitting in there comfortably, and she figured out how to praise him in a meaningful way to Ben, not what a typical 11-year-old kid wanted. They figured out how to keep him in the building. You guys wonder why I faithfully support Fairview South. This is why. For every hurdle that kid has faced, they roll up those sleeves and they figure it out. There is no other place in our area that would have done that. I know. I toured them. An example of what I saw at a non-Elmbrook school, I want to make

036sure that's clear, was a helmet for a child who kept hitting their head on the wall. They addressed the damage, not the cause. our school doesn't do that so fairview south is family for us it's a great place so tonight i want to say thank you to that team and to you for seeing the value i've been speaking up about all of these years now we just need to get others outside of this room to see the value of fairview south thank you angie that concludes our citizens forum for the evening And brings us to the consent agenda. I'll ask for a motion and then ask if there are items that board members would like to pull. Can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda? So moved. Thank you. We have a motion

037by Preetha and a second by Mary. Are there any items that board members would like to pull? Cheryl? We have a request to pull consent agenda item A. Are there any other items? We have a motion to approve consent agenda items B and C all those in favor. Please say aye aye Any opposed? Thank you that carries on voice votes Cheryl it consent agenda item a the minutes. What would you like to? Staying I wasn't here Okay any other discussion around consent agenda item a I'd entertain a motion to approve that then I'll move approval of consent agenda item A. I'll second. Thank you. We have a motion by Jean and a second by Preetha. All those in favor of approving consent agenda item A, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? And abstain? Thank you.

038That carries on voice vote. And that concludes our consent agenda for the evening and brings us to our one action item of the evening. Jean, recent gifts to the district. I would like to recognize and thanks those donors of gifts to the school district in the month of September 2025 there were quite a few as you can see on the screen and the donated amount of $43,320.12 much gratitude for your support of continued excellence in Elmbrook these donors names will be displayed on the district website the foreseeable future in the gift section of the website once again thank you and I'll recommend or move that we approve the gifts to the district thank you have a motion by Jean and a second by Sam to approve consent agenda item or sorry action item a recent

039gifts to the district all those in favor of the motion please say aye aye any opposed Thank you. That carries and concludes our action items for the evening. Our first discussion item tonight is the third-party administrator for health insurance plan renewal. That's a mouthful. Pam, making her way to the podium to kick this off. Thank you, Pam. good evening the district self-funds its health insurance program and utilizes umr as a third-party administrator and a united healthcare company to process health insurance claims manage employee benefit plans and handle day-to-day operations elmbrook is currently in year three of a three-year contract with umr that runs through august 31st of 2026. The district is recommending a renewal for this two-year period following that expiration date. With us this evening is Chris Kramer, one of our benefits consultants from

040R&R Insurance Services, who will give you a little bit of information about UMR and why we're making this recommendation. Good evening, everyone. As Pam mentioned, we're currently utilizing UMR as a third-party administrator, and they've been a phenomenal partner thus far from the district perspective as far as processing claims and being a true partner. Recently, we implemented some strategic initiatives to contain costs for the district. About a million dollars is in this current plan year, two of which, two of the components, are quite significant, and they are reliant on UMR being the third-party administrator. So as you recall, we modified the plan design to steer more people towards Tier 1 doctors via the Nexus ACO. The savings is approaching 60% off of the medical claims, and then we also implemented quantum health care navigation to steer

041people towards the proper care. And again, that's contingent upon UMR being the third-party administrator. You guys are coming out of a three-year agreement, and they're offering a two-year extension with a very modest increase as far as the costs go. They are continuing to offer the $25,000 wellness credit that the district has used to offset some of the clinic costs. having a much lower pharmacy benefit manager integration fee. The relevance there is for this upcoming 2026 plan year or calendar year, we are going to be looking at pharmacy benefit managers. We're doing a very intensive RFP process on the prescription drug piece of this. So that's going to be a big part of what we're doing for this upcoming year. Really when we look at UMR and what they have done, there are a lot of

042pros and there's really no downside to renewing with them. It gives us plenty of time to determine whether the Nexus ACO model is working and to keep tracking that. The fee extension is very minimal. It holds off an increase in the PBM integration fee. The $25,000 wellness credit is held in there, and again, it then buys us time for a third-party administration RFP the following year. If you were to renew with UMR for two years and then decide after a year we want to go a different route, the only thing that UMR really asks is that that $25,000 wellness credit, if you had already applied for it in that year, be given back. So the recommendation is to renew with UMR based on all the upsides of that contract. That's kind of a high-level overview

043of UMR. Okay, thank you. Are there board member questions or comments? Cheryl. What are our employees' response to do they like UMR or are there issues with dealing with UMR? We have not had any. Consistent issues with them. I'm sure there's a few employees that periodically don't understand You know, what's you know, what you amar says when they call for customer service things of that nature But they've been very good with paying claims and we are implementing that quantum care navigation which takes that Customer service now out of you amar and it's going to be through quantum so they're going to be directing a traffic working with providers when there's things like referrals needed or things of that nature so Overall it's been very good both on claims and from the employee perspective questions or

044comments Sam Thanks for coming. I appreciate your time Why are we doing this eight months in advance for the renewal and inside the contract is in that standard protocol? Yeah, absolutely. Because when you switch third-party administrators, there's a lot behind the scenes that needs to be integrated with it. Your stop-loss has to be integrated. You have to have the care navigation systems, the pharmacy benefit managers. So you need a long runway for that. For 2026, the component of the self-funded plan, that's the focus, is the pharmacy piece. So we're going to be doing a pharmacy benefit manager RFP that's going to be starting very soon. So that was going to be the focus. And then that gives us the whole other year to have UMR manage the claims, and then we can gauge whether the

045Nexus ACO model is continuing to do what we think it's going to do and has been doing. And then the following year is when we would do the third-party administration, RFP. Okay, makes sense. Thank you. So what I've heard, tell me a little bit about the pharmacy benefit managers. Are there... What I understood, there's only two or three really big ones, right? Yeah, there's three big ones, and then you have different smaller, I'll call them boutique PBMs, and then you have some ones that are technically not PBMs, like a national cooperative that is more of a purchasing group. Yeah, are there other options besides going through a pharmacy benefit manager that are outside of that? No, I mean, there's... pharmacy benefit managers that are the ones that, I mean, that's the component. So no, there's

046not really anything other than a pharmacy benefit manager or a national cooperative type organization. So the boutique ones, though, are the ones that are, because... Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not an expert in this area by no means. So a lot of the big, like UnitedHealthcare and those big organizations, they also have some connections to these pharmacy benefit managers, right? Correct. Yeah, correct. So there's no interest in them presenting good pricing on the PBMs, right? Because the more they charge, the more they get paid. So from my understanding, there's an inherent conflict of interest with that. There you can say that in some degree Yes now flip side of that the boutique PBMs the majority of those actually buy their prescriptions from the big three So it's all interconnected But the whole purpose of

047the PBM RFP is to flush out which ones would be the right fit here What are the contracts that could be negotiated with them so that Elmber gets the best deal? But that'll be starting in January. So what is your interest or UMR's interest in negotiating the best deal? How do you benefit from that or do you not benefit or is it just because it helps maintain a good relationship? Tell me a little bit more about that. So what is R&R? Yeah. Will you be part of the PBM negotiation RFP or is that just all going to be UMR? Oh, no, UMR will not be involved with the PBM. I'm sorry. Thank you for clarifying that. Yeah, UMR is not involved in the PBM selection whatsoever. Okay. Yeah, that is a third-party independent organization that's

048doing that in conjunction with us. Okay. So not related to any of the PBMs. So what is R&R's incentive to get a very good contract with the PBM? Like, what is your incentive? Well, we want to continue working with the district. We charge you a consulting fee, and we want to continue to partner with you. We don't get any compensation or anything like that from a pharmacy benefit manager or the stop loss or anything like that. We charge you a consulting fee. So have a good work ethic, and we want to do a great job for you guys. And then Pam is that something that will come to the board for the PBM is that something we're gonna be a part of on that process as well? Yeah. Thank you. I appreciate your answer. So

049I misunderstood the question at first. No, not at all. Any other questions about the renewal that we're talking about tonight? I had one just number that two things as I looked at the chart so when it talks about the annual difference from current percentages I'm looking out like two and three years is that the percentage increase? assuming like the following year that's not off of now's so like I'm seeing two two point two percent and the next year's three point seven that three point seven is not off of this year's that's that's a three point seven off of what you anticipate our cost being next year right that's the third party administration fee the three point seven percent over the The year prior to it. Okay, the year prior to it. Okay. Yeah, because it

050says current. And then what is in 9-1-2025? There's the $1 worksite bundling credit. Can you tell me about that? I just had never heard of anything like that. Oh, yes. So for this year, because the district offered employee paid voluntary accident and critical illness coverage. Through UnitedHealthcare, UnitedHealthcare gave a, it was about like a $9,000 or $10,000 credit off of the administration fees. But it's one time only. Gotcha. Thank you. Are there any other questions? I'm sorry, I forgot to ask this question here. The external PBM interface fee goes from $1 in 2024 to $2. Yep. Why is that doubling? Yep. And what is the total cost? Is that per? Per employee, per month. Okay. Yep, yep. So whether it's UMR or other third-party administrators, when you're not using their PBM, to your point, they

051know they're losing some money. And it does take them some time and effort and IT time, resources, to coordinate with that external PBM. What's interesting about this is if we were to go to UMR today, let's say you weren't with them and we were to hire UMR as your third-party administrator, that fee is usually $3 to $6 PPM. So the original contract had a lower rate. Yeah, how many total employees about are on the plan? Do you know? I want to say it's about 700 800 yeah, not much money really. Okay. Thank you. No one last question maybe for Jean this came to personnel committees Anything you want to tell us about the discussion there or how it was received as you guys looked at this Yes I think it was very well received we

052asked a lot of questions and determined that given the chart of pros and cons that it made sense for us to go ahead and renew with then the option to look at the PBM negotiation look at a TPA RFP and take an orderly and reasonable amount of time to get to making those decisions and since we've had good service with UMR it seemed like a reasonable opportunity to move forward with the recommendation Thanks Jean anything else This will be back as an action item at our January meeting. Thank you for coming tonight. Thank you all. Thank you Pam. Our next agenda item is the visual language the design drawing and color theory curriculum document. Dr. Farley welcome Thank you so we just have an update for you today we're always looking at expanding opportunities for

053students and a new one came along this year we have an existing course in our art department called design drawing and color theory and we had the opportunity to work with another institution the milwaukee of institute of art and design and with that we always have a higher ed partner take a look at our curriculum determine if there would need to be any updates or changes in order to align with their coursework in order to offer it for dual credit. So there are a few minor changes here. They're listed in bullet points there. The title was one we wanted to change because matching with the my ed course is helpful so that's a visual language and then there was just an emphasis on a few more other elements so currently the course is written for

054a technical college so as you can imagine going to a four-year university there's going to be a few more changes around the type of course that it is And we feel like it just makes it a little more whole which is even better So the use of more mixed mixed media the use of discussion and critiques Throughout each of the units always embedded as part of an art class, but a little more depth there the next is Really a lot of reorganization of units and construction of where the units and the learning occurs And then the other change was to include a prerequisite So my ed was a bit leery about having sophomores in the class. We assured them of the long amount of curriculum of courses, the duration of courses we have throughout our

055elementary. The first time they see art is not in high school. It's throughout elementary and middle school. So they're building some nice layers there. They just felt like... One more exposure to a high school level course would be an appropriate sort of preparation for the course So we added in that prerequisite of drawing one or digital imaging which we think most sophomores have enough semester time to have met that prerequisite We're really excited about the opportunity. You know, work with an institution like MIAD, we also find that the credit transfers a bit more into other areas and also targeting a four-year institution would allow us to hopefully broaden the scope of students we're recruiting, you know, for the program. Students who are interested in marketing, advertising, business might now look at this and say, oh,

056this could be an opportunity for me. So any questions I can answer for you? i'm noticing in the documents that um there's dual credit opportunity at myad and wctc and i wondered if we then actively seek other opportunities beyond those two or if there really aren't any or what's the plan yeah that's a great question we we went back and forth on whether to maintain both partnerships Getting students to enroll in the college process dual enroll is not always easy and as our institutions grow we find that It's more challenging to make sure students and parents understand who they're working with, what the process is, because it's different for every college. And WCTC's process is really simple. Students fill out a form in the class, and it's done. The teacher communicates home, and it's done.

057It's a free credit. They also don't charge for tuition. So we thought keeping that opportunity in this course would be a nice way to have multiple pathways or a choice. for parents within the class. Had it been another four year institution, I'm not sure we would have kept both agreements in there, I think. i think the they're both manageable in the course and we can communicate what the options are for students i should add too that students can take the course without dual enrolling it's one of the things that we want to make sure we have that choice for parents and for students in the course my ed will charge a reduced tuition cost for the credit like most of our concurrent enrollment partners do Thanks for this. Does this, given what you just said,

058are there multiple syllabi for this or is everybody taking a more challenging curriculum and if so is that going to deter some students from? Great question. So no, because one of the other standards we have for dual enrollment in Elmbrook is that our course doesn't change whether it is a high school or a college course. So all students enrolled in the course have the same level of rigor. So there have been some partnerships we've said no to because they were way out of the scope of high school enrollment and not appropriate. Our instructors have really examined the additional ads that MIAD has requested and doesn't feel like it's going to be more in-depth curriculum, you know, as far as some of the little components that are added here, but not unattainable or I don't think

059it's going to close doors that would have taken the WCTC credit that aren't going to take this credit. But they can take it without paying the tuition if they don't. Every course is still a high school course Thank you Dr. Farley I appreciate the presentation on that and just correct me if I'm wrong so this is a class that our staff is teaching and it will not be at the launch facility it will be at the Brookfield East yeah so great question so when we originally had passed the course um the design drawing and color theory course it was part of a package of four courses as part of a a notion we had for a graphic design academy that was run through brookfield east high school because we had credentialed teachers there now that

060we've added the myad partnership we might be able to expand that opportunity to courses also at central because we'll have an instructor who's been approved so more to come on that but we're really excited about the opportunities currently students travel to brookfield east to take the courses and we think we'll be able to offer this course at Central, which I think is fantastic. That's another cool thing that one of our teachers wanted to go get the additional credentials to teach that. So that's just another win for Allenbrook. So thank you so much. Any other questions? Okay. Well, if you have any questions in the meantime, you can direct your questions to Dr. Farley or Emily, and this will be back in January as an action item. So thank you. Our next agenda item for the

061evening is the state report card. Ken Ellis is making her way to the podium to present this item for us. All right, good evening. I am just going to pull up. I'm here to present our academic data from the last school year as it relates to our Wisconsin student assessment results and our district and school report cards both these data sets provide our focus and strategic planning and help to provide goals for our further improvement as we look at our academic goals in the future I'd like to start with our key performance indicators this is comes from our wisconsin student assessment results and that includes our wisconsin forward results act suite and dynamic learning maps and i'm going to see if i can zoom in just a little bit more because that's awfully small so

062our key performance indicators are here to help us guide our focus and allow us to see how we compare amongst our benchmark districts and you can see in the box in the dark blue i wanted to focus on a couple of data points that we have access to over the course of the last five years i'm going to start with our wisconsin forward that is our ela composite and that is for all students in grades three through eight and you can see at the end of the 24 25 school year we are ranked third amongst our benchmark districts this is an improvement over the last couple of years in fact this exceeds our 2026 target similarly our wisconsin forward math composite which once again is grades three through eight among our benchmark districts we are

063ranked fourth And we continue to strive towards that 2026 goal of third. And then our ACT composite suite. This is for students in grades 11. And you can see an improvement from previous years with a composite score average of 23.1. And then similarly, you can see our ACT ELA average scores and our math average scores. And then finally down here we have percent of our AP exams, students who scored a three or more. And you can see we've had significant gains in that data set and that has also exceeded our 2026 target. Next, I'd like to focus on our district and school report cards. These are data sets that are publicly issued or they are issued for all districts in the state of Wisconsin. This image right here shows a visual of the first page

064of our report card and on a report card You can see that it contains the following information. It has an overall score and rating it provides district and school demographic data It also provides an optional statement from the school and there are four priority areas. Those are achievement growth Target group outcomes and on track to graduation and I will get into more detail about each of those priority areas in just a few minutes Additionally, if you were to look at the report cards You would see other non scored data including course and program data third grade reading and certain state and local law violations The chart on the bottom shows the five possible rating categories that any school district can have and you can see our overall score is an 89 which means we are

065significantly exceeds expectations This is a big celebration because this is the 12th year in a row that our district has achieved this highest rating Furthermore as we look at districts that are over 1,000 students We are ranked fourth in the state In fact, we're only one of three districts of the over 420 in the state to maintain that highest possible report card rating since the onset of the report cards in the 2013-14 school year. Additionally, Elmbrook is the largest 4K through 12th grade district in the state to receive the significantly exceeds expectations rating. The next few slides, I'd like to get into those four priority areas in just a little bit more detail. So achievement is the first priority area I want to focus on. And achievement measures English language arts and math performance for

066students in grades 3 through 11. This accounts for two years of academic data, with the most recent year being weighted a little more heavily. And you can see our priority area score is a 91.8. The chart at the top here shows where we rank compared to every school district in the state, no matter size, no matter grade span. Down here, you can see that of the 421 public 4K through 12th grade districts in the state with a rating, we are in the top 1% for achievement score. Growth is the next priority area focus I wanted to look at. And you can see our score appears as 77.4. And once again, of the 421 public 4K through 12th grade districts in the state, we are in the top 5% for the growth score. Target group outcomes

067demonstrates, it's essentially a mini report card for students who score in the lowest 25th percentile for achievement ranking. And so this becomes a little mini report card so we can look at achievement, growth, chronic absenteeism, and attendance and graduation rate for that subset of students. And you can see our target group outcomes is a score of 80.1. That puts us in the top 5% for target group outcomes for all of the 421 public 4K through 12th grade districts in the state. And then finally, our last priority area is on track to graduation. On track to graduation measures how successfully students are achieving educational milestones that predict post-secondary readiness. This includes chronic absenteeism, graduation and attendance, third grade ELA achievement, and eighth grade mathematics achievement. And you can see our score here is 96.6, and that

068puts us in the top 1% out of all 4K through 12th grade districts in the state. This next slide has links to every school Report card in our district that follows this protocol You can see we also have one for our school district as well If you click on each logo you'd be able to dive deeper into each report card and I am proud to say for the first time in ten years every school and Our district office report card received this significantly exceeds expectations rating We also have Fairview South for schools that do not have the data required to pull a district or state report card The data uses are the state uses an alternate rating scale and there are two possible Categories that a school can fall into and in this particular rating

069it's either Satisfactory progress or needs improvement and since the onset of these report cards Fairview South continued to score and that satisfactory progress category okay that's what i have for you i'm happy to take any questions that you might have at this point thank you are there any questions for mckenna or comments mary one question one comment uh the growth score is it harder to be high on that when you're already scoring high it's a great question um and one that we debate So growth, this measures student performance over time as it relates to their original score and demographics. So growth actually takes three years of achievement data into account, and they look at students who are similarly scoring to them. While I do think there's a broader range when it comes to exceeding expectations

070when it comes to meeting the needs of students who are beyond grade level standards I would say it's necessarily harder It just becomes a little bit more vague on those goals that we want to establish a capture in these Statistics, I thought that might be the case Otherwise, this is a tremendous report and thank you for presenting it. So clearly it's great news either questions or comments You guys looked at this at teaching learning. Sam? Yeah, I didn't want to ask the same questions, but yeah, it was just presented three days ago, so awesome presentation, super happy about the success and some great statistics. Thanks, McKenna. I will say, I have attended several sessions at WASBE on interpretation of a state report card, and that was a very concise and well-explained, given explanation. So I

071just want to say thank you for that, for breaking it down that way. Thank you. Yeah, that was super helpful. And one thing I've been, you know, wondering for some time on the board is just how we're doing in terms of we sometimes talk about like recovering from the pandemic era, like not all kids thrived in virtual learning, many struggled. And so what have we done to kind of bounce back, if you will, or to make that up? And it seems like... our kids are on track and thriving again, you know, so that we can prepare them for what's next. And so I appreciate that report to kind of give us. And at the board, I know we live at that 10,000-foot level. We look at these, and it's just a bunch of numbers. But

072I know behind these numbers are students whose lives are really changing, which is something important. And so thank you to you and your team and the teachers and building administrators who make this happen every single day for our students. So thank you. It's a lot of work. I do have one more question McKenna if I can if I might ask a question about the report card I think it will actually maybe help clarify something in a later agenda are the target areas that we speak of that build up our score Are they weighted equally? Is achievement weighted more than growth, growth more than achievement, and where do we fall in that? They are weighted differently, and it depends on each school district's demographics. So you can actually see that information on our report card. It

073will show you exactly how it gets weighted right on the cover page. So I can pull that up real quickly if that's helpful. I'm going to zoom in. So you can see right down here. priority area weight so we have a large chunk based on achievement and then you can see our on track to graduation and then our target group outcomes and growth are both weighted equally and that looks slightly different depending on the school demographics Are there any other questions or comments? Okay thank you for being here this evening that was a great report Next agenda item, Chris is making his way to the podium to talk about the annual review of open enrollment seats. It's a lengthy discussion. I'm not here to slow you down. Let's just start with that. So you're doing

074great for a Tuesday night. Each year, the board is required to approve open enrollment seats or not. you have to approve seats one way or the other and for the last ten years we have not approved any open enrollment seats so the the recommendation remains the same to continue our past practice and the attachments included in board docs support our rationale to not allow any open enrollment seats for 26-27 This is a discussion item tonight obviously it'll be for action it has to be decided upon in January because the open enrollment period starts in February so that's the timing of this agenda item Thank you are there any questions for Chris or comments no change so this will be back in January as an action item direct any questions you've got to Chris Thompson in

075the meantime and now we come to the proposed 2026 WASBE resolutions I'm going to kick this off with just a brief explanation and send over to Preetha and then we'll open it to board member questions and comments. So this is something that we look at every year. I've received feedback from time to time. Usually we look at it in January. So the WASBE convention is in January, third week in January usually. And we have a board meeting the second week in January. So lots of times it just pops up as an action item with no discussion. CLE just reviewed them yesterday. So that's the tricky part about doing in December but have received feedback in the past that we'd like to talk about them maybe have a discussion action sequence on them. These are proposed

076changes to WASBE policy. So these are not state law. These are really a policy manual and then that kind of directs WASBE's activities in the sense of, and Preeta can clarify and correct me if I'm wrong in my understanding, but it's for the people that are advocating and for the, I'm blanking on the word, but what's that? The lobbyist, thank you. Yeah, so again, it just directs WASBE's activities in that regard, and Preetha's going to be our representative at the WASBE meeting in January. So as we talk tonight, she's getting a sense of how the board wants her to vote on these. Lots of times at the WASBE convention, it's a room full of 400-plus delegates. People will go to the microphone, and sometimes they make amendments. Sometimes the amendments are included in the resolutions,

077meaning they like to amend the policy changes we're looking at tonight. Sometimes they're voted down. There's a lot of conversation. It takes a couple of hours. So Preetha will likely have to use her judgment on some of those things, so she won't be able to. call us all in that moment say hey how are we voting on this thing and so this is going to give her a general sense of what the board's feeling is and she's going to walk us through the policies in just a moment sometimes these items are related to a larger political issue but but as preetha talks about what each change is We're going to see that it's probably, it's really fairly narrow in scope. It's usually just a wording change in the policy manual of what WASBE's wanting to

078do here. So she'll walk us through that, and then we'll discuss. And just, I would ask board members, you know, as we talk about it, that we kind of stay on topic if we can, and we'll go around and give people a chance to talk and, again, give Preetha a sense of how we want her to vote on these, and she can tell us what they discussed yesterday in CLE. So, Preetha, I'll kick it to you. Thank you so much Scott that was a good introduction thank you all right so at our meeting last night the CLE committee discussed the proposed resolutions from the Wisconsin area of school boards from WASBE the board previously established the district's public policy priorities which serve as a guide for the committee's discussion what we've brought forth are our

079recommendations for board discussion today with anticipated action at our January 13th board meeting These recommendations will provide direction for me as the district's delegate to the Delegate Assembly on January 21st of 2026. The committee did not discuss any of the proposed resolutions that were not advanced by the WASBE committee. So I am a member of WASBE's Policy and Resolutions Committee. And so I just wanted to explain what that committee is. And just to start by saying the primary purpose of the committee is to just review and refine and advance proposed resolutions for consideration by WASBE's Delegate Assembly. If and when the resolutions are adopted, they become the official policy positions that guide WASBE's advocacy and legislative actions within state and federal lawmakers. So the purpose of this committee is to ensure that WASBE's advocacy is

080member driven and reflects the concerns and interests of the local school boards around the state. So again, I encourage you to keep our public policy priorities in mind when reviewing the resolutions. determine if they represent our district as a whole rather than Excuse me I encourage you to keep our policies in mind when you're reviewing these as they represent our district as a whole rather than the our individual stances on any of this legislation so with that said it's not our intent to review each of the proposed resolutions individually this evening but i'm happy to open the floor to any questions or comments that people have about any of the resolutions what you have in the board documents is the consensus that our committee came forth with yesterday and what we believe are is representative

081of our of our legislative concerns so with that i will open the floor to any questions or comments so which resolutions are board members interested in discussing tonight sam i'd like to just talk about the teacher pipeline which numbers specifically are you referring to of the resolutions the proposed resolutions i'm just looking at the i i guess i look at the did i have the right length then Most of the content for this agenda item is in the executive content because these are not publicly available Sorry, so all we all we included was this which has been approved a year ago as our district position on legislative advocacy and then in the executive content you'll see a recommendations with a support abstain or or oppose in there so that's that's what you should focus on

082Sam if you're logged in you can see the executive yeah I don't normally log on so it'd be great to know that in the future I mean because we don't usually have anything in the board meetings or any executive content Yes it's also available in WASBE so you can give you a chance to pull it up does anyone else have any that they'd like to discuss Well maybe I would just ask the question Preetha as you guys discussed you discussed for like an hour yesterday you went through these and so you know and I see the you know a few of them were supporting the changes the wording changes a few were abstaining it looks like one two were opposing Is there anything that you want to draw our attention to from the discussion at

083CLE? I wasn't there. But in terms of what you guys talked about or spent time talking about and maybe any committee members that want to add. Just the ones you spent some time on that you thought were we would all want to be aware of sure well, I think it's very important that we Well, there's a few that I'd like to talk about where we were We had discussions yesterday about the alignment that some of these policies these policy proposals these resolutions have with our Elmbrook priorities, so Is there a specific policy you wanted to discuss? No, but like I know one thing I discussed with you was how like five or six of them kind of group into transparency. For example, just making the way we're funding schools more transparent. So I didn't know

084if you wanted to speak to anything like that. So again, I can tell you that at that policy meeting when these resolutions were determined, one of the underlying themes I think was concern for transparency with public monies. And so that is an underlying theme in several of these. And that does align with one of our goals of establishing a stable funding model. So again, we... As a whole, I believe we're able to come to consensus that we support many of the policies that actually highlight that transparency, that idea that anybody who is receiving public state funding and monies is subject to the same level of oversight by the same, again, it's equalization of that. And I think that that is the transparency that... Again is that theme you were kind of alluding to here. So

085so yes again I can say for example with Let me look down these of the 12 or so that are here you can see that Some of the amendments or resolutions proposed resolutions have to do with again ensuring that all monies distributed that our state aid are subject to the same oversight and I think that's the transparency that we would like to see so again if there's any questions regarding any of those I can answer that specifically but I think that that is something that we were able to determine does align with our priorities here in Elmbrook Is that for the state you're referring to like with charter schools not having or having the same testing is that what you're talking about the A2 no not specifically it's not necessarily about one specific score it's

086it's more that the idea that everyone who receives public school funding I'm sorry public funding is subject to the same oversight if you will So that would apply more to like charter schools? It would apply to all schools receiving public school public monies so all schools all schools that receive public monies Which is just charter and public schools In voucher schools yes so all the schools that receive public monies would be to have the same oversight or same be subject to the same whether it be regulations it would be equal amongst all schools that receive monies Do you know if that would be putting a burden on charter in voucher schools an additional burden I'm not aware of any specifics are you talking about any specific resolution here Just what you're talking about that with

087the funding there is that you know we're They're all held to the same standards so is that going to put an additional burden is that what the goal of that would be as well or that the outcome would be I guess I'm not sure what your which which one of these you're actually specific when you were just talking about I was kind of talking about an underlying theme of several of them So I wasn't talking about one specifically but if you do have one specifically I can address that. I'll have to look up because I didn't none of these I knew we even had here. I thought we were just looking at the general format so I know that's what we talked about last year. I'm just trying to remember refresh my memory on what

088we talked about with It was geared more towards like even private schools not getting the same thing so not having to take the same tests or whatever to show performance. Does that make sense? I'm not sure I'm remembering the discussion that you're referring to but again I can just tell you the discussion that was had at that policy making meeting that I was at that then guided the writing of these resolutions. So if I can go back to that. Sorry, I can't find which one you're referring to but I know the teacher pipeline we had one policy that was coming through but it's really to push for allowing school districts to To to credential teaching assistants to become teachers is that one of the WASP Can I respond to none of the that that isn't

089part of any of the resolutions I'm not sure that that's that was on last year's agenda and it's on our public policy priority list that comes from the district you may have seen teacher pipeline there we recommend we'd made recommendations about expanding the teacher pipeline because of the teacher shortage but there's no resolution this year that regards teacher pipeline That's right. Okay. So that's not on this year's. So that summary sheet is just what our goals are. That's right. That's created by our administration. Yeah. I think for, yeah, for the purposes of it was used yesterday to kind of guide the discussion as we talked through some of these different resolutions. So I think it was more of a reference point. So we could, you know, all of us could have it readily available to

090understand do these align or how do they align with, you know, what we've already approved from our. our specific goals and priorities. Great. Thank you. So for example, Sam, one of them was one of the resolutions with WASBE number seven, support state legislation to establish a fund, establish and fund a universal school meal program for all students. the committee's recommendation is oppose because the policy is focused on student nutrition and wellness it does not align with our priorities for funding accountability and operational mandates so again it's a policy thing here you want to turn on your mic the reason that this came forth as a resolution is because It was proposed but it was worthy of debate. Not all of these resolutions were supported by the group as a whole. It is not certain that

091any of these are going to pass. However, they are voted through to get to the actual district, or the actual delegate assembly because it is thought to be a question that's worthy to be posed to the entire body rather than just the 25 of us who represented them. So that's the reason that this came forward. I would say that we determined as a group yesterday that we feel that as a district we, you know, again, we were opposed to this more because It doesn't seem very clear. It's not prescriptive enough. It doesn't, to us, seem like there's really much to this that guides us as to what anyone would be doing with this. So we, as a whole, felt that it wasn't something that we would support as a committee. That was our recommendation coming

092out of CLE. But again, I'm open to any comments about anyone who might feel any differently. I'd like to say overall that I appreciate the approach to this this year. I know we have we have taken a variety of approaches over the years to addressing the WASBE resolutions and it's sometimes challenging to understand well where should we fall on this if it's really not it's really not in our realm and I think using our legislative priorities which were approved by the board as the guide is a really great base from which to come to the conclusions that you as a committee did in terms of whether we should support or abstain or oppose or whatever it is so I'm really pleased with the with the approach that you took and with the outcomes you've come

093forward with so thank you Thank you Jean for saying that we really intentionally attempted to approach this in a way that we were I would say right-sizing our discussion about these very important topics for WASBE and resolutions, I think they're worthy of discussion. However, I think what's most important is that we see that our legislative priorities are represented here because again, we as a member of this want to see that. I think that's the piece that I really wanted to highlight. And kind of piggybacking on that comment, Jeans and Preetha, we're going to see with our legislative priorities, that's how our district's interacting with our legislators. That's how we're more likely to get things done that are going to benefit Elmbrook. Changing a policy wording in WASBE's handbook is not really going to... Yield the

094changes the things we want so that board approved legislative priority list. That's where I want to live That's where I want our efforts to be that's what I want Mark Hansen and team working on with our legislators when they talk with them You know again changing some wording inserting some things here It's it's not that it's not important and appreciate your work on I don't want to belittle or put down your work on the policy committee, but That's a hand. That's a wasby handbook thing and and that Sam, looking at our legislative priorities, to me, that's the meat. That's where we want. That's where we live. We're going to, I think, have far more success working with Rob Hutton on things that are a priority to us and getting him to go versus awarding change

095in a policy manual. Am I overstating that wrong? I don't know. As a member of the committee, I would say that I have to respectfully disagree with you as to the importance of these resolutions. And I'm not saying that in jest. I do really believe that there's importance to participating in the organizations that we belong to and taking forth from them what we can. And I have valued our participation in WASBE and my ability to be part of this policy and resolutions committee. So I do think that it is important for us to consider all of these things and I think that as you say, it is an additional thing to having all of our legislators perhaps interact with us in ways that we can also advance our interests legislatively. So thank you. So the

096plan is that we're voting on the next meeting of what we want to go to this OSB about? Correct, yeah. This will be back as an action item in January, which is a week before Pritha goes. Direct questions to Pritha? Will that be the best? Or Chris? But yeah, if you have questions on this agenda item, direct them to Chris and Pritha. That'd be great. Anybody else before we conclude? Oh, wait. We do have a request to speak after board discussion. I have a request to speak Angie Pingel a resident of the district after board discussion Thank You Angie I'm sorry to take time on this but I'm a little confused as someone who's been up here since the 2017-2018 school board meeting I recall reading through a lot of those WASBE resolutions and in

097fact I just pulled up on my iPad here last year's meeting and I see all of the resolutions in two different files I'm a little confused as to how we're using the word transparency, but yet we're providing less data than we've provided in the past. And I'm wondering if someone can comment about why we decided not to provide those resolutions. Because I think that's an important thing for taxpayers to know. You're using our tax dollars to lobby. We kind of want to know what you're lobbying for. In the past, WASBE has published and made that information public, and this year it is not public information. You have to have a membership account and log into their website in order to access that information. So they changed their protocols. So we can't share their information publicly.

098then I think we should be revisiting whether we should be members of WASBE because We're paying for you to use our tax dollars to lobby. We have a right to know what you're lobbying for and I think that that is a significant concern and I'd be very concerned about WASBE as an organization and what they're trying to hide if they're not going to allow their Proposed resolutions to be reviewed by the people who are funding their organization. That would be us taxpayers. So now I'm even more concerned about this going forward. More concerned about this going forward. I don't think that's right at all. I think that's wrong. And I would not use the word transparent in this conversation because nothing about this process is transparent any longer if you're not going to allow us

099to see the resolutions. And somebody should be having a conversation about that with WASBE to explain that you've released this data for how many years and you decide now not to release it and you don't make any kind of public disclosure. So once again, that leads me to say, what are you trying to hide? And I think we have a right to have that information. Thank you. Thank you, Angie. I agree that we probably could produce these. I'm looking on the WASBE website, and it says that they recommend these resolutions be addressed at board meetings with your board prior. That would mean to me that they probably at some point should be made public, certainly before we vote. I'd ask that we get a clarification from WASBE about whether these are public domain at this

100point or not. I know they haven't published them. outside of the membership login but i i haven't received anything as a wasby member to tell me why it would be different than last year i just want to take the opportunity to say i fully agree with mary on that one so i think we should definitely figure that out and and get those publicly i don't understand that the hiding of this at all all right we'll look into that all right that will be back as an action item and can direct we've said just got questions to pre-think chris Our final discussion item of the evening is the 4000 policy series Jean That has been revised as is noted to align with WASBE guidance the changes are highlighted in gray if anyone has any questions or

101concerns about the adjustments that have been made that would address arbitrary and capricious exercise of authority or workplace injury sources of using violation of state or federal law Seemed all appropriate to this type of policy any questions concerns Sam Thank you for your work on that. I I really do like those changes that were recommended and made for the whistleblower one I thought that was real important. I just highly encourage that type of support for someone that's willing to step out and take a risk protection. So thank you for that. And I think the other options all looked really strong and good. So thank you for your work on that. I can't take any credit for it. You and team. Not me. We listen to and ask questions about a committee. And so it's really

102Pam and her group that has pulled it all together. Any other questions or any comments committee members on? All right, then. I'll be back next month if there's questions please address them to Pam Next our appropriate use of technology and intellectual property I don't know Chris Dan mentioned you might be taking those am I or you or Ken I'm happy to help Technology changes I was not there for the committee discussions you can fill in the blanks there but we made some changes per the discussion that occurred at personnel specifically In paragraph 2 with education supervision and monitoring We referred more broadly to the district's digital citizenship curriculum, which the board approves rather than calling out specific actions described in that curriculum Such as the ones that are crossed out. So that was really the

103objective of I think the overall purpose was just a commitment to educate our students by all of our staff on appropriate technology use and that is best described through our digital citizenship curriculum which talks about appropriate use but it also talks about information literacy it talks about artificial intelligence is included there ethical use of information so not to a great degree yet but that's evolving and so that's why we have the blanket line and the crossed out the bulleted list I do have a question about this based on our conversation at committee. It looks like we got halfway there. We did want to reflect the connection to the digital citizenship curriculum, and I appreciate that being added to the second paragraph. When you go to the 5000 series, and I'm sorry, I don't know the

104number of the corollary policy in the 5000s, it does refer to policy 4511 for staff. We wanted that cross. correlation but I don't see it in the reference links at the bottom of the policy We can add that in. Well right now that policy the student policy That's what you're the 6177 the student policy right because it has a pretty robust practice statement that has that detail in it And we thought it would be a good cross-reference sure what we'll add that in that policy is also Coming to the board eventually this spring because we need to address cell phone use By July so that they'll they'll line up that change would be all I need to see here great Thank you, and the intellectual property if you want me to address at the same

105time no change is there We've had a couple uses of that policy. It was originally, its origination came from when we started the launch program. We thought maybe that launch would be focused more on creation of new ideas rather than working on projects with corporate-sponsored ideas. And so that didn't necessarily materialize. We have had a couple instances of use of that policy for staff ideas where we've been able to either co-create content or allow use of content that were created by staff members in a way that was beneficial to them but really didn't have any district investment or value to the district so that policy is a reconfirmation Thank you Chris, appreciate that Right are there any board member questions or comments? Not any of those three had Mary anyone else? Okay, those will be

106back next month as an action item direct any questions to For a whistleblower probably Pam and then the IT to IT policies Dan Scott All right, that concludes our discussion items for the evening and brings us to the board presidents report So this winter season can seem long cold I myself have a cold right now, but it's also a season with many holiday and religious celebrations. So using Google, I've done this before, but I counted at least a dozen major observances that happen at this time of the year. So as students... finish up here in December and take a break from their studies and activities like clubs and sports. We hope that our families will enjoy some quality time to celebrate this season of the year. So on behalf of the Board of Education and

107from my perspective, my religious tradition, I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas, a happy holiday season, and a safe and prosperous new year to all of our families and staff. And that concludes my report. Brings us to informational items discussed by exception only are there any items that board members would like to discuss this evening Mary not to my committee but just a public thank you for the life's work of Don Van Buskirk who passed away and I attended his memorial service this week he served 31 years in education in our school district and I knew him as a Brookfield Central student and I knew him again when my oldest daughter entered Elmbrook Middle School and he was the principal there he had an extraordinary career largely at brookfield central as an english

108teacher and a coach and a mentor and if all of you know the name bill's on if you read the tribute that bill put into don's memorial you'll understand how he mentored the people who became mentors to the next generation he's everything good about this district and i want to go on record as thanking his family for all the nights and weekends and days that he gave up in service to our students thank you mary Are there any other items that board members would like to discuss? If I may give an update for Parent Network. Parent Network has an upcoming program on Thursday, January 15, 2026, from 7 to 8, 15 p.m., and it's called What to Teach Your Children About Social Media. It will be presented both virtually and in the district office boardroom.

109So please go to the Parent Network website and check that out. the registration link will be there. Perfect thank you. Anything else? Okay that brings us to the acting superintendent's report. Emily. Thank you. I feel like so much of what I want to share and celebrate tonight has been touched on between the student presentations and what Mary just shared and so lots of repeats but they're really exciting. things that are happening. So it's worthy of mention again. So Carolyn Wanozek took home the state championship in women's swimming with the 100 yard butterfly. So congratulations to her on that success. The next item is just an overview of something that our communications team is partnering with the Launch Media Solutions. and they are doing school weeks on social media so make sure you're checking that out

110they're taking some exclusive and historical content and telling stories about our schools with some flashbacks and some some really fun pictures so if you haven't been following that take a look Earlier today, just this afternoon, the Peace Out Production Studio ribbon-cutting ceremony happened where Mikey Schlitzke cut the ribbon to celebrate that grand opening. So that was a really fun and exciting experience. Gave a speech himself giving some gratitude to the art department and the principal over at Brookfield East so that was a really wonderful celebration the 38th Golden Harvest Thanksgiving. Yes, you wondered what the number of years was. Over at Brookfield Central, just before the Thanksgiving break, and just the volume of positive feedback from our community that comes from that opportunity. They really do a beautiful job. The kids do, the student council

111representatives do, and it's really well received. So kudos to them. Both of our high schools had performances in the last couple of weeks over at the Sharon Lynn Wilson Center. Brookfield Central had something rotten and then Brookfield East performed Pippin. So both really wonderful displays of the incredible talent of our students and our staff. And then it is winter concert season. So we have some students from Brookfield or from Pilgrim Park that had presented at Brookfield East for their concert. And there's a picture of some of the Brookfield Central students at the Sharon Lynn Wilson Center last night. Hills and East also have had concerts. We have some coming up later this week. So many concert opportunities for the holiday season. And then as... Mary did such a wonderful tribute. Elmbrook mourns the loss of

112Donald Van Buskirk. So he had a legacy here in Elmbrook School District, his history as an administrator in many of our schools, and it served as a mentor for many of our leaders. So our condolences to his family. And our key club. was over at Fairview South, including representatives from all of our key clubs. And they engaged in some different activities to support the Milwaukee Rescue Mission. So they stuffed purses that were donated. We also had food service member Cindy Gordon made 45 dignity packs. She crocheted 40 hats and her son donated. 38 fleece warming blankets so huge contribution there the key clubs assembled over 465 purses so lots of really great activities happening to wrap our arms around our community this time of year which is a huge celebration super chats are happening on

113social media this was super fun i spent some time with eric hagan over at swanson interviewing some of our kindergarten students, which is always a joy. So if you get a chance to enjoy that as much as I did. And then we have our student artwork in the back of the art room here from Burleigh this month from students in Jeannie Madsen's classes over at Burleigh. so thank you to her and her students and then a repeat from last month but it bears repeating just for anyone who may need that information that there are a variety of meal resources available for families from the food pantry resources that are listed here if that information is needed that is what i have for the acting superintendent update thank you emily are there any questions for emily

114okay thank you so much can i get a motion to adjourn Thank you a motion by Jean a second by Sam all those in favor of returning please say aye aye thank you we are adjourned