001All right, good evening. I am calling the meeting to order, our April 28th, 2025 school board meeting. I will also take the role as tonight is the night where we are doing the board reorganization. So we will get into those positions momentarily, but for purposes of taking the role, Jason? Here. Crosby? Here. Mike? Here. Jake? Here. James? Here. Dale? Here. Eric? Here. Carolyn? Here. Craig? Here. And this meeting has been properly posted. Would you all stand and join me in the pledge? I pledge my allegiance. So Board Policy 0152, Officers, says that the Board shall elect from among its members a President, Vice President, Treasurer, and a Clerk. Such election shall occur at the annual reorganization meeting which is tonight which should occur on or after the fourth Monday in April. So tonight we will
002vote on a president, a vice president, a clerk, and a treasurer as well as the board will designate a CESA 1 representative. So, quick question for the board. We can do this by ballot, or we can do this by open nomination. Which does the board prefer? I prefer open. I'm fine with that. So, no objection of open nomination. We will take nominations for the position of board president. I'll nominate Dale Porter. There's a nomination for Dale. Second. There's a second for Dale. Are there other nominations? All in favor of Dale, please, we will go through and do a roll call on this. Jason? Aye. Crosby? Aye. Mike? Aye. Jake? Aye. James? Aye. Dale? Aye. Eric? Aye. Carolyn? Aye. Craig? Aye. All right. The nomination for Dale has been approved 9-0, and I will pass the
003gavel over to Dale. Thank you. Up next, you have the nomination of the Board of Vice President. I nominate Craig Burtz. Second. We have a nomination and a second. Craig, do you accept this nomination? Yes, I do. Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? All right. We're going to take a call. Start with Mr. Schwartz. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye Congratulations, Mr. Vertz. You
004are the Board Vice President. Thank you. Bravo. Moving on to the election of the Board Treasurer. I nominate Jake. Second. We have a nomination and a second. Jake, do you accept the nomination? Yes. Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? There are none. We'll start with Mr. Olson. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Congratulations. Mr. Heiligenthal, moving on to the election of the board clerk. I would like to nominate Crosby Lugenhagen. Crosby, do you accept the nomination? Yes. I'll second. We have a nomination and a second. Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? All right, we'll start with Mr. Schwartz. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Congratulations, Crosby and Board Clerk. Up next, we have our CESA 1 nomination. I'd like to nominate Jason
005Bennett. Second. Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? All right, here and then we'll start with Mr. Olson. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Congratulations, Mr. Bennett. Jill, can you fill him in on what that is? Yeah. What's up? Can you fill him and everyone in on what the CISA nomination is? I think Jill would have a better idea what it was. Jake did. Yeah. So CESA 1 is our cooperative services agency that we work with. It's the region. They have a board as well. So they have an executive board that gets together and meet, but they also have some school board functions that board members can attend, give their input on at CESA. We have more information in that packet, and we've got to get that information then
006off to CESA after our meeting this evening. So, Jason, we can certainly talk more in the weeks ahead. All right, up next, I'd like to call Mr. Spielman up here. We'll do a little recognition for our Principal of the Year. Proclamation recognizing Luke Spielman. Whereas Luke Spielman has demonstrated exceptional leadership and unwavering dedication as the principal of Parkview Middle School in McGuanagall, Wisconsin. And whereas Mr. Spielman's commitment to fostering a positive and enriching learning environment has significantly benefited the students, faculty, and the staff of Parkview Middle School. And whereas... His innovative and collaborative approach to school administration has cultivated a culture of academic excellence, social responsibility, and personal growth within the school community. And whereas Mr. Spielman's outstanding contributions to the field of education have been recognized by the esteemed Herb Cole Foundation, naming him
007principal, leader. principal leader for his exemplary service and impact, and whereas his peers and colleagues have further acknowledged his exceptional leadership qualities and dedication to middle school education by naming him the Association of Wisconsin School Administrators 2025 Middle School Principal of the Year. and whereas this prestigious recognition reflects Mr. Spielman's tireless efforts, visionary leadership, and profound impact on the lives of countless students. Now, therefore, be it proclaimed that we... the school board for the McGuanagoe Area School District do hereby extend our sincerest congratulations and profound appreciation to Luke Spielman for his outstanding achievements and unwavering commitment to the students and community of Parkview Middle School. If it further proclaimed that we celebrate his recognition as a Herb Kohl Foundation Principal Leader and the Association of Wisconsin School Administrators 2025. Middle School Principal of the Year,
008acknowledging and significant positive influence he has had and will continue to have on the lives of young people. A witness whereof we have here unto set our hand and cause be a fix the seal of 28th day of April 25th. It's my honor to give you this plaque on behalf of the school board of McGonigal. Luke, are you going to say a few things or no? Would you like to? I was hoping you'd ask. Luke, you talk to the microphone, please. Wherever you want to go. Wherever you want to go. I'll sit down. It's your day, brother. It doesn't need to be my day. Every day is my day. So I don't mean that it is about me, but I'm fortunate every day. So I just wanted to say thank you. I guess, Craig, since
009you asked if I had any words, I won't say a lot, but I appreciate. all of your leadership, everybody in the room for creating a district where students can thrive and staff have an opportunity to influence students and that's myself included. So thank you for that opportunity. I'm incredibly fortunate to work in a school and a community and in a district where staff feel supported and we have the opportunity to do amazing things. And it's been a great year for Parkview and for our district. So I'm excited about the referendum and our new school coming forward. This recognition. unfortunately has my name on it but it truly recognizes the hard work of our entire staff and our entire district so thank you hey Luke before everybody claps first of all a lot of students were
010in attendance and they were awesome they were well behaved they were great even with Fox 6 filming they were phenomenal they were and your parents and your brother and some family was in a crowd That was a pretty cool day. Yep. I told people after the fact that I think there's very few moments in life where... your whole world is in front of you and like your wedding is obviously one of those moments where your co-workers might be there your your past friends and relatives as well as future and this was for me one of those life moments so I appreciate Dr. Cook's efforts to help make that happen it certainly was meaningful and I think it's very rare that our family and especially our children get to see us in those work environments and
011I think as an educator we put in a lot of hours in our For example, my son is playing a baseball game right now, and I'm missing that baseball game, and it's hard to be away from home at times. But I think, thankfully, he had the opportunity to see that moment as well and know that when I am away, I'm hopefully doing things that positively impact or have a greater impact. So thank you, Joe, for inviting them. Awesome. Congratulations. Thank you. All right, we do not have any citizens' comments tonight, so we're going to move on to the student report. We have Prairie View Elementary School. Yeah, you can feel free to bring up chairs. And any parents that want to take pictures, you can come on up here and take pictures. You can come
012up here. Good evening. Remember to talk real close into the microphone so everybody that's watching on the TV can hear you, okay? You may begin whenever you're ready. Hello MASD school board members. Thank you for having Prairie View Elementary here today. We are excited to present to you. First off, we have student of the month recognitions. Student of the month recognitions. Each month, one student, 4K through 6K, gets recognized for their amazing behavior that connects to the word of the week. And they get recognized for specials too. specials are music, Phi Ed, art, and library. 48 students have been recognized. Isn't that so cool? And here to talk about the vocabulary club is Noah. This is the first year fifth and sixth graders get to work with Mrs. Morgan. Our goal is to inspire a
013love of words and language in all students, as well as build a strong vocabulary skills that support reading, writing, and communication across our school. Teachers incorporate words throughout the day. Even the Hall Award Parade included vocabulary words. And here's Contrapt. I'm Rosalie Lejwine, and I'm a part of the PVES STEM Forge Contrapt Competition with Kiara Biakowski and Mackenzie Doig. Hello, my name is Mackenzie Doig, and I'm a part of the Froggers, one of the many groups in the contraption contest. This year's task is to feed your pet in 14 to 20 steps and using six different simple machines. Last year, both of our sixth grade teams finished in the top 13 of... 14, mostly 7th and 8th grade teams. We decided that we didn't want a normal pet, so we went with an Australian green
014tree frog because, obviously, who wouldn't want to feed a tree frog? A contraption accomplishes a simple task in the most complicated fun way possible, like a Rube Goldberg machine. We have another 6th grade team, and their theme is Pixar. They're feeding Remy from Ratatouille. Here's Caroline with the Reading Rumble. Reading Rumble. Fourth through sixth grade students are invited to read to form groups and read ten books, chosen by our amazing librarian and other librarians across the district. PVIS has a tradition of supporting reading with different literary literacy opportunities. We are excited to compete grade level and school level on May 5th. Ms. Mack also promised us cake. Here's Cal to talk about the PTO. Our PTO at Prairie View is amazing. The thing we're most looking forward to is the color run. Last year we
015raised $23,000 for a new playground. I wore a cowboy hat and I was running around. I also threw color at my teachers. I remember kids saying, spray me, spray me to all the teachers. Another amazing thing that Prairie View puts on is Family Steam Night. Student Advisory held the third annual Family Steam Night on February 18th. There's cardboard creations, spheros, musical instruments, arts and crafts, Lego maze. I was a part of Lego maze. STEAM Night means S for science, T for technology, E for engineering, A for art, and M for mathematics. At STEAM Night, I was in the cardboard creations group. That is where I helped kids saw and screw cardboard pieces together to create helmets and fortresses. And one of our other centers is where we make musical instruments. It sounded like this. We
016also had an art show. That is where... Kids created beach-themed pieces. We worked with our art teacher, Ms. Bergman. Even though it snowed that day, once you walk into Prairie View, it was like a sunny day at the beach. Here's Noah with State Art Show. Some extravagant panthers have gone to be recognized at the State Fair in the Wisconsin Youth Art Month. We are very proud of the art that they have made. And here is Caroline to talk about the Environmental Club. Environmental Club is open to students and student advisory. We're teaching Prairie View how to recycle and care for their environment. We are going to Eagleville to learn about their environmental program. We recently did a presentation for the whole school and we taught them a little bit more how to recycle. Anyways, why
017did the leaf go off to go to the doctor? Because he was feeling a little green. And here's Cal to talk about the talent show. Prairie View has a tradition where every other year we have a talent show. Ms. Mack will be judging for the people who audition. Me and all the sixth grade boys will audition for a group singing. We can't wait to see the final show on June 4th. I hope you can all come. I have been... in the talent show for jokes, not just in this meeting, and to hear about more information about the butterfly garden. Students who are interested in learning more about native plants and taking care of our butterfly wonderland garden are invited to join the Prairie View Butterfly Garden Club. This club meets during recess in May and
018four through six times throughout the summer to help maintain the garden. Here are some plants we have in our butterfly garden in case you want to plant one at your house. We have the early sunflower, prairie blazing star, wild bergamot, showy black-eyed susan, showy goldenrod, purple coneflower, New England aster, world milkweed, lavender hyssop, butterflyweed, lupine, tall bellflower, purple joe pieweed, golden alexanders, june grass, prairie dropseed, royal catchfly, and the metal blazing star. Thank you all so much for coming tonight and hearing what we had to say. Goodbye and have a good night. thank you great job all right up next we have Eagleville and you can begin whenever you are ready any the parents want to come up here you can take pictures as well remember to speak really really into the microphone okay thank
019you yeah you can even grab it and hold it forward there you go My name is Egan. My name is Bo. Hello, my name is Inori. And we're here to talk about the stuff at Eagleville that's happened since December. Our presentation will highlight a variety of ways that we learn and grow together as a school, with our green initiatives, our all-school activities, and our PBIS highlights. As a green school, Eagleville recycles to help our planet. Between our recycling and composting efforts, we have saved over 4,000 pounds of trash going into the landfill. Every day, different students help collect recycling and compost materials. At the end of each week, we weigh and record the amount that we collected. Starting at the end of February, Eagleville participated in an energy competition. With the help of gauge monitors
020and our electricity used in real time, we have done the best to reduce our energy consumption at Eagleville. We reduced our March energy consumption by 7.3%. Our Green Guardian student group investigated where we can save electricity by keeping lights off, unplugging unnecessary appliances, and limiting heat loss. The group shared its ideas with the rest of the school during a recent assembly. This year, the Eagleville girls basketball team won the sportsmanship award. This is the first Eagleville team that we've ever had. We played against a team who didn't have enough players. We still wanted to play the game, so we split up our girls and played with some of the girls on the opponent's team. We played just as hard as we normally would play. March was not... March was National Reading Month. When a student
021finished a book, they filled out a slip of paper and turned it in. At the end of March, we got a grand total of over 475 books. One school, one book. Every year, we do one school, one book. The past few years, we have done picture books, but this year, we did a chapter book. This book is pretty well known. It is called Frindle by Andrew Clements. This book was a hit. Some people even started using the word frindle in a normal conversation. Outdoor Science. Every Friday we do something called Outdoor Science. Students get the opportunity to learn about science while being outdoors. In Outdoor Science we learn about nature, jobs, and so much more. Additional Pictures. This slide features some extra pictures from Outdoor Science. We get to go into the woods, explore nature,
022and we even get to learn about different animals. Earth Day Cleanup. On Earth Day, we got the chance to clean up trash around our school. As a school, we collected approximately 20 bags of trash. We try to make our school environment clean and healthy. High Flyer Awards. At Eagleville, students have the chance to earn a high flyer by going above and beyond to help one another and make the school a better place for all. If a teacher recognizes a student for doing something above and beyond, they get a high flyer award. Over 125 flyers awards have been earned so far this year. High flyer pictures. On this slide, you can see some pictures of students receiving awards. This slide represents the monthly specials awards that classes are given an opportunity to earn. If you are
023being respectful, responsible, and safe, your specials teacher will grant you their golden item. Indoor growing project. This year Eagleville has taken an opportunity to grow microgreens in our own classrooms. When they are grown and ready, classes harvest and eat these grown greens. Tulips. Classes have planted tulip bulbs during fall, which has led them to sprout in spring. We plant these tulips for the hopes of migrating butterflies to return and flourish in our flower garden. Talent show. On April 24th, 2025, Eagleville had their annual talent show. So many people participated. We saw magic tricks, comedy skits, singing, and so much more. We had over 30 acts. It was a huge hit. Maker Faire. On April 26, 2025, Eagleville hosted a Maker Faire for students and others to make and sell items for consumers to buy. This
024is a fun opportunity for students to make profit in a fun way and for their friends to support them. This is also a good way for students to learn about operating a small business. Does anyone have any questions for us about Eagleville? Any questions for anybody? Great job. Great job. Thank you so much. I recently visited Eagleville, and I want to say it was awesome seeing how engaged all of you, all the students who are with your teachers. You guys ask a lot of questions, very respectful. And I also want to commend you for how you do your student government and your elections. You guys do a great job. Thank you. Up next, we have the MHS Winter Athletics and Activities Update. Mr. Trudell. Please talk into the microphone, Mr. Trudell. I'm trying to get
025to the start of my presentation here. For some reason, it was in the middle. All right. Thank you for having me. It's tough to follow those kids. They're awesome. Maybe my next report, I'll bring some students. I think that would certainly liven this up. But each season, I'm asked to stop in and just talk a little bit, give an update of the things that happened. We're halfway through the spring season already, but we'll go back to winter. All kinds of good things. A little bit of overlap. I included some more recent things in my report here. But starting with our activities, Best Buddies had a trip to the Admiral game. We had a number of students from the high school as well as some friends from Clarendon join that group, and they had just a
026fantastic time there. Our SAVE group, a couple of different things. We had a group that presented at the Wisconsin School Safety Coordinators Association and the DELS on promoting positive school environments for safer schools and stronger communities. And then just on April 14th through the 18th was our annual Say Something Week. And I have a little video that goes with that. Push play here. Maybe not. You're going to help me with that. Thank you. I say something because I want to be in a place where people care about each other and elevate everyone around them. I say something because all students deserve a safe and supportive school environment. You are a good friend if you speak up and say something. I say something because I want to keep my friends and family safe. I say something
027because I care about the safety and wellness of my students and my coworkers. I say something because it's the right thing to do. Say something. I say something because I care about you, my students, and my colleagues. I say something because I care about my students and coworkers. Say something. I say something because I care about my students. I say something because I'm brave. Say something. Say something because we want to go as our family. Say something. Say something. Say something. Say something. Say something. Say something. Say something. Say something. Say something. Say something. Say something. Say something. Say something. Say something. Say something. Say something. Say something. Say something. So that video was shown at the start of the week on our MTV announcements. And just a great way to start the week. I
028think our kids do a nice job putting those together. Kids obviously get a kick out of seeing each other on the screen as well as their favorite teachers participating in the movement as well. National Honor Society every year does a T-shirt sale where they raise money for the Stars and Stripes Honor Flight, fitting being our school on Veterans Way, right? Raised $4,500 this year for that project, which is awesome. Oops, I went the wrong way. Sorry about that. Our HOSA club, future health occupation students. We had 600, or I'm sorry, 60 students participate in the HOSA state. Won all kinds of different awards. We had two students, Grace Graycheck and Danica Knutson, receive $250 scholarships for their efforts at state, which was excellent. District solo and ensemble, we had 263 musicians participate at the district
029level. 105 of those musicians have qualified for state. State is this Saturday, May 3rd. MHS choir, we had a group of students that were invited to the American Choral Directors Honor Choir in Dallas, Texas. I believe I read there were eight students from Wisconsin. Five of those students were from McWanago, three high school students, as well as two students from Parkview Middle School. It was very cool. Drama, I don't know if any of you were able to get to Clue, which just concluded a couple weekends ago. We had 48 members in the cast and crew. Unfortunately, I was actually out of town, didn't see it, but everyone I spoke with said it was an amazing show. So congratulations to Hallie Kelly and then obviously all the students who were part of that production. On to
030athletics, a lot of team success this winter, which has been the case. Both boys and girls downhill ski teams qualified for state. Both the boys and girls wrestling teams won Classic 8 Conference championships. Our hockey team were regional champs. And then probably the highlight of our winter, our cheerleaders placed second at state in one of the competitions that they participated in, which was outstanding. Some individual success. Wisotsky was sixth in two events at the state swim meet. Ben's only a freshman, so we're excited to see how he does the next three years as well. And then the Whittier siblings, Kalen was third at state wrestling and Adam fifth at state wrestling. So excellent finish for both of them as well. Keep going the wrong way, sorry. Some Classic Eight awards. Our hockey team won the
031Sportsmanship Award, which we're always proud of. We had the Female Wrestler of the Year in Kaylin Whittier. We had Wrestling Coaches of the Year, boys and girls. John Wersbicki on the boys' side, Chad Leviner on the girls' side were the Classic Eight Coaches of the Year. And then we had a number of all-conference basketball players. First team, Caleb Poling for the boys, and first team, Rachel Chalicki for the girls. So congratulations to all of them. Then maybe my favorite part of winter season is our annual Make-A-Wish fundraiser. Our boys and girls basketball teams, including our youth kids, work together for about 12 days. They do a mad rush to raise money for Make-A-Wish. And this year I'm proud to announce that we raised $152,000 for Make-A-Wish. It's the largest student-for-student Make-A-Wish fundraiser in the state
032of Wisconsin, second largest in the nation. The goal is to be the first, which we'll get to every year. It seems like they raise more money, so really cool stuff. I'd just like to thank all our coaches and advisors for all the work that they put in. Obviously the kids that we get to work with are fantastic. We've got great parents, great volunteers and community members as well. So we're lucky to do what we do here in McWanago. Any questions? None. Thank you. Awesome. Thank you all. Have a great night. Yeah. It's nice outside. Yeah. Okay. Craig's on a diet, so he's a little grumpy. All right. On to consent agenda. We're looking for the approval of the committee of the whole meeting minutes of April 14, 2025, and approval of vouchers and receipts. Any
033questions or comments? Hearing none, that's approved. Moving on to, well, we don't have any policy. Moving on to personnel topics. Director's report. So last meeting I presented a report that shared the current enrollment and staffing projections for the 25-26 school year that was based on student course selection at the secondary level and then based on our enrollment at the elementary level. Okay. Moving on to student learning. Okay. I have a few items. The first item is the director's report. At the Committee of the Whole meeting, Michelle Ziegler and I did a presentation regarding our pilot process and secondary science resources that we are recommending for adoption. We are recommending adoption of the Issues in Science by Lab Aids for our 6th through 8th grade students. And then we are recommending adoption of the text Biology
034by Miller and Levine, which is published by SAVIS. We will be asking the board to take action on that this evening. Just a couple of clarifications. At the meeting, we had some discussion around the textbooks for the sixth through eighth grade adoption, as well as the materials. So just a couple of clarifications. We are looking at purchasing class sets of textbooks. We are not looking at purchasing one per student. These would be class sets that would be kept in the classroom and utilized for the different labs and investigations. Keeping in mind also, while we are not doing one book per student, there are multiple books because each unit has its own smaller textbook. Then there was some discussion around the materials. So just a clarification there on the material kits They currently do not offer
035an a la carte option for purchasing those items as we discussed a lot of those items are customized specifically to the lab aids curriculum There are some refill kits available, but it would be pretty difficult to piecemeal that together so in year one we recommend just going with the kits getting those materials and then there would be minimal costs going forward with that There also was a change in the quote. In working with the sales rep, we were able to obtain some additional discounts on the textbooks and then the digital portal licenses. That resulted in a reduction of $38,348. So the adjusted quote is provided for you in the report. Nice. That was definitely a good call. Then for the biology resource, just a little bit of a change. The rep for the publishing company
036just found out and then passed the information on to me just last week that there will be an update coming out to the textbook that we are recommending for adoption. The update is set to come out in the 26-27 school year. According to the rep, not a lot of the content is changing. They're adding some inquiry pieces and activities, but we would like the opportunity to take a look at that text. So we're recommending a slight change to what we had originally proposed in a six-year adoption of the Miller and Levine text, and we are going to recommend that we just do a one-year digital license. for the Miller and Levine tax that we piloted. And then we would use the textbooks that we already have. The rep is being great in working with us
037and is willing to let us keep those textbooks that were provided for the pilot. So we would not have any additional costs there for textbooks. Just that one-year digital license. Then when the update is available, we will take a look at that, work with the team, review it, and then we can make a recommendation moving forward. And then there was the revised cost for the biology adoption with just that one-year digital license. So again, we will be asking the board to approve those two resources later tonight. Are there any other questions? Do not see any. Thank you. Oh, Carolyn. I don't know if I'm missing it. Do you have the... cost for the lab refill? Because I'm assuming that would be purchased every year. So the lab refills, you don't have to purchase. I do
038have those costs. I don't have them listed in here. And you don't purchase it every year. So the kits come with enough materials for about 150 students. Again, many of the materials are not consumable. Some of them are everyday objects that we can purchase on our own. So we probably would not purchase the refill kits themselves with just specific pieces. So the chemicals, I'm just wondering what's the reoccurring cost? Would that come from something that the board would have to approve again? No, so those, just like our other, many of our other resources, those are things that are just taken care of through our building budget. Okay, perfect. Yep. Any other questions? Thank you. Okay. Student service top. Oh, she's got more? I have two more. Sorry. Yep. Then the next item is regarding our
039HOSA group. Andy talked a little bit about this. So HOSA stands for Health Occupation Students of America. We have a group of students who participate in that student activity at the high school. And as Andy had said, they participated in the state conference and competition. And four of our students, Max Schultz, Maddie Mackerwich, Lauren Schrader, and Eva Ketterhagen, earned the ability to go to the national competition. They placed fourth out of 72 teams at state. So they have advanced to the national tournament, which is being held at UNLV Medical School at the end of May. So congratulations to them. Obviously, that is a great honor and accomplishment. MHS teacher Drew Jensen and two parent chaperones will be attending the conference with the students. All of the details were provided in the memo. It will be
040a short trip. They're flying out on Thursday night, May 29th. They have the competition Friday and Saturday. and then flying back Saturday night. Any questions about that? We do not. No? No. Okay. Thank you. All right. Then the last item is an information item. I have a short presentation on the elective survey that was done in early April. So as we have had discussions around enrollment in our courses and staffing those courses, this has come up in terms of people's preferences for electives, and we talked about administering a survey. So we did administer a survey, again, at the beginning of April. It was sent out to all parents of current third through sixth grade students. Again, this is in conjunction with our discussion around enrollment, trying to identify the preferences that families have for those
041secondary elective courses and gain some insights for long-term trends. The third through sixth grade students is just over 1,400 students, and we received about 600 responses. A few things to keep in mind as we work through the survey results. First, the survey reflects the current perspective of parents right now. Again, these were third through sixth grade students, so things can change between now and when these students enroll in those classes at the secondary level. Another thing to keep in mind in terms of the number of responses, the survey could have been filled out by more than one parent or the same student. So we have some students who have multiple households listed. There just wasn't a clean and easy way to get that to just one family. So that could be reflected in the number
042of responses. But roughly, we had about a third of our students whose families were surveyed. And then the last thing, for the most part, the results do align with what we see in our enrollment trends. This is just a snapshot of some of the data that we collected. We looked at what elementary school the respondents were from and then what grade level. And you can see that it was a pretty even representation. So for the schools, Pretty even based on the enrollment of the schools and then for the grade levels very even representation there so that coupled with The amount of responses that we got we feel like it's a pretty valid and reliable survey So now we'll just quickly go through the questions and the results The first thing that we asked was we
043asked about our world language electives, and specifically we asked parents to select how likely their child is to take a specific language. So you can see the results there, and you can see that Spanish had the greatest response of parents saying that their child was likely to take it, with about 77% of those who answered that question saying that. For German... About 31% said that their child would be likely to take it. Something to note here too, though, is the unlikely response. 45% of the people who answered that question said that their child would be unlikely to take that. So that is a bit of a difference from the Spanish result. And then there was a small percentage of parents asking for a different language. We did ask them to specify, and other languages that
044were mentioned were French, Mandarin, and Arabic. Next, we asked the same question regarding music electives. Again, we were asking how likely their child is to take a specific type of music class. We had pretty comparable support for band, choir, and general music. Orchestra had a little bit lower of people saying that their child would be likely to take it, but this does align with what we currently see. When we have students who take an instrument, we typically see a bit higher numbers in band than orchestra. In regards to CTE, we have a lot of different courses that we offer, so this question was just slightly different. and parents were asked how important it is to offer different categories of CTE classes. So families rated engineering and design and then computer science as the most important
045elective to offer. That was followed by business and marketing and health sciences. The next group was automation and robotics, education and culinary arts. There was support there, but it was less than the other CTE electives. And then the manufacturing and automotive electives received the lowest support for all of the CTE electives. And then the last couple of things that we asked. We asked how likely a child would be to take either an art elective or a physical education elective. And both of these had very strong support. Art, 73% said that their child would be likely to take an art elective. And for physical education, 76% of the people who responded said that their child would be likely to take some type of physical education elective. And then the final question, we just asked parents to
046rank the elective categories based on importance, with one being most important and five being least important. And you can clearly see there the red is indicating the number one rating. You can see that CTE. definitely came out as the number one elective to offer. All of the others were pretty close to each other. CTE had a mean score of 1.87, and then all of the rest were in the low threes. So very close to each other following CTE. Nothing in the survey was really surprising to us. Again, it pretty much mirrors what we see in our enrollment trends, but is really good information for us to have as we continue to plan for the courses that we offer at the secondary level. Questions? I have a question. Crosby? I know that it's... pretty much in
047line with what we're seeing, but do we know why there's such a decline in interest for manufacturing in autos? There seems to be such a cultural push for that. Like, why are we seeing a lack of interest in it? I don't have a good answer for that. Rachel? I would say that's something that we'll have to get back to you on, talk to maybe some of the teachers specifically. But I don't want to speak prematurely without doing a little bit more of a deeper dive into that. I think it's important to note, though, that those are the responses from third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grade parents. We would have to dig in to look at what does our enrollment actually look like at the middle school and high school in those courses, and we can
048come back with that. Any other questions? We don't offer those auto-specific classes at the middle school. Right. But yes, I'll get back to you on that. Any other questions? All right, thank you. We're up to student service topics. Sure, I just wanted to take a moment to update you on a few initiatives and work we've been doing this last month. So in May and June, once staffing and scheduling and budgets kind of settle in, Student Services will bring forward a number of year-end summary presentations. Just a few things right now on the horizon. We'll be meeting tomorrow actually with Joe Abruzzo, the municipal judge from Iguanigo, to talk with him about how we can form a partnership around truancy and substance use when our students are showing up at court and how that can be
049a wraparound process. And then also bringing in our final look at student behavior and any concerns we have. moving forward and what we can do to address those next steps and then also i'll have the audit report hopefully finalized by then and we'll be done with our compliance piece for dpi that's it all right thank you Moving on to finance and facilities topics. I will be going through Tom's presentation tonight or Tom's memo tonight. So at the Cowan 414, Tom presented the investment results for fund 73. The investment results have earned an average of 5.18% per month interest during the 24-25 school year. Budget assumptions at the COW meeting on the 14th, Tom reviewed the budget assumptions that are being used to build the 25-26 budget, which include an addition of $325 funding increase in
050the revenue limit. So our total per student would be $11,650. A 0% increase or a $0 increase in funding for the per pupil categorical aid. Currently that's at $742 per student. Minus 125 students based off the third Friday count. Plus 2.95% on the salaries, which represents CPI. And a plus 10% increase on the health insurance plan. So using these assumptions, Tom is projecting the $1.4 million deficit that we've talked about at the past several meetings. Budget year to date. There's two budget summary statements for your review. The salary expenditures show that we will spend 99.1% of our salary budget this year. All of our expenditures, this is a high level expenditure exhibit that shows our year to date expenditures across all funds. Approximately 64 are left in the fiscal year. The percent of the budget
051remaining for each fund is as follows. Fund 10, 39.2. Fund 27, 27.1. Fund 39, 96.9. Fund 41, 15.2. Fund 46, 8.8. Fund 50, 23.3. Fund 60, 37.4. Fund 73, post-employment benefit, minus 2% remaining. We are $1,500 over budget in this area. And Fund 80, 19.9%. And then our bank balance sheets are attached as well. Any questions on that? That concludes the report. All right, thank you. Moving on to action items, hires, retirements, and resignations. Okay, so we have some that, if you have questions, please let me know because some of these might be a little wonky if you looked at the agenda. So we have a resignation from Andrea Cooper. who's an elementary teacher at rolling hills for a 0.4 fte so she had a contract for she was in a job share and then
052you'll see that we also offered her a new contract for a full-time teacher because of that job share agreement so our job share agreement states that if the job share is dismantled but the other teacher wants full-time employment, we do offer them that. But we can't have that teacher on two different contracts at the same time. So that's the explanation behind that. And then we had a resignation from Nick Willey, who is a special education teacher at McGuanagoe High School. I'd like to make a motion to approve the resignations and new contracts. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any questions or comments? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. All those opposed, say no. Motion carries. Moving on to policies. So we've had a handful of policies on the agenda going back to
053the beginning of March. These policies have been consistent on there. So policy 1241, non-renewal or termination of the superintendent contract. Policy 3214, staff gifts. Policy 3281, personal property of staff members. Policy 4124, Notice of Reasonable Assurance of Employment. Policy 4214, Staff Gifts. Policy 5330, Administration of Medication. Policy 5341, Emergency Medical Authorization. Policy 5411, Third Grade Promotion and Retention at-risk students. Policy 5461, children at risk of not graduating from high school. Policy 5611, due process rights. Policy 5710, student complaints. Policy 8395, student mental health services. And policy 8600, transportation. So those would be the policies that if there are no questions or there's action on them, that we would be then up for approval this evening. Looking for a motion. I'd like to make a motion that we approve these policies. Second. We have a motion
054and a second to approve the policies. Are there any questions or comments? I have a question on 8395, the student mental health services policy. Yep. So under the addition of the physical health professionals, can you just walk us through that, please, and explain what we're actually doing, like what services are coming in? It's not so much what services are coming in. It's the options of what services could come in. So many years ago, schools started allowing mental health services to come in, and it really did two things. One, it was ease of access for students and families, and two, it removed any barriers that a family might have for transportation and also appointments. More appointments are available during the school day than there are after school. Similarly, with the addition of the health services, if
055there was something along the lines of OT, PT, maybe orientation and mobility that wasn't necessarily related to special education, those providers could come on site. They would be using the school, but they would be using their own records, their own billing. We would enter into an MOU with them to access the space, but that would include background checks. That would include insurance that they would carry, plus their professional licenses. Any other questions or comments? I'm just wondering where, like what spaces are they going to use like to do like occupational therapy or physical therapy? That would be dependent on what we had available in the school. In some instances, it could be a small conference room. In some instances, it could be a classroom. Christine and Noel, our school nurse, did work on this as
056they reviewed it. So if you want to jump in. Yeah, so typically the services are approved based on space, right? So if I think about section, for example, there's only one conference room open at section elementary school. So if we have a service provider coming in and we have that space available, then that works for that day. We usually try to have it on like a repeating schedule so we can plan for it. Again, it really depends on what we have available and the need of the student. So we're not adding spaces? No, we're not. We're using our existing spaces. Okay. Good question. I did notice, Crosby, that the background check is in this policy, which is good to see, too. Any other questions or comments? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. All those
057opposed, say no. Motion carries. Moving on to the 25-26 Board and Committee meeting schedule. So last week we talked just about possible meeting schedules for the board. That has to be voted on and approved this evening. So we looked at a couple of these. The first one that is on the agenda this evening has our meetings taking place on the second Monday and then the third Monday of the month. Our current is the second and the fourth. The reason why we're bringing that idea forward is for board members. for administrators, even for the community, when people particularly around the holidays are looking to schedule things, this would be a little bit more in line with what our actual schedule is. If you remember back this year, for instance, in November, in December, in March, and
058I believe in May, we already are doing the second and the third Monday due to the holidays. This would allow for a level of consistency. So we're bringing that forward as a suggestion. We're also talking about the possibility within the schedule of having our annual meeting. I did talk to Tom about this. Our annual meeting occur at the end of August instead of in September. Tom, as you know, he does his budget hearing that evening. He will have everything set and ready to go in August. The other calendar that we're proposing is more of our normal schedule that we followed where our committee of the whole meeting is on the second and then our board meeting, sorry, is on the 4th, then with the ups and downs or the changes due to the holidays. So
059if the board chooses this evening, the board could vote on a calendar that has meetings on the 2nd and 3rd with the annual meeting in August. meetings on the 2nd and 3rd with the annual meeting in September, or meetings on the 2nd and 4th with the annual meeting either being in August or September. I know my work schedule, there's a couple of those I have, but anybody else with a work schedule issue? The alternative schedule fits better for me. Which one is that the second and third one that's listed as alternative? Okay, this is the second So you're saying what I Want to make that motion could I just ask a clarifier with that then is the board okay with either August or September for the annual meeting then I would prefer September because I
060I'm usually out of town in the summer, but I can also remote in. Would that be the August 18th meeting that we would look at for that, or is that? Correct, that would be the evening of the 18th then. I would also prefer September. I'm flexible either way. Yeah, I'm good. I'm good. Is there a reason to do it in August other than that we're ready for it, or is there an advantage? We'll be ready. We're looking at, so at the beginning of the school year next year, we'll be doing the groundbreaking for Parkview in September. And that, you know, that's kind of tentatively what's planned right now. That is going to be an extra commitment for the board. So one of the reasons why we thought about August being a potential meeting time. So
061you need a motion right now, Dr. Cook? We would need a motion for either the alternative schedule. I'd like to make a motion for the alternative schedule. With either August. And the August annual meeting. Okay. We have a motion and a second. Any more questions or comments? All those in favor for the alternative schedule with the annual meeting on August 18th, say aye. Aye. All those opposed, say no. Motion carries. Up next, we have the school board delegate to CESA 1, Board of Control. So we'll just take formal action down in the action section. Jason was nominated and voted on earlier. Just to make it formal down here, if the board would mind taking action again on that. I'd like to make a motion. Jason Bennett is our CESA 1 representative. Second. We have a
062motion and a second. Any questions or comments? All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say no. Motion carries. Congratulations Mr. Bennett. Oh, yeah. All right, we're looking for the designation of newspaper and bank depositories. So as Tom presented last meeting, he's recommending we designate the Waukesha Freeman as our official newspaper for the 25-26 school year and Citizens Bank and the local government investment pool as our official depositories for the 25-26 school year. I'd like to make a motion that we designate the Walker Shaw Freeman as our official newspaper and Citizens Bank and the local government investment pool as MASD's official depositories all for the 2025-2026 school year. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any questions or comments? Give it to Gooch. Hearing none, all in favor say aye. Aye. All
063opposed say no. Motion carries. Maguanago Shared Connectivity Network. So Tom presented at the COW two weeks ago. Attached, we have the Memorandum of Understanding for the Village of Maguanago, the Maguanago Community Library, and the Maguanago Area School District to consider. All three entities are looking to adopt the MOU in April. So this would be for the shared fiber, shared connectivity. And you just need a motion to approve and... Correct. Yes. Yep. I'll make a motion that we approve the shared connectivity and network memorandum of understanding Second we have a motion a second any questions or comments I have one for you Dale you and I spoke about the security concerns. Yes, this and access. Yes something that we need to add to the understanding? No, that's all going to be taken care of. Anybody working
064on a project is going to have to go through our Raptor system, and it's the only way they're going to be able to come into our schools. Okay. Thank you for asking. Any other questions or comments? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. All those opposed, say no. Motion carries. Moving on to the St. James attendance boundary. So Tom presented two weeks ago St. James the Less Catholic School. They submitted a request to establish an attendance boundary within our district. The statute says annually by April 1st. Theirs did come in on April 3rd. So the request comes in after the legal deadline. They're requesting consideration to that. There were two questions that were asked on April 14th when this was discussed. What's the current enrollment at St. James? It's currently at 140 students. What is
065the number of students who fit into the attendance boundary being requested? 35 students that live in MASD. A vast majority of the students are in the St. Joe's lines and only a handful in the very limited lines outside of St. Joe's. So if the school board were to agree to this, there are likely not enough students residing in those areas to warrant the purchase of an additional bus route, which is about $30,000. Therefore, families living within the area. would receive a parent contract, which is a current value of $600 per student. If the board is interested in this request, we would need to recognize all available areas within the MASD that are not currently assigned to a Catholic parochial school's attendance boundary that will be assigned to St. James starting with 2526. I'd like to
066make a motion that we, sorry. Do not go forward with the boundary, what's about, St. James attendance boundary request. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any questions or comments? Carolyn? My reasoning for making that motion is because we have the due date of April 1st. This came in after the due date. And on top of that would be the cost, as we just discussed prior, that we have a $1.4 million deficit that we're looking at. and we have no need to spend $600 per contract this year. I agree. Those are my reasons as well. Any other questions or comments? Yeah. Greg? So are we responsible for getting some of these kids to St. James, to school? No, not now. If the board were to approve the boundary, then we would begin to have
067that responsibility. Thank you. mr bennett if they'd have gotten the request in on time would we have held that responsibility um there if they got the request in on on time and the board approved it then we would have that responsibility but it's still up to us to approve the boundaries right regardless it is i'd have to look into it a little bit more as to what does it mean if they submit the request on time i'll dig into that a little bit more any other questions or comments all right here none um We have the motion not to approve the St. James attendance boundary. And we have a second. All those in favor of that motion, say aye. Aye. All those opposed, say no. No. Motion carries. Moving on to health insurance rates. As
068Tom presented two weeks ago, you can see in the chart that he's recommending that we increase health insurance funding rates by 10.7% for the 25-26 school year. This is the funding increase needed to cover the expected claims and fixed costs for next school year. Actuarially speaking, this increase will fund 52% of claims scenarios. You can see the chart there, the plus 10.7%. So for a family, it would be $25,069. For a single person, it would be $11,415. The district will pay 88% of the cost, with the employee paying the 12% remainder. All right, we're looking for a motion to approve the health insurance rates. I make a motion to approve the health insurance rates for the 24-25 school year. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any questions or comments on the health insurance
069rates? Seeing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say no. Motion carries. Moving on to number nine, resolution authorizing the transfer of funds. So our board a number of years ago took an aggressive approach to pay off the high school debt. So attached is the resolution to approve the prepayment of $3 million of referendum debt, which will pay off debt associated with the 2016 MHS project. When making the motion, if so inclined, please make the motion as follows. I recommend we approve the resolution authorizing the transfer of funds, the establishment of an escrow account with respect to, and the defeasance of certain. on the taxable obligation refunding bonds dated December 1st, 2020. We'll also need a roll call vote on this item. It's important to note that this prepayment will save
070taxpayers $406,000 in future interest costs and reduce the debt timeline by an additional 1.5 years. So I'll make a motion to approve the resolution authorizing the transfer of funds, the establishment of an escrow account with respect to and the defeasance of certain on the taxable obligation refunding bonds dated December 1st, 2020. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any questions or comments? Mr. Schwartz? I guess let's just make it clear that the $1.4 million is separate from the referendum, just for anybody watching. Correct. So there's not any... Yeah, so our operating budget is the one that represents the $1.4 million. This debt is associated with the high school. That was through a referendum. Those dollars were only attached to the high school referendum back in 2016. any expenses for the parkview middle school project
071and that referendum question can only be spent for what was in that referendum question which essentially was remodeled and rebuilt at parkview middle school and other capital maintenance around the school district thank you any other questions or comments hearing none all those in favor say aye we need a roll call oh yeah that's right roll call start with you mr olson all right hi hi Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Motion carries. Moving on to secondary science resource adoption. Okay. As we discussed earlier, I am looking for the board to take action and approve the lab aids resource for sixth through eighth grade science, and then the biology text by Miller and Levine for our biology course with that revision to it with the one-year digital license for next year. I'd like to make a motion
072to adopt the text biology by Miller and Levine. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any questions or comments? Carolyn? I just wanted to point out the equipment package for the 6th through 8th grade science adoption is roughly half the cost of the entire portion. Just going back to that, what portion of the equipment package is reusable? Are we talking like 90%? Can we look? I just can't fathom buying these equipment packages for a year that costs half the cost of the curriculum itself and then having to yet rebuy it using curriculum, the actual science department's budget to refill them when we've been teaching science successfully for the past however many years in McGowan ago using the equipment that we've had at hand. As with many resources, for example, with the bridges that we
073did last year, you had costs for the consumable books. There were multiple consumable books that went along with this. This is kind of... This is how that works for the science is that the cost is really coming in these equipment kits because there are specific materials that go along with the investigations and the labs. So I don't have a specific percentage of how much is not consumable, but the consumable things are very minimal. There are some clay items and things like that. I could get more information for you. I can show you the books that they have that show the different materials that are in there, but it is a minimal cost that we would need to replace. And it's not every year. Any other questions or comments? We have a motion and a second.
074All those in favor, say aye. Aye. All those opposed, say no. Motion carries. Moving on to unfinished business. Mr. Porter, a question about number nine. I'm just going to ask if the board would consider re-voting on that and actually calling the roll, knowing that that one is going to be something that we have to file. If we could just go through the roll name by name, please. All right. Jim Olson. Aye. Mike Guch. Aye. Carolyn Simon. Aye. Craig Mertz. Dale Porter. Aye. Crosby Bugenhagen. Aye. Jake Heilengenthal? Aye. Jason Bennett? Aye. Eric Schwartz? Aye. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Moving on to unfinished business. Superintendent's report. So a lot of great things that we have happening here. I would like to, with Luke Spielman, who's still in the audience here, in addition to the awards
075that were presented by the state of Wisconsin, the Herb Kohl and the OSSAW, he is also being forwarded along for the National Principal of the Year Award. More information will come, but that's gonna be moving forward for Wisconsin. So his remarkable achievements may be acknowledged at the national level as well. The other thing we have, and we've presented in the past, our facilities team under Andy Wagner's leadership, the guys, men and women in that department go back and they get facility manager certification for. for our work here. And so Mr. Dave, Dave Wierczakowski from Rolling Hills earned his facility manager certification this year. So WASBO, the business officials recognize that. We know how important it is for the extra training and professional development. So we thank Dave for putting in the time and congratulate him
076on achieving this. I'd like to take a quick moment to thank the students, staff, and parents from Prairie View and from Eagleville tonight, along with their principals. It's great having the kids come and share with what's going on at their schools. I'd like to thank Andy Trudell and all the students and coaches this past winter season. Tremendous athletic and activities participation at our high school. We excel on the stage. We excel on the court. We excel on the field and in the classroom. That's evident by what Andy presented tonight. Just thinking, you know, that we've got our, most of our state assessments are done right now. I think we're wrapping up a couple things. But forward testing, if you've got elementary, middle-aged kids, that is a big commitment of time. The ACT, pre-ACT that's done
077at the high school, really appreciate the focus that our students have put into taking those tests. Those ultimately feed into our school report cards, which are excellent. And the efforts on testing days and days. are remarkable. We do have some excitement in the district having a sixth and an eighth grader and listening to their friends and presuming our seniors as we're getting into May at the end of the week. Counting down that last month in their current situations moving up to the middle school, moving up to the high school and then graduating and going beyond. Really, you know appreciate seeing our kids in their classes working with the teachers and again involved in the athletics and the activities It's just a remarkable testament to our kids and our community Like to thank our paraprofessionals and
078our office front staff. They do a remarkable job for us. We kind of get through that winter season Not saying that we're past the coughs and the colds and all of that, but the flexibility demonstrated by those individuals and the care and concern for our students is just remarkable. We're very fortunate to have those individuals. Our music and art staff, if we've had a chance to get around and see the art shows. The elementary and middle school and high school musicals this time of year, just a remarkable level of talent. We measure a lot when it comes down to reading and math. But what the kids are putting out there for us in the area of the arts is just fantastic for us. And so, you know, as we transition then into this last month
079of the school year, we get into May, it's going to go by like a blink of an eye. But just really appreciate all that is going on here. So thank you. Thank you I just want to say thank you to Amy the art teacher at Big Bend Elementary School I really appreciate and the board really appreciates when teachers and staff reach out to us and let us know about things that are going on in their school Can't make them all but it's much appreciated when you reach out and kind of let us know because there's so many things going on It's probably one of the best art shows I've gone to in the elementary school. It was just outstanding They had, it was the alien kind of theme going on, and it was really cool.
080They had, like, the fluorescent lights going on where everything was glowing in there, and kids took, like, pictures of themselves, like, being sucked into spaceships, and it was an outstanding show. One of the best parts I liked, too, is they had a scan code on some of the art pieces. So if you scanned it on your cell phone... The student would tell you about his alien and tell you a whole story. So it was pretty interactive and really, really cool. So thank you for reaching out to us, and I'm glad I was able to make it. All right, thank you. Now we're going to move on to executive session. According to Wisconsin Statute 19.85, we'll be discussing reduction in workforce and a conference with legal counsel. So looking for a motion to close the open
081session, going to close session. Make a motion to go into closed session. Second. We have a motion and a second. Roll call, please. Jason. Here. Mike. Here. Jake. Yes. Jim. Here. Dale. Yes. Eric. Yes. Carolyn. Yes. Greg. Yes. Crosby. Yes. All right. Thank you. Open session is closed, and we might reconvene into open session for possible action. Yes. So we'll take a five-minute recess. Thank you. And I was talking to Scott about the presentation and I told him how great it was and I'll tell you later. All right, we are moving back into open session and we have an action item. All right, I'd like to make a motion to move forward with preliminary non-renewal of a 0.5 certified teaching position based on declining enrollment and budgetary constraints impacting staffing allocations for the 2025-2026 school
082year. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say no. Motion carries. This will conclude our meeting, and we're looking for a motion to close. Motion to adjourn. Second. Motion to second. Roll call, please. Jason. Yes. Mike. Yes. Jake. Yes. Jim. Yes. Dale. Yes. Eric. Yes. Carolyn. Yes. Craig. Yes. Crosby. Yes. All right. Thank you. We are adjourned.