06/09/2025 WCSD Board Meeting

001Yeah, I am cutting you off, my dear. All right, I'm going to call the meeting to order. It is 506. Will everybody please stand for the pledge of allegiance? I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Emily, would you do us the honor of the mission statement and strategic priority number four, please? Number four. Build strong authentic relationships among students, staff, and community members. We will empower a community of lifelong learners who strive for personal excellence through g meaningful relationships in real world authentic learning experiences. Thank you. Um, next item is conflict of interest declaration. Now is the time to declare if any of the agenda items pose a personal

002conflict of interest. Hearing none, we'll move on to the approval of the agenda. Uh Justin, Jill, Cammy, everything look good on it still? Perfect. I would uh entertain a motion to approve the agenda as presented. Motion by Emily. I'll have Jeremy second the motion. Uh all those in favor say I. I. Oppose, same sign. Motion carries. Next up is public comment. Is there anybody here for public comment? Okay, move right along to information only Heartland AA recognition for cyber security initiative. Yeah, so I'll turn over to Amy. Yeah, thank you for having me. I actually um worked with these alumni at a different job at Heartland AEA. So I'm hugging people and probably wondering like why is she hug I saw Kendra go right in for it. So, so we had a few fun years,

003but now I'm the director of technology um at H Heartland AA and I'm here tonight um to have the privilege of uh honoring Winteret Community School District, Matthew, your uh director of technology and Justin the superintendent who have played a vital role in protecting one of your most valuable assets here in the school, your digital environment. So over the past two years, Winteret along with H Heartland has worked closely focusing specifically with professionalism and care um demonstrating determination to and maintain a safe and secure posture relative to cyber security in the year 2025. This is often a responsibility assumed by someone at you know big businesses and corporations and they have a person dedicated to this. So the fact that Vinnerset takes this on with all the other things that go on um is really

004important work. Uh quite simply cyber security is top of mind as as many of you know because you get a notification uh somewhere that says hey you your information has been breached and certainly we don't want that for our school and our staff and our students and you know all our equipment. So, um, we know that it's present every minute and it's on everyone's mind and it's something that is a big lift for a school district to do again in the year 2025. Um, the work isn't always visible with this, but it's absolutely essential and cannot be overlooked. From identifying vulnerabilities that occur at all times of the day to updating necessary items and developing policies that impact security and safety of the district. The district alongside Hartland AA has been unwavering in its commitment

005to keep your systems, equipment, staff and students safe. Cyber security is no longer either just an IT concern as you know it's a foundational part of educational operations. your district has not only brought expertise to the table in our work with Matt and Justin, uh, but it also has allowed for us to work with the director of technology to get in and really make sure things stay safe and that they've demonstrated a genuine commitment to the school district. They've responded to incidents with urgency, offered proactive solutions on behalf of students and staff, and supported your mission to provide a secure learning environment for all. Hartland Aea is grateful for the partnership and the pursuit of safety across the school district and the strong sense of responsibility that you all bring to this work. So, I

006came today to recognize Winteret, Matthew, and Justin, um, of course, and you as a school board for supporting work ongoing, for your commitment to excellence in cyber security, for being true allies in education and dealing with those things we need to surface related to cyber security in these crazy times. I'm pleased to present a certificate as a reminder of the commitment and um certainly uh a reminder of our steadfast partnership to ensure uh that this is an unwavering commitment that we will keep continuing to do together and the commitment of the board to safeguard students at schools. So, I don't know if Matthew wants to take it. Kendra wants I'll get it. and Justin. Matt and Justin, we're all gonna slide out of the way. Okay, coming like I need a big check like got

007a big check. Yep. This is good. Yeah, I got She's going to use AI to mess with it later on. Anyway, we got the Thank you for coming. Good to see you. Thank you. Did you need a hug before she leaves? You did. I just want to make sure you I did. Don't want to deny you that. It's been a few years, but All right. Um, thank you, Amy. Thank you. All right, curriculum review. Yeah, every June, uh, ask for to come in and kind of give the board an update on what we did with curriculum or any changes that are coming. So, I'm turn over to Dr. St. John to kind of go through this. Yeah, sounds great. Just a couple of slides, but just for your sake because you're new, how this works

008is usually in June, we bring this concept and so it all depends on the year that we've had and what's up for adoption and things like that. So typically how this works is all of our curricular areas across the district are on a cycle of review materials and processes and those types of things. And so uh with and I work closely with Cammy and then we'll work closely with Jill on budgeting and all of that. And some years some groups are up for adoption and some years there aren't just depending upon how we purchase things and things like that. So, and how it works is is the teams in building Printfuls and myself, we all work together and we either end up purchasing materials or things like that for years that they're on cycle and

009years that areas aren't on cycle, that doesn't mean like if something's broken or if we need to get like extra copies or things like that on their off years, we'll obviously purchase those things. But for the curriculum review sake, what this typically is is when an area is up for adoption for new materials, we like to share with the board because sometimes somebody needs to be approved. This year it's just information only and just a couple of things. So about two years ago the state legislature passed that uh state standards were going to be reviewed every five years. What we didn't anticipate was ELA and math and science were going to go right away in like a year and a half. And so if you notice the I I linked those in for you. And

010so like you'll notice ELA and math were done in the same like calendar year and then science was done this year and social studies being done next year. And so the not the challenge, but the opportunity that we get with that is if standards update quite a bit, then we might have to bring groups together and things like that. And so that's feedback that like people in my position have given is if we're going to review standards and things like that, that's typically not how like districts operate like budget-wise and things like that. And so they've listened to that feedback and they're going to move forward accordingly. So in the last couple of years, three sets of state standards has been reviewed. So that's part of this update. Uh English language arts, math, and science.

011This year, social studies for the 2526 year, social studies is up for adoption. And of all the ones that may have potential to change the most. That one probably might. It just depends on where that direction goes. Obviously, there's some conversation about this politically and all of that. And you know, I'm we're being neutral in that conversation because obviously we'll do what we're told. But obviously that's going to be an implication of you know what happens going forward. One thing to address for next school year, for the 2526 year, is we will develop a team to start looking at English language arts materials for 2627 school year because at the end of next school year, our cycle of ELA materials will expire. And so we'll have a few years of these curricular areas. So next

012year at this time, we'll bring a review document to actually be approved so you can see like what materials we purchased and what we're looking for. But that's just um just a heads up on that. And if you want to go to the next one, that'd be great. So, here's just some updates of where we're at with like state standards and all of that. ELA didn't change a whole lot. One of the biggest implications of ELA standards was they added a mandate of cursive handwriting in first, second, and third grade. And so basically at the the in a nutshell summary is what our state standards expect is proficiency in cursive handwriting by the end of third grade and then fourth, fifth, and sixth grade. And going forward, we're offered a choice of do we offer

013cursive do we teach cursive handwriting or do we implement it? But it is it is one of those thou shalt teach cursive handwriting. So we're looking at that will be part of our curriculum adoption for next year is handwriting materials. Iowa Reading Research Center has issued some really good uh free cursive handwriting materials. Really great reading which is a program we use for current work has one as well which we'll use for next year and then we'll evaluate that and if we like it we'll continue with it. So that's one of the bigger change. There wasn't a whole lot of changes in the ELA ones. Math had quite a bit of change in the idea of what assessment looks like and that's going to be an ongoing conversation for the next couple of years. What

014math did at the state level was math put together the standards in what they call clusters and like bundled groups of standards and they want to look at proficiency at the cluster level instead of like the specific standards. So like for example kindergarten math standard is counting from 0 to 100 that used to be an isolated math standard. Now that's part of a bundle of standards and the way the standards are written which is different for for probably in the last couple of adoptions of math standards is they want to look at proficiency on the cluster level. So Tamar's done a lot of work with our staff and we've done a lot of work on you know where this is heading and and that's that's really good and I'm really excited about where where we

015are headed as an organization for math. Our our achievement data keeps going up excited about that. our practices are starting to align with the standards and all of that and that's great and it's just an ongoing conversation for us. Another implication of this standard update for math is our state has told us where we should be spending most of our time. So, it's either a minor cluster or a major cluster. And if it's a major cluster, they're telling us we should be spending 80 to 85% of our time in math. And I was just on a meeting today. Uh ISASP is actually going to update itself over time as well to reflect that as well. And so that's a conversation they're having at the state. And then also what passed uh was just signed a

016couple of weeks ago was the math bill. So just like literacy which we're required to u intervene and progress monitor for a student who doesn't meet the benchmark two times in a row in the winter fall winter or math uh eli literacy screening which we talk a lot about fast reading. We're going to start talking a lot more about fast math because that process now has become part of a legislative uh change as well. Uh we are required to provide a math intervention. there will be a there are requirements that are we're told that need to go in the plan just like reading and so that's work that we're going to start doing in the fall. There are some unknowns that are starting to um that are starting to questions are starting to surface like

017what screening tools are approved and all of that. Our state is playing catch-up with what the legislature has passed. we probably won't know anything until the end of July. And so, but just like for early literacy, there will now be early math procedural things like letters were go home, persistently at risk status, intervention, progress monitoring, all of that. And so, we'll have some conversation with that ongoing with you guys and obviously our buildings once school starts and all the way through. Uh the good news is is we've been doing fast math screening for years and so this won't be a surprise. I'm really excited we aren't having to do professional development on fast math for the first month of school. We can we can focus on other things and so um that's exciting but it's

018just one of those things now it's been passed and it now becomes thou shall and so we'll be focused on some of that work. Science was just updated this year and actually the document just got approved like two weeks ago and so not a lot of change. The only real big change and implication for us is what they've done for the junior high science level is they've gone back to grade level standards. Before it was you could teach seventh as long as by the time they left 8th grade they had to have these standards. And so now there's been some conversation of it looks more like grade level specific standards. And so we might have to make some updates and things like that this year. I've already had both the junior high teachers reach out

019to me. We're going to be fine. I'm not concerned. Our kids are going to get amazing science experiences. But that's just one of the one of the implications of when we change standards so often now like we've got to pivot and make some of those decisions. And so just you know some of the some of the things social studies that's up this year uh for adoption. State standards are going to be updated. There's a lot of conversation about what this could look like, sound like, and feel like. Uh you've probably heard there's a lot of politics in the conversation about this particularly for example whether the Bible will be part of the conversation in secondary social studies or whatever. We have no idea where this is going to fall out. All I know is they've

020developed a team and that team will start working once school started. The other legislative mandate that's come along with the social studies standards update is the civics exam that's passed for the 2627 school year. In this meeting today, the only thing we know is that it's still a mandate. We don't know what the vendor is. We don't know when it's going to be offered, how it's going to be offered. We started to talk about locally what that could look like, but obviously once we receive the guidance on what that could look like, but that will be according to state law right now a graduation requirement starting in the 2627 school year that they not only take but pass a civics test. It could mirror like the immigration naturalization test that's been in the conversation politically

021in the last 48 hours. We have no idea. And I don't honestly not sure they do either. They just know this law was passed. now they'll have to come up with who's the vendor for the test, all of those types of things. And so, not sure on that, but just this is where we're headed curriculum-wise. This isn't anything to be approved. Just some information to share with what's going on with where this bucket of duties for us is kind of going to live next school year. Any questions or anything else you want to It's just every time you hear a new mandate or like that are passed like like there are implications and then there are okay. So then we wait for state guidance or we try to figure that out and then we work

022with the teachers and it's just it's a cyclical wait. So we will bring obviously the graduation requirements but that board policy is every January roughly. Yes. Um, there will be something on there about the civics test. In conversation with Cam, like Cory said, initially, we'll start giving our kids opportunity as soon as we know this year to take it and pass it. Um, so they've got a couple years. Um, I don't anticipate being a big hurdle, but it's just something we'll have to do. So, I just looked at the 100 questions. It's not horrible. I promoted or they could a test could be created for this. like we just we don't know a lot of they're talking about is the naturalization is the 100 questions from that you got very what was set up so

023um I pass it that's I would anticipate yes and obviously that'll come with the guidance and it comes with who the vendor is and access and is it a username and password is it a local thing we click file print until they like we don't know we wait just got to do it. Y we just we just know we have to do it at some point and it could this legislation could update next session as well, but it's for the 26 27 school year like Justin said like we'll bring in January that would update to our graduation requirements and the policy and all of that. Okay. So stay tuned be fun. Thank you. My version of fun. Yes. Thank you. All right. Moving on to consent agenda. The minutes are there from our May 12th

024meeting. Anybody see any issues, concerns, or changes, corrections? All right. Paid bills and invoices. I didn't hear from anybody regarding any of the bills that was submitted. So, um, a lot of them right now are the second semester open enrollment bills that we were receiving. Um, we'll be receiving those from now for hopefully they'll get them all in before June 30th. That doesn't always happen. Um, so I don't know if you had any other questions. that you saw up on here. I have a couple. I'm sorry I didn't get to it. The B5 LLC, that is the vendor that changed their name. Okay. Uh because I looked it up last month. I can respond back to you. It is a stated referring bill, but it's a different vendor name. I just have never seen the

025five in the middle. I $700. Yeah. It wasn't a lot. It wasn't Kendra. Got to be the first 10. I'm sorry. I shouldn't put you back here. It was all What's your other one? Yeah, she's trying to find the rece. Yeah, in a general they did our um radon. Yeah, perfect. I looked them up too. I thought an architectural. That's what I thought. Why are they in general fund? Exactly. I Well, Midwest Services I would assume it's spraying of the field, but it's in general fund as well. Midwest services are benefit. No, Midwest, which is Jason Drake. Yeah, I would assume it's something for grounds and maintenance out of field 10. Midwest services for everything else. It would be Yeah. Yeah. Midwest Services LLC 6,175 just I would assume fertiliz I have the means right

026here. You got it. Okay. That was the one I chef had in Midwest were the only ones I had. Six. That's I always just ask those ones. And anytime I see Walder, I always ask too. Kenny always knows to check Walder to make sure they're going where just it doesn't need to be in Pebble or save. It won't open. I'm watching her hit the button. It will not open. It's fine. Yeah, we'll follow up with you guys. Yeah, but sorry to put you on the spot. Usually I Brian asked like Okay. But yeah, a lot of open enrollment um information will be coming through and yeah, any questions? All I had on paid bills. Okay. Uh personnel report Justin. Yeah. So, some new contracts uh for custodians and then people moving lanes as we go

027into next year. Um some resignations. Uh Kathy Amy uh did sign the contract for 2526 and is asked to resign. Um in the past, the board has released them based on finding a super replacement. Little different story. She can retire. Um and I'm not sure she needs a license going to her next position. um in talking with our attorney. Um the BO BOE won't take it. They won't do anything because she notified us before July 1st. So your option as a board is to do this. Then if she would still not show up in the fall and you hold her a contract, you'd have to actually terminate her terminate the contract at that time. So that's just kind of the avenues we have. But in the past when somebody's signed a contract or we have

028on contract next year and we've approved it pending a super replacement um I don't know that we'll get an application for this position. We do have an internal contingency plan we've talked about which would be a would be a transfer to cover the position. So that's kind of the background on that that one. Can we just accept a resignation? Can up to the board. I can't hire or fire or allow us to really make recommendations. So, I did my due diligence and talk to our attorney about what could what could happen. We have stood on the grounds that once it's signed, it's I I don't know, and this has come up multiple times since I've been on the board. This is just always this standard protocol. I have a hard time if we don't get

029an applicant having to terminate someone who's been here that long. So, can I make a motion at that point yet? Um, you would need to pull it from the consent agenda and act on it by itself. And what you can do, any item can be pulled from the consent agenda and acted on by itself. She would just be it just be terminating contract and she doesn't show up in the fall. Yeah. You don't have to go through the process of of if she wouldn't show up then the recourse of the board would be to just notification termination and require board action with termination or contracts. I'm assuming this position is something that just came available to her. Uh I don't know all particular. I don't think she held this hostage. You just waited till it

030was No, she it was um it was opportunity to present itself late. Yes. accurate. I looked I had looked this I looked last week and Kendra's looked we had zero applicants. Oh, so it hasn't Yeah, trying to get it. It said post as anticipated, but um internally that posted out on the web just to see if we get any I don't know if Yeah. So if we accepted the resignation soon finding a civil war replacement, we get the school year, then we'd have to terminate it or we just wait. You have a resignation issue. I'd have to do some checking. I think you could accept the resignation. I don't know. I'd have to look into that. Um I think you a board can accept a resignation at any time. Um the recourse is if you're

031under contract, you can't be under contract with another district, right? You have her under contract. Um however, she let you I the Buy won't they just said they won't act on somebody who notifies you ahead of July 1. they won't take action against him for the license. Um, they made that pretty clear. Now, Jared is correct. We've had this happen three at least three times that I can remember. One of them we found replacement and we let them. Two we didn't and we held them to their contract and they came back for a year. Um, younger teachers um little Yeah, it's the context is a little different. Yeah. to your point wait another month and see if find somebody or is that wait cut too close well it's pending yeah it's contingent upon finding a

032replacement right now which is what the recommendation would be to approve right and then if we come back in July we don't have anybody um I would have to notify her but if we wait a month she can't sign a contract about with another public district requires one yeah yeah I don't think yeah I don't looking at our contract with two districts. Now, back to the fact that she's notified us in advance of the July 1st. I don't know. The be will say, "Well, she gave you resignation in what they considered enough time." But I don't know. I never got that far. I don't know. the contingent finding a suitable replacement. We would just accept her resignation tonight with that caveat. With that caveat. Yep. And we don't have anybody. Sorry. Would you? No. Or

033we could say we're just going to accept the resignation. You could service. Yes, you could. Um if we don't find anybody, it would it would force us to take action to fill it. Um which would be an involuntary transfer um based on current staffing, which then would open a position that we'd have to fill, another position that we would try and fill. But more than likely, we're going to have to anyway because Kathy's probably going to take the new job and the BOE is going to I've had no conversation with her about if she would or would not. I just basically the end of the year went. And they I think she's fully planning on that, right? Coming back. And since the BOE won't act on it, we have really nothing to do. Yeah. From

034my understanding, since you let us know, yeah, I don't know the action would be that you would say no, we have a signed contract. It's my conversation with attorney. You wait till the year she doesn't show up and then you would have to go through the process to either terminate or could you accept the resation that time? I assume you probably could. Um but if you really wanted to hold the line, the course of reaction would be the determination. That's how I understand it. And the conversation always circle has always circled back to is just like we put a peace pull somewhere. You start once accepting outside of the practice we have done now anybody that wants to to do that we we've allowed it to happen outside of our normal procedures for it. you

035go back to the BOE is not going to do anything if they resign before July 1st anyway. No, we don't have any leverage to even force a younger teacher to come back if they're not going to yank their license from us. And the cost you have we've always we this is how we've always handled somebody that comes to us after they've signed their contract and submitted it because you've agreed to it. If if we find a suitable replacement, we've let them go. We held two here. We've held two for another year for another year. They come back. Okay. And then they didn't sign the contract at the end of that next year. They didn't sign their contract. Younger teachers went another district. I don't know that that's her plan. Either way, I think the results,

036right? We're going to need somebody probably. Oh, yeah. Either. Yeah. Our numbers our numbers at the middle school would warrant us filling this position. Yeah. Are we going to wait? So, if we say we're going to hold her to her contract and we don't find a suitable replacement, are we going to be ready on day one to go with the plan B because she Yes. at the back. To piggy back on that, if we prolong this until the day to shoot does not return, that's not providing enough time to find that suitable. They're already looking for replacements now. It's already out there posted. They had zero. It'd be pretty unfair to the internal volatile volunte. Yeah, we would. Should we not get anybody within another week, we would start those conversations internally to be prepared.

037And then the person who's being volunttoled they're doing a transfer could start putting together curriculum work this summer and do it and then could get to next year and say okay well it's going back so you did all that work out well I don't think so it comes down to where we hold the line on accountability for once you have signed a piece of paper with us saying you are under contract and allowing anybody regardless of the situation to decide then in June or end of May that they don't want to do that anymore in in my opinion that I mean you sign that contract the these are the steps you can do out of it which is this and if you don't do this and we can't fill that then the consequence is the

038termin I mean that's a breach of contract which if we let her out of then we have a clear other than if we hold her to it then we're like well she'll get away that is that what you're saying Yes, I'm fine with the find a or what we've done in the past suitable replacement. Find a suitable replacement and then when she doesn't show up, we talk and she can't sign after I script. That's the part. It says legally you can't enter contract with two districts, right? But to point I don't know when the BOE says, "Well, we're not going to do anything if they've let you know." So would they care if she's got two contracts? That's what I don't know. I've never gotten that point. Does that make sense? You have some teacher

039residing is going to do nothing. So what's the point of finding the suitable replacement? What's the point of the contract? Don't say those words. Well, Jeremy, I think that's what Jer is, but we're trying to instill the integrity of what our contract means with our staff that we we stand on that and hold you accountable. In my that's my opinion because if we start just in my opinion, open it up anytime they want to resign. Now you've you've said, "Okay, we we went through this process. We've done it. We you know, well, this is my situation. Can you give me a break on this? This is happening to me. Give me a break on this." You just It's peaceful all over again. What's next? You have an opinion on this. Just I understand the board's

040perspective. I do. And my to Tim's point, this is somebody who's taught for 36 years. She could retire. The others were younger teachers who were trying to jump to another district. Um it's I see it different. I don't know. Um I see it different, but I I understand by holding the contract if you don't, it does to Jerry's point. Well, you let somebody else out. Why me? That's that's the conundrum the board is in. Yeah, 100% that's where you're at. But if they resign before July 1st, the board of education for the states, but that could change in the next way the wind blows. The BOE could come back and and change again the next legislative. I mean, the BOE changes its mind every day. I guess I'm confused. I thought we are going to

041vote on whether or not this is what we're doing. Correct. I think too though that we could just say we're going to just let her resign even if we don't find it. Like I feel like we have two situations. So the recommendation is is this because that's been consistent with past practice. To Tim's point, you as a board can pull anything out of consent agenda and act on it alone. Yeah. They would just have you just have to make a motion like I would like to pull this off the consent agenda, hack on it on its own and then make a recommendation at that time. What I gave you was what has been past practice and that would happen. Tim's way would happen during this meeting. Yes. Anything any this is just procedural practice. Cinogen

042is meant to go pretty quick. You do it all once for 20 minutes. This is the first word I've been in that that takes every item in a cons goes through it. But anyway, that's here nor there. to us. We do a little but to that point if you want the board at any time can pull something out of consent and put it later in the meeting and act on it by itself and we've done that. That's happened. We've done that. We've done that with R&D hire a lot when Julie was on. I think it happened on a on a um open enrollment. Yep. We pulled an open enrollment out. You pulled an open enrollment act on that one by itself because it was different. So the procedure it can happen recommendation is this. Yeah.

043Sorry. No more. My job is to make sure we have a consensus of which direction we're moving forward in. That is my job. Mr. I'll make the motion to pull it to the from the consent agenda and accept Kathy Amy's resignation. So we'll just pull it. Cammy will act on need a second that right now. We're just pulling the resignation of Kathy Amy out of consent agenda. We can decide how we handle your the other piece when we get to it. So that'll be moved under new business. Correct Cammy? So there is a second by Emily. Um any other discussion on that? All those in favor say I. I all oppose same sign I open enrollment is presented there's a couple going out I would assume I think they were re met timelines perfect um

044next up then would be financial report Jill actually I want to go back to the invoices so the the B5 one that you guys are asking about is a tow bus. The bus bus was towed, so it was a towel service. Okay, it's just a different name. And then the Midwest services was um laid services for applications for I'm assuming for licing. Okay. Okay. Um financials, if you want if they look at the um expenditure revenue report, um it still shows that we are doing right on track. We're about 1% off on expenditures and revenues. Um, and we kind of contribute that to the extra TSS money we got in the hourly bonuses that we paid out. Um, but again with the expenditures, we had revenue to back that up. So, um, we're still on

045track. We got about 21% of expenditures that we're going to be dealing with between now and probably end of August. So, these are our busiest months of the year. So, that's what we'll still be dealing with. So in June you'll see your June report and you'll see it in June and July and August and so you'll see it several times. So it'll be very preliminary in January. So and then our statement position um again if you look at that you want to focus on the bottom line. Um again we're in good shape um compared to where we were a year ago. Um, and I think with the management fund there was that, you know, we're a little bit over in 500, but I think that was the purchase of the the defense office, right? Management.

046Management is where we're levying that extra 500,000. So that's why we're up there. The dental office was purchased at Temple. Yep. And remember, you're in the you're you're in the hole in general. your your the fund balance has decreased, but we're prepared for that. We we knew that that's actually not quite where we thought we would. It was going to be higher, wasn't it? It's going to be about half a million, but we have we have another month left and that's going to be about 30% of our total expenditures coming in. So, but there's nothing there that stands out. It's all what we discussed in budget workshops. Uh right where we should be. Okay. Any questions on financials? Not contracts and agreements. I would I read through them. They all look the same, just updated

047years and dates. We've got soccer with Erlum, soccer with I35. Um, and then a H Heartland Aea special education contract. And that's just a normal that'll be your first Hartland A.E.A. special ed contract that always went through Aea flow through. Now it's we have to now we have a contract for it. But we have to push 90% back. You have to contract with one A.EA and they don't have to be adjacent. But we're doing Harley. We're going with Harley. Okay. Brand new contract. We understand we every year it's to pay the 90% out over 10 uh 10 months. Okay. to coincide with your um state a payment. Sorry. And then the other 10% we'll be a special code for it and we have to spend it on special ed services. I didn't noted to C.

048Yeah, C. I'll catch that. Anything else on that? This classroom clinic is the the online teleahalth. This will be our second year we started. So this is the new one or the this is for the next year. Yep. Updating that. So those are the only ones I want to point out. and the Indianola sharing for athletics and the engagement of outside level two. Yep. Uh we had a level two investigation we needed to conduct and we use an outside investigator by the council. And then the last one is adding the dental office to our purchasing agreement for all of our utilities. Correct Cammy? That is zero for the current year or is that zero for next year? I don't know if that's the 25 and the 26 addendum that you're looking at. That's your six

04926 next year 25. Yep. So zero. Cool. Okay. Any um any other thing before I entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda minus the resignation of one employee? I do have a weird question really quick. Is there any way to see the data from that classroom clinic software that you found? Uh, I sent uh I sent some preliminary out. Gosh, couple board updates ago. Yes, it was. Yep. Was it Did I hand it to you or send it to? It was at a board meeting. I think you had it at a board meeting. I provided you some initial data on it. Yeah. Yep. If you want some end of year, I'm sure we get asked for Kendra can pull the end of year stuff. Yeah. Kendra on that. Yeah. Okay. Any other questions? If

050not, I'd entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda minus the resignation of uh one employee. Motion by Tim. Is there a second? Second. Second by Gina. All those in favor say I. Post. Same sign. Okay. Old business. None. New business. Bus route proposed changes. Yes. I'll turn it over to Mr. Henrik and Mr. Messer to hopefully come back and answer some of the questions that you before. So, I'll pull up the presentation. All right. So, thank you for asking the questions last time. It put us puts our heads to thinking about why this is and and uh as they always tell me the long game of Doug. You know, we got something down the road that he's trying to work on. Um so, these are the the big things that Doug Doug's trying to

051to work on by by making this change. Um so, we'll talk about students, uh teacher, and then safety. Um first of all, just two student time. The first slide under student impact, uh, our students at the elementary come in 7:30 to 7:35 and then walk out the building at 3:17ish. We try to be busy by 3:18. Um, so they're just with teachers with our kids when they're in the building the longest of anybody in the district. Um, yep. Then students are all picked up in the same zone. If you've been down there during dispissal time, I'll talk a little about Earl later, too. Uh it's just kind of a we're dropping all middle school, junior and high school kids off. Our kids are standing in line. Uh and it's a mismatch kind of a behavior

052thing which goes more under safety as well. Um one good thing about student impact here is all students will be signed into a bus and have a route. Um so if when they're leaving the middle school right now when we do our shuttle buses, they just go out and they get on buses and we don't know 100% where those kids are through this plan. um whenever they go onto a bus, they will sign in with their tag and we can track where they are, when they've signed in and how long they've been there. Um so when we have things that arrive to the bus, this lets us know exactly who's in the bus when we have ideas but not sure about who's doing what. So uh that's a good thing for student input. Um bus

053times is right underneath there. Um currently the the plan is to not change anything at Wei Learners. They will still be picked up at the same time and still leave and still have the same amount of time on the buses that they've had before. Uh the change would be with putting the bus route starting at the at the elementary school at 3:00 leaving um having our kids on the bus a little bit longer um and then going to the junior high and high school and doing a flip-flop. So half will go to the middle school, half will go to the junior high to load up and then do a dance uh between the buildings uh and pick up the rest of the students. Um during that time, uh I think Ben has it planned out

054that those kids that normally rode the shuttle buses from those places will then go out on their bus routes, but they'll stop by the elementary on the way out of town or the way in town um wherever they go, probably in town for those most of those kiddos. Um and drop kids off there and then they'll go out. Now, I'll talk about that supervision here in a little bit. Um so then all students will still leave the school buildings by 3:18, which is what they are now. Um, so kids won't get home any later than they do right now. Every that they're leaving the school still at 3:18 should be back um around the same time that they are current time. Um, and then again, I just put down at the bottom, students are required,

055they won't have a quote unquote shuttle bus anymore. They'll be signed a specific bus to ride and they'll ride that bus back and that's what we would call the shuttle bus so we can track all of our kids. um bus route length. We talked about that a little bit of time. How how long are these kids going to be on the bus? Uh and when I Ben and I chatted, uh we currently have two or three two he knows of three possibly families that are pushing that 60 minutes right now. Um and that still be the same families as of next year. Two to three because we don't know if there's somebody new. One of those is just planned to be that way. I think we talked about this a little last time because instead

056of dropping them off on the way out of town, which they have to cross 169 in the busy highway right there, we have them ride all the way around it on the way back. We drop them off. Um so it's a safety issue. Um could be off earlier. Uh but pretty firm that this is safety. Yeah, they would have to cross three lanes of traffic. There's just no way I would let that happen, you know. So it's safety for that liability for the district. So, so that kind of is is the now what does this do? What are the other reasons Doug wants this other than get the kids out of his building? That's that's really not the main point. Here's where it really that helps our teachers and or other students. Um, right now

057we talked a little bit about our kids come into buildings earliest. We're there the longest. Uh, as you all know, student or teachers at the elementary walk all their students to everything they absolutely can do in the day. Um, and have no breaks in that time. Uh, teachers in my building have to be lunchroom and recess duties. they just don't have other people to do it. We don't have any extra special people like that that we can pop in there. Um, so that creates time with them as well. Um, just one of those things then would be kind of equity of teaching throughout the buildings. Um, just a thing. But for me, even bigger than the equity of the applicant is this next point right here. Um, and that allows our special ed teams, our

058tag teams, and our title teachers to meet with the grade level teachers uh from 3:05 to 3:25 every day. currently well they meet with them once a week. Currently what we do is we meet with those teachers once a week during their their planning times and well during the teachers planning times. Um so the spend teachers don't have groups at that time. The title teachers don't have groups at that time. Uh the tag teacher doesn't have a group at that time and they spend that 20 to 30 minutes in with the grade level. So that's I going to do some quick math here. That's four people usually for about 30 minutes, which is about two hours of teaching time that they take out for that grade level. And then we do that four times a

059day. Um, so eight hours a day, x amount of kids. We're losing a lot of special ed teaching time uh to meeting during the day. This would allow us to meet from 3:05 to 3:25 and free that time up time out time. And then just safety. Um here again there's 1100 kids that ride ride the buses around there for the elementary every night. That means behaviors that means lots of other stuff um that happens you can imagine. Um also results in the middle school and junior and high school students interacting with the little kids in maybe not always in appropriate ways. Um that that happened. How would we handle coming back with the shuttle buses? associates are on the clock until 3:30 and they'd be back at our building about 3:20, 3:22. Uh so they

060would be out there to watch kids get off the bus. Uh send them on their merry way walking um and would take care of any behaviors they might have that time. And then just the bottom one, having all those kids out there one time, this presents a lot of targets if somebody ever wanted to do harm. So that's kind of the kind of the just behind looking to make some busting changes. Hit us with some questions if you got them. Ben's ready. Just in your professional opinion, yes. You think the kids are better off on the bus longer than in the classroom longer? Educational time is our most valuable asset. Um, yeah. Okay. That in your opinion? Yep. Yep. Uh, and I think there's some some give and take when we when we do this.

061Uh, some of it's going to be getting more time back for our special ed kids, some other kids in smaller groups. Uh, some of it is the last 15 20 minutes of that day anyway. are them going uh just I don't think their brains and I didn't do I should have done brain research and gave that to but I don't think their brains are set up to take stuff in quite that long all day long so it wouldn't Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So they'll still enter at 7:35. Yep. They'll dismiss at 250. Yeah. Probably 55. Doesn't take us long to leave the building once we get there. About 2 minutes in the drill. Um, so 2:55 with the teachers down there, uh, taking them to the buses. And it's important, I'm going to say with the

062teachers down there taking the buses because if a teacher's with me counts as instructional time, it's like recess. Uh, that's why that's important to make sure the teacher all kids leaving, all elementary kids leaving shoe or are you going to do in in town or walkers, busers? It just just like now just at 3:00 instead. So the the busers and the other people will go to the front. The the walkers and the the riders will go to the back. We're working on a little different system out back too to get some some names and things. It doesn't say I will help I will help you with that. Just so we see who's coming. We can get some get that we'll I will help you with that. Yeah. I have some ideas. Yeah. So that's just

063kind of where we're at. All right, Ben. I'm going to put you on the spot. Do you think this was doable? So, nobody likes change and I've been doing this for I'll be starting my 11th year and this is the way it's always been since Rodorn's been so. Yeah. So, uh so we've been doing it the same way for 50 years. Um, so I put a plan together that I think will work that, uh, other schools do similar stuff. You know, Indianola has multiple schools. They transport every student. Norwok has multiple schools transports any almost all towns students. So they charge for any students over a certain age. Carile is doing the similar. So I I mimicked what we've done in other other districts. So do I think it's doable? Yes. Is it going to

064look a lot different? Yes. Are people gonna complain? Yes. But is it doable? 100%. Do you recommend it? Good question. You know what? My drivers kind of look forward to it. The shuttle is the worst part of their day. Yeah, 100%. If they could get rid of the shuttles all together, they would. But if I can assign them a certain group of kids that are their kids every day, I think they build a relationship with those kids just like teachers do with their their um classrooms. So I think they actually are looking forward to possible the possibility of the change. So um you know not knowing 100% what it's going to look like because I've never done it. We've never done it here. um it could be ugly for you know a little bit but

065I think I think you know our older kids are going to pick up fast and it's the younger ones aren't going to know any different so so what's a protocol if say I my kid hasn't been a shuttle bus writer but plan changes three weeks into school how do we go about adding them just what's that look like for that parent and how fast can they get that change to happen I mean because I can tell you parent of a junior high student plans change daily and it's it's great to have the bus there because they can grab that and come to a central location. So yeah, so typically I can add a student any student that calls and adds within unless it's a crazy uh question or I can usually get it done in

066less than 24 hours. Um it's just a matter of uh you know is this permanent you know what what what is what are the circumstances? Yeah. So if you want I'm hoping to have it you know each we're going to pick a group of kids and assign them to a specific bus and they'd be signed. Um maybe not with their friends. I mean, I'm going to try to break it up so we don't have all fourth grade on one bus or all fifth grade on one bus. Um, because that that's been an issue, too. You get it's recess on a bus, you know, with all your friends. So, so to Jared's point, if my student is a junior high student and I need them to ride the shuttle bus to the elementary center of town,

067they will be assigned that bus from day one if they're at junior high from day one. Yes, from day one. So, we will if we would bump out the information right now. If you plan on using a shuttle at all this year, please sign up and and we'll create maybe I'll work with Matt. We'll create a separate just a shuttle sign up because I'm going to need to issue ID cards for these students. And then once they have an ID, I will sign that ID to a specific bus. And then when they card on, it sends me and the secretaries. So if a parent calls, hey, where's my student? We can look in my software and say, well, they signed in at the middle school and they got off at the elementary at 317 or

068318. And so we know we can at least track them that far and then we can pull cameras from the outside of the elementary and be like, well, they got off and they walked across the football field or they watched north or whatever. So, it gives us a little bit of I'm coming around a lot more than I was a month ago. I just I just want to make sure that there's the ease of access for our students that might not know when they sign up in the next two weeks of school that hey, you know, this because things change. I mean, even, you know, I say junior high, but even middle school kids, Charlotte, one day is I'm doing this. Oh, well, now I'm gonna go to Maggie's house. I need to ride home

069or ride to the elementary this day, but not that. So that makes I just want to make sure that we have that flexibility that they that it isn't so that if you miss the cuto off date, you can't ever get on a shuttle bus because I know getting on a bus route is no problem. You know, that's call Ben, get on the route, figure out get your car, yada yada yada. But I just that shuttle bus has been such an important part to a lot of families that for pickup, you know, you get a kid to middle school, I don't have to go to vote. I can they can shuttle to here and I can pick them up at the top of the hill every day. That's a lot of famil family's emergency plans. That's

070a lot of families dismissal plans, bad weather plan. That's the same process. They might not be regular shuttle bus driver riders, but when school's out early due to storm, they ride the shuttle bus that day. There's just there's a lot of variables instead of and Doug, your points are fantastic, but they'll be the sign for the bus. Right. Right. That's right. But that's what as long as everybody knows that because it I will tell you you you will get the phone calls just like I do just like you four will as well this busing is just about as bad as teacher placement day when you find out where all the kids are. It's butts it's figuring out butes when you're when that precious cargo doesn't get from point A to point B like parents thought

071it was going to. It's a it's a problem and it's all hands on deck and I and I I respect that. you you know that and we've had lots of conversations about busing but it's just I just want to make sure that it's a system that is not too st you know tight that it can't be changed as we go if need be as a substitute teacher I will say again and there are some that have kids it has been the most beneficial thing to have that shuttle so to retain subs or to I like yeah so a couple of things um one I don't think that any decision should be because this is the way we've always done. I don't think that's ever sound decision making, right? So, I think you always evaluate, look

072at it right away. Doug's advocated for his teachers for a long time and I've kept kicking it back like get safety is number one to me. I said, "No kid is going to walk across something. If that's part of the plan, the plan's dead. We're just not going to do it." Doug worked on that. He came back associates driving bus. I said, "We're not leaving buses. Sit in the middle of town." He went back and reworked it. They think they can make it work. Will it will there be hiccups? 100%. Yeah. Um, so I mean if they feel comfortable that they can pull it off. Do we have a track? I mean I call it tracking system. Do we have that? Yep. Okay. A regular route. We have it now in the regular rout because

073we have such volume of shuttle kids and we just haven't implemented it. But now that I have all my S route kits in this system because we're only like two years into this system. So, uh, last year was basically our first full year with the system. Um, so now all those most of those families don't change. So they're already in the system. So now it just be adding those shuttle kids once they sign up into the system and issuing a badge. Every kid is in the system. It's just a matter of issuing issuing the badge and then assigning them a pickup and drop off location. So this could this would actually add to I guess I would call it security that we have a better way to keep track of you would Yes. My second

074thing though to go along with what Justin saying with the safety what who's going to be monitoring at the middle school, the junior high and the high school are the teachers that are already out there. Are we having extra eyes for this? Because that is my concern from the very beginning was having little ones already on that bus and how are we watching the kids getting off. Are you saying about getting off or getting on? I'm talking about like after school. So the I mean are you worried about the elementary kids getting off at the elementary middle school and they shouldn't or when the kids get on with Yeah. Any of those basically are we transferring in this situation? I know it will be less number of students. It won't be the 1100, but are

075we transferring the issues that y'all are talking about here off to the middle school, off to the junior high on and off? Once you're on your bus, you're on your bus until you're done. Unless you're getting off of their shuttle. So, the only kids that would be getting off the middle school would be like if you were working out there, get your kids or junior high. Yes. Yep. Staff member students getting off at the junior high. Yeah, they're stopped. I'd be the only one getting off. you have any elementary kids get and really they should leave the building and get on get on the bus or start walking. Yeah, there should be no down time with Right. sound like you know Ben fluid on it changes we go and it's makes I mean it makes

076me nervous too. There's a lot of weeding parts and I just it's one of the things is too we talked about the other day which now we're coming up playing with kids that will shuttle over. My kids get down to three, that shuttle's not getting 17. I have some elementary kids to wait for their shuttle sibling, right? So, it's okay. Where am I going to go? Oh, Ben, we're going to go those kids. We've talked about that, too. Okay, here's our plan. My kid made me, they come at different times. They fire hydrant walk up. They don't like that match match that stuff up. Empire Rider questions and I would say I think it's sounding more like this is probably going to be a yes but I think this is something maybe we use Donovan

077group or somebody to get a nice you know a you know something you what read in a video yes something that answers those you're going to get a badge you're going to get a route this is what this is what it would look like for an elementary kid for a middle school kid for a junior high you know all those parts and pieces because that It just helps them. Yep. Yep. Parent input. It's a fun one. I'll take it. I mean, yeah. If there's stuff we haven't thought about, I'd rather know it now than when we're putting the plane in the air. But I appreciate you taking time and coming back with to to us with all of this preparing input input input. um if you would maybe track those and just let us know

078how that go like if you know some of the common things you get if if this moves forward that way you know well they need they need some decision tonight if the board supporting it so they can plan that and then you know I think gathering questions FAQs are always good you get one question from parent and you just keep updating and putting that out there so that's out there will help with the video too kind and the thing too is it gets to be August August 10th and all of a sudden something big comes up. We'll work on that. We can pull a plug and say we're going back. I mean we just react to the purples. Yeah. So at this point would anybody like to make a motion to move forward with the

079proposed new busing system? I will make that motion. I will second that. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Good luck, gentlemen. Good luck again to echo. Thank you. You answered the very good. Well, thanks for put a lot more in my thoughts. So, I'll say thanks and keep them coming. If you guys think of stuff, say what about those having all the parents call you. They'll run. This is Doug and Ben's baby guys. Call Doug and Ben. The Doug and Ben show. The Doug and Ben show. There you go. Um, next on the agenda is theou for the teacher salary supplement for fiscal year 2526. Yeah. You want to take it or let me take it? Okay. The the TSS law that was being debated that

080and the legislator passed and we actually got a final uh amount that the district's going to get. So you remember in our contract we have um the teacher salary supplement that initially was spread amongst teacher evenly. So they all got a chunk and then that's how it moved for several years. Last year's with the additional a lotment we didn't add any to that this year till we knew we were getting because of the state minimums. Based on that, we um we feel comfortable adding $500 to that TSS amount that every teacher gets and then the rest will be distributed um in December and the associations worked a plan to tier that to try and address some of the salary compaction. We've met with them a couple times. They're still working on that. We need this

081in place so that when the auditors see it that it's there that it's and it'll be paid out. Um, it'll just be added that I think it was 6,150 to go to 6,650 that every teacher gets out of TSS, but we need it because it's after the contracts been issued to update them. So, that's what it's here for. Miss anything? Any questions on that? If not, I entertain a motion to approve theou with the WCA for the TSS increase for fiscal year 2526. So, there second. Second. Motion by Emily, second by Gina. All those in favor say I. I. Post same sign. Motion carries. Facilities master planning. Any action that you need from us or direction? Yeah, I mean that is I do a lot. I need some guidance on how you like to pursue.

082Um it goes back to just the timing. Yeah. to John. If you want to look at a save project um and you would like to start those projects next summer, uh then we would probably need to post a public hearing uh and work with them on the scope of that project. So, what I'm looking from you is how do you want to go about finances? You want to look at save covering as much as you can? Do you want to set a like a $50 mill million dollar save? Do you want to look at geo bond? If we do geobond and we just pump the brakes a little bit, um we start doing the the input, we take the plan out to the community. U next fall if we did a It would be fall

083of 26. 26. Sorry. Yeah. Next fall. Yes. 25. Yeah, fall 26. Yeah, it would be fall 25. We would spend we would spend over this the winter gearing up support, fine-tuning the projects, walking it around town, and take it to them. As you can see from, you know, the project, the capacity is there and saved. Yeah. Um, if you want to do that, it just comes down to the whole debt schedule. If you're paying off that debt, you'll lose the geo bond debt. That's something you have to try and protect. But, um, bigger than these projects going out a ways, you know, what what's the needs going to be? Um, I'll go first. I'm not opposed to using save in some capacity. I don't know what that total capacity is yet in my mind, I

084guess. Um, but I think that's probably a a smart thing to do. Um, you know, and if we could, you know, start that now rather than, you know, waiting a whole year. So, you'd like to look at having a public hearing, just so I'm clarify. I move forward with the public hearing in July or they intend to use save dollars and I can work with Brad to package it. We can also go back and when we first started on this path if I remember correctly that's where I need Cammy to jump in at her last board meeting and weigh in. Um, when we met with them last summer, I think when we were around that $15.5 million project was having a million dollars of of save for your ongoing expense, which he had 750. Um,

085in my conversation with Travis, he's like, you can take the 17 and be fine. And there are, it is true. We do spend about enough to knock 750 out of save, but we are accumulating quite a bit over again the voted ple. So it's just a matter of buying your buses out of ple instead of save or your laptop rotation. So the so the 1718 number doesn't include turf currently. Correct. Does not. It is the auditorium. It is um it's everything basically but the athletic facilities right here behind you. Wrestling room. So the bus shelter is in there. Um the bus drop off wrestling parking lot wrestling drop off parent drop off bus but not no security which we could find out if I mean pay as you go pay as we go on those.

086I do I do think Travis's question and this is something we need to go back to Bray is to calculate the cost for security if we have if we're forced to do that with the safe funds and update security. Correct. Well, my conversations with John and uh that could be Matt is that they don't feel that the auditorium meets the criteria to trigger the to trigger it. Travis is like, well, that's a difference between and correct. So, I think it would behoove us to know what that like if we had to address safety, what is it? One of them is the secure access off of the parking lot, that's going to be addressed. The other thing I remember from it, I haven't looked at it since it was really passed, was some of the film

087on the door. I I don't that's all first story glass or it's just first story entrances. That's the difference. If it's all glass, that's a big number. If it's entrances, that's Yeah. Um the shatter scale we've got. Yeah. Um but I think we need to have them work that out for us, too. So really that is, you know, a dollar amount if you want to go all save or if you want to do geob bond. Um Travis was saying in the conversation if you if Turk is something you really want to consider not you're building pebble dollars up that you could potentially do it. I I would advise that you get a number for all turf. I just football, baseball, softball. What's it going to cost to do all of it? Um, man, how often

088do we have trouble starting the blessings and stuff? That's that's something you could scrap. I mean, if you if you wanted to I mean, it's been on my wish. It's been on my five year plan since I started. So, I think we picked that down the road for several years now. You know, it's just I had it at North Poke and it was nice, but you know, we can just keep pushing. It is what it is. I'd rather have concrete out there in that lot than anything. They paved into the rock. Yeah. Yeah. Like I said, my in my starting block year and doing this, I've been through the geo bond, it's doable. It's it'd be do it'd be really hard to get it done with this election. It's like nearly impossible. Yeah. Yeah. No,

089thank you. Also, no thank you. freshman the south and just looking at this as an itemized thing. The south drop off parking lot will be behind where the new restroom will be where all the baseball guys parked now. All baseball softball people park back for cork and stay. Yeah. Where all those cars are parking, right? My point is 1.6 million for uh it's also the drive. So they come off of fourth. Yeah. It would be it would be adjusting the the axis on the fourth, making it bigger, making it a two-lane pave with curb on one side or both. Both both sides, I believe. Here is one curved drive going up and into that circle parking lot. Yeah, that's where that that number is. And we can't access it like we do now and just

090come in by that maintenance building. That's what That's the thing. Let's say not the maintenance building on fourth. You're talking about the brown shed building. The brown shed. Oh, between the comp gym and the stadium. Yeah. There's not unless we get rid of the building. So, that was something they proposed. I'm trying to I'm trying to think of a way to make that happen without having to bring a two-lane road off the fourth. I think it was the in the early stage that was discussed taking the drive off of probably the comp gym and going down and extending that road, but it falls off pretty severe there. They were have to build it up quite a bit and reinforce it to make it go. If you went all the way from Husky and come in

091through the parking lot. Yeah. If you went there, yeah, they'd have to build it up and go through there and go to that brown shed. Would that be cheaper than 1.69 million to come off a fourth and pave that? Yeah, I don't. That's a good question. I don't know what that cost. Yeah. So board are we doing save dollars public hearing in July move forward with some aspect 26 or are we waiting to do go in 26 to start something in 207? Do I have that in a nutshell? That's right. I'm looking Jill. Yes. So are you thinking about starting go ahead and pay as you go for the field? I think that's a conversation down the road that we know that to use save dollars on the football field, not only will we get

092petitioned for a vote, I would almost guarantee you would. We will. Um, you're going to have to address the safety because it's a standalone. It is for sure. There's no question it's for sure. If we use any save dollars on the field, it'll trigger the safety updates automatically. Yeah, that one is a stand. There's no way getting around standalone. The auditorium, they felt like the restroom was a multi-purpose room. and they said, "You're using it for dance and and some other you use for PE." They felt they could get that one. Um, that would be okay. The auditorium, Travis, is the one that brought up the auditorium. Is that a is that a standalone fine arts facility? We do use it for class meetings and things like, you know, different things throughout the day. So,

093that's just something we have to get more clarification, but the football field is for sure standalone facility. regardless which funding source we go with. Well, if you go geobond, you're getting the voters approval anyway. If you go save, then you're going to have to address all of the safety safety features and they could petition you for a vote anyway, which I almost guarantee you get. Yeah. If Yeah. If we put the turf in there, but we could pay that off in two years. Sorry. We could Yes. No, I'm think yes. You're Yes, we could pull that in. Yeah. Yeah. But still get voted. You'd still have to get voted. Yeah. It would still have to be approved, which is Yeah. I just think it's not going to proceed because of timeline and what you want

094me to do. We want you to tell us what you want. I think we got to have a get started on something. I I'd say if we can do a save, I'd say let's get it rolling. I'll work with Bray on a couple of options. We'll pull the um uh bus barn out as a a project. What's the cost for that? Question maybe phase looked at before, but I can't remember before I retire. Oh, it's got the brown building at the school. It's full of stuff. I was in there the other day. It's full storage. just storage and we are getting put into that money storage. If you did that, it could go there. Yeah, for sure. It could be way that we could save there would be a lot less concrete to the only

095thing about True it would. The only thing about that is um there's no way really to close off them coming off of anyway because of the hitting shed. So that access is always going to be there. So you still have people accessing that to get back there. And then to Gina's point, does it address the congestion? Um, two lanes would be so nice back bus drop off, that whole thing. That was one thing getting all the buses back there was they're not on Husky. They're not in that circle drive trying to access with all of our kids and staff and parents who drop off. So that was the other point that it'll move all your bus traffic to behind. So, so we're going to Do you want to do we need to motion this? We

096need to authorize us to publish a hearing. Perfect. Do I have a motion to authorize publication of a public hearing to move forward with save funding for projects? Is there a second? Motion by Tim, second by Emily. Any other discussion on that? To be clear, projects will be TVD all work master planning project. There you go. Perfect. That is perfect words, Cammy. You're great at that. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Go forth and closer. Next up, district, individual, career, and academic plan. Get the shovel. Start digging it. You have three things in front of you here. Uh Jeremy, another acronym, IAP, individual, career, and academic plan. Uh I'm not going to go through the entire thing. This is mostly meant to be shared with you.

097But really, what this is in a nutshell is years ago, legislative uh legislation passed that said every kid in 8th grade needs to have a four-year plan for high school. And every year more requirements get added to this plan. And so basically if you want to go to like slide three and I'll show you what's required. Keep going. Uh here. So what's required to have a plan for individual career and academic planning is the following on this slide. Number one, four-year planning. The second thing is work-based learning. The state last year redefined work-based learning and really focus on the actual event that a kid is on the job site. Previously, work-based learning was like job shadowing and writing a resume and things like that, which are all good things and it was all considered work-based

098learning. Now, to meet the letter of the law for work-based learning, it means on a site, on a job site for longer periods of time, like our MOC programming, registered apprentichip, kiddos, those types of things. And then in addition to those two things, the requirements in our individual career and academic plan, this is more of like the counseling part. So self-standing, career information, career exploration, post-secary exploration, and then career and post-secondary decision. And then another requirement as of last year that was added was the FASA advisement. Really the state really pushes hard that we utilize and take and fill out the FASA and there are some incentives and things like that for different entities with that. However, at the end of the day, what you have in front of you is our state report. Uh,

099how this state report acts as is you report the year you're doing the thing. Normally, you either report what you're going to do or you report what you did. This report is like right in the middle of the year and it's due at the end of March and it's what you're doing in the year. So, previously the last couple of years, we haven't done as well on this report because we just put in we use Zello and things like that. We got feedback that we need to talk about the very specific things. The most thing I'm proud of that I'll share because there's a ton here is that this has turned it started off as a compliance document and it really has turned into a holistic approach to what the district is doing and that

100I'm the most proud of. It involves a boatload of people. It's not just our counselors. It's not just our administrators, and it's not just our teachers. It's a collection of lots of folks. And this really truly does articulate the things that are happening in real time. There are links to everything that we do. And uh we just got our score back. We scored a 29 out of 35 and we were like three sentences away from like a 33. I'm super excited about where this is heading. And this year's legislative session added sixth and 7th grade because it's been a 8 through 12 requirement. And now we are being told it needs to be a sixth and seventh grade requirement. But the thing that I heard that actually passed was we just need to do the

101career exploration which we're already doing with Zello with current fourth, fifth, and sixth graders. So I think we'll meet the letter of the law. The nice part is this ties into the profile of graduate work. This ties into the work that Andrea Stewart's doing with us. ties into our building goal conversation. So, this isn't like a isolated thing like it was when we first started. There is a ton of people who have put a ton of effort into this work, our counselors, our teachers, our administrators, and this is a celebration of that. And we just got our score back this year. We scored a 29 out of 35, which is tremendous. And we're literally like three sentences away in this thing from a 33 to a 35. and they wanted to know more about one

102or two things we did on page like 42. Fine. Like we'll be fine. I'm not concerned about this whatsoever. And I'm really proud of our group who have really started off we and me included. We started off as a compliance driven process and now it truly is a plan that we're utilizing. And so this just this is just where we're at. And so what I am required to do as part of Iowa code is to share our plan which you have in this 54 page document. and then the rubric that we've already been scored on our plan. Um, and we scored a 29 out of 35. So, that's really it in a nutshell. But the IAP individual, career and academic plan, and it is a holistic approach to what counselors do, work-based learning, all of

103it. Quick question. Yes. Does this plan live on our website for people to see currently? No. But that is definitely something we could put on. I just I don't know if anybody else looked at the 50page document besides me because I'm a nerd that way. There's great information on that. I think that is we're doing real we're doing great things beyond just what we're legally required to do for Iowa if we can get that out for people to see. I think that's just a great I know not everybody's going to look at it. Some people don't that's an important thing to put out there. There's pictures there just a list of all these careerbased things that we do that we could share that is in there as well. So, we've done two things. We've got

104it in here and there's a handbook that has a list of things that we we've created a document here. This one, this is the plan. And one of the links in the plan is a workbased learning like a smaller document that does list the things that we offer for work-based learning. And that's in here somewhere. Is this what you're uh it's it's in the workbased learning content kind of this stuff. I've just had people say, "Well, you know, there's a big push for the trade schools and all that." Yep. We put if we could just have something that say this is the things, these are the great things that our kids have access. We do have that. It is in here, but that is also We do have that as well. Is that document in

105there? I would assume it's in there somewhere. I just don't know what page it's on. I just think this is just another one of those things to pump out as much as we can. We can definitely include that as well. So, we did a There it is right there in the Career Connected WBL playbook. like probably Yep. 10 pages long. Yep. That playbook does list out here are the opportunities. Yeah. But right under you're on the same right there. Let's just hold the Google. This is what we do have because we had to update this because of how the state redefined work-based learning. And then we tied in our profile of a graduate skill sets and some of the things the state's doing. And then just the continuum of what we offer all the way

106up from a job shadow opportunity all the way to a registered apprenticeship. And then down the line is just what we offer for the career exploration and then the workbased learning because that's how our state has done that too. Like there's got a link to the overview for the career fair. Yep. everything from if I'm a teacher and I want a classroom speaker to come like for example our elementary I think it was second grade brought in a engineering team who's and they talked about how they use math in real life like all the way up to we have kids going from to a engineering job and it shows that continuum of that and so it starts off as a job shadow all the way up to MOC placement uh internship those types of things

107that's the next step that our high school is really focusing how to get kids. Yeah, it's got links I can print. You want to pull that out for me to clear it off? Absolutely. But this has what opportunities because some what we also had to do was with our staffing and with our capability like what's the maximum we can provide and monitor because we are I mean we only have so many people that can monitor so many things. So that is something we had to do is what are what's what's possible. That's great. That's it for me. Yeah. Any question? But the plan does have to be approved. That is the Iowa. He has to accept the need accept the IAP plan because I'm also in the Iowa code. We're required to report to the

108board the IAP score and the plan every year. Do I have to accept and approve the plan? This has been really good. Excellent. I'll make that motion. Motion by Gina. Is there a second? Second by Jeremy. Any other discussion? Was it Jeremy or Yeah. Yeah. I wasn't looking. I don't hear very well to the left side. All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same side. Motion carries. Cammy or Jill. Sorry, Jill. Not Cammy. Uh, we're going to go to E, which is the contract. Um, the resignation of employee as new business. You what? We're almost done. So now is the time we can discuss that one. Um to ac uh you pulled it up to not accept it as presented which is uh accept the resignation with pending replacement. There you go. Those are

109the words. I was gonna ask if the principal had any opinion there. Yeah, Julie's building moving forward, but other teachers and things like that too. Ask me your question again. What if you have any opinion that you would like to give? put you on. My whole eyes are I can see both sides. Yeah, I think it's unique to consider the context. She's been district for a very long time. I think it was an opportunity that presented it to herself and was not an easy conversation at all. So, the human side of me she did serve us very well. But that that's the relationship I get to have with people. I I'm not on a board. So and that is the relationship. Unfortunately, we don't get to have we have to look at how we handle

110our policies and our contracts. I totally respect what she has done for our district as well. I hope you know I have a human side. Believe it or not, I do. But I also stand on a very firm side of procedures and how we do things. And I know Justin made the comment earlier, we shouldn't always do things just because it's the way we've done them. And I struggle with that a little bit sometimes when it comes to things of this nature because it it is a very slippery slope to start degreeing the impact of what that contract means. And I regardless of who it is that comes to our table for that that contract has been signed and they know that legally. But after hearing about there's not going to be any action from

111the DOE, I feel like then maybe Is that the case with anybody that I don't know if you even talked about that information? Pretty standard for districts trying to get your contracts out early, right? It just is. Um, and so but you have like the metro districts who are always hiring way late. And so that's my understanding with the be is like they consider that if they let you know before July 1st that's enough time from their perspective that they've given you notice to to fill it and move on. So they don't go after their license. They don't consider it a breach if they give it to you before then. They just haven't. That's been their practice to Could it have changed? Could. But that's just kind of been practice or she waited. she she

112after July 1st if she would have sent in middle of July then the probably would take it and they'll take those um as breach of contracts. Um we have if somebody resigns in the middle of the year it's happened to us when we take MueE and they they get um usually have take an ethics course and there's some action right um they just kind of said if if they let you know before July one they just haven't taken action against the employee they're looking at the employees should have the opportunity to move too is what they're looking at I can see both sides. I really can't. And I think for somebody that maybe has been under the district so long and and I'm also looking at it as it's a very hard category to fill

113and we need to be ahead of the eightball instead of behind the eightball. Even if it's, you know, Tim said they've got six weeks to plan for where they're going to be, what they're going to be teaching and looking at that information rather than, by the way, you're going to start teaching this on Monday. Hope you're ready. Yeah. We'll continue to advertise throughout. We would have to start moving forward with trying to let them let somebody know that what the board decides. Yeah. Will, and I don't know if this is a a question to ask at this time. Will this have an eightball or a a what's the word? Domino a domino effect of potential of I'm out. I'm not teaching that. I'm out. I'm not teaching that. So now we've got three resignations in

114that area and then that's worse. Yeah, there is potential. There's no doubt about that can happen we yeah I don't want to speculate there's potential yeah I guess I'm leaning more toward contingent on the suitable replacement with the way it was approved earlier or in the consent agenda not approved. Sorry, the consent agenda item. It's going to take a motion. It It does take a motion. Um, and again, this is all consensus building. So, my question is, is this something we look at in the contract? I hate to ever say those words. um where we put that verbiage in the master contract that gives them through I mean I don't want to give them an out but at the same time it would alleviate if the if the BOE isn't 30th but again I don't

115want to to do that but the BOE is kind of forcing our hand here if they're not if they're if that's what they're saying how can we Yeah to Dur's point I've never had it get that Yeah. Right. And you still can't work for two Iowa districts either. Like correct. They they won't go after the license necessarily, but they still you still can't be employed because that's that's that's the second question. And every circumstance is going to be different. See, that's different. This is what means we're doing correct. And we know that. So we'll we'll build for that no matter what. My question, yeah, my speculation is she signed a contract, Tim. Yeah, I know if they signed a contract. You read the contract. She'd read it for how many years? She knows it. Based

116on what we know about the be because they're the governing body, right? This is how this is all speculation and I look into it, but my assumption would be that if they are in a signed contract, but they've let that district know well in advance and they sign within the district and then that district terminates and says you they'd say, "Well, they they know they let you know that would be my but I don't know I haven't asked that and really to me it's not even the principle of the DOE it's a principle that there's a document signed with this district that we are willing to say me we don't value that document right now in a nutshell I think that's a little flippant but it Tim I'll be flippant with it then because what

117is the point of our contracts moving forward then if we're just going to say you give us a good enough reason so let I think that's let me throw this if she had said she was going to retire. Like if we didn't know the backstory, she's at retirement age. She says, "I've just decided I'm going to retire." What would what would you do? She signed a contract, say, "Thank you for your service," and agreed, let her go. I think we did that not too long ago. early retirement when they already signed a contract. They haven't signed their contract yet, but it was after the date of This is back in my day. I don't This is not my That to me is she can retire. That's why this Yep. Again, you get to make the

118decision. I will I will enforce her. That's where this one's different. And my that's you ask me for my opinion. Mhm. If she'd say I'm just I decided I'm ready to retire and retire. I I don't know. And I don't know what any of the story. So I'm I don't know any of the story either. I I'm keeping this I'm keeping the story out of it. It's she was all in black and white when it comes to contracts and I it's not being flippid. It's just it is it is the integrity of the contract between the Winter Community School District and its employees. Has to mean something. I'll make the motion that we accept her resignation. Is there a second? I will second. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Uh raise

119your hands if you're in favor. All those opposed raise your hand. Motion fails. So that motion dies. Yeah, I think there needs to be a resent. So there needs to be a motion. So if that is not what the board's consensus is, to just accept it and that what is the next consensus? You got a raiseer. I will make a motion to keep it the same as it was on the consent agenda contingent upon finding a suitable replacement for fiscal year 26. Is there a second for that motion? I second that. Any other discussion? All those in favor, raise your hand. All those opposed, raise your hand. Motion carries. Thank you board members. That is a great exercise in in governance in representative governance right there. Totally. Totally. I think we all agree to that.

120There's no disagreement on that. It's not a comfortable situation no matter what. Next up, board member reports. Uh Tim, nothing. Gina, I want to thank all of our buildings. I probably spent the most time in the buildings in the last month of the school year. I appreciate being welcomed into the building. Not that I didn't think I would be, but it's hard as a person my age coming in when we don't have a tie, when you don't have and everybody just I just walked around and everybody just made me feel very welcome. I loved everything I saw. Um, our kids are so blessed to be in our district. It's amazing. Totally agree. I spent a couple hot dog days. Got to love those. Those are great days. Lots of chaos going on. I'm appreciative that

121the dunk tank got nicked on that Wednesday. Would have been a little chilly. Gross. Would have been a little chilly in the dunk tank. But yeah, I agree with everything Gina said. And again, thank you all. I know Cam and Josh left, but phenomenal school year. Again, let's you know, kudos to everybody involved. Mine was the celebrations for all the schools for the end of the year. And one plague for Matt Young. He literally tracked like the eighth runner and tracked their times that seriously you should have seen the way and then he would open up events for students and he would have us track their times. It was amazing. Had no idea all that he puts into field day is very intense. His field day. Yeah. And the kids loved it. Oh yeah. My

122gosh. Especially boy verse girl. girl won a lot Jeremy. Um, what Gina said is spot on and our staff and administration is just top notch. So, hands down to our staff administration because it's great and to the softball field that was really neat. Did your job. Good end of the year for everything and congratulations. Oh, congratulations. Does create a conflict though. Yes, it does. Should looked at these a little closer before I signed on. Um, the three in-person convenings are all over board meeting days. So, July is the first one. Um, January and then April. Um, it's up to you. I think July is a light one. I think I could easily join that one remote. If you want me to look at changing dates, I usually bring in in July the governance and put

123dates on there. We can keep it. I can I'm I can join virtual if that's okay with you. I'm good with that. Keeping those dates. Perfect. Thank you again for support. Um look forward to it. Um uh proposed calendar change. I gave you a little bit about this. Um it it's going to require us having a public hearing to do it because we are actually changing a date on there. Um, I understand Cam's rational. I provided it to you. One day, they're still within the time frame. He thought Wednesday was a little better with the way started. They took pictures of all the kids that day instead of doing it on commencement day. Really made Sunday, he thought, go a lot a lot smoother. So, if that's okay, we'll we'll have a public hearing. We'll

124update the calendar in July. Consensus? Yes. Yes. Uh, construction project management delivery options. I gave you kind of Connor's overview on that. Now that we're moving forward on that, there's kind of three ways you go about the project. All have pros and cons. Um I think it would be who must have somebody come and give us a little overview of those three. Y um uh Mark at Abs has said that they would do it. There's a vested interest there. Um almost think about just seeing if Connor would do it. It will cost us his time to come do it, but if Connor would come and maybe run through the three delivery options or Connor's with uh Allers. Okay. Yeah. He's the attorney at allers that does a lot of contracts and he's he's the information

125there is from email he sent me I think. Yes. I think having it come from somebody like that third they're off. You got to breathe to death. I was I was told to turn it down. Oh, it's hot. So, I'll work on that. A little bit of time, but I'll see if I can get July or August to come do that. Um canvas photos. They're great. Yes, please. I can actually say that. I didn't say that last month. We've taken some good pictures. So, if you know a picture that you've seen over the last couple years, like that'd be great. You want it, let me know. Uh James going to start looking for those to just these are mine, but just keep them fresh, update them. We'll probably actually move these maybe down this back

126hallway and just kind of cycle them through. We need something in the new gym. We look at the old gym back there. I'm like, we need a new gym. Yeah, we'll probably get some We'll get some There's a lot of new kids dropping off on that new busing route. a lot of great pictures publicly for the district last year. So, um, Rainer's wife, I just passed that along to you. Um, you're able to make it or not, but, uh, visitation's Thursday, 5 to 7. Funeral is Friday at 1. Um, just so you have information. I gave you the property tax program summary that came out from the Department of Management. It came adjusted down to the actual quarter percent. Yes. Um, 65. 1965. Yeah. So it dropped from what was even in that one. So

127um as Jared alluded, we are presenting at the student success summit. Um I sent the presentation out basically just how we've tried to connect our work from the board table to classroom around our strategic priorities. We kind of organized around board role, my role, building principal role, central office role and impact of kids. We asked Arthur Davis to come and be part of our presentation and did a great job at the authentic learning showcase. So, he's going to come and we'll talk about his experience as a student. Um, my schedule, I am taking Friday as vacation. Um, and next Wednesday with vacation. And then we found out yesterday my wife's grandmother passed away. She lives up in the city. We'll probably take off sometime Wednesday evening, afternoon, evening, and then the funeral's Tuesday. I'll be

128back. So, I'll be out of district next Tuesday, Wednesday. One for bereavement, one for vacation. So, um, I'll have my cell phone. So, anything would come up for you than George. Yeah. Be great. No snow days. So, we're great. Um, all right. Last thing on the agenda is that it's different this year. We haven't done it this way. Usually, we go into close session, but we no longer do that because we are advised not to do that. You're going to do irreparable harm. We're not. Thank you. Everybody completed it. Justin has a copy. I have a copy. I've read your comments. I've read your things. I'm willing to accept it. Justin has his. We will sign off on it so we can get it submitted and filed away. You want to throw anything back at

129us yet? I appreciate it. If I hopefully, like I said, if you have any concerns, it's before it gets to this point. So, um, you know, I appreciate it. I happy to serve. I appreciate your support of the fellowship. I look forward to that. Um, it's a good learning opportunity for me and thanks for supporting it. If anybody wants to see the final one, I have it where you actually can look at it all in the system as well. I published it now. I figured out how to do that. Yeah. Like in some evaluation. Yeah. Uh just for Jeremy, I'll get so how it works in around September. I'll come with new goals based on this and what we're working on is as far as a district and we'll kind of review those in September.

130try to give you an update November, December, and then again in probably December the election and then again in February, March. And then you put all of his reference. It's been a great great process. Much easier than the old paper system. If nothing else, next meeting July 14th. 14th. July 14th. See you.