001Okay, it is now 6:04 and we are out of close executive session and we we will reconvene the regular meeting of the board of education for the pledge of allegiance to the flag 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. Roll call, please. Mr. Diesel, here. Mr. Herrera, here. Mr. Heny, here. Mrs. How here. Mr. Mueller, here. Mr. Piggy, here. And Mrs. Young here. Before we start the regular meeting of the board, as a reminder, all board members are expected to follow our approved meeting norms and board protocol. Are there any items on the agenda any members of the board would like to amend or move? Hearing none. Do I have a motion and a
002second to approve the agenda of the regular meeting of the board of education on June 16th, 2025 as presented? So moved. Second. Okay. Member Peggy made motion. Um member Hempy seconded the motion. Discussion. None. Roll call, please. Mr. Piggy. Hi. Mr. Hanky. Hi. Mr. Diesel. Hi. Mr. Mueller. Hi. Mrs. H. Hi. Mrs. Young. Hi. Mr. Herrera. Hi. All right. We will now have our district celebrations. And I would like to turn this portion of the meeting over to Dr. Shu. All right. Our first uh point of celebration is our 2025 district retirees. I'm going to take a moment to uh read the names of those employees from district 100 who will be retiring uh this school year. Uh from the support staff we have Katherine Crawford, Jean Berg, Kathleen Scoro, I'm sorry, Kathleen, uh Michael
003Buts, Gretle Baird, Heather O'Brien, Lorie D'vorak, Franklin Anderson, Pamela Schwendow, Shirley Benson, Ellie Hartzell. I'd like to note that uh many of those employees have 20 22 24 25 26 and Ellie Hartzell at 28 years of service to the district. That's our support staff. If we could take a minute to thank them for their service. For our certified staff, we have Tana Vtori, Jodie Brown, Tammy Lenoi, Julie Flynn, Karen Blomgrren, Tammy Sharp, Michael Bradford, Brenda Letinger, Jodie Flynn, Kelly Beielsbach, Timothy Johnson, Jodie Archer with 31 years, and Christine Lucau with 34 years of service to the district. Do we have any of those individuals here tonight? We thank them for their service and we hope that everything they have in their future is exactly as they would like it to be. Uh next, we would
004like to recognize our 2025 high school graduates. The Belvadier Community Unit School District 100 awarded 593 students their high school diplomas at graduation ceremonies on Saturday, May 17th. Belvadier High School graduated 270 students. Belvadier Belvadier North High School graduated 323 students and 49 graduates earned their diploma by completing their graduation requirements at Everest Satellite High School. Congratulations to all our graduating students. We would also like to recognize our 2025 scholarship award recipients. Congratulations to the class of 2025 from Belvadier High School and Belvadier North High School uh as well as Everest High School this year who received scholarships totaling over $246,000 toward furthering their education at the annual scholarship awards ceremony on May 15th, 2025. We are so grateful to the generous donors, community members we have that help to support those students that may
005not have been able to go ahead and further their education without that level of support. So, thank you very much. Uh this year, uh May uh is our teacher appreciation uh takes place in May every month or every uh every year in May. And this year, Catalyst for Educational Change uh which is a group that uh supports educators uh in our state as well as across the country uh had a special opportunity for us to nominate our educators for recognition. And we have four of those individuals who were recognized in our district and I wanted to take a few minutes to recognize those individuals and I see that I have some of them here this evening. Uh in celebration of the dedication and impact of educators, we are honored to recognize several of our staff
006who were selected by Catalyst for Educational Change for their outstanding contributions to education. These individuals exemplify the passion, leadership, and commitment that inspire student success and foster positive change in our schools. Please join us as we celebrate these remarkable educators who truly go above and beyond. And I just wanted to show you that uh for each of these educators, they highlighted them on uh social media along with some of the information that uh caused them to be nominated and recognized. So uh those will be shared with them if they are here this evening. Oh, sorry. Sorry, Jorge. Uh Angela Doss, fifth grade teacher. Jessica Pisky, high school social worker at Everest High School. Joy Bowman, early childhood principal, and Carla Mayville, former board president. Thank you and congratulations. Don't go far, Angela. Janine's going to
007take your picture. [Applause] Thank you. And the following people have been nominated by their peers for going above and beyond in district 100. When we call your name, if you're here this evening, please come to the front and remain standing for a picture. Uh Kristen Alberg from BHS, Kirsten, I'm sorry, Kirsten Alberg from BHS. Kristen did a wonderful job organizing all of our activities required through the Stronger Connections Grant. The Stronger Connections Grant allowed our secondary students, staff, and parents to learn more about mental health and steps to take if and when support is needed. The grant also provided students with one-on-one counseling. Kirsten's leadership helped everything run smoothly throughout the year and made a positive impact on supporting our District 100 students social, emotional, and behavioral needs. Thank you, Kirsten. Michelle Hagglesen from BHS.
008Michelle worked collaboratively with the school social worker and the IEP team for a student needing significant supports at BHS. She assisted with implementing supports, analyzing data, and contributing to the creation of an environment at BHS where the student can experience success. Her support to the IEP team and the student is truly commendable. Thank you, Michelle. Heather Perez. We have such a good representation from BHS tonight. Heather has demonstrated exceptional dedication and collaboration with the IEP team for a student requiring substantial support at BHS. She has also worked diligently with an outside agency to support teachers in creating a supportive environment that fosters the students success. Her resilience, her unwavering commitment to refining strategies and her ex and exploring new approaches to support the student are truly commendable. Thank you, Heather Karen Wesselhoff, Rob Wesselhoff, Brenda
009Brandman, Kayla Seamers, Michael Ree, and Sarah Garby. This team from BHS and North uh the essential elements teachers at these two schools have worked collaboratively to create a community-based instructional manual that outlines the process of implementing CBI within our district. Their outstanding teamwork and passion and dedication to their students was evident throughout the development of the manual and reflected in their commitment to the development of a more clearly defined transition framework. Thank you team [Applause] and Don Jackson. Dawn is one of our Calonia parents and this was submitted by Kelly Carter who is the principal out of Calonia and is in the audience this evening as well. Uh and she shares that she wants to take a moment to express her heartfelt gratitude for the incredible contributions Dawn Jackson has made during her time at
010Calonia School. Over the past six years, she and her son Lennon have truly embodied the spirit of kindness and generosity. From their memorable walks down the hall delivering thoughtful teacher appreciation and Christmas gifts to the countless boxes of food donated for our food drives, their impact has been remarkable. This year, in Lennon's final year, Dawn went above and beyond by donating teacher appreciation gifts for the entire staff, many valued at over $100 each. Additionally, her generous gift of a beautiful mural in the library media center will be a lasting reminder of their contributions. Dawn and Lennon's smiles and kindness will surely be missed by all of us. Thank you for being such an essential part of our school community. Thank you, Don. Thank you all for being here tonight. We are very grateful for you.
011And again, uh Janine is going to capture you in a photo moment. [Music] Okay. Thank you. And that concludes our celebrations. Okay, at this time I would like to invite any board members who have anything or anyone they would like to highlight or give a shout out to. I'll just uh want to say congratulations again to the to the to the teachers, the support staff um that have retired. Um thank you for your service to the district. Um certainly it doesn't go unnoticed. You you've left the place. You've left the district in a better in a better place. So thank you for all your years of service. We are appreciative of that. Um anyone else? Okay. Everyone has a great summer that is able to get the summer on. I know not everyone does, but
012Thank you, Mrs. H. Okay, we will now have our board committee report starting with the business services on June 3rd. Mrs. H or Mr. Hempy, do you have anything you would like to highlight or share from the business services committee minutes? Nothing in particular that's not coming up later. All right. Does anybody have any questions for Mrs. Hawk or Mr. Humpy or Mrs. Armstrong? See none. We will move on to educational services on June 4th. Mr. Dieselmile and Mr. Mueller, do you have anything you would like to highlight or share from the educational services committee minutes? Um, I didn't have nothing. One thing I did want to highlight, um, Miss Johnson was talking about the mental health. She was wanting a um wanting some money to continue. They had grants last year to do some
013studies and stuff and to hire 40 they had 40 students in a tea taotherapy and 25 students were inerson um counselor. So they wanted to continue that. So they would be asking for some money for to continue that. And I would I would probably agree that would be a good idea to at least try for another year. Yeah, I think several of us I think all the board members probably received some of the emails on that topic from various individuals advocating that we try to find a way to keep that program going. Uh that it was life-changing and very impactful for the students who were able to utilize those services. So it feels like it's for a very very good worthy purpose. Um the other thing I was going to comment on was um it
014was really great to see the energy and passion around the ELA curriculum. Uh this was a a problem that uh we've been trying to solve for some time now is to have more cohesiveness in the ELA program going from the middle schools to the high schools. And uh we had a committee looking at that and teachers and administrators quickly coalesed on the recommendation that they came forward with and they were very excited very enthused about it. So it was great to see that passion. Does anyone have any questions for Mr. Dm dieser or Mr. Mueller or Dr. Carson for that matter? Okay. Seeing none. At this time, members of the public and employees of district 100 may make public comments. As a reminder, any person appearing before the board is expected to address the board
015only at the appropriate time and follow the directives of the board president to m to maintain order and accord identify oneself. limit comments to 3 minutes and conduct oneself with respect and civility towards others and otherwise apply board policy uh colon 30 visitors to and conduct and conduct on school property this evening we have Mr. Kevin Pokei, would you like to come up? Well, thank you for here and I'll do the best I can to keep it to three minutes, but for some of you might know me, that'll be tough. Um, the reason why I'm here is I'm the owner and president of Four Corners Wellness Center, the program that we were just talking about was we had the opportunity to provide counseling for Belvadier North students, Belvadier High School students, as well as Belvier
016um South students. and we were averaging 8 to 10 students um once a week during that program. But really what I want to highlight is some of the feedback that we got from some of the staff, students, and parents. Um one of the social workers at Belvadier High School wrote, "Word is spread amongst the students that therapy is more readily available. There's been an increase in students asking for services and a need for a waiting list to have students seen. Counselors are consistently asking if there are openings for additional students to be seen." A student said that from Belvadier, "Feel more comfortable talking to you than anyone before." A mom from a student says, "Mom appreciates ongoing communication with counseling staff. Some push back from the student confronting issues he does. He does not necessarily
017want to work through. Parent appreciates us working through the avoidance and has been able to have follow-up conversations with their son at home." Bel parent said, "We truly appreciate it. I know my son likes working with you and has been making some progress. We are very thankful. A student from South said stated he has been stated he feels counseling has offered a new perspective on things and gives him another thing another other things to consider. Feels like counseling has been helpful. Administration said from the south very helpful resource and would welcome our staff um back next year feels we have a good connection with students and have been seeing some good progress from them. A student from South said it has been helpful to have someone to talk with about emotions and problems feel more
018focused and engaged with school. And from Belvadier North um two students comments the first one student say stated that they talked to someone has helped them be more successful. Went from failing multiple classes last years to A's and B's this year. Reported that regular sessions have helped her feel less anxious and more confident. Nice to have someone to talk to. He has helped with motivation to do school work. And one other counselor says, "I think the four corner staff did an excellent job with their students. I've only heard positive feedback from from our students. I feel like this is being um with this being a new program, you've provided additional support to our students here at North and also help the student service team, especially at a time when the student services had a lot
019of transitions and we would advocate for them to return to provide those services. For me, these are students that were identified that were most at risk within these schools and that had barriers to receiving clinical counseling outside of the school for either resources, financial resources or transportation. That was really the goal that your guys's commitment um the superintendent as well as uh Megan Johnson committing to this uh vision of being able to do this. Unfortunately, we weren't able to start till November. So, we only had six months worth of um statistics. I have lots more things to say about that, but um and there was a beautiful letter written by one of the students to one of our counselors, but um I would definitely I think it's important for you guys to hear from the
020students and staff as well as the parents about the impact to your commitment to these students. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Pokey. Anyone else that would like to address the board at this time? Okay. Next on the agenda are our consent agenda um our consent agenda items. Are there any items on the consent agenda any member of the board would like to take out for separate consideration? Hearing none. Do I have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda items number two through 22 as presented? Make a motion. Okay. Second. Okay. Member Dieselmmeer made the motion. Member Piggy seconded the motion to approve the consent agenda items 2 through 22 as presented. Any discussion? Okay. At this time, I would like to acknowledge the following donations. $50 Arby's gift card from Arby's, 10
021coupons for a free oil change from Ford Hamlock, nine $10 coupons from Neighborhood Cleaners, and 10 coupons for a free concrete mixer from Culver's for district 100 for sub appreciation week. Roll call, please. Mr. Dieseler, I. Mr. Piggy, I. Mr. Hempy, hi. Mrs. H. Hi. Mrs. Young, hi. Mr. Miller I Mr. Herrera I motion passes. [Applause] First up are revisions to existing board of education policies. Are there any policies listed on roll call any members of the board would like to take out for separate considerations? Okay, hearing none. Do I have a motion and a second to approve the to existing board of education policies number one through 22 as presented? So move. Okay. A second. Second. Okay. Member Hul made the motion. Member Hempy seconded the motion to approve the revisions of existing board
022of education policies number one through 22 as presented. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Mrs. H. Hi. Mr. Hempky. Hi. Mr. Piggy. Hi. Mr. Diesel Meyer. Hi. Mrs. Young. Hi. Mr. Mueller. Hi. Mr. Herrera. Hi. Do I have a motion and a second to approve all revisions to existing board of education policies? No. Yes. Y Okay. We'll do that over again. Do I have a motion and a second? Okay. Okay. Do I have a motion and a second to approve the adoption of board of education policy 7:25 students who are parents expectant parents victim victims of domestic violence or sexual violence as presented. So move second. Member Hal made the motion. Member Young seconded the motion to approve the adoption of board of education policy 7255. Students who are parents, expectant parents, victims of domestic violence
023or sexual violence as presented. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Mrs. H. I. Mrs. Young. Hi. Mr. Mueller. Hi. Mr. Piggy. Hi. Mr. Hempy. Hi. Mr. Diesel. Hi. Mr. Herrera. Hi. Motion passes. Okay. Do I have a motion and a second to approve the 2025 2026 administrative contract for 10-month assistant principal at Washington Academy as presented? Okay. Mr. Piggy. Mr. Piggy. Okay. Do I have a second? Mr. D. Okay. Member Peggy made the motion. Member Dmmy seconded the motion to approve the 2025 2026 administrator contract for 10-month assistant principal Rammon Voris at Washington Academy as presented. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Mr. Piggy, I. Mr. Dismire, I. Mr. Mueller, I. Mrs. Hulk, hi. Mrs. Young, hi. Mr. Hempky. Hi, Mr. Herrera. Hi. I believe Mr. Vores is here with us this evening. Welcome. Uh, is there
024anything you wanted to say this evening? Um, thank you. I'm very excited to start on the 28th. I have five and a half weeks to go to get my garage situated, my the artwork done. Uh uh thank you to uh the board and everybody who gave me a chance to uh become a part of the uh very good student. Thank you. Very excited. We are very excited to have you here. Uh we are we feel very um fortunate to have someone with your level of experience be joining us. Uh so we're excited to welcome you. I know Washington Academy uh will be a welcoming and wonderful environment. So thank you so much for being here this evening. Also want to piggyback on uh what Dr. Sh had mentioned. Welcome uh Mr. Vigores. Um your addition
025to Washington will be um it will be I would say uh uh I call it a sea change. If you guys if if you don't know 65% of our Hispanic student or population in Washington is Hispanic. So, this is a big big um um opportunity for us to have somebody um that is bilingual and is Hispanic when we hire the best people we can in these positions. The bonus is we have somebody that is Hispanic and bilingual. So, congratulations. We are very excited to have you. I'm very excited to have you at Washington Academy. So, welcome Mr. Vues to the district. Thank you very much. Okay, moving on. Do we have a motion in a second to approve the 2025 2026 administrative contract for 12 month special education supervisor for elementary and early childhood as
026presented? I move. Second. Okay. Member Hempy made the motion. Member Hal seconded the motion to approve the 2025 2026 administrative contract for 12 month Special Education Supervisor Michelle Jacobs for elementary and early childhood as presented. Discussion. Roll call, please. Mr. Hempy. Hi. Mrs. H. I. Mrs. Yunk. Hi. Mr. Mueller. Hi. Mr. Dusseler. Hi. Mr. Piggy. I. Mr. Herrera. I. Okay. Motion passes. Is Mrs. Jacobs here? I do not believe Mrs. Jacobs was able to join us this evening. I do not see any evidence of her in the crowd. Uh but we also welcome her uh to the district and uh we know that uh she was uh recommended very highly by the team and we think she's going to do really uh fantastic work for us as well. Congratulations, Mrs. Jacobs. We look forward in
027having you join the team. Do I have a motion in a second to approve the high school social studies curriculum adoption as presented? So moved. Do we have a second? Second. Okay. Okay. Member Hul made the motion and member Young seconded the motion to approve the high school social studies curriculum adoption as presented. Discussion. Roll call, please. Mrs. Hulk. Hi. Mrs. Yunk. Hi. Mr. Hempky. Hi. Mr. Piggy. Hi. Mr. Mueller. Hi. Mr. Diesel. Hi. Mr. Herrera. Hi. Okay, motion passes. Do I have a motion in a second to approve the magic school agreement as presented? So moved. Second. Okay. Member Hal made the motion and member Mueller seconded the motion to approve the magic school agreement as presented. Discussion. Okay. Roll call, please. Mrs. H. Hi. Mr. Mueller. I. Mr. Piggy. Hi. Mrs. Young. Hi.
028Mr. Diesel. Hi. Mr. Hemi. Hi. And Mr. Herrera. Hi. Motion passes. Okay. Do I have a motion and a second to approve the high school ELA curriculum adoption as presented? I'll make the motion. You have a second. Second. Okay. Okay. Mr. Diesel Meyer made the motion and Mr. Peggy seconded the motion to approve the high school ELA curriculum adoption as presented. Discussion. Now, I did want to say that um I appreciated the emails we received from some of the staff that um went through the committee and and figured out what curriculum we would be best using. So, it helps me as a board member make the best decision I can when I hear from our staff. So, I did appreciate those emails and it sounds like we have the best thing on here moving forward.
029I think it only makes sense also because we already have it in the lower grade level. So, might as well keep the same all the way through. Any other discussion? Okay. Roll call, please. Mr. Gieselmeer. I. Mr. Piggy. Hi. Mr. Mueller. Hi. Mrs. Help. Hi. Mr. Hempy. Hi. Mrs. Young. Hi. Mr. Herrera. Hi. Okay. Motion passes. Do I have a motion and a second to approve the new CIS edu point for school year 26 as presented? I so move. Second. Okay. Okay. Member Hempy made the motion and member Hul seconded the motion to approve the new CIS edgue point for school year 26 as presented. Any discussion? We do have Mr. Bell and Mr. Fry as well here in the audience. Anything you wanted to highlight about the new CIS for the board. It's very
030exciting. Yeah, very excited decision by the committee um to go with edge points. It does come at cost savings for eports. That's a plus. You're all we're also adding a data warehouse and analytics module in with this as well. So all that is included at a cheaper rate than we're working currently. It was about a four month process of going through multiple vendors. We brought three vendors in. This is the vendor that was position. Mr. Bell and his team did really an exceptional job of vetting all of those uh candidates of really being thorough and thoughtful in the process. And this is going to be a huge change truly impacting uh all of our parents, all of our students, all of our staff in the district. We will be taking a year to go through
031a thoughtful transition uh into this uh new CIS. uh and it will be tremendously impactful and the addition of a data wareh warehouse is going to make uh our ability to really track our data internally and impact student achievement and achievement gaps uh as a part of that uh much easier to do. Uh so really really grateful for the team's work on this and looking forward to uh the transition. Uh if it were up to me, we'd do it even quicker. Uh but as Mr. Bell has repeatedly told me, we need to wait a year. So, uh, we will be doing a thoughtful transition to that for implementation in the following school year. Any further discussion? Roll call, please. Mr. Hempy, I. Mrs. Hulk, hi. Mr. Diesel, I. Mr. Piggy, I. Mrs. Yunk. Hi, Mr.
032Mueller. Hi, Mr. Herrera. I Okay, motion passes. Do I have a motion and a second to approve the cafeteria furniture invitation to bed as present? Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, do I have a motion in a second to approve the subject.com credit recovery three-year contract as presented? I move to approve. Okay, we have a second. Second. Okay, member Hempy made the motion. Member Piggy seconded the motion to approve the subject.com credit recovery three-year contract as presented. Discussion. Roll call, please. Mr. Hempy. Hi. Mr. Piggy. Hi. Mrs. H. Hi. Mr. Diesel. I. Mr. Mueller. I. Mrs. Yon. Hi, Mr. Herrera. Hi. Okay. Motion passes. Do I have a motion in a second to approve the cafeteria furniture invitation to bed as presented? Okay. Second. Okay. Member Junk made the motion. Member Hul seconded the motion to approve
033the cafeteria furniture invitation to bed as presented. Discussion. Seeing none. Roll call, please. Mrs. Y. Hi. Mrs. Hulk. Hi. Mr. Hempy. Hi. Mr. Piggy. Hi. Mr. Domeer. Hi. Mr. Mueller. I. Mr. Herrera. I. Okay. Motion passes. Do I have a second? I'm sorry. Do I have a motion in a second to approve the kindergarten furniture purchased as presented? I move to approve. Okay. Second. Okay. Member Hempy made the motion. Member H seconded the motion to approve the kindergarten furniture purchase as presented. Discussion. This is the first year of a three-year roll out for this kindergarten furniture uh purchase essentially where we will be uh turning over all of the kindergarten classrooms uh into spaces that are better designed for those kindergarteners and for learning based on research and best practice. U Mr. Winters, anything you
034wanted to highlight on that? No, just um a lot of work went into this uh uh decision u from a committee with u Dr. Johnson. And then as our own little committee, a lot of talking with teachers, a lot of talking about um what best fits their needs. Uh great great feedback from teachers. I just I love walking into the classroom talking to teachers about this stuff. So I I'm looking forward to the lifetime warranty on everything, which is going to be awesome. Don't expect anything. just a fantastic uh project that uh really does show how the environment affects how we teach and more importantly how we learn and very grateful to Mr. Winters for uh all of his work on this uh meeting with multiple multiple vendors uh and I think putting forward the
035very best package here at the end and Dr. Johnson who's been working with the kindergarten research team on this as well. So this is the beginning of I think a really impactful uh change in our kindergarten classrooms. I I would add also that I'm impressed that it includes professional development training that goes along with how to best utilize so it's consistent across the the district across the elementary schools and it will be rolled out in three years. So I that uh I think that's what really sealed the deal for me is the the training. Excellent. I really liked how it's laid out with the pictures too and the classroom I work in. We have a lot of these same things. So, I really enjoyed going through it and seeing those pictures attached to it. Excellent.
036Thank you. Any further discussion? Roll call, please. Mr. Hempy. Hi, Mrs. Hulk. Hi. Mr. Diesel. Hi, Mrs. Yunk. Hi. Mr. Mueller. Hi. Mr. Piggy. I. Mr. Herrera. Hi. Motion passes. Okay. Do I have a motion and a second to approve the Toro invitations of bed as presented? [Applause] So moved. We have a second. I second. Okay. Member Peggy made the motion. Member Hempy seconded the motion to approve the Toro invitation to bed as presented. Discussion CNN. Roll call, please. Mr. Piggy. Hi. Mr. Hemi. Hi. Mrs. Young. Hi. Mr. Mueller. Hi. Sorry. Hi. Thank you. Sorry. Mrs. Hulk. Hi. Mr. Diesel. I Mr. Herrera. Hi. Okay. Motion passes. Do I have a motion in a second to approve the cell phone electronic devices use research study as presented? I move second. Okay. Member Mueller made the
037um motion. Member Diesel Meyer seconded the motion to approve the cell phone electronic devices use research study as presented. Discussion. I would just highlight that we've already begun meeting with this team and we are hoping to be bring a recommendation forward in July to the board uh to really be ahead of whatever is going to happen in terms of legislation um and to create really a system uh across the district uh in terms of being able to secure those cell phones during the school day in whatever manner it is that the committee determines uh is most appropriate so that our students have the instructional time preserved to the very best of their ability and that each individual teacher is not uh needing to address a cell phone or electronic use uh in their classroom. So,
038uh we have a great team. We're still looking for a board member if any board member uh wants to hop on that team uh and really hoping to bring a a thoughtful uh proposal forward next month. Thank you, Dr. Shug. Any other discussion? Seeing none. Roll call, please. Mr. Mueller, I. Mr. Diesel. Hi, Mr. Piggy. Hi, Mr. Hempy. Hi, Mrs. Yunk. Hi, Mrs. Help. Hi, Mr. Herrera. Hi. Okay, motion passes. Do I have a Do I have a motion and a second to approve the Stronger Connection Grant as presented? Make the motion. Okay, second. You got it. All right. So, member Dire made the motion. Member Junk seconded the motion to approve the stronger connection grant as presented. Discussion Dr. Johnson indicated she's looking for other sources of funding. Correct. You know, we'll we'll plan
039to make up the difference from whatever she can't. That is exactly correct. Yeah. Um so we are going to still try to pursue grant funding, but we may uh fund internally. We think that this is a really high need area and we appreciate uh the board's support on this. Is it offered? It's offered in the schools. The counselors come to the school. Yes, we have uh counseling that is offered in the schools and we also have uh teleaalth support that is offered outside of the school day. And I I don't know Dr. Carson, do you have anything else you want to add to that? No, that's the case is Yeah. And then we have the partnership with effective school solutions that will be taking place in the middle school. So that's why this is just
040for the two high schools cuz they won't have that service anyway. Any further discussion? Okay. Roll call, please. Mr. Domeer. Hi. Mrs. Yunk. Hi. Mr. Mueller. Hi. Mr. Piggy. Hi. Mrs. H. Hi. Mr. Hempy. Hi. Mr. Herrera. Hi. Okay, motion passes. Do I have a motion and a second to approve the amendment to the intergovernmental agreement for the Boone County, sorry, for the Boone Wnebago Regional Alternative School as presented? So moved. Okay, there second. Second. Okay, member Piggy made the motion. Member Hul seconded the motion to approve the amendment to intergovernmental agreement for the Boone Wnebago Regional Alternative School as presented. Discussion, I guess. Can you explain a little bit? It's just kind of I'm in the summary. Yes. Uh so essentially um the intergovernmental agreement amendment is to disband the board uh that oversees
041summit which is uh the alternative school that we utilize uh in the case that we need to make an outplacement for a student typically for behavioral reasons uh or expulsion uh reasons. Uh this uh school is right now overseen by a board that is comprised of superintendents in the counties. Um this because of the way that that is currently um operated, Summit's not able to sort of fluidly make some of the decisions and do some of the things that they need to do. Uh in this amendment, the superintendent will still maintain oversight. Uh there'll still be regular uh report outs. uh and we'll still be engaged with the ROE on this, but this won't uh cause us to have those quarterly board meetings um to oversee the level of detail that we would as a
042board. But again, there is still accountability with the ROE. Um our attorney, the board's attorney has reviewed this. I spoke with him again today regarding uh financial oversight uh and making sure that uh he felt like this was still a decision that um he felt was a reasonable one to be making and he felt like yes the ROE was going to be reporting out on any financial matters uh regarding Summit Academy and that uh this uh would would allow Summit to function to the best of their ability and still allow for oversight by the superendent Did that respond to your question? Yeah. I felt like it was a lot of words, but I'm glad I responded to your question. All right. How many how many districts does Summit cover? Uh it's in Wnebago and Boone
043counties. So, it's all the uh secondary districts in that area would be served by those schools. How many superintendents is that? 13. 13. But I can't I can't swear to that, Brian. So, yeah. Okay. And we don't make we don't make as much use of that anymore because we have Everest. Um so we kind of make use of that only for really serious cases. Correct. That we can't deal with within the district. Does it have a location? Does it have it singular location? It has a singular location. Yes. And not Harlem. Uh it's got a singular location where we send our Harlem Jun Junior High School, I believe. Sure. Yeah. All right. And then we we all contribute to funding it each and we pay for individual students that attend there as well. So when
044we send a student there, we uh we send a tuition rate with that student to attend there. Okay. Thanks. Any further discussion? CNN roll call, please. Mr. Piggy. Hi. Mrs. Hul. Hi. Mr. Mueller. I. Mrs. Young. Hi, Mr. Dieseler. Hi, Mr. Hempy. Hi, Mr. Herrera. I motion passes. The following items have been added for discussion or will be coming up for further review and or possible action in the future. Ragbrine information has been provided and the board may ask questions and or request clarification at this time. upcoming contracts and renewals and reports. I don't have anything to highlight there. Okay. But Oh, go ahead. Nothing. Okay. Uh at this time, I'd like to turn the meeting over to Dr. Shug for administrative reports. All right. Uh we are going to start uh with Lori Miller
045who is here tonight to talk to us about our communication uh plan and that we have been uh working through as a part of our gold three strategic plan uh which is focused on family and community partnerships. We are very appreciative of uh Donovan Group uh and Lori coming and making several visits here to the school district to help assist us in this process. and she's gonna highlight uh some of those pieces for us here this evening. Yeah, thank you. And Janine's pulling up my reference. Thank you. It's great to have this opportunity to be with you and to also work and serve with you all. So, I'm going to talk a little bit about the audit and planning process that we have been working through at the district. And uh I don't know, Janine,
046should I pull on my ear for like slide advancement? There you go. So, just you're fine. You're fine. So my name is Dr. Lori Miller. Call me Lori. And my background is I have 26 plus years as an educator in the state of Wisconsin as a school superintendent for a number of years. And now I am a partner for the Donovan Group. The Donovan Group is a K12 public school national leader for communications and community engagement. And so again, we're just really grateful to have this opportunity to work with you all on this particular strategy. So our why why we're taking on this process of doing a communications audit and planning is to align to your goals that you have in your strategic plan. And if you look under goal number three, family and community
047partnerships, this seems to be an area that we wanted to focus on with this audit and planning process. So that's a little bit about why we're doing this. And when we embark on this kind of process, the first step that we do is we kind of assess the scene. What's working? What's maybe not working? Where are there some opportunities for us to improve with our communications and engagement? So, our team will facilitate that audit process and we do so by going through these four different steps. We we do what we call a communications inventory, which means we look at everything that's accessible to us as a communication tool that you may use in the district. So, we look at your your uh posts on social media. We'll look at your website. We do conduct a
048website audit. Um we'll look at what's available in terms of headlines, um what you may send out as newsletters, all those different types of communications. We also interview what we call our key communicators. So those would be the individuals in your school system that are responsible for doing a a line share communication out from the district but also are positioned to receive information and a communication back. So they're there that we call that two two-way or binary communication. We interviewed 31 individuals. So we we had a lot of opportunity to talk to all those key people in your system to see what they think works and doesn't work with communication. We also then conducted a survey and we had that survey go out to um your your staff and your community members. We had 302
049full submitted responses for that survey. And then from the survey, your communications planning committee, we talked about who might we want to speak and speak to and go a little bit deeper um at following that survey. So we did a series of focus groups. We did nine focus groups which included talking to students including students at your fifth grade level all the way up to high school. Um we talked to families. We talked to families who are um uh English is not their first language and so we wanted to dig a little deeper and and understand what kind of challenges they might experience with communications and engagement. Um so it was really a robust process. We even talk to your business leaders and communication or community partners. So we take all that information which we
050call findings, right? And we put that into an audit report. So that's the next slide here. I know that you were provided a copy of the audit report for your board materials. There is a QR code here if you want to want to uh pull it up on your phones now. But um really just from a high level what we learned um you know the the common communication strategies that are are relied upon here in the district. You can see that list there. Um, probably nothing too surprising, but I would say if you go down to that bottom box there on the left, some of the best communication strategies that are working for you all right now is that that use the parent square. Um, it is predominantly the the one tool that most of
051your audiences here in the community are using. It doesn't impact those who don't have students though in the district and that's something that we've talked about. Um you can see the other preferences are really email, text messages and phone calls. People still enjoy that face to face as well. So some of the challenges that that we discovered is that uh your your families, your students, your staff, community members, they feel like they're a little overwhelmed with the amount of communications in the way that they come and they're coming in different formats or or platforms. And so there's an opportunity there to really streamline the way we do communications and again parent square provides a lot of promise for that. Um we also think that there's an opportunity there to ensure some consistency of around communication
052coming from your schools. We learned that some schools have more frequency with communication than other schools. Um, and we think it's really important to have some consistency in terms of equitable access to communications and information across all your schools. So, that's something we can work on as well. And then providing communication to families in their preferred languages, which is something that the district does. I think there's just more opportunity to do so. When we look at where do we go for opportunities there in that bottom box you can see that um some of our recommendations from our team following this audit is that we wanted to establish some clear guidelines for frequency and quality of communications to help with that consistency across all your schools and along with that keeping the websites updated. So you
053do a really your our audit produced said that your your district website generally speaking is really easy to navigate. Some of you may disagree but from a from a from a standpoint from us we see it as pretty easy to navigate. What's what's problematic is that when you dig into the different building web pages that's where we start to find a lot of inconsistencies. And I think that's creating some challenges for your families. And so they would report back that the website isn't always the easiest to navigate. Um, we see there's value in expanding your community outreach to those individuals who don't have direct affiliation with the district and then strengthening those connections with families and the community which you've already identified in your strategic plan. So the next slide, we take all that information
054and we worked with your communications committee that you have working on that component of your strategic plan and we went through those findings to develop what do we want in our communication plan moving forward and that's really strategic and intentional. So what are those key things that we want everybody to know and understand and feel about the Belvadier school district? Who are our targeted audiences? And often we will identify everybody, but it's important to think about who are those audiences that maybe require different or adjusted communications. An example might be some of those post-secary educational institutions that are nearby. What do our communications look like with them as an example? Um maybe your senior citizens, what what do our communications look like with them? And then what are our goals of those communications and how
055are we going to deliver on that and measure that? So, you do have a copy of our plan that we've put together. Um, again, kudos to your communications committee who kind of worked through this process and have really, you know, navigated these questions to really develop this plan for you. If we go to the next slide, I'm just going to give you a highlight of the key strategies. And it's probably best to think of them as three buckets. There are really three main strategies or goals that we think could really elevate your your work around communications and engagement. So the first one is around expanding and refining what you do as external communications. So that's the first bucket external communications. So um here there's an opportunity to uh streamline you know if we look at
056the tactics there streamline what you just send out for communications and enhance the website as a tactic um and support your multilingual and inclusive communications. So this speaks to um all all of your families that maybe English isn't their first language. Increase the social media consistency. Again, this speaks to some of your schools, some of your programs, some of your clubs. They do an exceptional job. We want to make sure everybody's at that same level. Um, deepen engagement among families, educators, and community members. We heard a lot that your families want more communication around academics and academic success and also ways that they can engage with their students. So that collaboration between educators and families is something that we can work on. Um but here's the big one. Increase the visibility of district 100 to
057showcase all the quality and successes that you have. So what we see is a a huge mover, if you will, for uh expanding and refining your external communication is promoting promoting the value ad that you all bring to everyone that that comes in contact with the district. um you do a great job right now of offering opportunities for people to give you feedback and I think that there's an opportunity there to increase more um there is that always for all school districts this this desire to have transparency and so with that I think we can accomplish that with uh working on our external communications and then another piece is you know with that promoting and marketing is developing and launching a new district brand and so your current brand you know that's over here um
058with the district 100 kind of leaning forward to show momentum. That's something that we're working to adjust to take you all into the next, you know, couple couple of generations of uh future learners here. So that's strategy number one, external. And then strategy number two is internal communications. So these are the communications that exist among, you know, yourselves as board members as well as your staff, your um even your families and your students. And so one of the things that we heard is that there's a great opportunity here to enhance your staff communications. Um your staff has a lot to offer. They want to have their voices heard and they want to be empowered, right, with with their ability to communicate and engage around decision- making. And then also the opportunity for professional learning for
059staff communications. I think if we can um coordinate professional learning for the staff that helps develop capacity so that we have more individuals across the district who can serve as key communicators and do so in a consistent manner. that would give us a lot of benefit moving forward with internal communications as well. And then the last bucket or last strategy is really how do we sustain all this? Um, you know, I think maybe when you look at the communication plan and you look at all those tactics, you're like, "Oh my goodness, that's a lot." Uh, and so that that's really what this bucket is about. And so what we we'll do to support you all is we'll create what we call a communications guide. And that guide is uh like it's kind of like a
060handbook if you think about it that way that can be used with all of your key communicators across the district. So again, ensuring consistency. Um it'll be important for the communications committee to continue to monitor and evaluate the work of this plan. Now we have a guide to follow with the plan and there's a 12-month road map that you see at the end that takes all of these tactics and kind of maps them out. How are we going to do this over the next 12 months? and then continue to ensure the importance of communication with staff. Your community wants to hear from you all and so how do we support your staff and making sure that our families and our community are getting those communications. So, um the next the next steps here um is
061really working to implement the plan and we'll be doing that work collaboratively with the communications committee, but also we're really really uh in the midst right now of working on a new brand like we talked about and uh we actually have our next meeting tomorrow and that'll be a key marketing strategy to really promote the district and we want to be in position to have that brand ready to go for the start of the school year, right? So it's like an a new door, new opening and uh it's an opportunity to really get some momentum behind that new brand. And then we we are on board to support you right now too with developing and launching that family and community engagement plan. So getting really uh detailed with specific strategies that we can carry out
062over the next few months to start elevating that engagement. So that is just like a really high level of everything that's been going on over the past few months to complete that audit and planning process. I'm happy to answer any questions or go a little deeper on anything that maybe you feel you need more more support. Thanks for presenting that. I'm curious how how will we measure the success of the improvements we made and how did we baseline where we stand in a measurable way. Great great question. So there's a couple of ways that we'll measure that success. One is really through that road map. That's our our progress check. Like we'll be able to see are we making the progress of developing those communications and rolling those out. That's that's one measure, right? we
063can see that. The second measure that I think is important, we have baseline with the the audit, right? So we know where our areas are for for improvement and where we need to grow. So we can go come back a year from now and do another survey. We can even do another full audit if we needed to. But that's where we can track progress. Are we making progress in those areas that we really feel need to to see some growth? And we also have on our strategic plan dashboard uh some key measures that we measure year-to-year uh in terms of um our five essential survey data. We've uh identified some metrics there about uh would you recommend the district to others um and uh do you as a parent family member feel like your voice
064is being heard so we monitor those uh benchmarks year to year as well and and that's really a good measure you know through the university you have that five essentials and they that is a key component communications and engagement that they're measuring on an annual basis with you all so I think that is a great baseline as well. Yeah. As far as the communication guide, what are I guess a little deeper dive into that? What kinds of things would we see in there? Yeah. So, for that guide, which is around that sustainability piece, it's like how do how do we develop you know the the best social media posts for example, what should be included, what should not be included. Um how do we share posts across the different entities in the district so that
065we don't have silos? Um, it'll have guidance about how to best s sustain your web page, whether it's uh for a department or for a different school. Uh, it'll have frequency of postings that like everybody will try to hit that same parameter. So, that that's that it's just step by step of each of our different communication tools to make sure that we're consistent newsletter development, all that. One of the things I liked down here is the external communications and trying to raise awareness to what a great asset the district is to our community. Yeah, that's a that's a hard to measure one and I don't know I sat in on one of the key I think it was one of the key communicator uh sessions and you said there were only 31 who were able
066to attend. So 31 interviews. So those were one-on-one interviews. Those are one. Yeah. Okay. The focus groups we had nine different focus groups that had several people participate in each group. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just I I was curious if you really were able to get garner enough feedback to really understand the baseline and and what you're measuring against. Yeah. So I think one of the questions that we spent quite a bit of time on that's related to your question um as a planning committee was the survey response from staff about you know how at what level would they promote or feel comfortable promoting the district and we we we were kind of you know scratching our we like that's not the highest we would we want our staff to be out there really promoting
067the district and so that led us to going into the focus groups to kind of ask a little bit and go deeper about that, like why would you not rate yourself hired in order to promote? And what we learned from that was that the staff didn't know enough about what was going on in all the other areas of the district that they felt like they were in a place that they could really speak to promoting. So I think that that's you know that's a really insightful conversation that we had which is easy to address and we can fix and I think a measure can be you know in terms of promoting and marketing is seeing the staff feel more comfortable to to respond to that or or and seeing some increase in numbers with enrollment
068too. Yeah. Yeah sense. Yeah, kind of a side question. Um, Parent Square, do we utilize multil- language capability in that? So, we do. Yes. Okay. Yeah, it's a nice tool because it has that feature to help with the translation. Yeah. Good. It's not perfect in terms of the translation, but we do utilize it. Yes. Okay. Good. I really have appreciated working with Dr. Miller on this. She's done a really fantastic job and we're really excited for the uh brand uh that we So, you're going to see her again next month. Oh, yes. Uh assuming we get through that branding work. Uh we hope to see her again next month uh to talk a little bit more about that. And if you have anything else in the meantime, please uh feel free to share with me
069and we'll get it back to uh Lori so we can do some followup. Thank you everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, Mr. Hemi, I wanted to go back to your question about uh, Summit. There are eight board members and 13 districts that refer students to Summit Academy, but eight uh, board members that are on that Summit Academy board at this time. Okay, thank you. You bet. Well, I felt like I was I like to have that number hanging out there. So, just wanted to clarify that. All right. Uh I we are on to superintendent comments which I will go through very quickly. Um we have a really exciting uh project taking place at North High School. Uh you may remember us uh talking about this previously. Our agricultural classes have uh partnered with some of
070our other classes on this functional landscaping project where they built these uh boxes. I raised Thank you. Thank you. raised beds. Raised beds. I I need I need all the language in the slide clearly. Uh the the raised beds and uh so the construction class helped to build those. Our egg classes uh helped with the mulch, the dirt, the planting. Our foods classes have been engaged with the uh fruits and the vegetables, the jams, the pies. Uh they've been selling some of these products as well. They're very very excited about this work. Uh as are we. So, uh, it's been really nice. The students really spearheaded this, presented this project, have done a really nice job with this. Uh, always proud of our BHS best buddies, uh, here during the last week of school. Uh,
071they hosted a fundraiser and a block party on the track, uh, where they had lunch together, uh, walked the track together, and it's just really a fantastic, uh, partnership, uh, with our students, serving, uh, some of our students with IEPs. Uh, it's been a fantastic program. I want to recognize Katie Larabe for her teacher of the week. She was recognized. She's a teacher over at Mian. One of her parents uh one of the parents of one of her students uh shared, "We have been blessed to have Mrs. Larabe be our son's teacher this year. My son was diagnosed on the spectrum and at times struggles with focusing or dealing with meltdowns when he's overwhelmed. Mrs. Larabe has shown throughout the year a willingness to find ways to guide our son in learning and making it
072fun. It takes a special person to understand and have compassion for any and all students and Mrs. Larabe is a prime example of this type of person. Uh we also had our eighth grade promotion ceremonies. Uh really nicely done uh by the staff and administration at both South Middle School and Central Middle School. Uh fantastic events. We are uh so excited that our eighth graders will be moving on up to uh BHS and North High Schools next year. Uh, as you may be aware, and certainly I am very aware, we had our last day of school this past month. Um, and students across district 100 celebrated this in a variety of ways uh with field days, yearbook signings, field trips, uh, and many, many, many other occasions. Uh, we are excited to welcome in summer.
073And with summer, uh, is that next slide, which is summer school. Uh summer school classes started today uh with our K5 students attending classes at Washington Academy and our 612 students taking their classes at Belvadier High School. So just as one uh year ends, another begins. Uh and we are excited to kick that off as well. Any questions on any of that? All right, then I am going to hop into our strategic plan updates. And I got to scroll down here. It's a long agenda. All right. Um All right. So, uh goal one, uh Dr. Carson, do you want to highlight uh anything around goal one? Sure. So, uh, as was pointed out before with your approval of our ELA curriculum, we now have an aligned curriculum all the way across the board. We have
074new curriculum that'll be in place for next year. And so already professional development has begun um, for teachers. Uh, and so very excited about all that work so that we're aligned to the state's literacy plan. Um, and then also you approved tonight some new resources for our Spanish language arts in the middle school. Um, so a lot of work going on to improve our literacy scores that we're excited about. And then um also want to point out, you know, with pre preschool, we've had a waiting list and so have had the opportunity to add students who um aren't going to be beyond the age um of five in September uh to be able to enroll. And then we had some screening events. We had one on uh June 4th and we have another one coming
075up on July 15th for uh kids, families who'd like to have their kids be a part of our prek program. So, we're excited and anticipating that we'll we'll likely have a wait list again. It's already the bilingual seats are already filled up for next year. Any questions on goal one? What's our capacity for prek? 20 students. Uh did you say 400? Yes. Yes. Yes. Uh we serve them currently at Washington and uh Calonia schools. Uh we added an additional 110 seats uh two years ago now and we've uh maintained that. Uh but we aren't able to serve all of the students that uh we would like to be able to serve in our community. uh we fall relatively significantly short of being able to serve all the uh students who would be qualified and eligible
076uh for our programming due to uh staffing space is really the the staffing uh would follow that space but right now there's we are at capacity in those two sites. It's very difficult to uh there might be some room in some of our other schools, but it's very difficult to spread those resources across all of those different schools. So, we've really consolidated into both Cal and Washington. Uh but yeah, we are not able to support additional uh classrooms at this time in early childhood in our current facility structure. And what ages is it? Uh three to five um that we serve right now. and they qualify uh under a variety of different circumstances for those ages. Nice. It's a fantastic program. Uh we are very very very excited. We've been excited to uh expand it
077and we would like to continue that expansion effort. We are bringing in um well over uh $1.4 million in uh grant funding to support that program which is all brand new in the last three years. It's a shame anybody's weight listed. It is a shame anybody's weight listed. I agree completely, Mr. Hanky. Any other questions on goal one? Goal two, uh Dr. Carson's also going to touch on that uh this evening. Uh in the spirit of professional development, that is part of what happens once the school lets out. Uh we've had restorative practices training uh that took place last week for our secondary teachers. Um we've had several uh done that for several years. And then also a new training that um Everest High School introduced us to uh that Megan helped to make uh
078available for more staff is a mental health first aid. So it's really how can we be a a mental health um first responder to help identify students who are exhibiting signs of some mental health concerns. Um so we were hoping for one cohort of like 30 35 people. We had over 70 sign up um immediately basically. So exc said that we had the opportunity to have that take place. And then um before Dr. Chug mentioned our graduates. Just want to uh call out that 13 of those graduates earned endorsement uh for their pathway this year, which is uh a big improve uh growth from last year. So we had two get their IT endorsement. Uh two for EMT and nine an education pathway. And so very excited too that you also approved uh Frank O'Donnell
079to serve as the facilitator in that role to help build those. So we're excited that those numbers uh will grow over time. Um so there's that update, too. Any questions on goal two? All right, goal three is family and consu community partnerships. You really just heard uh the update on family and community partnerships. Uh working on that communication audit and also on the rebrand. So you'll hear a little bit more about that next month as well. And uh goal for Dr. 80. And not a lot of updates. I think the last time we did this, we were like a week left in the school year, but we'll continue to work over the summer uh on building up our our subpool. Uh it's as high now as it's ever been uh since uh the move back
080to taking the subs in house. Uh so that's that's really good. Um just in regard recruitment and retention, our overall staff sentiment rate for the end of the school year uh was 95% yes and mostly yes when they answer the question are you happy with the Belder school district 100 staff at this time. Um, we also use this as a barometer for when we apply for Great Place to work and uh, so we did that last year. Obviously, we we uh were Great Place to work certified uh, back in December. And so we'll be actually starting the process of communicating with with them uh, and and preparing to do that survey again so we can uh, be a great place to work two years in a row. And then just a couple things there at
081the bottom. Uh, the school improvement day is scheduled for August 18th. uh schedules will be shared with staff uh in mid July, early August. And then our new teacher orientation, which is a three-day uh deal, that's also been scheduled for August 11th through 13th. And uh we always look forward to that, too. Um I have my team and part of Joann's team uh is on site the first day providing on-site support and answering questions. And so, um, we were talking about August already, but, uh, but we do have those dates scheduled and so we'll be ready to go. Any questions for Dr. Haiti? Right. And goal five is Miss Armstrong. And most of the activity on goal five uh is really uh focused on the Nexus Solutions um performance contract that they are working on.
082They have finished their uh walkthroughs of all the buildings to look at scope and um actually compare uh pricing and things for what they those projects are costing in today's dollars based on what they were priced at um in 2023. So, uh, we've I've had weekly meetings with them, met twice, uh, for two-hour sessions of going over what was our priority list and where they're at, um, and what their thought is on what should be part of that project and what shouldn't be part of that project. Um, we are meeting now uh, with Dr. Shug on July 9 and no, it's coming up. I can't first week of July, I believe. um where we will show her what they've come up with, what we think is the scope um of all the work needing to
083be done, and we will of course bring all of those uh projects and recommendations. Nexus will come and present them to you as well, so you can see where those things are aligning. Um not a a huge amount of surprises in that some of those costs uh were were very different. Um, in today's we did do some clarification on some of the costing. So, they'll be able to wrap all of those things together based on the needs assessment in 2023 and the projects that we identified. Um, so we're concentrating a lot of work there. Um, of course, tonight you approved the CIS um, uh, contract with Edgypoint. So, that was a huge part of the tech uh, plan going on. Um, and the um, Comcast update is now we've cut over all the building connections
084as of July 1st. You'll have those going live. Um, and I just keep plugging away on budget like always. Questions from Miss Armstrong. Nexus. If I recall, they're they're coming in to rationalize our plan, our facilities improvement plan that we Yeah. the year one through three plan U where we identified the projects. They're going to be the performance contractor that the board elected to have or voted on to have them come in and kind of manage those projects and do um economy of scale. What can we do to make the most of our money? Um but they also went through because they weren't the engineers and the architects who did the uh three the needs assessment that we had in October. They wanted to validate some of the scope and work and see if things
085that were truly identified as emergent needs are really the emergent needs and is there something that ties into that. So, if if you're doing um a new roof and you know that you have Perry's chimney, are you utilizing that? Is that something you want to repair or do you want to take that chimney out because you're going to put in a new mechanical system? That's what they're kind of digging in. And then they will prepare um all of the RFPs and bids out for our contractors to get those back, evaluate them with us, and then we will bring those contract awards out back to the board for the approval. So you approved years 1 through three. We issued the bonds for the health life safety projects and then they will bring those projects in uh
086to share with the board. What do is this still meeting what we had to originally had planned for and uh remind me year one is next year. Uh we're doing some of those project the projects that are not health life safety are not huge. Like right now um if you go over to north the track um is torn up and the fencing's coming down on the um tennis courts. So they will start grinding that up and removing that tomorrow. Um but they have laid the black top. So some of those projects are already underway. Um, and so when we say years one through three, the prep work and everything has started on this, but we had to get this assessment of where we are and how they're going to lay out that timeline. So, we've
087got the sample that we shared with the board previously of kind of what their timeline is is looking like. So, they'll keep it's hard to gauge where year one actually started, but we have already been working on on a lot of those projects. So, we kind of identified in that priority list, what are summer 25 projects that we expect to get done. You're not going to see those big projects other than the track and the tennis court happening this summer. Um, those were not relying on the health life safety bonds that was part of the fund transfer that u the board approved to take out of fund balance from fund 10 to capital projects. Um, and so those were already under contract to do those. I think the board approved those in March. And then
088last question, was there was there always a plan to have a uh to contract with somebody to provide the services that Nexus is providing in terms of ensuring efficiency and ensuring or or is that is was that a like an addition after once it was approved? we had had conversations that managing that within Sea's dayto-day, my day-to-day, um that we needed someone who was really an expert in those areas and that could make sure that the contractors are following up and that they're staying on budget and that they're keeping those things accountable. Um so we brought in uh two companies and they interviewed with the board interviewed them uh to kind of provide these services for us. Okay. So, wasn't necessarily my first initial plan. Uh but when we saw the scope of what actually
089was approved and that there was this timeline, there became a very uh needed component of that to be able to manage all of that work with fidelity and making sure it's getting done right and the permits and everything that the ROE requires, especially with the health life safety bonds that we were do doing it all um in regulation and making sure that someone was keeping those contractors on task because um some projects can go on and on that should be done in 6 months have lingered on for a year. Um this will Nexus builds that all into their services and if they go over or they do something that's their they eat that. That is their um guarantee that they provide. We wouldn't be getting all these change orders. We wouldn't get those types of
090things and they're holding that um accountable and they get paid nothing until projects are done and approved. And basically you and Sean finance and facilities are overseeing what they're coming up with and yeah we will bring it all to the board. So basically they just took we gave them a list and they threw their balls at the wall and said this is what we want to do. I this is the darts to the wall I guess. Um and then I came back and said nope this is not what the board approved. These are the things that were approved. So um they've kind of redirected where they realigned um where they needed to be and so then we had another meeting talked through that they were more aligned to what we were expecting and the scope
091and so now they will present those u with Dr. Shug which we'll bring forward to the board um to see what that looks like. Thanks again me just getting wanting to get background. Nate understandable. Yeah. Safe to say Mrs. Armstrong. There's there's not a lot of projects in flight right now, but there will be. And the need for this third party to oversee all that really starts to kick in at that point. Yep. And when that project list was done, it hadn't been um architecturally designed. It had not had all of those um soft project costs. So like planning the Perry renovations, you've got to have, you know, all of that drawn out plus get those products ordered. I know I keep throwing this out. Elevators take two years to get in. So, if we
092have three elevators we're supposed to be ordering, we need to make sure that we've got them architecturally designed and that that purchase is approved, but we're not going to see those things or pay for those things probably till year three. Uh because you've got to kind of get it out in stages and knowing how long the the return time is on it. As I recall too, um Steve Larson from Larsson and Darby also really recommended based on the scope of what we're planning to do that we have this performance contractor as well. So yeah, um and they are very um limited in their time allowable with Larson and Derby and doing all their things. So having somebody um like Nexus who has the architectural side, the engineering side and things that they can make sure
093those things are staying on progress. Any other questions from Miss Armstrong? Uh the other reports that you see there in admin reports, our annual school wellness report, you can take a look at that. Um and we also have our annual uh BHS egg report, which is quite impressive. If you have not taken a look at that, uh it's definitely worth uh taking a look at that as well. Uh and that brings me to the end of admin reports. Unless anyone has any questions about any of that. Do we have a motion and a second to go into close executive session regarding section two heading C except exception sub number one of the open meetings act to discuss the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal a specific employee of the public body or legal counsel
094for the public body collective bar I'm sorry collective negotiating manners matters between public body and its employees or their representatives or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more representatives or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees. purchases or lease of real property for the use of the public body, including meetings held for the purpose of discussing whether a particular parcel should be acquired and student disciplinary cases. [Music] Do we have a motion? Okay. Do we have a second? Second. All right. Member Hempy made the motion. Member Peggy H. Oh, it was Oh, member Hul made the motion. Mr. Piggy second seconded the motion to go into closing second session. Roll call, please. All right. Mrs. Ho. Hi. Mr. Piggy. Hi. Mrs. Young. Hi. Mr. Diesel Meyer. Hi. Mr. Hempy. Hi.
095Mr. Mueller. Hi. Mr. Herrera. Hi. Are you going to stick around? You want me to? You do not need to. Go.