001I hereby call to order this committee of the whole meeting for Monday, April 13, 2026. The time is 8:01 a.m. Will the clerk please call the role? >> Ann Hart >> here. >> Kristen Dcastro >> here. >> Alison Palfas >> here. >> Amy Paling >> here. >> Katy Hilton >> here. >> Judy Berlin >> here. >> Aaron Stone >> here. >> Thank you. I seek a motion to approve the minutes of the March 16th, 2026 Committee of the Whole and Executive Session meetings. >> I move to approve the minutes of the March 16, 2026 Committee of the Whole and Executive Session meetings. >> May I have a second? >> Second. >> The motion has been made and seconded. Board members, are there any comments, errors, or omissions to the minutes? Okay. Um, seeing none. If
002so, are all members in favor of approving the minutes? Um, if so, please say yay. >> Yay. >> Motion carries. We will start this morning. Um, it looks like facility development committee. No items. Is that correct? >> Correct. >> All right. Then we will move right on to school finance. Mrs. Bailey. >> Yes. Thank you. We have one item under finance and I will turn it over to Mr. Boltire to discuss the engagement letter with Baker Tilly. >> Thank you. All right. So, um, beginning of April, we, um, got our fiscal year 26 engagement letter documents from Baker Tilly. Just as a background, when the fiscal year 25 audit was completed, that was the end of a three-year audit uh, contract with them. So, where we're at now, I would recommend that we uh approve
003Baker Tilly for a one-year renewal for fiscal year 26. Um, which would include D39's audit. And then as part of D39 for workers comp, we're in a group called self. there's a very small kind of procedural document where they audit payroll by um employee type that that uh insurance group asks for each year. That's one part of it. And then of course Wixie, which is which is a very small audit. Um so I'm happy to answer any questions. Um, from my perspective, this would be the seventh if if if approved, fiscal year 26 would be the seventh straight year of using Baker Tilly. >> Members, any questions? >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. Strategy, Miss Stone. >> Yes. Um, and I believe I'm turning turning this over to Dr. Premisculli to say where
004we are in our exciting process. >> Thank you. Uh yes, just a very quick update uh for our strategic planning process. All of our focus groups have been conducted and we learned so very much. We're so appreciative of um the many stakeholders who engaged in our focus groups and and the administrative team who helped to facilitate those groups. It really was um a vibrant learning opportunity. And so all that all information that we gathered has been coalesed into um themes of primary opportunities and potential needs and those themes really help us to identify what will become the major drivers in our future strategic plan. Um so to further refine both our understanding of those themes as well as anything we may have missed, we have a very very brief survey that it launched on Friday
005and will be open for 10 days. We're inviting all stakeholders to respond to that survey. It truly is a three question survey that will take three minutes or less. Um so we're hopeful that people will engage in that. Uh the survey will help us to prioritize some of those themes as what maybe is our first priorities and then next and maybe a little later for us to focus on. Um and then also make sure that we didn't miss anything along the way. Um so we're really excited about that survey. All of those results then are being analyzed um not only by our um our engagement our uh consultant but then also by our administrative team our our all of our teams in district will be looking at that to um develop our plan and we
006are on track. We do anticipate uh being able to preview the strategic plan with our district advis strategic advisory team um and hopeful we are hopeful that we'll be able to give a a preview to the board at the committee the whole meeting in June and then uh seek adoption of that plan at the June Board of Ed meeting. So we're on track and and doing good work. A lot to be done still. Uh but please um everyone if you could respond to the survey um we would appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you board members. Any questions or comments? I'll just say um for the survey um from my perspective it was um again it is very short very brief and I really hope that we get excellent participation and it's a great reminder of
007how like the amount of meaningful important work that's being done because I think there were 11 different items to prioritize and it's it's challenging at least for me it was it was um just um so many just important initi initiatives. So, um really encourage people to complete the survey. Judy, >> where do we find the survey? >> Um so, the survey went out to it. I think it went out on social media, but it also went out via every principal's newsletter and via email to everyone. Um my Friday update included the uh survey to you as well. Um, and we typically work with the village too to make sure that the community e newswsletter includes a link to the survey or any of our regular kind of communication and we did that as well. >>
008Yeah, I think that was there on Fridays. Yep. Um, well, Matt communication. How long is it open? >> Um, it's open 10 days. So, Friday, last Friday, all the way through the next Monday. And then it's pretty fast and furious to get everything uh analyzed so that we can use that information to um inform our work and our next steps. >> Yes. Um thank you. Any other comments or questions from board members? >> I'll just say like and I, you know, am happy to confess at all times that I'm the world's biggest nerd, but I think this is really exciting. Um, and so I'm really looking forward to seeing where we land and appreciate all the hard work that's been done by everybody involved and people taking the time and being thoughtful to contribute to
009um the themes and so it's going to be it's going to be fun to see where we land. Okay. Um I'm turning this back over to President Hart. Thank you, Miss Stone. This is an opportunity for the public to address the board on any topic. Are there any audience members that would like to speak at this time? Okay, seeing none, we will continue with our agenda this morning with old business. Is there any old business? New business. Is there any new business? Um just that the draft board of ed and committee the whole meeting calendar has been um shared with the board. Um we are looking for any feedback on those dates. We've tried to coordinate with all known holidays and exceptions. Um, so we typically follow that regular schedule, but there's always a few
010meetings that need to be bumped off of that schedule. So, if you would please take a look at that schedule and uh share your feedback um with me so that we can get that finalized and approved soon. Thanks, Amy. >> I think this is old business, but maybe new business too. I just a reminder and also clarification for myself. I think the go green event is next Wednesday at the lawn. Is that right? >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> And I know there was an invitation because they were hoping to, you know, get a read on numbers. So, everyone should have that invitation. Um, and I'll be there and hope to see other people there as well. I'll add just a couple of other things which I know um the board is aware of these
011dates but um we are planning a student recognition event before the May board meeting. So that will be starting at 5:30. Invitations will be um sent out relatively soon to the students who are being recognized. Those are um many of the students who we would typically recognize at that May board meeting. We've decided to there's so many of them um to do a a precursor to the May board meeting so that everyone can walk across the stage and be um duly honored there. Um our reflections celebration is May 20th and the WJHS graduation is May 4th. >> June 4th. Sorry. >> I know you're listening closely. Let me correct myself. It is June 4th. I actually >> stay in school all the way until then. >> I have a a friend named Aaron who's a
012seventh grader at um we'll mention your high and she told me that her home room teacher showed part of our board meeting to them. So like you know if they'd seen that they would have been like wait we get out of we so I'm correcting myself. >> Great. >> June 4th. Thank you very much. Yes. >> All right. If there's no other business this morning, we will adjourn to executive session. May I have a motion to adjourn to executive session to discuss collective negotiations, specific personnel, and special education, individual student matters. >> Um, I move to adjourn to executive session to discuss collective negotiations, uh, specific employees, individual students, and special education and individual students. >> May I have a second? >> Second. >> Motion having been made and seconded. Um, we will the clerk
013please call the role. >> Alison Pas, >> yes. >> Amy Paling, >> yes. >> Katie Hilton, >> yes. >> Judy Berlin, yes. Annne Hart, yes. Kristen Castro, yes. Aaron Stone, >> yes. >> Motion carries. We are now adjourned to executive session. And the time is 8:12