School Board Meeting May 20 2026

001I like to call the meeting to order, please. Aaron, I'm going to ask you to roll, please. >> Yep. Kent? >> Here. >> Schrader? >> Here. >> Joel? >> Here. >> Barth? >> Here. >> White? >> Here. >> Boden? >> Here. >> Andrews? >> Here. >> Proof of giving public meeting notice, Aaron? >> Yep, notices were posted at both schools and sent to the Village of Dickeyville and Cuba City City Hall, members of the media on Monday, May 18th. >> Thank you. Item three is board reorganization. I'd like to welcome Kyle Kent to his first meeting HERE, SO >> THAT'S IF I come back, right? >> So, at this point, every May we reorganize. And there as the agenda says, we have the election of officers. And at this point, I'm going to appoint a

002temporary clerk here, and I'm going to anoint Sarah to run the meeting, please. >> Sure. So, you already gave proof of giving notice, board reorg. So, the first item under three is to appoint a president. >> Do we have any motions or any appointments? >> I'll move to appoint Gary Andrews to serve as Cuba City Board of Education President. >> Is there a second? >> I will second. >> What if there's another nomination? >> We vote on this one, and if this one fails, then there can be another one. >> Okay. >> Kent? >> Yep. >> Schrader? >> No. >> Joel? >> Yes. >> Barth? >> No. >> White, yes. Boden? >> Yes. >> Andrews? >> Can he vote for himself? >> abstaining? >> Then we have a tie vote for my FIRST TIME RUNNING.

003WHAT IS PROTOCOL HERE? >> WE'VE NEVER HAD THIS BEFORE. I think we we go to a um if it's >> It was four to two, wasn't it? >> Yes. >> Now it was two to two. >> Kyle was yes. >> Oh, I was yes. I am sorry. I made my error first time running this. Is Carrie yes? White, Boden, Kent, Joel, all yes. >> Yes. Schreiger, Barth, and all. >> I apologize. I got it now. >> Okay. >> Second item is appoint a Quincy City Board of Education Vice President. Are there any motions? >> I will move to appoint uh Dan Boden to serve as the Vice President. >> I will second. Kent? >> Yes. >> Second item is Schreiger? >> No. >> Joel? >> Yes. >> Barth? >> No. >> White, yes. Boden? >>

004Abstain. Andrews? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. Next item is to appoint a Quincy City Board of Education Treasurer. Any motions? >> I would ask if would Joel retain that uh role? >> Yes. >> I would make that motion that uh Joel Schreiger serve as the Treasurer for the Quincy City Board of Education. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Kent? >> Yes. >> Schreiger? >> Epstein? >> Joel? >> Yes. >> Barth? >> Yes. >> White, yes. Boden? >> Yes. >> Andrews? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. Next item is to appoint a clerk to serve as the Cudahy Board of Education. Are there any motions? >> I will nominate Sarah. >> Are there any seconds? >> I'll second. >> Can definitely do a great job. >> Kent? >> Yes. >> Schweiger? >> Yes. >>

005Joel? >> Yes. >> Barth? >> Yes. >> Epstein, Boden? >> Yes. >> Andrews? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. The next item is to appoint a member of the CESA board who will serve as the CESA number three convention representative, which is currently Gary Andrews. Is there a motion? >> I'll move to appoint Gary Andrews to serve on the CESA three board. >> Is there a second? >> I will second. >> Kent? >> Yes. >> Schweiger? >> Yes. >> Joel? >> Yes. >> Barth? >> Yes. >> White, yes. Boden? >> Yes. >> Andrews? >> Epstein. >> Motion carried. Item C, appoint a member who will also serve as the WASB convention representative, which is currently Dan Boden. Is there a motion? >> I will move to appoint Dan as the uh WASB convention representative. >> I'll

006second. >> Kent? >> Yes. >> Schweiger? >> Yes. >> Joel? >> Yes. >> Barth? >> Yes. >> White, yes. Boden? >> Epstein. >> Andrews? >> Yes. >> Carried. Next item is to set the time of the meetings. Um, by board policy, we currently meet the third Wednesday of each month at 6:00. Does anybody want to meet at a different time or we need to talk about this at all? >> We've changed this. Sometimes they've been at 6:00, 6:30. But I mean, 6:00 works for everybody. >> I'm happy with 6:00. >> Yeah, I'm good. >> Yeah, I I can make it work. >> Do we need a motion on this? This is an annual thing. Okay. Can I have a motion? >> I'll move to set the regular meetings on the third Wednesday of each month

007beginning at 6:00 p.m. >> I'll second. >> Kent. >> Yes. >> Schweiger. >> Yes. >> Joel. >> Yes. >> Barth. >> Yes. >> White, yes. Boden. >> Yes. >> Andrews. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. Next is to designate the official depositories. >> And we always just use all four banks in our community. Even though we've got a contract with that we do most of our banking with one, we official we officially adopt all four that we could do business with. I will move to designate Mount City Bank of Cuba City, MidWestOne Bank of Cuba City, Royal Bank of Dickeyville, and People's State Bank of Dickeyville as official depositories of the school district of Cuba City. >> I'll second. Kent. >> Yes. >> Schweiger. >> Yes. >> Joel. >> Yes. >> Barth. >> Yes. >> White,

008yes. Boden. >> Yes. >> Andrews. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. Item F is to designate the official newspaper. >> Always been the Tri-County Press for us. I'll move to designate the Tri-County Press as the official newspaper of the school district of Cuba City. >> Any seconds? >> I'll second it. >> Kent? >> Yes. >> Schweiger? >> Yes. >> Joel? >> Yes. >> Barth? >> Yes. >> White, yes. Bowden? >> Yes. >> Andrews? >> Yes. >> Is there even another paper you? >> Hm? >> Is there even another paper you? >> No. >> I was going to say >> I don't know, there's no competition for us. >> Not that I'm aware of. I guess we could use the Telegraph Herald, like then we would send all of our stuff to them, but >> just curious.

009>> cool. >> Um so, IMG is committing membership. Um it looks like there are all the listings of >> I >> current >> Um I guess as Aaron has here, the president assigns all committees. I mean, um I would assign if people uh want to serve on them. Um starting with building and grounds. I know with that when we did the orientation for Kyle, um I uh said I would which I will drop that and add him in that um or on that committee. Um Julie and Joel, you want to stay on building and grounds? >> I would like to, yes. >> Yeah. Would either of you like to chair? That just means you're kind of the representative of that group. >> Julie would be great for >> I would love to. >> There you

010go. All right. And then budget and finance, uh we need a replacement for Megan. Um >> I have a question, Gary. I would like to possibly be on that one. And could I take Megan's spot and you could maybe take my policies position? >> Certainly. Julie on budget and finance. And then Carrie policy. Take Julie off and put Carrie. Okay. Um so, then foundation is Dan and Joel. All right with you two? >> Yeah, it's fine. >> Yep. >> Who is the chair for budget and finance? >> Joel should be, I would think. >> As treasurer. >> Okay. And then >> Foundation set. >> Dan and Joel are >> Yeah, Dan and Joel. We've got one missing in policy. We've got currently we have Angie and Gary. >> Personnel first? >> Personnel, sorry, personnel. Personnel,

011everybody okay that's on that? Any changes, anybody that dearly wants to be there on that? All righty. Policy then, remove Megan. And we've switched Julie for me and Angie's we need a third member. Do we have a volunteer? >> I can jump into that. >> Thank you, Todd. >> And Angie, would you you want to chair that one? >> Sure, I'm just confused. I haven't been on transportation. That wasn't me. That got moved. So, I'm trying to figure out who's been on the transportation >> must have wrote that wrong. >> I was okay. >> I'm looking at today and it's Sarah, Gary, and Dan. I'm sorry. >> All right. >> Yeah. >> Yes, I can chair that one. Where's my other committee? I'm on two of them. >> All right, she's got policy chair. >>

012finance chair. >> Thank you. >> Transportation, technology, vacation, uh it's Sarah, Dan and myself and Dan has been the chair, is that all right? >> Yeah, that's fine. >> Okay. >> That's all of them. >> Hey Dan, we just clarified I'm on budget and finance and you're on transportation. We swapped those a while back, right? >> Yes, Dan's on transportation. >> And you were on budget >> Yep, okay, got you. Okay. >> Okay. >> All right. >> Everybody okay with those then? >> Yep. >> All righty. >> I'll update that and send that to everybody else in case you follow up. >> All righty, that takes care the committee membership. Uh Um would someone make a motion? >> I will make the motion. So, I move to Oops, I'm sorry. I'm on this side. Move

013to approve the Cuba City Board of Education committee assignments as presented. >> Is there a second? >> I will second. Kent? >> Yes. >> Schweiger? >> Yes. >> Joel? >> Yes. >> Barr? >> Yes. >> White? Yes. >> Boden? >> Yes. >> Andrews? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> And item four is consideration of the consent agenda. Are there any items A through E that uh the board would like to discuss? Hearing none, would someone move, please? >> I'll move to approve the the consent agenda as presented. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second. Kent? >> Yes. >> Schweiger? >> Yes. >> Joel? >> Yes. >> Barr? >> Yes. >> White? Yes. Boden? >> Yes. >> Andrews? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Administrative reports. Uh Jason, we'll start with you, please. >> All

014right, I'm going to jump around a little bit here, so please take time to read through some of the ones that I don't read out loud. Uh on April 15th, middle school and high school students in various ELA classes visited Cuba City Elementary School for a drop everything and read DEAR Day event. Thank you to Miss Sharon Olson, Miss Cameo Update Ames, and Miss Susan Meyer for working together to bridge the love of reading with students district-wide. On May 5th, we had a national signing day, and Cuba City Elementary started the day by hosting the Educators Rising Letter of Intent signing by Cuba City High School seniors Ty Fischler and Emma Daily, who have dedicated many hours gaining experience in our own classrooms and blazing the trail for their future endeavors. We wish Ty and

015Emma great success and look forward to their impact on the world of education. Our fifth grade classes have had a very busy month starting with a field trip to the Blackhawk Nature Preserve and then guiding our students and fifth grade families through time with a historical presentation that shared the roots of the United States of America. Thank you to our fifth grade students and Mrs. Nancy Davies, Mrs. Ellie Glennon, Mrs. Alexia Reese, Mrs. Kate Eschleman, and Mr. Justin Blanek for all the time and effort that went into the CESA educational opportunity which under the 2021 Wisconsin Act 95 uh required every public elementary school in Wisconsin to provide students with an educational opportunity or event recognizing the nation's 250th anniversary. Additionally, uh we want to encourage local community members that may be interested in supporting

016our schools as a substitute teacher to attend substitute teacher training through CESA 3 on June 10th or August 11th this summer. Details can be found at the CESA 3 or Cuba City School District social media sites. Always looking for subs. We want to thank Miss Mrs. Tammy Budden, Mrs. Jordan Hinderman, and Miss Sharon Olson for planning, organizing, and implementing our 2026 Wellness Day which was on May 8th. With the help of many high school students and fifth grade students, Sergeant Cody Ryan of Cuba City Police Department, the Cuba City FFA, and Mrs. Jill Van Scandel, all as activity coordinators, our students and staff were able to explore many different ways to practice maintaining physical, social, and mental health wellness. And uh I want to conclude with we continue to monitor our enrollment numbers for the

0172026-2027 school year. Following our 4K registration screening last February, our enrollment number guided our budget planning for next year to include three 4K classrooms including our Country Cares, so three total. For next year as opposed to the four total 4K classrooms that we have this year. The enrollment planning also included three classes at 5K and first grade levels, kind of moving those high enrollment numbers that we had the last couple years, and moving along with that, which we anticipated. Um however, since that initial planning, we have had an increase in our 4K enrollment that isn't hasn't been typical when we look back at how much change we've had from that round up date until the start of the school year. So now even before we've finished the school year, we've seen a significant increase of

01812 student enrollments at that 4K level only. So um prior to that, the previous 2 years we had seven in increase of seven seven students in that time. Again, that was up to our start date. So that was including over the summer. So this 12 here before we even finish the year is significantly higher. Uh prior to that, the the largest previous recorded increase was we had plus nine in 2017. So we feel it's abnormally large. So below with that, I I wanted to just lay out what our current enrollment and what our anticipated enrollment for each class is next year. Um right now, we went from that February date uh projected of 44 in 4K to now we're at 56. Uh with our 5K in February, we were looking at 52. That's dropped to

01947. So a a change of uh five there. Uh the first grade is maintained at 52. So I included in the last two columns of that chart just what those average class sizes would be if we kept just two classes per grade level or if we went with three classes per grade level. And then highlighted what my recommendation would be at this point in order to have what we think would be the best opportunities for class sizes and for teaching students that age. We do recognize that as our classes get in the upper grades, that management can change, that number can change a little bit. But, we do think at that 4K, 5K, and first grade level, especially with some of the needs that are there, um right now we have one parent designated with

020a regular regular ed classrooms within the 4K used to always share between two classrooms in the building, this year between three. So, um one other option would be to add additional paraprofessionals if we were going to go with the larger class sizes. But, um we're going to keep looking at those numbers and then at the June board meeting, look to make an official recommendation of whether or not we do go with that additional 4K class beyond what we budgeted for, we would have to look at adding an additional teacher. So, right now we would just the original plan was to have one of the 4K teachers move to the first grade level with those increasing sizes, but that rearrangement would look differently with those numbers. So, just wanted to keep you updated on that. Any

021questions on that? Thank Thank you, Jason. >> Chris, middle high school, please. >> Yep. And just so kind of everybody's aware, as soon as I give this, I'm probably going to duck out. >> We've got scholarship night going >> So, thank you. Uh students in band and choir performed at the state solo and ensemble festival held at UW-Platteville on April 25th. Five events qualified. Uh of these, one earned the highest possible first rating, and the other four events were all awarded second ratings. Uh congratulations to all students who competed, and a special recognition to Isabella Austin who performed in four of the five events. Uh high school concert band and high concert choir and the middle school eighth grade band all received first ratings at the large group contest held at Darlington on Wednesday, May

0226th. And the middle school seventh and eighth grade choir also participated and received a second rating. Congratulations to all musicians on all of their performances. Uh, FFA students were busy with the state career development events. Uh, state egg sales team placed eighth, consisted of Lucas Toma, Ali Majerus, Elaine Turman, and Gabby Schultz. The state egg communications placed fourth and consisted of Izzy Denarre, who placed fifth individually, Natalie Krueger, Ali Ingersoll, and Zoe Yost, who uh, also uh, placed seventh individually. The meat judging team placed fourth with team members Bertie Dean, Clayton Daugherty, who placed 11th individually, Jonas Teasdale, and Michael Terpstra. Our livestock judging team placed fifth and consisted of Izzy Denarre, Ali Ingersoll, and Evan Bush and Evan Curtis. Dairy products judging placed 27th and had team members Zoe Yost, Madison Dressler, Cameron Lock,

023and Maggie Schissel. FFA hosted its annual awards banquet on Sunday, April 26th in our gym. Um, as Mr. Holzmer mentioned, Educator Rising hosted a signing day on Tuesday, May 5th in the elementary cafeteria. Ty Fishler and Emma Daily signed their commitment to become educators with family, friends, staff, and students all there to support them. Um, plastic collection will all end when the school year ends. Miss Merwin shared that the bench competition has been discontinued, but we will still receive something for our school's efforts. Uh, congratulations to Ms. Nancy Merwin, as she was named the Wisconsin Association of Distance Education Networks Distance Learning Educator of the Year. On May 4th through the 8th, we had a great time celebrating our wonderful teachers. Our PTO, the school board, and several of our area businesses treated our staff

024with food and drink and we rounded things out with a 90s dress-up day and music for all the transition times. Uh thank you to all of our wonderful teachers. Middle school students competed at the state level of the National History Day competition. Uh competing in the group exhibits were Jaylen Sawyer, Ellie Stacy, Ella Dickson, Claire Holmes, and Paisley Muck. Individual exhibits included Jackson Sagling. Group documentaries were Macy Mackler, Chloe Sock- Sokochoff. Uh Anna Egan, Kylie Lang, Kinsie La Rue Muck, and Carter Clendenen, Tyson Sherman. Group website included Kennedy Clendenen, Kate Marwitz, and Lily Paulson. Congratulations to all and a special shout-out to Anna Egan, Kylie Lang, and Kinsie La Rue Muck as their documentary of the American Red Cross in World War II placed third at state and puts them as alternates for the national

025competition held in Washington, D.C. Junior class held its prom. Uh theme was a night at the Met Gala. It was well attended and the junior class did an amazing job of decorating. Congratulations to our king Carter Runde and our queen Savannah Krieger. Uh thank you to Ms. Meyer and Mr. Graber, junior advisors, and also to Ms. Rodman, Mr. Rodman, and Ms. Slapp for helping with supervision. And thank you to all the teaching staff for their flexibility in making prom happen and to the parents for organizing the post-prom. Uh Ms. Bolbeck shared that the physics class had hosted four separate kindergarten physics days. 62 kindergarteners were able to participate in hands-on physics experiments under the guidance of high school physics students. Uh also on April 30th, her physics students earned the following accolades at the 2026

026Model Bridge Competition through UW-Platteville Civil Engineering Department. Jackson Dressler took third place with a load to mass ratio of 1045. Maddox Rodman took ninth place with a load to mass ratio of 844. And the Cuba City High School was recognized as the high school with the highest number of bridge models in the top 10. Spring sports keep chugging along as the weather allows. Middle school track wrapped up its season on Tuesday, May 12th. All varsity sports are nearing the end of their regular seasons and are gearing up for tournament play and ultimately some state runs. Congratulations to our forensics teams. Following the state competition, Shane Robson received recognition for being a student who achieved a perfect score four years in a row. Additionally, our school was recognized with the excellence in speech award. This means

027that our school is in the top 5% of schools earning medals. Congratulations to all participants and the coaches, Ms. Slet, Mr. Miller, Ms. Meyer, and Ms. Sitz. And finally, the CCHOSA chapter hosted two meetings in April with the goal of introducing HOSA and begin planning for the 2026-2027 school year. Current membership includes 21 students. On April 19th, Krista Hale, Shane Robson, and Braden Long Henry attended the HOSA leadership conference in the Wisconsin Dells and they were able to meet other members, observe state health occupation competitions, and meet with the state HOSA leaders. >> Thank you. Does the press have any questions? Have a good scholarship night. >> Don't give those scholarships away. Whitney, special ed, please. >> Yes. The Indicator 14 is a federal IDEA requirement measuring the percentage of youth with IEPs who are

028no longer in secondary school and are competitively employed, enrolled in higher education, or in some other post-secondary education or training program within one year of leaving the high school. This is something that from June 1st to September 30th, I will be attempting to contact previous students and surveying them about their high school experience and how we as a district have prepared them for post-secondary education and or the workforce. For every successful survey, the district receives funds from DPI's um, education transitional grants. Letters were sent out to previous students last week to inform them that the survey will be beginning. IEP evaluations have been coming to an end with the end of the school year, which So, evaluations determine initial special education eligibility, while reevaluations occur at least every 3 years to confirm continued eligibility and

029update services. For the 25-26 school year, 56 reevaluations occurred. This number represents students in the elementary, middle, high school, HGIC, and St. Rose. Um, these also could include a variety of services as well. Initial evaluations for the 25-26 school year was at 37. This number represents the evaluations for speech and language, academic, and the birth to three program for when they transition into the public education. Student exits, um, or when a student no longer meets criteria, um, for special education services, this year we were able to dismiss or exit 26 students. Um, so those are students who no longer meet DPI criteria for special education services. April 22nd was administrative assistant appreciation day. We recognize Jesse, Jessica, Ashley, and Julie. They're often the first faces people see and the steady support behind the scenes from

030managing communication and organizing countless details to supporting staff, students, and families. Their work is essential to the success of our school community. They truly are the glue that holds our district together. So, we appreciate them. Um, Chris left, but May 1st was principal appreciation day. Uh, we celebrated Jason and Chris. Thank you both for your dedication, leadership, and guidance throughout the school year. We appreciate the long hours, tough decisions, and steady support you both provide the district every single day. Lots of appreciation days for education in April and May. May 18th was National Speech Language Pathologist Appreciation Day. So, thank you to Kessa Jacobs, Melinda Trebether, and Becky Flege for your meaningful impact you make every day. Thank you for helping students find their voices, build confidence, and reach milestones big and small. We are

031grateful for the support, encouragement, and advocacy you provide to students, families, and staff each and every day. >> Thank you, Whitney. >> Any questions? All righty. Others not here, so we'll move to Aaron's report. >> Great. I've got a FEMA brick grant update. We recently received word from FEMA through Wisconsin Emergency Management that we may be given an extension on our brick grants and they'll consider relocation project. So, tonight we'll be discussing this issue a little bit to learn more about the possible projects, costs, locations, benefits for the district except of accepting this grant. But, the building and grounds committee, last time we met which was the last Wednesday, did ask that we have a special meeting in June where we talk about a little bit more about FEMA. We'll invite Jordan to that if

032we can. Joe asked that I give you everybody just kind of an update. Like last time we met, what were our top priorities? So, you guys all have that. That's that includes elementary classroom revisions, plumbing issues at the art room and kitchen at the elementary school. The outdoor football scoreboard is one we can cross out. That one is either going to be purchased by a a donor, but we also had that in the budget this year, so we can cross that out. New element or new high school library and classrooms, then track renovations, outdoor athletic resurfaced in football field, and then kind of a branding lighting painting package. So, just as a reminder, those are the the we talked about. One thing after meeting with our architects, um, we had set aside 2 million kind

033of in our head for the matching. And what what they said basically is that's going to cover the other 12% of the project of the the building, but they suggest putting another half million or million in there for some of the finishes, for the things that are not allowed They're What do we call those? >> And not eligible >> Not eligible for reimbursement. So, those would be like the chairs. Um, that would be some of the audio video equipment. Um, you know, some of the the noise dampening items up there. So, um, Brad and I talked about that and that while Bray is asking for three, we kind of thought two and a half might be a uh we don't have to have everything done right away. We want to make make sure that it's

034a functional space. So, just keep that in mind. Um, the good news is we've done minimal work on any of these projects moving forward and we're not in a rush for this, um, at all. So, we've got plenty of time in June to learn more about FEMA. I know you guys had kind of given me at least 12 months to to hear back from them and we think that we're going to hear back from them, um, soon. And, um, so, that kind of leads into the construction update updates. Uh, crews have been making really strong progress. If you notice, if you came from the south, um, this year or this meeting, you probably saw the fitness center and the wrestling room. Those exterior walls being finished up. Uh, the big mias- milestone this week was

035the poured the entire floor, the gym floor. Um, so, that's exciting. It took about 31 concrete trucks. Is that right? >> Over 30. >> Yep. Um, and it took about 15 hours to complete that pour. Uh, now the the floor enters the the waiting stage for about the next week. They can't have any equipment on it. Um, and then after that, concrete itself takes three and a half to 4 months to fully cure before crews can begin installing the wood floor system. Then once the wood floor is done, crews will move the bleachers in and that's kind of we're hoping for that February 1st date of where all that gets done still on time. Looking ahead, next week begins what will probably be the busiest and most disruptive phase of summer construction. Crews Crews will

036start demolition remodeling the current tech ed and ag area and the ceiling area basically kind of from here and the area that's given us some headaches in some rain all the way down. That portion of project has a firm September 1 completion date so those spaces are ready for students and staff when school begins. So over the next few days pending board approval tonight, that's one of our action items, we'll also begin the process of selling or disposing the equipment and materials that are being replaced as part of that renovation project with tech ed and ag. Finally, the state education funding bill failed. I I sent everybody an update there on the on the board but it failed in the state Senate even though leaders from both political parties had worked on the agreement together.

037The proposal would have increased special education reimbursement for schools, continued higher support for high cost special education and provided additional general school aid for districts across Wisconsin. For the Cuba City School District, the proposal would have brought several hundred thousand dollars in additional state support over the next two years. Much of that funding would have been helped covering rising special ed costs and reduced pressure on local property taxes. The bill has had passed the state assembly but ultimately failed in the Senate after lawmakers from both parties voted against it. Some lawmakers believe the proposals spent too much state money and could create future budget concerns. Others felt it did not provide long enough support for long term support for public schools or were frustrated with how the agreement was was and at this point the

038proposal will not move forward in its current form. However, there's still discussion at the state level about whether portions of the plan could reappear later as part of the larger state budget process, but it's not it's not likely going to occur in this school year. So, if you remember back in October, we approved the budget and then in early December they said, "Hey, we're not going to give you 42% reimbursement special ed. It's going to be closer to 35." So, we had had our budget set. Um so, um just keep that in mind at the end of the year come July 1st. Um if we are over budget slightly, it's because the budget was approved and all those things were done, but we're we're trying to to get as close as we can with those

039things, but that that's a big part uh when the state fails to give you what they what they tell you they're going to give you. So, that's those are all my updates. >> Okay. Any questions, open up. >> Aaron, I know you mentioned February 1st for the usage of a lot of that space down there. Do we have Do we know when the um that entrance down there is going to be available? Will that be earlier? >> Great question cuz we've had that conversation. And it might What we're looking at is can we have it open for arrival and dismissal and then close it kind of the rest because otherwise they'll keep parking out here. You know, if we don't have a place for them to enter the building down there, they're going to keep

040parking on the street. So, we've talked about what that might look like and it it might be like a soon we're going to do that, but maybe not this week or this week we have to close it off because they're doing something they don't want people walking under them. So, that's something that we're talking about is having when can we have both those entrances or or one or the other open? Um and it may just be kind of a hey, it's this is open this week, so please use that space. Does that sound about right? >> Yeah, so I would say that the partial occupancies come down to the systems, right? In order for to get occupancy in the building, the fire sprinkler system has to work, the fire alarm, all of those things. And

041generally that's comes together at the end of the project. So, the challenge would be with our inspector allowing, you know, and maybe we just designate parking in the morning, you know, that from 7:30 to 8:00, we're going to open and allow them to park cuz the staging area should pretty much clear up by the time the kids come back in September. So, um or even the just near Aaron's uh new off the district office area as well, too. Safety's always an issue. We don't want them coming through. Like I said, there's going to be work overhead, things like that going on. So, we will work with you guys to try to help the situation as best we can. Something we're going to work towards, though. >> Thank you. >> Yep. >> I had a question.

042Do we have any update? Like I can't be the only one that's getting phone calls on transportation and bussing. So, do we have any updates with bussing, transportation? >> Yep, that's actually an action item and then I'll Well, >> Oh, will we talk about what the cost Yes. Or what the whatever we cost were and what we were doing from other other providers. Thank you. >> Yep. Well, that's a Yes, surely will. So, if there are no questions more questions to me, Brad, we'll let you go through >> Eric, can you Eric can I get on top of this already? So, um I'm going to ask that I come in just to It's been a while since um I've given you guys updates. I gave you a handout. You should have It's got two pieces

043to it. One is a schedule and a chart and the other is the spreadsheet, which all of you would be familiar with, um outside of Kyle. So, we can start with the schedule. Um this really is describes what Aaron just talked about. So, um we don't have to go through it in full detail. It says what Aaron updated you guys. We're trying to shoot for February 2nd. That's been the goal is to get some basketball games um before the season ends in the new gym. So, really what you see on the far left is just description of work, the duration that I have that scheduled right now. And then where it starts and where it finishes on that duration. And the lines that you see, the arrows coming down is just the sequence of work.

044You know, things that have to be done before next pieces go. So, you see an ending date at the bottom, the end of the punch list of 129 27. Uh which is where our goal is. Hopefully we can improve on this. That's the goal. Um the green line that you see about maybe 2/3 of the way across vertically up and down, that's today's date. So, that reflects, if you look at where that's crossing through, it's crossing through mason masonry bearing walls, it's crossing through um the roof structure going down what I would call it a commons is the high area that you see that's you'll have a glass wall in the front entrance and then that looks straight through to the west to another glass wall that enters out to that call that the commons

045and then the east wing that I refer to as the east wing would be the bathrooms, trainers, wrestling, and your fitness center. So, you can as you see in that line, they're nearing the end of the masonry bearing walls. We are into the last pod which is the uh fitness center. They'll complete uh about the northern 2/3 of that room tomorrow and we'll start setting the the roof joists into that area probably Friday morning. And then we just have to close in the end of the building. And just some logistics there with still getting equipment in and out and exactly how we close that. So, um as Aaron said, they poured the um the entire gym floor in one pour. Uh the reason for that is they they do not want seams in the floor

046where the floor would dry and curl on the seams. Um for those that don't know a gymnasium floor today's type gymnasium flooring uh literally sits on the floor. It starts with a sheet of plywood that has a rubber shoe that is shot to it. They turn that down and the rubber shoes sit on that concrete floor. So, the wood floor is only as good as the concrete floor. So, trying to reduce this the slab curl uh what Aaron was referring to is the curing is actually moisture. You cannot put a wood floor over top of a a concrete floor that's still off-putting moisture. So, it'll cure itself out in really in the first uh 14 days is probably at 90% of its strength, but it takes a long time to let the moisture work its

047way out. So, we'll start dehumidifying in the gym and trying to make sure that we don't have any issues by if you look uh down at line uh 23 towards the bottom is gymnasium flooring. Something that as you notice in in construction, there's these wow kind of weeks and periods where you see a lot going on and and you physically see it and then there's going to be periods in one of those if you look at the gym flooring 40 days and the days are in 5-day work weeks. So, 40 days is 8 weeks. It's 8 weeks, 2 months to install that floor. That gym floor is 20,000 square feet and it's 1 in 1/2 pine board at at a time. So, it takes a long time plus they have sand it, paint it, seal

048it, and let the seal cure before we bring the bleachers in and do that. So, what you see is just kind of the blocks of work. I'll add more detail to smaller things that just fit within this, but this was kind of the big blocks that take the job out. So, they're they're starting now to start prepping uh they're prepping today the floor in the district office area. So, we'll start chasing the concrete floors down the east you know, on area in the east wing And that shows up in line 13. I started at 6:01. They probably will actually pour some next week, but just trying to be conservative in this and have all the floors poured in June. And and you can just see the sequence as it works in here. So if we

049can sooner get the systems on. There's more going on in the gym than there is in wrestling and fitness, obviously. They're large, fairly open. So we'll try to get the new equipment in. And if the fire alarms and the things are all on and in service, we can certainly move the district office. We could, you know, let wrestling start using the wrestling room. And let Timmy start using the fitness center if if it continues and we can progress. It's been kind of a wild spring. I give a lot of credit to our mason. They have fought through some wild weather out here and they have done a tremendous job. We're very fortunate to get the roof on in the gym ahead of a lot of this rain and it really kept a lot of the

050moisture and mud out of the gym that allowed us to keep going. And I think Aaron's posted pictures along the way. There's probably 10 miles of conduit underneath of that gym floor, which is feeding the power all over. So all of that was done ahead of that big day Monday. And they actually I'll correct Aaron, they were here for 20 hours Monday. Started at 6:00 in the morning and the last finisher finished at 2:00 a.m. Tuesday morning. So that's a lot of concrete in one day and difficult finish. So kudos to our crew and um I I this is both really the the schedule and the update on budget is just more of an affirmation of what we've talked about. It's more of a check check back so you guys can see if people are

051asking you, you have something in front of you now. And it also helps you visualize as you look at those blocks, you can look down and say, "Okay, you You it's July now and what should we be seeing happening here in July? You get down into that period you see mechanical systems going into the east wing. You'll see the exterior brick going on. As you're familiar with your elevations it kind of works up and down in pods. The roof elevation of the district office area is one elevation. It jumps up to the commons, jumps back down to the elevation of the district at the bathrooms and trainer's room. Wrestling jumps back up to the height of the commons area and then fitness is back down. So it kind of it's pods that go up and

052down. The fitness center has brick. The wrestling room has a metal panel. The bathroom area has brick and the district office has metal panels. So they kind of go every other pod, I call them, between exterior brick and an exterior what I would call an ACM decorative metal panel. And there's so you can kind of see those things as they as I have them locked in here in fall and I'll keep coming to meetings to let you know that we're tracking along. But the nice part about where we're headed, if you look at the commons and east wing roofing at line 12 by somewhere in early July we should have all the roofs on and then basically the weather is taken out of it at that point. You know, rain days won't stop what's happening

053on inside. Might stop some brick or a few things on the outside, but it general that's another huge milestone to the job is to have the completely in the dry. So the other thing I would add is to what Aaron said uh big picture this done February 1st. The last of the base project then would be to move fitness into new. The current fitness becomes art and um part of your buildings and grounds gets their own area at the south end of the current fitness center. So those two projects and then and anything within the existing gym. And as Aaron alluded to, we kind of already have a little conundrum now because uh the FEMA thing has come alive again and if that is the direction you go as a board and it happens, then

054you certainly will change course on what we're doing in the gym because that was the bleachers were meant to come out and and create kind of a shell around the stage and you wouldn't certainly want to do that anymore and the stage would then become something else. And so, the timing has been good in this that that was the last piece of the project, but we would go right to fitness because that's on the outer edge. It doesn't affect the kids. We can do it from the outside in and so we would start that right away in February to complete that last phase and be done summer '27 with the base project. Summer of '26 as Aaron alluded to is the tech ed and ag area. This is what they call area B, which extends

055from here all the way to the end of tech ed. That gets completely re-roofed including we were able to pick up in budget as Aaron said the little commons on the north end of the gym that you have buckets under all the time. We now have a brand new roof and that won't be a thing anymore. Um we are trying to expedite putting the new cooling system into the current gym. That was really contemplated at the end. We're doing it. We're trying to find some holes that we can get in there because the equipment is here. Um all of the air handlers are here. The electrical gear shipped somewhere between Square D and here right now. So, that's a good thing as well, too. So, our long lead items I I don't have a lot

056concerning me in this right now cuz most of it's here already. So, um I think we're in a good position for any supply chain issues or those kinds of things. So, that's schedule. >> I have a quick question for you. Can you Can you just uh update us on the electrical because like I was asked, you know, is the air gym going to be air conditioned Friday night for uh graduation? >> Which you won't need it cuz it's only going to be 62 on Friday, but the the new air conditioning units are fed from the new gear. From the new electrical service, which is not here yet. So, there's a huge milestone this summer. Um what ends up happening, we put a new uh very large electrical service into the current boiler room. And then

057that new service will back feed your old service. So, you you did not have enough power here to to take on the new addition. So, it's a brand new service, and essentially you don't pull out the old one, it just back feeds it, but the old one did not have the capacity to run these rooftops for the current gym. So, we cannot turn the air conditioning on until we have the new gear set, which is you know, it'll be ongoing in June, hopefully if no worse in July sometime we'll make that crossover and you'll be on new power. And if all would work out, gym is busy in the summer. We did sneak in during spring break. If you notice, if you go into the gym, there's four beams that are carrying those rooftop units

058that sit above. Now, we have to punch holes through the roof down to those beams and and make the stands for those rooftop units. So, we have to find uh enough slot in the summer time, but my hope would be we can do this and have air conditioning for volleyball. Um and speed that part That'd be the only thing we really do to the current gym until we know what direction you guys are going with the rest of the stuff. >> I like this. This is a nice visual. I do like this. >> Then you have it, and it helps you follow it, and if people ask you, you can refer back to it. And I'll continue to update if we're tracking ahead of that, and hopefully not tracking behind. >> goal is by January

059to be able to host basketball games. Is that what we're saying? >> February 1st. >> February 27th. >> End of January, yeah. >> And I appreciate that update in the flooring, cuz I was trying to I was trying to make sense of why it takes so long for a flooring, you know, but I get it now. >> Yeah, it's a big floor. It's a very tedious job, and then even just the the ceiling, once you do it, you have to stay off of it or likely more than a week to two weeks before you would damage that new sealer on there. So, it's just a long drawn out and then again, the bleachers they're a big set of bleachers. It'll take them a month to put all the bleachers in and assemble. But, while they're

060doing that, we'll test the scoreboards and you know, do all of that kind of stuff. So, if you have not had a chance, you should walk into the gym. It's incredible. It's massive. Um it will be a showpiece when it is done. >> There's there happens some schools that we're aware of that tried to speed it up and put the floor down a little early and then it buckles and then they >> Then everybody's suing everybody. >> Exactly, yeah. >> And we're back. >> These people say it's not our fault, it's your fault, it's your fault. >> It's a huge investment, you know, it's a $400,000 investment in the project is just that floor. So, we want to make sure it's done right. Very, very extensive vapor barrier underneath of it not to let, you

061know, moisture drive up through the floor. So, we've tried to take all the precautions. So, I won't dwell on this either. Normally, everything in here you guys go right to the back page cuz that's where the rubber hits the road. Um most of this, uh I think the last time we really talked, there were still some things to buy out. Um so, that metal wall panel, some things I didn't have that we were still carrying some 23 budgets and stuff. We have literally everything is finished now. A few small what I would call finish items that we may just track that I hope we can pick up, but this is a much more, uh now exact, you know, number of where we are are at. Um if you kind of take to seven of eight,

062the second to last page, um I have a little like a construction subtotal um that you see 19 19,596, still carrying a contingency of a half million. Um obviously, we're up out of the ground. I think we're past most the things that could come our way, but I think, uh there'll always be some things happen as I've told Aaron in jobs of this magnitude, they don't happen in hundreds, they happen in thousands, you know, and change is just a big project. Um So, you go down through our fees, uh subtotal at 21,201,799. Then Braze Um and then uh the elementary roof project that happened back in '23. Then you start into the owner purchases. So, this is now very much updated. We had just thrown back in '23 even some numbers at this, and we've

063always been tracking in that 1.2 million range in owner purchases. This now is much current. If you look up at the tech ed equipment, fab lab, ag purchases, weights and fitness, those are all firm numbers with POs for equipment that's been purchased. Um So, you sub at 24,729,780. And then I do a little below. Your referendum was 26,850. The interest, I think it's already there at the $3 million. It's not potential anymore, so it gives you guys 29,850. Working that from the 24, we're about 5,420 left at this point with 500,000 in contingency. We won't use it all. I think we'll use some of it. I think it's reasonable to think you'll be getting at least half of that 500 back into this. So, we'd be sitting in that, you know, 5,4 range. That just

064leads back a little bit to what Aaron said. If you look at the sheet again, we were we had circled ourselves around about $3 million worth of things that was first priority. So, if you did all of these, and we were ended in say the 5,4 range, you'd have about 2,4. So, we're very close to that match. We'd be able to do all of this, but I do think the FEMA decision's going to drive this, right? Um you know, and how much we match it that and I am working, so you guys know, on an estimate for that as well, too. Brady did a concept um and asked me to put a budget to it to make sure that it all makes sense. Um as as Jordan goes forward with FEMA, he's got to present

065the budget, and they have to look at what is eligible, what is ineligible. They pay for the things that really create the shelter, and the stuff inside the shelter is kind of yours, so to speak. So, um that's where he was going with that eligible and ineligible expenses. So, we're in a very good place. Just may have to And again, we're not at, you know, this piece of this project, because this is your main entrance to the gym until February, we couldn't take off on this anyhow. So, I think it's best just to every take a deep breath and see what happens. Um it's I The news is exciting, but I'm also holding my breath that we've been here before, as well, too, and and whether we can take this at face value that they're

066going to continue on. Um they didn't in the past, but hopefully they will this time. That would be a quite a win for you guys. >> Is there anything that the board should know to consider for timeline for like our June meeting as far as what you would need to know when >> I think the longest lead out there is if you're committed to replacing the track and regrading the football field, and I think those are things of need. Carrie needs a long time to be able to figure that out. You know, you you can't just turn around and say, "Well, we're not playing football here this fall." Or we're not going to have track next spring. My sense of that would be that if we if you played this football season, had track in

067'27, played football in '27, and tore it up as soon as football was done, let her schedule the early half of the season in '20 If she can, move that around, try to give some of the latter part of October, and usually you can grade up through November, get it out, get it regraded, and then come back in the spring and seed it right away. You'd miss track in '28, but be ready for football in 2018 and not miss a football season on the field. I think that's reasonable if we could go right after. Um though that's something for the June meeting that if you invite I think we talked about Carrie coming to that meeting and talk about that. Um I don't think you're at all that risk of the match money and all

068that to go ahead with that and maybe some of the stuff we need to do to help Jason if he continues to have need class space down there and we got to do some modifications. The big number in this was this. And I would just say it for now I would let it ride until there's no rush to do this. It's one of the wants, you know, at the end and let the FEMA thing play itself out before you make the decision on what you do here cuz the FEMA thing carries a lot of after effect. It It affects the gym. It might be changing some of what we do in your current gym. It could change this project and so um it creates a lot of of after effects, I guess. So, I think

069you can do you could make the decision to go forward and schedule that out so Carrie could make that work for uh the act if that's a high priority to you guys and you're certain you want to spend some of the extra money on that and then just kind of wait it out. And I think in fairness I by the fall we have to know either it's making progress or you're spinning your wheels again and then you probably start to feel like it is this this never going to happen. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. So, you guys are in a great place. This doesn't happen very often where you get to make choices to do more. >> So, that this does not include the phase B, right? >> put that into the summer. We obviously

070we've got that mapped out as well, too. As Aaron said, that has to be done when >> Phase B is just egg and >> Yeah, we're not We won't be doing the >> the fab lab next year? >> Because it's art. >> Cuz it's art right now. So, once that art room is ready >> Fitness has to move first. >> So, the interior part of what that is called, unit B building, is really confined within shop and ag. >> Okay. >> The exterior of that is you get a new metal front with some fancy glass garage doors on the in the tech ed area, and you get an all new roof. That's the exterior really portion of this. >> And that is going to be ready for school come September 1. >> It has to

071be. >> Okay. >> That's my nervousness. If we are, they've got all their equipment ordered. You know, we just it becomes hours and the nice thing is the inside has got a roof over it now. We won't be really it's not weather related and obviously as we know when we first planned this, we let out of school early, we were going to come back a little bit late and give her and we tried that twice and couldn't couldn't get the FEMA thing to go and we're done with that whole process. So, now we have a very normal summer, you know, session that we just going to have to bust it. So. >> I would just communicate with coach Cuff that his football plans for August are going to have to be rerouted cuz they usually

072use that shop area. So, I would just communicate that sooner than later because >> Yeah, cuz we will need most of August, you know, to to get it done. So, I think that and or the other thing that happens in the existing in the summer is your locker rooms. Because we have added the building to the south of it and it's taller than your current locker rooms, it it creates snow drifting back onto that roof. So, some of that roof gets re you know, reinforced. That's air conditioned as part of one of the alternates that we accepted because we're in a good place to budget. So, setting that air conditioning unit, doing the roof reinforcing, the other stuff. So, we have to take the ceiling down completely out of the locker rooms, do all of

073that work, put a new ceiling back up. Shouldn't be an issue in summer, but that is also an interior summer project. >> All right. Any other questions for Brad? I think that's >> you. Thank you for having >> Um I'm to be re-naming of facility. Yes, talking about the basketball court. >> Um one of the things we talked about in our last meeting was naming that either the gymnasium or the court. Um I did take a couple of samples over to Coach Pastina across the street um and showed him some different options. Uh shared those with you guys. I see some several of you in there. Preferred option is that top one that says Pastina Court. It'll have his signature through the middle and underneath that it will say good skill. That will be positioned

074so that our home fans can see that near half court where it's not interrupting with any other lines. Um they did also draw a couple if we wanted to put them by entrances so you can see those like um I would say that's similar to where it says Rabbi in our current gym. It's right by the entrance. Uh but we'll likely have walk-off mats there. So I mean I don't know if we want to Yeah, probably cover them up um you know, during the winter season to keep the salt off our floor. Um my recommendation would be just go with option one or alter um the preferred option, just have it right at half court. >> Why not have a second one on the opposite side of the court as well? >> In the other

075>> That's something That's something we could do. If you want to have two on there. >> Cuz as as this sits then it reads to the I mean the logo you see is upside down to the to the home fans. >> This isn't oriented right. I'm I have a meeting with them tomorrow to make sure that they put it in the right place, but this was a real quick drawing they did to make sure that you could see it. But um yeah, the C will be oriented so our home fans see the C so that will all make sense. But do you guys want to have one on each side? I I think it would look >> aesthetically better if you had them >> I think two on it. >> You know, on each side.

076>> Yeah, I agree. >> I I do like option one the best in my opinion with the black in there. >> Yeah, I agree with it as well. I think that looks sharp. >> They're talking about adding this >> This direction be important because we need to get this to the the wood floor company so they have this paint scheme. >> Yep. I've got a meeting scheduled with them tomorrow so they can give me your information. So, everybody okay with >> I would do both. >> Two circles? So, they're going to be located >> Here and here, right? >> Yep. Yeah. >> And mid-court? >> Yep. >> On either side? >> Yep. >> What And again, I assume this is just a competition court? >> Correct. >> And nothing nothing outlandish on the on the

077practice court? >> The practice court the um >> I thought the booths or something you said about naming >> Yeah, each each court There's three courts and we have three communities. So, my suggestion would be have one Cuba City court, Dickeyville court, and Keeler court. Um whether we just refer to them or that or do we want to put that on the on the baseline in different color paint is something that we can tell them how to how we want them to do it. >> I like the idea but I would worry if something were to ever change. If we think it's never going to change, I would think. So, I I love the concept but I'd be worried if we ever had another community or if we had something that I don't know. I

078>> Well, about every 10 years generally you kind of strip the paint down and repaint it. So, it would be you know, for 10 years or so. >> Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I like the idea. >> We could just refer to them as those. >> But wouldn't it be nicer to have it on the floor if you're having tournaments or summer activities and you have your schedules and you say you're 1:00 on Cuba City court and you're 1:00 on Keeler court. >> I like the concept. I mean, I >> That's true. I just don't know if I like it on the floor. I'm not going to lie. Like in that case >> You can put it on the wall. >> I would say I'd be looking at the wall first in indicator versus

079the floor. >> Yeah, and in that case we just make up some signs and keep them in that back room and when we need to >> Much easier to change them. >> I was going to say I think >> The wall would probably be the easiest. >> So you're saying just create signs that we just hang and >> Yeah, hang. >> Yeah. >> Then you could move them if you ever needed to change it. >> So you're number two you're okay with having Cuba City D'Oro come across the competition court? >> Yeah. >> I like that idea. >> We're okay with with having those alternate names. >> my two cents is probably just go one, two, three to start with and then put it on the wall and then kind of go from there, but

080that's just my my two cents on it. >> I mean 10 years down the line if you want to pick >> Yeah, or >> Put the sign >> 5 years or whatever, right? >> So we can do Cuba City Keeler >> Thank you, Bella. >> Dicky Bell. >> Thank you. If I lived there I'd say >> Um but it could be that's not permanent. We could just hang them. So I I like that since it's not a permanent thing and I like it because it ties into what our some of our branding is, but that's just my >> So pretty much everybody wants it on the wall versus on the court? >> Yep. Yep. >> And we're going to go with with preferred option number one with the black and in two locations. >> Yep.

081>> All right. >> Okay. >> Then Aaron, I got one question on the on the construction side of things. >> Okay. >> Um with having another classroom potentially being in 4K, how does that look for like classrooms and space for like does our number one classroom renovations now become a need more than a want? >> We've looked at some other options that with that consideration that we moved away from the most significant portions of that >> Okay. >> need. Um some areas that just when we we got the drawings back, the square footage was not as comparable as what we thought it was going to be with the changes that had to happen. So, we we are exploring other options with that. >> That's So, like next year >> It wouldn't be as in >>

082Yeah. Next year would be would be fine. in space. >> do. >> Yes. We make do. >> Yeah. >> It would be further down the road. Probably the bigger concerns are if we are going to have the numbers to necessitate that. It's going to be more a matter of where are we going to fit our gym classes and how are we going to fit everybody into the cafeteria? It may be more of a gym space at that point >> Okay. >> as opposed to science >> It's really hard to expand our existing gym and cafeteria. >> And so, we may have to look at additional thoughts, but just We we had some very good feedback from not only the teaching staff, but also just the maintenance staff in terms of are some of these changes

083going to be the best fit for that and square footage really solidified some of that for us. So, >> Is that something that we should consider in our June meeting? >> We actually have kind of a plan for two additional 4K rooms that has have a bathroom and we don't think it'll be very expensive. >> Yeah. >> Um so, the good part about having Jason as our elementary principal with this knowledge of construction is thanks to Every time we get a plan back, he comes up with a better idea that we can do something just as good for for less amount of money. So, every time we've gotten something back from Brain, he's got a good a better idea for it. So, it changes those two existing locker rooms into 4K rooms. Square footage is

084maybe a little smaller, but if we're going to have smaller class sizes, we thought it was appropriate and we already have the flooring um from the '27 um referendum that we could use in there. So, then it's just getting an extra clear touch or, you know, boards and whiteboards and some you know, felt boards and and we're ready >> furnish them. >> Yeah. >> We're not going to have to move a lot of walls to do some of those things. And electrical is electrical there. >> Yeah. It's yeah. They're the the one locker room was used as classroom at one time previously, so it kind of blended into that consideration as well. Mr. Sander helped with the kind of uh since his son had gone through that classroom when it was there. So, yeah, it's

085it's just the benefit of the time that we've had to look at it and working with Brady, they just when they came in walked through with us it opened up some other thoughts, so we'll keep you posted. >> All right, thank you. All righty, there is no one for a public recognition, so we can move. Thank you, Brad, and take care. Um new business is uh approve the date and time for the June regular board meeting. It's scheduled for this June 17th at 6:00. Is that okay with everyone? >> Andrea had asked that we consider moving it. She's going to be out of town. Um I'm unavailable the 24th, so we're looking probably at the 10th, uh which was going to be our special board meeting to talk about um special projects and more about

086FEMA. >> 6:00 on the 10th is going to be pushing it for me. >> Okay. I'm sorry. >> 6:00 on the 10th is going to be pushing it for me. >> I'm sorry. >> have to change it for me because >> I'm sorry if I'm the special board meeting is is that 6:00 on the 10th? >> Right. >> Yeah, we haven't set that one, but that's what I've got in in pencil. >> Okay. >> Since school's out, what about a different night of the week than Wednesday? >> I I mean I have to change it for me. I don't want to I mean if it's only me and I mean I'd like to be there obviously since I'm in the conversations, but um and I can't be on virtually, so >> I mean the 11th,

08718th, uh I don't know. Just like a Thursday night or some other night? >> I could do the the 11th that week, but I'm gone the whole week of the 14th through the 19th. >> Oh, okay. So, anytime that week doesn't work? >> No. >> All right. Does the 11th work? >> Do we want to try to do it like our special meeting and our regular one the same day again like kind of what we did in the last month? >> We could. >> I don't know. >> I know those are long Those are long meetings and >> But one long one versus two shorter ones. >> I'm okay with that. >> Yeah. >> So, what time? Is the 11th okay then? >> Yes. >> What time? >> Yeah, I can make the 11th. >>

08811th for me. What time works? >> to do it that work, yeah? >> What time on the 11th do we start? >> 6:00 to 6:00 to 8:00. >> 6:00 to 8:00. >> Yeah. For the regular? >> And you want to do both? >> Or for the just do both? >> Do both. >> Do you like 6:00 to 9:00 and call it good? >> Well, we'll just have one agenda and then that'll be an item so we don't have to wait for the next one. >> Yeah, does that work for you, Sarah? >> Yes. The 11th. >> The 11th works, then. >> Okay. >> Thank you, AJ. I appreciate it. >> Um so, I will move to approve the June regular board meeting for June 11th at 6:00. Is there a second? >> I will second.

089>> Hens. >> Yes. >> Sweigert. >> Yes. >> Joel. >> Yes. >> Farris. >> Yes. >> Wait, yes. Boden. >> Yes. >> Andrews. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> And item B is approve the graduates for the Cuba City High School senior class of 26. >> I'm sorry, who who um made Gary made that motion? Who made the second? >> I did. >> Got it. Okay. Kathy, these are graduates for Friday. All of them met the requirements or expect to meet the require requirements by Friday. I recommend that we approve this list and if anybody else wants to attend graduation, you're more than welcome. Gary and I will be handing out diplomas. >> So, uh if there's no questions, uh um other than uh Sari, you get the honor of signing the diplomas, please. Uh

090I guess you already have. >> She's got them. >> Was there a motion then for the graduates? >> I will move to approve the graduates for the Cuba City High School senior class of 2026 as presented. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second. Kent? >> Yes. >> Schweiger? >> Yes. >> Joel? >> Yes. >> Clark? >> Yes. >> White, yes. Boden? >> Yes. >> Andrews? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> C is approved the sale disposal of district resources including the furnishings, equipment, and curriculum textbooks. >> Yeah, very similar to what we did last year. We kind of loaded up the gym and had people come in and take a look at things. Um we've got some more expensive items here. Um so, Guy went Guy and Joel went through and came up with

091kind of what they thought the expected value would be. So, people that come in Thursday or Friday tomorrow, there's going to be a buy now price, or they can bid it starting at a certain price. We're hoping that um a lot of people in our community will um get some things that that they like and uh and help out around the house. And whatever is not sold by the end of Friday is going to end up stored. >> So, when is the sale? >> It's tomorrow, um 8:30 to 2:00 or 2:30, and then same thing on Friday. >> Okay. >> Have you had people in inquiring about it? >> Yep. >> Any other questions? >> This also does have the fitness center, just so you know. Obviously, we're not selling the fitness center stuff. We're

092going to approve it right now, so that whenever Brad says we're ready, we'll do the same thing. We'll have an open house. People can come in um >> and but that's covered under this one. >> That's covered under here. Yep. >> Okay. If there's no other questions, would somebody move? >> I'll move to approve the sale disposal of district resources including furnishings, equipment, and curriculum textbooks as presented. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Kent >> Yes. >> Schwinger >> Yes. >> Joel >> Yes. >> Barth >> Yes. >> White, yes. Boden? >> Yes. >> Andrews >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Item D is update the Cuba City School District Academic Career Plan. >> Yep, this has to be updated every few years and our our ACP team and I know Nancy

093Merwin and Tina worked a lot to get this updated and it's up and live on our site right now. As soon as we approve it then they will submit it to the DPI just that it's been updated. >> Are there questions? Hearing silence, would someone move? >> I'll move to approve approve the updated CCSD Academic Career Plan as presented. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second. Kent >> Yes. >> Schwinger >> Yes. >> Joel >> Yes. >> Barth >> Yes. >> White, yes. Boden? >> Yes. >> Andrews >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Item E is approve property and casualty insurance from Tri-County EMC. >> Yep, this year we put these out to bid and got back a almost 19% reduction year over year which has not happened before. So, this would be my

094recommendation is to take this and we'll continue to go out to bid every few years for our casualty and property. >> Are there questions? Would someone move, please? >> I'll move to approve property and casualty insurance from Tri-County EMC as presented. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second. Kent >> Yes. >> Schwinger >> Yes. >> Joel >> Yes. >> Barth >> Yes. >> White, yes. Boden? >> Yes. >> Andrews >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Item F is approve the 2026 Cuba City Summer School course offerings. >> Yep, >> school is uh going to have another great summer. These are just all the course offerings and we do that every year. >> Will someone move? >> I move to approve the 2026 Cuba City Summer School course offerings as presented. >> Is there a

095second? >> I'll second. >> Kent? >> Yes. >> Schweiger? >> Yes. >> Joel? >> Yes. >> Barth? >> Yes. >> White? Yes. Boden? >> Yes. >> Andrews? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Item G is >> I'll just say I was looking Jessica, good job with that. I was looking through that booklet and I want to sit and take a few of those classes. >> She's probably still LOOKING FOR SOME. >> OPTIONS. You did a very good job. The teachers did that. But thank you. >> Item G is approve the 2026-2029 athletic training contract with Southwest Health. >> Yeah, we do this about every 3 years and had an in and in increase this year and it's capped. The increase is at 4% for those next 3 years. But this is our this is our

096best option right now for athletic training. >> Is there any questions? Hearing none, will someone move, please? >> I will move to approve the 2026 through 2029 athletic training contract with Southwest Health as presented. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Kent? >> Yes. >> Schweiger? >> Yes. >> Joel? >> Yes. >> Barth? >> Yes. >> White? Yes. Boden? >> Yes. >> Andrews? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> H is approve the extra duty job descriptions. >> Yep. So this is the last round. We've got seven here. So we have the senior class advisor, sophomore class advisor, student information system coordinator, summer counselor hours, summer recreation director, summer school coordinator, yearbook advisor, and this concludes all the the extra duty job descriptions in our handbook. so I recommend that we approve these. >>

097Would someone move? >> a question. >> Yep. >> I don't know if this is just flown over my head in the past, but why is our district paying the summer wreck director? >> It comes from fund 80. That's just something a lot of schools do because um a lot of cities don't have somebody who runs that, and so instead of the city doing that, the school does. >> So, do we get a kick Do we Does that fund 80 get the concession stand money, and does the fund 80 get any Do we take care of all of them ins and outs of those funds throughout that program? >> they basically schedule the fields and the the referees and make up some of those things, but um I don't We don't schedule the concession stand cuz

098that's something different. >> Well, parents do that anyway. But, I mean like I'm just wondering who else If we're paying this person I'm just confused as to what what role our school district is has in that, and what role the city is playing in it. Uh and where that line is drawn. I'm just curious. >> Yeah. Um basically uh I was the summer wreck volunteer coordinator for the last uh 30 years and struggled to get people to volunteer time or effort to run a program, and basically worked with George Morrissey and Aaron on our agreement to try to collaborate with the school and the city to have somebody, and Ashley Molnar took that position, and she's done a fantastic job >> So, is that something >> coordinating um all of the schedules with parents and

099coaches and >> So, is that something that can be part of our summer school program? I'm just cur- Again, this is another question, just seeing it into one another. Is that Can that be considered a school activity? Because now we're part of the school and we're coordinating it and is that possible? >> I mean, I would have back when George McQuaid was the tech ed teacher and he ran the summer rec program. I you know, basically uh one day I found the packet that Jim and Mary Jo McQuaid put in my mailbox saying you're now you're now here. Um and I would have loved to have had somebody and I told John Murphy who preceded as city manager. I would have loved to have someone run you call it a summer program of some sort

100that somebody like a college age kid even high school age kid spends time with youth doing the park. They get it I don't know play you know skip rope or whatever. And cuz I said they used to hire college kids to paint the curb. >> Oh, I remember that. >> Um but they couldn't hire anybody for a summer rec program person. So I'm personally at fault or am responsible for that right now. >> But I see what you're saying Julie is that can that be operated under our summer school and then we get a certain percentage of the revenue that from that and it's tied to our fund 80. I don't know if you could do that. >> I don't either but you know as I'm you know, if we're going to pay a coordinator

101to do some of this maybe it's it should be something we look into as a potential >> Yeah. >> I don't know where the line draws with that. I'm not exactly sure. I mean camps fall under summer rec under our school or they can fall under fund 80 but I don't know about organized leagues. I don't know. >> Yeah, I'm not sure about that either but I can I can look into it. >> I think it'd be good to look into. >> because we had three communities in three different groups for our softball and baseball and soccer. If we had one person who was doing all organizing, we can try to avoid or conflicts and rescheduling and be better for kids. Um but um that's something I can look in I'm not aware of anybody

102cuz that that would mean taking that revenue then away from the city because they pay to be part of rec. Um you know, for say softball baseball and but >> I was just surprised to see it I guess listed cuz I didn't realize that we paid for that position, but So does this director handle P and R programs or just game city? >> We offer that and then this the city if they have somebody, they do that but then they coordinate all the games and everything with the the our coordinator. >> I think you offered it originally. >> Yeah. >> But they each wanted to do their own. >> Yeah. >> They used to do their own. I know that cuz back then it was still kind of their own but I don't know >>

103And they said right now we have somebody who is willing to do that but when someone isn't >> Then they need to bring in somebody else. They have to have kind of their own person. >> Yeah. But I'll I'll look into that too. >> Great question. Um so we still need a motion I believe for the extra duty. >> Um I'll move to approve the extra duty job descriptions as presented. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second it. >> Kent >> Yes. >> Schwinger >> Yes. >> Joel >> Yes. >> Barth >> Yes. >> White Yes. Boden >> Yes. >> Andrews >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> I is approved the learn apply design incorporated to write the innovative approaches to literacy program grant. >> Yeah. Um so we look a lot into grants.

104Um last year we had the same company write our school safety grant. We ended up getting a grant for $499,000 um for school safety that we're still working with them on. We've got um hopefully the next 2 years you will see all those things. Um this is a grant that it is designed to help with early elementary reading and um there's about there's a $10,000 fee to write the grant. This company has an 80% success rate in year one and in 100% success rate in year number two. What that means is if they don't get it year one, they will for free not charge us no $10,000 they will write it for the second year. So, things that could fall into this category are entire early literacy reading curriculum um which which would help our

105curriculum cycle. Um it would also um have our either reading coaches or reading interventionist. Um it could have li- or classroom libraries so that in every classroom elementary would have their own library of leveled readers. Um it could also have a coach that um we could find to be a full-time coach to go and work with all the teachers on the new curriculum. So, those are all things that could fit in there. There's a 25% match for this. So, if we do end up getting this grant, we write it for $100,000, we would pay 25 of that, the grant would pay 75. If if it involved um bringing in a staff person like a literacy coach, we would obviously have to bring that to the board. Um you know, even if we write it and

106it says it's in there since there's a match, we would have to bring any personnel items here. Um but so, it's 10,000 to write it and it is a 25% match after that and we talked a lot administratively about how we could use some of these funding these funds and um with your permission, we all recommend that we do this. With your permission, we would begin working with them soon um and hopefully have this done and find out by September. >> I have a few questions. So, um 100% you know, I understand and appreciate the need for the curriculum literacy coach. We obviously whatever we can get for support we need to get. I'm questioning why we're paying someone to write grants. And the reason being and I was hoping to have information I had

107reached out to the one of the ones the presidents for our general area to see if I in my lane could contact CESA 3. I wanted to get my own number of rural schools that write grants. >> Yep. >> Because and do you have an idea of how many >> CESA 3 has a a grant writer, but she's not she writes so many grants for CESA 3 that right now they're not allowing her to write grants for districts. >> That meant if you I was going to get the number of how many school districts actually outsource out cuz I know personally I have wrote for grants that have secured positions in a school. I have wrote for grants that have secured um supplies and I wrote that those grants as a part of my administration

108duties. We have very qualified, highly qualified employees in the building. And I just and my understanding and again I was hoping to have these numbers is that even where I'm at right now, we have groups internal that write grants. Like we are not outsourcing that. $10,000 seems a lot when we have skilled people that can write those grants. So I'm curious that was information I was hoping to have. I didn't hear back from Wendy until now or today and I was didn't get a chance to respond on if I could reach out to CESA 3 and and ask rural districts like do you outsource your grants or do you internally write your grants? Um cuz there is some ownership in school districts having to do that as well. You know, to be able to write

109those grants, secure those funds. Um and with with the way the the education system is going, it should be a practice we're doing regularly to be honest. Um and I know people are going to say there's not enough time. Again, I'm sitting in a position where I've actually done it. So I know the time that it takes and I know what have you know, how to secure it and I know we saved um money by doing that. Um so those are my questions cuz I'm I'm concerned with outsourcing, not the purpose behind the grants, but outsourcing the money for the grants. >> So, am I hearing you volunteering to write this grant? >> I'm saying >> Cuz that's not an expertise that I have, and I don't think our our admin team does. Now, we're

110not in Dubuque that has that many employees that might have somebody who has >> Well, this wasn't the one I was in Dubuque. This was when I was in a different district. So, I think it's and grants are pretty They're time-consuming, but they're relatively self-explanatory in what you need to do for each one of the steps. Um again, that's my my I wanted to know that our small consortium of schools our rural schools outsourcing, are they using these funds to >> Yeah, that might be hard to get that data, too, because like for some smaller grants that aren't like this is a federal grant that's competitive, um but for some smaller ones, I mean, that that might be really easy to to write. So, some districts might have somebody who's going to do that small

111one, but for a national grant that's competitive, I think I think a lot of schools use grant writers like this. >> So, again, I'm just I don't have that information. I was hoping to have that myself personally so I can make an informed decision on this. Um >> But if you did what That's something you wanted to do. >> Just saying we did it in our district where and then the staff themselves, based on the amount of crew, got like 2% or a 1% of, you know, whatever as a kind of their contribution to taking that time out of their day and and writing that grant. Um whether it be a team or whether it be an individual. So, I just And again, that answers questions for both of what we're going to I just

112I wanted to know. >> Well, I I mean, I guess I would ask that maybe you know, since we don't have anyone that I'm aware of that's written grants before, and maybe I'm wrong even when I say that, but it's like are you suggesting maybe we develop or some grant writing >> I'm just suggesting >> program where, you know, if we're going to pay somebody 10,000, if, you know, we we can re- re-enumerate them in some way, shape, or form to to write a grant if we could find somebody that was willing to to do it and not pay them quite 10,000. >> Correct. Correct. >> What do you think the success rate is of somebody possibly not as qualified as a professional company writing grants? >> I think >> If If they're saying that

113their success is 80% first year and 100% second year. >> I think it would be dependent on the competitive of the grant. I wrote a competitive grant. I I would worry about it. You know, it but it depends on again you know, the There's it's a lot of legwork to do it. Um I mean 80% A- again and you get the feedback no matter what. Like if I if I had wrote it and it was failed, I would hear feedback on you know, I could reach out and ask the grants committee like why was my grant not approved? Again, I'm not saying it's this that the grant that the grants aren't valuable and should be used. I'm saying is it is is outsourcing it the route we should go. And And again, I I was

114really hoping to have numbers from all of our rural schools to find out are you outsourcing or are you really working looking internally? You know, and I've seen again different levels of people writing sometimes there's smaller ones and there's like I can only speak to like I wrote a smaller one and got it. I wrote a larger one that I submitted a position for 3 years and got it. You know, I so I think it's and it's pretty much similar to the one that you're talking about back here. Um I don't I just think that the $10,000 if I again without knowing if every 40 to 50% of C3 schools outsource again, I don't have that information. That was really hoping that I had it, but I don't have it. So. >> And is this

115$10,000 per >> Per grant. Yeah. And this would fit in uh the district admin budget for this year. >> I want to be clear. I think the grants are really really a great grant that we could be pursuing. Any questions more on that? Who should be writing? >> What is the timeline of the grants kind of needing to be done and complete and everything? >> Uh July 1. >> July 1? >> Yeah. July 1 for the early literacy and then the stop one that it that is not um that timeline has not come out for the stop the second grant. Uh the first one's July 1. >> Did you look at the grant, Aaron, to know like what's what's all involved in the writing and like how many steps or what kind of information was

116there or >> Did I look at the writing? No, I looked at the I looked at the grant and >> but not like what's the application, I guess, is what I'm trying to say. >> And I guess my follow-up with just hearing what Angie is saying is are most grants, and I have no idea, are most grants the requirements for these grants similar? So, is the second one similar in nature as far as the first 75% of what you're providing is the same? >> I think it's very different cuz one's more literacy and then the other one is kind of school safety item. So, I think they're they I would assume the application would be very different. >> Do we know how much we're talking about for these grants or is that part of the

117process that determines it? >> one is yeah. >> So, when you said that uh we'd have to match it with 25% so, if we got 100,000, we'd have to make up with 25,000. Would we have that in the the budget to if we got the grant? >> Uh it depends what we write it for. If we write it for the curriculum, that would be a would be a savings. >> Cuz there's money in there right now for literacy curriculum. >> Cuz we're thinking about swapping and changing science and out for for English language arts and or for reading in the elementary. So, >> Have we Have you ever Have we ever asked staff are you interested in writing a grant for us if there's a I mean in the district that we I mean again

118you can have staff and then I depending on your your vision or your focus, I mean sometimes I think it falls under I know we all everybody's busy but something that falls under administrative responsibility. I mean you're trying to get money, right? I mean and we have to find creative ways to do it. And I think the sooner we can learn how to do it in house the better because there's going to be a lot more grant opportunities that are going to come up. Some are going to be small for $5,000 and some are going to be large for $100,000. I mean so I just didn't know if we ever had reached out to staff and said is our staff, you know? And if there was a 2% based on whatever versus paying a $10,000,

119we're going to pay staff a certain percentage to write and secure a grant. And if you don't secure it, you get the feedback and you write it again and you get it and you know, I just >> Yeah, I maybe somebody would be really good at that. I I worry that we'd be missing out on on on something if we were to do that now. It might take somebody a few years to become a really efficient grant writer because that would that's like their secondary thing where where this company that's their full-time job is that's what they do. And so we're paying that $10,000 is for their expertise. Um and paying somebody in house, their expertise is going to be being a teacher and being with kids and work with kids everyday. So that that's

120just a a concern that that I have. >> I just have not seen the grant application. I mean usually grant applications are pretty specific. This is a question, this is the amount, this is what your rationale is and sometimes they're five pages, sometimes they're two pages. But they pretty much are outlined and then your job is to go and get this information, right? Like this is how much I want, this is my rationale for it. This is what I'm going to use it for, this is and sometimes they require the itemization of it but it doesn't take a highly skilled grant writer to write the grant. I mean they're it takes time. I would say it doesn't take a highly skilled, it takes time to sit down and do it to write the grant. More

121so than someone that has years of experience. That's my two cents. >> Can we put together something uh in our extra duties list that possibly we would have somebody on staff that would be a grant writer for X amount of a stipend? And push that in the future. I think we're on timeline for this. This is This is on this agenda tonight. It's a July 1 deadline. To me, I think we ought to approve it. And if we want to discuss or going forward with >> add things to the extra duties. >> We can We can add that as a grant writer and and a year from now maybe have somebody in place. >> And sometimes a person doesn't have to necessarily be assigned as an area of interest to them. Like I would like

122to have this service or supports. I'm going to be interested in writing grants so we can secure those funds. I mean, I think that's the way people want to get to look through it. If we want more stuff for our schools, we got to do lines of like who's going to how we're going to do some of this legwork to make some of this stuff happen. We can't be relying on again, going you know, going back to our refrain of never we're going to have to start finding ways to generate those funds. Um, sorry I don't know what I'm doing this. Start to generate ways to generate funds um in house and and really and and making that happen versus relying on other areas of doing the generation for us. Does that make sense what

123I'm saying? >> Yep. >> And it's it's Aaron's 10,000 per grant? >> Per grant. Yeah, right. >> All righty. Um So, where are we at board? We have a We've had good conversation. I agree with Angie that we probably should look into how we can get somebody in house to write grants um without looking at the very limited uh staff uh out there uh uh what they are thinking. >> We personally Don't look at me, okay. Uh Um we have uh this specific motion. I will, unless there's other questions, I will ask for a motion. >> I will move to approve the Learn Applied Design Inc. to write Innovative Approaches to Literacy Program grant as presented. >> Is there a second? >> I will second. Kent? >> Yes. >> Swanger? >> Yes. >> Joel? >>

124Yes. >> Barth? >> No. >> White, yes. Bowden? >> Yes. >> Andrews? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Then that leads us to the second grant. >> Yeah, the next grant is a 0% match. So, these are kind of uniform grants. Um so, the only cost here would be 10,000 and it's up to a million million-dollar grant. Um so, this requires um you know, some work with student uh mental health, behavioral intervention, um school climates. Uh we would be talking about counseling supports, behavior interventionists, some professional development for our classrooms on emotional regulation. These are a lot of things that um elementary teachers are saying we're just finding a lot of differences with ability to regulate their emotions at 4, 5, 6, 7 years old. I think that all over um and that's what got

125us kind of looking into this grant um and the fact that this is um 0% matching, you know, we were talking about having a behavioral interventionist and an additional school counselor at each building um that can triage those things. And the ultimate goal is, you know, when you have those other staff and you bring in that professional development, you've got 3 years of this to build a system that can sustain without those additional staff members. So, I think it would be a um this this would be a great grant to get. >> So, I can just clarify that the motion is for approving the learn apply design to write it. The motion is not for the grant. >> Correct. They're going to apply it. Yeah. >> They write but the motion is for >> So,

126we would write it and we they if if we get it they would say you're approved to get this this this and this. So, whenever you get a grant, um, you know, if you're approved for 25 things but you only want to use 23, then that's what you get reimbursed at. Um, so, that if if it involves staff we would bring it back here. >> I was just saying I I think the grants are great. That's not what I'm questioning. So, I just wanted to mention Okay. >> And you said this one doesn't have a timetable yet for a deadline of when to >> Correct. So, that's the other thing is if we if we write it now, I'm not sure is that for the next 3 years or because it doesn't have a date

127yet, would we be able to say this is going to start 27 28 and then go 3 years there? I don't know that yet. >> Okay. >> I think that was my question too is the waterfall effect of this is say we didn't get it the first year they reapply the second year, are you only eligible for 2 years then? >> No, it would be a it's still a 3-year yeah. >> Okay. >> Would would this be something that we could maybe kick down a couple meetings down the road and see like what Andrew's talking about of does anyone is anyone interested in grant writing and stuff like that and kind of maybe see what that foundation looks like versus the time crunch that we had kind of on the other one. >> I mean,

128that's an option if it if it fails then we can do that. >> Okay. >> I regardless of whether it passes or fails, I think that I I think it would be good idea to see. I mean, I mean, if you find out there's no staff that want to do it. They're you know, then that's we've heard that I you know, unless you know, and we'd have to figure out what we're going to reimburse the staff for doing it. I mean, if it's a percentage or a dollar amount if you know, um to hopefully get somebody. But I think that maybe we could revisit even just that if you had the opportunity in the future to check with staff to see if there truly is or isn't somebody that would want to write or learn

129how to write grants. >> Okay, I'm just I'm going to share my opinion as my job is to advise the board. It's your job to make decisions. This is a unicorn grant. And if if we wait and then we say somebody is like I'd like to to write grants for the first time. I really have serious doubts about that. >> what Gary was saying here. I think he said after >> Oh, after this. Yes. >> think is what he had implied. >> And even with that I I think it's good to have a grant writer, but there are some grants that are that let's face it are just are going to be too big for $3,000 stipend. Um but I I think it would be good to have a local grant writer. And that's why

130I see the three got one and they they got it originally to hire out to to districts and they got too busy and they don't they don't have time for districts. >> Well, I mean I can see that I mean basically if there's as many grants as maybe Angie makes it sound like there's there'd be you know >> Well, you might find someone locally who is a former administrator who has done it before who might be willing to help you know, help districts out. I don't think I think Gary said once we move >> Once we're done with it. >> it. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. >> I mean I mean I think >> I thought you meant it could be down the road like push this off a month. >> Well, I mean that that

131obviously would be a you know, a possibility. I think that's where Joe was going was to wait a month or two to even potentially see if there was somebody that would write it. It's just food for thought. But I think what Aaron is advising is is that basically we've got a motion here. Um it either gets uh moved and seconded for a vote, or if nobody makes a motion then it fails and uh um there's no other action. >> One more question, um Aaron, just to confirm that it's the firm that has the um success rate of 80 on the first and 100% it's not that first grant, it's the firm that got the success. >> firm, yep. >> Okay. >> And did you say this grant is a possibility of a million dollars? Is

132that what you said? >> to a million dollars. >> So this is going to be very competitive cuz it's a 0% match and it's up to a million dollars. >> All righty, I will ask for a motion. >> I will move to approve Learn Apply Design Inc. to write the Department of Justice's Student Teachers and Officers Preventing School Violence Grant as presented. >> Is there a second? >> I will second. >> Kent? >> Yes. >> Schweiger? >> Yes. >> Joel? >> Yes. >> Barth? >> No. >> White, yes. Boden? >> Yes. >> Andrews? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> K has approved the FFA overnight state convention in Madison, June 15-17 of '26. >> Yep. Um there's all overnight trips have to go to the board, so this is something that Joe does. Um the

133summer we'll probably get another couple FFA overnight trips throughout the summer. But I recommend that we approve this. >> Would someone move, please? >> I move to approve the FFA overnight state convention in Madison, Wisconsin, June 15th to the 17th, 2026 as presented. >> Is there a second? >> I will second. Kent? >> Yes. >> Schweiger? >> Yes. >> Joel? >> Yes. >> Farr? >> Yes. >> White, yes. Boden? >> Yes. >> Andrews? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Danielle has approved the 3-year contract extension with Davis Bus Lines {slash} Lamers. So, I'll give you a an update. Davis Bus Line had a 2-year extension that that we were ready to to sign to approve. And they ended up partnering with Right Way. And then they came back with another another contract. Transportation Committee met

134and we looked at that contract and we said, okay, looked at we looked at several area schools excuse me, bids and thought this is kind of similar, but let's go back to them and we're going to we'll we'll say we'll give you this 2-year extension extension if you do this this and this. Part of that was getting brand new buses, not brand new, getting newer buses so that the average age of the fleet was 8 years and the oldest bus was 12. Those were kind of the big ones. Um Right Way agreed to that with Davis Bus Line. They were going to buy Davis Bus Line out. Um they backed out last week. Then Davis Bus Line went to Lamers who they had been in conversation with too. Lamers said we'll honor that same contract

135which is what you have in here, but they said we won't do it for 2 years, we need it for three because we're going to buy brand new bus or buy a lot of new buses. So, our options are we we have a 3-year contract extension that we could go with Davis Bus Lines and Lamers and it's it's about a 40% increase or we can go out to bid. Usually this late in the school year is not a good time to bid. I was contacted by two different transportation companies that knew what was going on and said it is not too late to bid. If you call us tomorrow, we can get bids together and we can have it at the June board meeting. So, we can do either of those. We can either There's

136a motion to approve the contract, we can do that, or we can go to um go out to bid. I know that Darlington was also working with Davis Bus Line, and then when they were bought out, they put went out for bid and they got very competitive pricing. Um and we have the same companies that had contacted us that contacted Darlington. Um so, we've got either option. If If we vote to approve this, we approve the contract. If nobody moves or the vote fails, then that means that we've got to put it out for bid, and we can do that tomorrow, and we'll have two or three bus companies put out to bid for you for a three or five years. >> So, you're saying there were two bus companies that you have had conversations

137with? >> Yep, today. >> Today? And they were which ones? >> Warco and Southwest. >> Did they give you an estimate on what they would >> No, but I did contact schools that they work with to to check their daily rate. Now, the daily rates may not, you know, it depends on the length and how many kids are picked up and things, but um they were competitive. >> With Davis, is what you're saying? Or whatever they're called now. >> They were competitive with with the contract that we have. Yep. >> Wasn't Sorry. >> I was going to say they were competitive with the contract that we have, because I know the contract that we have was very >> Correct. They were They were competitive with the contract that we have in front of us right

138now. >> Okay. >> So, there's still going There's going to be an increase with Even if we go out to bid, we're not going to get better pricing, they're probably similar, but >> when the committee talked before all this other stuff happened where they backed out, we were still looking at prices that benefit us. So, it sounds like if we go to our we're going to get a raise on in what our costs lately. >> Um Southwest uh which we hadn't had any conversation with Southwest, but that's who Darlington went with. And when I talked to Darlington superintendent, their prices um or their daily rate price was better than what we're looking at here. >> Okay. So, weren't we at the end of our contract? >> Remember, we had a 3-year contract with the with

139the ability to add on 2 years. >> But we didn't we didn't ask we didn't look for bids at the end of that. We just I I I guess I'm just questioning the process. When we did that >> contract with the ability to go to year 4 and 5 for >> didn't compare any other companies at that time. We just went >> Yeah, cuz year 4 and 5 was a 3 and 1/2% and 4% increase. And all the other bids that schools are getting, we know that we're going to get a minimum of 25% increase. So, we voted to stay with the 3 and 1/2 and 4. >> Cuz it was more than 100 >> But then they were then they sold out, and so that contract was gone. >> They I think what I

140remember from the conversation Correct me if I'm wrong, Aaron, but from what I remember once I sat in that first meeting is we stayed with them because they were so much lower at that that point. And the fear was that if we were go out to bid, we they because they were so significantly lower than the believed assumptions of the other areas, that's why that stayed. And then we they sold out. >> But then they increased the price. >> then now we're sitting here. Is >> Yeah, cuz their their new partner said you can't make money at the prices that you're >> And now you're saying that potentially other companies, if we went to bid, would be competitive. >> So, what our new bid our new contract >> Oh, I just wanted to make sure

141I understood >> I'm under no impression that our bids are going to be less than We'll see a 25% increase, but but maybe not a 40. >> So, we're at 40 right now, though. If we said yes to this right now, it's 40% of what we have. >> I'm going to stick my neck out and say that uh um I'm not voting for the extension um, and I'm think it is just time to move on. >> I >> with opening bids. >> comments and concerns I have heard from our taxpayers about some of the existing bussing. >> Yeah. >> I think we would be foolish to not go out to bids at this time. >> I would agree. >> Same boat. >> Yeah. >> And and we don't have to vote. So, if there's not

142a motion, we just move on and then the RFPs go out tomorrow. >> You you said it, too. I'm I'm assuming you said Southwest and who was the other one? >> Lamers. Lamers. >> Okay. >> Did Lamers say they would not bid? >> Um, they did not say that. I'm assuming they probably would. >> So. >> Yeah, so we might get we might get three. >> My other question is is do we know why out? >> They sent me a very corporate message just saying the partnership is no longer around. >> I mean that just throws up a red flag for me right there, I guess. So. >> I didn't know soon. I I I just know they backed out. >> I mean we're I'm excited that there's some interest because >> Well, last time

143we went out to bid, you remember you guys remember what happened? We we got two bids. >> That was it. >> And >> Two times ago we got one. >> Yeah. >> Last time we got two. >> Yeah. >> So, we got two for sure. >> Two for sure. >> Yeah. >> That's true. >> No, we don't have any for sure. >> They told me yes, if you let me know on Thursday, we can we it's not too late to get a bid out. >> And and neither of those potentials have ever bid in the past. >> Yeah, so that's good news. >> Good. >> Yeah. So, item L, I will officially ask for a motion. Is there a motion on that 3-year contract extension with Davis Bus Line and Lammers. Hearing none, we shall

144move on to personnel. Uh >> The first one is approve volunteer coaches Aiden Nolan. Um the second name on there is no longer with the golf team, so we can cross him off when we make the motion. >> And then Nick Wigman. Um these volunteers have been working with our golfers in the state going on. And I recommend that we approve both Aiden and Nick. >> Well, they must be must be doing a good job >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So, I will approve the volunteer golf coaches Aiden Nolan and Nick Wigman. I'll second. >> Kent? >> Yes. >> Schwingert? >> Yes. >> Joel? >> Yes. >> Barth? >> Yes. >> White? Yes. Boden? >> Yes. >> Andrews? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. Item B is approve the hiring of Miss Mrs. Mercedes Owlsley as a

145new high school biology teacher. >> Yep, this position was open when Mr. Rob Robson retired. Um Mrs. Owlsley lives in our district and has been teaching high school courses at Eau Claire the past 3 years and recommend that we approve her hire. >> If there's no questions, would somebody move? >> I move to approve the hiring of Mrs. Mercedes Owlsley as a new CCHS biology teacher. I'll second. >> Is there a second? >> I will second. >> Kent? >> Yes. >> Schwingert? >> Yes. >> Joel? >> Yes. >> Barth? >> Yes. >> White? Yes. Boden? >> Yes. >> Andrews? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. Item C is approve the hiring of Mrs. Mallory Kaiser as full-time administrative assistant. >> Yep, this was a position we approved last month. We had uh several qualified candidates for

146this position, varying levels of experience, and Mrs. Kaiser was committee's unanimous top choice, and recommend that we approve this hire. >> Are there questions? Would someone move? >> I will move to approve the hiring of Mrs. Mallory Kaiser as full-time administrative assistant >> Is there a second? >> I will second. >> Kent? >> Yes. >> Schwingert? >> Yes. >> Joel? >> Yes. >> Barth? >> No. White. Yes. >> Boden. >> Yes. >> Andrews. >> Yes. >> And I want to go on record to say I I personally nothing against Mallory. It's because I did not vote for the position to begin with. So. >> I understand. Committee reports, budget and finance. Nothing new there. We usually meet up after July 1 estimates. Okay. Um building and grounds, I think we covered that tonight. Um personnel.

147>> We met in April and I'm not aware of that there's another meeting needed. Policy, probably after school starts. >> or September. >> Okay. Technology. >> be having a technology and transportation meeting to get >> sometime. >> Yeah. >> So, I guess if you can just keep us informed. I know it's only 3 weeks roughly till our meeting. >> Yeah. >> But uh Thank you. Foundation, there's probably nothing there. >> Not until the fall again. >> Okay. And I don't have anything as C C C rep. So, would someone make a motion to adjourn? >> I'll move to adjourn. >> Is there a second? >> I will second. All in favor? >> Aye. >> Joe, I wait for you. >> No. >> Aye.