001Here. >> Joel. >> Here. Bart. >> Turn our volume. >> Bart. >> Yes, she's here. >> White is absent. Enderman. >> Enderman here. Bowden >> here. >> Andrews >> here. Uh, proof of giving public meeting notice. A Sarah. >> Yep. Notices were posted at both schools and sent to the village of Dickyville, Cuba City Hall, and members of media on Monday, February 16th. >> Thank you. Item three is a consideration of the consent agenda. Are there any items uh A through D that the board would like um pulled for further discussion? >> Hearing none when someone move. >> I'll move to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Is there a second? I will second. >> I'm gonna give it to Dan. Sorry, Angie. Who has a second before you? Uh Schwiger, >> yes. >>
002Joel, yes. >> Barf, >> yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Uh, moving to administrative reports. Uh, Jason, the elementary report, please. All right. Uh, January 10th, uh, 10 Cuba City Elementary students represented their grades to compete in our local spelling be for the third through fifth grades. Uh, congratulations to our top three finishers. Third place Phoebe Brewer, second place Declan Trrenel, and our champion Addie Burmeer. Addie moved on to compete at the regional level hosted at Southwest Community Technical College by season 3 where she finished 12th out of 28 contestants. We thank Addie for being a standout representative for Cuba City Elementary at the regional spelling be competition the past three years. Uh also thank you to the grade level teachers for determining our local contestants. Mrs.
003Katie Adetta for serving as the MC, Mrs. Robin Hartwig and Mrs. Nancy Davies for serving as judges and Miss Jessica Leper for coordinating the event. It was a it was a quick spelling be this year, but uh sometimes those words are challenging, so it went well. Additionally, Addie Burmeer was recognized by the Knights of Columbus as the top candidate in the annual knowledge contest. Addie placed first in both the spelling and math contest. So, Addie's having a big month. We have some student shoutouts uh which have become a regular occurrence in our morning announcements to recognize students for doing the little things that make our school community a great place to learn and grow. I do want to take this moment um to for an opportunity for a staff shout out for Mrs. Jesse Dinar
004for being masterful in organizing our needs for substitute coverage in the classrooms, especially through the seasonal cold and flu weeks that we've been through. It's not an easy task and she's done fantastic with it. The Sunshine Club treated staff to some snacks on January 20th. So, thank you to Mrs. Sarah Williams, Miss Bell Melanie Kersbomb, Mrs. Amanda Gaul, Miss Jessica Lumpker, and Miss Becky Egan for planning and providing a timely lift me up for all the staff. On February 4th, I participated in the Raising Wisconsin's Children virtual conference hosted by the University of Wisconsin Madison Division of Extension. The theme of the conference was helping children thrive when life gets tough. And sessions I attended focused on resilience, supporting language, compassionate caregiving, emotional regulation, and strategies to help tween build through mental health. Uh there
005are many resources available to families statewide through the UW extension. Something I don't think is shared out and advertised a lot, so I'm going to make that a focus of some of my community shares and our upcoming Cuban communicators. On February 3rd, language arts class students from the middle and high school joined classes at the elementary school for a dear drop everything and read day. Students read to our 4K through 2 grade students providing a very positive experience for all students and staff. Want to thank Miss Sharon Olsen for organizing this opportunity and all the staff between the buildings for coordinating together. We look forward to another deer day in April. On February 6th, Cuba City Elementary staff, teachers, and parent professionals met during professional development time to discuss and explore compassion, resiliency, support, something
006that Miss Casper, myself along with some other staff members have been um focusing on for this year. And then scheduling for forward testing is complete for third, fourth, and fifth grade classes. They'll be testing in March. Grade level staff collaborated with myself, Mrs. Casper, and Mrs. Jordan Henderman, our district assessment coordinator, to review past practices and identify testing groups, needed accommodations, testing locations and conditions, and any changes to testing factors that could be made in order to provide students with the best opportunity to demonstrate their abilities and knowledge. >> Thank you, Jason. If there's no questions, we'll move to Chris for the middle and high school report. >> Okay, so we're going to start with robotics. You can sit at Sarah's. >> Oh, I could. Yeah. Hi, we are team 1532. I'm not a robot.
007My name is Cameron. I'm a senior and I do management outreach in our social media. Um, I'm Bella. I'm a senior. I help with designing the robot, outreach, and management. I'm Reese. I'm also a senior and I help with outreach and social media. >> Emma, I'm a senior. I do outreach, management, and social media. >> S I'm a junior. I do building, management, and outreach. I'm Katie. I'm a junior and I do management and outreach. >> I'm Izzy. I'm a junior and I do management and outreach. >> I'm Brooklyn. I'm a junior. I do building, programming, CAD, design, all sorts of stuff. >> So, our outreach team uses many tools such as social media to help spread the word of robotics, not just to our local community, but to online as well. And this proves
008successful because one of our videos got over 1.3 million views. >> Oh. >> During the beginning of this month, we were invited to a scrimmage with Mineral Point. This was with Mineral Point FTC Ironclad. This was successful because it gave us the opportunity to give them ideas since they often. >> Um this season we had the opportunity to tour um our biggest sponsor OneUps um amazing engineering facility. Um and since uh they were our biggest sponsor, we have a sticker on the robot where it's on the back. >> Weird right there. And um we're also making a plaque for them. >> Uh this year we've also worked really closely with our PTO. Like in October we helped them out with their trunk or retreat and this Sunday we're going to help them out with their
009PTO bingo which is in Dickyville. >> Yeah. So you might be having a little deja vu because we did present earlier this year. But we've got a lot we want to talk about. But this robot, if any of you guys recall, looks a lot different than it used to. a lot different. We stripped it down to the frame and then threw that out, too. So, got a lot of things to highlight. We've completely overhauled intake, outtake, um just about everything about the robot. And we'll expand a bit more on that. >> So, focusing on the intake, we actually uh 3D printed this part of the intake, the sprockets, >> sprockets. That's um and then we put rubber bands around it to grab the ball better to make it all faster. Um, one thing that didn't
010change, probably the only thing that didn't change was this camera on the front. It still enabled us to sense the April tag. And we'll show that in motion. It's actually very cool because we didn't I don't think we got to demonstrate it last time, but it get it uh takes the position that it reads from that April tag and then like does a bunch of math to subtract the position where it is in space from where the wheels are and then it moves it to line up. It's really nice for getting it into the goal consistently. >> Another big part that we changed was our outtake. So, after the balls go in through the intake, it goes up with using these two gecko wheels and then shoots out through like a curved arc and we
011can also adjust it depending on like the best angle for what distance we want it. So, that allows us to continue to be accurate. >> Yeah. And then some things I'd like to highlight that aren't like main parts, but I think are really cool and I just like to call attention to. Um, you can't really see it, but I'll turn up on this back. This is actually from scrap metal from Grant County Truck Bodies. Uh, Grand Steel, so we could make ourselves heavier and easier to play defense. This wheel right here, this isn't some robotics part. We took it off a wheel from Menards that was supposed to go on a desk chair. And, um, this is like rubber tape for car w jambs, I think, to help us get the ball to go up
012the shoot efficiently. So, that's a lot of cool stuff that I'd like to highlight, which isn't as important, but I just think it's kind of cool. and a rubber banded from the janitors that we saw. Borrowed borrowed borrowed. >> It almost looks like a combine head for >> Yeah, we we accomplished a lot this season, but I think our proudest accomplishment is this award right here. So, we mentioned before we really focused on like the STEM outreach, just reaching out to our STEM communities and then also just like our community, like the school like we talked about before. So, there there you go. >> Any questions for us? What is the award? >> So, it's called the Connect Award. >> And who was it from? >> It's from the competition we went to about two
013weeks ago. >> Yeah. So, every competition we have to go in to present to judges and then that's kind of like what we did right now. So, we talk about our outreach, how we're like expanding the word of first, and then we talk about our robot. And then throughout the day, judges will come up to you and also talk to you and ask you various questions about your outreach and how you're connecting first to like your community. And so basically, the judges thought that we did a really good job at expanding the word of first and connecting to our community. >> Thank you. Are your competitions done for the year now? >> Y all done. >> So what becomes of uh Mr. Robot? >> Oh, he'll get torn apart next year. But for now, we
014can show you how he works because he's a lot different than last time. >> Before you jump in, can I just What spurred you to just rebuild mid-season? >> The last one wasn't good. It >> was quite bad. >> That's a hard thing to admit to yourself, and I'm proud of you for recognizing we can do better. more specifically, uh just to bore you with technical terms, um our launch angle was super inconsistent before because we were using uh wheels that had too much flex in them and the supports weren't super uh constrictive and the launch angle like it it it had too much freedom to let it go. So now with that curve in that shoot that we have now, it's super consistent, one of the most consistent robots at any of the competitions
015we went to, which was really cool. And then um we also changed out the motors that drive our wheels because before they were so old and the gearbox were failing in multiple places. So we just were like, "Okay, you know what? We're going to use some of the money we got. We're going to buy new motors and now she drives a lot smoother, too." So those are two big things that we fixed. >> All right. >> I will say I love your reels that you guys create. >> Effective. So great job. And I I actually hope Mr. Simon takes you guys into his entrepreneurship class and shows the repurpos how you repurpose different things. So that's fantastic job. >> Thank you. >> So is there a uh a JV? I'm not a robot team. Um
016meaning I see quite a few seniors. So, how do you get other kids interested or >> This year we really focus on our like getting more people to join our team. So, like these two right here plus like four more, three more >> join this year and we used like our inner like our relationships to like expose that. Yeah, we d Okay, they're not here, but we did double our team size and we've taken >> 14 kids to competition now. A lot of them are juniors. Uh we've got a sophomore, but we've got a lot of actually interested um people coming in from the eighth grade that will be freshman next year. We've got a lot of them to come in. They came in when like we're like scheduling their classes and they came in
017to talk to us and we're like, "Yeah, come join robotics." Because >> there's Oh, sorry. Yeah, >> I was just going to say that's another part of like our social media and like our reals because it makes it look like it's robotics is fun and like you don't just have to sit there working on the robot. Like half my night I'm scrolling trying to find reals and then we also spend like hours. One video took so long to do. >> It just kind of shows like look at all this other stuff. Like come on, you don't have to just be into a robot. You can be in social media and like that really helps too. like, yeah, >> you've done a great job. Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> We're proud of this thing. So, we're
018going to make a run. >> I think I you should if you if you haven't made it to a competition or watched it, you should know that there are six awards given out that are trophy awards and those are solely based on the judging. Um and so only one connect award is given per competition and only one inspire award and only one sustain award and only one connect award. And so we were the team to be chosen for this only award at this competition which I think is a really big um accomplishment for all of the hard work that they did. And then separate from the judging um is their their competition on the on the map on what their robot actually does. And that can be a way that you can then um advance
019depending on how alliances work. So there's really two parts to the competition. It's not just the robot. There is the management side and the planning side and the presenting side. So, this is actually part of the hoop that we shoot the ball in. >> And then this is real. And since it's kind of broken down, it has like a back stop to stop the ball from going over. So, I don't know if you want to have that goal facing me or any people whatsoever. >> This gets a little loud sometimes when we start it running because the flywheels >> get loud. So, just >> 34 pounds. >> Yeah. So, like this year, I'm sure they touched on it last time, you can play defense. So, our first competition, we realized how big that can be
020and also how much that can wreck your robot >> if you're not like kind of beefed up enough. So, that was one thing we knew we wanted to change if we wanted it to weigh more so that we couldn't get pushed around as much. >> And then our main drivers, our main >> I think in our first competition, didn't our plexi get like cracked down the side? We got Yeah. Um, our main drivers aren't here tonight, so bear with us. >> Not that one. >> That right there that you just saw engaged, that's a little servo gate. It keeps it we we have the capacity to hold three artifacts which are what these little whipple balls are called but it's hard with human error. So that just allows us to pick up three without having
021to worry. >> All right. >> Okay. >> There we go. That is it driving the April and locking on by itself. A bit more breaking. angle anyway. So then the paper will get out there and then go and see. >> So this is our low velocity. It doesn't look very impressive because it doesn't shoot very far, but um it's actually perfect because if you shoot it at too like too Oh, well, there it goes. If you shoot it too hard, you're going to end up rebounding off. There was a backboard on this and you'll end up rebounding off. What is great about this? >> So, yeah, she's I don't know if you remember from before because it was quite a long time ago, but this new intake is actually incredibly efficient. >> Um, make sure
022it manages to pick everything up really nice. Before when we were trying to show you, it kept taking the bones away from this. That was another big issue that we wanted to fix. Uh, our voltage is really low right now, which is kind of not helping. The batteries got cold. We didn't have fun too much. So, >> yeah, but I mean it's pretty self-explanatory where it doesn't look. Yep. >> That happens in competition. Yep. our um >> we hit Cameron all the time, which means something something's got to be right because we're hitting the target every time. >> But we're really proud of where our robot came this season, especially after a full rebuild in just two weeks. That's almost unheard of, especially for us. So, we're happy. >> Thank you. >> I hear the
023robot. You see, >> okay, continuing on. >> I'm going to go go a little out of order here, but I've got some students here that I want to recognize. So, uh, several students competed at the FBA competition, which was held on February 7th in Lancaster. Uh congratulations to all who qualified to move on to the state competition in Green Bay on April 13th and 14th. Um state qualifiers include Isabelle Dinar third place in aggra business. Faith Justineman third place uh computer apps, Reese Hill third place in cyber security. Elizabeth Franen second place in hospitality and event management. Uh Remington Rubish uh first place in healthcare administration. So, if you guys want to come on up. Um, Lauren Gustoson and Josie Cruiser earned fourth place and they'll serve as alternates in banking and financial systems. So,
024I want to congratulate all the students that qualified and also to Mr. Simons for a very suh successful first year with FBLA. >> Nice job. >> Thank you, ladies. >> All right. So then moving on, several of our choir students uh were invited to participate in honors choir. Uh only two days of practice they put on a show at the Darlington High School on Saturday, January 24th. Several band members were invited to participate in the tri-state honors band at W Platville on February 13th and 14th. All of our CTE groups have been busy planning events for the respective weeks. Uh, Miss Merwin shared that FCCLA plastic collection has added a box at the elementary and our current total is 420 pounds. So, we're just a little bit under halfway. Uh, FCCLA also sold Valentine's to
025students during lunch, which were delivered on Friday, February 13th. On um Friday, February 6th, Miss Merwin was able to take some students to visit the Fiser Forum where they were able to have chalk talk with the culinary operations team and then begin a Bucks game. FCCLA has a regional competition coming up on February 27th. Two students will be competing in recycle and res redesign by turning an old referendum board into a fidget board for Mr. Rupatella's students. and another student will be competing in culinary creations which will have them decorating a cake with details from a certain movie. Uh mass media students will be highlighting all of our youth apprentice students over the next several months. FFA had 10 students compete in the leadership development events at Platville High School. Uh four middle school students
026competed in the FFA quiz bowl. Two high school students competed in extemporaneous speaking. Two high school students competed in the discussion competition and two competed in Creed speaking. Uh Miss Van Scandal shared that Ali Majaras qualified as the alternate for Creed speaking. National FFA week will kick off on Sunday, February 22nd, and we'll have two students uh visit lawmakers at our state capital. Clayton Doherty and Landon Bush are going to be discussing the importance of agricultural education um at the capital. FFA members are planning fun activities for the week which will end uh with an all school assembly featuring Laura Daniels from Hitchpin which is a dairy consulting firm. Uh middle school held its annual spelling be. Congratulations to Elliot Williams for earning first place. Kennedy Clanden took second place and Emerson Harris came in
027third. Elliott went on to compete at the CISA regional spelling be on February 4th. Um, also held was the annual geography beat. Congratulations to Carter Clanden as he took first place for the third year in a row. Uh, Tyson Timberman took second place. Elliot Williams earned third place. Middle school wrestling and girls basketball have both finished great seasons and our middle school students are all gearing up for the track and field season. Uh, before that happens though, Miss Williams and Miss Upke have revealed the upcoming performance of Big Bad. Uh, it's a play that's centered around the trial of the big bad wolf and all his transgressions in the enchanted forest. Uh, there will be a performance for the school on March 19th at 1:15 in the afternoon and for the community on March 20th
028at 6:00 p.m. Uh, thank you to Miss Burkett for taking several students to the Battle of the Books competition in Debuke on February 13th. Shane Robson, Elizabeth Franen, Reese Hill, Brooklyn Brewer, Aubrey Meyers, and Zoe Yos made up our team. They competed against area schools including Hemstead, Debuke Senior, East Debuke, and Wallard. Our team tied for fifth place. Forensics competed at Schawsburg on Monday, February 16th for subdist competition. We have approximately 50 students involved in Forensics this year, and all of them qualified to move on to the next competition. Congratulations to Traden AMS. uh he shot up 145 out of a possible 150 in the Wisconsin regional archery competition, qualified for the sectional tournament which was held February 8th in Bo. Um he then competed at the sectionals on February 14th in Mosani and qualified
029for the state tournament which is going to be held this weekend uh February 21st in lacrosse. So, we wish good luck and good skill to Traden. And he said that he has his sights on making it to the national championship. Finally, I would like to give a shout out to our high school staff for all their hard work and making our ACP time so valuable for our students. Uh they are engaging students in career-based lessons and helping our students be prepared for their journey after high school. Um, and I want to throw a special thank you to our ACP team, which includes Sarah Williams, Susan Meyer, Nancy Merwin, Tina Burkett, Angie Davis, Austin Simons, Melissa Gilstrap, and uh, they've all been very busy creating all the lessons that are for our staff and students. It's
030been an amazing addition to our school this year. >> Thank you, Chris. Any questions? >> Whitney, special ed, please. Yes, we have had three staff members complete the training for the DLM assessment. The DLM assessment measures the academic progress of students with the most significant cognitive disability in the areas of ELA and mathematics in grades 3 through 11. Science at grades four and 8 through 11. And then in social studies in grades 4, 8, and 10. This is an online assessment delivery or delivered via the computer. However, some students may need their teacher to present the items to them. The teacher will then enter the students responses into the online platform. So this replaces the forward exam. So I did link in more information if you would like to become more knowledgeable in that. Um
031currently uh we have 43 students signed up for our 4K screener event which starts tomorrow and Friday. And then on Friday we also currently have six students signed up for our three-year-old playd date. So we are very excited for that. We're set up and ready to go. Um Lisa Miller attended a training at CISA this month FBA the Wisconsin way. This session equipped teams with tools to understand the function and the root cause of behaviors that interfere with the students learning through a functional behavior assessment using the Wisconsin DPI 2025 FBA resources exploring clearer cons constant rules um directly connecting function and root cause to culturally responsive practices and exploring the FBA toolkit. She learned how to use FBAs to develop and implement effective behavior intervention plans when the function and the root cause of
032behaviors are linked to targeted evidence-based intervention and positive behavioral supports. So that is something her and I will begin to work on um throughout this year. On Tuesday, February 10th, I attended a training at CISA 3 uh wired to thrive 2.0. It was a full day interactive workshop designed to strengthen school and district systems that support mental wellness for both students and staff through the lens of trauma sensitive schools, comprehensive school mental health, and educational neuroscience. We explored how behavior, biology, and systems align um intersect to create thriving learning environments with wellness at the forefront. This training provided important information on how to support all students within our district as well as a variety of resources and strategies I hope to implement this year and next. Um, National School Counselors Week was February 2nd through
033the 6th. Thank you to Jordan Henderman, Angela Balin, and Angie Davis for your dedication to students, families, and teachers of the Cuba City School District. Your work does not go unnoticed. Uh Mary Burrow's class participated in a STEM project last week that involved 15 marshmallows, eight straws, 25 popsicle sticks, and candy hearts. Students were placed into groups and were given a task to build a bridge that was 4 in high and 4 in long. The task was to build a bridge that held the most candy hearts. Students worked together on their math skills, communication skills, and collabor collaboration with peers. The winning team's bridge was able to hold a 100 candy hearts. So, uh, the love was felt on Friday the 13th. Didn't think I'd say those words. Um, thank you to the Cuba City
034Elementary staff and students for showing their appreciation towards Jason and myself. Students and staff decorated wooden hearts for me and rocks for Jason. They gifted them to us throughout the day. Jason and I just want to extend our appreciation to all involved with the organizing organizing this. We are grateful to work with such supportive and fun staff. And we know that Jesse had something to do with the engraving of the bowls. So, thank you. That was very nice. Um, last but not least, if you are on the elementary playground, you may have noticed a low tech AAC. Students who are utilizing alternative communication device now have the opportunity to utilize an AAC banner with a variety of visuals. Our young learners were very intrigued and interested while I put that up this week. So, uh,
035we sent a couple staff to a training earlier, um, in the fall and, uh, Kessa Jacobs won it at the conference, but we didn't want to put it up with the snow and all of that. So, we hung it up and they were very curious. I know our three through five are asking when they're getting theirs, so we'll have to look into that. >> So, you're saying the snow's done? >> I hope so. Thank you. >> You're going to get blamed now. >> Same with the word. You don't say those crickets this morning. Please >> business report, please. >> Yep. So, my report is linked online, my normal report. Um, but I wanted to give a short presentation on um, uh, something new. We're calling it the financial scorecard. Um, this came out of the
036state convention, a session that Gary attended. Um, and then he sat down with me, um, and shared some information and just asked, um, if this is something that I would be willing to put together for the district. Um, so I'll kind of there's a lot of information here. It's going to be a lot to um digest. This uh financial scorecard will be linked from this month going forward. Um so I'm not going to touch on it every single month. I'm just going to give you guys an overview so that you guys know um what to look for. Um but it will be linked from every month from here on out. So this first tab along the bottom, it's just a summary tab. So you can see DPI report status. We also have a tab down
037here. I did not create this. Um, this came from Gary, correct me if I'm wrong, Cub Five. >> Yes. >> Okay. Um, so then it just shows uh each month how many DPI reports are um due and then as I complete them, if I complete all of them, then it's going to show completed. Um you can see February or sorry March and April there are no DPI reports that are um due May too. Um as I'm working on things then it's going to show either like not started or a work in progress. Um this next section is bank reconciliation. We have four checking accounts. Um and I'm going to go over each individual tab so don't worry. So, um, every single month as I'm doing monthly cash wrecks, then this information, uh, will be updated.
038Just to, um, give you guys a little, um, background knowledge on bank Rex, Mr. Olsen does sign off on all the bank reconciliation. So, it's not just me looking at it. After the monthly, um, cash wrecks have been done, then I give the um, paperwork to Mr. Olsen and then he signs off on it. So, there are another set of eyes looking at it. It's not just me. Um then the last section on this summary is grant claims. Um you can see throughout the fiscal year there are several um claims that need to be done. And again just like um up above as those claims are submitted um you can see completed, work in progress or not started. So this is just the summary tab. And then if you want to click on the individual
039um tabs, you can just scroll down and see here all the reports. I don't necessarily complete all of these myself. Um I would say the majority of them I am completing. They're like the pupil count report. That's not something I submit. Jesse submits that. Um but for the most part I am responsible for um submitting this information. So some of them are required some of them are like as nec um as needed or as necessary. So you can see as the fiscal year goes on here's all the reports um that I have to submit to DPI. Um monthly bank racks again we have four um we have four checking accounts. Um, so you can just see as I'm working on my um, end of month uh, cashrex, you can see the progress there. Um, grant
040claims um, I don't typically just because the beginning of the fiscal year for me um, we're still working to like set budgets and and get numbers. So I usually don't um, submit um, claims until November. Um, I submit monthly claims. Um, I would say as long as school districts are submitting quarterly claims. There's no like rule that you have to submit quarterly, but it's suggested to do at least quarterly. I submit monthly claims. There are some months I'm just going to um use the month of November. I I don't remember um back, but let's just say um title one private. we might not have any any money to claim. That basically means we spend the money. I have to turn around and um go to wise grants and then I have to claim that money
041and then we get reimbursed for that money that we spent. If we've spent no money or let's just say it's $25 or $250, it's not worth my time and then I have to code the revenue, it it's not worth it. I still say done. Um, but this does not mean that every single month I'm submitting a claim. Once I submit it, then Mr. Olsen has to approve it and then it goes to DPI. DPI reviews the information that's been submitted. Um, then they approve it and then it takes up to, excuse me, about 14 days uh for the district to see uh those funds um in our account. So, you can just see each month all the different claims that need to be submitted. Um certain ones are monthly. Um the cops grant that's uh
042a new grant that we got this year. Uh there are certain reports for that um grant that are due um quarterly. And then at the end of the fiscal year is very heavy in because some of these ones towards the bottom the peer-to-peer educator effectiveness um AODDA robotics those um you just submit one per year there's no reason to do it um quarterly or monthly. Um, and then this other tab is, um, it's very long. Um, but this is just going to go from the start of the fiscal year through the end of the fiscal year. Um, different reports that I maybe create. Um, and this is in this is just in the business office. This is nothing um, HR related. So this is anything in the business office um including payroll of any reports
043um that are due like at the state the federal level it's been a report that's maybe been requested um from the board. So I'm not going to go through because it's this one is is very long. Um I'll just maybe pick out a a few months but in um July there's food service claims. Um then you can see there's a bunch bunch of monthly reports that I um give to the board every single month. Our fund 21 account. So those are our fundraising accounts. Um this is something new that was started um when when I started here. We uh provide detailed activity reports on the revenue side and on the expense side to all of our adviserss and coaches so that they can see what money is coming in and the money going out. um
044and just make sure that all I call it transactions to make sure all transactions that are appearing on their report should be on their report. I also send monthly budget reports um to staff. Um there's monthly reports that go to Mr. Olsen. Um and then I hold monthly budget meetings with the different department heads and you can see the the different departments that I meet with. Um and so then again, this is just going through the entire fiscal year of of all all reports um that need to be done. Maybe prepping for the the annual meeting, um budget work, um getting teacher classroom budgets ready, getting department budgets ready for um the next fiscal year. And then like in January, if we look at January, you guys have heard me talk about like when Ashley
045or myself are submitting like the 1099s, the W2s. Um so some of this information that you're seeing on here is also what I do report to um the the board as well. But now you'll be able to kind of track my progress as the um fiscal fiscal year goes on. So this is just a real quick tutorial. um of this of this document. Gary, do you have um anything that you wanted to add? All I was going to say is thank you and uh for the board. Um, I went to a three and a half hour finance uh special session on Tuesday of that week and a couple other one-hour sessions. And basically what I was hearing was is that school districts such as Milwaukee had failed to do their reports for DI and the
046board didn't know it and we were basically being told we should be more aware of what financially is going on. And then I went to the one that was hosted by uh CISA 5 and that's where you know basically it was so in-depth and it was like how could I ask somebody to do something that maybe at least simple not that that looks simple but at least something that you could at least say we know what's going on or we know financially how the district is doing. So, I don't know if if I guess it would be more for the board if if if that's not something you want. Heather probably could save herself some work if you like it or want it tweaked. Why? >> I think it's going to take a few months
047just of getting used to it before there are any suggestions. >> Did you have to create that from scratch or did you get a template? >> So, I did get a template. I would say like the banker reconciliation report they just had one and I thought it was important to list all four because there are some times where let's say one account one particular account it's not balancing and maybe it like usually it's between the general fund I'm just going to call it fun 10 fund 10 and fund 49 sometimes it's between there so it might start it might sit in progress for a while um until we can like, okay, it's it's off $1,640. That was actually something I knew what it was, but if you would have looked at this like three weeks
048ago for the month of January, this would have showed as in progress because I was off the same amount, I knew what it was. It just I have to find time in my week to dedicate just to okay, I need to focus on what journal entries do I need to do to fix that. So you accountable as well then. >> Yes. And I probably spent the most time on uh this other tab. Um and then I did talk with um Ashley Blanik, as you guys know, she does um payroll for the school district. So I did um add to this list. This list um was a lot shorter. And then I was like, well, if we're gonna add one through 10 on here or one through 50, there are a lot of other things that
049I'm doing that I think it's important for the board to know. Like there are other people looking at the financials, not just the board, but within the district. Um, there's a lot of procedures that and policies that we have in place um to protect the the finances of the district. Every week, Mr. Olsen um sits down with um Julie Kaiser. They review the weekly bill basket um and then there's a check after the check run is done um to make sure that the basket and the total that the two of them approved is the total checks that actually went out the door to make sure um the total matches. So there are a lot of checks and balances in place that we're doing. Um last two two years ago um we were able to remove
050an audit finding that has been an audit finding. Um it was a management um what do they call it? a management um recommendation that has been on the audit report since well before I came here and it had to do with segregation of duties and because of the procedures that we put in place within the last five years. um the the audit team felt comfortable with what we were doing that they can they then removed that um management response um that had been out there for like I said well longer than I've been here this is my 10th year longer than 10 years. So I was really excited that that very old finding was finally able to be removed. Um Erin, do you have anything that you want to add? No, I just saw this
051for the first time today as we walk through it. There's a lot on that other page. >> Yeah. Yep. There's a lot. So, and I'm sure there's probably something that even I'm missing. Um you're probably not going to notice if I add one item or 10 items. You're probably you're you're probably not really going to um notice it, but um just wanted to present this to you to everyone. I was going to say also that finance was a big subject of the whole schoolboard convention with the struggles that districts are having and in fact I was surprised C5 is actually doing uh Heather's work in essence in many school districts and some of them are actually struggling to get their you know financial uh reports done let alone reports to DPI. So, um, thank you.
052>> Moving on to discussion. Um, I don't know that there's any need. >> Well, I'm sorry. I did skip right over you. >> I've got a couple things. >> I was in a hurry here. >> Okay. Construction update. Um, we met earlier with the special meeting, but just as we can all clearly see, the exterior walls for the gym are up. Uh, but there's still a lot of work to do. We're still about 11 months out from gaining full access to the gym. We're targeting by February 1 uh to be in that whole section everywhere. Um, up next is the roof and then we've got the subfloor and expect that to sit about six weeks uh where the the roof decking will be installed and then there's a lot of work to do below the
053concrete as well in the gym floor. So that takes us right to spring break and beginning uh Friday, April 3rd, there's going to be some work done out by the track entrance and exit and the high school locker rooms and existing middle school gymnasium trying to get ready for that air conditioner. So, that's just kind of what's in the foreseeable future. And FEMA this week, uh, the states involved in the lawsuit filed a motion asking the court to force FEMA to follow the judges December 25 order. That earlier order said FEMA must reverse its decision to end the brick program. According to the states, FEMA hasn't taken any steps following that, whether to go along with it or to appeal. The new filing asks the court to require FEMA to provide clear updates with specific
054timelines um to everybody who's who was a a brick recipient in 24 256 and that's that's us. So if the court agrees, FEMA would have to act quickly and provide detailed reports within 74 21 and 45 days. There's different items there. Uh this motion could push FEMA to either move forward um or take it back to Congress for a final decision. So, we'll continue to monitor that and let you know what's going on. Change in state budget. This is kind of a big deal right now. In the 2527 state budget called Act 15, the state said it would pay for 42% reimbursement for special education costs for the 2526 school year. This was great news for Cuba City and schools across Wisconsin because special education hasn't been fully funded in many years. about two months
055ago or two months later after it was approved, DBI told schools that there wasn't uh enough money set aside to keep that promise. The payment was now expected to be closer to 35. By that time, schools had approved their budgets. State aid did not go up to make up the difference, and this has never happened in Wisconsin before. There are now talks between Governor Ivers and Speaker Boss about whether some of the state's uh state surplus money could go to schools, including special education funding. Nothing's been decided yet, but we hope the state will provide stable and reliable funding for schools moving forward. Um, last week the five largest school districts in Wisconsin got together and wrote a combined letter encouraging the state to work as bipartisan as possible and try to come up with
056a solution that helps schools and also curbs property taxes. Um, some other groups of schools have done that. We met today as a CISA group to see if we wanted to write a CISA letter. Um, there were some um some districts that weren't comfortable with that. Tomorrow we're meeting to see if our conference is comfortable and coming up with a a letter basically just asking them, hey, put aside politics and do what's best for taxpayers and for schools. Um, I wanted to see if that's something that that the board would be interested in coming up with drafting. Of course, be if we are going if we do proceed with that, we would likely have a special meeting where you guys could see the exact wording vote to approve it before we do that. That could
057be done on Zoom, you know. Um, so it wouldn't have to be in person meeting, but uh, is there any interest in Cub City being part of a group that writes to the state legislature? >> Yes, I am. >> Yeah, I would agree. >> I would agree. >> Okay. Of course, the wording is going to be, you know, that >> legal use. >> That that's going to be the that's going to be the intent, but um before we send it off, we'll have your eyes on it for sure. >> Um one of the important things to understand about school finance here in Wisconsin is something called the revenue limit. And in simple terms, it's the cap the state places on how much total money a school district can raise each year. That total comes from
058a combination of state aid and and local property taxes. For Cuba City, our revenue limit sets the maximum amount we're allowed to spend per student. The state decides that number. That's not a number that that we decide. Um what changes is where the money comes from. So the formula determines if there's more state aid, there's going to be less collected in property taxes. If there's more collected in property taxes, there's less in state aid. And the reason I'm bringing this up is at the state education convention, I happen to be with a district that was less than 10% aided. We're about 67% aided by the state. And so when there's a state change and 90% of your funding comes from property taxes because you live on a lake, state educ, you know, the state budget
059cuts don't really impact those districts. And uh so that that's something that's important to know. Um across Wisconsin, districts look different. Um you know, a lot of districts receive more than 80% of their revenue. um and others receive less than than 20% and rely most on property taxes. But because of historic decisions and past referendums, some districts are allowed to spend several thousand more per student than others. So even though we all operate under the same rules, um it's it doesn't all start from the same place. Some districts spend $24,000 per student, some spend $16,000 per student, and that's um that's just kind of some of the differences. Um, this is just important to know. Uh, when these decisions are made in Madison, it really impacts us here locally. So, just keep it keep in
060mind that the revenue limit and even though they're trying to keep apples to apples, there's a big difference between spending $16,000 a student and $28,000 a student. Uh, school calendar item. We had uh some weather in in January due to having two traditional snow days along with several late starts in January. that week. It was so cold because of weather and we've only had one virtual day so far. Um, we're currently short uh a small number of instructional minutes for the third quarter. And after reviewing our options, we looked at you could we could add one day to the end of the calendar or we could turn three Fridays into full days instead of releasing it at at 2 o'clock. And um we thought instead of doing that at the end of the year uh
061closer in May and June, we'd like to do that in the quarter that we missed those minutes. So um we'd like to move forward and go with Friday, February 27th, March 6th, and March 13th. It's three straight weeks. It's not this Friday, it'll be next Friday, and then the two after that. Those fall all within the same third quarter. Um and get those minutes back in the same quarter that we lost those. So, uh, we looked at, uh, you know, other ideas for that, but we thought this has the least disruption in and maintaining continuity of student learning. So, while calendar adjustments like this don't have to go to the board for action, we've had a lot of conversations about calendar, I wanted to bring that up and just see if you guys are okay
062with us. We think that's the best route to go for getting those minutes back and see if there are any objections. I'm seeing nodding heads, which mean which means that's good. >> That's all I have for today. got to do what you got to do there for making up the minutes. >> All right. Thank you, Erin. >> All right. Now, uh discussion. Um the building project. Can we just skip that? >> Yeah, that's going to be on there every month, but the months that we have a special meeting before, we'll probably just skip that. >> So, move to be the naming of the new gymnasium or courts. >> Yeah. I it's kind of tradition when you build a new section, you want to bring over some things that that are meaningful from the old to
063the new. And in in talking about this with a lot of different people, I heard kind of the same type of thing is or we're going to name that after Pastina, right, Coach Pastina. Um and so that's one thing I'd like to bring up as we're in kind of the the branding phase or the the painting phase and what's going to go on the floor. Um, you know, I I met with coach Pastina about this and he's far too humble to accept this willingly. So, we we kind of have to push this on him. Um, and as Carrie and I talked, you know, he's like, "Guys, I don't need that." Um, and Carrie and I recognize he doesn't need that. We want to provide that. We want to have that that court or that gym
064in order still working with him on ways that he'd be more comfortable with it. Um, but I just wanted to see if the board was okay with us looking towards some gym aspect of that being named after coach Pastina who has kind of set a standard of excellence in Cuba City. Um, and as far as the the numbers go, 14 state appearances, uh, nine state titles and both are a record from any coach that we don't think will probably ever be broken. Um, so those are types some of those types of things that we'd like to recognize either uh him or his family or something in that way. So I just wanted to open that up for discussion and see if you're okay with us going down that road. >> I'm in full support of
065that. >> I am as well. >> Yep. I think I see all positives. So Angie, >> I 100% support that. >> Okay. >> I think you've got lots of opportunities to explore with that as well. I mean, if you wanted to do a Pina's Plaza or whatever with all of his trophies in that, you know, in one area. I'm, you know, just I think there's different there's different ways to approach this as well, especially if he doesn't want >> that notoriety. I am thinking of like Bob Johnson in the cool center like also a huge name, but like it's more his quote, something that meant something to him is represented in that space. So, I think there's a lot of opportunity within this, but fully agree with honoring him in some way. >> So, you're
066possibly talking in terms of when we redo that hallway that's got all of the trophies in it, making it >> potentially. I mean, I think there's >> into Plaza isolate it to one area. I think there's a lot of things that we could think around that whole idea, >> but I think recognizing the family that he's more comfortable with. I think that's a good option as well. >> I love the idea. All right. Very good. Carrie and I will keep working on that. Great. >> You know, you love it. >> I said just do it. >> We didn't have anybody signing to speak. Um, >> I just had a couple things under under recognition. One that I would urge all schoolboard members to go to the state convention if you can make time. Um, I
067mean it was great networking and especially with uh Jamie Nutter from CISA 3 hosted a uh a night event where all of the CISA 3 schoolboard members were invited the superintendent etc. So, we got to hear, you know, everything that's going on, whether it's uh, you know, financial, uh, you know, we got to hear about how schools are struggling to, you know, field athletic teams and and and the like. So, it was just a great opportunity as well as obviously learning that you're not the only school district that's having financial challenges. In fact, Baird was telling people at the convention that as of next November, over 90% of public schools will be reliant on an operating referendum to keep the lights on. Over 90%. So, we have 421 school districts. So, 90%. We happen to
068be one of those schools that that went out there first and everybody's like, "Well, you guys don't need this." And and now if you open up a newspaper, you're going to see schools going for operating referendum this April and next November. And and so that's the overall percentage is um over 90% and I don't think that's how um the the state had planned public education many years ago. So >> thank you. Um new business. >> No one else signed in. >> Nobody signed in. No >> the date and time of the March meeting. It's currently the 18th at 6. Is there any need to change? Hearing none, uh, we'll move on to B. Approve the HO SA club for Cuba City High School students. >> Chris, you want to take this one? >> Yeah. So,
069HOSA is an organization very similar to FBLA, FCCLA, FFA. Um, HOSA focuses on the healthcare. And so we we have um I put out a I was approached by assertion um about starting a chapter here in Cuba City. I reached out to students. I've got right now 10 students who are interested in in starting up and I think we needed five to get the club off the ground. Um we have double that. So I think that we should I I would recommend that we move forward with it. coming from my EMT background, I think this is a a great opportunity. >> Great. Is there any anything you would like to add out there? Uh, Mary Jean? >> Well, HOSA is um actually statewide. I used to be the president at um the Southwest Tech um
070when I was in nursing school. And so, um, anyway, so I just thought that it would be a great opportunity and they, um, received a grant, uh, this last year to actually, um, fund, uh, development of, uh, school emergency response teams. And so we have an opportunity to take um students to uh W Stevens Point and Midstate uh Technical College in Stevens Point this summer and to have them trained in um actually certified in first aid CPR and AED skills. And then they um like if an emergency would happen at the school, the the intent is to develop um just the confidence in students to actually be like a first responder here at the school before the emer the ambulance would come. And um I ran a um actually we did this is my husband
071Paul and um we ran a summer camp um that did the same uh throughout the state of Wisconsin uh for almost 20 years. And um we have some amazing stories of uh things that have happened at schools and where the students were trained and they actually the the adults uh sometimes got really anxious when something happened, but the students were trained and were able to go ahead and to take care of the emergency situation. So um in fact uh I was telling um uh Mr. Sander about um one of the students in uh in Chipoa Falls had cut off their finger in shop class and the students who were trained had it stopped the bleeding, had it bandaged, had it dated, timed and everything before the ambulance even got there. And so the ambulances were
072um just really um just thought it was an amazing thing for these students to plus then you know like with all of your emergency preparedness uh initiatives at the school uh when students are trained to be responders and to know that then they're going to be able to inform the emergency response team here at the school whoever is running that. and we've uh found that throughout the years that it's been very very valuable for the schools who have been involved. So, >> thank you. >> What do you I think it's a great idea. >> Would you like to move? >> Yeah, I will move. I can find the right line here. >> How about I make it? Go ahead. >> Approve. You got it. >> No. No. Go ahead. >> I move to approve the
073HOSA club for Cuba City High School students as presented. >> I will second. >> All right. Schwagger, >> yes. >> Joel, yes. Barf, >> yes. >> Hinderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Thank you. >> Um, item C is approve the CCHS media club for Cuba City High School students. >> Yeah. So, we we got the the class off the ground. Um and um Miss Sitz has taken it over and she's doing a great job with it. Um we're we're not quite at a point where we would have two classes. That was kind of our thought. Initially, we would have an introductory class and then a a high level class. We don't really we're not there yet. Um, so talking with Miss, that's kind of our our best scenario
074right now is to create a club for the kids. So as a junior, they would take the class and then as a senior, they would join the club and we would actually start right out at the beginning of the year with our football and our uh volleyball and they would be able to broadcast those games. Um, kind of like what they're doing right now about this time of the year is where they start doing the live broadcasts. So the seniors would have all that experience would then start out the beginning of the year and not repeat the class again. And >> it also opens up for another elective. >> Yep. >> Questions for would somebody >> I have a I have a couple questions. Do we have enough? First and foremost, I am thoroughly impressed
075with the audio on the huddle for sports right now. like it's incredible. So, whatever Miss Sits is doing with that, kudos to her because >> you got a new software program that last year did not work as well. This year it's working much better. >> Yeah, it's they do a fantastic job. I'm impressed with their research they do. They they're just they're really knocking it out of the park. I think my question is is turning it to a club. Is that going to defer kids from participating because they're going to have to participate outside of school hours? I just don't want them to commit their junior year and then leave you high and dry their senior year for such a commitment. >> Part of the reason that we came up with this, we had a
076lot of the kids who are juniors right now ask they're like, "What do we do? We want to do this next year. >> We want to, but we know that right now this is the only class that we have." >> Okay. >> So that's based off of that. That's why we came up with this idea that we would still be able to >> and they'll still participate in a club being outside school. A lot a lot of schools do kind of that that's what they do is it's a club. >> Most of what they're doing for this class is already out of >> normal school hours. And so then we would meet during school hours or potentially a little bit after. And then you know the the games would be when they would be actually
077doing broadcasting which is what they're doing now. >> If there's no other questions there is a motion uh here if somebody would make I'll move to approve the CCHS media club for Cuba City High School students as presented. Is there a second? >> I will second. >> Second. >> I'll give it to you, Angie. >> Angie got her. Angie. >> All right. Schwagger, >> yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> Barf, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Uh, next item is approve FFA overnight trip to South Dakota State University March 26th through the 8th. Yep. All overnight trips have to be approved by the board. This is just another FFA uh trip that Jill's going to be taking them on. So, >> it is a competition.
078>> This is a competition. >> They actually get to tour the university when they're there, but it is a competition >> in what? >> Um I believe it's with the dairy >> dairy dairy beef. >> All right. Thank you. >> Would somebody like to make that motion? I'll move to approve the MFA overnight trip to South Dakota State University March 26th to 28th. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Schwagger, >> yes. >> Joel, yes. Bart, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> And then approve the 26 27 2728 uh school district calendars. >> Yep. So, the last couple months we've talked about that and how we want to use Friday PD time. And we um did send a a survey out to both
079teachers and to parents and overwhelmingly the parents favored the Friday early release time, which is why we didn't approve it last month. So, um did have that raw data in there for you. So, we're approving the 2627 and 2728 with the Friday release calendars. >> So, are there questions for it? >> I have one. Aaron, do we ever hear about approval to start before the first or we still >> didn't go anywhere? No. >> No. Now there there's still like maybe a week left in the legislative session, but from what I've heard, that's not getting any traction. >> And I was surprised when we put that in. If you look at the parent results, I put that in that just to see if parents would like if if it wasn't available, it was about half
080and half that. about 4040 like yes start before September one no don't and then 20 was either way is fine I I thought a lot of people would would go before as that allows for more frequent breaks during the school year but it was about 40 4020 >> thank you for doing the survey >> yep >> is there a motion >> I'll move to approve the 2026 2027 and 2027 2028 Cuba city school district calendars as presented Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Schwagger, >> yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> Barf, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Item F is approve the purchase of motivational speaker services for grades 612. Uh, Cuba City High School graduate and author, Matt Booth. >> Yeah. Um,
081we've looked at having Matt in here a couple times in the past and what he does, he does some large group presentation, but he also works with kids throughout the day. Um, so we're looking forward to this being a really good activity for our kids. Uh, we used to bring in some type of speaker each year in the last two years. We haven't done that just because of budget cuts, but I recommend that we approve this. >> Are there any questions? >> So, where does this get funded from then? Is this part of that principal >> part of the principal budget? Okay. Yep. >> Would somebody care to make that motion? >> I'll move to approve the purchase of motivational speaker services for grades uh CCHS graduate and author Matt Booth. >> Is there a
082second? >> I'll second. >> Schwiger, >> yes. >> Joel, >> yes. Bar, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. Then we're to G approving exiting the co-op with Southwestern and Benton for boys golf and forming a Cuba City High School boys golf team. >> Coach Lawson is here to talk a little bit more about that. I'll turn it over to you. >> We want to exit the co-op. Um Coach Tam two years ago said, "What are the chances that with our numbers we could look at being a standalone program?" And it was right after we renewed and we renewed for you know many years based on it was it made sense and I I shared some of the information um with you. Um Dustin kept asking he's
083like are we ready to do that? And I said yes we are. So I'm going to let him share a little bit just about what the numbers look like. But bottom line is this allows for more Cuba City boys to participate in golf. um which it has actually been when golf is like no other sport but at the same time the better golfers get the spots and there are limited spots because there's just the teams that participate in the JV and varsity you know it's un not unlimited roster so if you would want to share a little bit about what you foresee with the numbers that'd be great >> put me up ahead okay >> well I already asked you about it >> um just having worked with the juniors program um over the next
084three years of incoming So if it's eighth, seventh, and sixth graders, we have between, you know, when I got updated numbers from um Josh Smith who runs that program, we have between 14 and 20 junior golfers coming up through and that might have included the fifth grade as well, but it's safe to say that Cuba City has golfers coming up. And it's also, you know, there's current high schoolers who have told me that they don't go out because of the co-op because there is a lot of golfers to compete with with spots. And I think the split not only helps us, but also helps, you know, the other schools, Southwestern and Benton, who also have kids not going out because of the co-op. I think both schools will easily be able to put out golf
085teams for both the varsity and JV levels. Sustainability looks good. Um, I've been in contact with Tom Keller over at Southwestern for the last year and a half and they are already, you know, expecting this to pass. No pressure on anybody to say yes, but that they are already looking at keeping Benton involved. Benton has not had a few golfer golfers for a few years, but they're they're happy to be a part of something just in case. So, no one's losing out. That was something that I was hesitant on. I'm like, we don't want anyone to be left stranded. Um, so they're looking at that as well. um be a part of golf still just if we do pass the transition. >> Thank you for addressing that. >> Yeah. >> Questions for has there been
086any discussion with coacres uh as far as tea time availability match days that kind of stuff. If you have two, >> right, >> two school programs now and you do get extended golfers, >> we >> I just, you know, having personal experience out there, Coacres doesn't charge anything for the school teams if people don't know that. Um, they close down for the days of the meets, all the practice times. Uh, they shut down the simulators and they donate that all to the schools. Um, I'd just be concerned there's enough time in the day for them >> until next year. >> Well, either or, but I I would hope there would be some conversations with >> Dustin has had some conversations on it with the changeover. And Tom, I don't want to share some of the
087thoughts that Southwestern might look into also with adding a third team to a try out because I don't think I have the right to do that right now and they might not even be a part of Coleacres with that. >> They're looking at Gorilla. >> Yeah. What when I was a high school student, Southwestern's home course was was evil rich. They would not be looking at coakers when I talked to Tom today about it. >> Just as long as you I somebody has to have that conversation. >> Any other questions? Would somebody move? >> I'll I'll move to approve the exiting the co-op with Southwestern and Benton for boys golf and forming a CCHS boys golf team as presented. I'll second it. >> Schwagger, >> yes. >> Joel, >> yes. Bart, >> yes. >> Henderman,
088yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> H is approved job descriptions for the ext duty positions that Mr. Olsen sent out. >> Yep. So, we're going about 10 each month. Uh this week we'll be uh looking at Cuban care director, the curriculum director, curriculum team lead position, extracurricular high school band and choir, FBLA adviser, FCCLA adviser, FFA adviser, forensics adviser, forensics assistant adviser, and freshman class adviser. So these are sent out about a month ago. Um a lot of these people reach back and they're like, "Hey, can you add this or that?" We've had a couple meetings where people um you know, we just want some clarification on those things. So, um, we go about one month at a time with those 10. Okay. >> Thank you. Any questions of
089those 10 positions? >> Hearing none, would somebody make a motion? >> I'll move to approve job descriptions for extra duty positions as presented. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Schwiger, >> yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> Bart, >> yes. Henderman. Yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Item I is approve a scheduled virtual day for the high school non ACC testing grades on March 10th. >> Yep. So, as previously discussed, whenever there's a pre-arranged virtual day, we'll bring that to the board. So, this would be for just for grades 9, 10, and 12. Um, this would be our only scheduled virtual day. As of right now, we've had uh two closures for snow days. We had a two-hour delay that turned into a closure. We did that
090twice. We had one virtual day and that all of Wisconsin closed down and then we had two two-hour delays Wednesday and Thursday. So, those are the times that we've missed out. >> Any questions? >> Did somebody make a motion? Do you foresee just making a CT day every year a virtual day at this point or is that dependent? >> Uh Jason Derby and I have actually had some conversation around it and we do a a boot camp leading up to the the ACT and we also do one for the preac. He and I have discussed about trying to figure out a way to have something to do during the testing for the freshman and it probably still not includes seniors but freshman and sophomore on ACT day if we could keep them busy doing something
091especially once the new building's done. >> Um and then he would run that boot camp in the afternoon so we would maybe have to do virtual for our senior class only and potentially we would look at some um field trip or a community activity for them that day as well. >> So, we do have some plans. >> We're still trying. Yeah. >> Other questions. >> Is there a motion? >> I'll move to approve a scheduled virtual day for CCHS for nonACT testing grades on March 10th, 2026 as presented. >> Thank you. Is there a second? >> I will second. >> Schwiger, >> yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> Bart, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Item J J is approve the FBLA overnight trip to
092Green Bay uh on April 13 and 14. >> Yep. So, it's the 13th and 14th of the event. So, technically the overnight would be April 12th and 13th. Is that right, Chris? >> Correct. Yes. Okay. And this is for FBLA, one of our newer new clubs. Is there a motion to that effect? >> I'll move to approve the FBLA overnight trip to Green Bay on April 12th and 13th. Is that the way you want it then? >> Yes. >> Yeah, sounds good. >> A second. >> Schwigger, >> yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> Barf, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. Item K is approved the nice open door exchange student uh Lou Marie of Belgium for the 2627 school year. >> Yeah, we usually have one
093to three for exchange students per year. So this is the first application that we've got that we're recommending for next year. >> Any questions? Hearing none. Would someone move? I'll move to approve the naysay open door exchange student lumarie of Belgium for the 26 2026 2027 school year as presented. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Schwagger. >> Yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> Bar, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> And uh personnel uh A is approved. the volunteer hosa club advisor Mary Jane >> as we talked about before what that program is and we've got a volunteer advisor >> if there's no questions I will move to approve the volunteer as a club advisor Mary Jane as presented is there a second >>
094I will happily second >> yes >> Joel >> yes >> bar >> yes Bowden >> yes Andrews. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Item B is approved. Mr. Sander is the volunteer media club advisor. >> Same thing. We talked about that before. >> Who would who would like to take Mr. Sander up on that offer? >> I will move to approve Mr. Sander as a volunteer and media club advisor as presented. >> Is there a second? >> I will second. >> Schwiger. >> Yes. >> Joel. >> Yes. Barf, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> And item C is approved. Miss Julie Atkinson as a part-time driver. >> Yep. This for one of our students who'll be driving or going to a different placement. And we've
095got this arranged already and it's all set and ready to go. We just waiting just waiting approval. >> There any questions? Otherwise, uh, we just go straight to motion here. I'll move to approve Miss Julie Atinson as part-time driver as presented. >> I'll second. >> Schwiger, >> yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> Bar, >> yes. >> Hinderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Approve volunteer track and field coach Isabelle Matthews. >> Yeah. Coach Lawson and Coach Matthews asked that we approve this volunteer and uh she's a CCHS grad and also a college athlete who's coming back to help help mom I believe. >> Yeah, >> I will make that motion to approve volunteer track and field coaches Matthews as presented. Is there a second? >> I will second. >>
096Schwagger. >> Yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> Bar, >> yes. >> Hterman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Item E is approve volunteer track and field coach Kefir Landis. >> Yep. Another recommendation from Coach Lawson and Coach Matthews to help with our our students. >> Is there a motion? >> Is this a current employee or like a student teacher or anything like that? >> He is not. Carrie, do you know? >> He is on the track team with Isabelle at Clark. >> Okay. >> I mean, I think she's done. they're done or he will be done. But he's a pole vault person and we're short somebody with that event and he won't be here all the time. But >> I was just wondering the connection piece of it. Okay.
097>> Yep. >> Thank you. >> I was going to say I can >> somebody knows somebody. >> Is there a motion? Court, >> you want to make that motion, Megan? >> Yeah. I'll move to approve volunteer track and field coach Keith Fair Land Landis as presented. >> Is there a second? >> I will second. >> Schwigger. Yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> Bart, >> yes. >> Tinderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Uh, committee reports. Uh, budget and finance. Is there you last met quite a while ago? Is there any meeting needed? >> No, but we are going to start our kind of monthly workshop. Heather and I will we'll start that. That'll go to schoolboard members and then we found a spot on our web page that Tina
098is going to put out just to have a bunch of information on how school finance is different than home and business finance. So, we'll start that this month. >> Okay. >> Uh building and grounds. I think we probably covered that. Um personnel. Um there's a meeting >> March 25th. Um the time of that maybe already sent it. I guess I'm >> I can check quick. I had to get at 6:00. >> I had 6 8:00 the meet and confer. >> All right. Thank you. >> Um policy, >> we have that scheduled for February 26th. >> Okay. Technology and transportation. >> We did get some new numbers from Davis bus lines. We're going to have one of those meetings before we bring it to the board for a final vote in March. So, we'll be looking
099for a date for that. >> Okay. And that's for the fourth and fifth year of the 25th year. Okay. Um foundation there was a meeting. Anything that needs wants to share with the board? We met with uh our adviser George Buchanan from Mount City Bank and uh like everybody our our our funds had a good year. Um so the no real changes were recommended. Joe. >> Yep. Yep. >> Okay. um CISA 3 um there was uh some talk amongst the members about schools that are struggling within our CISA um including the Cword consolidation and probably the only other thing I'd share is is that they um we did approve a wage increase for the uh CISA uh employees uh at the uh July high 2026 CPI level of uh of I think it was 2.63.
100So that just FYI that's what that uh number is that we'll potentially be looking at. So I don't have anything else. >> I just have a couple questions. So a couple months ago I had asked about um referendum monies coming back like for we were supposed to increase our curric budget this year. We haven't seen any updates on that. So, where are we at with that? >> So, we didn't increase curriculum budget for this year because they needed this year to figure out their new plan. So, I believe as in April is Ellie coming back with a plan to how to get that from seven years down to five years. So, we already had it planned for this year. They had already done that work for this year's purchase. >> But, didn't we say that
101we were going to increase it starting this school year? So, I'm just wondering, we we said that in a referendum that was planned in part of our budget. So where's the money being spent at if we're not using it this year? >> Well, that all comes out of fund tax >> or are we reserving it so that we can spend it in the future? I guess that's my question. Like the plan for this, where's that? >> The difference this year, we had some of those cycles that we have to that ended on five years, but we need them for two more. And so that's that was the difference this year. We paid to extend those contracts that we hadn't paid last year. >> Okay. Can we see like go back into our records for those
102meetings as what what we were going to spend in what years so that we can see where we're looking at >> there was discussion I don't I don't think we voted on like a specific >> but we did have years we we talked about when we were going to bring back certain dollar amounts in certain years and how that referendum money was going to be brought in because I really think it's important that we really look at is the money are we spending the money the way said we were going to because we said we were going to and we haven't. So, I want to know where that money's at. And then we I really think we need to do a needs assessment at all levels to really assess the needs to see if what
103we had planned two years ago is where we need to spend those dollars yet. I'm not discounting any piece, but I want to make sure because I think things have changed in the last year and a half, two years that I think we need to make sure that we are addressing some of those changes and do we need to reallocate some of those dollars because that curriculum money I think could be reallocated in other high need areas. Right now, we have it. I just I I feel like we're at a standstill with some of these things. We talk about it, but it never comes back up. And I just want to make sure that we're following through as a board, that we're making sure that what we're promising our taxpayers is what's actually happening. So
104I I think I would like to just know where is this money, where where did it go, what are we spending it on if we're not spending it on curriculum this year because it was $125,000 if I'm not mistaken. >> That's what it will be moving forward. So when we shrink it from seven years, well 125 is >> that was not that that was a different plan there. So there's two different things we're talking about. The curriculum team like that money is is in that 125. So >> that was not that 125. That was the curric bringing back curriculum into the classrooms was part of that. And then we did talk about going from a sevenyear to a 5year, but again the board hasn't been included on any of that conversation or I haven't been
105updated on So, you'd like to have like a chart on here's here's what we've spent on that and then here's >> and I thought it was this school year that we were supposed to see an extra 125 $125,000 being brought into our classrooms as curriculum. If we haven't done that, where's that money at? >> Right. So, the short answer is that 90,000 that I think this year we spent 90 on is it 80 >> 70 75 >> 75 which do you remember which curriculum team is on there? computer science and guidance. >> Okay. >> And then we allocated an additional $25,000 for expired license or subscriptions um due to the the pause um with >> the last couple years. >> So that's $100,000 plus >> paying um all the from the director and things like
106that. >> Okay. So, we can come up with that, look at past years. >> I just think it's important that we we look at that schedule as to when we were bringing these things back in because I know on the horizon you're talking about um hiring another office personnel. Well, are there bigger needs that we need to maybe think about filling in before we fill that? I mean, should that money be allocated elsewhere because things have changed in the last year and a half? Not saying we don't need it. I'm just saying I think we need to look at a needs assessment and I think each building principal needs to come up with a list of what are their high needs right now and maybe we would be surprised to see that needs have changed
107in the last year and a half because I think we are unscheduled to release quite a bit of money in this next school year because of that referendum. I just want to make sure that we are providing the best for our district in the areas that need it and our focus needs to be our students and I want to make sure our students are taken care of. >> Okay. Thanks. >> Anything else? All right. I take a motion to adjurnn. >> I will move to. Is there a second? >> I will second. All in favor? Hi. >> Thank you. >> Not at all. >> Open the doorway right there. Guys,