001Okay. Still don't have any. Okay. I still don't have any camera. >> Oh, let me see your settings there. >> I don't think you have a camera added. >> It looks like it's gone though right now. Is it gone? Move your Will you move your phone to the left? >> Yes. We may be broadcasting right now though. >> Let me go on. [Music] Yeah, we can hear you. All right. I'd like to call the meeting to order. Approve of giving public meeting just >> All right. Now group I will say that he said [Music] Heat. All right. Platville Community Arbor and uh Micro and our clients donated copies for each of our first good and it is a fun story especially in the the spring and and summer if the kids are able to get
002up on that trail they'll they'll recognize some of the things they they see and hear about that story. So, it was a great opportunity. Uh, our 2026 4K roundup is in the works and we are looking forward to connecting with many families on the next class roster at CCEES and, uh, families can register and get in contact with the school that's been posted on social media as well. We are currently exploring some considerations in regards to staff professional development time. Uh, one consideration that we're exploring together is, uh, whether or not our early release days provide the best fit for our needed staff development. So, uh, recently we sent out a survey to to staff just to see about the effectiveness and how they're feeling about that. So, we're going to move forward that and
003we'll keep you updated as we do. Our 5K has been extremely busy. First, uh, by constructing balloons for our very own Thanksgiving Day parade. We had a Macy's Day parade. It was very exciting. And then they were building houses for the many gingerbread people that have popped up in our building walls. So very busy in the 5K. Uh we want to thank the Kuba City Lioness for the generous donation of winter gear to keep students safe and warm in the winter elements on the playground. Uh it provides opportunities not only for people who may not have the things that they need, but also if uh students forget, we have supplies available at each classroom for kids to borrow for recesses. So we want to take advantage of those outdoor opportunities as much as possible. Uh
004Cuba City PTO continues to provide opportunities for our district families with an upcoming splash bash event at the Grand Harbor Water Park and a ski day at Chestnut Mountain. Um, additionally, the PTO continues to provide messages, activities, and surprise tokens of appreciation to our staff. So, they've been just a fantastic help and breath of fresh air when we need it. We want to thank Cuba City Utilities and WPBI Energy for treating our staff to a muffin and morning beverage from that one place coffee. It was a great start to a chilly Friday morning. And we want to thank our many staff members who work directly with our university supervisor Lindseay Hollensworth from the University of Wisconsin Platville education department. We hosted many practicum students uh this past semester. Uh even over a short period of
005time those future educators developed a bond with our students and impacted their education while they were here. So we think that's a great opportunity and we look forward to working with UWP moving in on down the road. And then we want to thank all the students and families who donated to the holiday food drive in coordination with the Cuba City Lioness. A special shout out to our fifth grade kindness crew for the work they put into organizing and delivering all the donations to the Lioness. Our kindness crew members include Morgan Alfillish, Addie Brimmeire, Violet Garvey, Elise Holmes, Brinley Copco, Ella Morovitz, Regan Thaler, Declan Trannel, and Maddie Bandra. Miss Sharon Olsson and Mrs. Jordan Henderman are the group adviserss. That's my report for this month. >> Thank you. Any questions of Jason? All righty. Um
006Chris, middle and high school report. >> I'm going to let the robotics go first and then I'll give my report after that. >> Take a ring. All right. Hi, we are team 15382. I'm not a robot. Um, I'm Bella. I'm a senior and I help with outreach, building, and social media. >> Uh, my name is Cameron. I'm also a senior and I do social media outreach and management. >> Hi, I'm Emma. I'm a senior. I do outreach, social media management. >> Hi, I'm Brandon. I'm a senior and I do driving and building. >> Hi, I'm Brooklyn. I'm a junior. I do programming, building, driving, design, CAD, whatever. >> Hi, I'm Katie. I'm a junior and I do management and outreach. >> And this is actually not all physical team. We have about two times the
007size of this due to our amazing recruitment this year. And moving on to our competition, we this year it's based on decode. So what we have to do is if you see that um what is that called? The scan thing right there. We have to look at that and try to figure out what what uh color goes where with the balls and we have to shoot them into a basket and then score from that. In our robot, we have different aspects like the intake which scoops up the ball the artifacts that scoops up the balls into the robot and we have this belt that moves balls up into the robot further in and then we have the outtake that launches the balls to the basket. Along with that, we've had many difficult this years this
008year. And one ongoing difficulty that we're still having is actually getting the robot to drive straight. When you go straight, it likes to veer left or right. We really don't know why. Another thing, another difficulty we've had were getting the ball actually into our outtake system because our boot kickers were not long enough and at one point we were over our size requirement that we had to be within this year. So, we're still kind of fighting that issue a little bit, but it's nowhere near as bad as it used to be. Another issue we had was when we first ordered our belts for our intake, we ordered the wrong size, but now that is better. And then another thing is actually our launch angle. The biggest thing with our launch angle is at one point
009it was not it wasn't pointed high enough up. So then it was actually missing the goal and it was hitting the goal and not going in. And then at one point we had it too high. to where it was launching it probably a foot or two over the goal and it was really bad. And the last thing we fought this year was when we wanted to when we were using these motors at one point we wanted to slow them down within the program. When we did that it actually made it harder after a ball was shot for the wheels to actually keep at the same speed. So then we would have to wait for them to regenerate that speed before we could shoot another one. Luckily, it's not all bad. A lot of these issues
010you just heard about have had solutions or semi-solutions so far. Yes, the wheels do sometimes veer to the left, but um it's mostly mitigated because I've normalize the wheel powers in the code to make it go mostly straight. It's just cuz some of the gear boxes are loose that they stop at a different time. So when they stop it'll like kind of at the very end. Um the launch angle was fixed with actually shoving an Allen key under there. Amazing spacer right there. That Allen key. Good thing we don't have to use it. Um, this foam here was to help when the belt was a little bit too big. Now, the belt was a lot bigger when we first ordered it, but it's still a little loose here. So, this helps it shove it into
011the the artifacts in to the belt so they actually get carried up the chute. And that's most of the issues we had and how we solve them. Um, so between Emma and I, we do a lot of aspects on our management team, which is a lot of our outreach. So, the way that we fund our team is through sponsor letters and fundraisers. And we focused a lot on our sponsorship letters this year and we changed a lot about them as well. Before we just type them up, make the same copy and just send them out to a bunch of companies. But we wanted to make them more personal. So, we wrote handwr many many sponsorship letters which led to duplicating how many sponsors we've had this year. This is probably the most we've had in
012a long time. So, and we hand didid all of those with a cricket. So, nice. >> And then also in the month of October, we participated in the PTO trunk or treat. This is our second time doing this and we absolutely love it. And we always make a game based off of what we're doing in the season. So, we made a little thing where they took a slingshot and shot these balls into different buckets and then depending on what bucket they made it in, they would get a different prize like a slap bracelet or just like a piece of candy. Yep. And like Mr. Holtzer mentioned earlier, we went to the forfeit class and presented our robot, made a little presentation about like cooperation and participation. And another fundraiser we did was a Halloween cookout.
013So on Halloween night, we went to Hazel Green and we sold Bratzen burgers that Weber's donated to us. >> And then all this outreach is really nice, but there's one more aspect that we haven't talked about on our robot. And you see this hardware and we see our team growing. Well, you don't see it, but it did. And um uh there's also the software that goes into this. And this year was actually especially hard for the software and programming team, which is mostly me. We decided to change the entire app we coded on the entire coding language we used. And on top of that, our FTC team in the entire eight years we've had it has never programmed a camera once. No. >> And this camera has to be able to sense these. They're called
014April tags, but they kind of work like QR codes. They have to be able to sense these and then get the information from it and then also drive its wheels to the position relative to what the camera sees. So, it's like, hey, the camera sees the April tag. Now, how do I get in front of it? And that sounds simple, but it's kind of hard to program, but we overcame this by doing a lot of out of school uh research on this, taking the robot home, a lot of trial and error, but we figured it out. We also reached out to like the college F FRC team at UWP and even the head director of April tags at our local John Deere to ask for a lot of help and eventually figure out how to
015get our robot to effectively utilize the camera and utilize the April tags. And then on top of that, we just came back, you might guys might have heard, we just came back from our whitewater qualifier. We placed 13th out of 25, which is pretty typical for our team, but there was some really tough competition there. It was a huge competition and a lot of the teams there were from the same area. So, they've been able to do scrimmages and like interact with each other a lot more than we have. We've never actually been able to test our robot against other robots until literally the competition. So, it's sometimes a little bit difficult to for us to see how our robot will work in real-time competition. Um, but we've learned a lot from this first competition
016and have kind of used it as a semi- scrimmage almost. Like obviously we were competing, but now we've used the information we got from that and we're going to upgrade our robot accordingly for our next competition which is in Madison on the 31st of January and hopefully we'll do a lot better there. >> Yeah. Do we have any questions that you guys may have about us? >> Can we get to see the robot run? Oh, you guys do >> you can catch it. You can catch it. >> How many basket? >> Um, only one just but it's about it's probably about this tall. >> So, you have to shoot it over a ledge. >> Not at people. Shoot it. Emma's ready. Emma's ready. I was ready. >> I want to see. Can you pick a
017ball though? >> Oh, we can. Here. >> You want to pull out? >> Yeah. Here. Pull the top one out because there's that together, I guess. >> Yep. So, FTC allows for two controllers at the competition site. Uh, so one of us controls wheels and the other one controls the entire like shoot intake outtake system that you see here. Wow. >> And then there's also like human players and they get the option to like sit on the ground and put the balls either into a robot or into the field. >> Yep. >> I wonder. Okay. So, our April tag tracking program actually is a goal April tag is a lot higher than this one is and it's a different size, but I'm pretty sure I can still show you guys how it works. So, we
018have we have it all on a single switch button. Uh, one of the things we can do is when you click this button, it'll automatically align it to wherever the April tag tells it to go. >> So, like if you move it up forward here real quick, >> we can tell that it's locked on to the tag. Back up a little bit. or not. You can tell it's locked on the tag because it'll show this little telemetry on our driver screen and we're allowed to use that to know when to click and it'll just drive it straight towards so it's right in front and that's really helpful when lining us up to the goal because it eliminates any human error. >> Do you have to start a certain distance away from the goal? >> So
019the field has like two different start positions for each team. One's really close to the goal and one's far away on the opposite side of the field. But um this matters for auto cuz the first like 30 seconds of the game is it 30? >> Yeah. 30 seconds of the game it's just completely automatic. I have to code in what we want it to do. We can't touch the controllers. So from there once we're in Teley it doesn't like which is when we get to use the controllers it doesn't matter where we are as long as we're in there's like triangles on the field which are launch zones. As long as we're in there doesn't really matter. H >> panda is like kind of like basketball. So there's a defense part to it where there's
020a safe zone and a not safe zone. >> Whitney was on defense. >> Another like random thing and you guys like, oh, do we want to like focus back to our goal and stop another robot from shooting in or do we really want to focus on shooting the robot? be really focused on that at this compensation and defense part. >> Might have broke our robot a little bit. >> It's bound to happen. >> Maybe >> um we ended up we were having technical difficulties in a couple of the rounds. So, we really had to focus on defense to be effective with our team and we ended up actually making sure that one of the lead teams there was not able to advance on the playoffs with the quality of defense we were able to play.
021>> Wow. We allegedly broke the robot. legend. So, it was it was all a good fun. It was something on their robot got a little jaffled and it messed up one of their sensors for a little bit. They're fine though. We talked to them after. >> Yeah. I think one of the coolest parts like this is my first year coaching. I've watched it as a parent. Um so, if you guys ever want to check out the live feeds, they do show quite a bit of the competitions. Um, but I think one of the coolest things that I've seen with this team is there's been a lot of um adversity they've run into like parts are out of stock. Oh, and they cannot get them. Um, so those those boot kickers, which are the wheels that
022actually take that robot and bring the the artifact up, they actually had to 3D print themselves. Um, and this is probably what is it your third rendition of far side. >> This is like our sixth if you want to count the very very start. >> But like they couldn't they could not find the part. So they ended up we purchasing TPU which I just learned about is a is a filament for the 3D printer that's bendable, right, and movable and not rigid. And then they um used CAD. What does that stand for? >> Computer Aed design. computer AED design to make these boot kickers to make their robot function. So like this that from an outsers's perspective that's like some inside stuff that I had no idea happened. So I think that's pretty cool. >>
023So in terms of they give you the idea or the the parameters of what you have to build and you have to can just explain or talk through that. >> Yeah. So the parameters are like the robot uh always in my history of FTC I don't think it's ever been different is you a robot always has to fit inside an 18 by8 cube. You can't be bigger in that distance at least when you're starting. Usually in usually in seasons they'll allow you after um the competition starts and you click initialize on your program. They'll allow your robot to extend outside those constraints. However, this year was incre is very strange and difficult because you cannot extend outside the constraints at all unless in endgame, which is like the very end of the competition. And that's
024basically utilized for bringing a robot up because two robots have to fit in one box at the very end. >> Um, but this year you cannot extend outside of your parameters at all. Outside of that, outside of your 18 by8 cube and what extension limits you have, you just have to build a robot that fits the competition. I guess there's there's also a motor limit. You can't have more than eight motors, but there's no like weight limit or anything. >> And from there, from your motor limit and your size limit, you build whatever you think will work best. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> I just was curious how >> what's its name? Ah, we have some fourth graders uh suggest we named it Rob. We haven't fully decided yet, but I like it.
025I think we'll keep it. >> Looks like a Rob. >> Okay, >> very well done. Congratulations. You really >> I am super proud of you guys because you are like I don't know how many are on your team but you are like the elite 13 because the rest of the students in the school can't think like that and I think that's amazing. Um you've defined failure because you fail a lot to get to where you're at. And fail failing is not a bad thing. It's a good thing because you learn every step of the way, right? I mean, so I congratulate you and I'm super proud. >> Thank you. >> What would it take to get you guys into more competitions? You say the only times you guys do stuff is at the actual competition,
026but like what would it take to get you guys >> scrimmages and things? >> Other, you know what I mean? Like go up against other >> Well, it would mean we'd have to be able to uh afford to travel to whatever scrimmages are open or whatever like more competitions are available. There's like a I don't know what's the deal with like how many competitions you can actually go to. >> It's Is it two? >> It's two. You can you can for >> But with scrimmages, it's a lot of travel. So, it would be a lot of us like getting out from school, getting a van or a bus, getting stuff, getting up there, and then actually getting to those teams, which is hard sometimes. But, >> and then also, correct me if I'm wrong, the
027closest FTC team to us is in Madison. >> Yeah. So we're a lot of the >> we're one of a very few robotics teams in this area. >> Yeah. >> So that's what you were referring to as other schools closer together got together after school and just >> because there was this one school up there that actually has six FTC teams within it. >> One school has six teams separate >> and the final round of our competition that we just went to. Every single one of those six teams was in the final round from that one. >> They had four of them at our at the Whitewater competition. >> Yep. So, >> so >> in the final round, >> so is is any of this robotics going to be in your future? Uh, >> uh,
028I think a cool thing about robotics, and I think a couple of other of my teammates can expand on this, but, uh, you don't have to want to go into like engineering or robotics to make f the first program, uh, beneficial to you. Like I really want to be an engineer, but for other people at MIT, >> I plan on studying uh, exercise science when I go to school. Nice. >> And what part of first is helping you with that? >> Um, it's helping me with my cooperation skills, my communication skills, having to work with people that are from different backgrounds than I am. It's really helped with that. I'm going into business, so this helps me a lot because we have to write like 15page portfolio detailing like our season, our adversities, how we
029solve them. And that helps me in business because I have to learn to write formally and how to construct that portfolio which will obviously help me transfer to anything business related. >> I'm going into engineering so this like really helps me. I might do a F FRC team in Platville too. But yeah, it just really helps with like thinking of different ways on how to do things and not everything that you think of is the right way. And then I'm going into I plan on going into some type of mechanical field or custom fabrication field. So working with others on building this actually helps with my communication and like kind of broadening ideas of how to solve problems >> and I want to go into like agriculture. So this would help me with my as
030they say like my managing skills like if I'm on like a team with other people. So, you said that your team doubled in size this year. So, when you talk about other schools having multiple teams, like what would your size need to be like in order to develop two teams? I realize that, you know, it might depend on what skills each person brings to the table, but >> like what what would it take to get two teams? >> I think >> probably close to 20 kids. >> And how many young now? >> 13 or 14. >> We're close. But it's not it's not just the amount of kids. It's also the funding. Like we have the amount of resources. >> Yeah. the funding, the resources. I mean, like, uh, and there's a lot of like
031funding and resources. Like, we can't have two teams because we only right now have enough resources to build one robot. But in the future, if we can have like more opportunities, like we could probably diversify into two with the amount of recruits we're getting or that we got this year at least. >> Is there a limit to what a school or a team can spend? >> I don't think so. There's we hear a lot through some pipelines where some schools are getting double the funding that we do and it's because but we do I feel like our money is very important to us because we're doing the things we're reaching out to companies we're reaching out to people and making our connections. So >> well and let me say as someone in marketing doing that
032personalized touch makes a huge difference. So I commend you for differentiating yourselves in that way and doing the extra effort because clearly it's paid off. >> Yeah. And if there's ways to support that going forward. Yeah. >> Do other organizations. So other schools is it are they all extracurricular clubs or are you are some of them classes that kids are working on these in class? >> Not that I'm not aware of that. >> I'm pretty sure they're extracurricular. >> Yeah. >> Okay. The only part that would truly be extra classes would be the coding side of it, right? >> Just the standard. >> Just getting yourself familiar with coding languages. Like I haven't taken a single coding class. I figured it out, but formally I haven't. >> That's about it. >> Great job. >> Thank
033you everybody and express our thanks to those who aren't here tonight on your team. >> Thank you. >> Do we still have legal team? I've been trying. I promise. >> Thank you. >> I still have all the all the materials. I just >> Chris, anything else you want to share? >> I've got I've got my report. So, >> report. Uh yeah, I'll try to make a quick uh high school band and choir both held or I guess they held their uh concert, holiday concert on Monday night. Uh middle schools got cut short because of yesterday's early release. Um so weather got in the way. Um they are planning on rescheduling that. The Monday night one was well attended, great music. Um so I thank Mr. and Mrs. Clayton for all of and all of our
034band and choir students for putting on a wonderful performance and I expect the next one to be just as good. Uh students from drawing and painting and foods of the world are creating gingerbread houses for the family promised gingerbread trail. Competition starts at the opera house in Hazel Green this weekend and then uh the gingerbread houses are going to be taken to the Cuba City Library until December 19th. Um you should stop by and vote for your favorite. Thank you to those who donated Halloween candy. FCCLA shipped 37 pounds to an army base in Witchah, Kansas. And I know the soldiers are always appreciative of the candy. Uh FCCLA bag collection is up to 174 pounds. Remember, we are working towards 2,000 lbs, but we're at 174. Uh FCCLA is collecting winter wear right now
035to help keep families warm. Donations can be dropped off in the commons area um before December 12th. On November 12th, Mr. Robson and I were able to take some AMP students up to medical exploration day held at W Platville. Students were able to learn about various programs the university offers including physical therapy, nurse practitioner, physicians assistant. Um students had an opportunity to take part in a lots of hands-on activities um including a cadaavver lab which was a student favorite. Um FFA Fruit is almost here. Uh it was scheduled to be here today. Um when Miss Van Scandal talked to the company, they said they weren't going to have their trucks out today. They were going to wait till tomorrow. Um so we anticipated being here tomorrow. Uh FBLA National Service Partner Organization is the National
036Alzheimer's Association with November being Alzheimer's Awareness Month. FBLA picked the week of November 17th through the 21st to spread awareness of this disease. During this week, facts and tidbits of information regarding the disease were shared daily on announcements. Staff and students were encouraged to wear purple on Wednesday and a change war was held during both high school lunch shifts throughout the week. Thanks to our students generosity and competitive nature, $58.13 was raised all in nickels, dimes, quarters, and pennies um for the National Alzheimer's Association. That very same week, eight students had the opportunity to attend the W Platville business challenge. Students competed in a simulation where they were split into five teams and collaborated with teammates from other schools to make key business decisions over a course of six fiscal periods. decisions centered around the
037main functions of business including marketing, finance, human resources, production, and supply chain management. Cuba City's very own Remy Rubish was on the first pl on the first place team and as a result he earned a scholarship to study business at UWP. Uh the middle school was able to enjoy some fun activities as they took part in many courses before Thanksgiving break. Students enjoyed creating bracelets, making designs with melting beads, playing dodgeball, spending time in the zen zone, playing Mario Kart, playing team building games, playing board games, dancing to just dance, crafting gnomes, exploring music, and walking around our city of presidents. It was a welcome break before the break. And speaking of middle school, they had a competition for their food drive with a goal of bringing in 600 items for the middle school. Miss
038M shared that the seventh grade brought in 473 items themselves, bringing the middle school total to 819 items. They blew it way out of the water. >> Uh way to go middle school and congratulations to the seventh graders for stepping up. That's all I've got. >> Thank you. >> I was told that the cadaabver lab at that W Platville thing was by far the best field trip that has ever occurred at Platville or at Cuba. >> It was a great day. They I mean that the kids really did like that part of it, but um in other ones I mean they they had actually pigs feet in there and they let kids learn how to stitch like do sutures. I mean it was a great day. >> Yeah, I heard it was amazing. >> I
039heard $500 is a lot of weight and change >> I offered to walk it down to the elementary and I changed my mind real quick. Whitney special ed please. >> Yes. Uh Jesse Dinar and I worked together to get all the necessary data pushed from seeds and powers school report to report our data to DPI. The uh December snapshot was yesterday at 9:00 a.m. Um so we will continue to work together for the May snapshot. Um again that we just work in those two platforms. We push it, make sure everything's talking to each other so it can report to the state. Um and we work with three years at a time. So, um, Jordan Hinderman, Cecilia Renker, and myself have gone through the access training to begin testing. Last week, we started down at the
040elementary. Uh, WEDA access for ELLs is an annual large-scale assessment for K through2 English language learners in WEDA custom states to measure their progress in academic English across listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This assessment occurs once a year and tracks students growth over time across those four domains. Uh specially designed instruction, otherwise referred to as SDI, is a purposeful and systematic approach to teaching that adapts the content, method, or delivery of instruction to meet the unique needs of a student with a disability. It is defined by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act or IDA and aims to ensure a student can access the general curriculum and make progress towards their goals. SDI is individually planned, closely monitored, and can cover a variety of areas including academic, behavioral or andor social needs. Um, thank you to
041Melinda Trevthan, Jordan Henderman, Amanda Gaul, and Carly Redern for organizing, collaborating, and making the holiday food drive down at the elementary a success. Uh, the CCEES kindness crew helped deliver the food to the Lion and Lioness Club at the bottom of St. Rose Church. So, thank you for all of their hard work and efforts. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. And if it's all right with the board, since Heather's not here and uh Aaron's uh under the uh weather, I'm going to say that uh we'll just skip those reports. They were in your Friday report unless Aaron wants to say something. >> I I I can go through some of mine just briefly. Uh I wanted to say a big thank you to the city of K City this month. Uh they provided every staff member
042with a holiday drink and muffin last Friday. Um and grant updates, we did receive final notification that we received the 2025 cops grant. Uh again, we have to will spend 160 to get reimbursed for that 499,000, but we are moving forward with that. And fem um there are some hearings last week. Don't anticipate getting a lot out of those hearings. um those early hearings. Anyway, as far as timeline, um construction, let's see, the concrete walls are beginning to go up. Uh they brought a sample of what the exterior of the gym box is going to look like. The sample is only 10x4. That slab is between the um the press box and the epic trailer. Um that slab that's 10T4 10x4 is 2,000 lb. The actual pieces that they'll be using are 10 ft wide
043and 33 ft tall and they weigh 50,000 lbs each. So, uh once they are all done being made and they're they're being made here in December. The plan is to bring 10 or 15 pieces each day and that's about all they can fit on the truck. Uh and once that starts, they believe it will be completed in around 2 weeks. So, it'll go from like, hey, when are they going to start building the gym to Oh, there it is. pretty quickly. uh operational referendum. This is from the last one in April. We brought back a full-time custodian and special teacher. I just wanted to remind everybody that this spring will begin the process of bringing back a math intervention teacher for next year and administrative assistant as planned for in the referendum. And then lastly,
044we just got word um all board members are welcome to join the business and education summit on January 9th at uh SWTC. Uh Jamie Gulmer is a businessman turned public um education activist. He is the author of Schools Can't Do Alone. Some of you may have heard his story. Um he tells a story. He was up there and he was kind of a public school um nonsuporter at first. He owned a ice a blueberry ice cream company and um he he once was at a speaking event and and a teacher got up and asked him why you know how do you pick your blueberries for your ice cream and he said oh that's a really detailed plan you know we go through and we we grade all blueberries A B and C the A's make
045it the B's um sometimes do they go for per inspection we get rid of the C's right away to ensure pick the best product. And the teacher said, "What would happen if you used all the blueberries?" Cuz that's what we do at school. We teach all the kids. We don't just take the green ones. And it's and he said that that statement really kind of made him get more involved in education. And once he got more involved in education as a business owner, he became a public school advocate. And um he's coming here to speak on January 9th. So if anybody is interested in that, let me know. uh CISA 3 sent me out um a registration um email that I can forward to you to register. So um he's I've read his book and
046he's a great author and I'm sure he's a wonderful speaker. That's all I have. Thank you. >> Thank you. I have I have one question for Aaron there. For the uh COP grant, does that come out of our current building referendum or is that a different fund that that money would come out of? >> Good question. So, some of it qualifies. Anything that we're doing that was already built in for safety, which is some of uh which is some of that um does count cuz those are local dollars. So, you know, Brad and I will work specifically on what can and cannot count for those. But yes, some of it will come out of our regular budget and some of it will come out of the referendum because we had some safety things in there
047and we are spending local dollars on those. So, that would count towards the 166. Anything else for Mr. Olsson? Thank you. >> Uh moving on to discussion. Um possible building uh projects. Um um the building and grounds committee met last Wednesday. We met again here before this meeting. Um there was about seven different uh um things that we talked about and kicked around. They were in Mr. Rollson's uh Friday report. Uh do you want me to go through them one by one or do you have questions or >> what was the full board meeting last week, right? It was just >> Yeah, it was in the full board meeting. >> And I really have that in there as a place where we're going to have this as an option every month. Some months we might
048talk more, some months we might talk less. >> So, and at this point we don't have any details. Mr. Olson was working with uh Brad from Epic to to be able to try and iron out some costs and and ideas and that's kind of what was kicked around in terms of uh of uh projects. So, anybody want to say anything that's on the building and grounds committee about that? >> I don't think we learned anything new today. Um it was um we're just kind of waiting on numbers so that we can make better decisions of what to do with the money. Um, still working on the lighting for outside for this winter. That should be hopefully in the next month or so. >> I think overall I think um what uh Brad talked about from
049Epic was is that the week of January 12th, the concrete walls are supposed to start showing up and they will use a crane to put them up. And uh Chris is going to go on the south end. I'm joking here. And make sure they don't fall north. um where they're putting them up. Um and in a couple weeks they'll be up. Then they can start to try and put the steel up and try to, you know, get it to the point where they would enclose it. So they'll be working on the library or the wrestling room, the fitness center, and the administrative office entrance and the gym kind of all at the at the same time. And uh um so that was kind of the timeline there that basically he said it would take 2
050or 3 months to build the walls for the new addition if we were using just blocks. But he said if somebody says you know you know what's happening well you can tell them well the walls are being built in the in the factory right now. And so, you know, instead of two or three months, it's that, you know, basically they are already working on the design and they're trying to all of the electrical and and all of the speakers or whatever else. They're trying to make sure all of that components are poured or put in these concrete walls. So, our electrician uh is actually down working in Dyresville with the concrete uh you know wall company to make sure that all of the outlets and everything are are in you know being put in. Anything
051Mr. Olson you'd like to add to that? >> No, that's all good. >> Okay. So I think that's the the major thing right there and and the rest of it is just the as what was contained in his his report with regard to you know potential projects which will be brought back once uh Brad's able to get some price tags on what those are and and then just you know have something that we can bring back to the board to to vote on with you know we're going to do project A, B or C or whatever. So, all righty. Um, Cuba City Virtual Academy handbook draft. Um, this has not been it's been sent to our legal council, but we haven't heard back from them yet, I guess. Is there anything Mr. Olsson you want
052to add or or board question? >> Yeah, they they did get back to us either yesterday or today to me. um just they had some suggestions for some for some special ed things. Um all they just said yep that I mean they didn't find a lot too wrong with it. It's in general um I I think it had all the things in there that the school board had questions on. the one item that if you look through that link that's kind of highlighted in the yellow were the items on how um the board would like virtual students to be able to participate in extracurriculars or those types of things. So, um I just wanted to have a discussion and just see where you guys were so I know which direction to finish off uh the
053handbook and we'll we'll use that this year and then when we do hand back handbooks again in July if there are things that we want to add or take out at that time we'll do that. So in terms I don't have the uh >> yeah there are basically three options that virtual students can do everything that other students can uh option two is uh virtual students can do certain things that are approved on a case-by case basis either by the board or administration and option three was they're not able to participate in extracurriculars if they choose a virtual school. So board, what what's your desire regarding those three choices? >> I guess I I just have a couple general questions about that. Um in here we provide the Chromebooks. Do we have enough if the
05414 that are out now to provide them books or is that something additional purchases that would be needed? No, because if those students um would have open rolled out, we would have had a device for them. >> Okay. So, no no additional devices need to be purchased. >> Nope. We have a cycle that we rotate some out. So, like every year we'll we get, you know, let's say 100 new devices in. We rotate the older ones out, but those older ones, even though some of them are called end of life, that just means you can't update them, but they're still workable devices. Okay. Another one would be students with the IEPs. What What's that kind of framework like? Like like do >> Yeah, that's what we're working with our um with our legal counsel and
055they have a special ed attorney who's working with us that sent back some suggestions for us. Um, the hard part about putting in a handbook, what he said is it's really placements determined by the IEP team. >> And so it's hard to have a set um thing in there for all IEPs cuz if you put something in there and all kids have to do this, it's no longer up to the IEP team. So that's a little more difficult. Um, but I hopefully they're working with us on how we can do that the best way we can. We talked to some other schools who have done it that way. Um that they have just one sizefits-all and our attorney just thought that that's not the best way to go about handling that legally. So we're still
056working on the the special ed aspect of it. >> So like our like our staff then would have to provide those services. >> That's what we're talking about. Okay. >> Correct. Whether they would have to or not. >> Okay. So back back to activities um all case by case or not allowed to do extracurriculars. What is your feelings? Is there any way that we could get in trouble? So like in here it says it's a more of a delayed process for like grading and like students are more on their own like schedule. Could it be something where people are participating but then it turns out hey you have failed these things two weeks ago when they were in person they would have been kicked off a team or something. But with the delayed grading, they're
057able to still play and does that create any issues that way? >> Chris, I don't think we asked that question. I I don't know how delayed or delayed grading is, but I think if we say we do grade checks after, >> I don't believe it would matter because I think we would still be able to go in even though they might not have a finalized grade, they still have like a course grade >> just like you would in any other class. >> Right now, I might have a an A in science and a F in math. >> Mhm. >> Like score, right? Check the current status of their grade. they would have the same thing in these online classes. And so whatever date of the quarter was, we would actually then look at where they're
058at. Even if they're not at the end of that class, we know where they're at at the quarter end. And so they would be >> So it wouldn't be something where they could play for two months, but then but they also failed, >> correct? >> For four months or something. Okay. >> Yeah. Are we talking just extracurriculars right now or are we talking >> what I is it just extracurriculars or is it >> or is it coming in for the two classes a day that we're I'm just I just want to make sure I know what we're >> once we get in I I didn't even know about coming in for some from some classes a day cuz I didn't get the sense from our last meeting that that's where we wanted to go yet.
059So, we're easing into this. >> Okay. >> If that's something that we want, so this first semester, that's not an option. >> Okay. >> If that is an option later, and again, once we get back with some um special ed guidance as well, that might be where we we we start to get some of that language in there, but I don't have anything in there for for that right now. I guess I would support doing or allowing them to do all extracurriculars in the hope that, you know, that might lead to them actually uh, you know, wanting to to do virtual here instead of elsewhere and andor come back to school someday. >> That's that's what I would tend to lean towards as well. And I I do think it's important that we get like
060the even if it's a portion of a day because if we talk about the main reason or a primary reason that kids are going virtual is because of social anxiety like all or nothing isn't really a good answer. I think if they're willing to come for a couple classes, let's ease them back in or get them some social aspect of school. So it I I understand like we need to figure out what we need to figure out first, but I do feel like that needs to be a priority. >> All extracurriculars would fit into socialization. >> Yep. >> So So my my my thought is so I don't disagree with what you're saying and stuff like that, but I feel then what would be the incentive for kids to be in school, right? Because if
061if everyone has the same benefit for not being in school, like what's the benefit for kids to be in school? >> Well, I think maybe the same reasons we all believe that it's best for students to be here. So, >> right. >> I mean, I don't I don't know if any disern Yeah, Joe has the same concern that I have. What about a kid who doesn't have social anxiety but just doesn't want to go to school and wants to to do stuff at home and he's like, "Oh, I can still do that and be in whatever I want to." >> Um, >> and I am Am I assuming that correctly, Joe? >> Yeah. Like like I mean since I've been on like I feel like we've all been pushing, hey, like let's get students more
062together, right? We talked about virtual days. Let's try to limit that. Get more kids in school. We talked about more kids being at sporting events and stuff like that. And I just feel like if there's no incentive to being in school, you know, could that one to five people take advantage of that and still do the same thing or would nobody do the same thing? I don't I I don't know. I just feel like there has to be an incentive for >> or extra >> but in a seat. >> Extracurriculars. You have to be in school for four hours to participate. I mean, how do we is that going to go away then? if >> Yeah, because they they don't track track um hourly attendance. They just track whether they logged in and that day.
063That's how they take take attendance. >> And I was just looking at the narrow focus of we lost >> more kids than we expected to virtual. And >> yeah, they're all things to consider. Nobody said yet. >> So, we're offering a trying to offer a program. So, I was only looking at those 14 kids and >> Mhm. I I think we can change it a year from now. I mean, I hate to say, "Well, what if? What if? What if?" And then end up saying, "No." I'd rather say, "Let's try this." If we find out this 14 goes to 28 and none of those kids are coming to school, but want to go be on the basketball team or the robotics team, then, well, we got a year that we, oh, we learned our lesson.
064Let's let's bring this in a little bit. I I hate that. I I think there is a problem that we went from five to 14 kids that are out of the Cuba City School District this year. I think we got to try to keep those kids and then figure it out as we go along. Did you get any sense, Mr. Olsson, in talking to to other schools that have started the program what they did or didn't do uh you know along what we're talking about? Yeah, we would be one of the only schools that I'm aware of that would allow kids to do extracurriculars. Most schools don't. Um, and when I brought that up, they're like, well, those generally aren't the kids who were who were open enrollment from our district. Yeah, I guess I
065mean if I had to choose, I guess I'd maybe choose that option too of maybe allowing them to do the clubs and activities because that's a a point of learning type thing, but then sportsswise would be would be a no and just kind of see what falls from that. I guess >> I would argue that sports isn't learning. >> That's fair, right? It's a life. It's >> It's And I think you're making the assumption that, >> oh, these football players are just going to not go to school now because they can still play play football. I mean, I I think that parents are going to be involved. They're going to want their kids in school. Those kids want to be daily with their friends in school. Um, I just don't see it as a problem.
066But again, I'd like to I'd like to to try it as loose as we can. And if we figure out we've got a problem, we change it a year. All right. So basically it's discussion tonight. There is no motion. Um correct to be made tonight. >> Correct. >> So we don't I guess need to beat it to death with the uh thought that we're going to come up with an answer. >> But is Aaron looking for a direction to >> He is. Or at least that's what he heard. But I guess >> I think what I'll do is I'll have two options then for you guys to discuss and and vote on in January. Is that fair? >> That's fair. >> Yeah, I I think that would be option of they're they're able to be
067in everything and they're able to be in everything besides WIA sports. Those are the two that I heard you guys talking about. Was that fair? I'd say yeah. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Calendar options for upcoming years. Aaron. >> Yeah. This was brought up in our admin earlier. I'm going to pass over to Chris, Jason, and Whitney that brought this up. That one were talking about calendars. um if we could just discuss uh going back to one professional development day a month instead of four on Fridays. So I'm going to turn it over to them and they can take it from here. Yeah, as uh I shared earlier and when the topic of uh the calendar came up and looking at the upcoming agendas, um we just wanted to have a
068little bit of time to review whether or not ch change is needed. Um, one of the challenges that I personally have experienced is just uh trying to fit professional development opportunities into those small portions. Uh, at the end of the week, um, there's a a variety of things that impact that. Uh, it's a short amount of time. Um, we have a little bit of a a variance between our dismissal times. So, uh, it's not consistent between the buildings as to how much time there is right at the end of the day. Granted, it's only a few minutes, but can can impact when you're trying to organize things like that. Um, also just u consideration end of the week. Uh, we all know how the end of the week is and that can be a challenge
069to focus on. Hey, we're doing something new or trying to focus on um evaluating data. uh that so we just we want to explore uh what other options there might be and then work to find what is uh be best fit for our staff. >> Do you do you have a recommendation that you want the board to hear? >> Not yet. >> Okay. That's like I said, we we've reached out to staff members just to um get some thoughts on our current PD practices um what others have maybe experienced other places and uh evaluating uh within uh our buildings the the different grade levels and also years of experience. We know some teachers have had that experience in our own district here of having a full day versus uh early early release type things. So,
070um we just want to be able to explore it. >> So, we looking at the next calendar school year or >> yeah, we discussed pushing the calendar proposal off to the January one. So, we really we don't want to spend a whole lot of time on it. We want to explore uh the feedback we get from the staff right away this this next week and then have some deliberation ourselves to identify what recommendation we might make. >> Board, what questions or comments do you have? >> I was actually going to bring it up to the board this year about the calendar and going to a full day Friday in service. Um I think it offers a lot of opportunity for student remediation. So if students are behind, you have one day a month to bring
071them in to work with them to to keep up. You have an opportunity to meet with staff on a whole day basis. Um it's routine where um the short Fridays are often for daycare purposes problematic for people. Um and I I think you can be more productive on a full day. Friday is one teachers are still planning for a full day on a Friday with half the time and I think that takes out one day where it's less planning for teachers. It's less um it's less movement and I think there is benefit to that. So I was actually going to bring it up this year about that as well. I have talked to a couple of teachers about their thoughts as well and um they agreed Yeah, daycare is going to be an issue either
072way. So, that's one thing to keep in mind is that right now it's an issue at from 2:00 to 3:30 on those Fridays. If we have more frequent days off, that's also going to be a a daycare issue for parents. Um, as far as instructional minutes go, one day a month is about equivalent to the instructional minutes as for um, you know, four Friday early release. So it it shouldn't impact the calendar as far as you know making it much longer. Um instructional minutes shouldn't be any different. So those were just some of the things that we talked about that we wanted you guys to have some input on. >> Yeah. daycare was going to be my other big question is like is as we get farther down this conversation if there's any way we
073can get a sense or input from daycare local daycare providers of like how would this impact you or because I know when we've made changes in the past that's that's been a sticking point for a lot of families >> point when did we change from uh the half day Fridays to or when was that changed from the full day >> 1819. >> Yeah. >> 1819. >> I I've been on the board long enough that I was here whenever the date was that it that it changed. >> And that was at a request of administration. >> Uh and and that's my feeling still iss if if that's what administration and staff wants, >> I'm all for it. I mean, as far as a board, these are the people that need to run this school. And if
074they think it's best for students, then come up with a plan, present it to us, and let and let's let them do what they think is best. >> Agreed. >> Did you say you had just uh sent out a survey to so we don't have a >> What were the options? Was it half day like half two half days a month? Was it full Fridays? What were what were the option? You didn't >> really specify that. Um >> half days are really difficult when with lunch. It it makes it tough to be able to to get everybody's fed. >> Yeah, I think the two there was three options. There was one to keep the early release Fridays. One was one day a month for PD or no preference. >> Okay. >> Those are the three
075options. >> Limited conversation about whether a full day would be a Monday or a Friday. Long ago, I think we did early release Wednesdays. I mean, so we we know there are a lot of different options out there. We really wanted to explore what is the best fit for us and and that may be what we have. But >> can I just I know looking at some of my results like early results there there have been some teachers that have offered some things that weren't necessarily on there as well. So >> yeah. >> All right. Thank you, Whitney. Is there any? >> No. >> Thank you. No public recognition. So then we will move to new business. um approve the date and time of the January uh board meeting. Um that date >> 14th. >>
076Yeah. I think we've already changed it. >> Yeah. >> So, do we need a motion, Mr. Olsson? >> Okay. >> All right. If everybody's cool with that, then we will move on to B approve the one-year land lease for the land west of our campus. >> Yeah, we have a new legal council rewrite that contract uh that we have here for people who rent that land currently, and this is a one-year lease. >> Are there any questions board of that lease? If not, would someone move to approve that? I'll move to approve the one-year land lease for land west of campus as presented. >> Is there a second? >> I will second. >> Schwiger, >> yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> White, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >>
077Motion carried. C is approved the 20 26 27 278 WIA wrestling cooperative with Benton and Southwestern. This is >> Yep. So this is the same that we've done. The only difference is that there's a boys agreement and a girls remember our teams are separate. So otherwise it's the same that we've carried on with. >> Are there any questions regarding >> hearing? None. Would someone move? >> I'll move to approve the 2627 and the 2728 WIA wrestling cooperative with Benton and Southwestern as presented. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> I'm going to give it to Joe. Yes. >> Sorry, you said at the same time. He just needs one once in a while. >> Yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> White, yes. >> Hinderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >>
078Motion carried. >> Moving on to personnel. A has approved the hiring of Alex Miller as a high school forensics coach. >> Yep. This will be Alex's first year being on the forensic staff uh with an experienced group of coaches. And Alex was one of our uh top-notch forensics participants when he was in high school. So, I recommend that we approve that. >> Is there a motion? >> I have a question. >> Yes. Are we down a coach right now or is this an additional um position? Are we just adding or is it based on numbers or how is >> I don't believe it's an additional it I believe as I understand >> Becky and I are kind of going half. >> Okay. >> Kind of splitting one position and then uh Kirsten and Alex. I
079just wasn't sure as you know we if it was a full-time Yeah. I just wanted to know how we were allocating it. >> I will move to approve the hiring of Alex Miller as CCHS forensics coach as presented. >> I'll second. >> Yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> Uh, White, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, yes. Motion carried. >> B, then is approved. The high school volunteer palm palms coach, Maddie Turp. >> Yep. And after after our last advent meeting, we decided we were just going to refer this as palms because there are several different ways that you can say that. And we just thought palms was the simplest. So, um yeah, so Maddie will be volunteering to help with Katie, a former member of our Palms team. Um she was
080alumni of that group and did a wonderful job. We recommend that you approve this. Is there a motion? >> I'll move to approve CCHS volunteer palms coach Mattie Turpstra as presented. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Yes. >> Joel, >> yes. White, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Then C is approved the annual medical visit incentive for all staff. Yeah, we talked about this last month and um you guys wanted to make sure we knew how it was all structured out. So, this would be again for all staff members. Um and for instructional staff, for teachers, they get that finally off inservice training that they provide district annual checkup with their position by April 15th each year. uh for support staff, par
081educators, people will get their daily rate for the number of hours and wage to be added to their June paycheck just as if they work the day similar to what teachers we have for other 12 months employees that that might need to work on that last day of inservice. So custodians, administrative assistants, they can choose one day in June to take off. They provide the exam by April 15th. So we think this is the most fair, equitable way for all staff and a good idea to make sure staff are getting regular checkups. We administratively we recommend that you approve this >> other questions board hearing none. Would someone move? >> I'll move to approve the annual medical visit incentive for all staff as presented. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Yes. >>
082Joel, >> yes. White, >> yes. >> Herman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. Then uh D is approve a full-time custodian position. >> Yeah, last month we had a half-time custodian resign and we plan on changing this from a halftime to a full-time position once the other projects were completed. At this point we're recommending hiring um a full-time position half a year. This position for right now will be a district custodian um meaning that we work in all three buildings might have varying shifts. Um, but once the building is complete, that will change into a more consistent schedule. So, we recommend moving it forward with it. >> Questions for >> Has this been posted already or are we waiting for tonight's vote? >> Did you hear that, Eric? >> You
083heard it. >> I think it's posted. >> Is it posted? I don't >> Has it been posted? I think it was saw it. >> I'll move to approve the full-time custodian position. Is there a second to that? >> I will second. >> Schwagger, >> yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> White, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Odin, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Uh, committee reports, uh, budget and finance, is there anything? Okay. Nothing. Building and grounds, I think we covered that tonight. Um personnel, no meetings scheduled at this point, Darren. >> Uh this spring we'll probably start out with collective bargaining. >> Okay. Policy last met in September. No need at this point. >> Yeah. No no updates at this point, but probably around January or February. >> Okay. Um technology
084and transportation. Uh, we uh >> November 18th. That date is wrong in our paper. >> Yeah, I was going to say uh I >> didn't meet today. >> Didn't know we met. Yep. November 18th. Uh there was going to be another meeting scheduled in January. Is that correct? >> Yep. >> Okay. >> Did you find out about the buses? Did they have their inspection? >> They did. Um we had a transportation technology meeting what uh well back in November 18th and uh um Davis bus lines came and uh we had a report that was given to us about the um the buses and I think all but two had been checked by u um uh guys truck and tractor for safety and they had a report on each bus. >> Okay. So >> 180 quite
085a spec on each one. >> Yeah. >> There's some deficiencies, but they all passed. >> Yeah. >> Yep. So, and we had conversation regarding uh um another contract or contract extension and uh trying to get them potentially to upgrade the age of their buses to uh you know have some newer buses in in the fleet so that would be more reliable. So obviously that probably would be associated with an increased cost, but that would come again back to the board for, you know, a vote on what we do with the that contract. How long does it have left? Is it another year? This is year three of a three-year contract that can be extended to a 5-year contract if we choose to, but we also asked them to to come up with a new 5-year
086contract that might be um updates some of their buses because we know that's going to be an increased cost. >> All right. Thank you. >> Foundation then? >> Uh yeah, we met back in October. We meet again uh in February after the end of the year. We can get an end of the year report done. Okay. And I don't have anything from CISA. Um, so I would entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> I will move we adjourn. Is there a second? >> I will second. >> All in favor? I >> because every time >> Thank you everybody. I do it for some reason. I just don't do it. You just got to that notion to adjourn is