August 2025 School Board Meeting

001stuff you guys do as far as like buses and getting that stuff organized and kids organized. Um, I didn't know there was that much in to it and it's very surprising and I was very happy with all that. So, thank you guys. You guys did a great job. >> Thank you, Joe. >> All righty, Chris. Middle and high school report. >> Yeah. Uh marching band is a season is upon us. Um the high school band held its annual marching camp Monday, August 4th through Thursday, August 7th. And the middle school band had their marching camp Monday, August 11th through Thursday, August 14th. The bands are planning to march in the Benton Labor Day parade on Sunday, August 31st. The Cuba City High School parade on Friday, September 19th, and the W Platville homecoming parade um

002is a potential on Saturday, October 4th. This year's marching band theme is going to include some music from the band Green Day. Uh FCCLA assembled and delivered comfort during chemo bags. Eight bags were delivered to patients at Mercy Hospital in Debuke this summer. Uh FCCLA group was able to use grant money from the Thrive Action team to purchase fabric which they're going to use to be uh turning those into blankets for the upcoming 202526 school year. Um, and congratulations to Miss Nancy Merwin as she was reelected as the president of the Wisconsin Family Consumer Educators or WFCE. Uh, FFA had another successful sweet corn season and several students did exhibit at the Wisconsin State Fair as well as Grant County Fair. Um, more through, you know, students that we share with with 4. The FFA

003doesn't necessarily participate in those, but we have lots of shared students. So, uh, Miss Van Scandal also shared that soil's judging team will be practicing as they prepare for the state contest in October. Football is midway through their third week. Girls golf is in their second week, and both cross country and volleyball started things up this week, which means all of our fall sports are back at it. We are excited for a great fall sports season. Thank you to Cameron, Adam, and Brian for getting the football field and practice field ready for football and marching band practices. Well, at least until we got all the rain, and now it's soggy again. Um, but this certainly was no small task. Um, with all the things that are going on around school cleaning, construction, um, and the

004crazy grass mowing that we've had this year, um, we are all set for hosting our sixth graders and freshman orientation. Um, Davis Bus will bring school students to school at 1 p.m. on Thursday, August 28th, and then take them back home at 3 p.m. Uh, students will have a chance to meet their teachers, speak with leaders from student organizations, find their classrooms, drop all their supplies off at their lockers. Um, thank you to the administrative team. Uh, we are also ready to host our teachers with some back- to-school professional development. We had a very successful day with our new staff yesterday and we're excited for the rest of the staff to return next week. a little bit of learning, a little bit of work time, and a whole lot of fun. It's going to be

005the best year ever. And then I do have a little bit of a presentation on the cell phones that you guys asked about. So, come up and plug in. I'm hoping that it'll just jump right over No, that is me. >> Okay. All right. So, um, a little bit about the what, um, middle school and all middle school and all high school students, um, we're going to be looking to get rid of cell phones and smartes, um, throughout the instructional time during the day. First bill to last bill. Um, and I did want to share that after some discussions um, with a couple different committees, we decided that we are going to do a soft roll out. Um, which means during their passing period, they can have them in their lockers and they can actually

006check their messages during that 3 minutes between class periods. And high school will still be able to have it during lunch for now. Um once we come up with some sort of a and and we're kind of thinking once the middle school the gym becomes the middle school gym where it won't be used for classes during the lunch period. We can actually use that as kind of a a recess area for our high school students. And so at that point we would probably look to eliminate during lunch as well. Any questions with that slide? Uh the why that we're looking at doing this uh academics most studies show that around a 6% increase in test scores and grades um benefits are particularly strong with students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Um a note that I took

007from that anxious generation 20 seconds of looking at your phone just a 20 second look at takes about approximately 20 minutes to get you back focused on what you were doing. So, um, and they said that even a phone face down, you're you're still anticipating what's on it, and so you're not fully focused on what you're doing. Um, social emotional social media has been shown to contribute to anxiety, depression, uh, feelings of in inadequacy, uh, limiting the use, and obviously we're not going to stop this at home and outside of school, but we can do what we can during the the seven and a half hours that they're at our school. Um again the anxious generation says that uh the recommendation is by uh Mr. Height is phones shouldn't come out till they're 13 years

008old smartphones and no social media until they're 16 years old. So I mean that's high school age. Uh safety uh studies done between 2010 and 2018 showed that cell phone bands lowered the incidence of bullying. Um and then something that came up during that training that we were at in um Platville with the um Chief Perick uh or Verick, I'm sorry. um was that the police have the ability to override and they send out um notifications and just like when you have a weather alert that sets those alarms off on your phone, even if your phone is silenced, it's an it's an emergency alert, so it sets it off. And we thought a room full of kids have their phone in there, they're trying to be quiet. all of a sudden, boom, the broom full

009lights up with all these cell phones. That's going to tell somebody, "Hey, there's people in there." Um, where if it's out in the lockers, it actually could be a help in almost creating a a distraction. Um, and then law, uh, Assembly Bill two is in Wisconsin, has passed the House, sitting in the Senate, um, has by bipartisan support. Currently, there are 20 21 states that have some version of a cell phone ban. Watching the news tonight before I came in, the local news, Sun Prairie's highlighted they're doing this very same thing and they were kind of talking about that. Any questions with the the why. So then I you know the who um if you look at the map of Wisconsin uh the darkest the black that's a full band. Those those areas have full

010bands. Um, as it gets lighter with the blue, there's a little more freedom with. Um, gray is the ones that have no band in place and white just simply didn't respond to the the survey. And this this actually kind of shows um, you know, the the smaller school district you are in, the more likely you are to have a ban. the the larger schools just can't seem to get a a grasp on it, which is partly why the the legislation is coming down. Questions with that? This is the United States as a whole. Um again, um the gray, there's no policy in place right now. Green are states that are have introduced legislation, but it hasn't hasn't been decided yet. Um, the dark blue are going to be the statewide restricted. And if you notice

011that, you know, surrounding us with Wisconsin or with Minnesota and Iowa, they both already have it. With Wisconsin, it it sounds like it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. Um, so how is this going to happen? Um, all phones again will be expected to be in lockers. Teachers that find them, um, first defense, the teacher can call up to the office. The teacher doesn't have to send the student, doesn't have to, um, take it themselves. They can just call up to the office and we will have somebody come down and get them. Um, the student just has to pick it up at the end of the day. um second offense. If we get to that point, again, the phone will come to the office and then the, you know, a call

012will be made home that the parents have to come pick that device up. And if, if we get to a third offense, um obviously we've got the phone, so we're going to bring it up. The parents are going to have to come in and get it. And there will be a conversation about how that device now will have to be dropped off to the office every day, or they can choose to keep it at home. and then accountability. So, this again was a discussion that was had by the uh the committee. Um so, we're going to ask staff to model this process. Um they shouldn't be on their phones um unless it's their prep time or we do have the two-factor um authentification that we have to do. So, there will be times where staff

013are going to have to use their phones. Um but we're going to keep it to a minimum. Um staff are going to be expected to report all the phones and watches with fidelity. Um you know, yes, we're going to have kids that are going to keep them in their pockets. And I guess as long as they keep it quiet and in their pocket, not a lot we can do about it, but it's it's more when they have them out and are actually on them. You know, we're going to ask that the staff is on that. So, as a staff member, if I walk into or somebody walks into a classroom and you have you see students on their phone, we're gonna, you know, you're going to get a warning. Um, and then we kind of

014talked about a three strikes and then we will start moving into the the normal um discipline for staff, which includes a verbal, a written, suspension of pay, suspension without pay, and termination. I I really don't anticipate getting past the the three warnings, three strikes thing, but um but at least it puts some sort of, you know, accountability for staff. Some considerations um that we talked about. Um teachers can certainly request to use for a class. I know that there are times where cell phones are handy to use for a class. So, a request just be made and so we know that that day that the kids are going to be on their phones and and the teacher is monitoring that that's that's okay. Um that we will allow them to make sure that they're checking

015they can check during their passing periods. Um we are looking for different high school recess opportunities. Something that we talked about was maybe potentially having getting some yonder pouches. I last year reached out to Yonder for a quote for 400 and that was middle school high school. So for 400 of them it was a little over $13,000 which that's I was like well okay that's you know way too much. Um but we talked about maybe renting them, you know, like kids want to to get one. What the yonder pouch does is it it seals it. um they can put the the device into the pouch and then close it. And it's kind of like the the thing that you they put on clothes in a store that you have to take it off before you

016you leave the store or it sets off an alarm. Well, this doesn't set off alarm, but it locks it that way. Then they can keep their phone with them because they cannot see it at all. There's no way for them to to get at it. And at the end of the day that you put it on this device and it pops it back open and then they get it out. Similar to um you know paying a rental for being a part of band or being part of you know art class or teched um it would be a fee that they would pay at the beginning of the year. They would get this pouch and then if they destroy it then potentially they would not get their money back at the end of the year or

017I don't know. It's something to think about anyway to help offset the cost of those pouches. So, any questions with that? I believe that's it. >> And Chris mentioned a lot of this is coming from a very famous book called The Anxious Generation. CISO 3 did one for a free one for teachers and administrators this summer that a lot of us took part in. They're also offering one for school members. So, um, it's I think there's one day in September and two in October. So, I'm going to be sending that out probably this Friday um to see if any of you are interested. I'm going to sign all of you up if you want to. I mean, I'm not taking attendance, but if you want to learn more about the anxious generation, that's really about

018a lot of what it talks about is why why social media is bad for kids and 16. So, if that's something that you're interested in, uh, look for that message coming up. I think one of the local school districts is also doing it for parents. >> I don't remember which school district, but I believe CISA3 is putting that on. >> Oh, I don't platform or pointer someone. Yeah, >> I I am planning on highlighting things throughout the year in my parent messages from that book referencing it. Well, maybe what Julie just said if that was something that is available to send the parents. I I don't know that it is, but >> I think they're coming into a school district and inviting parents in into person. >> Yeah. >> I have a question. So, is

019there an exception process? For example, I know um just personally individuals that are diabetic and they have to have their phone with them. >> Yep. We we actually have a couple students that I already know that have um exceptions, medical exceptions, and they will because because of their um medical need, they monitor um one is diabetic and one is there's a different seizures. Um and because of that, they they have to have them. And um I I'm I'm hopeful that with nobody else being able to have a phone, those students will have a little more pressure on them that I mean if they're using it other than for their medical need. I'm sure that there are going to be students that are going to call them out on it. >> Yeah. If there's an OI

020or or an IEP that trumps any policy, >> it's written into an IEP or a 504. Yeah, we also have some uh students with IEPs that use phones. They're usually stripped. The only thing on them is like a communication device instead of carrying around like a big clunky iPad. Um but that would be on their IEP as well. >> Thank you, Chris. Is there any other questions regarding the cell phone or his report? >> All right, we'll move to Whitney for special ed. >> Yes. Uh Chris, Jason, and myself have worked on the August inservice schedule, and we're excited to provide a variety of professional development sessions. Uh a few things that we're providing is classroom work time, which is always important. Um some 2526 school year expectations and along with some other special education

021information, and then of course our mandatory trainings that every staff member has to do. So, we're excited to do those trainings with our staff. uh district pair of professionals attended the third annual paraprofessional summit yesterday. Uh this is the first year our paraprofessionals have gone. Majority of our paras attended. The summit focused on love and logic strategies. Love and logic is a classroom management designed to help educators create a positive learning environment while teaching students responsibility, self-regulation, and problem solving skills. Some of the key principles are shared control, shared thinking and decision-making, natural consequences, empathy before consequences, building positive relationships. Some strategies in the classroom that they were um informed of were enforcable statements, delayed consequences, setting limits with choices, using empathy and not anger. Um I did speak to a couple of the parents

022and they really enjoyed it. they felt like they got a lot of like quick kind of tips and tricks and have more tools in their tool belt for that. So, I'm excited and I hope that's something we can continue with them. Cuba City Elementary School has a full fence. I am so excited for this. Um, some of the reasons I'm excited, the biggest one is safety. Um, especially for our younger learners. Um, this will allow for all of our students to participate in free play during recess. In the past, without a full fence, some groups of our students were unable to experience the playground as safety concerns were too high. A few of these concerns were alopment, students lacking skills and spatial awareness. This change will allow for all of our students to experience the

023playground while also being safe. So, we're very excited for that one. Uh, finally, schedule, schedule, schedules. Jason and I have worked on schedules continuously this summer and we are hopeful, fingers crossed, that we have a good grasp on it. Um although schedules are never really truly set and we have some minor tweaks throughout the school year, we are happy to have the overall picture set in place and we're hopeful that this schedule can carry year after year, but with our growing population, we know that that may not be a possibility. Can you describe what a schedule is? >> What do you mean by that? >> Uh, so we I'm trying to think how many we had. I numbered them. I think we had at least seven >> seven or eight schedule meetings throughout the summer.

024So what we started with is we started setting lunch and recess for um 4K to fifth grade. And then once we had that set, then we threw in our encore. So, gym, music, PE, and library. And then once that was set, then we threw in our big win times. And then we did something a little different this year. We decided um because then you have to put in ELA, math, recesses, all of that. And I finally looked at Jason and I said, "We don't live this. Let the teachers decide what they as long as they're getting their instructional minutes in. Let them decide how they want to fill that time." So then we sent out emails to our staff. They gave us back what they thought. We boxed it in. And then once we have

025all of that, then it's just going back and double-checking everything. Um, our elementary staff were amazing and they were very good at providing constructive feedback and just kind of letting us know like, hey, this time does not align with this time and I'm double booked. And so a few of those things that we had to change. Um, and then after that, then it was kind of creating an outline for like our interventionist and other support staff. And then once all that was done, then I could start creating some of the PAR schedules. So, >> so it's a big puzzle. >> I was going to say, you must be good at puzzle. >> There was some days I'm like, I think we just need to walk away. >> But I say kudos to you for letting

026your frontline people make have a large part of that decision making process. That's huge >> and just >> it's good for them. >> Yeah. So, good job on that. >> Thanks. >> Yeah. So, then on Monday, I'll go through all of the PAR schedules with my paras and they're also very good at giving me some feedback and then we'll tweak as we need. Um I typically like to meet with them every quarter just because again they live it. So sometimes might not overlap or I might be missing something or need support somewhere else and then we just tweak throughout the year. So >> thank you. >> Yeah. >> Any other questions for Whitney? >> Heather business report. >> Uh update on the 2526 budget. Um at the end of July we were only 8% through

027our fiscal year. Um, and we had spent about 4 and a half% or a little less than 500,000 um, of our $500,000 of our fund 10 budget. Um, with new staff being hired, adjustments are being made to the 2526 budget. It's ongoing and those changes are being reflected with staffing and um, operational needs. Uh earlier this week, the district received a preliminary estimate for equalize property valuation. The current estimate that we received is showing an eight and um an 8.9% increase and the state average growth was a little over 8%. Included in our increase is $8 million in new construction, which can be thought um of like new taxpayers. That $8 million that's new taxpayers that will bear the district or will bear a portion of the district's tax levy. In typical years, excluding a

028few years where we had um high inflation, the district normally sees between like four and 5% growth. Um, and if you're wondering what does equalize property valuation, like what does that have to do with the district and how like what does that have to do with money? Um, it is a critical component of the district's revenue limit worksheet and it impacts our fund 10 budget and the district's taxing authority. Um, and then on October 1st, we will receive our final uh evaluation, but right now it's looking at uh 8.9%. Um, which is higher than anticipated. So, that's wonderful. Um, an update on fund 49, um, which is our referendum checking account. In the month of July, our total revenue was $1224,285.88. Our expenses were uh $124,184.70 and our balance at the end of the month

029was $5,7538. Um last week we had um auditors on site for our annual district audit. Um while they're no longer on site, they're still working through all the fieldwork um all their fieldwork and they're still requesting additional documentation. Um the preliminary feedback that I received from the auditors before they went is uh it went really smoothly and they're really happy with what they're seeing. Um and we will get a final report later this fall and the district will not need a single audit this year um because the district's uh federal revenue was below the 750,000 threshold. So we did have a few years where single audits were required and that's where like co the years where we received co money. >> That's all I have. >> Any questions on Heather? Have all of the 2425

030expenses been paid? >> Um, that I'm aware of as of today. Can that change tomorrow? Sure. Can >> Yes. >> Any other questions? >> All righty. Erin, superintendent report. >> Okay. I first want to extend my appreciation to everyone who has shown flexibility this summer to work with spaces and schedules and access to our buildings. This includes not only our summer staff but also students and parents. Uh your cooperation cooperation has allowed us to keep projects on track and we're now in a strong position to welcome staff back next week and students following week. Um that's contrary to the current rumor that I heard that we're starting virtual. Uh Brad and I have never talked about that a day ever starting virtual, but someone started that rumor out there. That is not true. We will

031be ready for kids. Uh we are sure of it. I don't know where that started. >> Um and then uh school safety. Want to thank our our police department here in Cuba City uh for meeting with us actually today. And we're going to actually have a school safety meeting once a month. Uh we'll be right inviting St. Rose because as Julie knows sometimes it's a singleton over there. you're the only person over there and sometimes it's good to have brainstorming. And so we're going to just have a a regular recurring monthly meeting and talk about different things and talk about different situations. If this happens, what are we going to do? Just to make sure that we're all on the same page as much as we can and everything that we plan for, then something

032else will h will happen outside of the things that we plan for. But uh we think it's it's better for everybody if we meet together on a regular basis. So, thank you for uh Chicago or Chicago Cuba City Police Department. I don't know why we're >> similar in size. I get it. >> I'm sure they have they have uh different priorities for Chicago, but thank you for setting up those meetings and committing to working with us. Um the next thing before I'm going to hand it over to Brad here is just something on the state budget and local impact. So, we're going to have to address the recently adopted state budget and impact on the Cuba City School District. While the budget does provide important increases in special education funding, which will establish a new

033baseline for the next banium budget, does not include additional general state aid to offset our reliance on local property taxes. So, we're just going to have to know that and we're going to have to keep trying to communi communicate that. So here are the the takeaways that one of the organizations that I belong to um for for um for being a superintendent said, "Hey, here are some key things here. Of the $1.37 billion in new spendable revenue for schools, uh 760 million or 55.3 of those dollars come directly from local property taxes. So if you hear our state legislators touting $1.37 billion in spendable dollars, 55% of that comes from local property taxes. So please know that. All right. Uh state support for public schools will or uh yeah state support for public schools be

034reduced by an additional 169 million over the benium to fund voucher schools. We don't have any in our area and it's important everybody knows our local proial schools are not about are not voucher schools. It's not going to them. Uh it's going to mainly big city schools that anybody can start a voucher school. And for Cuba City, this effectively shifts approximately over $200,000 in funding away from state revenue onto our local taxpayers. So last April, we said, "Hey, if you pass this, this is what our general mill rate is going to be." Now, we're going to try really hard to try to make that happen. But when the state withholds $200,000, that's difficult. And so, it's very important that all of you know and anybody watching and anybody in the audience knows they've never done

035that before. Uh, this was retaliatory and that's how politics are. The governor vetos something and says, "Okay, you get $325 more for the next 400 years." The next year, the state says, "Fine, you can do that, but we're not providing funding." that comes out of local property taxes. That That's what happened. And um we've got to keep that in mind. And we know what we promised our community and we're going to try to see if there's a way that we can get close to that knowing that we're getting $200,000 less. And we don't want to cut some of those things that we said if if this passes, we're going to bring these things back. So, just know there's going to be a lot of work in that. And and we all need your support in

036understanding that in case people ask questions. Before I hand it over to Brad, I try not to use four-letter words at board meetings, but we have a FEMA update. Um, okay. So, there was a lawsuit by 20 different states suing FEMA basically saying, "Hey, these projects were green flagged. They were appropriated by Congress. And this was three year three three years ago. They said yes. Uh we were named in that. We were not notified until we sent out there's about a 75page document. Um and Cuba City was one whole page of that 75. Um and so that is going into the courts. And the reason I bring that up is we talked last month about wanting to know the next projects that we're going to do with our available funds for the referendum. We wanted

037to have that done by November or December. So then we can get it all scheduled, get everything drawn, get the products and the labor on a timeline and get going. I have to bring this to you. I don't think FEMA is going to be done by November or December. And so that might mess with our timeline. Um, so what that would look like for us, because I know some of you, maybe some of you at home that are are watching might say, "Forget FEMA. Let's just move ahead with what we're doing." It's we have a a 12% match. So if what that means is let's say we would have to put in a change order and said we already started our gym but we would like to build a performing arts center at our school

038and it would be back the end of this this hallway probably that that area closer for elementary school kids which is good. Um but if we built a $10 million center performance center that would mean that we'd have to pay $1.2 million of that 10. So that's the match. So I bring that up. We're not making any decisions tonight, but I want to let you know. I don't know when that will be looked at. I don't know when that decision will be made. Uh but it's something that we're going to probably have to deal with one way or the other. So right now there's just a stay that just says everything stays as is until it's it's gone through the court. And I I don't have any idea on the timeline of that. And I

039think to to clarify at least what that means to me is is out of the pot of money that we would have left in either interest or being under budget out of that pot we'd have to save for instance 1.2 million out of that and not spend it on other projects to be able to do a performing the arts center. >> Yep. Now remember FEMA pays for the structure not anything in it. So we we'd probably have to say maybe two and a half to be honest because it doesn't pay for the chairs. It doesn't pay for the the sound and lights. Uh it pays for basic lights but not like lights you want at a performance center. So that that's it's probably twice of that if it's 1.2 is probably 2.4 2.4 >> would

040be robust performing arts center because you would have it on emergency generator backup things that are required. >> It has to be big enough to to protect everybody that's within that half mile too. So, it would be a very big performing arts center. And >> I think to Gary's end, you know, the simple math of it is if you take 5 million that we have available in your choosing projects, you're going to really spend five to get five in value, >> right? They're they're going to be dollar for-doll value of what a turf field or a addition of something else. In their case, you're taking 2 million and leveraging it to an eight or$9 million project. It's not insignificant. It's literally another referendum. So, you could spend 1.5 or two of that five and get

041an eight or $9 million project out of it. So, I wouldn't take it lightly. There's a time limit. Obviously, we thought we would have permission from FEMA two years ago to do the gym and we're three years later and finally got to know, you know, back in February. So, it's kind of gut-wrenching to sit through it, but the upside for all of you guys is we have extra money. We've never had a conversation here about things came in over budget. What are we There's lots of schools that sit after referendums and talk about what are we going to cut? We can't do this. We can't do this. We We're talking about what can we add? What more can we do for the district? It might be prudent to wait it out. Possi's in the same

042boat. >> And because I have to say this every time we talk about it, this These dollars can only be used on projects that were stated in the referendum question. We can't use them for anything else. We can't use it for operating. That would be illegal. We've looked into that because that was the first thing that I thought of, first thing that a lot of you thought of was, hey, can we use this to offset this and that? And I checked with our legal counsel. No, that that's a operating referendum, not a capital referendum. So, this has to be used on capital projects. >> Is there a timeline that that money has to be spent by? >> Yeah. What we found out is there isn't any. So, beginning in November, um what we what we

043can't do, the reason everybody says you have to have every dollar spent within three years really isn't a DPI rule or a state rule. It's a it's a federal accounting rule. You only have three years to to allocate all those funds from a referendum where you can still collect interest on it on on those non-spent dollars. So in November, we can't every dollar we get to interest just goes back to the IRS and we have a specific company that handles that. So we don't um you know pay too too little or too much for that. >> The upside of that is you got to collect millions before you have to start giving it all back. So the delay hasn't hurt you. I think we've talked about that in the past. >> Are we fully staffed?

044>> I just told you that. I have been told by our admin team that I cannot ask that question. >> You can put it on a piece of paper and pass a note over to me and I'll write my answer. Say it out loud. Tomorrow morning, one of these people sitting to the left and to the right of me are going to tell me that we have a resignation. We are not fully staffed. We are we have we have an opening >> one parah educator school. Um, just so you guys know, >> and we're interviewing for that on Monday. Hopefully we can we're hoping to fill that by the end of the day on Monday. And um, >> yeah, I would like to be done then. >> All right. Sorry. >> I told I just

045told Megan like, "You can't ask me that question. They're going to yell." >> Right after Megan asked it the last time and Erin said it a few weeks ago. >> I said it first. >> He said it first and we got two and then Megan said something. got one. And so, >> one thing to keep in mind is Act 10 really created kind of a a marketplace where people can can say, "Well, this is what I make here. I'm going there's an opening there. I'm going to go over there and see if I can see if I can get $8,000 more for my family." And that that does happen. Um, and we're going to try to offset that with something later we're that we are going to act on and coming up with a really

046solid salary schedule to try to make sure that doesn't happen as much. But know that that's what Act 10. It was an unintended consequence and we don't blame teachers for going out and doing what's best for their family. Although we want to keep the good ones here, you know, as long as we can. So, uh, whenever we have that that discussion, we try to not use the term fully staffed, just so you guys know. All right. So, the rest um of my report I'm going to hand over to Brad. Brad, are we going to do a walking tour? >> If if they would like to, we certainly can. I'll I'll kind of talk through first. So, much has happened. >> I gave Tina a heads up. She's aware that we might be ready. >> So,

047much has changed since uh a month ago in our meeting. Um as Jason reported, I think we are nearly 100% at the elementary school. We got you a pretty new 4K classroom that turned out really neat. Um, we modified the library as needed, added some carpet, took out a back storage room to give her more room for her library. And um, so I think that Germaine has been working this week on just making sure all the lights are switching correctly because we split the ceilings up and some of those types of things. I was going to add uh to Jason's um, but Whitney already came into that too. We also on top of the inside we added a fence. So, um you have a complete safe enclosure all the way around. We also added some

048concrete to get the little basketball players out of the mud um at the end. So, uh and if you notice, we restriped the parking lot. That happened two years ago already um as part of the first go round in this referendum and it just kind of fades early on the new asphalt. So, we have it all spruced up. Um so, I think we're done over there. uh here uh as you see from last time the parking lot's been all black topped striped so everybody does understand uh that is what's called the binder course there is a surface layer that will go onto this but because of all the construction activity I didn't want to risk damaging it and having your surface so um we striped what is out there is temporary it'll have to be

049restriped once we lay the final black top and my hope is that we're far enough along at the end of next summer to go ahead and do that so that it's permanent when the kids come back for the 26th school year. Um, as you see, we made some changes out here. Um, a lot of ad living this summer as well, too. We added a sidewalk coming in because this is going to be your main entrance. There was some water issues in there. If you notice, we took the downspout off the side of the school. Looks much better. We rerouted it over to the side. Um, we took away the ground kind of gutter that was right in front of the high school. There was a steel plate that went across your sidewalk. I think part

050of the reason your parking lot deteriorated so badly is it was pushing all that water from the roof onto the parking lot and it is super flat through this end of it and I think it ponded a lot. Said a lot of water. So we added a storm box took it directly to the city storm sewer. So now all of that roof water does not pass through your parking lot. Uh the little turnaround or the exit area is finished that the surface coat, but do remember that the rest of the high school lot does get mil and a new surface layer from there north. Um again, probably do it when we do that next summer and we're done with construction traffic. Um, one of the things I did want to mention to everybody is I

051think Juliet asked at the last meeting about what happens when we get blacktop and we get these big rains and then we'll know what is happening in our storm water pond. I was here, let's say that was two Sundays ago. It cannot rain harder than it was raining when I was here. I mean, it was downpouring. I drove down. I watched the lot. It is taking all the water. Keep in mind that the roof of the new gym, which is significant, um does not go to the pond. That water does not have to be cleaned per the DNR because it doesn't have the salt and the dirt and the things that parking lots get. So, there is a pipe that runs under the baseball field that goes directly to the storm ditch that the city

052drains to. That is where that pipe comes up and will collect the roof water from the gym. So, what the pond gets right now is what the pond gets. After that rain, I washed it. It's It's coming out of that 18 24 in pipe and it was like a fire hose. There was at least 3 ft of available head above. You can see the debris line that was around it. By the next day, the pond was drained. That's what's supposed to happen. That pond is supposed to build water. >> It's supposed to slowly let it out to to clean it. And it's it's clearing itself on all of these huge storms. It's clearing itself within 24 hours. So if there's questions or concerns that come from the community, this is like every pond in every

053community around. It's near the fire station in Possi. They're mowed like grass. They look like lawn most of the time unless you're summer of 2025, but now it's wet and they can't mow it. But it builds water in theory as tall as the burm. Um, in the the worst case scenario, it would just go over the top of the burm and down to the the uh drain ditch, but it's draining itself well. It's it's literally functioning exactly the way it's supposed to. So, I just want you guys to be comfortable. It's supposed to build water. It should take a day or so for it to filter itself down. And in a normal summer, they'd probably be mowing that pond like it's just not been a normal summer. So outside, I think we're wrapped up. Inside

054since the last meeting, um we've gotten all lockers delivered, installed. U three semi- loads of furniture. Um that's all set up for the most part in the classrooms. When the teachers come back next week, they'll be arranging their classrooms. All the flooring's done. The rubber floor showed up. Super nervous about that. Um they have just a little bit to do in front of the bathrooms to t make sure those two floors tie in. So just a little bit of tile work. We have all the toilet fixtures. All the fixtures are in. The toilet partitions will be done Friday um and cleaned up. I think next week you you'll see some of the accent painting going on and uh Chad is finishing just some of the last year display areas and display cases and minor touch-ups.

055So, I expect to be cleaned up Friday and just help the teachers next week. Little minor touch-ups. We uh the doors delivered. Uh unfortunately had some manufacturing issues. We're making them making the adjustments and making it work. But we will get 15 brand new doors in a few weeks that we'll have to replace again because they messed up. But we will make it work. Um so that the teachers are the doors function like they should. And uh most people wouldn't know if we didn't tell you that or I didn't tell you that, but um they weren't manufactured correctly. So those things we have to deal with. There is a small accent tile, a little gold band that goes through the bathrooms. um they were out of they shipped everything they had that's on back order.

056Um we'll just be without those little bands for a couple weeks till they show up and we'll do that in the evening or on a Saturday morning uh to complete that. But I think you'll all agree it turned out or is turning out fantastic in there. It looks bright and professional. the ceilings, the uh it was pouring the other morning and the sound is monumentally different um inside from the rain when you speak the carpet, all of that stuff. >> It's much better. You can still hear it, but you can hear what it rains in your house, too, you know? So, it's it's not like it's not a soundproof room, but it is much better. >> And it looks professional in there now. The carpet turned out great. The furniture is I've heard some people

057that come in. My wife came over with me Saturday and we picked up some garbage and you know had a nice couple day you know working at Q. She made she made the comment that they look like college classrooms, you know, just the way they're set up. And >> so when we go up there, remember our teachers have not been in that's next week. >> And we tried to it's about 50/50 on the in service days. 50 50% of the time is about teacher work time and 50% is other stuff. So they're going to have time. But when you go up there, if you're thinking why are all these nothing's unpacked? Yep. Our teachers are still summer. So So we do not want them to come back. >> There's a lot of boring work to

058do. like said some touch-ups that we have to do yet, but very confident uh all of that will be completed by Friday. >> On the going south on this uh eastmost section, there was a couple areas where cones and there was like there was something raised. >> So those are the like storm water like you see in the streets covers. >> Yes. So they ramp up around them so that the snow plow won't hit them and we don't probably need to leave the cones on them, but that will be flushed up with that surface coat. So they're sitting at what will be the final height for black top, but right now we're an inch and a half below that. So they ramp around them. That's pretty common. >> So that's what the cones are for

059is just to kind of warn people that. But >> don't bottom. >> They they have they have put black top around it to kind of ramp it and so you won't like likely hit it with your car. But >> and I noticed we put the string around that retaining pond. Are we going to continue to keep that or we have a different plan for that or what's the >> I saw the email that came through from the concerned >> community member. So I'm just wondering if that's >> So nobody really f Well yes that's what we're planning on doing is keeping that up there. >> Um >> and we were unaware of anyone that used a permanent fence because if you use a permanent fence you have to go around the whole area and that's

060like a thousand ft of >> I've seen it small. If you think of like Platville, the old Kmart, it's the U-Haul building now. They have one down in the corner, but it's really steep and it's small and they put a fence around it. So, you see it sometimes in retail, but just to give you an an idea, I know that Aaron spoke to local police and, you know, messages about parents with their kids and like it's probably not the best idea to have your kids and play in a storm water pond. Um there has been apparently a a drowning in some place in the state of Wisconsin at some point in time from a storm water pond. I don't really know the background of it, but we had an absolute downpour in Possi the night

061of catfish days. And the pond at the fire department is like this. It's just looks like a yard. It's mowed like grass. It had this much water in it after that. And guess what? There was four or five kids down there playing in the pond. I It has no fence around it. >> Since we put the rope up, we have not >> had anybody report that it's been >> Yes. >> used as a swimming pool. >> Yeah. >> So, that helps. >> I think that's your your call ultimately. If you guys want to leave a a rope, you know, that was the legal advice is, you know, mark it off and put some signs and something. Maybe they can just pull it up when they mow, >> then just stake it back down so it's

062not permanent. I think that's a personal decision. I I think the other ones in the town, they don't have them around in the city and but I I do understand. >> I know where they're at. >> There's a retention pond like >> septic system >> that's on model road. There was a retention pond down there and I mean I drive past it most days and there's nothing there's fence. There's not like >> most places don't have anything. But when I heard that there was a a little child, you know, had an incident there. I might well put a rope up and at least some type of deterrent so people know, oh, I shouldn't let my kids play there. >> So whether it's the rope or some permanent signage that says storm water ponds, you know,

063stay out, something like that. So at least you've gone to the effort of saying >> this can be a dangerous situation. I would say 99% of the time it's not, but >> in the days when it I mean it's potential to have >> you see the capacity of the sidewalls in there, it could at the very end of it have 3 ft of water. a good idea to have signage, especially with baseball games and football track and you know you're watching your kid track and all the kids are running off or whatever. >> I signs I think would be a good idea. >> The only downfall to that is just mowing around them and it's it's a >> it's a comfortable insurance policy to to have that in there if it stops somebody from >>

064I would put the the rope fence up during baseball season especially just be We'll probably put it up during the start of baseball and take it down the end of football. That's probably, you know, we don't have to have enough. >> Yeah. You have a lot of little kids that run back there during football games like every town does. And >> we did put a left field fence to close off the baseball field. So, a player cannot run after a foul ball and run down into the the pine. So, that is closed off. We did that right after baseball season. So, right field is not left field is closed off. That's what coach Graver wanted. So that was also done at December as well. >> I would agree. I think the signage would be good.

065I mean, be it whatever they do in different parts of the town, but this is a school area, you're likely to have more visitors, more kids, more I mean, just it's going to save any legal concerns on the road. Number one, safety, you know, just I think that would be benefiting. >> I I would be supportive of that as well, too. It's just an extra step. But I just wanted you to know it's functioning the way it's supposed to function. That is the way it should operate. You >> want to give a quick guided torch? Sure. All right. >> We did move the two ladies back this week, too. So, the library is no longer the the high school district office. I'm good. >> Can I don't I can see what I'm >> otherwise I

066don't know where I'm >> going to get sick watching. >> GoPro wasn't an option. >> Well, if I would have known I would have charged her up. >> Do you Oh, is this a leg? >> Mhm. So I can carry that not you sure >> the work starts here at this edge block so we don't have multi colors of blocks throughout the corridor. This is the women's bathroom. If you hear the noise in there you actually have working exhaust fans now. We discovered along the way that those have not worked for apparently years, including some of the heating units. So, we need to fix those. If you guys want to step in, this is the I was talking about. They were painting the ceiling today. So, plastic everywhere. That doesn't mean it's not ready. It

067just means they didn't want to get paint on. If you do want to step in though and just see what those bathrooms look like, feel free. I don't know how you do that. You have your vision on a monitor here. So obviously we went from single tier blue lockers to double tier black they are 15 in wide 12 in wide with backpacks and things today but by doing that and creating some of these bench areas for the kids and the displays and the media walls Um if we had gone 15 full height, we've been well short of the number for the number of students you have in high school. So as you see uh remove the VCT floor. This is rubber. Uh does not need to be waxed. Um fairly cushiony to walk on. Um

068and you can kind of see as you go down the the rooms are all the DCT was taken out and that is a um robust carpet tile in there. Now it's called kinetics. Is that similar to what is in your middle school cleaning? Um, you know, down there finishing up the accents at the doors with your black going on vacation. the long time I've seen any of these rooms are what you can see for the ceiling the kinds of the chairs and stuff table in the classroom. No. >> Yeah. See signs that used to hang out. She was a struggle. >> No, I'm good. Watch the other one last [Music] time. Yeah. [Applause] >> Yeah. I only ask >> anybody questions in here. It's got a really nice courts and they finished doing some seaming

069today and some touchup from Mountaintop and um but obviously the the now you come in and you walk in front of them instead of walking around behind them and yeah closed off the room and made it more of a working room than a big open area looking >> I can't hear my office anymore. used to that. >> Yeah. A pro and a >> thank you for being flexible. >> Yeah, that's the official like we have that down like if you feel it. It's much more different. >> Yeah, it's meant to clean. So we did we did do we took out those banks of lockers that were in there and that is one of your like displays not necessarily trophies and stuff but just things there is some pretty good branding for She's supposed to know

070[Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. One final uh quick thing. give you guys update on which is pretty exciting. The new part um since the last one I did get both masonry and roof are taken care of now. They're both come a little under the budget I showed you. So we're still tracking in the right direction. The rebar for the concrete foundations uh is delivering next week and right after Labor Day, we'll start digging holes and start pouring concrete. So uh safety fence is going up tomorrow. So we'll have that ahead of the football game Friday. We'll get some of the the branding that we had talked about to hang on that sign so people can start seeing that. Um, but we'll have the fence up tomorrow and Friday morning to keep people from walking

071across there directing to where the tickets are going to be taken. So, so exciting times now at the the new addition is really it's in that paper stage right now. Lots of submitts coming in. All the structural steel is being reviewed by the engineer right now. When that comes back, they'll start fabricating that. the same with your big pre-cast wall panels. All those drawings and submitts and stuff are working through the engineers and through the process right now. So, we'll get started on the concrete foundations and by the time we're done with that, let's say early October, we should be starting to see the mason on site, start to lay block walls, which will be neat to be able to see that coming up and then hopefully uh in November see the pre-cast panels and

072stand them up. So, so Christmas time. >> So, that would be the footings in essence. uh for the whole structure that you were going to pour. >> Yeah, they'll start we'll start in the corner for the district, you know, and work our way out of where it adds up into the corner here with the district office and then work our way out. That's also mostly where the mason has to lay walls. The gym itself is all pre-cast wall panels. So, we'll kind of work along the east wing, which is the office, and then into the wrestling room and then the fitness center with the block walls. And that should start in October. Thank you for having me. Great work. >> All righty. Moving on to discussion. Uh district mascot ideas from the branding subcommittee. >>

073Right. >> I can share. >> Okay. >> You two can chime in. Right ahead. Okay. >> So, um we met as a committee after our last meeting and took feedback and realized that it's extremely difficult to define a few and almost impossible. So, um we went back to the drawing board and I'm going to compare what we're aiming for to like a pioneer peak. We're not looking to put any mascot on a wall or anything, but more dialing it back down and um creating a mascot, a character, and we we called it Captain Cuban, so gender neutral. Um to kind of represent like a super or a superheroish type um with our new logos and um Aeron's working with a couple of different vendors now like just on different ideas. We don't have it all

074pulled together, but talk about just a lot of different ideas that we can, you know, have have it show up at football games, get kids engaged at parades, go down to the elementary school, and just get them excited for school spirit. So, um, that's kind of the path we're going down. Either of you add a weed away from feedback and really just tried to simplify the whole thing, you know, and just look at it. Maybe we were overthinking on what we wanted this to look like. So really like Sarah said more along lines of the Pioneer Pier like Pete like a presence like there's just going to be there to get everybody engaged whether it be at a 4K event whether it be at a a sporting event like Sarah at the parade. Um but

075not necessarily I could be wrong but not necessarily like we're not looking for the branding piece of it all. It's just a present like this is just going to be what repres you know Captain Cuban >> and I think it's building on what we're already doing here >> um as a school district. We already have a lot of people who are the hip hip hurray people um but making that image just consistent throughout the district. So, right now we just kind of had some AI help with that, like what could this look like? And kind of looked like a cross between Captain America and Batman. Those are the the two. Um, and just, you know, as a character that would be fun for kids. >> Um, so, um, I've contact reached out to two different

076companies that build mascot characters back from either one of them. When we do when we get an idea of timeline and things, we'll probably have another branding committee together and and talk about those possibilities. >> I think as a committee, we were just looking to bring this to the board to say yes, we like it. Can we go and move forward with it? I think we were just looking at a um go ahead movement. >> I I love the idea. I really appreciate all the time and effort you've put into it and I love the direction of just going with like kind of a spirit leader rather than tying it to a specific identity I guess. >> Thank you for that. >> I heard go ahead. >> Yeah. Okay. >> All right. Perfect. >> All

077righty. Leaving us to the district activity pass options. >> Yep. So, this is something that we've talked about in the past and um last month we talked about it and you guys said uh come back with a few different options. So, one is just keeping it the same. So, we're talking about student passes right now. Right now, high school students pay $50 for registration and some of that is earmarked for their student pass. elementary and middle school students don't um get a pass and they pay at the gate and kids five and under are free. So option one would be just to keep it the same. Option two um we just say all Cuba City School District students get in free of charge. That would mean um everybody gets a student ID and you know

078kids grades 6 through 12 can get in their their ID. Kids 4K through fifth grade would be free of charge with an ID, but they'd have to be with a parent. And it's not one kid per parent. Like if a if a mom wants to bring their child to an event and they have three kids, there's a parent for all of them. Um and then there was talk about what do we want to do for our private school kids because we do see those kids those are part of our schools. Um, we could have the option of private school kids could just have a annual pass for $25. They they have a pass and they that gets them to as many games as they want to. Um, and then kids age five and free are

079still or five and under are still free. Uh, option three, we talked about all students get in free from our school and from other school uh schools. I haven't seen any schools do this. Um, but those are the three options that we talked about last month kind of put to paper. Um, for adult passes, we did talk about having a season pass, like a fall pass or a winter pass. The problem is like last year we had eight home volleyball games. This year we have four. And so we'd be constantly changing, you know, what that is. My suggestion would be if you want to go with an annual pass, um, I saw that Darlington and Dodgeville, I think last week did the same thing. I think theirs were about the same as ours. Like $75

080gets you in to all home events that you want to go to. It's just an adult pass. Um, and then senior passes. Obviously, they that wouldn't change. If you're 65 or older and you come in and get a senior citizen pass, then you get in for free. So, those are some of the things we talked about, put on paper. My recommendation would be we go with option two where students get in with their student ID and elementary school kids. Um, they do have to be with a with an adult. um and just for somebody to watch over them because we're supervising a lot of things at the games, but we don't want to be um you know having to hire more additional workers to supervise those kids who would rather playing in the hallway than

081watch the game. >> So, any discussion about those? >> I agree with the parental um presence with the pre with the elementary students. I still struggle with the the I actually don't struggle with charging all students under high school a $25 fee for an activity fee for the year for as many events as they want to go to. But I do struggle with isolating out the parochial schools only because they participate in our athletic events. They are wrestling with our wrestlers. They are um we've had to have them play basketball on the basketball teams last year with they play football. they they are part of just the district just as much as any other athlete is and they are the ones who are going to participate in high school athletics as well. So I struggle

082with that piece and I think it just has to be uniform for any student in those schools. I would say you know if you're going to charge a $25 fee to them then charge a $25 fee for everyone if we're not charging our students in as part of a registration fee. if we're going to try to collect a little bit on that. I just feel like we we include them in so much already and they're part of our community, too. I just don't know why we would isolate that. >> That's my personal opinion, >> right? The answer is because they don't pay registration fee like all of our other students do. I think >> does that registration fee include is that is their registration fee that they're paying does that include an activity? You know,

083like our the high school, you said $50 as their student pass to get in. Is that true for a registration fee for other students? >> Well, that they pay one and then it's it's earmarked for for different thing. High schools always said, "Well, the reason yours is twice as much as middle school is because that gets you in free to all events." Um, I don't think we could change registration or increase registration fees. Right now, it's too late. A lot of people have already registered, >> right? But could you just charge a $25 fee across the board for all students? >> You certainly >> want a stu let want a student pass to get into events. >> I I do think there has to be some payment for students that don't go to school here.

084So if you want to do that for for HSC St. Rose and for our middle school and increase for middle school registration, I think it's too late for this year, but that's something we could do next year. >> Aaron, could you read to please? Option two was um all students get in with a student ID. Show your ID. And that's the other thing is um the private schools I don't know do they have student IDs? >> Yeah, >> they don't. So like if they they would need a physical some type of physical card. Um >> either that or take a picture and have that on your phone. Um other student students from other districts pay the normal gate fee. Um and then I had private schools who live in the QC school district. So that's

085really just St. girls in HGIC can buy a student pass for $25 from the office and then kids age five and under are free. >> Do students fifth grade and under have ID? >> I think we have K12, right? >> We have them. It's not been distributed. >> We've gotten them but just not >> So does that mean that they would get them then? >> They would get them. Yeah. The parents take a picture of it because >> a kindergarters not Julie, when you said that like St. Rose or other people come over and do like that, is that part of Cuba City or like so like basketball players from St. Rose would come and play on the Cuba City team >> last year? They did. >> They did. So in St. Rose didn't have

086a team. >> So when the private schools when St. Rose doesn't have enough to field the team, >> then we always allow them to come join our teams. So they they never have a track team. So they can come over and run track. >> Yep. >> You know, um there have been years, I don't know if they have for volleyball or not, but >> had to for volleyball, but they come over for cross country, track, football, and last year they came over for girls basketball. St. Rose, which the same would go if HJIC couldn't field a volleyball or basketball team, >> they're allowed to come. >> And wrestling. Did you say wrestling? >> And w I'm sorry. And you're right. And wrestling. >> So I guess I just struggle with we have so many students

087that participate. say wrestling and then they want to go watch their high school wrestlers and we're going to charge them for participating in the same program that they are that someone else a peer is also participating in but doesn't have to pay I understand they go to school here but again that is their future that's what their aspiration is and we're encouraging them to go to those games I mean >> I think it's in my opinion, I think it should just be consistent. If we are going to charge a middle school, then let's charge a middle school at St. Rose. If we're not going to, then let's not charge it at St. Rose. I guess that would be my thought. >> But you said we can't change it for this year. So, does this year

088need to be different than future years? >> I think it would be rough to change registration fee right now. Taking care of that. >> When they come over to play, do they have to pay an activity fee like our kids do? >> Yes, they do. Okay. >> Okay. So, if we're not going to change regist registration this year and we're going to allow this, then I think we should also allow it for them. >> You could just say you could just say we're going to have a K through eight for $25. You can get an annual a youth pass. >> That's what I would personally suggest. >> Just for for anybody at any of the schools. that >> something you may want to consider both middle school and with prochio schools is if they participate

089in a sport, they pay that activity fee. They don't get charged anything. But if you have somebody middle public school or parochial that doesn't do any activity, we charge them the $25 for the >> for the pass. >> I'm just thinking, please take a take. Is there a percentage of students at the pros that come to Cuba for sports? Would you say >> I would say overall I think you're well St. Rose especially I think you're talking close to oh a lot of them >> from grade there's a lot of kids at the football games when they're I mean from both St. Rose and I think >> a lot of them have siblings that are you know that are participating. Are you saying do they come to the watch or are they part >> participating?

090uh participating in it. >> A good number participate I would say too. >> Now that we added football, >> I would say I would say if you like football last year um that are also in those seventh and eighth grade football, they're in cross country >> like over 50%. >> Definitely way more than that. Probably like >> with like >> I would say probably 90% of the like again if we look at the boys I would say probably 90% of the students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade are doing cross country, wrestling or football or track >> at least if not 100%. >> Yeah. >> And they all play that activity. >> Yep. >> And yeah, they pay the activity. >> Girls again is a little because there's fewer options because it depends on what

091teams they have order. If you would charge an activity fee, are you only charging them if they want this or are you charging it across the board? Like that becomes a little administrative if they want it. >> That's why if you just say any any student can get an an annual activity pass for $25, then you then you don't have to worry about charging people who don't want to go. anybody that wants to do the game and like if you're going to go to five or more events the pay >> you're still saying I'm going back to the question with the ones that participate they would not pay them right >> or they already >> I would just charge everybody I mean I'm trying to figure out how you would not >> when they pay

092the registration fee they just they get the pass at that point you just hand them you know they pay the registration fee and then you give them the pass >> because they're in high school wouldn't need to do that because they're already paying for that. Except the problem would be is if they were a wrestler for instance >> or cross let's say track they will have had to pay the entire year up until >> well if I guess if they know that any they have the option of paying that >> ahead of time. >> Yeah. And if they knew that they were getting that pass, we probably would see that. >> I mean, I I think maybe either you make it everybody or everyone pays or nobody pays, especially if there's 90% of people who

093are coming over anyways. >> We're already getting that activity fee, >> right? I mean, we can establish it in 10 years if only 25% now are coming. We can say, "Okay, now the numbers aren't there. We can pay." I just tell you from being at all the girls basketball games last year, there were probably 12 elementary school girls that came to every home game. >> Their parents are going to be very happy that that we're looking at doing this. And then the families that don't come, it's no skin off their back doing it that way. >> And they can still pay for a game if they wanted to, >> you know. Okay. >> It was going to automatically shut down. She got >> She was like bracing to keep the board alive. >> It was

094going to shut down. So >> she did it. She did it. So, is that the way we want to I'll just rewrite it to to basically option one now. High school students pay $50 of registration which includes their pass. Um, all I'll say districtwide and that's St. Rose and HGIC can purchase an annual pass or >> get an annual pass if they pay their >> What was the first part? Sorry. um all districtwide. So when I say districtwide, all the schools within our district, that includes St. Rose and the HISC can purchase an annual pass for $25 >> and that's on top >> that's on top of their registration fee because that's how it is in high school. >> I still think that's fair. >> I think that that's what they do in high school.

095>> It's not unreasonable. I'm just making sure we're on the same page >> because right now they're paying >> when they go anyway, they're paying five whatever it is per game. I mean that >> like you said once you go to five or more games it's it's taken care of >> and it's not a fee that you have to pay. It's a fee you can choose to. >> I still think that can turn out to be >> I don't know. I guess I'm in favor of just eliminating all of it and letting the students in the district in for nothing. >> I don't I wonder how much money we actually make. I would say I try second that because even with you know three or four kids you're talking 100 bucks >> exactly >> right

096out the door if we're I mean we want to try to make it accessible let's just make it >> and if you're talking about one season you have like an relative or you go to one sport like and then you're paying 100 bucks for four kids like it's still >> and they just have St. grows Holy Ghost, make their own passes up and or whatever, show them at the door type thing. >> That's another option. >> I like that idea. >> See how it goes for a year or two or something and make >> everything. I'm sure those schools could get an ID made for those students pretty easily. I just think we >> then in future years would we take $25 away from high school students registration? >> I think you could argue that

097you're in high school and you're there. I don't know. You're you're you're there more often. You're going to all of the sports likely if you're a fan of anything. I don't know. >> There there's no spring sports, are there? >> Edward track. We have the invite. Do they pay to get into the invite? >> Only because it's the invitational and it the Becker invitational. It goes to that family. >> Yeah. >> Tied to it. >> But baseball, softball, there's no no fees >> until you get to the tournament and then we can't the passes don't work at tournament anyway. >> So we have two options. One, everybody pays $25 to get a pass or one we just wave that for all students that have a pass and we'll work with St. Rose and HGIC on

098what their passes can look like. Well, and I think even this Friday, you're not going to have anything for any student, right? Because no one's going to have an ID yet. >> Correct. >> Well, students aren't going to have an ID for pictures until the third Friday. So, our students aren't going to have their IDs until potentially October. football. >> We can print off temporary um that I don't think we have a lot of home events before the third Friday anyway. I think we have three >> if three before that >> October. Yeah. >> Yeah. We just don't have a lot of home events this year. >> Yeah. We we have four home volleyball games and four home football games. That's real. That's really it. >> Volleyball changed their schedule. If anybody knows more than

099me, feel free to correct me. Instead of having you play every team in the conference and then half of them you play a second time. Now you play everybody once. That's it. And that those other half tournament games are reserved for you have more Saturday like tournaments. >> We used to play two two games a week. They're down to one game a week. one well one conference game a week. That other day can be filled with a non-conference game, but there's like five or six Saturdays that they have tournaments on them. >> Oh, wow. >> And they get a lot more games than on Saturdays. >> Well, yeah, I suppose. >> Okay. >> All right. So, I'm I'm hearing you guys leaning towards >> I'm in favor of not charging anyone and we can always

100re-evaluate registration fees next year. >> Okay. Everyone in our district, >> everyone in the district, including ID. >> Yes, it'll come with an ID. You don't get charged. >> And if you have to print IDs with just student ID number or something, we'll temporarily figure it out. >> If anybody was wondering um what we bring in in admissions, it's a little over $70,000 we bring in >> and we don't know how to break that into >> and I Yes. I guess I have no idea how much we don't keep track of that cuz everybody's so >> I wouldn't guess it's 10% of that is students. >> I would >> and keep in mind like some of this is like our visitors, right? >> And those visitors me and those students will still be charged. So

101we could compare like we can compare especially after I mean volleyball probably isn't going to be like a good test since the number of home games are different but football we could look after football season and just see like what was the revenue um like last year it was a little more than $15,000 that we brought in. That includes playoff games though, so keep that in mind. What does the revenue look like after like this evaluate that? I I think that's a great I think it'd be a great idea to compare those numbers maybe on a two-year trajectory like not this year. I can put something on my calendar for like the November. >> Yeah, >> but I think we have to finish the activity pass option yet, right? For the adults. >> Oh yeah,

102for the adults. Um we we had two different Do you want to do a a season by season like fall season and winter season or an annual? I I think >> I've got it. Yep. Um I think we would prefer we just go with an annual pass and just say this 75 bucks and get you into everything that we do. >> That's optional again. They can buy the band the seasonal they can save. >> Yep. So, I did look into Darlington's a little bit and Darlington was doing um it's $40 per season per ticket for a couple for one person and then if a spouse wants on that same pass, it's an additional $20. So, it's $40 for an adult plus the 20 for a spouse to add. >> And they go season by season.

103Oh, it is for the year. >> For the year. >> Oh, it's the annual. I heard season. I thought you said season. >> They're offering an all sports ticket to give entry to all regular season home athletic events at Darlington. >> So, it's $40 and then $20 to add the second ticket for significant others. And I think you you're gonna this is just me. I think you're going to have to set an all year one and not season because just again you just mentioned four volleyball games and I mean it's going to be way too hard to break down what >> per season you know how you would prorate that per you know >> so compared to what 30 basketball games maybe or 15 home games 15 so I mean I don't know how you

104you would be able to do that if you be >> so I'm hearing annual pass but the cost >> I Guess things have changed an awful lot since I first moved to Cuba City when the gym used to be full. Um I know CO and streaming games has really changed that in terms of you know it seems like it's more parents and kids than than the whole community. So I I mean I I don't know that if you change the fees to Darlington's whether that would >> I don't know >> create more people to come or not. I I suspect it may not. Um, again, those parents are have already paid their dues to some degree and they would probably pay a hundred, I guess, if uh because they're going to be here. Um, but,

105uh, at this point, I just, you know, don't know that, uh, if we made a deal like Darlington where there, uh, you know, I wouldn't be opposed to that. I don't know again if uh Aaron has access to anybody else. Are we, you know, probably in the in the ballpark with our 75? >> Well, I just looked at fall and winter combined. Like if you came to every of every home event last year, it would cost you 190 bucks. So that's why I thought I want to have boys and girls together. >> Yep. If you if you went to every home event, that's what it would have been. And I thought nobody goes to every home event, so let's make it less than 50%. >> So I wasn't at the board meeting when this was

106brought up. So, what is the actual goal here? Is the goal to fill the gym and get people there, or is the goal to generate revenue? Because that's two different things to look at, right? Cuz if the goal is to fill a gym, 50 bucks per person or, you know, 20 that that's I think we have to balance it. >> I mean, so 75 seems a little high for me only because like if you're a family that maybe I'm going to go to the football games and I'm going to catch a few basketball games, I might be deterred from doing the 75. But again, I don't know. Um, and from my parents perspective, so we would pay whatever cuz they're going to be going, you know, all this stuff. But >> what if we just

107did 50 a person? >> That just seems like a more round number to me. But I don't know. That's I don't know. Try to keep it simple. >> Do you want to do something like Darlington and say 50 for the first person, 25 for So it's 75 for a couple >> because right now it's 70. >> Darren, do you know what our additions were? Yeah, she said about $17,0007,000. >> So, we don't want to completely eliminate the revenue source. >> So, we're talking about taking away charges for all kids and if we cut adult admissions by >> more than half, >> less than more than half. >> I mean, what >> where's our budget eventually going to hold? >> Where where do we need those admission numbers to be at? Can we if if this

108goes over well and we cut our gate admission to 35,000 are we okay with that? >> We in the referendum that we passed it we would have been planning for this $70,000 in there. So, I think that's important to keep in mind that we did plan. Yes, 40 if we lose $40,000 for $30,000. It may not be that big of a deal, but then that's $30,000 that's coming from somebody else's budget because it's $30,000 less in revenue. So, I think just like Aaron said, I do think it's uh we need to balance it. So, if we cut the kids portion this year and we reassess next summer after seeing the numbers for the what that does, would that mean $5 per I don't think that's unnecessarily unreasonable either. Why don't we be conservative in our

109adult annual pass? And it's optional. You don't have to buy it, but we can see kind of what take rate is. M >> I just think it's going to be really hard to compare. You're going to need almost two years in numbers because you're already talking about volleyball games just in general being cut in half. So that's revenue. I mean a big chunk of revenue right there. I don't know why I'm thinking football games. So there's only what four this year. I mean so that's even going to be hard to compare. I mean you're almost looking I think a couple years of what's the impact going to be you know whatever direction. You know what I mean? The other people the other thing to remember and I don't know if this makes it easier or

110us but one thing that we've talked about before is our community did pass did say yes in that referendum and so if this is an area where we want to provide them something for ease in getting a pass and we lose a little bit I think the board is okay with that. How much? I'm not sure. >> Back to your point of like that is a goal too to get more people in the gym and make it more affordable for >> and I do feel like that's where the original conversation came from is we are we're deterring attendance because I think Julie you had brought up the point if you have a family it adds up very very quickly. But now I'm going to go on the other side of it and say if you

111have a family and you're paying $75 for a season pass and your kids are all now getting in free and that would have been >> you know $25 bucks a pop for to go to a game times that I mean so >> right that might help. >> Well the concern I heard too was from the standpoint of paying for their kids I guess it wasn't for adults not that maybe that didn't exist. Yeah, >> that's and that's where I was going with that. >> Leave adults just said $5 >> because they said the kids then, you know, they paid $5 for them and then they went and spent five at the concession. >> Concession stands, right? I mean, it adds up when you've got young kids. >> Do we want to just say we're just

112going to have student passes this year and we'll re-evaluate adult passes next year? I'd rather have adult passes, but if I'm the only one, then >> I would rather table the adult and just kind of see other students work out and kind of go from there. >> Well, for $50 a ticket though, you're looking at 10 events. Would I mean, if you only have a female participating or that cuts down the total number of events pos I don't know. Yeah, it'd be a great deal if you go to every event, you know, for >> I think it's if you're saying really not charging the kids and adults are going to pay five bucks coming in. I mean, I that's to me that's makes a nice even balance. Like we cut this this year, adults, you

113still pay, but your kids get in free, you know? I mean, >> that would be I would say leave it at the $5 per adult. one. Now, think of bringing your three little kids in that don't want to wait in line because they have passes, but I'm the 20th person in line. I've got to keep them in there so I can pay now because they can't get in without a pay bill. >> That's that's another thing to to keep in mind is is how the flow of the game works. >> You know, where if they had a parent pass and kid pass, they just walk they walk to the side of the and show their passes and they all just go in there. I would know the >> I guess be a little conservative. I

114probably would if we get the kids in for free, we keep the uh >> adult pass adult passes as as it is for this school year. >> And don't your kids get in free with an adult? >> Yes. >> Shouldn't they stay by the adult? >> Yeah. they have to supervise them anyway. >> And I think the numbers how much do you bring in by paying for the adults paying $5 and if it's hold steady or it's real and keep down that trajectory if it's something where or someone has I don't know there's a concern down the road like that's too expensive or paying but I mean I still feel the kids are getting it free. I think that is a huge huge benefit. I don't think other districts do that even. I mean, I

115think that's huge if you have a >> Yeah, >> the little kids are getting in free. The students have the option for a $25 pass. So, you're making a little bit there, too. >> No, we're not doing the passes. >> Kids free. >> My bad. It's like kids are free. I mean, I know it's kids are free. >> That is a financial, you know, incentive for parents and they don't have they can take their kids. Well, I think that it was determined and you have the senior citizen pass already, right? >> I mean, so, >> but they do have to show that, right? So, the senior citizens do have to >> they can come in and get one in the office. Yeah. And once they have it, it's it's good. Like that's the same, but

116they can't come in and show us an ID and say C65. >> Okay. yours hasn't shriveled up yet or torn it into pieces. But >> Susan, since you take a lot of tickets, um when >> I don't take Go ahead. I don't take a lot of tickets, but I'm the JV u JV and freshman football game supervisor. So, I just see a lot of kids unsupervised. >> You got you've taken >> I have Yes. >> So, like if somebody from M Point comes and they have a MP point senior citizen pass, that works here too, correct? >> Yeah. I think we just usually let >> we just usually as long as they have a pass. >> There's a ton of passes out there. >> Is it a SWAT senior citizen pass senior citizen pass? >>

117Yes. >> Got it. Okay. >> All right. All right. If we're done with that, we'll move on to public recognition. And Austin >> and Austin, I'm going to set the timer for three minutes. Got three minutes. >> Good evening. I'm here this evening representing the CCEA negotiations team. Uh the team has prepared a statement for me to share with you. So we the CCEA negotiations team would like to take this time to recognize and thank all who who participated in the personnel committee meetings and the negotiating and bargaining meetings throughout the summer. We appreciate the efforts of everyone involved. Thank you. We acknowledge all the time three meetings. One meeting with Mr. Olen and the negotiations team. One meeting and confer with the personnel committee and one posted or official meeting to negotiate salary with

118the personnel committee. The meetings allowed us to ask questions, process information, analyze data, present concerns, and gain clarifications. So, thank you for your time. While working through the meetings, our goals were to agree to a salary schedule, place all certified staff onto a salary schedule within five years, effectively eliminating ghost lanes, and get the majority of certified staff on a level that is 2third of their local experience. At our final posted or official meeting together, we we reached an agreement as both the CCEA and the personnel committee had the same offer. Additionally, during the meet and confer meeting with the personnel committee, it would it was decided that a future agenda item would be presented um with a supplemental wage which would be added to the salary schedule. with this agreement. Please note to get

119staff on the salary schedule, individual increases will vary. This can be excuse me. In closing, we appreciate the work accomplished between the CCEA committee and the Cuba City School District board and we would like to offer a s a sincere thank you for all the times, discussions, and efforts put into this process. We are confident that this is supporting our goal of striving for excellence. We know that together the Cuba City Education Association and the Board of Educa the Board of Education do what is best for our students, staff, districts, and community. Thank you. >> Thank you, Austin. On behalf of the uh um negotiating uh team, we appreciate uh your work with us and uh the administration. Thank you. Um then on to new business. A is approved the date time of the September

12017th uh meeting. Is there any desire to change it? All right. We'll move on to B. Approve the district professional guidelines. Yep. I'll I'm going to let uh Chris, Jason, and Whitney do most of this, but for the last few years, we've tried to figure out and allocate some time to getting the professional guidelines from different buildings into one. Um, and these three did a great job of trying to look at those and take out some of them that are outdated and combine some so that we have a district professional guidelines. Uh, so if you guys wanted to highlight some of those things uh that you took out or any of those things that you you put in new, they they've got a digital copy of the of that as well. Probably one of the

121the biggest changes uh would be that we looked at a lot of different documents that were included within the handbooks and if they didn't have to be fully included, it could be linked into it. um that significantly changed just the uh size of especially the >> 70 pages down the >> I think it was 50 >> the elementary one was 59 56 or 59 >> uh the high school middle school one was that 19 >> and a lot of it was there was just a lot of repetition >> in things um a lot of the the things that were removed from the in the combination from the elementary handbook um were things that were geared more towards the parent handbook and they were just being reiterated and so we we didn't feel that it was

122necessary to include those as well. Um we do expect the staff to be familiar with the student parent handbooks as well. So, um, it that was the biggest difference I think between the elementary and the middle school high school handbooks for the professional guidelines was that it looked like the high school had already then middle school had already eliminated those at some point. So, um, that was the biggest change. >> Yeah. And there was some things that were geared more when middle school like was in the elementary still and it talked about like technology and um, a computer lab and things like that. So just trying to make it more up to-date. And so basically we just kind of went through it and I had one pulled up. I think Chris had the middle school,

123high school. And I would say, "Okay, this is the category." He'd read his, "I'd read mine and we'd be like, "Yours sounds a lot better." So a lot of them had common things. We just fine-tuned it and tried to make it more friendly for teachers to use. >> Ultimately, the table of contents breaks it down very clear. the guidelines are in place. Um, as we talked to our new staff members at orientation, um, we shared that these guidelines are there to help protect you and that's one of our objectives, main objectives is to just keep those reminders there. um things about preparing for when you're absent and um helping make sure that the the jobs of the people you're working with are not compromised by that. We're not putting more on administrative assistance for that

124or um things for medical management were clarified as well. >> And there are things in there that differ between each building naturally. Um, so in those sections, that's when we have it kind of labeled like CCHS and a lot of that was with grades, final exams, things like that. So, we did just break it up per building that way. Um, but it's also nice for all staff to kind of know that there's a lot going on in the district and when those uh dates are. So, >> thank you. Any specific questions? Doesn't sound like it. >> All righty. Is would someone like to move? >> I'll move to approve the Cuba City School District professional guidelines as presented. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Schwiger, >> yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> Bar,

125yes. White, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. Then item C is approved the change from third grade to fifth grade for in town transportation. Yeah. So we've we've talked before about what the best age is to say, okay, you can walk across the street and or walk across Main Street primarily. Um and we've had some parents request that we provide in town transportation for the entire elementary school. In talking with uh Davis bus line, they actually have one bus now that just does in town. So they said we're we're anticipating maybe 25 kids to be on that bus that could fit 60. So they said if you if you do this policy, you make this change and even if it's doubled, we'll we would be able

126to have room for that. And they just stop at existing stops and both daycarees would be a part of that. And we just we thought um and I think I'm pulling this I'm paraphrasing from Gary, but he said we want to make it easier for people to go to school at Cuba City, not more difficult. So if in town transportation helps some, let's do it. Could you do me a favor? Go get my charger for my >> It's a big white box. Okay. >> Are there any questions regarding that? >> That's not an extra cost for us, is it? It doesn't. >> It's an existing route. >> They're they're just going to say, "Okay, we're going to take students off this bus and make this bus just in town." >> I will move to approve

127the change from third grade to fifth grade for in town transportation as presented. >> Is there a second today? >> I'll second. >> Schwagger, >> yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> Bar, >> yes. >> White, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. Motion carried >> and then D approved the district athletic pass proposal. So Aaron, can you run through that? So the proposal is all K12 students will get in free of charge at the gate. K through 4K through sixth grade must or through fifth grade get in with a paid adult and that's it. No parent parent pass adult pass this year. We'll re-evaluate that in a year. >> Should it say with >> plus with with St. Rose HSC? >> Should say with an ID >> with a student

128ID. Yep. >> From let me figure out how to do this Friday. >> Yeah. >> So I know that the elementary we have our ID cards from last year. Um, I know >> I think we're just going to go with the honor system this Friday and we'll push it out and we'll tell our ticket takers if if it's a and ask, "Do you go to school here?" And if they say yes, you're free. Actually, the board just changed that two days ago. I mean, if we talk >> those little kids are honest cuz I mean if you try to tell them they're four or something. >> You're not talking from experience. long meetings. >> The meeting is officially gone too loud >> and the battery dies. Okay. Are you comfortable with that wording then on

129the proposal? >> Yeah. Could the motion then read uh I move to approve the district athletic pass proposal including district parochial schools as presented or do I need to capture some of that additional information back as presented it's good? >> Yeah, I think as presented >> is that fair? Yeah. >> I just want to for need to make sure I have the wording right. >> Megan. >> All right. Uh, Schwagger, >> yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> Bart, yes. White, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> All righty. And you word Smith that. All right. >> Yes. Item E is approve uh Whitney and Chris as the Cuba City School District compliance officers. >> Yep. We were looking through our policies. We made these changes in

130our handbook and guidelines, but not in two of the policies that have it. And we saw that and um we just need to have you guys act on that to make that change in the policy. If there's no questions, I will move to approve Whitney Casper and Chris Sander as a CCSD compliance officers as presented. Is there a second? >> I will second. Schwagger, >> yes. >> Joel, yes. >> Bar, yes. White, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. And then we're to item seven, personnel and A is approve the collective bargaining agreement and certified staff salary schedule. So there's two different documents here. One is just the collective bargaining agreement which Austin said that we had the same language because we knew this is as as

131high as we could go. This does go along with what we said we were going to do during the referendum. It doesn't go over that. It it says this is what we're going to do. it's mapped out for the next 5 years um to make sure it was sustainable. Now, we'll probably have to revisit that in either 2 or 3 years um but the referendum had a 2 and 12% increase for staff for 5 years. So, this does that. Now, what Austin references in the collective bargaining you we can only bargain up to base wage and then there's supplemental wage. So base wage can only go up to this number and both of us had the same number and we use that cuz that was below um what we had in the referendum. So then

132we move on to the salary schedule and what that means is we have to place people on level two or four and that's tricky because we're trying to get people on a schedule so that they can look out and say okay here's roughly my salary for the next few years. So some people um got no one got below a 2% increase and no one got above a 4% increase in this first year. Um and then moving forward in the next years I think most years it's no one gets less than two or more than 4.04. I think there might be one year where somebody had to do a triple jump instead of a double and it might have been at five.1 but I think that that happened one time if I remember correctly. Yeah, but

133I think mostly it was 4.04. Um, and the reason some people had to do a double jump and not a one is let's say a teacher had been here for 20 years and that person when they line up on the new salary schedule was only at level seven because in previous years they didn't get those steps. My goal was to try to get everybody to 2/3. So if it's going to be their 21st year, by the end of five years, and it took us five years to get everybody over there, by the end of those five years, that person would have been 2/3 of the way through the salary schedule where they were. So if that was at 21 years, they would have been had to be at least a step that were level 14.

134So that's kind of the range is basically from two to around four. Um, and it goes with the referendum. That's what we said we were going to do. the math worked out that we were able to do that and so you'll see the collective bargaining agreement which is written by attorneys and then you'll see the salary schedule that's up there and you have that so you can share that right you guys have had access to that it's basically we start out with sal starting salary at 46% and every level is 2% higher than that and it goes from level one all the way to level 30 are there any questions on that recommendation We do this because we said we were going to do this. It fits and we're very thankful for our staff and

135being so involved in passing the last referendum that I think this is we have to do what we said we're going to do. >> Is this the same schedule that I'm kind of looking at cameo? Is this the same schedule that was or even Katie that we started working on >> in 2020 >> when I was still here? >> Austin wouldn't have been here. >> But it is the same. That's a version a version. >> Do you remember when you were here? I think we had front loaded the beginning and the end and it didn't leave much in the middle and CCA said, you know, we'd really prefer it if it had equal. So that's why it's just that number times 1.02 gives you the next number >> and the Okay. So it's it's not

136based off of base anymore. It's based on their the current year salary. >> Legally, we can only go as high as base for collective bargaining. >> Okay. >> Everything beyond that is supplemental. Okay. And that's schools that use a salary schedule. That's how they do that. And this was our first year doing that. Um, and we all knew the language from their representatives and from our attorney. And we had the same we got the same number. >> Okay. >> I was very appreciative that the fact that Mr. Olson was able to meet with the CCEA and uh you know work it out and come up with the salary schedule because we weren't able to do that last time. So hopefully this is a a step in in the right direction and uh um and allowing

137teachers to try and be recognized for at least twothirds of their experience. >> Yep. Are there any questions or you need a moment to look at anything? >> Hearing none, I will move to approve the 2526 collective bargaining agreement and certified staff salary schedule as presented. >> I will second. >> Schwagger, >> yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> Bar, >> yes. >> White, >> yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Then B is approved the 25 26 support staff and director wage schedule and increases. >> Yeah, we did use some of the same things with support staff. Nobody gets less than a 2% raise. Um tried to put people on the salary schedule and we actually created two new columns. So one column is for a nighttime custodian

138because those are the hardest to fill. The other one is for one-on-one aid as we've seen a lot of turnover in that. And we've also seen other salary schedules from different schools that break those custodian up into first shift, second shift and para educators into par educators and one-on-one special education um parah educators. Um so the percentages are different because if somebody uh you know it might look like somebody is getting an 8% raise, they were in a new column. So if they were one-on-one aid this year, but make on step six, they're still on step seven, but because we increased that, it it's more because we created new positions basically and new columns. So that and then the director wage schedule primarily is a 2.5% um increase for those directors. >> Can you share

139the support staff? I don't have access to that. >> Do you believe this? Um, this on the action agenda. You don't have >> Yeah, I don't. It just says I don't have access to the support staff. >> I'll do that. You guys can ask questions, but I'll just change it right now. >> Do you want me to I have it up? >> Oh, if you have it up, can doesn't allow you to do that? >> Um, it doesn't look like any board members have. >> That's the Okay, >> so that's that's the one I do have access. I think >> Okay, >> you do. Okay, this is basically the one we went off of. >> Okay. >> For the steps. And then this is the >> that's the individual one >> and this is the

140individual here. >> So this is what I have accessing. >> That's the director one. >> Yeah. >> Supports that. So Heather's supports that one. >> Y I'm just sending it to all the board members. >> Yeah. >> Are there any questions about it? about how we came up with any of those. Those are the individuals there. A different page has the schedule for the different food service disposal, etc. And for this, we used a lot of market data. We looked at what other schools pay. We tried to be in the top half of CIA 3 schools and what they pay in all those categories. And this still works with our referendum numbers. >> Y now the first year it's harder because you're putting people on the schedule. So the first year is a little more,

141but then as you get a bit it it goes closer to 2% each year was 2.95. So, does step is that equivalent to years if it's a new? >> We're not supposed to put years in there from our legal counsel. We're supposed to put steps or levels or something like that because it doesn't always represent years. But you could look at that and say that's an equivalent language. pictures. I'm sorry about that, Julie. If you guys ever like on a Friday see that like you don't have a active please let me know >> person they know it >> and the second shift custodian goes back to the conversation we had earlier this year right >> with regard to the $2 different. >> Yeah. So if you look that starting salary is $2 difference and then

142it it doesn't match $2 each column because it's 2% more for starting each cell. >> Okay. >> Same thing with special or with aid and one-on-one aid. They start out as $2 difference. >> And is that that $2 is paid after a certain amount of time, right? >> For custodian and that's for summer. Okay. Other questions from anyone? >> So, can I move to >> if you're ready? >> Okay. Can I move to approve the 202526 support staff and director wage schedule and increases as presented? >> Second. Yes. >> Joel, >> yes. Bartf, >> yes. >> White, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> And then the C is approve the 2526 administrative salary increases. >> Yep. So, this is for the five members of the

143admin team that are here tonight. Uh this is the range is from 2% to 2 and 12%. Um minus 2% and then all the other administrators are at 2.5%. This fits within the referendum language what we had budgeted as well. Questions board Does someone want to move? >> I will move to approve the 2526 administrative salary increases as presented. >> Is there a second? >> I will second. >> Schwiger, >> yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> Bar, >> yes. >> White, >> yes. >> Herman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. D has approved the hiring of a part-time middle school uh counselor through the mental health grant. Yeah, this was made possible with the Wisconsin state budget. They put this in a few years ago. We brought in a middle

144school counselor that lives in our community um and Angela Bellein and she did a wonderful job. Uh the grant was not available this last year, but it's been reintroduced. So, it's a two years. Um, the way I read it though was 30,000 the first year and 10,000 the next year. I don't know if they're gonna they allow us to carry over, but I'm hoping this, you know, it's it's we're looking at spending about 18,000 each year for that. Um, but we're hoping that we can get this for two years. This is just for one year because I know it can be covered the the first year. Um, so hopefully in next June or July we'll have this. And Angela says yes to coming back. I'm sorry I put this Any questions on that grant? It's

145>> obviously she's fully aware that it's a year. >> She knows. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Okay. There's no other questions. Would someone approve? >> I will move to approve the hiring of Mrs. Angela as a part-time middle school. The mental health is presented. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> Bart, yes. White, >> yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden. Bowden. >> Oh, he's glitching. >> Andrew. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> He has approved the hire of Miss Miranda Alrich as a new 4K teacher at the elementary. >> Yeah. This vacancy occurred and we had one of our new 4K teachers that was hired last month uh move out of our community with her family. And so we called this lady up right away as she interviewed. She was

146great in her interview and she said yes. So both Mr. Olsen and I recommend that we approve this hiring. >> Somebody both. >> I'll move to approve the hiring of Miss Miranda Oler as new 4K teacher at CCEES as presented. >> Second. >> Schwiger. >> Yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> Bar, yes. >> White, >> yes. >> Herman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Then is approved. Morgan Vans Scandal as a middle school volunteer volleyball coach. >> Yeah. Morgan is a alumni of Cuba City High School and the daughter of the soontobe coach Joe Vans Scandal. So I recommend that we approve this. >> I will move to approve Morgan Vans Scandal as a middle school volunteer volleyball coach as presented. Is there a second? >> I'll second. Schwagger,

147>> yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> Bart, >> yes. >> White, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> G is approved. Nick Whan as a volunteer high school football coach. Uh, Mrs. Lawson and Coach Cop recommend that we approve this volunteer coach. >> Would someone move? >> Can I just ask who is it? A student teacher. Who is this? >> I don't know who this is. I know he passed the background check. Okay. >> But this is he was recommended by um by both Carrie and Guy. >> Okay. I don't think he's a student teacher. >> No, I think he's just >> here. Okay. >> He's been here for a couple weeks probably. >> Okay. Yeah, probably. >> Someone move. >> I move to approve Nick

148Wellen as volunteer CCHS football coach as presented. >> Is there a second? >> I will second. >> Schwigger. Yes, >> Joel. >> Yes, >> Bar. Yes, White. >> Yes, >> Herman. Yes, Bowden. >> Yes, >> Andrews. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> H is approved. Sophia Sander is a volunteer high school volleyball coach. I do know that Sophia is one of our elementary school teachers and uh is recommended that we approve her for this position from uh from Carrie as a volleyball coach and as a life director and the high school principal myself. >> Would someone move? >> I'll move to approve Sophia Sanders, the volunteer CCHS volleyball coach. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Yes. >> Joel, yes. Bar, >> yes. >> White, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes.

149>> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Jay is approved. Abby Claus as a part-time food services. >> I skipped one. >> I'm sorry. >> I skipped I approved. Jill Van Scandal is a middle school high or eighth grade volleyball coach. >> Yep. Miss Van Van Scandal is one of our high school teachers and Jacob and I recommend that we approve this hire. Would someone move? I'll move to approve Jill Van Gandle as the Cuba City Middle School eighth grade volleyball coach as presented. >> I'll second Schwagert. >> Yes. >> Joel, >> yes. Barf, >> yes. White, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Now Jay, approve Abby Class as a part-time food service employee. >> Okay, this is a recommendation from Janet after interviews and

150she recommends that we approve this hire. That's all. So move. >> I'll move to approve Abby Clauss as part-time food service employee as presented. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Schwiger, >> yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> Bar, yes. White, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> K is approved. Christina Brewer as the high school assistant robotics coach. >> Yep. This position fills vacancy for Mr. Rosson to work with Melanie Austin on a robotics team and I recommend that we approve this hire. >> I will move to approve Christina Brewer as the high school assistant robotics coach as presented. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Yes. >> Joel, >> yes. >> Barf, yes. White, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Bowden, >>

151yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Uh L is approve. Alexia Ree as a new elementary special education teacher contingent on her contractual release from the Platville school district. Both L and M we interviewed for last week and when you get two vacancies in the same department in mid August. It's you it's very nerve-wracking. Um we had a great Canada pool um which doesn't always happen in late August. So these two stood out from um I believe we had four or five local people applying and they were all great. I we didn't have anyone that we thought we we couldn't bring this person in. So these two stood out and um both L and M are the recommendations from that interview committee for those people who were on that and would and myself

152recommend that we approve both of these hires. >> Knowing that they're dependent on contractual release like what's the timeline on that? Next, a week from tonight, Platau meets and they'll let them out. >> And we've been in contact with Platville. We're not worried about them not doing that. And legally, there's not >> much you can do about that. They'll allow to do that. >> Okay. >> I also have to say it's really difficult not just to find two great candidates, a pool of kids, but then also in special education. So, you very lucky. So, >> would someone move on Alexia? I will move to approve Alexia Reese as new Cuba City Elementary School special education teacher contingent on her contractual release from the Platville school districts as presented. I'll second that. >> Schwigger, >> yes.

153>> Joel, >> Yes. White, >> yes. >> Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carried. And then M uh approved a code on level as a new middle school special education teacher again contingent on his contractual release from the Platville school district. And if there's no questions, would someone move? >> I'll move to approve Dakota Levelville as new CCMS special education teacher contingent on his contractual release from Platville School District as presented. >> Is there a second? I'll >> second. Schwiger, >> yes. >> Joel, >> yes. Bar, yes. White, >> yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, >> yes. >> Andrews, >> yes. >> Motion carries. >> We're on the committee reports. Budget and finance. Aaron and >> Yeah, we met on on May 12th for a preview of the 2526 budget. We will

154likely have another one late September or early October. Okay. >> Uh building and grounds. I don't believe we probably have anything to add to that, do we? The next meeting will be >> I think we'll meet the second Wednesday of every >> the mug from here on out through this project. >> Okay. Um personnel, we met uh on August 13th. I don't know that there's another one needed or scheduled. Yep. >> Um policy, >> we might for personnel. Um the next thing we're going to look at is um extra duty. >> We we usually do that every three or four years and we have some some ideas and things. Yep. >> Okay. >> So we'll probably do that in September. >> Okay. Then policy, you're going to meet in next month. >> Yep. I meet

155with our policy adviser tomorrow on the suggest updates. So we'll meet tomorrow and then we'll schedule a policy meeting with our policy committee and then we'll bring those to the September board meeting. Well, we had a meeting last month and we talked about um the was that just handbook changes or was that something we needed to get approved by the board? >> One we'll talk about was just kind of a guided practice like the one for virtual days, but the other one was the fundraising and he's >> like um he's getting that to be in final form for tomorrow. >> Oh, okay. Got it. Okay. >> So, one's more of a policy, one is a policy, one's more of a practice, but we'll we'll have that discussion. Can I ask really quickly too? I know

156um what is the cell phone going to be policy or practice? >> That's going to be practice and it'll be in handbook. >> Okay. Okay. I just wanted to make sure because there's a big difference when we do best practice to policy. So >> good question. Um technology transportation uh I don't know that we need a meeting how we'll meet going. >> We'll meet in October probably because this is the year that we either decide to extend that contract or not. Um, just so the board knows, um, we've had several people contact us about different things going on at the bus company at Davis Bus Lines. Uh, we have investigated every one of those to not find what the accusation was. Um, all of the all of their buses have been passed have the state

157inspected sticker on them. Um, so that's a big one. And uh as we talked about today administratively, it's very important for us that we have reli reliable transportation. So we look into every thing that every complaint that parents have when we have and we just haven't found a problem. >> And they did hire a second uh mechanic >> to address bus issues, >> the ones they can't fix. Aaron tells me they do send guys truck and tractor and uh Aaron has talked to him regarding, you know, those repairs and >> and things and it seems like everything's, you know, okay >> and we are all good with drivers. >> Yep. By the time they called me to tell me that two drivers quit, >> by the time they called me at 9:30 that day where

158the drivers quit, they already had two people replacements. um foundation doesn't look >> we're going to meet in October. Dan asked if we can meet in October instead of September. So we'll do that in October. >> Right. Um Case of three I know it's a long meeting. I do have two things from their annual meeting. Jamie Nutter shared that Dr. Arnison um had a new approach to AI and instead of relying on one person where they're bringing in national experts and trying to build a system of support. This shift moves us from learning random apps to using AI in ways that directly support specific curriculum areas. We will focus on policy and implementation strategies that are rooted in trust and high expectations. teachers will be supported with guidance on what is appropriate versus what crosses

159the line into replacing learning. Um and uh basically uh she did share u something regarding uh they're having an evening regarding AI and the anxious generation what school boards need to know. Um and is that what you were referring to? And the other thing is that they had a a national speaker from Florida, uh, Greg Trafea, and, uh, basically what he was sharing was the concern that the state of Wisconsin in their budget in 2027, and I printed this, and I can send it to you, but their concern is is that um, in that they're going to take off the cap on voucher schools. There's currently a cap on voucher schools or a number of vouchers being given. And again, if they do that, they're afraid that voucher schools would grow the funding for that.

160They're going to even potentially segregate it out. the voucher schools would have their own pot of money, but they're concerned that it would bankrupt public schools. So, I wanted you to be aware that that exists. This article is an 11page thing. If you just Googled it, you'd find information. So, it was just to make you aware that that we as school boards and and actually anyone interested in public education in Wisconsin is going to have to fight to maintain uh some caps or fiscal responsibility for for public education. So, thank you. >> With that, I will take a motion to adjourn. >> I move to adjourn the meeting. All in favor? Hi. >> Hi. >> Thanks everybody. >> Thank you everybody. >> Thank you.