001That's good. It's 6 o'clock. I'd like to call the meeting to order if I could, please. Megan, would you do roll? Yeah. Schwigger here. Joel here. Bar here. White white here. Henderman here. Bowden here. Andrews here. All present. Thank you. Uh proof of giving public meeting. No discern. Yep. Uh notice proposed both schools sent to the village of Dickyville and QC city hall and members of the media on Monday, June 16th. Thank you. Item three is consideration of the consent agenda. Are there any items A through G that the board would like pled for further discussion? Hearing none, would someone move? I'll move to pro approve the consent agenda as presented. Is there a second? I'll second. Schwagger, yes. Joel, yes. Bart, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. Then we'll
002move to administrative reports and uh Erin has asked that Brad start us off. All right. So, I think I'll be here monthly now uh kind of give you guys an update on progress where we're headed. Um as you know, we moved ahead with um the addition um with the FEMA grant passing. So, um I've been out to I'll update you first on where we are. Obviously, you guys know we're doing C-wing, uh, the high school academic wing probably about all the demolition's complete. We're about 50% probably through the painting, started acoustical ceilings going back in today. Um, so that'll progress over the maybe the next two to three weeks and, uh, put the lights back in and then we'll start on carpet and flooring in there. Um, the underground plumbing's done in the bathrooms and,
003uh, hope to pour back that floor Friday and a little bit of more work in there before we start tiling the bathrooms out. We also are hustling in some work in the elementary to get you guys another 4K room. So, the librarian's not very happy. No, she lost a little bit of her space, but you know, we're trying to get some back, though. Yeah, we are. We're trying to get some back. So, we're hustling that in this summer as well, too. And then, obviously, as you guys see out here, um Weer Holt's been working on your uh parking lot. The water man is uh connected in the street and through the parking lot area. He's got to bring the sewer main across, he plans to do next week. And uh when that's complete, some conduit
004for uh pole lighting, and then we'll start running a curb and gutter and getting that ready. So obviously we'll get this probably paved sometime in mid late July. We'll wrap up most of that work and give you your parking lot back before football practice starts and that'll just leave the building pad area out here which will fence off before uh football starts. I've bid the um started with the long lead early items uh concrete foundations, pre-cast wall panels, and structural steel. Sending contracts out this week on all of them. It's been positive so far uh to where we were in 2023. Hoping to have all the mechanical bids, electrical, HVAC, plumbing back next week. Those are the other big ticket items that we're trying to work through. Um some equipment changes and things uh that
005have changed since 2023. So, um, so far so good as far as tracking where we were and, uh, expect all that shop drawing process to start now. Uh, rebar drawings for the concrete foundations and stuff are in the works and then we'll submit them to Bray for, uh, review and approval. They'll get that fabricated. So, I would expect us to start, you would see us digging footings maybe late August, uh, right after the right after Labor Day probably or late August. So, I would anticipate the structural steel, um the big joist for the gym, the deck, uh along with those pre-cast panels very late October, early November. So, if all goes well, you should see your gym standing up by Christmas would be my hope. And then we'll just continue through the winter with the
006mason and inside the gym. We'll be able to eat it at that point. And uh you know, I think our expectation right now is from the time we stand it up, we're probably at least a full year to complete all of that. So I would expect you guys to get the gym, the addition, the new fitness center, the wrestling room. I hope in the 26, 27 winter sports season. It won't be the beginning of it, but hopefully at some point maybe you come back after holiday break and that would be a nice changeover at that point if it works out. Something along that line. at least get some of the games in and get fitness moved so we can get the art room complete at that stage. So, this summer we'll take care of what
007we call C-wing, the high school wing. Next summer would be the shop uh would be the major work. Next summer, that's a summer project and obviously the addition is ongoing throughout. As soon as the addition's done, then we've got some work in the current high school gym to become your middle school gym. There's some locker rooms. We need to get the wrestling area out of there first. Then, we got some locker rooms to complete. Um those bleachers as you know are replaced and um part of a gym now that we're not considering a performing arts center anymore gone. So take questions from anybody if you've gotten some community questions or you guys got questions on what you're seeing or where we're headed to answer. Was it correct that next month's meeting we will see a
008budget and or a timeline for the I can do that for your meeting next month? Yeah, I would think, you know, I'm working through kind of systematically through the bids. Again, I didn't put everything out because I'm trying to explain what's different and just kind of working through the ones that need to be here first. And um so I I think I'll have most of the budget done by next month's meeting, if not 100% of it as far as all the bids back. But I would be able to give you a big picture and then I'll put it the schedule on paper so you guys can see it. But that's kind of big picture of the schedule right now. See a fall start, you know, late August or right after Labor Day start. um see
009the the panels and the steel before Thanksgiving. I would say late October, early November and be ready to set them on the foundations and again all of this stuff out here should be done this summer. Yeah, I think all of us would be curious to just kind of see that timeline of you know as what you just described in writing it secondarily then I guess the best you can a budget picture. Yeah, I'll definitely update you exactly what I know that's that's fixed at that point. And we all have the numbers from 2023, too, and it'll give you a better idea. I can plug anything I don't have at that point that would be some of the maybe finish items. Um, but hopefully I can get all of that. Thank you. So, will this um
010impact any home, fall, winter sports here at all? I mean, have we It's going to be a little messier. Maybe we'll have close to the same parking, but not exactly. But we'll still be able to host so we don't have to reach out to schools and to like Okay. It's just it'll be a little inconvenient for a while. Yep. But we'll be able to still do them here. So there's a sidewalk that comes behind the parking lot extension out here and that will turn and come into the what's really going to be your entrance to the main entrance. So this parking here will be very convenient way south at the end by the baseball field. Be a pretty good walk if you park down there. So your parking is an L-shape, you know, around the
011gym. And ultimately when this is all done, you actually net increase. It might be hard to believe, but with this add in the grass and the additional space we created to the retaining wall to the south, you actually have net more parking than you did really. Yes. I tried to describe that to somebody and they didn't. Yeah, I think I think there's a a belief that that's not the case. I mean that we're losing a lot of parking. 15 more parking spots. It's still more, but it's not less. It's not less. Okay. And and really once you you think about when it's done, you'll enter either the east doors, which is going to be the main entrance to the district offices and the big commons, or you can come in the south end as well.
012So, they'll have good access no matter where you park going forward because the parking lot literally will L-shape around the gym. Okay. Well, that's good to know, I guess. I was So, yeah, we won't impact anything this fall. We'll have the pathways clear. Scheduling is not we're fine. They don't have anything. We won't put the finished coat on the black top for obvious reasons like we didn't in the south end, but we'll strike it, you know, so everybody's organized in the parking and once we have the final sidewalk and and the structure is up next summer, I would want before the kids come back again, we won't be done with the the addition, but I would like to be done enough to complete and put that paving in its final stage because you will get
013it over the win. Oh, when you So when you erect the addition, you're talking the footings and the walls for that entire gym, fitness center, wrestling room. The the only the gym it's pref. So when the walls go up, that's the gym box and then it builds out from there. The mason uh the wrestling room and fitness center are block masonry block walls. So they won't that after the gym is up. Uh some of both we have to leave enough room. These are really tall panels and obviously um your your bar joists are 107 ft long. So that was one of the discussions in the steel bid today is whether we can get them here in one piece on a semi coming down hill which I don't think we can. So we'll we'll splice them
014here. They they can come in two pieces as well too. And I think that's going to be better for the rural roads. They would have to travel and how to maneuver through downtown Cuba City to get a 107 foot long trailer in here. So, um, but it'll be impressive if people can kind of start to see now and you'll see more in the fall. I think people will be surprised when they see I like the idea how big this is. Bringing something next board meeting like a timeline that's a visual like we know like in fall December this will be accomplished, you know, December to March this will be accomplished, whatever. I think that'll really help people kind of really visualize the time frame and timelines. And I would also just because I've heard different
015things about parking. I would include something about the parking because that is something I have heard like are we losing parking and we're there parkwise events and I'm like I I don't know. It looks smaller but there are more spots. Yeah. So I think that that's really okay because this holds a lot of cars. This one a lot of cars. It's double double lane all the way down you know to the baseball field. So even I think this winter while the construction is going on it'll you have almost all of this back. That'll be beneficial. I know that initially they were concerned about how many people would have to park on school street, you know, while it was going, but it shouldn't be any more than there's ever been. Great. That's a really good thing.
016We will need some staging, you know, lay down area south of it because of those joists and these panels and stuff when we're doing that, but I think that's coming at the very end of football season when some of that. So, I don't think it'll impact much and we'll try to clean up, you know, if there's events, try to reduce our staging as much as we can. Okay. There will be a sign or poster coming soon and a rendition of working on that. Yeah, on the fence we were going to put that across the fence in some of the graphics that Bray was creating for you guys of the renderings and stuff. Okay. With some PR, the new signs that we talked about for the elementary and the middle high school are they'll they'll come
017like next year, I would say. Bray would figure them out and and but I I think that's not a this summer thing. I don't we don't have designs up on that yet in placement. So I don't think squeeze it in this summer but certainly make sure it's done so we get it in next year. Other questions for when when we get the budget can we have a comparison of 23 and then this year and then with it kind of same sheet of paper type thing. Anything else? Thank you, Brian. Yeah, thanks. Then, uh Jason is uh celebrating his birthday, so the elementary school report won't happen. His report is length action. Uh middle and high school report, Chris, please. Uh congratulations to all of our spring sport athletes as their seasons have officially wrapped up.
018Our boys golf team competed as a team at the sectional meet in Dodge Point Golf Course. Uh they finished third, just missing the trip to the state tournament. Our softball and baseball teams both ended their seasons in sectional semi-final games. We had 10 students qualify for track and field for the state tournament. Uh congratulations to Andy Aten as he competed in the 1600 meter race. That's a mile for those of you that don't know. Um and broke the school record which was set 56 years ago. Um, we're certainly proud of everyone's efforts and want to thank all of the seniors. There has been significant work as Brad mentioned on our upper hallway in the south parking lot of the school. Um, even with all of that work going on, we still see lots of students.
019Uh, we've got driver's education classes, band lessons, um, and various camps happening. FFA has been busy. Uh they were able to tour the John Deere Harvester Works, the Rock Island Arsenal, and Lock & Dam 11 back in May. Um recently they attended the state FFA convention which included a tour of the Vortex facility and uh they were able to attend various leadership workshops and listen to motivational speakers. Uh the officers are heading out tomorrow to Jag Lake to enjoy their yearly officer retreat where they will be making plans for the upcoming school year. Congratulations to Reese Hill, daughter of Russell and Carrie Hill as she entered the aspirations in computing contest for the National Center for Women informational Technology. Uh Ree was recognized as an honorable mention for the state of Wisconsin for her entry.
020Uh finally want to thank the custodial staff as they navigate cleaning the schools even with the crazy schedule changes due to construction and summer school. Uh they've been rolling with the changes and cleaning where they can when they can and their efforts are appreciated. Um at the end of this I do have a couple questions for the board. Um, so you acted on our foreign exchange student. Um, Barbara Dean that that uh works with the company that we get our foreign exchange students from reached out to me on Tuesday morning with a second um Peggy Nice is going to have a girl Rebecca coming from Italy. We're going to put that on the the July board meeting for approval. But Barbara, because of getting the uh the visa and everything, wanted to know if I
021was okay to sign the agreement saying that yes, she can come, but I need your approval before I can do that. And that, you know, would be saying that yes, you're going to approve her in July. You just complete everything. I need more approval. Yes. But that lets them get a head start on that. Yeah. Is there any reason we shouldn't say yes? None that I can think of. I I would recommend doing it. I just like I said, okay, we usually have about two a year. All right. The second thing that I have, um Julie Clayton came to me. Um she has a request. So this next next school year, they're taking their music trip to New York City. Um Southwestern was also planning that trip and due to one reason or another, they
022have backed out of their trip. They're no longer taking it. We have a situation, it's unique, um where one of our students has a step sibling that goes to Southwestern and that family has asked that that student travel with us. Um they would they're not asking for any financial support from our school. They will pay for the trip themselves. Um so I just told Miss Clayton that I would bring that to the board. Um, you know, you would have to prove that yes, we do this or no that we don't do this. And if you want us to explore that, we would have to work with legal to see what we have to do to work us off to make sure that we're covered if anything were to happen. Right. That was my question. Is
023there any sort of liability to the district? My question would be open up for other requests. Yeah, that was that was a question that we that's why I said let's talk Miss Clayton said that the only reason that she would even consider this is because it was a family situation. She wouldn't just, you know, if it was just a random student that wanted to go, we would say no. I don't think we often have families that have kids at both schools once in a while, but it's not. But would you have other I guess my question would be, can other families children also join the trip? from southwest from any from Cuba. Could could siblings go? That's what I'm getting at. So like and again and and Miss Clayton said she understands this may be
024something that we just say no to because it opens a can of worms. So like if I'd like to go too and we'll pay for it. My sister's going to my belong mom and dad. That be the only that's the only thing I was kind of getting at. Is it going to be more requests? But how would you feel those requests and would that be something you would consider? I mean I don't I might first just check with legal and just kind of see what I mean they might give us the answer that anyways you know what I mean just kind of explore that first and then are we are we okay if if Aaron can work out the legality liability we'd bring it back for a vote probably in July so this is just
025discussion I wanted to see if you guys were like no we're not we're not open it is we're setting press right you know To Chris's question though about a visa, they have to probably do that. We're okay with uh he's going to go forward with foreign exchange student. This is the sibling. I think a couple of things that I would want to know too if this is okay from a legal perspective and I mean I think we can place requirements around it too. Is this child the same age as the sibling? Are they have they are they in band? Have they been in, you know, anything that we would require for our students? What I do know is that yes, they are in high school and yes, they are in band. That was they were
026planning on attending the trip as well through Southwestern. But if this is something that we were to pursue and that you need to have some of those precautions moving forward, you must meet these standards to take part in an activity like this with our district. I think is is just good background knowledge to have. Everybody's okay with that then. All right. Thank you. That's all I have. Thank you. All right. Oh, I did have a question with Bob Summer's passing. Can you speak to driver's ed or how that's being handled? So, we did have kind of a a unique um situation with that. Um the day that he entered the hospital, I actually went and act acted as a sub that day and taught the class as best I could. Um, I got in touch
027with Logan Perhask is the gentleman that runs the program for Southwest Tech because again, I think a lot of our families think that we do this. It's Southwest Tech. We just provide the space. Um, so then on the Friday, um, Logan actually ran the class virtually. We just brought him up on the the clear touch panel. he did reach out to to because we it was kind of a weird time because we were still in or we were out of school and a lot of schools were still in school. So his his teachers were all still teaching. Um so he did reach out to a couple people but wasn't able to to secure that. So he ended up teaching the class finishing the class virtually with our that that back group. Um we did actually
028have two classes this summer. the second one. Um, and Bob had already said going into it, I'm not teaching both classes. You're gonna have to find somebody else. So, um, Kyle Kern is teaching the second class and that actually wraps up next week, I believe, because it's three weeks. And is Kyle doing all the driving then with the kids? No. Um, I'm not sure what's going to happen moving forward. I haven't had that conversation with Logan. I know Logan teaches um virtually to a couple school districts because of their proximity to, you know, Southwest Tech and an instructor. Um I I don't know where we will be. I know Kyle said that he's already over booked with drivers, so you know, we'll have to figure out what we're going to do as far as the
029driving goes. Again, it doesn't really fall on our responsibility. It's Southwest Tech's responsibility, but I am certainly going to to push to find out those answers so that we can give answers to our our families. Do we have a contract with Southwest for that? Yeah. So, they reached out to I mean for driving life circumstances to Benton or Hazel Green to see if like I think Tom still drives over there to take kids. It would just be a matter of if those drivers have y availability. He's reached out to different places. I know I had my daughter um drove with someone from basketball that came down and met with them. So I think they've got options. It's just a matter of who's available to track with students. And I know I will put out a
030word if there are any teachers that are interested in becoming certified to teach that and so that we have somebody in our area. Thank you, Chris. Uh, Whitney, special ed, please. Yes. Um, the indicator 14 refers to a specific type of educational indicator. Um, Melissa Gilstrap has done this in the past and she is taking a break from it this summer. So, I um got trained in it and I am doing the surveys this summer. Um it measures the percentage of these students who graduated from our high school and it's a year after that, one year after that. Um and so it measures the youth who are um um if they're in college now, if they're in a competitive job, um and kind of taking a survey on where they're at currently. Um, we do
031use this feedback on to enhance our tra uh transition programs and then that feedback is given to Melissa so she can support the juniors and seniors. Um, it also provides insight on how students with disabilities are fairing after leaving high school. Um, which can inform decisions about resources that we can provide our students their senior year. And that's all reported to DPI. So, this is a DPI um um indicator. Um another indicator that we'll be completing this summer is called the indicator 7. Um this is the early childhood program completes these indicators. Um and it measures uh preschool outcomes for children with IEPs ages 3 to five and it focuses on their progress on three key areas. Positive social emotional skills, acquisition and use of knowledge and skills, and the use of appropriate behaviors. It
032tracks whether these students who are receiving special education services are making positive gains towards those. Um and 22 reports will be filed this summer. Um our yearly special education end of the year report, we had just some stats for this year. We had 26 students exit from special education this school year. 13 students return to the general education classroom, thus no longer meeting criteria for special education services. Nine students graduated and four students transferred to another school. 31 students began receiving special education services this school year. Eight students began receiving speech and language only. Nine moved into our district already receiving special education services. And 14 students met criteria in other disability categories. Um and then I would just like to welcome Cassidy Ripetella as our new 4K 5K speced teacher for the 25266 school
033year. She has a lot of experience working with the younger students. She was previous our 4K, one of our 4K teachers. Um, and we are excited for her to join our team. Just a reminder, this position was cut for the 2425 school year and is returning for the 2526 school year due to student needs. Every year we re-evaluate student needs, teacher case loads, and special education minutes, thus resulting in moving the previous fourth grade special education teacher that was there for the 2324 school year and transitioning that teacher for the early childhood position. That is all I have. Thank you. Any questions? One I said one question. The exits that you had, did that include speech exits or were those separate? So that speech is also included in those expenses. Are those Go ahead. I
034was going to say, does that create another 4K opening, a teacher opening? If she's moving, she still a classroom 4K teacher. No. So, we had a 4K opening and then we had internal movement. Okay. Are um those the 26 and 31, are those pretty normal or we just kind of like steadily increasing throughout the last couple years or? Um, I would stay say it's normal. I know that Aaron and I had this conversation about December because I asked him like previous years what was a typical number for like referrals and things like that and when he gave me that number I was a couple less but it was average. It depends if you look at before co Joe and after because those those numbers are very different. before CO are special and that's pretty much
035everywhere numbers were were lower after CO they haven't come down but they haven't there hasn't been a big spike it's just kind of they moved up and that's where they've been okay and that's districtwide including parochial schools drug service plans all right thank you um Heather is gone so the business report again is linked in your report the superintendent report please yep Uh we've got a few updates here. Uh some are legislative. Uh a few legislative developments at both the federal and state level that could significantly impact our district and public education more broadly. Uh the first one is what's be considered or called the big beautiful bill. At the federal level, Congress is considering a proposed nickname uh big beautiful bill which would consolidate several major educational grants. So these are our titles, titles
036one, two, three, four, also McKini Vento and reap among others into a single block. While consolidating would reduce paperwork and streamline reporting requirements, the proposed funding levels an area of concern. The current combination for all those grants in the nation is 8 billion. Uh but under the proposed bill, that amount would only be two billion. That's a 75% cut to all those title and homeless and reading intervention programs that we received some federal funding in. These federal funds are are critical in supporting our reading specialists. This is professional development, mental health services, resources for student experiencing homelessness. Um and although the although the bill hasn't passed the US Senate, its potentially implicate implications or potential implications are significant to us. Uh this would a reduction of the scale would directly affect our ability to meet
037student needs and maintain essential support services. Just something to keep in mind. The state budget um with special education and revenue limits. At the state level, the bianual budget is under review by the joint finance committee. Governor Ivers and Wisconsin DPI proposed increasing special education reimbursement rates from 31% to 60. While that full request is unlikely to be approved, the working proposal would raise the reimbursement to 35% this school year and 37.5% in 2627. Notably, the committee is also considering a significant change in high-cost special education aid raising the reimbursement rate from 24.2% to 90% by next school year 2627. This impacts about 3% of the school of school districts in Wisconsin. We are one of those three. that would that would be a benefit to us as we have some students that we claim
038for high-cost special education. However, the proposed budget includes no increases in general school aids and the $325 per revenue limit increase would be funded entirely through local property taxes. This is um highly unusual as this has never been done in Wisconsin's history. Traditionally, when a revenue limit increases, the state provides aid to offset the resulting tax impact, especially when there's a $4 billion surplus. Shifting this responsibility entirely to local taxpayers, especially after many districts, about half of the schools in or the districts in Wisconsin have recently passed a referendum based on projected mill rates. Um, this creates a risk of public mistrust. What that means is we put out publication that said this is what we anticipate the mill rate to be next year at whatever amount that is and the next year and the
039next year and the next year. And if that's passed on to us at 325, that's $200,000 more that we have to collect in property taxes. That that's felt that that's probably an extra 20 25 cents, you know, on the mill rate and everybody feels that. Um this has never been talked about. This has never been discussed. This was never shared until I believe it was last Thursday evening. It was the first we had heard of this. Um, as these conversations continue, I strongly encourage anyone with concerns or questions to reach out to our local legislators that they need to hear from constituents on how these budget decisions affect schools and communities. Uh, we got a update on our building project from Brad today. So, that's everything that I have. Um, sorry for the bad news.
040And again, these haven't passed yet, but that's under consideration. And this is what our it looks like our representatives are just passing uh because they want to have a a tax break. So, they're saying we're not taxing you as much for the state, but they're going to pay our residents are going to pay more in school tax because that 325 every public school would have to do that. So that that is a tax increase, but they can say now it's on your public schools taxing you, not the state. I just think that's kind of a I don't approve of that. I don't either. I was able to call and email Howard Markline. U but sadly I'm not so sure that I'm holding any hope because his replies are similar to what they were back uh
041six months ago when Scott Wright and I contacted uh Howard and Travis Tram regarding uh you know our concerns over operating effort etc. So um I I also don't approve and uh so I don't know if any of the rest of you have anything different to report. I think there are some politicians who are very angry that Governor Ivers put in that 325 for the next 400 years. He put that in with Governor McDonald. And I think this was their way of saying you did that to us. We're going to do this um now to offset that. And just so so you know like where that came from. I think they they were not happy with the $325 more per per year for 400 years. I I know um it hasn't passed and I and
042I think hopefully it doesn't but I guess my thoughts would be that this is goes beyond just board educ you know teachers this is like a community effort so I mean if anybody can reach out or write letters or express your concerns I think that's got to be done communitywide because the impact will be felt by everybody um not just the school here. So, I think it's just that's part of the message. I would just want people to reach out and call and stress your concerns about this. I mean, it's it's a it's unprecedented. It's sad. Um, it's a disservice to our education system. Um, and the only thing we can do is advocate and and try to reach out as much as we can and, you know, encourage that we don't that this doesn't
043go through. Can you give a refresher of what that timeline is? Because again, this is the recommendation from the joint finance committee. More finalized numbers happen in July into October. July one, we'll get an estimate, but they don't think this budget will be passed much sooner than October 15th, which is when it has to be passed. And if it's not passed by October 15th, they just copy last year's budget under this year's budget. So, there's lots of time to reach out and voice your opinion. And there's a lot of negotiating going on with all those people that are included that too. Any questions? All righty. Moving on to discussion items. The first one's a subcommittee report on district branding. All right. So, on a lighter note, let's talk about school spirit. Was a hell of
044it. So Julie and Angie and I have a ton of ideas which makes this really easy and really difficult at the same time. Um you probably in your packets and in front of you, you have a couple of different pages here um summarizing some of our conversations and I'm going to ask them to jump in because we've talked about so many different things and we're kind of all over the place. However, um last board meeting we talked about the survey results and the importance of keeping the Cuban's name and keeping our colors. So, we are going ahead with page you'll see a couple of logos that we all were in agreement that we like the concept and the colors. Tina, you there. Um, we talked about just a couple of tweaks, but we were in
045agreement that we all we really liked these um for different uses, like you know, putting the the larger one maybe up on the gym wall and then using the smaller one for like embroidery, that type of thing. Um, what do you call it? The u logos on top of the Yeah, letterhead. Yes, letterhead. Thank you. Um, one thing that we talked about in both of these logos is the importance of the three stripes in both of them. And it's kind of hard to see on probably all the copies that you have, but if you look closely and it would obviously we'd make sure that this isn't how it appears, but those three um stripes behind both logos representing all three of our communities, Cuba, City, Keeler, and Dickyville, incorporating all of us um all the
046communities coming together. Um, we liked the colors and we thought it was important that once we decide on those colors, we know that anything that we print or use it going forward that we're using yellow 1386 um just with the for the consistency. So, I'll jump to a the mascot discussion which is on the next page. Um, we actually talked we started these discussions back in 2023 and I know Julie and Angie were not a part of those conversations but Megan was and we were already working with Bray on some different ideas at that time. The logo that you're looking at we kind of brushed aside because we knew we we didn't know that we were going to stick with the Cubans. Now that we're sticking with Cubans, we know that we need to come
047up with like what does a Cuban look like? What is a Cuban? Um, so what you see here is a triad of three different animals. Um, the one that you're looking at is a combination of a lion, a serpent, and a goat. And we talked about just the characteristics of those animals in relating to the survey results. So with a line um demonstrating courage, pride and leadership, the serpent bringing wisdom, resilience, and adaptability. And then the goat reflecting determination, grit, and steady resolve, which in our survey results, we heard a lot of those same words of just, you know, tradition and and strength and um what we want to represent. Um it it it could be a little harsh right now. So, we talked about how we could soften it a little bit and some
048variations. Um, we like it because it's strong, but it might be, you know, kindergartener coming in. We want them to we want to welcome them to the school. So, we want to we want to get the board's approval with kind of moving forward with that idea. Maybe it's not these three animals, but just the idea of Mary having those those three different creatures or animals coming together to again representing the three different communities coming together. So, we gave this our graphic design team. They're like, we're going to need a little more time than than you guys gave us. So, they're still working on it. They'll have some different designs. So, the one you have in there was one done two years ago. It was just one example. Yep. And we were talking right before the
049meeting too just ways we can kind of tweak this and and again incorporating the animal but that the concept of just the three communities coming together and it being unique you know like if um I know we talked a little bit about if we picked something and I'm using this as an example like the Cuba City Lions like eventually or the Cuban lions either way like it's the tendency or habit of people dropping Cubans or Cuba City and then we become the lions. So having that uniqueness of this is actually a chamra. Let me be very clear. We're not suggesting we're chamiras. However, it's just that concept of those three animals and people not knowing what it is. So we also talked about it's a Cuban. We also talked about having like an artist come
050up with a story and a drawing when you enter each school. What is a Cuban? And we talked about some ways that we can incorporate local themes in there. That's the most common question we get, right? What is a Cuban? So, we're going to say, well, this this is a Cuban. This is what a Cuban is. And we can even have in there some of the the the ways that Cuban was was developed. But answering the question, what is the Cuban having that very big, you know, both? So, I'm going to stop there and I'll let um Angie and Julie like fill in any gaps that I didn't get to. I know we didn't talk about like the mascot or the costume or anything like that, but I think um the big part of it
051was is that the surveys obviously like Sarah said, we're strongly we want to keep the Cubans, right? I mean, so that's been kind of the big piece is just that historically that foundation of this district has always been the Cubans. Then we went away to Cuba City and we kind of then it kind of lost lost its identity, you know, I think in general. And the other piece is really that that conversation about bringing all three communities together and integrating them. So I think that was two of the biggest parts I think that that I think was was huge about the direction that the conversations went. Um the story part that Aaron had just mentioned. Another piece of just giving I think the district the opportunity to define that story like this is what our
052history is. this is what defines Cuba City Cubans and be able to create that story. Um I think is another piece of it. And then um I don't know. I just I personally I loved the idea. I mean I'm from Dickyville so I loved the idea of the three communities coming together. I think that just spoke volumes of really incorporating everybody. I I guess a thought occurred. You you both have spoke about the three communities. Was there any discussion about in you know in our logo um somehow actually putting the names Cuba City Dickyville Keeler you know I don't know if it's a triangle but actually naming them. Yeah, we didn't talk about Gary that Gary, but I have seen variations of different logos and it could be these two where you know it's just
053maybe in a a font below listing the especially when it comes to the stationary. Yeah. Listing the three communities. But I think there's opportunity for to do that for sure. I mean I guess I'm just wondering I mean I'm just thinking of you know in terms of Possi and Castle I mean they're co-op but they actually We're still Cuba City, so it still exists, you know. But that's one thing we talked about is we wanted to maybe drop Cuba City off of it. So if you notice in the original version of this Cuba City on this one up above, but we said we don't want to be represented as just Cuba City anymore. So we want to become just the Cubans. And what is the Cubans? all three entity, you know, three communities because that
054shield used to have two C's on there too, right? It's the double C and we're like, "No, we're the Cubans now." And that represents everybody that lives there. And we thought the shield was also a nod to our tradition of like our old logo too with the shields as well, the shape of it. And we did talk about as well and how do we incorporate students in all of this, right? So, we talked about when things are finalized and defined, you know, do we do a reveal at homecoming like this is our mascot and then the students get to name the mascot, right? I mean, like how do we again involve the students as well as because it's an exciting process to be, right? It's a really fun place to be to be a part
055of this foundation and this creation and getting everybody involved I think is just is really exciting and it'll be it' be fun, you know, and then them be a part of that creating the the whole piece, you know, I think is is fun. Um, but the mascot, I tried to explain it to my husband and then I had to show him a picture and I think his response was, um, okay, you know, maybe we had softened it a little bit, but um, and I think that's what our conversations were about was, you know, yeah, how do we make it a mascot that fits, you know, both buildings, all age levels, you know, all about having two different, like if we do get a costume, you do we want one for the elementary that is softer,
056so it's not fright and the one at the high school is more aggressive because that's kind of the nature of high school mascots versus elementary. So, we talked about some of those things, too. I was just going to say the first time I saw it, I'm like, what the heck? But I think the the more I marinated in the idea and just um came across like because I've been here in this community for 20 years now, what is a Cuban? And when people ask you that, I'm like, I really don't know. How do you how do we really define that? because we want to stay away from national or you know different nation stereotypes or whatever that is and that I think the word Cubans really provides us an opportunity to um use it as
057an acronym and identify what what is a Cuban and I think that's another part of our story and how we develop what we are and then those bringing those three um animal figures together really just kind of bonds all remix or all all of it together to create the story. It's not anything you're going to see everywhere, you know, it's not the the eagle, it's not the bobcat. It's something unique to Cuba City and I think Cubans is unique and I think we need to embrace that as well. So, I think that's we're at a great point, a great starting point. Um I think there's some things we do need to fine-tune, but um the more I think about it, the more I'm like, yeah, this is this is where we should be going. I'll
058build off that comment if I might because like Sarah mentioned I was on this committee originally when we started looking at these uh two three years ago and I think something I did get hung up on was Cuban obviously there's other there's nationalities that there's other other representations of this I have a hard time saying no this is what a Cuban means to us um but hearing you talk about Cuba City Dickyville Keeler and that representation of the three different communities I need to sit with it a little bit, but I like the the direction it's going. The only question I had looking at the image presented and understanding like it's an older example. We mentioned um was it lion, snake, and goat? I don't actually see the serpent in here or snake. It's like
059a winged creature. So, so just understanding we might see different variations of this in the coming months. Yep. Yeah. Y for sure. Um yeah, I'm definitely open to continue conversation on it. I just have to sit with the idea a little bit. I think and and we all touched on it when we were talking about it too. Like that's why the story behind it is so important. Yeah. And you know, Aaron brought it up, but it's like we're all talking about like how did we get here? And it kind of takes a minute. I mean, we're not used we have not seen anything like this in the past. So, just it's changed, right? Yeah. But I think the background and that story that goes with it extremely important. This does meet a lot of the
060things that were on the survey. Now, we had to combine some things in order to do that, but there's a lot of boxes that were checked by using that during the survey. It's not one or the other. It's a combination, but so so is our district. So, and I don't think we are saying that what is presented is what we're going to go with. It's a matter of this was just the thought process. Now we want to just go forward and just say well what animal might work better or what is more representative of so thank you for getting the subcommittee going and meeting and the great ideas where do we kind of go from here what's next I I think it's really do you want us to continue down this path because we'll want
061to come we'll want to probably come in July and say um are we okay approving these two logos like that'll be an action item by that time we would be able to say, "Okay, by July, um, here are five different examples of what the mascot would look like and then vote on that." Um, and then I think by by August, we probably if we could get that done July, great. But if July or August, we would want to have the story kind of created. That's kind of what we were thinking as a committee. I logo you're talking just the these two those two not and like these are orange but like on the screen here it's more printer I just want to make sure and and we'll have to identify like which color black gray
062and gold or yellow are we going to use there like that's part of what we have to identify and for those of us who are color blind it's going to be really difficult so we're going to be reliant on people with colors uh to identify because each color has a certain number that we want to want to say this is our so when when we send it in to get screen printing or um any type of stitching, they know what color to use. I probably also think maybe we should get a survey out to the community, too, because I think I know I've only been on the board a short time, but I've already got like 10 calls or 15 calls about this. And I think this is maybe more like polarizing than even like
063the referendum of like what's the mascot going to be. So maybe once we kind of get down a closer road of what we thinking, maybe just get a survey out and just kind of see what people people are thinking. Also, would that I mean I'm just asking if the possibility I'm just thinking outside the box if there were two or three different combinations. Is that something that the community could vote on? Like we could not vote on but get feedback on or is that like we're opening up and it's just going to take, you know, That's down a whole different place we don't want to go. I'm just asking. It depends on how you want to gather the information. Yeah. Like if you're if you want to do it on on Google, you know, or
064if you want to do it on Facebook, you know, that's where we could get that and you could probably get some of those that information on Facebook. As far as if you want to send a mailer out to each person, like we've done that before, and that's about $3,000 per mailing, and then we always miss people. Um you we have already we've surveyed all the teachers, all the parents and all the students. So we have that but we don't have people outside because we just don't have their information. So Facebook poll that have you done Facebook polls before? It's been a while. Okay. I think we could also do an open session like an open before our meeting like people to come in and talk and discuss and throw their ideas out. I feel like
065then you're really opening it up to just invite just invite you know if we're here a half hour 45 minutes before a regular meeting then we can hear feedback as well and gray might have recommendations if they've helped other organizations through mascot and branding relaunches up to how to get that buy in or get the word out because one thing with doing a Facebook poll it's not just Cuba City that follow and you don't know if it's really just people from Cuba City so that's like how you gather the information will be more difficult I would probably prefer the open session. Yeah, I was just going to say I I agree because when we talked about this a couple years ago and we talked about the mascots, it was like evenly split. Nobody liked anything
066else. Like it was it was not helpful. Yeah. I'll just be blunt and evenly split and you had 30 people and you had 30 ideas. Yes. So you're thinking we would come with a few ideas drafted and then I think that would be I would I would agree. I mean we could do that before the July meeting. I would do that before the July meeting just to get feedback and then we can discuss and tweak as necessary. Yeah. We have a special meeting or we just start with that like the first 45 minutes of that of our six o'clock meeting is general discussion. Well, if you want to make a motion though, I think we need to go beforehand. Maybe we can meet again as a subcommittee and kind of come up. Okay. Or have
067can we have the open session be part of our July 9th the week before or something? Okay. So, we will have options to the uh scary uh lion vote. I like the idea of coming with like maybe three. These are three different versions of we're looking at and then having people whoever come offer feedback on the three that are represented in this. So do you think that we're looking for feedback on three different creatures to use or are we looking for feedback on three different creatures that we come up with of combinations and then which ones are best? I guess I'm thinking that you come up with three different creatures, three different examples, and whether it's a, you know, could be like one of those meetings where everybody's getting a little post-it note and they
068they get a vote for each of the three, they only get one vote, but I would have the story behind each of the three available as well. All right. So, let's meet again. Can I make a comment? Go ahead. Uh, first of all, I'd like I'd like to thank the committee for putting the work into this. Uh, reading that letter, I think it's very well defined on what we're trying to do. I think something like that to the public, if we reprinted that on a Facebook post or something like that, uh, I think they put a lot of work in it. I I think it reads really well. I I think you'll get buy in if people read that and say these are our thoughts and this is this is why we're thinking this and
069and this is the preacher. I just think it's very well done. So, thank you. I leave it with the committee. Thank you, Dan. I think we need three by July. Yeah, that's something to do. So, we'll have a branding committee meeting before and then maybe July 9th, which is the one second before our board meeting. That's when we have kind of the open and talk about it. We'll present it and then allow them to have comment on it afterwards. Okay. Thank you committee. Item B is a curriculum resource cycle for the 25 26 recommendation area. Yep. Um so we had talked uh during the referendum parts about having the resource cycle be a fiveyear cycle instead of a seven. And that sounds good unless you're an elementary school teacher because elementary school teachers all teach
070English, math, science, and social studies. So what that would mean if it was on a fiveyear cycle is four out of five years they would have brand new curriculum every four out of five years. And really it people say it usually takes about three years for you to get comfortable with the curriculum. So, you know, we we have that the cycle here is where we purchase it and then the first three years you're just getting used to it and then in years five, six, and seven we're re-evaluating that and in year seven we're looking for for different ones. We just thought the seven the seven-year cycle allowed for that. Um just just knowing what elementary school teachers do. Now, middle school, high school teachers probably would would prefer a five-year um but having two different
071curriculum cycles um and funding. We we looked at different examples of those and we didn't think that was practical either. So, we're recommending just going through with the the seven-year cycle as we have used. This is the updated one right now. Um just wanted to see if you guys um we had conversation about that, but there was no decision. Just wanted to see if hearing that side of that which way you would like us to go. I I have no trouble accepting the staying with the seven-year rotation, especially if that's what staff is is recommending. I guess I question whether or not it is universally if it is a universal policy. Should this just be a K prek through five sevenyear cycle and middle school high school is different because I know middle school high
072school uses a lot of electronic modes and they might not need a seven-year because they want more up-to-date stuff or should that be a more annual cycle. So I don't know that it's a district-wide policy. I'm wondering maybe we need to reook at this and say okay I agree sevenyear for elementary school perfect but should it be yeartoear or just a you get a certain amount every year for a classroom in the middle school high school I know when I was teaching here I did not like the sevenyear cycle because I wanted the most up-to-date stuff in my classroom versus something that was seven years old so I question the sevenyear cycle for a school district, the whole district is do you have an idea what other districts do? Um, a lot of districts wait
073until they have at the end of the year if they have a surplus and then they say who hasn't had curriculum recycled. So, are you saying they don't really have a rotation? I would say a lot of schools don't have this. Some schools do have a rotation, but I I certainly have worked in schools where there wasn't one. I my question would would just be um I understand the seven-year at the elementary level um the middle high school I would question the curriculum that we're using are they supplementing because sometimes they do every year they'll update with different um activities or information or you know so are they is that happening with our curriculums are we staying most current or my fear it'll be the same seven years we might not be at the most
074current at the high you know definitely good question because I think I think the content area is different like cameo's here so when cameo like yeah I'm just thinking ELA cameo like your budget when when it's time for you like this is a big hall it's a big purchase for you where like with Julie and Austin they they're not getting a you know classroom sets of different books they're not they're not they may not be have looking at a $40,000 purchase they might be looking at and that's what why Julie's like hey if it'd be better for me to 4,000 a year than, you know, 28,000 every But I wonder if that's what we need to look at though and ask those certain, you know, grade levels where where are we better off because I
075do think some classrooms would be better off allocated every year versus at one time. And I would say language that goes into curriculum is a lot. I mean, determining the curriculum and then using it and then getting familiar with it and then getting trained on it. I mean there's a lot of phases when we implement new curriculum. Um so I guess and I don't I haven't looked at a lot recently but like came with your class like do they update every like do you get like every couple years they up supplemental information like activities are updated or there's different links you can access or update information or is it just it hasn't changed. It hasn't changed. I just finished year four with what we have. Okay. and he hasn't got any did math Chris it
076wasn't pretty much the same once you're in addition you're in that addition for the entire period and that's where some companies don't even have those additions for seven years I mean I know right now I have to update at least every four years because so I guess I just struggle so I've never been a teacher looking in from the outside I would think that something like business would would update quicker than some of the basics. So, could we Right. Yeah. So, could you look at it from a grade level and subject? Could I ask Megan for an opinion as to what a high school teacher would would recommend or or should we ask? I don't know what the timing is. is just a discussion item whether high school or middle school what we should really
077want to know can we use this 25 26 cycle right now but that doesn't mean that like 26 27 can't be altered if we come up with a better out better plan I'm willing to bet though that some people don't need curriculum even though they're on the schedule right now because they a maybe create their own and they don't need to purchase and they would just be spending money to spend money because it's their turn for that year versus there's other classrooms that need that up that upgrade. I just feel like I know that I when I was in that sevenyear cycle, we were spending money whether or not I need it or not because I wasn't going to get money again for seven years. I would rather get the resources when you need something
078versus just because it's your year. But aren't we locking the contracts for some of those curriculum cycles as well? Like I mean some some we are. We're having a hard time with some vendors not wanting to give us a sevenyear cycle too. So that's something else that we talked about like we're in like a three or five year like you're signed and you with them for like five years or whatever. So I mean can I ask something? So is it um the cycle that you have planned is it picking up from where we left off or is it a Okay. Yep. So last year we didn't have the cycle so we just that next year is last year. Okay. So for purchasing, you know, that that's what we really want to say like um purchasing
079for next year um that group will want to know whether we have that or not. Now maybe we study it for a year and we come up with a different one starting 26 27. Well, I mean I guess you know not being a teacher I mean what Julie is saying I mean I guess I'd like to maybe think that you'd ask middle and high school for their input. curriculum needs. All right. Just ask who needs curriculum and have a show of hands of who needs it in the next two years and kind of base it off of that and kind, you know, I I do think there's some that probably don't need it that are on a cycle or could go another year or two without it and let someone else that needs it have
080it. But is but is this kind of canned meaning that if it's through a a vendor that basically they're saying that you know in this next school year you would get A B and C and D or do we have an option to you know pick and choose. all the cart right now the way it is like when it's your turn to buy you've got that that set number and you can go up to that number you can't go over it and that's what you get for seven years. Um so it's not really canned because everybody get every year there's something different and even like business when you were business you were part of that curriculum year but there were other you know areas that were doing that. So you had you maybe were allocated
081this amount somebody else was allocated a different amount and maybe library media specialists were allocated a certain amount. So it's not can't but we do try to get all the resources for seven years. Any thoughts Megan you would share? Um go for it. Yeah, you want to take um uh just hearing the discussion, I I would like to investigate if there's a more proactive way to look at this knowing that maybe other school districts aren't locked into that seven-year cycle. If the seven-year cycle works for elementary given the adoption, research, adoption, testing, assessment, so be it. Um but I I would be interested in looking into adjusting our expectations for middle high school with the allowance that if we are on a time crunch to order certain things for next year, maybe we we adjust
082that discussion a little bit. So, we'll work with our curriculum leads on this this year and hopefully by the end of the year then we come and say, "Okay, this is our new the new plan." I would just I would just make some inquiry. I mean, I have no problem being part of that conversation either is, you know, if it needs to be just to from a bird's eye view of what's going on, but I do feel like there's other options and I I do feel like it's we need to be looking at our resources and utilizing our resources to their best ability. And I don't think this schedule does that. I have I have a question for those who don't have this rotation. How does that how do they do it? They just have
083one big pot and then teachers make sale pitches and then gets distributed based off of that or how does two other schools that I worked at? Yeah, it was we have some money left over at the end of the year. You've got this much. Which curriculum do we think needs to be updated the most? That's how it was. I'm sure there are some districts that, you know, that have a full-time curriculum director, some of the larger districts that have something like this and, you know, may maybe they have something that is elementary and high schools that, but I haven't worked in any of those schools. So, both both of the K12 schools that were about the same, one was a little smaller than Cuba, one was a little bigger. That's that's how it was done.
084Is that all right with the board then? Basically to investigate but stay with this uh for the next school year. Are we saying stay with the five or stay with the seven? Because I think we increased what we were budgeting to get to a fivey year. So for going are we saying going back to seven for that was an option and the budget isn't set yet the elementary we we calculated that in when we were talking about for the referendum. No we did. Yeah. And we increased it. Y yeah we increased it for this. Yes. Dian, any thoughts? No, no. I mean, nothing nothing comes to me that haven't been discussed. So, okay. I guess for like this current year, I think I would ask who's in dire need of curriculum or something right now
085and see where they fall on that schedule. And if they're ne maybe they're on this current year and not last year, but they need it more so than Last year we just made that adjustment. So I think it's inquiry and investigation a little bit first and then make that decision on how we allocate. I'm assuming you got to kind of probably move a little fast on to get the I mean that's it doesn't happen overnight to get the curriculum ordered. So all right any other discussion on this then hearing none we'll move to see changes to cash in lie of insurance. This was um brought by some teachers after our insurance um they were wondering if we would consider changing the cash in lie of to going from 2,000 to a higher amount. So, with
086the higher deductibles and higher premiums, some teachers are thinking about um using the spouse's um insurance. And they thought if the because our insurance is still pretty good um with premiums and deductibles, if you're in the private sector and you saw our our insurance package, you would think this is a really good package. Um so, they have asked if we'd look at that and say, okay, if we could bump that up, that would make it easier for us to be on our spouses, which would allow us some flexibility. Now I I can go see my doctor even though it pays it costs a little bit more where if we had the cash in li of they would be able to say I can take that and then that would cover a higher premium even but
087that gives us the flexibility we get to see our doctors. So I believe about seven years ago or eight years ago cash envelope was 85% the cost of the district. So it was maybe 5200 and then we um we dropped it down to 4,000 and then last year we dropped it down to 2,000 due to budget cuts. So those that's where they've been. Um so this is just a request from the teachers that we said we would put on here. This is discussion right now. Um if this is something that you want to proceed with, we can either have it as a special meeting or our July meeting to on it. But um I bet there were probably 25 teachers that that email came from. It was one person representing that that all of you
088got. So that's where this comes from. Erin, can you talk a little bit about if we're not covering those individuals, what that saves? Yeah. Um it would save us the premiums that we would pay. Um we we pay 80 is it 85% of the premium and the employer pays if the employee pays 15. So that's covered there. You know if one person goes on cash in li of what we save there is we don't make those premium payments for that person and then that's why we used 85% at one time because it it was kind of a wash that way as far as like overall savings to the district. I asked, you know, if we go from 65 people down to 50, would that save us anything outside of the pre, you know, more than
089the premiums? And then it was like, well, it depends on who, like if it's a high use family, it's going to save you a lot more, but and we don't get into that. And we don't see those things anyway. But as far as whole picture, it depends on who would opt out, but as far as the premium, it would save on that individual user. Any thoughts on what how many how many do we have take the in of now? I believe it's 17 employees. Uh would it be possible if Heather just kind of maybe put together a sheet or something and just kind of explain? Yeah. So that's really kind of what we want to know what you guys want to see at the next meeting. So would you like to see it at 4,000
090and at 5,000 or you know what what are what are you guys thinking? There's a break even point there is I' heard is the pre whatever that premium cost would be correct. Y and it was 4,000 previously. It was 4,000 two years ago I believe and then I think five years ago it was around 5200. And that's when it was at 85% of whatever the premium cost would be for a single, not a family, but a single. Single. Okay. So, we we could do that same thing. We show you what it looks like at 4,000. Now, we're speculating. So, whenever like whenever you do this, because we don't know who's going to switch, right? Some people might say, "Hey, if you make this 5,000, I'm going to switch. We make it 5,000." And they they
091don't have to. So, they're it's all speculating. But, um maybe we could get some conservative numbers. Sure. Just Yeah. appreciating that you can't predict exactly what the premium savings would be. Maybe Heather can come up with two or three recom like these are some options and we can I like and could could she um I hate having her do all this but could she look at what how many were taking it out when it was 5200 what numbers were we at with 4,000 and what numbers were we at 2,000 for staff just to kind of get an idea of like how many staff members were accessing it at at each of those times. Yeah. Is there anybody here that wants to speak to that? I'd be interested in seeing like a $4,000 and a $5,000
092comparison amount just to see where we're at. Do you want us to use four the same one we did last time? 4,000 then 85% cost of a family person or do would you just want to go 4,000 5,000 because 85% would probably be more than 5,000 now. So I just want to know what what you guys want to look at. Well, that's tough too because then it's like is it a single or is it a family? It's a sing and we've always just used single even if you if you were on family but that's the cash in was always 85% of whatever the cost was for a single plan. Was there a reason it was 85%? Like is there a logic behind 85%? I mean that's that's our expense is 85% of whatever that premium
093is. Okay. So I don't know if you would want the 85% not the 5,000. I guess I don't. So I guess in my head on a spreadsheet it's going to be very simple to do three different levels. You want I would do I would do the 85% 5,000 4,000. Okay, we can do that. So then and we'll bring historical data like I the last eight years or so. This is how many people have taken cash in so you guys can see that. Is there anything else you'd like before we I know some teachers were worried when they saw this on the agenda changes to cash and they thought we were taking it away. We're not taking it away. We're looking at bumping it up. So, I do have a question. Isn't a premium the same
094for everybody? It's your policy. Well, single versus family. No, I understand that. But you're saying, so let's just say I take the insurance and it's costing the district how much money? Yep. For me to take it for for a single. I don't know the new numbers as those I knew last year, but it doesn't fluctuate depending on how I use the insurance. No. Well, you kind of said that this this year it does because this school year that we're currently in, we're self-funded. Yeah. So, that's a little different. Next year, we're going back to what we were two years ago. For 2526, we're not though that, right? July one, we're not. So, what are you asking us to look at, Dina? Well, you kind of made it sound like premiums are different for different people
095depending on if they use it, but it's not. Everybody's premium is So, it's a benefit for me. my premium is a benefit. So, let's just say it's um $8,000. So, if it's $8,000 for my premium cash, if you give somebody $5,000, you're saving 3,000. How is that not cost effective? That's what we want to know is what? Okay. In essence, what trying to figure out, you know, 85% of the premium for a single is X and and if we But you kind of said, are you asking to look at like to add a fourth column there and just say 100% like total cost savings? Is that what you're Well, you kind of made it sound like the premium depends on what people are using for your insurance, and that's not what a premium is. I
096didn't understand it that way. Okay. Okay. what may what may have happened I'm no expert in this area but um certain people like we were talking about cost s potential cost saving to the district and depending on how that insurance is used long like by an individual user will impact overall I'm not explaining but selfunded it would but next year so like let's say if Tina said $8,000 is pre Mhm. And the employees pay 15% of that and we pay 85% of that and it used to be 88 and 12%. Um, so that's probably where that 85% came in is my guess. But like if you take family, the premium is this set amount. If you take single, you the premium payment is that set amount. I think that's what everybody needs to understand. I
097don't think that's what I meant if that didn't come out correctly. Okay. But yeah, I just wanted to make sure there's there's a monthly set that if you take family, this much comes out of your paycheck if you take single. So that's the number that we'll be using that plus the the plus the I just wanted that clarified. So I think the savings would be is if if I like say if I took family, my premium is this much for the district and me and then if I take the cash move, I'm getting 85% of a single single which is less. So that's safe district. Correct. Some I think those are the numbers that you need to see. Well, and I guess we need to know how many people are truly committed to switching over
098to cash and loo because otherwise it's not a cash I don't think we can get that. It's not, but I'd hate to see us increase it and no one changes it. Now, I don't think there's any scenario where we'd lose money, you know, even if we had 85% because that 85% the district pays 85% and the employee pays 15%. So even at that point, it would be a zero to zero. You know, like it doesn't cost us a penny more at at all. It's even, you know, there's some savings if you go four or 5,000 because now we're not paying that 8,000 for that person, but we're only paying 4,000 over here. So that there's some savings there. And we're really not looking to do this as far as cash s. We're really looking at
099it for the people who are like, I don't want to lose my doctors. I mean, that's who we're really thinking about right now is those people that want to have different have coverage and they have that longstanding history with their doctors. Oh, so you're gonna get Yep. We'll bring that back. Do a little calculation or a spreadsheet there. Yep. Appreciate that. So Erin, I can't always hear all these side conversations, but so you are you are going to have the historical data when we changed from 85 to 4,000 and then from 4,000 to 2,000 that we know that if we have 17 on now, we used to have 25 at one level and then 20 and now it's 17. We'll be able to see that. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Yep. There are or is no
100public recognition. So, we'll move to new business. Uh the first one is approve the date and time for the July 25th uh meeting uh at 6 o'clock. Is there any uh uh one who wants something different? I will not be here, but I could be on virtually if everybody else wanted to do what day did you say? July. Wednesday. July 16. 16th. Looks like a lot of conflict. I may not be here either. The 16th. Okay. So, I probably will be on my way to Virginia. If not in Virginia, July is traditionally the hardest date to find a common date. So if we only have two people missing and one might be on I would say is the July one the one that we're talking more about the the mascot though and everything too or
101no that would be the vote the vote for you. Yeah. Okay. And if it were ready to vote at that point. Brad will be coming with all the timeline information all that as well of the building. All righty. Is there a motion then to have that? uh or we don't need it if we're not changing it. So then B is approved the renewal of WIA high school membership. Uh there are no changes. Uh so would someone move, please? I'll move to approve the renewal of the WIA high school membership. Is there a second? I'll second. Swagger. Yes. Joel, yes. B. Yes. White. Yes. Herman. Yes. Bowden. Yes. Andrews. Yes. Motion carried. Item C is approve the April 6 through 11 of 2026 overnight band field trip to New York City. They do this every four
102years so that every student in band can have this experience. And uh Chris already talked a little bit about that, but this is anytime there's an overnight trip, the board always has to approve that. If there's no questions, would somebody move? I move to approve the April 6, the 11, 2026 overnight band field trip to New York City as presented. A second. A second. Schwagger, yes. Joel, yes. Bar, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. Item D is approve the purchase of building and grounds scissor lift. Um Aaron noted in our uh Friday update uh and uh I guess anyone on the uh billing grounds committee can chime in as well um that we need to uh replace the current genie. You want to talk about that? Yeah. So with the
103with the new additions and stuff like that, our current one, we wouldn't be able to reach certain levels as far as lights and stuff like that. Um, we got two recommendations and the recommendation was the cheaper one, uh, less hours and everything like that. So, we unanimously voted to, um, bring it to you guys for approval. Are there questions? Would someone make a motion? I'll move to approve the purchase of buildings and grounds scissor lift as presented. Is there a second? I'll second. Schwiger, yes. Joel, yes. Barf, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. Uh, item E has approved the sale of a special education changing table. Uh, Whitney, any uh thing you want to add to that? Um, no. Holly John's brought it. That was one of the things that
104she wanted to put out in the gym. Um, it originally it's around $1,000 new. Um, and she has no use for it anymore since the uh, what year was it? The 18, 17, 18 remodel when the ear like the younger classrooms got bathrooms in them. So, her current classroom has a bathroom with a changing table in the wall. Um, so she hasn't used it for the last several years. So, really, it's just and we didn't want to storage inexpensive stuff like that that has value. We're going to we're going to we're going to sell it for more than the $5. So, all right. Somebody want to move to approve that? So, I do have a question. So, this is a changing table. It's not for like a a a larger student with special needs or
105for three and four. Okay. Yeah, it's like a little changing table. The stairs pull out. Um, I would say it's probably half the size of one of these tables. So, having a three-year-old myself, he would it would be a tight fit for him. Like, it's it doesn't come with a pad on it. So, it's just like the frame of it and then it's got steps that a child, a younger child could walk up on and there's some storage and things like that, but nothing that an older student would be able to fit on. Nothing we would need future used for. Doesn't sound like it's been used in the last few years, Dan. Okay. Somebody move, please. I move to approve the sale of the special education changing table as presented. Is there a second? I
106will second. Schwagger, yes. Joel, yes. Bart, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. Uh, moving to personnel, approve the hire of Dylan. Redern is the new middle school special education teacher. Yep. This is a hire that continues to practice we had last year um for the later part of the second semester for a student that um was identified that needed a one-on-one teacher. Um so this is just the continuation of care from that same um teacher who who yielded good results for the student. I will move to approve the hire of Dylan Redford as a new middle school special education teacher as presented. Is there a second? I'll second. Schwiger, yes. Joel, yes. Bart, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. Uh, approve the hire of middle
107school, high school, Spanish teacher, and EL coordinator. Cecilia Renker. Yeah, we actually posted this position as a Spanish teacher and EL coach. And, uh, we were fortunate enough to have somebody who has some EL coordinator experience as well. So, um, Mrs. Renker is a native Spanish speaker and we think she'll do a great job as a EL coordinator working with our students and she's got over 15 years of world language experience and a master's degree and we're very excited to have her. If there's no questions, would someone move? I'll move to approve this the hire of Cecilia Renker as the CC or the middle school high school Spanish teacher and email coordinator. Is there a second? I will second. Schwiger, yes. Joel, yes. Bart, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried.
108Uh C is approved the hire of the elementary 5K teacher, Katie Shrader. Yes. Uh we we had some great interviews this year. We had a lot of applicants, many more than we have had the last two years, which is saying that I think we're getting more people graduating with education degrees. So, very competitive round of interviews in pretty much every position. And Katie is a CCHS graduate and did a wonderful job and was a unanimous choice in that committee to bring in as 5K teacher. Would someone like to approve that? I'll move to approve the hire of Katie Schrader as the new CCES 5K teacher as presented. Is there a second? I'll second. Spiger. Yes. Joel. Yes. Bart, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. The D is approved the hire
109of the elementary 4K teacher, Taylor Westmire. Yep. Uh, we had some interviews, so our committee unanimously selected Taylor to be our 4K teacher as well. Would someone approve that? I'll move to approve the hire of Taylor Westmire as the new CCEES 4K teacher as presented. Is there a second? I'll second. Schwagger, yes. Joel, yes. Bart, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. Then committee reports, uh, budget and finance. Aaron, any Yeah, we met on May 12th. just kind of did a um overview of where we are in this school year and then a preview of next year with the 2526 budget. Um building and grounds. Uh there was a meeting uh on June 11th. Um I guess Aaron just a thought uh um when we have Brad's schedule andor budget is
110that would be appropriate to maybe schedule another meeting to discuss you know what yeah I think we'll start we'll start scheduling more frequent builds and ground meeting now that the core planning committee is done kind of with the design. Y so basically what Aaron is saying there there used to be Chuck and I attended the meetings between Bray and Epic and Aaron and Chris. Um, and those have are done now. So, there's no more planning. We're in the construction mode. So, the suggestion was made that anything this go going forward will actually just be a building and grounds meeting. I'd actually like to have a monthly meeting just to see the progress of that's what we did for the last rep was we had one. Okay. And you'll probably have a lot more questions once
111we see a timeline and or a budget and if there was a dollar or three left what we would do with it. Yep. Um personnel um there's a meeting scheduled. It's July 14th. Is that correct? I think so. policy. Um, we usually we usually meet in August or September for an update. I haven't been contacted about any new ones yet, but usually in August. No, but I would like to start before the I would like to have one before school starts this year because I know there was some that we tabled or that we wanted to have discussion around about the um virtual. Yeah. And there was a fundraising one that I had questioned and a few other ones that I would like to approach. So, we'll schedule those either July or early August. Okay.
112We had a tech and transportation meeting on uh June 11th as well. Um I guess uh um we pretty much went over the tech budget for um the uh next school year. We kind of looked at what the and was that all I that the minutes were already in there. So I guess did anybody have questions about that technology or transportation and we really kind of looked at whether we're going to continue the contract with Davis bus lines of the year we have to decide whether we're going to stay with them or put out to bid. We had some questions that Aaron was going to take and meet with Davis bus lines to uh report back to us before we actually would vote on changing the three to or extending it to a 5year contract.
113Foundation won't have a meeting again probably till probably August. August again. Okay. Um I don't have anything from CISA 3 because they've not had a meeting since our main meeting. So at this point I would make a motion to adjourn the meeting. Is there a second?