School Board Meeting 5-14-25

001% sure we're I'd like to call the meeting to order if I could please would you do roll Megan Swagger here Joel here bar here white here herman here Bowden here here all present uh proof of giving public meeting notice Aaron notices were posted at both schools sent to the village of Dickyville in the uh Cuba city hall and members of the media on Monday May 12th thank you um the third item is a annual board reorganization and uh um item A. Um I'm going to make a motion to appoint um Megan to serve as the uh board of education president for the uh reorganization. Is there a second? I will second. Serve as the temporary clerk. There you go. Not president. I didn't get that one in there. All right. Uh, first we will

002hear any motions to for uh, pres nominations for president which is currently held by Gary Andrews. I would move to appoint Gary Andrews as president. I will second Schwagger. Yes. Joel, I just have a question before I say Oh, yes. Is there an option if people have other other nominations? Nominations. I mean, I think you need to ask that question first. Yes. Before you just move on to it to the next one. Just My apologies. Sure. Just to be fair. Oh, that is I will entertain other nominations. My apologies. Hearing no other nominations, is there a motion? I would move to nominate Gary Andrews to serve as Cuba City School Board President. I will second. All right. Schwagert, yes. Joel, yes. B, yes. White, yes. Herman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrew, uh, abstain. Motion carried. All

003right. Uh, are there any nominations for vice president of the school board? I would move to nominate Dan Bowden. Are there any other nominations at this time? Hearing none, could I please have a motion uh to appoint Dan Bowen as vice president? I will. So, is there a second? I'll second. Schwagger, yes. Joel, yes. Bart, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, abstain. Andrews, yes. Motion carries. Uh, is there a any nominations for the position of treasurer? This was held by Chuck Poll, so it is uh vacant at this time. And I' I'd also like to add a comment that whoever that is probably needs to be on the finance committee. So, we may have to do a little shuffling of the committees to accommodate that. So, just a thought anybody that's interested in serving as

004treasure, what are the duties for that or what? It's not a lot. Not a lot. I'll give it a try. Okay. And are you you're on the budget finance? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That would work. Perfect. I would move to appoint Joe Schwagard for just to be sure there are no other nominations at this time. Just to Well, I'm just making the Give it the space. Okay. I would move to appoint Joe Schwagert as treasurer of the school board. I'll second that. Not even call for any other nominations. Are there any other nominations? Hearing none, is there a motion to appoint Joe Schwagger to serve as Cuba City's uh board of education treasurer? Yes. So move. Second. All right. Uh Joe saying Joel, yes. Bart, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried.

005Uh, are there any nominations for clerk currently held by Megan? Just doing her best today. I will nominate Megan and she will accept. Are there any other nominations? All right. Hearing no other nominations, can I just have a a motion? I'll move to nominate Megan as the uh Cuba City Board of Education clerk. And is there a second? Second. Schwagger, yes. Joel, yes. Bar, yes. White, yes. Uh Henderman, abstain. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. That moves us to appointing a member to the CISA board um who will also serve as the CISA 3 convention representative. This is currently held by Gary. I don't know if there's interest in serving again or if there are other nominations. I will accept if no one else wants it, but if somebody else wants it, uh more power

006to you. Speak up. for newer board members. This is traditionally one that's more like volunteer than nominated. Gary, if you'll take it, I will move to appoint Gary Andrews to serve on the CISA 3 board if there is an opening for the 24 uh 2526 school year. There is. I would second. Schwagger, yes. Joel, yes. Bart, yes. White. Yes. Hinderman. Yes. Bowden. Yes. Andrew. Motion carried. Now we are looking for an appointment for the uh Wisconsin Association of School Boards Convention representative. This has been held by Dan Bowden in the past. there's anybody interested in taking on that position. And again, I certainly wouldn't be offended if somebody else wants to do it. main role there is pictures and you go to the convention which is usually the third week in January in Milwaukee and

007you serve on the go to the delegate uh convention and where they present all sorts of motions and uh things for changes I will nominate Dan to serve as the WB convention representative. Are there any other nominations? Otherwise, Gary, can I take that as your your motion? Yes. I will second. Schwiger, yes. Joel, yes. Bar, yes. White, yes. Hinderman, yes. Vote and abstain. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. All right. Uh, I will entertain a motion to set the time of our regular board meetings. By board policy, the board meets the third Wednesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. Unless we take action to the contrary. Is there any desire to change that board? Is there any way to move it up earlier or is it too much of a conflict with work schedules? If it was

008at 6, I'd be going for six. Six. I'm okay. couldn't go earlier most nights. I'm okay with Right. Do you want to make a motion to that effect? Oh boy. Where is the I need to make a motion. We got Oh, there it is. I lost my thing on set the time. I would Where am I at? Okay. Move to set the regular meetings on the third Wednesday of each month beginning at 6 p.m. Is there a second? I'll second. Schwe, yes. Joel, yes. Bar, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. Uh, designate official depositories. The policies have been adopted to designate all four banks in the district. This allows for flexibility when dealing with whichever bank provides the best proposals. Is there a motion? Is there any desire to change

009that motion? This has been in place for a number of years. I'll move to designate Mount City Bank of Cuba City, Midwest One Bank of Cuba City, Royal Bank of Dickyville, and People's State Bank of Dickyville as official depositories of the school district of Cuba City. Is there a second? I'll second. Schwigger, yes. Joel, yes. Bart, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. Designate official newspaper. This is required so citizens can know where to look for official notices. And in the past, this has been Tri County Press. Is there a motion or any questions? I would move to designate the Tri County Press as the official newspaper of the school district of Cuba City. I'll second. Schwiger, yes. Joel, yes. Bar, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Paul or Bowden, yes. Andrews,

010yes. Motion carried. I to committee membership. And bear with me here a minute. We're going to go down them, I guess, one at a time here. Uh, building and grounds is Julie, Joe, and myself. Um, and that's okay, folks. Joe. Yep. I think I said Julie Joe and myself. I said Julie Joel. Oh, I can understand why you thought that. I've gotten that. So, that's that's okay. All right. Then, budget and finance. I did have a request from Angie to join that. Um, so that at this point, um, Joe needs to stay on. Um, so between Dan and Megan, um, so, uh, probably at least have potentially three people for the committees that probably meet the the most often would at least allow hopefully two to be in attendance when you have a meeting in

011case one can't make it. I would be fine stepping down if if Angie wants that position. Okay. Um could we trade places because she was on I'd rather transportation, right? Yep. I would take transportation if that's what if that would work. That'd be great. Thank you. Can we Okay, we're going to switch Angie and Dan. Angie on the um budget finance and Dan to transportation. Okay. The foundation uh is Dan and Joe. That's okay. Pardon me. Uh personnel is Dan, Sarah, and myself. Policy Megan, Angie, and Julie. And technology, transportation, and vocation is Sarah, Dan, and myself. And I'm the CISA rep, and Dan is the WA speed rep. Is that acceptable board? Okay. All right. Thank you. With foundation, that's not one where we would need three people. So rarely. Okay. Yeah. They just

012meet twice. Mhm. Okay. So, there is a motion there if somebody would make that if those committees are accepted. I can make a motion. I move to approve the Cuba City Board of Education committee assignments as presented. Is there a second? I will second. Schwagger, yes. Joel, yes. Bart, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. Then, uh, item four is the consideration of the consent agenda. Are there any items A through E that the board would like uh, hold for further discussion? I just had a question on C. When I was reading through our district students going out, I noticed one student was listed at three different locations. So when you apply, you get to apply to up to three different places. That doesn't mean that they have to go, but

013they have the option to go to any three of those. So you'll see that a few times. Okay. Question. Any other questions? Hearing none. Would someone move? I'll move to pro to approve the consent agenda as presented. Is there a second? I'll second. Schwagert, yes. Joel, yes. Bart, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. Then on to admin reports. We'll start with elementary and Jason, please. All right. Um, my memory serves right, we move this meeting up a week, and it's amazing that, uh, so much stuff can happen in less than a month. Uh, if you've heard that the last month of school is extremely chaotic at times, you've heard correctly. Uh, a lot of things going on. Uh, on April 23rd, Chief Levelville and Sergeant Ryan visited the 5K classrooms

014to conduct annual fingerprinting of our 5K students. This is a free service provided to our 5K families each year. The fingerprint cards are sent home to families for records and safekeeping. No information is kept by the police department. This is simply a safety service provided for our 5K families. Also on the 23rd of April, CCEES students and staff had the privilege of performances by the Platinol Children's Choir which featured our own students Henry Brewer, Lily Brandt, Brinley Acriman, Phoebe Brewer, and Claire Yos. They did an fabulous, fabulous job. Uh despite a lot of obstacles for field trips this year, we had many successful ones. Um and we're very thankful to large portions of our community that ensured that those happened. Um I don't know if everybody's in the same boat, but spring field trips were

015probably some of my fondest memories of grade school. They're an exciting time and lots of great memories occur. Uh our 5K classes visited the Havens petting farm uh that was sponsored by Schwiger family farms. First and second grades visited the inclusive playground in Platville with transportation sponsored by the CLA class families and local businesses. Our third grade visited Swiss Valley Nature Center. Their transportation was funded by a grant from the Friends of Debute Conservation Board and Lane Custom Shopping. Fourth grade attended Day at the Dairy, which was sponsored by the Lafayette County Dairy Association, including their transportation. And fifth grade traveled to Blackhawk Memorial Park for the Earth Day celebration and outdoor events specifically organized for area fifth grade students. Uh that was funded by a generous family donation offered on the night of the

016fifth grade living wax music. So, some wonderful support with that. and we're very grateful to those individuals and groups that that donated to all of our classes. Uh also uh through the the last month there were many recognition events that we celebrated. Um Miss in our building, Miss Jesse Dinar and Miss Jessica Lipker on administrative assistant day, Mrs. Joyce Dinar, Mrs. Kelly Banfield, Mrs. Holly Shyman, Mr. John Baker, and Mr. Kevin Cole on lunch hero day. We celebrated our W Platville graduates and student teachers, Miss Britney Ziggler, Miss McKenzie Woman, and Miss Elizabeth Andrews. We wish them the best of experiences as they pursue their personal educational careers and are proud to say that they have their roots here at CCEs. Uh my own bucket was filled uh with the recognition given from students and

017staff on National Principal Appreciation Day. Our PTO stepped up once again and led the way to show show our teachers all the gratitude we have for them during teacher appreciation week a week early in our building April 28th through May 2nd knowing that our last week of school would be extremely busy. And just to cap that off, words um days even weeks worth of recognition cannot match the value of the people that we've celebrated in the past month and over the year through different recognitions. Uh we hope that all those that provide that that time and service for us, they recognize the gratitude that we have and and they feel that appreciation every day. On the final Friday of the year, students were treated to fun activities, summer gift bags, and popcorn during a movie

018sponsored by the Cuba City PTO. A huge thank you to the members of the PTO for organizing and overseeing the activities which provided staff time to attend to year the end of the year tasks and classroom transitions for the summer. On May 8th, Miss Gail Pittson hosted the Country Care 4K family lunch at Keepers Park in Dickyville. It was a beautiful day that all students and families enjoyed. Thank you to Miss Joyce, Miss Kelly Banfield, and Miss Holly Shyman for preparing the picnic lunch that day. And then also our end of the year picnic was a success with over 170 family members joining us for lunch. Want to thank the food service staff again for serving a majority of those family members along with 140 student meals that day. So very very busy. I gave

019you guys the brief version. Well, thank you for your great leadership and passion this past school year. Thank you. It's my pleasure. Thank you. Any questions of Jason? Alrighty, Chris, you're up. All right, so I've got a lot as well. Uh, on May 2nd, we bid farewell to the class of 2025, graduation ceremony was well attended and went very smoothly. Um, a with AP tests and sports season still going, we still see a lot of those familiar faces, but we will miss them as they move on to the next chapters of their lives. Uh, with finals finished up, Miss Lawson assured me that we have all of our sophomores trained in CPR. This is the final that she gives for health class. Um we have trained every sophomore class since 2017 somewhere around 600 kids.

020Um FCCLA had their spring celebration today at Winter Park to close out their year. Uh they recently held elections to place officers for the 2526 school year. FFA competed in two days of state career development events or CDEs. Uh the results included a communications team consisting of uh members Isabelle Wel, Isabelle Dinar, Natalie Krueger, and Emily Wigman. They took third place. Uh Isabelle Welp took second high individual. The egg sales team consisting of Will Drestler, Xavier Torres, Lucas Toma, Ethan Carious placed 15th. Media valuation team consisting of Michael Turstra, Clayton Dhy, Jonas Teasdale, and Andy Aten placed eighth. Uh Michael placed 15th and Clayton placed 20 as in individuals. Katie Wacker participated in the dairy handler event and was ranked 10th in the state. Uh the forestry team consisting of Lucas Toma, Khloe Laru, Dia

021Christrist, and Ethan Curious placed 14th. So congratulations to all of our students and Miss Van Scandal on a successful year. Uh congratulations also goes out to Cuba City FFA alumni Morgan Van Scandal as she earned the American farmer degree. Uh, Miss Van Scandal stated this is the first student that she has taught who has earned this prestigious award. Um, and to note this is the highest degree that the FFA can bestow on any one of their members. Um, and no, I don't have mine. Uh, middle school has been busy with the end of the year. Uh, Miss Rollins accompanied several students to the state level of the National History Day competition. Uh participants included Adelie John's, Cassidy Shepard in group exhibit, Ava Digman in individual documentary, Kennedy Pickle and Reagan White in group documentary, Anna

022Egan and Macy Mockler in group documentary. Uh Carter and Kennedy Clanden in group website. Congrat congratulations to all. Sixth grade class would like to thank the PTO for helping make sure that they were able to take a trip to Cape of the Mound. and the PTO also arranged to help the eighth grade trip with uh to going to Urban Air in Madison. Speaking of eighth grade, they just finished another successful career day. Thank you to Miss Updike Ames and all of our middle school teachers for helping our students prepare for that day. Uh thank you to Mr. Clayton, Miss Clayton, and Miss Bod for organizing two wonderful nights of fine arts shows. Uh there was a visual visual arts display here in the library and music in the gym. And then finally, thank you to

023our admin team for the first of many great years. Thank you to the school board for all of your support with our school. Thank you to Ashley and Julie for keeping the office um at the middle and high school running smoothly even with all the additional tasks. And then finally, thank you to um all of our absolutely amazing staff for making our school the greatest place on earth. Thank you, Chris. And again, as Jason, I mean, we certainly appreciate all your hard work, time, and dedication. It seems like uh this is truly your second home here. So, thank you. Any questions of Chris Whitney, special ed, please? Yes. A huge thank you to Jesse Dinar who has helped me navigate through the May 9th snapshot. Uh the snapshot deadline was not ideal as it was

024the last day of school, but we worked together and got everything submitted, fixed, and validated. Um, so we will get ready for the one next year. So, uh, congratulations to Joe Blahett on his retirement. Thank you for all of your dedication and hard work in supporting students at Cuba City Middle and High School. We wish you all the best in this next chapter. Uh, thank you to Jesse, Jessica, Ashley, and Julie for all of your hard work to make our schools run smoothly. Uh, your organization, professionalism, and attention to detail um to keep everything running smoothly often behind the scenes. I want you each to know that it never goes unnoticed. Whether it's managing schedules, handling last minute changes with grace, or being calm in the middle of a storm, your work is essential. You

025make things easier for everyone around you and you do it with such kindness and compassion. You are the glue that holds the team together and we are incredibly lucky to have each of you. Um, teacher appreciation week. The PTO helped celebrate teacher appreciation week a week early, just like Mr. Hollesmer said, because we know how crazy the last week of school can be. Uh we organized a snack daily to ensure staff's hearts and bellies were full. Uh muffins and fruit, popcorn, cookies, trail mix, and refreshments were provided throughout the week. Uh we organized this week off of the theme of books. So teachers are like books. They can change you forever. Um so there were a couple flyers we sent out. We also sent out a parent flyer so parents could participate in presenting things

026for their teachers throughout the week as well. So that was fun. Um throughout the week, staff members were also able to participate in bingo. Uh this was something the PTO added new this year. So seven numbers were sent out daily for staff to mark off their bingo cards. Uh we had a lot of staff play and that was districtwide. So that was really fun to see as well. Um as the school year comes to an end, I want to say thank you to everyone within the Cuba City School District and community for your continued support as I navigated through my first uh through my first year as in this position. Uh it's been an amazing learning experience and it would not have been successful without the guidance and support from everyone. So thank you. Well,

027thank you Whitney and uh it was great to have you for this first year and uh you know kind of like uh everything seemed to go smoothly. Uh I never heard any complaints. So you must be doing an awesome job. So well thank you. Any questions of Whitney? I just want to say thank you to you three and thank you to all the staff and a really challenging year with the with the referendum and so many different barriers. There has been amazing successes that still have happened and I really feel the students although there was a lot of challenges really have not felt that. So really kudos to all of you guys for rising above a very difficult year um and making it still a great year for all of our students. So thank you.

028Thank you. and have their business report, please. Sure. Um, after the meeting's over with, Megan, Joe, and Gary, I do need you to sign this paper because I need to update signatures on our payroll and expense check. So, help me not to forget to get that from you. Um, just an update on the current uh fiscal year. At the end of April, we were 84% through our year and we spent about 57% of our budget. This is about 5% um a a little less than 5 percent than last year. Keep in mind that um we have summer payroll, so our teachers do get paid over the summer. So, while you might think, oh, 57% like we're going to end the year in a really good spot. We we still may uh but we have lots

029of summer payrolls uh coming up. So, we'll eventually get get caught up where where we should be. um an update on fund 49 or our referendum account. As you can imagine, there's not a lot of activity in the month of April in this account, but that will soon be changing. As you walked in our building and noticed in our halls, there's lots of activity going on. But in the month of April, our only revenue was just interest, which was $13.8, and our balance at the end of the month was $5,622.98. Um during the month of February, the school district underwent a DPI food service audit. We have these audits every five years. I did include in the consent agenda. There was two documents that came from DPI. There was a closure letter and the administrative

030report. Um there were not any uh fiscal action that needed to be taken. And as of April 21st, all corrective action had been reviewed and approved by DPI. Um, I just want to say a huge congratulations to Janet Leahalt, our food service director. Uh, this audit was successful because of a J Janet's attention to detail, her commitment to high standards, and her knowledge of state and federal requirements. Um, we actually have gotten phone calls from other school districts who want to hire Janet out because DPI has told other school districts in the area, oh, you should talk to Janet in Cuba City because she knows what she's doing. So, we people have asked if uh we could sub her out. Um and if you look at the number of findings that we had and compare

031us to other districts in in even CISA 3, we are significantly lower uh than other school districts. So um just a huge uh thank you and congratulations to Janet and and her team. Um, I've reviewed all the teachers budgets and they have been passed on to the principles and the special ed directors and as of about an hour or two ago, uh, the three sitting next to me, they have their review done as well. So then, uh, I can move forward and start entering all of that data into our, uh, financial system for next year. Um, and then I'm just continuing to work on the 2526 budget. Uh, and then I did put um spend quite a bit of time uh putting together some documents that are going to review be reviewed uh later today

032tonight at the meeting. Thank you, Heather. Any questions on her? I have one I think it's for you, Heather probably more for Jason. Are we doing summer school again this year? I mean, it's still going to be operated and I mean with all the construction and things going on. Fabulous. Okay. It's being held uh in the elementary building. In the elementary start. Oh, I figured it was coming pretty soon. I never thought five weeks, 14 days a week. And thank you, Heather, for all of your work, especially with all of the referendum attempts uh this past year and uh your countless hours of trying to make 1 plus one equal three. So, thank you. Aaron, superintendent. Yep. Uh some exciting news to start. On April 7th, um just days after the referendum passed, uh the

033district received notice from the city of Cuba City that we would be receiving a a one-time payout from a TID district number two in the city of Cuba City. These this TID was um originally supposed to close at a break even position, but because they extended a little bit longer, it generated a surplus. So, as required by by statute, those excess funds that were collected are distributed to overlying tax entities, and the school is one of them. So, later tonight, we'll talk about um our suggestion on how we can use that um TID payout um and recognize our staff. Um building project timeline. Our building project is finally underway. Uh we'll be using these doors now for the remainder of the summer when we have meetings. So, we'll make sure that's posted. Uh, but if

034you did venture up to the hallway up there, you'll see it looks very different. All the lockers are out. U, the flooring is going to come out next week. And then those two bathrooms up there are going to go through a heavy renovation. Uh, so um, in addition to that, the parking lot down here is going to be worked on. That begins Monday, and they have to level that out. So, they they assume that's going to be about a twomonth process. They're going to level kind of one section at a time. So the so the south entrances that we usually use all summer are not going to be the normal entrance. In fact, the normal entrances are going to be if you went out those doors and looked to your right in between here in

035the cafeteria, there's a set of doors and that's where most people will be coming in during the day. So that's all a little different. Um and but that's where the students students will go. We'll try to make sure that we keep people up to date with that as well. And then our summer school um begins on June 9th, ends on on July 10th. Um some high school courses will begin or end early. We've got band and egg and um weightlifting that that kind of go start early and end late, but everything else will go those five weeks and it's Monday through Thursday except for Thursday, July 4th, I believe. That's all I have. And the I would add the building uh project meeting that I went to with Aaron and Chris and Heather. I can't

036remember exactly who was there, but um the classrooms in that north wing, they're all getting new flooring, um furniture, some a lot of them are getting new doors. Um the hallway is going to be totally redone. uh new lighting, etc. So, you probably won't recognize it when it's all done. So, it's, you know, way way overdue. And plus uh um they talked about putting a sidewalk I don't know out here possibly um because the parking lot on the south end is going to be tore up um probably for you know all of the all of the fall and probably almost all of next year with this being the main entry. They were talking about possibly putting a sidewalk to run along the east side of the building from the south parking lot to up here.

037But there'll be street parking uh you know andor whatever you can get from the far south end of the parking lot. But they're going to fence it off next week when they start to bulldoze. So as soon as there starts to be a a drop, they might take off the top layer and that may not be fenced yet, but as soon as there starts to be some drops, that's when they said they're going to put the fence in. We're looking at some signage there so people know where they should go and what's coming up next. and we asked that they put up a sign kind of like you see with somebody building something along the road that coming soon and some renditions of the building project. So hopefully uh that we're excited that that's moving

038forward. So thank you. Will this main area be opened at the start of the school year up here? Okay. Security and just all that that'll all be taken. Yeah, that'll all be done. We're hoping that that's done before in service week. Okay. Uh but yes, they know our start date. Okay. Okay. All righty. And then we're to discussion on district branding options. Um for those on the board, we talked about this a year ago, maybe a year and a half. Two. Two. Yeah. Before I was on the board, so I probably two. And so, um, this is one of the items that our architect is really kind of waiting for us to make a decision on so that they can put whatever we decide into the branding, their logos or whatever that go on the

039school if if I said it correctly. We have some placeholders in different places that they want to do some things. They're just kind of waiting for us here. So, this was something brought up by the board to look into whether we keep the name Cubans and whether we look at a mascot, possib logo, something like that. So, the board had asked me to get some some feedback. So, we got a little over 300 um surveys back and that's from staff, students, and parents. Just as a frame of reference, in 2022 for our referendum when we sent out 2500 surveys, we got back about 500. So, you know, about 60% of of that. So, a pretty good turnout. And the the things we were looking at for staff feedback, we got 41 responses. About 61% viewed

040Cuban positively. Uh 76% supported creating a mascot. Um they value staff value tradition but are open to a mascot that symbolizes strength, pride, resil resilience. I asked for some ideas. There were a lot but those are kind of some common ones. Just think started with these. Student feedback uh had about 160 from grades 612. 70 to 75% felt positively about the that Cuban's nickname. 80 to 85% of students supported creating a mascot that represented toughness, pride, and school spirit. Again, some ideas there. a lot that started with C's or that had yellow and black tie in. And then parent feedback about 110 70 to 75% of them felt positively about the Cubans nickname. 65 to7 supported creating a mascot. Um and parents value tradition but see a mascot as a way to enhance school spirit

041and they had some ideas there as well. Very similar. Um the key takeaways from this across all groups this is staff, students and parents. There's strong pride in the Cuban's nickname. Uh there was wide support for developing a mascot that would strengthen school spirit, modernize our branding while still honoring the district's tradition and community identity. So based on that, I think there's about four different basic routes that we can go because we are looking at those things. So number one, keep the nickname mascot or the nickname Cubans and stay as is with no mascot. That that is an option. We can just keep our nickname and not develop anything new. We've got some advantages and disadvantages of this. Um the advantages protects tradition by keeping the name cost savings. You know if you if we

042did change from the Cubans to the Hornets or whatever that would happen to be you know there's a lot of branding that have would have to go in with uniforms and different things like that. Um minimize controversy avoids backlash from those concerned that changing anything would dishonor alumni. We we saw heard that a lot like hey this is my school and and I am a Cuban because I went to Cuba City and if you take that away I'm going to feel I'm going to feel a little disconnected and that's that's what happens a lot when you see colleges rebranding their alumni feel that way as well. Disadvantage of this is a missed opportunity for spiritual for spirit and growth uh lingering confusion. Some people, we all hear this, what's a Cuban? Um, you know that.

043So, that's one long-term relevant risk. Uh, failure to modernize could make future change even harder if needed. So, those were some things that we came up with for advantages and disadvantages. Option two, we could keep the nickname Cubans, but add a mascot. Advantages is the best of both world worlds in that it honors tradition and energizes current students, future generations. uh it boost school spirits by having a mascot and we've talked about you know some of the things it would do for clothing and you know having a having a a physical mascot at games and things like that. Uh flexible branding right now is the time to make those change changes because we are going to be spending some money on branding around the school with the new uh the new building. Disadvantages cost depending

044on what it is. Do we have to get new uniforms? Do we have to repaint different things? Um identity challenge. This This is the big one. If we were going to keep Cubans and and develop a mascot, what's the identity of that mascot? What is that going to be? Because we're not going to get 85% of people in our community say, "Yeah, we want that as a mascot." So, the identity challenge of that term, uh, mixed reactions and a minority of stakeholders are skeptical about adding anything new right now. Some of the responses were, I think you guys have other things that are more more pressing than this and they're not wrong, but this is something that we wanted to look into. Uh, route three, change both the nickname and adopt a new mascot if

045we want to do that and just start over um with with different names. Uh, and choose a new identity. Uh, that would be easier to tie into a mascot. Disadvantages about of this major backlash uh risk here cost and complexity would be one and emotional disconnect of our alumni which you saw the results of people who favored that that term or that nickname Cubans and then route four maintain the nickname Cubans and create a mascot later. This would be a soft approach. Um it's a gradual transition. It's more difficult for us to do that now probably just because now is the time where we're going to incorporate some of these things in the building projects. Um but it would allow for some some flexibility as far as budgeting if we adding the new uniforms or

046things like that. Disadvantages, it loses the momentum of the new building. Uh frustration for students. You saw that it was about 80% of students wanted um a mascot and then an unclear messaging. People still would say what's what's a Cuban? So those are the four options that I came up with. You guys might come up with option five, but what I need from the board today during this discussion is for you guys to say, "Okay, Aaron, go forward with this." So, I'm going to open it up now for you guys to have some discussion amongst yourself or ask questions. Um, and this came from executive fun summary. You guys all have access to the to each of those three, the kind of the drill down data, too. Um, but and if you table it and

047say, "Okay, have it for another month." Okay, that that's an option, too. But those are the four four routes that I think make sense that we look at um and move forward with. Isn't there though a a deadline? We need a decision for the architect for the building project by they would like us to have it sooner than later. You guys are the board though. Like so you you're going to at our meetings they try to pressure us into getting it done sooner. I'm not going to pass that on to you guys. You're the board. you get to determine when this gets done and and you want to do it right. You wouldn't want to rush into a decision and make a wrong one. So, yes, they want it as soon as we can, but

048remember, you're the board. I personally I think it's probably speaks volumes that there's such a level of, you know, connection to Cubans, right? I mean, being graduate of Cuba City, you're a Cuban. That's what you've always referenced yourself as. So I think that's that's to me stands out from basically in all the information that sounds like that's one thing that's pretty consistent is that people like the identity, they like the connection, they like the fact that this is who we are. And so I don't I mean for me I think we stay with Cubans. That's just my thoughts. Um, my other thoughts are is that it's really great that if our student population is really advocating for a mascot, it would be super nice to let them have a voice in that and be a

049part of that. You know, I mean, to kind of recognize that. Um, and I understand that you go to games and a lot of the school, not all, but they'll have their mascots out there and and I think that there is something to be said said about that as well. Um, but there are schools that don't as well. Um, so that's just my two sons. Not. So those would be options one or past one or two because that keeps Cuban is what you're saying. Okay. I agree with you, Angie, on keeping the Cuban name and colors and everything like that. Um I think a mascot would be interesting to do. Um but I think it had to be careful on what we choose. I think it'd be kind of confusing. We're the Cuba City Cubans

050and we have like a pantha or something, you know, a honey bee walking around or whatever. Um, but like maybe kind of like what Platville does with like Pioneer Pete is they just kind of have a person or whatever. Maybe something like that could be an option. But I'm a fan of keeping the name and exploring what a mascot could look like. I agree with that. Like keeping the Cubans and not giving it another name and mascot, but like what is a Cuban? Like if a Cuban is a person, it's still a Cuban. It's not it's not an animal or anything else. It's just like we're saying this is what our ma our person or whatever looks like but that's a Cuban maybe having the students come up with the answer to that as a

051way for like Angie had mentioned to get their involvement. So if we did something like Joe said for Pioneer Pete, we wouldn't necessarily have to tie that to like the architecture work, right? Because that would be we're saying Cubans is what they would build everything around, right? We we could, you know, I know um Like I I was a principal before in Horacon school district and they were the marshmen but their logo was actually a caricature of a teacher who taught there like for 40 years kind of standing there like this and that's all but that's all over their school. So there's a lot of different ways you can you can do that embody that. And Tina did volunteer to be that drawing it or am I the mascot? I I I would be as

052well to keep the nickname Cuban. Um I think that's the first thing we have to I I think that's that's that's great. Um but I don't think we necessarily can't have a mascot of some sort. I mean, you've got Stanford Cardinal that's got a treat. Uh the Philadelphia Flyers have gritty. I mean, there's all sorts of abstract things. We can always be the Cubans and have a standalone black and gold creature or whatever. I I don't think we need to answer what is a Cuban. I mean, if we're the Cuba City Cubans, that's what we are and our mascot is a something else, whatever it is. And I think of W Platville in the same way. You know, swing the axe. Yeah. They're the miners, but yet we could the axe is part of their

053logo or something, too. So, it's not like we're changing anything in that regard, either. I think we're saying the same thing maybe just differently. Like what I'm saying define a Cuban like it's for the Cubans, but we're not saying we're the Cuban trees. It's just Cubans, but it may be a tree. Yeah. Or right. Whatever. But I I think I mean if you know if the point is that the kids want to have somebody in costume at the games or or things like that, I don't think we have to change uniforms. We can still use that name Cubans. Yep. I agree. But if you wanted a a mascot of some I mean it could be infinite opportunities of you be it a competition from the kids or from staff or or whoever. So you could

054move forward if the agreement is Cubans, we could move forward with that as as our, you know, design and works and then we could separately have involving the kids and something that's going to be independent or an individual. It's going to be tied to Cubans but not necessarily on our uniforms or sweatshirts or t-shirts type of thing. Because one of the dangers, we talked about this before when we were going through this with a a company that was guiding us in the They said, you know, if if you are the Cuban cougars or whatever that is, after a while, people will just drop they'll drop that Cubans and you'll just be the cougar. So, be careful with that. Um, so what I'm what I'm hearing though, what I think I'm hearing is you guys want

055to take route two. you want to keep the the Cuban's nickname and you want to explore a new mascot and maybe in June when we come back and just say, "Okay, after looking through the student results and all those different things, here are some different ideas and maybe then when the kids come back in September, I know that's that's late for our designers, but maybe we have that first week where they're all presented and kids all vote and then in September you guys get to make that that final decision." What do you guys think of that timeline? I guess the only thing I might throw in there is is is the board wanting whatever this mascot is to be part of the signage, I guess, that the architect they've got like an interior designer who

056who is going to craft, you know, the signs on the school or within the school. So I guess I'm asking the you know the mascot could or couldn't be I guess part of that city the curse of Cubans. That's that that that because if it's just that no no okay I probably wouldn't slow down construction to incorporate some sort of mascot to do Cubans and C's and stuff like that all around I think would be fine. Just make sure the building is still kind of going forward regardless of this decision. Yeah, it's really just it's really paint, you know, that and that's generally the last thing gets done, but they want it done sooner. I've always viewed our CC as being kind of our separate, you know, like our that's what I've always thought, you

057know, it's like that's always been a standout to me, you know, the Cubans and the black and gold. That's historically been our problem. Like Aaron brings up the curse of Cubans. You're bringing up the CC. We have the shield out there. Like we don't we're like what is our identity? Yeah. Well, I mean, I guess Aaron, is that part of what we also need to determine with regard to the the signs and logos and whatever that the interior designer is working on or and weren't we going to try to have the signs done before the start of the school year? Oh, the signs for like that signed. Yes. So, if the students aren't doing if we're not bringing it back to the board until September, then we wouldn't be able to put those new signs.

058What Heather's talking about is big LED screen um signs that will be at the elementary school and at the middle school, high school. You know, are we do we want to have signs there? I would like to move faster than September. We can do that. It's just it's harder to get student input, you know, now that I understand. I I would like to have student input for sure, but I don't think the students are the only people like we have a community and we do have some people that Yeah. And I would say bring up ideas that we have already generated versus just laying it out as a blank slate, but say these are the five ideas that we've come up with. You have a week to propose anything new because otherwise you're it's not

059going to work. Um, so I think we just have to as a smaller group come up with some ideas to propose. I would say unless you have something else. When Megan and I were I was going to say talking with this group when we talked about this before there were some that keeping Cubans that we'd have to resurface that but we might have a start to I don't think anybody liked any of those though. So, but it's something like Yeah. So, in June, we'll have have this discussion and we'll have some new ideas for you guys to consider and approve moving forward with, you know, um and say, "Okay, this is this is the plan, but then we do have July and we we have August as well." Does that sound good? That gives me

060at least something to move to move forward with. Who's who's going to be doing that? I guess that that was my question. Is there a subcommittee that the board could we can volunteer to two or three of you to work on that? I'd be happy. I'd be happy to do that, too. I would love to do it, too. And then hopefully you can have something to present us in June. Awesome. And we be presenting options, correct? Different options. Brainstorming. I mean, I think a night of brainstorming and Yeah. It it might just be pass like this would be a mascot or if we wanted to move forward with the logo like what what those would look like. Okay. I'm not going to be on that committee because I can't even make a good stick figure.

061So I think that'd be a great committee those three. Okay. So whenever the board comes up with a subcommittee just so you guys know um those are all posted meetings. So, since the board came up with that idea, like those will it's like you're on a new committee until we're done with that. Those will all have to be posted. Great. Okay. Thank you. Anything else on the branding? Nobody. Public recognition. We have no one. So, moving forward to the new business. A is the date and time of the June board meeting is the 18th at at 6:00. We'll have that at six. Since we just had that motion, is that acceptable? Yes. Okay. Would someone move? I'll move to approve the June regular board meeting for Wednesday, June 18th at 6 PM. Is there a

062second? I'll second. Yes. Joel, yes. Sparse, yes. White, yes. Herman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. Item B is approve the addition of curriculum leads and director to the district handbook. Yeah, with the passing of the referendum, uh we've secured most all the curriculum positions uh now, but before we do that, we have to add them back to the district handbook. So, um it just said suspended in there, we'll just change those to what what they were. So, that's later we'll approve who's going to be in those positions, but this is just putting those positions back in the handbook. Any questions regarding that? Hearing none, would someone move? I'll move to approve the addition of the curriculum leads and directors to the district handbook as presented. Is there a second? I will second. Schweer,

063yes. Joel, yes. Bar, yes. White, yes. Hamman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. Item C is approved the change in lunch and milk fees for 2526. Yeah, this recommendation is made by uh Janet, our food service director, who can't be here tonight. After her DPI food service audit, basically the milk has to that has to go up. And then what we found is that the lunch fees when we did a comparison with other school districts, we were well below. Um, and in order to maintain that fund balance that Janet is used to, they re the DPI recommended that we increase that those slightly. of those fee changes um are in the agenda. Any questions? That's 10 cents. 10 cents. 10 cents for the milk. Yep. Five for milk, right? Um the increase is 25.

064Yeah. 10 for We've actually been losing money on milk for a very long time. So we don't have we don't have a choice on that one because that was in our food service audit was that we have to increase our mouth prices. Oh really? Despite the fact that we're not losing money on the food service program, we still have to raise they look at individual programs. So that's considered a non-program food and we're actually we've been losing money in that um for a long time. So luckily we're making money in other areas to help offset that. Do we lose that 50? Do we? No, we are not losing. But milk prices haven't been raised in over 13 years. And the breakfast would be 10% increase. I'll move to approve the change in lunch and milk

065fees for the 2526 school year as presented. Is there a second? Second. Spiger, yes. Joel, yes. Bart, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. Item D is approved the overnight FFA trip for officers in June. Yeah. This trip is requested by Miss Van Scandal for her FFA officers. Uh it'll be a supervised three night stay at Jag Lake in late June. We don't have the exact dates on those yet. Okay. But some sometime in late June, but anytime we have an overnight trove, we always Where is Jag Lake? Okay. Never heard of Google it quick. See how hard Boulder Junction, Wisconsin. I don't know where that either. I was going to say that was the FFA camp for a long time. Didn't know if it still was, but north of Monaco.

066Any if there's no questions, would someone move? I'll move to approve the overnight FFA trip for officers in June 2025 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. Uh, approve the sale, disposal of district resources, including furniture, equipment, and curriculum textbooks. Um, they're sitting out in the hallway, everywhere. I guess pretty much all the stuff that we were going to get rid of right now is in the gym. So, what that is primarily, student desks, student tables, teacher desks. Um, there's some chairs. Um, some other non-classroom items, expired athletic um, uniforms. Uh, Mr. Derby did tell me that that he has like four different sets of old uniforms dating back to when they had them in the 90s. Uh,

067full length lockers $1 per. They come in sets. Uh, they were going to put them in two or four. I think they're most mostly in four. Um, but student desks are a dollar. Student tables $5. Teacher desks $5. Those are just what that's similar to what we did in 2017 at the elementary school when we tried to get rid of a lot of these things. Um we schools generally don't have a real high rate of selling these. Um so uh at the end of Friday whatever's there we'll be disc we've got a a salvage company coming. They're just going to clear out what isn't sold. So we just want to offer this as an opportunity for anybody. Um, I know there are some other things that are broken um around here. Um, and if there's

068anything that they want to get rid of, so I'm going to tell them that if if it's of significant value, let me know and we'll bring that back to the board. They're like, now would be the time to throw it away. Most of it's expired athletic equipment that that is broken. So, uh, this is kind of what we talked about last month, but if you guys can be okay, then we'll have that community sale. Um, a lot of people are excited about having lockers for their garage or their shed or what or wherever. So, um, looks like hopefully it goes well. And that's tomorrow from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. And then it's Friday, 7:00 a.m. until noon. And then at noon, the company's going to come in and take everything else out. These this

069equipment was offered to say or HGC. Yep. And they actually came in today. Got the things that they wanted. Thank you. Any questions regarding that sale? Would someone move? I'll move to approve the sale of district resources, including furniture, equipment, and curriculum textbooks as presented. Sir, I'll second. Schwagger, yes. Joel, yes. Bar, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. F has approved the NIS long-term disability insurance for 2526. This is the same plan that we had last year with no increase. So I recommend that we approve this. If there's no questions, would someone move? I'll move to approve the renewal of NAS long-term disability as presented. I'll second. Schwaggers, yes. Joel, yes. Bars, yes. White, yes. Herman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews. Yes. Motion carried. She has approved principal life insurance for

0702526. Yep. This is the same plan as last year with no increase. I would recommend that we approve this as well. I will move to approve the renewal of the principal life insurance for 2526 as presented. Is there a second? I'll second. Schwagger? Yes. Joel? Yep. Bar? Yes. White? Yes. Hterman? Yes. Bowden? Yes. Andrews? Yes. Motion carried. H is approved. Delta dental insurance rates for 2526. Same plan as last year, but there is a 4% increase with dental dental. We've had a lot of years of 0% increase. So this is um even though it's a 4% this year, it's generally not. So I would recommend that we approve this. That's is does that get redid or is that Yes. Yeah. The last increase was 2018. So it's been a lot of years with zeros. All

071right. Thank you. If there's no other questions, what someone I'll move to approve the renewal of Delta dental insurance plan as presented. I will second. Schwagger, yes. Joel, yes. Bart, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. I is approved the health insurance plan for 2526. Uh personnel committee met uh uh last Wednesday night. Um and uh Dan and Sarah did most of the heavy lifting. So one of you wanted to speak or Aaron? Yeah. Um I can start. You guys can jump in wherever you want to. Um, we got our our bid back for the exact same health insurance from last year as this year with a 79% increase. So that was over $900,000. Um, just a reminder, our referendum was $900,000. So, um, in order to keep our exact same

072plan with no changes, we would have to use our entire referendum amount. Um, and we got that from Brent at Tri. Brent and Joe have been working with us. That was just that was that bid. They did put out bit probably 20 other carriers. Um, okay. Better news for um I also have uh Greg and Nicole from Medical Associates. They're senior people at Medical Associates and a lot of them are here to answer questions as well. So um so why are we here? You know what what happened? The claim experiences from last year are really bad. Okay. Uh when a health insurance company bids something out, they anticipate that there will be about a 90% loss ratio. Meaning for every dollar you give them in premiums, they're going to spend 90 cents of it in

073that leaves the other 10% to pay for administrative costs, their payroll for their staff, online nursing, government regulations, and compliance are just becoming bigger and bigger. Okay? So we're shooting for 90. You guys are way higher than that. you're way over 140%. Okay, why is that happening? Frequency things are costing more. Okay, so we started three months ago and we started soliciting bids and you'll see those things in front of you. I'm not going to read every one of them, but you'll see that we did a very extensive list. Went to a lot of carriers. You'll see a number of them that declined to find not to quote you at all or they were simply non. So last year we moved to a a self-funded uh plan. Self-funded obviously with a million dollar increase just

074does not fit your budget right now. So we started looking at some other stuff and some other options and I'm going to have you switch to the second page now. And that is kind of the not the back of that but the second page uh that says should say terminology. Can you see that? As we're talking about, we think it's important that as we talk through this, everybody kind of understands the basics of what we're talking about to make sure that you can make a good decision. So, I'm not going to read every line, but I'm going to go through some concepts for you. You guys in the past have used something called the health reimbursement arrangement, the HR. Okay. What an H does is the school district buys a health insurance plan, a higher

075deductible. And with the example here we have is a $6,000 deductible. And we do that for a couple. It keeps the premiums lower. Okay? It's no different than you changing your car insurance from a $500 to a $2,000 deductible. You're insuring yourself more. Premiums go down. So, not only does it keep your cost down, but it keeps the employees cost down. So, we buy a $6,000 deductible. We have the employee liability be let's say $500. The H pays any claims that. So, that's a health. There's an example there as well. Health savings accounts. A lot of people have heard of health savings accounts. They're becoming more popular. Uh governed by the IRS, there has to be a high deductible health plan with that. There's a lot of uh rules and regulations to those. One of

076the big things that people don't like about HSAs are you have to pay for the first dollar of everything. Meaning, you don't go into your doctor's office through primary care and pay a $20 co-pay. If the office visit is $300, you pay $300. If you go to the uh hometown pharmacy here and the little tube that you get is $450, you don't pay $20 co-ay. You pay the full $450. You do that until until your deductible is fully satisfied. Any questions on those two? Okay. The next two are just different plan options. One is called an HMO. Okay. A lot of people are familiar with HMO. John Deere had them for years. Horell, everybody has those. It talks a little bit about what they are. They are focused on cost containment, on continuation of care,

077and they have what's considered a gated or a network. So, everybody has to use a network provider. Okay, many of you probably have that. Um, they started in the 70s, grew popular as more and more people started looking at cost control, things like that. All the regional carriers, courts, dean, medicica, medical associates use HMOs, okay? Been around for a long time. The last one is a point of service. A point of service is often called a freedom plan. So there's a network you can use and if you use this network, fine, here's what the cost is going to be. But you can go anywhere you want to. Going somewhere else adds additional expense. Uh the example we use here is you go to your doctor and you use the in network doctor, it's $20. If

078you go somewhere else, it's $40. Okay, deductibles change. You may have a $1,000 deductible in network and a $2,000 deductible out of network. Okay, questions on that before I go forward? I just need to grab the drink. I started at seven this morning talking so Okay, so let's go to there's a sheet that's medical associates like this just one line on it. So we looked at a lot of options. We looked at HSAs. We went through dozens and dozens of iterations changing deductibles, changing how much the pre premiums pay. When the referendum did pay pass, we worked with Aaron, we worked with Heather, and we said, "Where do we need to be? What can we fit in the budget?" They said, "Here's the number we need to be." So, we worked, they worked, we came

079together. This is the plan that fits your budget. It is not without change. It's not without complications. It's not without change. And some pain to the to the staff. We'll talk about that. Okay. So, there's also a page right behind it. This is kind of these are all fully insured, meaning you're going to pay the premiums. There's no additional cost. These are all with medical associates. Uh you had medical associates two years ago, so your staff is familiar with them. Okay. Um the two plans on this are both HSAs, health savings account. Okay. We like health savings account. the the personnel like the the HSA accounts. The problem that we have with the HSA is a couple things. One, teachers are gone right now and this plan starts July 1. There's a lot of education.

080Okay? We don't want this to be get off the run. But additionally, most HSA plans run on a calendar year, meaning they reset January 1, run for the calendar year. Your plan starts July 1st. So there's some obstacles to overcome that. So, for that reason, even though they're all within a percentage point, we think there's plenty of disruption already going on because we're going to talk about that next. But doing this would would not go over well. Okay? I've done this a long time and making changes. Disruption is painful. Okay? Nobody likes to we don't like to deliver bad news. They don't like to deliver bad news. You don't like to deliver bad news. But complicating things even worse would not go over well. So, um, questions on that. On the back of the terminology

081sheet, we wanted to highlight. Okay. What does this mean to the staff? Okay. All right. Everybody on that page. Okay. So, I'm not going to read those to you, but I'll just kind of go through uh what it is. The current amount is what people are paying right now in June. The proposed amount that's the deductible $500. The proposed is what the deductible will be starting July 1st with this plan. Okay. Current option one dean HMO premium monthly premium. Okay. The employees at this point had an option. They could say I'm going to go to the dean HMO or I'm going to go to the alliance point of service and go anywhere they want to. Okay. So there's two different prices. That's why those are outlined. So that is what the employee is paying. They're

082paying 12% of the total. So for example, the single employee right now pays $78.73. Everybody see that? We're all tracking. The uh the point of service is 85.556 and the 2526 has the employee paying 15% not 12%. And you'll see the dollar amounts there. Okay. So obviously an increase in deductible and an increase in premiums. Okay, that's not not uh fun for anybody. Um prescription drug cost below the current plan you have was you paid it's kind of a hybrid. You paid all the costs for it and once your deductible is satisfied, you're done paying. You didn't pay anything else for it. The current the proposed plan is going to go back to what you had two years ago. the same exact plan. Zero for $0 for tier one generics. Um 25 for tier 2,

083100 for tier three, and 20% up to 250 for tier four. So again, this is the same plan you had two years ago. So they'll be a little familiar with that. And then just the uh what is the medical max out of pocket? So again, you had $500 at $1,000. It's going to be going to $1,500 for single, 3,000 for family, and then the prescription drug co-pays. So, that was a lot to throw at you. So, what questions do you have? I think I have one. I have one. Is our staff aware there's some ser significant changes coming for insurance? No, we let them know that um came back with 79% increase. We were going to have more insurance. Okay. So, that was in our monthly memo. Okay. And then we had um we talked

084about our personnel meeting the Aaron the budgeted amount for healthcare for 256 is 15% higher which is about 200 roughly 200. So increase 200,000 which still expense and this proposed um proposal is about 9,000 overall. So it's only for one year what you're finding is that people are generally not giving you the second year this anymore. Yeah. um the further you get away from, you know, one your claim experience is bad. So, nobody's going to say we're going to take a two-year risk on this. Uh so, yeah, it's one year contract. So, but you'll see. And I mean, we went through this last year as well. Um we, you know, you went self-funded and it was about $400,000 less than the other offer you had. And so, back here where we are now, nothing Not

085a lot's changed. Um, but it's not like we have 13 people that are saying, "Yeah, we want to bid on this." So, again, a year from now, things could be considerably different. We I mean, some of the plans that were presented were I mean, this one is like 1.5 million for health insurance cost. Some of them were 2.4 2.3 million. I just want to make a point to our staff though because this is still some of the lowest amounts out of pocket for staff that I've I mean I would love to pay this this amount out of pocket. So I feel like I feel like our staff also has to recognize that they're getting a huge benefit by only having to pay the amount that's shown here. So I just I do want to make

086that known too because that's a huge benefit um for the staff. So I think taking that into consideration. We understand also that I think that's where um you were coming from is it is going to be an increase. It's going to be more expensive to the each employee. Yeah. When we talked about that's that's the reason we wanted to present this in a very clear format. So there was no everybody can see right on it, you know, financially here's the impact it's going to have for the staff. So we don't anytime we change carriers we you know don't it's nothing we do lightly. Uh but this in this situation financially there were no other options. So yeah, I was disappointed at the number of non biders or you know or who bid in. Yeah, you

087know, just the whole industry, uh, United Healthcare who's the biggest and they certainly run a lot hotter than most. Uh, they just changed their numbers and I think their stock got hit 22%. They're saying we can't we can't do what we we said we were going to do anymore. So uh cost of prescription drugs continue to go up. cause the medicine surgeries, everything continues to go up. So, uh there may be more pain down the road. You said there's going to be some disruptions. Are you referring to the change? Absolutely. So, yeah, that's that's a great point. Let's talk about this. We talked about HMOs and point of services. The offer that we have for medical associates here is an HMO. So, you are going to use the medical associates provider network. Okay. Uh so,

088they have a great network. uh Debuke based, Cuba City based, Platville. So they have local services here. There's still services for emergency care anywhere. You can go anywhere for ER and as well if there's something that they can't do, it's a cancer and they want to you need to go to carinal cancer center in UW, they're going to refer you there. If you're saying I have carpal tunnel, they have physicians that can do carpal tunnel, you're going to be required to use their procedures there. We're going to talk about transition care. We'll talk about that stuff. Uh so if somebody is in the middle of a process right now, they're eight and a half months pregnant. We don't want to change that. Uh but those are done on a oneoff situation. The biggest change is

089going to be that Southwest Health is not. So that's going to be the biggest change. Okay. So when we were with medical associates a couple years ago, we had the option of both an HMO and a point of service and the people could choose what they did. The problem is is the way the government does stuff. If you were on a plan and you go to a non- network provider, it it became a real mess. It wasn't anything medical associates did. It's just the way the government says here's how you have to handle it. So then we were people were getting bills. They were getting frustrated. They were going to Heather. Heather was going to Aaron. Aaron were coming to me. We were going to Greg. We got fixed, figured out, but it's just not

090clean and it's expensive. So So yeah, that is that is the network disruption of the company. Y and we'll likely set set up two different dates kind of in June where staff can come in so we can make the transition as easy as we can. And the medical associates, they also will have dependent care. So if you um for um families that have college students or dependents that do not live in this area that can go to medical associates just like the transition of care document, there's a form that um staff members would fill out if they have someone who's maybe going to college in Arizona. You fill that out, it goes back to medical associates. It doesn't come back to Ashley or myself. It goes to medical associates. So, two two two documents for

091that transition of care. We've already provided a copy of that. We talked about that. And the other is just again for any dependent whether they're going to school or not. They're under the age of 26 or on your health insurance plan and they are go living somewhere else. They can be married living somewhere else. Doesn't make any difference. there's a a process in place so they can stay under insurance and that person can be covered and will find providers in that area so they they don't have to come back here but you dictate at that point which ones they can go to network yeah it's and it's a national network it's a big network so it's obviously not ideal getting a million dollars is not you know great news uh we worked within the budget

092we worked with the numbers we had we found a carrier was willing to partner with you and Medical Associates wants to be long-term partner. You know, they're a good agency. They're a good company. We worked with them for a long time. So, um we appreciate them stepping up because that was the only offer we had. So, we appreciate that. But we'll do all we can. Uh I know there's going to be people that aren't happy about this. I lived through this with act 10 and so but these are the cards that you guys were dealt when they ask so you didn't ask for that we joined up on the school board so questions I work with medical even though I've been happy with the provider yeah um health insurance is very emotional and it's sometimes

093Chevy. My parents always medical something that's always gone. Some people like I've never gone there. They said something. Um but as as Julia mentioned, you know, the premiums are still very affordable for what they're still considerably lower than what we see. And this is going to have a chain for staff and ask questions for clarity. You know, time to change and it's just Yeah. Y. So the first thing that's going to hit us is formulary. people are going to start filling prescriptions. Medical associates have been really good working on us to say, "Hey, that's not in our formulary. We're going to fill that to make sure that we can work through the process." So, we've had to change insurance every year. Well, we were we were we were wa trust for a number of years

094and Yeah. But since then, yeah, you know, and I've been doing this a long time. It used to be where somebody get with, you know, a carrier and they'd stay with them for six or seven years and that just doesn't happen anymore for a number of reasons. And it feels like it's more like Dish Network and Direct TV and that's that you're switching every two years to find the best deal and to find what fits within your budget, whether it's your personal one or you know, you guys are a school, but we work municipalities and private business all over and everybody's in the same situation. So, is this one of the first times that there's not hasn't been like a choice or that we haven't they haven't been able to access Southwest Health? I don't

095I don't know much about what's the history the insurance has been. Yeah. I mean WA trust that you know that you know that they had 80% of the school districts in the state and that for the most part because they could afford it and then you went to courts and that gave some access to both and then uh courts lost access to medical associates. But uh yeah it's it's going to be a change for your staff and we looked at some of the numbers and you have a good percentage of your medical, but you have some as So the committee that met last week to go over this, are they recommending the fully insured the traditional plan, the one with the one on the page? Yes. The traditional on my document that was option medical

096associates HMO option D. Y and the reason we're not considering the other the HSA plans is because of that inconvenience of the calendar start year and it would be a couple things everybody to do to an HSA would have to start an HSA account. So they have to go to bank and start an HSA account before the plan starts. So again in the next couple weeks um and that's not something you do with everybody can do their own bank and then if they want to put money out then they go to Heather and Heather says I'm going to put $50 extra in that so there's a payroll but uh just the whole idea of again somebody going in and there's within those proposals we looked at different things. We looked at saying hey if we

097did this we could give every employee $1,000 to help pay for those bills. The question is when do we do that? How are we going to fund that? How often are we going to fund that? If somebody's here, we give a thousand dollars in July and they leave because they're through the school year and they leave in September. The next person we have to give them $1,000. How that's going to work. So there's other things to do. So we already have on the calendar in January a meeting to sit down to say, let's talk about HS HSAs. How are they going to work? How's it going to work through admin? So we we brought that up in committee. Yeah. Okay. To start that process after the first of the year so we could at least

098if we have those options next year they can be set up. And I only question is because I'm on an HSA plan right now and I love it because I'm two years in and now I've built enough up that it pays everything for me ahead, you know, like I don't have to worry about that. So and I see that those options are less I mean less costly for the district. That's only why that's the only reason I'm bringing you to mess up. We wanted they wanted us to have a longer runway. So we're like, well, let's start next January and but I think you want to guarantee that we can stick with medical associates for but if you have an HSA account and we switch plans, you can still account. Yeah, the HSA account is

099something you own. And what we want to do is we want to work to make sure that we can do what we don't want to do is have somebody start a deductible over in July right now. sort of get in January and then they would have to move and all of a sudden I mean like you know through no fault of their own they're on a prescription drug or we go to this HSA plan and July 1 they go and fill it and it's $2,000 and they're like I don't have $2,000. If it's at the hospital you say hey I'm going to make payments. It's at the pharmacy they say give me your credit card. Now you got credit card payments. So we just think that it's probably the best to make sure that we

100have everything we're in front of teachers well in advance explaining the process. Uh you guys have a flex spending account right now. So people put money in that for dependent care and for medical expense. You can't have a flex spending account and an HSA. So until we empty one. So if people have money they're planning on rolling that over because they're going to do dental work in July. Now they can't do an HSA. So we want to get ahead of it so that we can educate everybody to make sure that this process as smooth as possible. But you're right, a lot of people once they get into an HSA like them. Once they understand them, they can roll money into it. It works like that. But two weeks is suicide. It it it will not

101work. It will not work. So So I'm glad that you like HS. It's going to be where down the road it's going to be a majority of people are going to have. I think uh Sarah and Dan it was unanimous that this was the plan that was chosen. So I left before it was over to go to the eighth grade graduation. It was really the only option but I appreciate that you're forward thinking. Other questions for so you want medical associates a threeyear rate lock right is that what we're asking in writing can you do that so I will say medical associates will they're fair you know again if claims next year 140% of what you the money you're spending it's not going to be pretty so hopefully things change so all righty thanks Okay,

102thank you very much. Thank you both for coming. Absolutely. All righty. Um, if there's no other questions, we have a motion. I guess plan D is the is what it says in the motion. Uh, you can, uh, the traditional plan is the same. Yep. You can you can change it to traditional plan if you feel more comfortable with that. But the option D was what was presented. Uh they had A through uh J or something that night for us to look triple Z at one point, but yeah, we cured it down a little bit. So, okay. I would move to approve the medical associates HMO insurance plan uh option D, your traditional plan as presented. Second. Schwer, yes. Joel, yes. B, yes. White, yes. Herman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. All right. Thank

103you for your business. We'll be in touch. Thank you. Next one is our uh property insurance. About a 4% increase. If you remember the last couple years, it was double digit increases for all these different things. Uh so a 4% increases. is welcomed at this point. So I would recommend that we approve the triorder property insurance. I did think of a question with the building project going on. How does the property insurance it'll change once we get act once we have ownership of that new part of the building that will that will go up and primarily if we look at that where that is the property I that's that's going to go up just because we have more square footage. So who covers it in the construction company? Yeah. And that's just the new construction.

104This current hallway just increases. Yeah. Okay. Any other questions? Hearing none. Would someone vote, please? I'll move to approve the Trior property insurance for 2526 as presented. Is there a second? I'll second Schwagert. Yes. Joel, yes. Bart, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. And we're on to personnel A's approved the hiring of second shift custodian Mike Bale beginning June 1st. We had a few high quality uh applicants this time around that were all looking for second shift work. So, that was good. Um, and so we all recommend that we approve Mike and David here. Next, if there's no questions, would someone move, please? I will move to approve the hiring of secondh custodian Mike Bend. I'll second. Yes. Joel, yes. Arth, yes. White, yes. Tenderman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes.

105Motion carried. B is approved to hiring a second shift custodian David Hayes beginning May 14th. Yeah, he actually started this week. So, um same as Mike, we had some applicants and did a good job and he's had some experience in WP in the same position. So, we recommend there any questions? If none would someone please I'll move to approve the hiring of second shift custodian David Hayes as presented. Is there a second? I will second. Schwagger, yes. Joel, yes. Bart, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. Then item C is approved the statement for returning staff for 23 24 to 2425. Okay. So, with all the poor insurance news, we do have some some good news here and we want to try to tie those together to offset. So, um, the

106TID closure check that we received from from the city, which we were planning on getting $0 for, actually turned out to be $120,230. It's a onetime payment. Um, and so what we looked at is first thing is we were not expecting this money and we were not able to give staff a raise this year. Let's come up with some plans for you guys to look at to use the, you know, a bulk of this money in one time stipens to our staff. We didn't get a raise at all this year. So, in the in the past when we've done stipens for different things, we've done it different ways. So, options one through seven here, um these represent staff members in the same job classification who worked last year and um this year also. So those

107new staff who who change classifications are are not factored in this. So these are people that had the same job last year and this year because we had a 0% pay raise. So just looking at those amounts, we had different options to see what those look like. So option one, we had um we had um this would be teachers um an admin a bonus or a statement of 1,000 and support staff of 800. That would be a total of 91,000. And then we just played with the numbers here um to see what what you guys look at. We looked at teachers and admin at 1,000 or support staff at 750 and that would be about 89,000 or at 9700 and that would be 81,000. We wanted to give you guys some range there. Uh then

108we looked at because we've in the past we've used percentage of salary for payraises. So we said, well, what would it look like if we just gave everybody a 1% salary raise or not a raise because it it would be a stipen. So at 1% it would be about $50,000 and then at one and a half it'd be about 75. At 2% close to 100 and 2 and a half% would be 124 almost 125. So, we just wanted to give you the look of what that would be. Um, and then we had the insurance meeting and at that meeting we're like, oh, maybe we should tie this to people who were getting a who were have a single plan and who have a family plan. So, let's look at that. What if we gave um

109this? So, all these options are people who took family insurance this year and we believe are returning next year. So options eight, nine and 10 are say what if we paid 50% 75% or 100% of that that increased deductible change. So those would result in 64 96 and 129,000. So what that would mean is like um a single person who was paying a $500 deductible now it's going to be 1,500. They would get a $1,000 stipen and that covers the insurance deductible change for next year. U with family it would be they would get a $2,000 because that's going to be the increase in their deductible um if we wanted to pay 100% of that increase and that would be 129,000. So that's something to look at. And then um the budget and finance committee

110when we looked at that they said well why don't you come up with something that they didn't they didn't like that the people that take in le of insurance don't get anything here or who don't or who are partify who don't qualify for for those. They're like can you come up with something that everybody gets a little a little something. So then we looked at options 11 through 15 um with the percentages over here ranging from 50% to 80% um within here. So what that means is so uh a this would be for somebody who has a single plan we would give them a $500 check or family a thousand and if you if you were part-time or it took them lie of insurance you get 250. So everybody gets something. So that goes all

111the way up to 80% which is still under the 120,000 and so that would be at 80% of the deductible increase for 800 single, 1,600 for family and then 500 for in lie of insurance or part-time. So those that's kind of the the four groupings that we came up with um as ideas and remember this about spending. So, when you get a $120,000 check, if we want to have that have legs, and and this is how primary reimbursement works. If we spend, let's say we spend all 120,000 of it this year, we get aided, our primary aid amount is about 65%. So, almost 2/3. So, if we spent all 120,000, that 120,000 actually becomes 200,000 because the state is going to aid us about 80,000 next year, more than we would have gotten. So if

112we spend all that, it pretty much takes that covers the cost of almost a teacher next year. And then that was unexpected because all this happened after the referendum. So the hard part about this is because Joe is in our budget and finance committee and he's like as a business owner that does not make sense to me that if you spend 120,000 next year you get more money from the state, but that is how primary aid gets reimbursed. So, uh, because we talked about how much of that should go into fund balance, but if we get it in fund balance, it's a onetime sum that doesn't gain us anything that next year. Um, but with the with the insurance rate and different things, um, and adding a 4K and 5K classroom teacher because enrollment went

113went up, um, it makes sense that we're looking at, okay, well, where's our fund balance going to be as well? So, that's a valid concern the budget and finance committee had as well. Was there a recommendation of the budget Finance Committee. We We did not see these. They asked us to come when when we left the meeting. I think we were all in agreement. We'd like to see something else. Would you be this page? Yep. Um that would share everybody would would have some sort of share. Um was there a winner out of the uh other options? Personally to me, I like option 15. I like that one when I just heard of it. Maybe I give if the goal was to give everybody something because we didn't give them anything. Which for those who

114cannot probably see in the back option 15. Can you see that? That's about as big as that area. It's about 800 for an individual, 1,600 for someone to gain family insurance, and then 500 for somebody who is in lie of or part-time would not qualify. And that again from budget and finance, our discussion was making sure everybody got something in recognition of the work that was put in this year. And our inability to give raises at least a one time stipend acknowledged some of those efforts. So this wouldn't this is based on what they took last year, right? So it's not considering changes for anybody that went from a single and now this year they're planning to do family. Is that correct? Correct. It's based off of what they have right now because the checks

115we need to pay this out in this fiscal year. in this fiscal year. If we want to get reimbured for it, that's if we want to get reimbured for I guess the part I struggle with with option 15 is that not everyone is getting an equal percentage. And I actually don't like any of those options with the health insurance because I feel like it's not equalized for the teachers. So you're getting penalized if you don't take an insurance. And so I would honestly I would go with option 6.5 in honor at 2.2% or 2.25% of salary which comes to12 $112,10 um for that reason. We we don't have it's not on there. I just calculate I calculated that because the 12 that if it's an equal percentage rate it's on everyone for who's here. That's

116so just know that options one through seven there are there will be individuals that are currently on staff that will not give an increase because of why? Because per how I was asked to run numbers staff members who are in a different job classification or if they were new to the district. So, um, let's just say you in in a normal school year, you start at the school district and you're given a contract for $48,000 and the board approves an increase, whatever that increase may be. Your contract is still $48,000, but it's based on last year, right? I mean everything is based on last year but but the reason why I'm saying that is so we were that same method methodology was applied for options one through seven because in any other given year when

117we give staff increases if you're new to the district you don't get an increase in that first year so there are individuals a handful maybe a handful I don't have that number I could if you give me a minute I could tell you who's not like not who I could tell the number. Um, but there are individuals who would not be. And if you did ran the numbers and it was 112, that's still less than 120. So if you say, "No, we want it for everybody who was employed this year that that we know is going to be employed next year," it would be it would be a couple thousand dollars probably. So if you guys would we have to pay benefits. Yeah. So So are you So when you saying the district, do you

118mean they're signing a contract for 25 26? So I I just was using the example like in any other school year where we don't have financial issues when in the past when we've given let's say Cameo is a new teacher and she starts in this school year and there's no financial situations issues whatsoever. She signs a contract. She signs on saying I'm going to Yep. I agree to making $48,000. A month or two goes by and the board approves a 2% increase. She does not get a 2% increase. She stays at $48,000 for the 25 26 school year and does not get an increase until the following school year. And so that's true for all job classifications. Once you sign that contract, you sign on and you don't get an increase that the board uh

119approves for everybody else. So can't say like anyone who's employed on May 1st. I'm just letting you know that there are individuals who are not getting increase in options 1 through 7. Just so you know there are people who are there a bonus is not calculated in here. I just want Yes, you guys can say you guys can say that but I don't want you to think like oh it says option six is $100,000. It's going to be more than $100,000. Might be 106. So, Cameo would get something if we do%. Sorry to call you out, Bob. I just was using not including included in this number, right? So, I just want everyone to understand that if you're saying we're just going to be spending more money than what's listed here to again, you guys

120are the board. I just want to make sure you understand it's it's going to be more than $100,000 whatever is listed here and and going through the finance committee which happened after the personnel committee when the insurance was first exposed to us then we went to the finance committee I happened to sit on both so I sat through all of it our more concern was after knowing the insurance was going up by so much we talked about doing equal raises to everyone and it's not just teachers it's all staff Um, our feeling was we would prefer to pay more to cover that increase in insurance costs than as as a one-time stipen equally across the board. So, we did have the discussion and that was our that was our recommendation. I I would say I

121I'm probably leaning more towards the option 12. Um, so that would would not be spending all of it. um putting about would that be 40,000 or something like that into our fund balance. Um just to make sure that stays at that 22 in case we get more expenses down the road so we don't have to cut things right away. Um I I feel like we should reward staff or help staff out on the health side of it too. And um I know Aaron said that if we did so it's hard for me to grasp a whole spend a dollar get 65 cents back, right? Um but if we were to spend all of it, we'd come back with 78,000 next year. But if we didn't and we did like option 12, for example, we would

122have 85,000 the next year. We' still do right that we would do 65% of our 85,000 and still have 40 in the bank. Am I thinking about that right or no? Yeah. And then but then each year that that gets less, you know, we get rebirth. So it does have legs. It kind of goes on more than just one year too. But then we could spend the 85 the next year and like the next year and stuff like that though, right? Yep. I guess I'm torn. I really am because I get 100% get the insurance piece and this is going to be a hard hit. And I also look at it as is it our place to dictate how how they should spend spend their money, you know what I mean? So, is it if

123you if it is the the 2% or 2.5%, is it then up to them to decide if they want to apply that to their insurance um versus the board making that? I don't know. I'm really That's a good point because they're just getting the check. They're going to be able to use it. What whatever it is, they get to use it. Well, and I think some people don't ever meet their deductible. So, I you know, I just I guess I struggle with that, too, because I think there's families that need that money elsewhere. And having had conversations with some of our staff as a staff member a couple years ago, a lot of it was we want equality across the board for every teacher. And maybe they have a different opinion now, but that's what

124was a sounding resolution a couple years ago. Usually I can go one. I'm really torn. This is why I thought this part might be a little longer in the beginning because I mean part of me really leans towards it really should be up to them to individually decide. Well, it is it's a check to them. Oh, either way. Either either way it's a it's a check to them. So the school district's not absorbing that. No, we're talking about how to distribute it. How to distribute it. They're just going to get a check. They don't spend it. Okay. So, this is it was the feeling of of the finance committee that we would break it down more to the people that had higher cost insurance because the insurance had increased so much. That makes sense. Okay.

125And then Julie's point is we didn't give anybody a raise. So her lens is let's put that 2% of that. Neither's wrong. You guys just have to figure out on one thing that that is going to get four out of the seven of you to vote and approve. Yep. And then we have the third option of not spending at all and putting some fun balance. So, and it's important to make a decision tonight because we need this done by July 1st. Please don't table this. This really can't be tabled to June uh payroll in order to get it paid out by the end of this fiscal year. So, I'm sorry to put you in that small box, but we're gonna have to make a decision because the only way for that would have to be

126a special meeting in like a special board meeting if we don't make a decision today. Is there an option that uh four people can agree with? I think we're only going to know that probably by making motions and voting. I'm open for a motion. So it doesn't get a second. Do you want to just kind of go around and say which which option people are leaning towards? That might work. I like six [Applause] with everyone and not just Yes, with everyone. So that's the 16 2% 2% then if there's additional then you would still be covered under the 120. I could probably go with six or seven. I like the idea of having some stuff for balance and some more. Let me be clear. I'm okay with seven too. I want I want to spend

127it all. So if six is going to get us to the 129, but if seven if we can make it happen, but that would not be including everyone. And so I guess I would need would be more than No, we have already but we could look at I mean the number I threw out I did a 2.25% was $112,000. So that's but I don't know what your number is if you the people that weren't included in that. Do you think there's 8,000 leeway there? While you guys are talking So we'll call that 6.5. So, I sit on the budget and finance committee and we did go back and forth on this quite a bit. Um, and I think part of it was getting the health insurance information was coloring some of our conversations. Um, hearing

128the conversation tonight, knowing that the equity piece and just saying it's two 2% across the board for everybody and they're allowed to determine what to do with those funds as they wish. Um, I I I think in either way, the most important thing to me is that this extra excess money goes back to the staff. So, I I would also lean towards option six after hearing tonight's discussion. If it wasn't for the fact we hadn't given them if we had given a raise, I would have been in favor of the insurance increase. Um, so I would go with six or a version of six as well. I still like 15. I would go with option six. I probably still be in that 12 13 range probably 12 and 13. Do they give something to everybody.

129Yes. So if you had a single art then that would be 304. Okay. But so the what you are asking me to do right now is to give some two 2.25% to everybody. Right. I just want to make sure 2% like where does 2% um what about the people who we know aren't coming back. It's like we had a teacher who already has resigned. She's moved out of her classroom. She's not coming back next year. Am I at it? I again I just want to make sure I have accurate numbers. Our disc our discussion in finance was not to include anybody who was not coming. Okay. So I I just want to Okay. Thank you for the headnetss. So we give Adam a moment here to do the math. Do we want to move on

130to the next agenda item and then come back because I think there's there just one more. We can do that if that's our board. Um D is approved the curriculum team and curriculum director. Yep. We were able to come up with uh somebody for every curriculum position down here and uh curriculum director Ellie Glennon uh except that position and we were able to find everybody um in all these positions that we had had previously. So that's that's everybody who was a lot of the same, but there are some changes. Any questions forward with regard to that list of leads? If there's none, would someone move to approve? Are you showing like the old one? This is the old one. Yeah. So, this is 2023 24 and then this would be 20 5 26. Yeah. So

131this is last year. Was the curriculum director offered full to the full staff? I think that was sent out in an email. We did have a couple people express interest and then when we shared kind of their job duties and responsibilities then somebody some people didn't want to anymore. I will move to approve the hiring of the curriculum team and curriculum director as presented. Is there a second? I will second. Schwiger, yes. Joel, yes. Barf, yes. White, yes. Hinderman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. Want to go through committee reports? We can do that. Um, budget and finance. Uh, you just met. I don't think there's anything else. Is this sir? No, we talked a lot about um personnel and budget and finance stuff tonight. Okay. Building and grounds. Uh we'll have a meeting

132in early June. I think we're we're looking at some dates here. Okay. Is there any questions for the building and grounds items personnel? Um we just met on May 7th and it was the insurance policy. Um won't be till August or September. Tech and transportation will be in July. Foundation will meet in August. Is there any changes or additions to those and CISA rep um basically I was on a bus trying to listen to the uh virtual meeting. So um they had kind of their reorganization as well. Um so um Mike Humpkey who was the Dodgeville school board president was also the head of the season 3. Um he got voted out of office in Dodgeville. So they elected uh a uh uh a new president and and new uh staff um and they're trying

133to just wrap up everything at CISA 3 for the year as well. So, um, he Jamie Nutter met basically his milliondoll goal of having a million dollars in the bank at one point in time. Quite a quite a feat considering that when he took over CIA 3, uh, they were in the red. So, yes, Heather, um, giving everyone a 2.25 increase based off of their salary. For every individual that's coming back next year, the total cost would be $127,68860. And that's salary and benefit costs. So what would can you change that to 2% or is that not a quick Can we find the percentage that we come to $120,000 and if it's 28 or 2 whatever it is that's okay is just spend $120,000 like you're welcome to you don't have just a quick change

134the percentage in there. No no because I have lots of different things going on. Um, I think you guys could, if you want us to say get the number closest to that without going over based on a percent, I think we can do that. But like, yeah, that's going to take her some time. I'm not asking you to do it now. I'm just saying, can we just say that way and then you figure out whatever that is? She'll just make a motion with that total dollar figure in not to excludes everyone not to exceed 12. Includes everyone that's coming back next year. Please just make sure that's in the motion if that's what you so choose. Um, and then if you tell me do not go over, I I will run the numbers including benefits

135and not go over. And then once we have that, I'll share it with Aaron and he can send it to the board with the exact percentage increase. If that's something that somebody wants to make a motion on, here's a language suggestion. Based on what I'm hearing, you move to approve a version of option six not to exceed 120,230 to staff returning in 2526. I know that's a multiple but Does somebody want I'll read it to make that motion or a different one? I'll make that motion to but I want to add that who was employed on May 1st. Got it. So people who were employed on May 1st who are intending to come back next year because I don't want like to we just hired someone. I want a date with they were employed. I

136will second. Any questions before our vote? Go ahead. Getting my notes. That's fine. All right. Uh, Schwagger, yes. Joel, yes. Bar, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. All righty. Thank you very much. I move to adjourn. I will second. All in favor? Hi. And then Megan, Joe and Gary means Thank you.