001a crazy start uh with the first week in March we celebrated National Breakfast Week and Read Across America Week. So I want to thank Miss Joyce and Miss Kelly Banfield for creating and when I got down there for the experience of surviving the energy that came from the activities they had. It was fantastic. Uh that participation increased with some guest servers. Want to thank Chief Dave Ryder from Vickyville Police Department, Sergeant Cody Ryan, and Chief Zack Levelvel from Cuba City Police Department for volunteering as greeters. I wasn't aware that there was a running contest for who brings in the most participation. Nobody told me about that. To be able to experience things. Cuba City Police Department graciously accepted the breakfast championship trophy. I ently stepped aside to let them have it by one or two
002breakfast. Two breakfastes. So I think those two students should have been called to the office but they weren't. Uh we also had a dress up theme week and many reading activities for our read across America week. It was fantastic. Miss Sher Olsson, Mrs. Carly Redford and Miss Van Gall organized many activities including a library scat book scavenger hunt. We had readers and reading in the dark and um all staff participated and it was a a fantastic way to start National Reading Month. We are continuing with ongoing reading challenges. Um so if you have a chance to check in with students and find out what what minute goal they have set or what book number goal they have set depending on their grades and then ask them how they're competing against me. So, I'm trying to
003uh make sure that I can come out on top of this contest, but I'm being told by many students that it's not going to happen. I'm excited about that. So, uh, Cuba City Cuba City alumnist and school district staff member John Baker came in and gave a demonstration to a fourth grade class, um, with his pet bearded dragon, which was kind of special for me because, well, way back when John was a student, I was a a neighbor just down the street and he would often bring that not the same pet, he's gotten another one since that one passed on, but would share with my own children and share very knowledgeable about unique pets and and shared a lot of information. So, it was exciting for the fourth graders to be a part of that.
004Uh Mrs. Pittson's 4K class took a trip to the Pittsson family farm and along the way they did some searching for leprechauns and that was an exciting trip for them. and then also had a visit from Kuba City and heer family dental employees that shared uh information about oral hygiene and and good brushing habits. We'd like to invite everybody in tomorrow morning. We are having morning madness in conjunction with the basketball madness going on. Uh our foods for family events will be serving breakfast tomorrow morning from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. at the give us give us the elementary cafeteria. welcome to come in. We have I didn't write the number down 80 I think RSVPs higher than that went up today. 194 194 fantastic. So it'll be a busy hour uh at the elementary
005school tomorrow morning and lots of busy bodies along with that. So people will enjoy that energy throughout the day. Uh we want to congratulate Mr. Cody Clayton and fifth grade band on their phenomenal performances at last week's solo ensemble concert. Uh if you haven't made it to one of the titled the solo ensemble concert, uh it was fantastic. The kids were in many different groups. Um a lot of variations and just uh short little tunes that a lot of them were very familiar. And it was neat to to see the kids work together and also perform in front of such a large group. Uh that was something I recall being in band and and choir and life was nerve-wracking going to solo ensemble that was usually just your parents and a judge. Um so for
006the fifth graders to get this experience in front of a large group is going to really help them as they they move along with their musical careers. And then uh our fifth grade students are working hard to prepare for their annual performance at the Living Wax Museum which will take place on Friday, April 4th in the afternoon. you have a Friday afternoon in your schedule with smoking time to join us for that as well. That's all I have tonight. Thank you. Uh Chris, middle and high school. Yep. I'll apologize right now because it's a busy month as well. Uh winter sports have all wrapped up. It was a great season. Uh gymnastics team make made it to sectionals as a team. Wrestlers, we did have four students qualify for the state tournament. Our boys basketball
007team final game and our girls basketball team obviously bringing home the gold ball as state champions. All in all, a great winter season. We are excited for the spring season. FCCLA has made and is getting ready to deliver the comfort during chemo gift bags. They are packed with items to help patients that are dealing with cancer. Our FCCLA students are also preparing for their state competition that's coming up. They will be taking the giant fork. If you go the cabinet outside her door. There's a giant fork in there that they won last year. They are taking it back for another group to win it this year. And so they're attaching the very first ribbon to it. Similar to what we do with our flag and spade came up the idea of tying a ribbon represent
008family and consumer sciences classes have been working with Miss Bod's art classes and they just completed a cupcake decorating contest that was St. Patrick's. Uh FFA has been competing at several CDEs or they call them career development development events. When I was called judging categories, but that's what they are doing now. They are judging dairy and livestock. Miss Vamble also shared that they are working on electing next year's officers and selecting this year's summer. Uh, middle school just celebrated their third quarter Cuban celebration. They recognized wrestling and basketball stars. Middle school put on a wonderful production of the Mad Tea Party. Thanking M. Williams, Miss Up Games, and Mr. Clayton for all their hard work and dedication providing our students with this opportunity. Congratulations to all the students competed in National History Day competition on
009March 12th. Good luck to Anna, Mason, Rean White, Kennedy Pickle, Adelaide John, Cassidy Shepard, Ella Claus, Zo, Kenny, Kennedy, Clanden, Carter Cland, and David as they prepare for the state competition. Thank you Miss Rollins, Miss Update Games, and Miss Perk for helping these students reach their goals. I'd like to thank all of our staff, but especially the math teachers for hosting the small math competition. We hosted nearly 280 students for this competition. U medalists included Kylie Lang, Cali Widen, Micah Yoas, Adeline Turman, Lillian Shman, Kennedy Pickle, Mason Kirk, Quinton Shoart, Abigail Ruiz, and Carter Clanden all in the middle school division. Um, and actually Carter took first overall. Destiny Cwley and Brooke Turpra meddled in the algebra division. Elsie Sachoff, Maddox Roger and Broadick Rogers in the advanced algebra division, Laney Welp in the geometry
010division, Braden Joel and Noah Wood in the calculus division. And our students meddled in teams for geometry, trigonometry, and calculus. Uh we had two successful testing days with the ACT for the junior class and the preac this past Tuesday for freshman and sophomores. Uh congratulations to all of our students competing in forensics. They've all qualified for the state competition in April which will be held at Forest High School. And finally, congratulations to Miss Tina Burke. She was named the 202425 Wisconsin Educational Media and Technology Association Excellence Award winner. This award is given to an individual in recognition of a series of significant contributions to the association andor the library of media or education technology profession. This award is selectively given and this burket is well known within association. They do go on to say that
011Mr. Burkett's dedication serving membership is unmatched. The excellence award is a recognition of her exemplary leadership and services to Thank you, Chris. And congratulations. Thank you. Now, if I could just get the sound to work better on this meeting, that'd be great. Whitney special, please. Yes. On February 20th and 21st, we had our 4K screening. uh our 4K screening, we had 62 potential students. During the screening, students were screened for speech and language, developmental milestones, academic milestones, and social skills. Um, thank you to the entire screening team to ensure a successful event. This event is a great opportunity for families to register their children, ask questions, and get acquainted with the school and the staff members. If 4K screening wasn't busy enough, we also decided to add our three-year-old on that Friday in between the
012four case screening sessions. We had six three-year-old children attend this event. The play date is a great opportunity for our early childhood staff to conduct conduct basic screening of developmental milestones to ensure the district is meeting all area needs. Um, thank you to the entire staff that did the three-year-old playd date as well. I want to thank all the staff that helped organize the 4K screener and the three-year-old playd date. I'm lucky to work with such amazing staff. you are also willing to let me be a part of these events and learn alongside you. If you've never had that opportunity, it's it's cool. Um the virtual parent teacher conferences, uh we sent out a survey to parents. We had 163 scheduled conferences at the elementary school with a 97% attendance rate. Um, a survey was
013sent out and all respondents reported that adequate notice was given about the event and all but a few responses agreed that scheduling the meetings went easy. Um, one comment shared that a staff member was very accommodating in scheduling a meeting that was not pre-arranged. So, thank you to all the staff members for working with families through our parent teacher conferences event. Thank you, L. Whitney, I have a question. Do you have 62 potential 4K students? Correct. What is our current 4K number right now? 59. So, if you're wondering, next year are we going to have to have three sections of 4K and 5K? That will be an item on next month. Okay. That's where I was going. Thank you. That'd be a good thing. You can't have a class of 31 foury olds or 5y
014olds. No, no, please have their business report, please. Um, an update on this current fiscal year. Uh at the end of February, we were 67% through our fiscal year and we had spent about 46% or 4.5 million of our fund 10 budget. Um an update on 149 or a referendum account. In the month of February, our revenue totaled $10,589.36. Our expenses uh during the month of February um were 28,63720 and our balance at the end of the month was $16,2943. Um, in other news, I have created all of the department budgets for the 2526 school year. I've also created all the teacher budgets and those will be shared with staff after the operating referendum results are known. I have started making assumptions for revenues for the 2526 uh budget year. And finally, all of the
015documents are prepped and ready to go for the April 1st operating and school board elections. Uh we do have our canvasing meeting that is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, April 3rd. And then after that meeting um the election results for both the operating referendum and school board election will be finalized. Thank you. Any questions? Superintendent report. Yep. Uh this month we are expecting our award letter from FEMA last Friday. We've not received any communication from anyone at FEMA in the last two weeks. We continue to reach out to them on a regular basis and our political contacts that have been very responsive have been very unresponsive in the last month as I don't think that they know how to answer related questions. So that's where we are with that federal funding to Cuba City.
016Uh just an update you've heard of a possible cancelling or or discontinuing the Department of Education. We receive about around $450,000 in federal funding through two main sources. First is food service through 150 uh through the department of agriculture and other direct um other directly from the department of education through IDA and title one through title four spending for specialized instruction for our students in special ed and or students that are in high needs of interventions through title services. Recent executive orders have proposed cuts to these vital programs. If these are cut, this would be detrimental to our school district. There's question right now, is the department going to be closed or are the funds going to go away? And those are two different. It's possible the department could be closed and those funds would
017just be transferred to the state and the state would take over distributing those. If that were the case, um we would see local impact. Um but if the Department of Education closes and the funding goes away, that would be very detrimental to all public schools um every in in all 50 states. In referendum news, um want to thank a lot of our employees um who are working really hard to get the word out uh to our residents by April 1st uh 2025 election referendum. Um there's just there've been a a lot of different ways that our staff are engaging themselves and trying to get the word out and letting people know. So on behalf of all of us to those staff, thank you very much. We also had a much higher turnout for our events.
018would like to thank those local business owners who've been helping to get the word out as well. I believe the um chamber of commerce put out a radio ad. Um also the local chamber of commerce started making some signs and things. So in less than two weeks we'll know the community's decision to increase the revenue limit with this 5-year non-recurring operational referendum. So by the time we gather next, we'll we'll know what direction we're going. That's all I had to think. Thank you. Are there any questions or I know you probably don't have an answer to this. um with regards to the Department of Education, what is some of his concerns with super I mean superintendent conversation? We're hearing that that next year is probably going to be flat. So that's what they're recommending for
019us budgetarily. Next year's flat and next year we're going to probably have some cuts. Um in 2020 we had the same thing that first year that we had um President Trump in office was flat and then next year we we had we made cuts and it just seems like the there's a little cut every year. So, if that happens again, maybe. But the fact that they're not going to make drastic cuts this first year gives us a little bit of a of a runway to plan for that. Again, that could change tomorrow. I know. I know. It's just such uncertain times. So, yes, but that that's what um at CISA 3, that's what they're recommending based on their contact with DPI. We actually heard from the both superintendents, but the the candidates for state superintendent
020were at our last pack meeting and that one of the questions and both of them seem like that's that's how they would proceed as superintendent. Our question with regard to the uh lack of a a final decision from FEMA as to you know our continuing to wait and what that means. I mean I guess as a board we've not maybe had that discussion. So, I don't know, maybe board, you could put it on a the next month's meeting, especially if we've not heard because I guess I'd like conversation with regard to what you would all like to see happen. Um, because at this point, uh, you know, I mean, at least at the meeting Monday night here for the referendum, I mean, it was it was brought up again. I'm sure you've all heard it
021that you haven't you haven't used we gave you two years ago for the building project and and I guess my concern is is the longer it draws out that having been with Chuck on the that building, you know, discussion that basically, you know, it's going to take X time to do um graphic design and then X time to get anybody to even bid on it and get the materials. We may not do any building this year if it goes out long enough, I guess, is my concern. And and so I guess be thinking about what your questions would would be or concerns. Chuck, what would you add? Hopefully we get something started. You know, everybody's bringing it up more than you know, you know, but I guess understandably so, too. Right. Yeah. And I would
022echo too and the longer we sit through this process, we're looking at potential tariffs on materials. I mean the cost where things start to go about I mean that's going to impact I mean there's just a lot of a lot of things that we need to really look at and weigh out of waiting much longer than we are. So, what I'm hear like a why don't we have a discussion item on that next month and then I'll I'll put an action item on there if we're not ready for it. We can always table it. But I think everybody here knows that it would be better to uh to start building the summer when we have time. This this is the long summer that that we asked for and that parents, you know, made make plans
023around. So, okay. And we we are doing the um renovation of the old the academic wing academic wing. The upper wing. We don't call it the academic. Sorry. The upper wing. But that's but that's about all that we've really got planned that we can do. For sure. Right. About that is nobody sees it. True. And that and that's that's a concern. Tell them that but they don't see it. Yeah. And that's scheduled to start immediately right in March or in May. The bids I think are in now. So next Wednesday we'll we'll go through all those. Then we have to get on people's calendars. He knows our last date and he would like to get them in within 48 hours of our la the inservice day. Yeah. The blueprints were done by uh can't even
024think they're pre probably two years ago. So they all they had to do was pull that section out and give it to Epic to, you know, send it for bid. All right. Thank you. All right. Moving on then, uh, discussion uh, regarding the Cuba City virtual days. Yeah, Angie asked that we just have some general discussion about virtual days. So, I'll let you Yeah, I appreciate it. And again, I this is nothing in saying that there's anything there's a time and place for virtual days, right? We're fully aware of that. And um, I think My understanding too is because of our time constraints for building, you know, there was this urgency. We need to get everybody out of school in May so we can start ground breaking. I'm more curious about what is the framework
025around virtual days like what is our process and procedure and the reason being um you know we obviously are looking at student academic success and instructional time and computer-based virtual is never going to replace a teacher no matter it means it's just not not saying virtual is not well done and well established and set up it's just not the same for that inerson contact and I think this year and I could be wrong on my numbers you know we had four element we had four winner virtual days. Um, elementary then had a fifth one for an event and then I think 6 through 12 maybe we're up to six virtual days maybe seven now. Um, between winter testing events I think we've only had two weather related weather virtual days. So elementary I think you
026guys have had three two weather and then the state tournament I believe that's right. Is it three? Okay. So I mean could be off on my numbers a little bit. I don't know why I have four written down January and February and March but in February um in reaching out to other schools there is a framework on other schools other schools have have processes in place for virtual days um and I kind of connected either through looking at their websites or talking with different you know school members um and and and typically the um the process has been for I think three of the schools I talked to there's like 24 or three days that are absorbed you know and I think they'll point with like 32 hours maybe at a door and then it's
027either added on at the end of the school year or they can look at doing virtual after that point. Um or debuke is capped at five max you know five virtual days max. There's no additional virtual days after that. Um other districts I reached in looked into have it rolled in. They just add on. They do not use virtual days. It's just kind of built into their schedule. They add on. Um I get I I guess I just would like a discussion around if we're going to use virtual days which again that's a more discussion. Can we look at having a structure around that? How many do we allow? You know when do we absorb those into our calendar? And I know the calendars for the next two years have been set for but that's
028can be amended if if needed. Um and what what is the gains by not adding those days at the end of the school year? Right. what are we losing for running loss? I don't know. And again, I'm not I'm curious, you know, along lines of, you know, um STI and speech and all of those services, you know, how are those and they probably are getting consistently met, you know, but how are those getting met when we're doing things virtually and not adding those on? Um so yeah, I really just wanted the discussion around around that and then is it best practice for the district to continue with just kind of cart blanch virtual days or do we need to have something in place that we have a structure built around it? Do we have a
029policy regarding virtual? Don't have a policy, but we do just kind of send it out to parents what the structure is for those virtual days. Um, back when in when we implemented this 2021, I believe, there was a lot of work that we did to with DPI to make sure that we were meeting all requirements for those those things. We actually had a lot of the discussion that you brought up like I said, do we want to build in a few a few more days and then you know we can we can use those three days and then go virtual after that. And the board discussion was we're going to use virtual days let's use virtual days. And some other things to know that they at that time that board now that was half of
030you are new since we've had those discussions too. So some of the things that they they wanted to to talk about u minutes of instruction. So at the elementary I believe Jesse you're probably 14 days over the required I want to say it was around 12 at this point with the adjustments we've made but close. Yes. Um but when we set the calendar I think it was it was 14 days over and with at the high school it's maybe 1.5 days over. So part of that discussion was we know that virtual instruction's better off for middle school and high school kids that can do this independently, not so much at the elementary school, but with the elementary school being already 12 or 14 days over, if we have a few virtual days and and they've
031got something to do to keep them keep them busy um and to continue educa education, we're still way over the required minutes. So that was part of the conversation. Um the the other conversation was how because it started from the year we had like nine days when the polar vortex came through. Um I say that and some teachers are like how um adding nine days to the end of a calendar when we got out June 4th. The conversation was how much learning loss is going to happen in those days when that's just not prime time in Wisconsin when you only have so many days that are nice. you know, could we in if the state said virtual instruction's good enough for for that pandemic, can we continue to use that knowing it's not as good
032as inerson instruction? So, those were some of the conversations that board had our board had four or five years ago. Um, but you guys can certainly talk about any of those things again. What's the board's feeling? I I would I would agree that in the middle of January, a day of in-person instruction is certainly better than virtual, but if you add that day on the second or third of June, I don't think that's comparable. I think the virtual day in January is still as good for the kids in my belief. Do you know how many um virtual days we've used like max every year since we've been doing it? I know where it is in my office. I don't I don't have that. It doesn't I mean I know you said some of the you
033know numbers this year but it doesn't have we used more like we've used I would say five that's the number I was coming up with I think too. I mean, I guess you my hearing that maybe we come up with some verbiage as to what the board like, whether it's a maximum or I don't know that you want to get into, you know, um saying how or when they're used, but maybe a maximum and then you'd either have to add them on at the end or I don't know, take them stick them in somewhere. I, you know, I mean, I would agree obviously. I mean, watching my grandchildren, you know, it's like, you know, even the high school kids, it's like two hours and they're done, you know. So, I just from that standpoint, I
034don't know that it's comparable to a day in front of a teacher. So, well, and just reflecting on that again that 2021 board, we were coming off of COVID things. We were coming off of polar vortex. we we thought any instruction if there was another prolonged shutdown was better than nothing. Um so I think that was kind of the mindset. I don't mind the idea of capping it and then hey if we're adding on two days at the end of the year because we had we reached our limit that's different. It was when we were looking at again adding nine days at the end of the year when they're everybody's checked out June 3rd whether we're in class or not. That was some of the discussion. So, I don't I'm open to investigating that. I
035also know I wouldn't mind seeing us survey parents somewhat maybe every 3 years or something. I appreciated having this data, but again, the mindset in 2023 is just like the whole world's different again. And you know, the parents that have a child that can supervise their younger children are not going to feel it as much obviously as the the parents that have a seven, five, and fouryear-old or you know, something like that where they they have to be more active and even if they work from home, it's still they're they're being pulled. So that it's tougher there. If you have an older child, you're going to feel that less. So you know that where it said 85% were in support of that that's probably right about 85% of our parents if they can handle that
036and they can provide some guidance and some supervision but you know even if we don't have virtual days and we cancel school because of weather some those kids are still going to need super they're going to need somebody there to supervise them you know so we have some of those that custodial responsibility but not at the cost of putting kids on dangerous roles either and again I am not this this is not a discussion about not believing in virtual days. I think there's a time and place for them. I really do. I just would feel more comfortable within a district after reaching out and looking at other school districts having something that outlines a framework of what they look like for Cuba City, you know, and doesn't have to be the same as another school
037district, but in Cuba City, this is our our virtual day, you know, process will be your policy. I don't know if it has to be a policy or if it has to be best practice, whatever. I'm not sure. Do you practice allows for more flexibility like monthtomonth than than a policy would? You know, do you have something that you could craft for the next board meeting or or board? What do you want? You want this as an action item next month on the agenda or Well, we had just discussed in policy prior to this meeting as well of having a kind of a standing considerations agenda item where maybe we could take a little time to do some additional research or reach out to staff and get some feedback on what this policy would need
038to look like to be supportive on both sides of it. Um, give us a little time to build this in. I don't Knock on wood, hopefully we're not using a ton more virtual days until the end of this year. Um, so as long as we had something in place for next year, I think we we'd be in good shape because our our next policy meeting will probably be in June or July. You don't usually have any options. And again, it was just brought up for discussion and I know we have a lot of other things that are more pressing, but I also feel like if we didn't start the discussions now, it would not be something we could implement next school year. So I think I want to know like what we're trying to solve
039for. Like I don't know of any issues we've had. So what are what are we trying to solve? So for me personally, I feel like I guess I'm looking at it from the perspective of what is best practice for students is, you know, if we have the opportunity to make up and they can receive that teacher instruction in the classroom and those non-school days or non-school days because I'm not 100% sure those are always 100% equitable for all kids either because every circumstance and every family outside of here has different reasons, different accessibility, different, you know, different things, you know, I and some students end up like babysitting during that time versus maybe doing their their assigned school work. So, that's what I'm looking at is what's what is what is best practice for our
040students, how are we getting our minutes met? We've talked about um a proficiency concerns, you know, is this loss of some time, is this time that instead of recapturing it and that could support some of our our proficiency and and making gains academically? So, that's kind of what I'm looking at is my reason for it. But again, I'm one voice and I think if you have a structured framework and as well as a structured expectation chart as to what is expected on the teacher side too. So are we accepting late work, are we not accepting late because I think that is some of the leniency with that as well. So either it has to be in by midnight or we're docked. You know, you I think we have to have a set structure of expectations
041as well because otherwise I do think it Do we say within 48 hours of like within two schools? But again, it's kind of like is that a wash or how I I just feel like maybe we need to be a little more strict and structured with um some of those expectations on the academic side as well. And I'm going to ask one more question. Again, I don't know how it's structured necessarily. I mean, we was district that I worked in, we just didn't do we didn't do the virtual days, but I mean, what are we doing review or are we doing new learning? And that's elementary there's no new learning. That's continued learning at the middle and high school. They can do new learning because we can age appropriate. They can learn those things, but
042they we do give them two days in case they have internet issues or in case they don't understand that new learning. It gives them two days with the teacher. Okay. I mean, I'm just curious again, you know, what that what that looks like across the board. So, it sounds like we have a lot of these parameters already built. Is it a matter of documenting that and making them official is what I'm hearing or that's more, right? Having something that people can point to in a situation as needed. All right. So moving forward, we're going to do should we push this on to our policy committee and and even if we don't adopt it as a policy, that seems to be the the right group that would even start the conversation practice part the practice side
043of it. I think so. As chair of policy, I'll accept that. Thank you for accepting. All righty. B is referendum communication a standing item if anybody had anything they want to add or any questions. A lot of you have been at some of those those um community gatherings and so if you guys have anything that that you guys want to talk about we got less than two weeks now. I want to thank uh teachers and administration and board for helping uh you know hold those and attending and participating. Hopefully uh it it all helps. Any public recognition? Is there any? Nobody's right. Thank you. New business is approved. Date time of the April meeting is 16th at 6:30. Okay. Haven't had any requests to change that. So we can keep that one and just move
044on. Hearing none, we'll move to B uh approve the renewal of the student information system power school. Yep. Our technology team is looking at the possibility of of looking at different vendors. There's generally three, power school, Skyward, Infinite Campus, but just so you know, we believe that to be probably a two to threeyear process if that's something that we're considering. So, our tech team is looking at that. We're talking to schools who have used that to see if it's worth exploring that. Don't worry, Jessica. We have not made up our mind. Do you feel me staring at you right now? I was like, calm down. You couldn't see your face. This just says that this is a one-year renewal that we have to we have to do every year. It's over $5,000. So, I have
045to bring that to the It's just over $5,000. So, we have to give board approve this. Questions board hearing? None. Would someone move? I'll move to approve the renewal for student information system vendor Power School as presented. Is there a second? I will second. Joel, yes. Barf, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Paul, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. C is approved the 2526 CISA 3 contract. Yep. This contract contains the same services it reviewed last year. Uh a slight increase in a couple line items, but not very much. Uh so there's a portion of this is special education. Some of it is student information, our student improvement, and then some of it is just general uh cease and services that all schools are required to pay. So um I did send the bill to
046you with all the the links so you can see what we're purchasing and what we don't purchase with all those hyperlinks. Um, so we've gone through this to try to see if there are any services that we can drop and um, administratively we didn't see any and I recommend that we approve the contract as written. Are there any questions? Um, do we fully utilize like our mentoring that is in that? Like do we get the maximum amount of hours that we are allotted to for the money that we're paying for which services? All of it. like are we maximizing our benefit or are there things that we should be doing to maximize that I guess is my question. Well, I'll I'll give you an example like being going to the pack meetings like I have
047those on my calendar once a month. I want to go to all those every month and there's sometimes something comes up that I can't go. Same thing with with all of you guys. I I I see your calendars. There might be a CISA thing on there that like, oh, we've got we've got a 1-hour SID meeting here that's virtual or we've got a coaching meeting or something like that and today something came up and we can't. So to the to the extent of do we prioritize it? Yes. Are there days though that that comes something a sea of product comes up and we say I can't do that today because this is a bigger priority. I'm speaking on behalf of all of you, but that happens, right? So I think when we we use it
048the best we can when we can but there are days where if something we have to give something up that might be other questions would someone move ahead I'll move to approve the 2526 C3 contract as presented. Is there a second? I will second. Joel, yes. Barf, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Paul, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carry. Item D is approved the WIS NP co-op food service agreement for 2526 school year. Yep. I think we've been doing this for the past several years. Janet, as part of this uh co-op, it just allows us to purchase the food at a at a reduced rate in bulk. If there's no questions, I will move to approve the uh WISNP co-op food service agreement for 2526 school year. Is there a second? I'll second. Joel, yes.
049Art, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Paul, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. He has approved the Neola March 2025 policy updates. These policies were all made by Niola, so no local updates this time. Policy committee met just before our meeting to go through these and they all recommended that we approve all the policies in this update. If there's no questions, would uh somebody from the policy committee move? I'll move to approve any March 2025 policy updates as presented. Is there a second? I will. I'll Joel, yes. Barf, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Paul, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carries. F has approved the college edge up and ECCP courses for fall 2025. These are college courses our high school students can take through Southwest Technical College. We are legally required to pay for
050and approve these courses. We do it at the March meeting every year. Uh so this is for next first semester for those students. So I recommend that we approve these. If there's no questions once someone I'll move to approve the college up and ECCP courses for fall 2025 as presented. I'll second. Joel, yes. Barf, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Paul, yes. Boden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. We're on the personnel and A is approved the hiring of Mr. John Sts as the high school JV baseball coach. This position was vacated last summer. Mr. McGran resigned and Mr. CS has coached for us in baseball in the past. So, I recommend that we approve this hire. Is there a motion? I'll move to approve the hiring of Mr. John. Starts as the CCH CCHS JV baseball
051coach as presented. Is there a second? I will second. Joel, yes. Barf, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Paul, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. B is approved. Wyatt Molader as the high school JV varsity volunteer coach and I didn't put baseball or it's baseball so sorry about that. Um so Wyatt was a student teacher at the high school and frequently substitutes here and wants to continue to be a part of CCHS. So we recommend that we approve this volunteer position. I will move to approve Wyatt Mader as the high school baseball JV varsity volunteer coach. Is there a second? I'll second Joel. Yes. Barf, yes. White, yes. Henderman, yes. Paul, yes. Bowden, yes. Andrews, yes. Motion carried. On the committee reports, budget finance. Is there anything at this point? No. Building and grounds. Anything?
052No. We have anything coming up here that you know of? Um, probably at our next core plan meeting once we know what they're doing for the summer. That might be a good time for us. Good time to do it. And we want to have one more build to the ground between before you're done with your duties. Be mean during the day. Correct. Um the core planning one that would be planning. Well, we could have it later in the day. Yeah, we could have done. All right. Yep. That'll work. Thank you. Yep. Personel personnel. Nothing till after referendum. Yes. Policy. You just met tonight. Tech and transportation. Is there any thing there? I guess we covered tech a little bit with the power school um foundation. Uh that meeting was a month ago. Yeah. And we
053won't have another one till fall. Okay. Um Caesar 3 rep. Um we had our last meeting and uh um pretty much the only thing I had was uh I sent all of you an email. Um the presidents of all of the school boards of the Southwest Technical College are asked to participate in the meeting where they u appoint and approve the um Southwest Tech board and I'm not able to attend at 5:00. Is there anybody that even by Zoom could attend that? because the lady from Southwest Tech asked if I would ask anyone from the board and if so I would send you that information. What was the date on that Gary? I think I have a conflict. I can't remember off the top of my head. Uh I want to say it was April
0542nd. Can I do my So let me see if I can find my uh sent messages here. April 2nd at five. Ab second at five. Thank you, Julie. Any takers? I don't believe I can. I don't think you probably can. All righty. If you can let me know. Otherwise, uh I will tell her no. All right. I don't have anything else. Is there a motion to adjurnn? Let's move. Is there a second? I'll second.