001okay it is 6:15 I'll call this meeting into order if everyone would please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all just in time call please Katherine Solen here Angie shriber here Dr BTO here Bobby Brum here Joe mad Nelson here Kristen Matt Miller here Scott Peterson here JD Sher Danny pip here item number two citizens and delegations letter a student representative reports and in lie of the student representative reports I would like for board member Scott Peterson to read a text message that he received about one of our students where he I received this from um Danny bassel's brother cliff and I just want to read
002this not sure his full name but number 32 Luke I believe last night like other times we've had Annie go and he has come up and thanks us for reing and is very polite never complains about a call as he was being taken out for the last time he made it a point to to come over to me and Todd for sure and thank us for officiating and having a good game I haven't had that happen in as long as I can remember this is a good person right there that is why I officiate High School sports right there for kids like that your team your school and your community should be proud to have a young man like that so kudos to you and he's a proud to say I'm a family member we'll
003let the record reflect also that board member JD shrer appeared at 617 letter B recognition first we have students to recognize we would like to give a shout out excuse me to our yearbook Club co-editor Maggie newfeld Maggie has done an exceptional job as co-editor serving as a strong collaborator who always listens to the ideas of her peers and helps bring them to life this year she has created templates to streamline the yearbook process while ensuring that everyone remains on track she even stepped up as photographer capturing key moments at events so various memories are included in our yearbook please come forward Maggie newfeld and Maggie if you could just hold on just a second and let me read the other two students and then we'll get a picture of all of you all so
004the next one is for kindall cresen kindall who's shown amazing growth this year as part of the AHS yearbook she has stepped up to help new members of the club with wallsworth along with learning more and more herself she is more involved this year with creative processes assigning herself to more pages and showing leadership quality thank you for your hard work and dedication to the yearbook Kindle please come forward Kindle Cresent if you are with us tonight she's not here okay and next we have Reese mateski she was recognized um ree has made her presence known this year she has taken on the role of marketing manager while also proving that she has developed great leadership skills she has been a big part of the entire process of creating this year's yearbook while finding herself
005behind the camera more as well thank you for your hard work and dedication to the yearbook Reese if Reese is here please come forward I don't think she's here either okay let's get a picture of Maggie and board president Patt thank you Maggie [Applause] and next we would like to recognize Jeff rasmason we'd like to take a moment to recognize and appreciate the incredible work of Jeff rasmuson Jeff consistently goes above and beyond taking on even the most challenging requests with a positive attitude and a Cano mindset if he doesn't know how to do something he finds a way showing true dedication to our school Beyond his hard work Jeff also makes a meaningful impact on our students he always takes the time to stop and say hi and it is clear that our students
006genuinely enjoy these moments their smiles when they see him speak volumes about the positive connections he builds every day Jeff thank you for all you Ado all you do we appreciate you Jeff rasmason if you are with us please come forward he's not here he's not here okay next I have a group of Staff when I call your names please come forward Natasha lure Sher wallrath Dan castl Lyn seski Tiffany gallahue Kelly derline and Melissa giry this staff met with Administration and our special education director Miss Wagner on Monday to discuss adjusting case loads each of these staff members stepped up to ensure that the students were being supported and families connected with we appreciate your dedication to adjusting interventions and planning for academics behavior and socially emotional regulation your ability to fluently plan adjust
007schedules and support our students and fifth grade teachers makes a huge difference thank you for all you do to each and every one of you and I'm going to invite Miss McAn and Mr mock to join them for this photo out in the hall [Applause] one smile that's after SM thank you thank you okay and we have one more our next recognition is for Mr teal mock Mr mock leads our District's new teacher program I want to express the excitement that teal brings to our new teacher program your leadership truly sets the tone leading by example with preparation enthusiasm and a deep passion for Education thank you for being dedicated to creating meaningful learning experiences for all of our new teachers please come forward Mr [Applause] mock thanks teal [Applause] okay letter C we have
008a FFA student [Laughter] presentation hello my name is shelin donkey I'm the anigo FFA adviser um and I have two young ladies with me um this is Elizabeth gri and Gracie rotsky um in the beginning of February we attended the regional it's on I'm a loud person I can't believe that goodness gracious that's why I'm away from it usually um so like I was saying um in early February I took a group of students um to gram Community um schools and we competed at our regional which is called the regional LD or leadership development event which is essentially a speaking contest and these two young ladies as freshmen um decided to do the FFA Creed which is where you memorize the Creed and then after it you answer questions um based on the Creed and
009both these young ladies for the first time this is their first speaking contest that they did um and um Elizabeth got third and is technically a runnerup if the second place person backs out and Gracie received first place and moves on to sectionals which sectionals is tomorrow um so we are headed to palaski tomorrow and one of the um judges um explained he was a school board member and he said go talk to your school board so I want to say thank you very much for letting us present because we are going to give Gracie one more practice um before she does her final one tomorrow um these both girls did really well they actually went up against 16 students um in their area and it's just our local District so tomorrow Gracie will compete
010against five other students in our section um so we're going to change it up a little bit for you if you don't mind I'm going to move this because she's not going to be speaking in front of a um Podium and I'm GNA ask three of you to be her questions at the end um so she's going to say Her speech and then um when she's done you just ask these questions does she know what the questions are she does not know what the questions are and that is what is expected yes so these are literally so they actually went in front of our FFA alumni a few weeks ago and I had Elizabeth try just in case we were prepping her and um I had I had to prepare six questions because I wouldn't
011let them have the same they don't hear the same questions so what'll happen is tomorrow night Gracie will receive the same questions every student will hear them but they go into a holding room and then they say their speech and then they come back to us to the big room so they don't know um so both girls got the same questions at districts it's just they didn't know the questions were coming so but we are preparing because there are practice questions out there so three board members want to volunteer okay JD Catherine and Scott Katherine and [Laughter] Scott I promise um I can ask them so she's normally not going to talk in front of a microphone are you okay if she does doesn't talk in front of the microphone or do you want her
012to talk in front of the microphone no that' be fine without the microphone just do what you're comfortable with the FFA Creed by Ian Tiffany I believe in the future of Agriculture with a faith formed not of words but of Deeds achievements won by the present and past generations of agriculturists in the promise of better days through better even as the better things we now enjoy have come to us from the struggles of former years I believe that to live and work on a good Farm or to be engaged in other agricultural Pursuits is pleasant as well as challenging for I know the joys and discomforts of agricultural life and hold an inborn fondness for those associations which even in hours of discouragement I cannot deny I believe in leadership from ourselves and respect from
013others I believe in my own ability to work efficiently and think clearly with such knowledge and skill as I can secure in the ability of progressive agriculturist to serve our own and the Public's interest in producing and marketing the product of our toil I believe in less dependence on begging and more power in bargaining in the Life abundant and enough honest wealth to help make it so for others as well as myself and less need for charity and more of it when needed and being happy myself and playing square with those whose happiness depends upon me I believe that American agriculture can and will hold true to the best traditions of our national life and that I can exert an influence in my home and Community which will stand solid for my part in that
014inspiring task thank you how will you develop your own ability to work efficiently and think clearly I will develop my own ability to work efficiently and think clearly by pushing myself out of my comfort zone and trying things because you don't know until you do things multiple times you can't just give it one time and say I don't like that you got to try over and over so then that will help you be Progressive because you keep going at it you don't stop you keep going and trying what do you see in the future of agriculture in the future of Agriculture I see great changes I see changes that we can be more sustainable with our land and resources with changes in seed varieties to help the farmers grow their crop in climates where they
015can't right now so that they can pull a good um like a c like they can get a profit from their crop so that they can live happy with their families how would you describe honest wealth I would describe honest wealth from money that we work hard for like Farmers they're out all the time they're making food for America to feed us if we didn't have Farmers we wouldn't we wouldn't be here because we wouldn't have food to eat so they work hard they get their money from feeding us and that's not an easy job for anyone to do so I think honest wealth is being doing something that is not normally easy but you worked hard at it to get your money thank you [Applause] great job what's your first name gra Gracie ah
016okay grin did an exceptional job impressive thank good job you're a true utki good luck gra see when I was the superintendent down at whittenberg burnam wood which is just south of us one of our girls became the national president of the FFA for the entire nation and the amazing thing is that she's doing she did what you're doing starting out as a freshman and doing things that other people wouldn't expect as a freshman up there also to do so there's lots of things you can do with FFA and there's and if a a young girl from burnhamwood Wisconsin can be the president of the entire nation for the FFA it can happen in anago also for those of you who've been in the district a while both Gracy and Elizabeth are my first graders
017oh wow who have now returned to me as freshman while they were with me last year about that so that's a little bit of we're coming full circle so thank you very much for your time we appreciate it all right thank you and good luck tomorrow Gracie we have confidence in you make us proud uh letter D public comment do we have anybody nobody signed in moving on to item three consent agenda approval of agenda minutes Financial reports requests for overnight travel report of District new hires District retirement and resignation report I will be looking for a motion please I move the board approve the agenda minutes from the February 17th 2025 Board of Education meeting February committee meeting minutes report of District new hires District retirement and resignation report Financial reports for fin for
018February 2 and March 2025 consideration of current bills checks number 8720 through 8790 in the amount of 155,50 75 a is number 242 50137 through 242 50124 in the amount of 18697 and W your transfers in the amount of$ 17,19 414 for a total of 1,882 180 motion has been made by Bobby would you like to speak to your motion I do not need to thank you are there any questions or comments of the motion on the floor I need to abstain from check number 51155 and resignations I need to abstain on check number 2425 50155 are there any other questions or comments of the motion on the floor he you no questions or comments of the motion on on the floor the voting device is now open we can do a roll call vote
019for this while Ben is getting the computer set up for future votes so let's do a roll call vote please di okay Angie shriber Dave Dave BTO yes Bobby Brown yes Jill mad Nelson yes Kristen Matt Miller yes Scott Peterson yes JD shraer yes Katherine Solen yes and Danny p yes item number four Administration reports I will turn this over to our district administrator Mrs oensi attached we have the Director of Business Services report and Mrs fosbender is present if anyone has questions our next report is director of pupil services and special education Miss Wagner is present if anyone has questions our director of buildings and grounds report is attached and Mr lighterman is present if anyone has questions about the report our director of curriculum and instruction report is attached and Miss Stam is
020present if anyone has questions about the report okay next is the superintendent report found it okay on Monday March 3rd Mr lighterman and I spent the day with the blue Design Group looking at exterior materials for the new Elementary we traveled extensively examining the exteriors of various buildings and residential neighborhoods um we did not really have much luck with that that tour of Hortonville um but we did in the process um Mr Rance was able to locate a different vendor who was um who has a different type of man-made stone for the bottom of the building that is matching pretty close to what we were looking for so we're very excited about that they're supposed to be coming to Hortonville to show us the product um in person and talk more about it it is
021also pretty efficient so it might be some cost Savings in the long run so as soon as we can get the exterior um materials ironed out then that means they can finalize the renderings so that we can start sharing and um create some boards to post up throughout the community so that people can see the floor plan and what um the exterior of the building will look like so just a few little odds and inss things that have to be short up on Friday our District Administrative team um central office team worked with Carla bblz to draft our next 100 day plan um we had lots of things that have to be accomplished so we broke that down into a 30-day plan and a 45-day plan and a 60-day plan to carry us throughout the
022summer as well so that we're able to focus our efforts and make sure that we are accomplishing things that are time sensitive so that we're not not leaving anything left undone it was a great day um she also helps us with something that I feel our team in general has a hard time with and and that's celebrating the wins um because we're so busy trying to get things taken care of we seldom stop and celebrate you know the good accomplishments and the good work that that is happening in our district so it was it was a great day I feel like everybody left with um in a good mind set and we have no doubt what our work is for the next 30 days so we have a clear plan ahead of us so that's
023always good it helps us to feel even more accomplished um on Wednesday March 19th Steve romance from Blue design will be coming to our elementary we have all of our Elementary staff meeting at North Elementary we will be reviewing um the classroom layouts staff will look at um Cabinetry and have some decisions to make about some Central location of things like wardrobes um there won't be movement of like base Cabinetry because of plumbing and then the need for aligning the plumbing for the first level first floor and the second floor so um there will be some conversation around color schemes and different um items around the new building to allow staff the opportunity to provide some input and um we expect that the meeting should take probably about an hour I encourage you to attend
024if you would like um they will see a floor plan and they will see some exterior elevations but it won't be like the renderings just so that they have some sort of an idea of what is going on and also providing them the ability to give some feedback and input into the building that they're going to be working in so that will be happening this Wednesday is that going on all day no it's for one hour it starts at 3:30 3:30 Wednesday afternoon di could we have it posted that there could be a quorum of the board present uh just and that there be no business taken care of yeah um and then the last thing is um well let me ask did anyone have questions about that before I go to the next item
025what school is it at again at North at North yeah Steve will be coming on site um and then we'll be working with teachers around the very ious things that um they'll they'll need to be making decisions around or providing feedback yep okay then the last thing is I need to know how many people are available for us to hold our expulsion hearings on Monday we need to move one more so it would be a combined total of three so what's your time frame um we would start at 6:15 I believe no that's going to go really late then can you be there earlier Kristen then 6:15 on Monday I know two people cannot make it Monday but as long as we have a quorum we still can move forward the earliest I could be
026here is like five how long like 5:37 I would say you know so we could do 5:45 that would does anybody else know if you can be here on Monday I cannot I'm out of town okay Dr Bardo can yes Kristen you are able to okay Bobby don't know you don't know okay JD what about you I think so okay yes Scott C and I'll just comment I had already responded so yes is aware I will be out of state so I'm not available sure yeah that is our spring break that's the the hard part about that but we would have one two three four five if JD can participate we would have five and that's without you Bobby I don't have you written down right one two so we need to all make sure
027that we are there yes yes so we don't have to yes absolutely okay we'll send a calendar invite can can I make a statement sure absolutely and it's for Trina um when there are M multiple expulsions what needs to happen is that the parents and the students need to be separated so whoever comes in first they're going to come in but you're going to need someone to greet the next set that comes in and put them in a classroom where they cannot hear what's going on on in here and then again with the third one putting them somewhere else on this floor where they can't see here or uh talk to any one who has been in here so will you post that as three separate meetings yes it would have to be three separate
028meetings because you have to go in and out of close session for all three of them yep and we we will post it like we do our committees not to begin before a certain time we can't determine who we're going to the order we're going to do them in that would be uh Glenda's discretion to put them in the order then you wouldn't have to worry so much y okay so you have a quorum of five and possibly Bobby she'll check her schedule so you could potentially have six board members yeah okay thank you thank you uh we will move on to item yes ma'am did we you offer director of Technology report and I missed it Oh shoot no I did not I I missed it sorry about that so we also have attached
029the director of Technology report and Mrs musack is on Virtual with us if anyone has questions thank you for catching that Miss mad Nelson no okay that's all thank you I actually I apolog oliz I'm slow I did want to comment I don't have a question I appreciate um the sharing uh and the shout out for Mr willham and the mam Mia um production because there is so much work that goes into that and I really appreciated um the recognition from admin for that so thank you for including that it's really important thank you very much it's not easy put it on a show like that thank you item five board action Mr Wilhelm are we ready for the computer for voting okay we will move on to letter A instructional minutes makeup day I
030will be looking for a motion please I move the board to approve converting the April 21st 2025 from a nonattendance Daye to an instructional day motion has been made by Jill would you like to speak to your motion so unfortunately due to weather illness um we've exceeded our allocated um snow days uh so and looking at the calendar and finding the best opportunity to make that time up it was brought to committee to make April 21st um an instructional day which was originally scheduled as a non student attendance day um and so it was recommended by committee to bring it to the full board are there any other questions or discussion of the motion on the floor Angie I saw you um well first all I just want to say thank you to the administration
031for calling the snow days when you needed to because that much appreciated yes so and I'm sure parents with you know young children also appreciate the fact that happens most of you know at night versus scrambling in the mornings the so um so thank you for that um my only concern with h moving this to an instructional day is it's the day after Eastern if people have planned for a longer weekend to spend with family and stuffff like that then they're going to be missing anyways so what was the thought of moving just adding the day to the end of the school year was that ever discussed so the reason for adding it on Easter Monday so to speak is because if we added it on the end of the year then kids would have
032to come back after Memorial Day weekend so that was why we elected to have that Monday off because I think that typically in the past we don't use have that Monday off so we used it as a makeup day okay um not just you know we all live in Wisconsin and March has about six seven winter Summers transitions so I mean true who's to say we're not going to need some more snow days as well so I maybe this week yeah yeah it's possible so my concern is that you know if we approve this and then we're going to have to extend that school year anyway so I think um I don't I I myself I would like to see it at the end of the year just because like I said families May planned
033for a long weekend isn't there can't we do something virtual is that does that those kind of things don't count or well we haven't done anything virtual if we we've had some conversation about what the possibilities of if we have snow on Wednesday um we have the possibility of sending work home and having to come up with some way in which we can be held accountable for that instruction um but as far as a plan right now no because when we came back when we started that was one of the first things that we did we talked about when we had snow days they would be snow days it would not be virtual learning days but that's not to mean that we can't it's just not something we have spent time on those questions were
034also addressed within committee um I think Kristen pointed out too just a staffing concern to ensure that we have adequate Staffing numbers for that reason um and then we also talked about asked and confirm that virtual learning days are a possibility though as a district we want to ensure that's very intentional and not just um it's a virtual learning day with no accountability ac across the board for students and and staff too but I I would agree Angie that if we have any more snow days it would make sense to leave that Monday alone and go Tuesday Wednesday versus just coming back for Tuesday yeah any other questions or discussion so they had a different motion there yeah you would want you would have to make a motion to amend or amend the motion rather
035well we would have to would have to app if we were going to add another dat anyway we would have to do another approval for a calendar change so and that approval could come after other snow days that potentially could happen right we could revisit this motion if this motion that's on the floor passes tonight it can be Revisited at a l later date uh to take this Dat Back Off the calendar okay so I I just feel that's unfair to our staff and family if if they have the day off or they don't have the day off they have off they don't have off that's you can entertain an amendment to the motion that's on the floor okay I'll make the amendment to them motion that's on the floor um and how I'm trying
036how do I want to say this I don't know the we want to be flexible on yeah so to amend the motion you have to use the verbiage in the motion great and change a few words or insert a few words take out or insert you cannot change the entire motion or you'll be offering a substitutionary motion okay so I'm struggling here anyone wants to jump in um so I move to appr approve um how do I want to say this because without it being a whole new motion the problems is you don't know how many days you're going to add so right if you want it to be the the day in May you need to do the May date instead of this date okay that makes sense thank you welcome all right so
037so could we move to you wanted to so I would need to say I move to approve converting May 27th 2025 to an instructional day is that right let me read it that's the day after Memorial Day is that confirmed the day after Memorial Day just one second could you just have the motion read that um it's a profession you move to approve that futureed snow days be um instructional days at the end following May that's a that's a well that would be a substitutionary motion so we would need to deal with this amendment first if that's the route that she wants to go and May May 27th is a professional development Day May 27 is a professional development day so can I do a Sub sub you have the floor you can you can
038change and do a substitutionary motion because we haven't clearly defined what an amendment is so you can do a substitutionary motion okay yes okay scratch that I'll do a substitution uh so I move that any um future snow days are moved to the end of May 2 our move our move to the end of the school calendar year yes okay yeah so what I have written down and Di you can help me is I move that any future future snow days are moved to the school to the end of the school calendar year correct now I just want to caution you can I ask a question wait one second I want to caution you on this substitutionary motion because that does not include April 21 that would still leave April 21 because you you said
039any future snow days yeah okay say the same thing yeah but which would be our right April 21st is already scheduled day off no the scheduled day off is is to make up a past snow day not a future snow day okay I know it's sounds technical but we have to make it germine to what we're talking about okay including that was appropriate you could say I move that any snow days exceeding okay the allowable snow days yes okay that's what I'm saying okay ready with pcil yeah okay yeah okay so your motion your substitutionary motion would be I move that any snow days exceeding the allowable snow days be moved to the end of the school calendar year yes is that your substitute yeah motion yes okay you got that all no let me
040read it again I move that in any snow days exceeding the allowable snow days be moved to the end of the school calendar year that would include that past snow day because that past snow day exceeded yes thank you okay so I move to approve any snow days exceeding the allowable snow days to be moved to the end of the school year calendar school calendar year calendar year yes ma'am so what does that mean for April 21st well let's just just handle this substitutionary motion first can I speak to that does everybody understand the substitutionary motion question okay you can speak to it and you can answer that question in in your statement okay so April 2 or yes April 21st would remain off for students and staff then when they come at the end
041of May so Memorial day is May 26th Monday so the 27th would be that is a scheduled professional development yep so the students would have off but staff would be here for the PD day and then any additional days after that is when the snow days would be made up okay so the question I have for this for the administration is does that interfere with with any contractual days with student or with teacher contracts no it does not okay I have one comment to SC with thought if I can wait just hold your comment we make sure Angie's completely done yeah I'm done okay go ahead Bobby I'm just concerned about what attendance is going to look like on the 20 absolutely or 29th possibly too I'll play devil's advocate here too I would be
042concerned about what the attendance is going to look like on April 21st for students and staff yeah it could be either way Scott go ahead I would agree with that it's going to be a concern either way but I think the effort of those who attend in April will be higher than the effort of those who attend in May yes just from past experience you you add those days on at the end of the year oh my gosh it's a nightmare all I'm saying for all concern any other discussion or questions of the substitution AR motion what happens to the professional development day is it one where speakers are coming in that would have to be rescheduled or is it just a staff day the professional development will be wrapping up the end of the
043year data and closing out continuous Improvement plans and um things of that sort and it would remain on the 27 yes Glenda do you have a strong opinion on this one way or the other because I don't necessarily well I do agree I think that either way but I agree with what Scott said about I think that the attendance in May after Memorial Day and the kids being out that weekend and the following 27th to get them to come back in for one day is likely not going to happen very fruitfully unless you come up with a list of a 100 that you tell to stay home well unless there I mean there's more than one day too I mean that we have that possibility as well right I think it's a different situation if
044there's more than one day yeah but it stands yes one day that'll change everything yeah we could be looking at that this Wednesday yeah but we could not too right snow days are the most difficult decision that a district administrator has to make and let me just make this known publicly the school board has no say in snow days but we do with makeup days we do with makeup days so couldn't we just say we stick with the 21st unless we have another snow day before then or is that not well we we could but that's not part of the substitutionary motion we would have to I was wondering if we could do it there's a way to do that we we could pass the substitutionary motion the way that it is and then amend
045that substitutionary motion to read whatever you want it to read because once we pass the substitutionary motion it then becomes the main motion and we have to vote on that one more time does that make sense to everybody okay yes ma'am so if if if we decide to move the 21st to an instructional day say there's another motion or something then um I don't think any staff that are not able to come in because they have planned in advance going off of the set schedule that they had to take a longer weekend with family and be out of town or something like that should not be penalized and we don't have the resources to like have a ton of Subs coming in so but I I don't want our staff to be penalized either I
046agree separate issue any other questions or comments of the substitutionary motion I just think the argument can go both ways yeah it's a hard call yeah and I think I definitely think it's going to be harder to get students here by extending the school year I also think kind of shifts the atmosphere and momentum going into the end of the year um possibly for staff too of it just shifts things but either way you can have that argument on April or in May we'd have to coordinate with the bus company too wouldn't [Music] we I still think it's better at the end of making it up at the end of the school year um they're planning on being done I mean that's happened in the past where we've made up SNES at the end of
047the year it's not can you just reiterate what the motion reads in the process for passing or not passing that like okay is it you said it becomes then the the motion on correct the substitutionary motion if passed then becomes the main motion which then can be amended again if somebody wants to make an amendment to it and then we have to go through the process again so potentially you have two votes before you on this one motion what if the present motion fails and we go to the original okay yeah if the substitutionary motion fails as Dr BTO has stated we go to what what was done by in the first place yes whoever made that motion can we uh before you call the question can we pull the like rest of the staff
048in the room because I legitimately don't know no I don't think I think Mrs oensi speaks on behalf of the administration uh on behalf of her team I'm sure they've been making eye contact and been speaking through their eyes before we vote vote in committee Miss hream did a wonderful job of talking through all of these Dynamics and questions which led to the recommendation of the original motion for April 21st so I think because we've all expressed different thoughts and opinions um I just want to reassure board members and the community um that those same factors along with many others that have not been brought up were all considered in um the makeup day I will also say that anago is not unique to this situation there are other school districts all around us and
049if I know our administrator like I think I do she's been in contact with them and getting ideas of what all the other districts are doing doesn't mean we have to follow what other districts do uh we seem to be Trend Setters here in anago um and that's okay that's great but um these administrators do discuss about plans of what we can do we don't know what the future holds for the weather so another snow day comes we'll have another discussion at another time to make up that particular day are there any other questions or discussion of the substitutionary motion on the floor okay Mr willham are we ready yes okay so you the voting device is now open if you are in favor of the substitutionary motion which is to uh make any snow
050days that exceed the allotted snow days move them to the end of the school calendar year if you're in favor of that it's yes if you're not in favor of that it's no not coming up there all right would anyone like to change their vote all right the vote is now closed and we lost the vote one two three four five six seven eight we have eight against and one in favor the substitutionary motion fails we will now go back to the main motion given by Mrs Jill madic Nelson I move to approve converting April 21 202 from a non-attendance day to an instructional day any discussion of the motion now on the floor I do have a question question I would um support what mentioned um in saying that there's a good possibility that
051it may be a skeletal staff if there had already been plans and motion and so I would support that and I would hope that we could work that out with our staffing yeah I don't I strongly feel like our staff should not be penalized because this was on the calendar correct at the start of the school year you got a plane ticket yeah exactly like is there a way to know never that's not a relevant question this isn't relevant that's not a relevant question well I I guess I would put it in context to of other businesses and organizations such as like storm trouble well you're on plan you're not planned to be in but you may have to cancel vacation or come in outside of work hours so although it would be unfortunate and
052I'm not taking an opinion one way or another just broadening broadening it to there are situations where you unfortunately are unable to follow through with plans due to the the needs within your role so for whatever that's worth I again don't have an opinion but wanted to share I guess bosses on that would probably be have 50 50% One Way 50% the other I don't think you'd have cross Bo business guys depend who you work for I I'd like to treat him with respect any other questions or discussion of the motion on the floor hearing no questions or further discussion the voting device is now open if you are in favor of it's yes if you're opposed it's no okay now the voting device is open would anyone like to change their vote the vote
053is now closed and the motion carries with eight in favor and one against moving to Item B start college now I will be looking for a motion to move the board to approve the start college now applications for the fall 2025 semester motion has been made by Jill would you like to speak to your motion yes I would like to share and congratulate and express appreciation for the high school staff um there are 56 students enrolled for the fall um start cin now and set stream please correct me if I get any of these numbers wrong 50 6 enrolled uh for the Fall start college now program to put into context the hard work from our staff at the high school um in the fall of last year there were 19 students um in 2023
054there were 16 students 2022 five students and fall of 2021 there was one student so a lot of intentional um focus in promoting this um and expanding awareness to students who are taking the opportunity and then this comes before the board by date determined within State Statute right yep so it routinely comes to us I was just expressing the uh progress with that program and shout out to the high school staff okay any other questions or discussion of the motion on the floor we actually have a cur a student taking pluralism Educators pluralism for educators that's nice Scott since you have the list open would you kindly read that list of what is available welding CNA business marketing computer illustrations digital marketing psychology intro to diversity studies photomy anatomy and physiology animal biology entrepreneurship fun
055alss introduction to diversity studies statistics AutoCAD 2 for architectural design Fluid Power Systems counseling skills media terminology appreciation and history of Music pluralism for educators intro to professional nursing and political science that's a great list for all 56 of those students what is FL ofy blood blood blood dra blood drawing blood lab work okay if there are no other questions line for that one jie no other questions or discussion of the motion on the floor to approve the start college now applications for the fall of 2025 the voting device is open would anyone like to change their vote the vote's now closed and the motion [Music] passes High School course handbook I will be looking for a motion I move to approve the recommended updates to the anigo high school course catalog as presented motion
056has been made by Jill would you like to speak to your motion this was also brought forth with um a lot of feedback or engagement with this Boardman um regarding the handbook recommendation was bring to the full board are there any questions or comments of the motion on the floor to approve the high school course catalog as presented hearing no questions or comments the voting device is now open would anyone like to change their vote the vote is now closed and the motion carries letter D 4K All Saints contract I would be looking for a motion I move to approve the 2025 2026 4K program contract between USDA and All Saints for one year motion has been made by Jill would you like to speak to your motion please there's been a lot of work
057done on the back end to just review the contract language um with new Administration coming in there were questions that were had reviewing the the contract in the past um so we just cleaned up language not just for us but also for All Saints too um and then if the um motion is approved tonight it will then be taken um to All Saints to review and discuss that contract and then um should all sign it would be that that would move forward if not um it would likely come back to the board um for further discussion correct any questions or comments of the motion on the floor did you originally there was more of a tuition increase we just couldn't afford that or why we'd lower it wasn't it originally a 5% increase from last
058last year Stam would you like to come and speak to that can I just provide a clarifying point so when we looked at the motion from the previous meeting because I had to kind of wondered why we were looking at it again all our previous motion did was allow Amy to go forward with creating a contract yes so last year there was a 6% increase that All Saints asked for and I brought that to the board of a six% increase they also wanted a full day program paid for that was both um it was said no to those and that we would stick with the regular the 1,118 per pupil uh for the contract so that's what I stuck with this year brought it back to you um to see if there was any changes
059that wanted to be made before I presented to All Saints and Mr gloa so that he can look through it we can talk through the contract on his end because we did figure out we make a bunch of money on this right I don't know if would say bunch of money we did figure out that it is advantageous for the district and also obviously very beneficial for us in the district to continue a very strong partnership with them so to answer your question yes there are benefits to both us and them that we have well explored and dive did a deep dive into um the only I guess pending component aside from the board vote is if the state were to come back to say have feedback you know that that could impact anything the
060board decides but aside from that due diligence has been done on our end we're just moving forward with the ability to present it to All Saints so it's the same contract from last year to this year the part that was added that I there were some questions in committee around was the second bullet in the first page around the student contact time um and the parent Outreach activities that looks a little bit different but it looks different on our end here in anaco as well so we're just tracking that parent Outreach uh because we do have to provide that if we do get audited for our membership audit of the number of hours that we're doing for parent Outreach for 4K so we just submitted ours for anago and what I realized looking through the
061contract is we never have even told all saints that they need to do that so not anything wrong on their end they didn't even know so I'll sit down with Mr galoa and walk through what that looks like so that if we do get audited for some of that we can make sure that we have all of that um documented appropriately so that we don't have to then go back and try to figure out what date was that when did you have 4K come in what when did you send out that like parent communication that we have it documented along the way we just had to do that in Anna go and like backtrack a little bit so moving forward I want to make sure everyone with the 4K program is on the same page
062the other thing is we we officially restricted the number of students yeah to 20 which is what it's always been it's just never been enforced enforced so I would just clarify or whatever the the ERS that I want at the moment that we aren't restricting that has always we've always had a cap in the contracts that hasn't been respected both from us and from them so that's a mutual thing so what's the point changing it because we're going to say it's at 20 now because if we have a contract in place regardless of who it's with I would anticipate the full board would say we should be following what the contractual agreement States versus we'll follow this contract but we're gonna not follow this one over here like that just doesn't make sense so there
063was some other things like well we'll just throw an instructional coaching and we'll just throw if there's a contract we have to follow it and if we want to change that contract great we will follow the changes then but when you're looking at some of the contracts that were written um and then you go to actual practice of what was happening those two did not align so we just want to make sure that if we're signing if my name's on it right and miss o jinsky signs it then I'm going to be pretty sure that I'm following everything in here and when I looked at it and it wasn't I'm not putting my name on something like that right it's just weird but normally when both sides agree and don't follow the language of the
064contract that what the actions of the parties reflect is what becomes the contract right you know so I don't know that I feel the need to cap it how big are our um mine sitting at East are 15 um Miss jinsky at North is one combined so it's 23 or 24 uh West has I think they're at 17 or 18 so would it be official to make that one class size smaller and the one at All Saints bigger or no All Saints wouldn't have to cap at 20 All Saints could take as many kids as they want the contract would just say we are fiscally going to pay for those 20 they could have 48 if they felt like it I don't know if you want to be with 48 forkers um but they can
065have as many as they want this is our fiscal responsibility that we're in contractual agreement with them that this is what we're going to follow they can on their end you know open their program up to however many they want I will also share that I followed up with Mr glusa i' had had prior conversations with him regarding this and follow up from the committee meeting as well that this the con the previous languages within the sorry the previous contract language was actually developed prior to Mr galoa coming to All Saints so when I talk about the language and just clearing it up like that has just been passed on year after year and without either of us intentionally looking at so when you talk about capping at 20 who knows who put that number
066in but it's been in there for a very long time it on board and they're like sign this I'm gonna be honest I'm not putting my name on something that's a contract if it's not going to be followed or else we change it to what we we agree to follow it on um we work really well with All Saints um we Supply title support for them as well last year because when I was first here our title support started a little bit late we actually over serviced uh their title program with a lot more hours than they were like legally allowed to have through our title Grant because we wanted to make sure that they knew that we support them so they actually got more title support than they should have um last year so
067it's not like I just want people to realize that we work really hand inand with All Saints on a lot of things and with our title Grant with the 4K program that no one's out to get anyone we are really in tandem with what's going on and and how to support when they had A needs assessment and had more students who needed title support we gave more support on our end for that which took away from anago students I still send my um East title teacher to All Saints every day um at the end of the day she does so many hours per the title Grant so that those students there that are under the needs assessment can have what they need um around reading support so we work hand inand with them I'll be
068meeting with Mr glusa coming up in the next month he doesn't know it yet um around the affirmations for our title grant for the following year um we're going to sit down and go through the plan so so pario schools do is there just in 4k or or are we talking like so just with All Saints we have a 4K program agreement the the contract that you see in front of you but for all the parochial schools we provide title support um so we send a teacher to them that's Federal that's Federal yeah okay so they do um provide assessments yeah we interventions or no yep we do A needs assessment we look at our time that we allow for the title Grant we send a teacher over we have quality um interventions that the
069teacher provides those students we take data we look through it as students gain the reading knowledge that they need we pull in other kids just like we do here in ano okay so if a student were to have difficulties they and it was found while they were at the All Saints or something it would not be they would be they would get the um help that they needed with it through interventions and stuff they wouldn't have to move over to the public school but it also is dependent upon what their needs assessment is so they choose that they don't necessarily use the same needs assessment that we use our Benchmark assessment fast bridge is part of that so whatever process they use they get to choose that we don't have a say in that and
070it's not like what we do in the public school so they choose whatever assessment they want to use one one pro School actually uses fast Bridge so it's nice if we have a student who transfers over we just ask them can we have their fastb results so now we know as they come to ano where we need to place them um others uh use the map the NWA testing that we kind of all used in the past um another one's using the star assessment so they all use the same whatever assessment they choose to use we just look at that data compile our needs assessment and make sure we're supplying the students who have that significant reading Gap with title support based on what's allowed within the grant okay so and I say all that
071just to say that we do have a working relationship with all SA around not just 4K contract but with many other things any other questions or comments I will be very cautious of the board we're straying just a little bit from the contract we need to be talking about the contract any other questions all right hearing none you are voting on approving the 2526 4K program contract between the Unified School District of Antigo and all saint for one year the voting device is open would anyone like to change their vote all right the vote is now closed okay the motion carries with eight uh passing and one abstaining di are we moving too fast for you to catch the names of who Okay letter e Transportation bids and contracts I will be looking for a
072motion please I move the board approv Lamers to be the Unified School District of anago Transportation contractor as presented motion has been made by Dave would you like to speak to your motion please I've worked with Lamers um before and um they're a good company and at this point I'll turn it over to yeah all right so I do want to start just by saying that I feel very fortunate that we did get three high quality contractors interested and submit bids on this um I called and invited um all the busing companies within the state some even out of state and these are the three that did submit bids and I'm very happy because I I feel like they were uh three extremely highly qualified companies very reputable um more than capable of servicing our
073needs so I'm very thankful for all their time and efforts in bidding in this um and then also just with our current contractor malates you know they have been a a great partner over the years um and they just feel like it's time for them to uh take a different path in life I think that's uh commendable for them to find a way to exit business and I wish them the best um nothing against us or against them is just their time to move on so um they certainly have been a great contractor for us over the years and I thank them for that but uh at this time it's best decision for them to to go a different direction so um that being said we have the three amounts that uh that I shared
074with you I did share the full electronic documents I don't know if any of you reviewed all of them some are quite lengthy it took a while um so I tried to do a a quick analysis from you know trying to compare apples to apples and really when you look at the three contractors as I said that they are more than capable um they're all very large companies um there's uh relatively all of them have locations within an hour of us um so they know the area some extent they have other resources closer um the one company that kind of stuck out different in that regard was Lamers they have more locations closer to us such as Elco White Lake DC Everest mosan um Leona I believe and they have a lot of resources very
075close to us and they are in our region you know anytime you get north of that Highway 29 sometimes that does change weather and road conditions and things like that so um that's kind of a a line that people keep in mind when they talk about weather and road conditions so that was uh one one thing to know the other one is Lamer seems to be on the the Leading Edge of Technology they offered a lot of software that will help us um not only schedule events but also communicate with our families um they have ability to have a parent app that allows them to hop on look at where their students bus is and be able to tell you know is the bus just delayed a couple minutes or may you know did my
076my kid miss the bus today things like that so I think that that's a very good convenience thing for parents they also have technology that um kids can have a swipe like a RFID Card for like our fob system that we can issue to them they can swipe on and off the bus every day that really helps with tracking again parents can see my child swiped on the bus my child got off here um there are there is the ability that that information does get pre-loaded into there so in the event that a child loses or um forgets their card that day bus drivers can still operate with that same system they have a kind of a tablet installed in each of the buses that they operate that off of and it helps efficiently make
077sure that kids get where they belong um sometimes we've had issues where a younger kid maybe doesn't communicate well for whatever reason ends up on the wrong bus the bus driver maybe didn't didn't notice they get to the transfer at the middle school things get confused especially off the get goal Technologies like this will really help um streamline those processes and US quickly be able to respond if there is an issue um it's unfortunate when those things happen but everybody's human and they they do happen we certainly try to put as many safeguards in place and this is just another one that we can offer to our families and our students um that being said all that all that technology was included in Lam's bid um that was unique to the other two some of
078the technology was included in the others but not all of it um and that would have came at an extra price so I think that that to kind of set them apart from what they were offering when you compare apples to apples Theory um then when you look at the pricing I shared with you guys the pricing analysis it was just a quick spreadsheet that listed the three companies um and basically sorry my computer fell asleep um you know if you look at column B that shows our current amount um that does not reflect any increase that say if malot would have stayed on this year you know they' certainly would have had a minimum 4% that that's pretty standard standard the thing to note that obviously we're at the end of a 5-year contract
079so that would have been a rebid process and talking with Tim at malet when you look at what you know has happened in that busing manufacturing Parts world over the last three to four years um you know a bus used to cost somewhere around that 60 to 80,000 to buy that that's doubled by now I mean it it's it's pushing that $ 160 $170,000 for a bus Parts obviously follow that same Trend insurance as everybody knows with their own policies is going through the roof and when you start looking at um these smaller you know what what Tim refers to himself as and I do you know these mom and pop type companies the buying power just isn't there so when you look at what he probably would have had a bit it it certainly
080would not be anywhere near Four to 5% increase um it it would have been much higher than that but this is the number I had from them so I wanted that as kind of our gauge to compare what increases we're going to have for next year so although those percent changes in col me are higher than anybody would want um I certainly don't think that it's unreasonable given what that market has done and even if malot were around I would expect to see them in that same range I I have relatives and rer and what they tell me is uh Bowen was going to quit too but they gave him a 30% rise so he stayed 30% we can't keep doing that and of stuff forever so I think this is and as a former
081coach the technology when you're coming home from say Rapids and the parents can see where you're at you know because there's a lot of nights where as a coach you sit and wait if Mom and Dad don't know where the bus is and you can't just get off the bus and see see you guys later so they it's awesome yeah I want to piggy back on what Scott talked about with the are you ready for questions whatever if you're not that's okay you're in you're in charge okay well I'm good with whatever um with the Athletics that you have uh we our district uses currently Lamers motor coach buses correct uh I know the other two companies has Motorcoach buses as well what would be costs of the Motorcoach buses are as there as savings
082because Through the Grapevine I hear that if Lamers has a contract with a particular school there's a great savings on using their motor coat Services yeah they they added that as a a value offer within their their documents that they would um provide coach bus upgrades at about 50% normal cost so well that would be a savings to our grid iron Club Blue Line Club those those student clubs that's the L bit are the if the local drivers still want to work with the new company is that an option or will they all be coming in from out of town or all all three of them had have very similar philosophies in that drivers are always kind of the variable that worries anybody um you know buses you can buy buses you can have backup
083buses people you can't so their intent is to try and retain every single one of the drivers you know um each driver that currently here is obviously going to have their own decision to make but they will certainly be um Wanted and I did talk with them about when you look at how they handle like recruitment po or recruitment practices um training incentive uh driver education wages um all all three of them had very good plans for that um they're going to come in and look at what these drivers are making they're going to make sure that they keep them whole they're going to try and do the best wag as they can um they have all three of these companies have huge departments that take care of just drivers help them with their trainings
084their educations their certifications and really I mean they know that that's their life but they have to they have to do everything they can to service those drivers so I I think overall um and I you know I've had this conversation with malot for years you know that's always one of the variables that worries every everybody in that industry um these bigger companies are just equipped better because they have you know I think one of the the companies has 1,700 buses like they have hold departments just to help out one aspect of the driving World they have recruitment departments I mean that's just stuff that unfortunately over the years these smaller companies they they don't have the overhead available to to do those types of things they don't have a recruitment Department you know and
085they've done wonderful through the years but um as times change we don't have any Industries change right what's that we don't have a choice right and you know so these bigger companies are finding ways to make it more attractive for drivers so they're going to try and keep every single one that they can but ultimately that's that's up to each individual driver JD another great benefit for these larger companies because I I know these three companies two of them a whole lot better than one is the fact that they have more benefits to offer the employees because they have a larger pool of employees across not just the state but the nation uh some of these companies go farther out than just Wisconsin so there may even be more more benefits than what a mom
086and pop like Tim and Carmen and they've done a great job servicing our district uh can offer employees yeah yeah and I mean again I just want to stress you know to malot has done a wonderful job this isn't anything you know I've had this conversation with them a lot and they're the first to say that you know the way the industry is going it's just not advantageous with a small one one Building Company it's just they they struggle to keep up with the buying power is really what it boils down to um so I want to make sure that that's very clear that malats is a wonderful company it's not that they're not being able to provide anything it's just the way that the industry's gone and uh it aligns right with with them
087for their personal decisions as well so can we call the question uh I I'll hold on to that for just a moment because we've only had two or three board members to speak so I want to entertain any of the board members to speak on this before we call a question so any of the board members have not spoken which would be everybody except for JD Scott and myself just quickly to Tim and Carmen they have serviced our district for long time yeah I don't I don't know that off top of my head that is my point right there so thank you very much to malot for servicing the Unified School District of ano so diligently life for a very long time that is a very difficult business to be in um we appreciate your
088employees the bus drivers that we trust to transport our children to and from that is a significantly important component of successful education is getting children to and from school safely that is not an easy task it's often scrutinized um and I appreciate their working relationship with our district um and and notifying you in advance I wish them on behalf of the board we wish them U the best in their future endeavors both personally and professionally um and again thank you for serving the Unified School District of ano so diligently over the many years Jill and the rest of the board members may not realize this but in 2015 we had two bus companies that was servicing the district and the district went to one bus company and Tim and Carmen and malet won that bid
089of the one bus company so prior to Tim and Carmen we had Ron and Kathy nonamaker with mid Wisconsin buses and Ron has been in the business with this district for over 50 plus years along with Tim and his family who had malet so it's been as I heard Scott say his lifetime it's been a long time since malet and mid Wisconsin and buses served uh the anago school district so to both of these families Ron and Kathy and Tim and Carmen uh you served us very well and with with distinction and and honor and I'm glad that Tim and Carmen another Local Company won that bid and it wasn't outsourced at that time but we've come to this day and we knew that this was coming uh sooner or later yeah any other questions
090or comments okay then I think we will vote on the motion on the floor the motion on the floor is to approve Lamers to be the Unified School District of Antigo Transportation contractor as presented the voting device is now open would anyone like to change their vote okay the vote is now closed and the motion passes okay letter F just stay right there Mr lman High School gy floor resurfacing I will be looking for a motion please I move the board approve basement Brothers in the amount of $ 66,67 pending they can meet the scheduling requirements motion has been made by DR Bardo would you like to speak to your motion just turn it over to our guy I added the pending the scheduling requirement because we have ideal time slot within our busy summer
091and sports schedule and I do not have 100% confirmation that that is locked in in their schedule yet um so I just wanted to leave that in there that if for some reason they could not fit that window I would be looking to another company that could but I would suspect that they they'll be fine and can work with us on that any questions of the motion on the floor how often do we do it it it's variable on use um you know anywhere between that I think that the average is like s to 13 years is what they recommend in the industry um we're pushing closer to 15 the more times you sand it down the the less life you get out of it but there's also a danger in waiting too long because
092then more damage could be done which would cause you to have to sand more off each time which would shorten the life so um I ideally I think this should have been done probably last year with the referendum stuff um obviously one of the the the more expensive option in the referendum included this in the scope so until we found out how that fell we elected to wait so do any of the clubs that use our gyms contribute to this Center Court track field volleyball there's no money dedicated to go towards this project um I know that there's been some discussions on making the court look you know aesthetically more pleasing whether it's from a staining option or a letter font or any type of picture I mean they they get pretty pretty elaborate you
093know if you look at like NBA courts um in the event that they wanted something elaborate I think that that extra would be something that these clubs could elect to fundraise for and and and possibly improve um that's not the case that I'm aware of at this point and they could elect to change that I mean it'd obviously be an increase in the cost but that would be on them this is kind of the base if you look at the design it's nothing too fancy but they may elect to come forward and and want to do that if they want thanks that's just improving visual appearances up but right that's what you're saying yeah yes just visual any other questions or comments of the motion on the floor all right hearing no other questions or
094comments the voting device is now open would anyone like to change their vote okay the vote is now closed and the motion carries letter G report of donations I will be looking for a motion please I move the board to approve the following donations $5,000 from CoVantage cares foundation for aquatic center $500 from Kota Escavating LLC for 4K in first grade classes at West Elementary and $1,000 from brickers for auto surfice Tech motion has been made by Jill would you like to speak to your motion we appreciate uh the donations from our Community Partners thank you very much any discussion or question of the motion on the floor are no discussions or question of the motion on the floor uh the voting device is now open would anyone like to change their vote the vote
095is now closed and the motion carries we do thank a very generous Community before I go to item number six closed session I do want to draw attention to one of our board members sitting at the table tonight uh this board member has served our board and our school district uh for the last three years and she has decided that she is hanging up the hat and no longer running for the board so Angie shriber this is your last official full board meeting but I want to invite you to come to the April meeting and you can take your seat at the board table until whomever is elected fills your seat so please be invited to come to the April meeting take your seat at the board table and then uh we'll do a transfer
096of your seat to somebody else so let's uh recognize Angie shriber tonight for her dedication and commitment for the last three years having said that item six closed session consideration of a mo to convene into close session pursuant to Wisconsin statute numbers 19.85% of specific persons preliminary consideration of specific Personnel problems or the investigation of charges against specific person persons except where paragraph B applies which if discussed in public would be likely to have a substantial adverse effect upon the reputation of any person referred to in such histories or data or involved in such problems or investigations to wit discussion and possible action on the issuance of preliminary notice or notices of non-renewal of a school district employee or employees employment contract or contracts I will be looking for a motion so moved motion has
097been made by Jill is there a second to that motion second second by Scott uh we need a roll call please Dr Berto yes Bobby Brown yes Jill mad Nelson yes Kristen Matt Miller yes Scott Peterson yes Katherine Solen yes Andie Shriver yes J Shader any P yes we are now in Clos session let's take a little break