001I'd like to call this regular uh meeting of the DC Ever School Board to order. First up is roll call. Ye >> here. >> Shannon >> here. >> Katie >> here. >> Larry >> here. Ben will be joining us virtually. Josh >> here >> is virtual and I am here. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Is there a motion to approve uh tonight's agenda? >> So moved. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? That passes. Next up, uh no public comment for tonight. Is there a motion to approve tonight uh the consent agenda? >> So moved. >>
002Second. >> Uh this requires a roll call vote. E. Yes, >> Shannon. >> Yes, >> Katie. >> Yes, >> Larry. >> Yes, >> Josh. >> Yes. >> And I vote yes. >> Ben is on. >> Ben, are you here? >> I am here. Thank you. >> Perfect. Uh Ben is now here. And Ben, we just have a motion to approve the consent agenda. Do you vote? Yes. >> Yes. >> Perfect. All right, that passes. Uh, next up is reports and considerations. Was Shannon. >> Uh, last week I attended the WASBY summer symposium and the legislative update was very helpful in explaining the new state budget. Um, while the special education reimbursement was not the 60% sums sufficient we were hoping for, it is at 45% some certain for the 2627 school year. Um, that is
003notably more than what the joint finance committee originally had approved in June. So, some good news. Uh the July legal and legislative update video was this afternoon and they did post it to their uh library video page you if you want to watch that for a full breakdown of what the budget means. Um Dr. Phil Gore delivered the keynote presentation on building a culture of trust board superintendent relationships for student success. Um to me it was very affirming that we do have that trust and we do have those relationships and commitment to help our students thrive. So, it was kind of nice to hear all the suggestions of what we should do that we are already doing. Um, and one of the statements that he made really struck me and I think it's beneficial for
004all of the district. What you do and how you do it matters to people in your community, Wisconsin and beyond. And I think that pretty much sums up the work that we do every day. And that's the goal in mind. Um, also there was a breakout session on communication that connects and the importance of telling your district's story through less traditional media and I really would like to commend Michelle on the work that she does highlighting that at the last meeting. She really does do a lot to build those community ties and that's just another area that I think we excel at. And then finally looking ahead to the state education convention if we want to consider any resolutions for submission to the delegate assembly. The deadline is September 15th. And that's all I have.
005>> Thank you, Shannon. Next up is CISA 9. Larry, >> uh, CISA 9 did not have a meeting in July as our custom and so I have no report. That's it. >> Sounds good. Thank you, Larry. Next up, uh, superintendent report. Dr. N. >> Thank you. Uh, welcome to new fiscal and school year. Even though we're still wrapping up summer learning, I think I'm the only one that's excited that the, uh, displays back to school are out in the stores already. Even the administrators aren't even going to give me like a pity chuckle back there. Um, so, uh, on that note, there are a few new faces I just want to have give a quick wave out there. Um, not a new face, but a new leadership role right in the front row. Dr. Mike
006Rther, teacher, teaching and learning. So, Mike is in a new role. And our new senior high principal, also someone you're familiar with, but Dallas Renie and I don't think Michael Cone is here, right? Okay, then we're going to go to our new DC Everest Middle School principal who is a new face to Everest. So, Dr. Phil Tubs and Phil's right here, blue shirt. U welcome, welcome to new roles and welcome to Phil and welcome to the board. Uh it's been a great hiring season forever so far. Um all certified staff are hired by June 30th, which you don't have to look far in the news to recognize we're in a really really positive spot to have that um already buttoned up. Um, I'm sure there'll be changes cuz inevitably, you know, things happen over the
007summer, but, uh, great position to be in at the front end of the summer. Um, a large number of those are Everest student teachers and rehired Everest employees coming back. Um, we are now moving into the next phase. Uh, filling roughly 20 support staff positions that are open. Um, seeing very strong candidate pools. Interviews began earlier this week. I think yesterday actually. So, if you know quality people that are looking for a new opportunity to have positive impact on kids, send them our way. Shannon did a great job talking about the budget, um, every budget season is unique. Um, one that starts the bienium off in the middle of the night with a bunch of surprise, some curveballs and some gifts, uh, is definitely something that will be memorable for this particular goround. Um, but
008based on those late night adjustments, um, our local analysis is really still, um, being unpacked at this point. uh and in other districts across the state. So, few things that we do know. Um as Shannon said, that 60% special ed reimbursement rate didn't happen. However, uh 42% year 1 uh 45% year two, far better than what we thought in July 1, which would would have maybe been 29% in in the real world. So, in a a positive spot there. Um mental health funding is something we've talked a lot about as a district, and there's going to be a one-year increase. um we have to temper our uh optimism there as well. Uh that will move up to $40 per student from the current 31 per student. Uh but then in year two we'll be down
009to $12 per student. So um a temporary bump that will be um coming down after that. Um we're also still wrapping up last budget year and we know that um that will lead to a margin of error in our calculations until it's complete because our funding is going to be built on that final spend. Um ultimately the increase in special ed funding is a a step in the right direction. Um and at the same time it's quickly offset by rapidly expanding expenses. Some things on that list um WRS contributions um are going to increase by 0.25 which is the largest uh increase that we've seen in a long time. So that for DC Everest equates to over $100,000 for our payroll. And our staff also pick up um that that cost um as well. health
010insurance annual renewal rates. We're still in negotiations, but even in best case scenarios, we know that they're going to increase at a rate that's well beyond any increase in funding that we're going to receive. And f federal funding challenges are something that are very regularly in the news and we anticipate we may need to backfill for um some of that. So um on that note, um you've likely heard that the the state of Wisconsin's joined 27 other states in a lawsuit uh to prevent the loss of federal title funding that's already been promised and budgeted for, including in DC Everest. um that means that there will continue to be uncertainty about federal dollars and we'll need to exercise a pretty conservative approach to our planning for those resources. So, uh beginning last week, uh Dr.
011Strike put out some communication uh to our leaders just to dial up some cautionary adjustments. The simple version of that is to stop spending on stuff right now and to hold tight so we can protect for people that deliver the programming related to those other uh purchases. So, um I know as a board you want to be kept aware though when we start to move past that into uh adjustments that may impact programming and I will say at least in one situation federal reductions uh have made it to that level. So you're familiar with our our Weston Connect program. Uh Weston Connect is uh funded by 21st century grant programming uh targeting enriching safe after school experiences. uh those dollars were eliminated and despite lots of political and and legal challenges that are still out
012there, uh it seems very likely to stick. Um as always, we'll reassess our best approach to that development by staying rooted in our priorities and uh reassessing needs. Um when it comes to after school programming, it's especially important for us to be really thinking about how we're going to be reliable partners to parents that depend on that. So um that's definitely one development that we're watching very closely. Summer projects um our more visible projects like senior high theater and gym updates are progressing well um based on a a procurement challenge. We're keeping a close eye on the timing of bleacher shipment for the gym and installation timelines but um remain optimistic maybe more optimistic today Mr. Jimlonsky than we were even a week ago. Uh we're also feeling confident that we're on track with the
013more behind the scenes work, especially safety related um systems like doors, badge updates, um replacing cameras across all sites. Um I do want to especially with those examples, uh give a shout out to our our tech staff for balancing a range of really systemwide work simultaneously. So they're doing a great job with that. Uh in front of you um you've got a print version of an update on our facility uh studies plan and where things are at in these fairly early stages. So lots of great uh information gathering and uh that's based on both direct visits from those partners and also from uh survey feedback from user groups. Um we also have received our enrollment study report back and we're in the process of digging into that detailed insight into demographic trends. Um, and we
014have launched a new web page that will house this information and others. Um, so people can stay uh attuned to that process as it goes along. And our kickoff, uh, I know no one laughed about the whole like Target has their back to school stuff out, but the kickoff's going to happen on August 28th, and we are super excited. We had our first team planning uh, day for that. And uh we're keeping some of the fun top secret, but uh it should be engaging, fun, high energy. Welcome back to all of our staff and uh we hope you can join us. That is my report. >> Question. >> Yep. >> Um it's there's a lot of good things that's happening here, but I'm kind of curious how much federal funding is at risk for the
015DC school district. >> Well, tight title dollars in particular, we're watching across the board. Um I don't know that I can put a like at at risk. I think every day we learn something new, but we want to talk about dollar amounts specific to title dollars that we're looking at. I don't know that we have a simple here's the comprehensive number, but we can maybe run through title programming that we know um is very maybe beyond risk >> and and I I don't need an answer now if we don't have the answer, but I was just kind of interested in knowing as we're continuously monitoring this moving forward as well. >> Right. So the programs they talk about 1C. So if you hear about 1C, we don't actually have that. Um 2A largely professional development
016and again we have allocation plus carryover somewhere in the $1500 to $200,000 range typically. Um 3A that's e students um with carryover that was just under $100,000 this past year allocation carryover. Um and then 4A um um in the $50 to $60,000 range for BR 21st Century. Our allocation this year was about $150,000 for that Western Connect program. Um when I say allocation and carryover, all those grants have their own rules and they give you an allocation per year and you can carry over a portion of that to the next year. Um and the rules are kind of vary on that. So sometimes I'm lumping those together. Um there it what's still we haven't gotten a finite answer of do we still have that carryover from 45. The other thing that's been talked about is
017right now those are all on hold. Maybe they'll come back at a reduced amount. Maybe they'll go away. So still a lot of unknowns about that but that gives you kind of ballpark in terms of allocation carryover. What we're thinking of those programs this year >> half a million bucks. >> Yeah. Somewhere in that in that ballpark. >> Thank you. Mhm. >> That I had a follow on to that similar question. We're getting an in bump in increase on 47 >> 27 27 uh and I know that was last year that was at the rate that was being funded was like several million dollars. So that they've doubled that. That would be a half a million or a million bucks less or ballpark >> million to go from 27 to 42 or 45 in year
018two. >> Exact figure will be tough because we're not wrapped up with this year's budget. But the amount >> and a half two million >> no quarter of a million. >> Your mic's off. >> Sorry. Yep. Sorry. The jump you mean for what we were predicting versus where we'll land. And I'm not anticipating on 42 um%. That question was asked that jump I would say was somewhere I would in the ballpark of 8 to $900,000. But again, we have a lot of ups and downs on things. But that gives you a ballpark of >> what a 33 some certain to 42 given last year how it's looking. That's about >> something like that. Okay. So that's good news. >> And and we've talked a lot about fund 10 transfer out to cover special ed. Can
019you maybe just highlight real quick that because this still again good news. I mean nearly a million dollars is we're happy about. Um however, >> yes. So um very good point. So that's again remember that we do a big transfer at the end of every year from 10 to 27. So although we get a higher reimbursement aid, that doesn't necessarily mean we have to spend that all on special ed. That can reduce that transfer to 10 so that we can prioritize how we would like to spend that. Okay. Other other questions? >> Yeah, just big big number kinds of things now. >> Mhm. >> We kind of need to keep track of the nickels and dimes. >> Yeah. >> Six digits. Five. >> I guess I do have a question on the highost special education
020reimbursement. Is that something that we see a lot of? >> Nope. And some districts never we seldom access um last year's high cost. Kelly, >> we got in about $128,000 at the end of 2324. Um I have that number up a little bit higher this year. So yeah, dollars and cents. Yep. That's going to increase and that's another adjustment that we made. But in terms of even if that doubled, they're saying 25 to 50% even that doubled 128,000. So, >> sounds impactful the way it's packaged, but in the scheme of her overall budget, really pretty minimal. >> I don't understand the 90% that I saw for the high cost. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> It's 50% they're anticipating. >> So, currently this year was 25.9 and they think that'll go up to 50%. >> Um,
021and again, some districts, Casey's right, don't access that at all. You have to have at least more $30,000 per student in either program or individual students. So, um, we certainly capitalize it as much as we can, but it it doesn't reach as many students, um, or the scope. And for the transfer amount, I'm anticipating our transfer this year is going to be probably a little under $8 million, just that 10 to 27 transfer. Any additional questions? All right. Thank you, Dr. Nine. Next up, we have unfinished business, the WIAA presentation. >> Yeah. Um, well, I invite uh Mel Dao from WA to come up and uh you as a board have seen our distinguished crew that was sitting next to him, but I'm going to let Mr. Dao um talk a little bit about why
022he's here today and appreciate you coming and board members. Um, good evening. As mentioned, I am Ala, associate director of the WIA. It's an honor to be here tonight at BC Everest. Um, as they have a long story and the story of wrestling for the state of Wisconsin. >> Thank you. appreciate it. Green light from the coaching days of Hall of Fame coach Lurkey to Olympic hopeful and national team member Josh Hobbeck and why I'm here tonight. Uh the focal point of this custom award is why we're here today. When the membership of the WIA sanctioned girls wrestling and started the process of ordering a women's wrestling trophy, it was identified that there was not any in existence. This is where the students and the staff of DC Everest stepped up. The figure that you
023see here was designed and developed by DC Everest students with the help of DC Everest staff uh to become not only the original figure of the WIA championship trophy but the only one of its kind. Your students conceived, modeled, designed, fabricated the prototype in uh in your classrooms. This prototype and the CAD drawings that they developed made their way to the same foundry that makes awards similar to the Oscars. All of this ultimately led to what you see here today, a practical example of education-based athletics where students combined education, life skills, and athletics. For this, the WI would like to recognize the students and the staff of DC Everest for their contribution in making uh this symbol that is now an integral part of Wisconsin High School sports history by presenting to you this here
024today. Uh thank you, Steve, as well as your students for an incredibly job well done. and Mr. Pagenoff. >> Oh, sorry. >> I was going to say just just a couple details and and maybe they can go into a little bit more detail. Um, but as I said before, there was not a a women's wrestling figurine out there. And we felt that it was important at the WIA to recognize our female wrestlers just as all of our other student athletes. And the only figurine out there was a male wrestler was not representative of those student athletes. So, we searched literally the world for a figurine and there was nothing out there. And so, with the help of Steve, we were able to conceive the idea of making our own. And uh the student that's here
025holding the trophy, she's the model. That's literally her as the figurine. And with the help of of of her classmates, they were able to fabricate, design, and fabricate the the prototype that was ultimately sent out to California and uh make the final product. And uh we're extremely proud of the work that they've done. Um monumental. we have other states, other organizations that are now asking us for the rights to be able to use this because of of the uniqueness of it. So, it was it was all part of your your students and what you provide for your your community. So, I just wanted to say thank you from the WIA and and Steve as well. Thank you, >> Mr. Kosha. You want to reintroduce our kids one more time just and I know you are
026not afraid of the mic. So, but I great to have you back again. >> Make a mistake. >> Yeah. >> Um, so just to to kind of tie this all together, how it how it came about was um I think it was Carl reached out to me. Carl's the head coach of the the girls homeman team and we had been making trophies for a small event in Stevens Point and Carl would always win it and he knew that we were making it here at school. So he got together with Mal and they were talking about this and he you know my name came up and our program came up and that's how the the whole ball got rolling that way. But it was interesting because I was talking to M. He's like, "Do you think
027you can pull this off?" And I'm not afraid of a challenge, but this one was kind of a little bit beyond my reach. But then I I'm like, you know, just let me let me look into it. And I I remember I asked these two guys. I'm like, Derek, Nathan, you think we can do this? Like, yeah, we can do that. Like very nonchalantly, just kind of, "Yeah, we can do that." So, I'm like, "All right, let's do it. Let's, you know, let's let's uh go down this road." And Haley, I think you were pretty excited to be the model. It was kind of it was fun. Um but >> well yeah it it was a little bit intense that day but um these three they they did this you know I I was there
028I I supported I did what I what I could but really the result of this is their work and their their efforts. So Derek, Nathan, Haley, the Derek and Nathan Prince, Haley, come on up here and maybe we'll give one more round of applause. >> One more. >> Thank you all. Thank you very much. What a great opportunity for everyone involved. Next up, we have new business. We have our 10-year capital plan. Uh background first. Sure. We uh talk about our fund 46 capital um improvement trust plan often. So again, fund 46 that is a trust fund um only for capital projects. One of the requirements is that we do have a minimum of 10 years, a capital improvement plan that outlines a minimum of 10 years. So, every summer we do update this kind
029of looking ahead another year. Uh we left in the plan, Jason Jablonsky did much of this work, but left in the plan all the projects that were completed in 2425 just so you have a historical look of um what was completed. And again, we put anything in this plan capital wise um typically funded through fund 46. And we do have a a fund 10 capital projects budget. So both budgets cover those. Um and certainly as as our needs evolve, things change. Um Jason and his team certainly they see things, know things all the time, but this spring Jason spent time with each principal, sat down, did a walkthrough of buildings, got principal feedback as well to develop this plan. Um and again, just thank Jason and his work. And there are some technology things um
030built into that too. There would be a little bit of technology budget that might be impacted as well. Um, so approval is recommended. >> Thank you. Is there a motion to approve the 10-year capital plan as contained in the background? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any additional discussion? Hearing none, this requires a voice vote. All those in favor state I. >> I. I. >> Any opposed? That passes. I can't believe a new bunk room is coming to Twin Oaks 60 years later. All right. Uh, next up, annual approval of academic standards. Um, background. You want background? >> Yeah. This is a statutory requirement each year to um approve the academic standards. Uh, there's a number of versions of this going around. So, I'd love for you to approve it with one change. um our
031health standards moved to the national standards but as uh that shifted we lost our our um FID standards. So we we will still use the Wisconsin standards uh for physical education. So when this goes onto our website which it does we will have an eighth component which is the Wisconsin standards for physical education. Is there a motion to approve the academic standards for the 2526 school year in addition to the PE standards? >> So moved. >> Second. >> This require uh any additional discussion with this requires a voice vote. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? That passes. Next up are the ever popular student handbooks. Um, is there a motion to approve the changes to the student handbooks for 2526? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any additional discussion on
032this? Hearing none, this requires a voice vote. All those in favor state I. >> I. I. >> Any opposed? That passes. Uh, next up is the junior and senior high athletic handbooks. Is there a motion to approve the ch changes to the junior and senior high athletic handbooks for 2526? So moved. Second. Uh any additional discussion with these? >> I just maybe add on this one. The significant change in the athletic handbook is around NIL. Uh so the state has um and WA has language around name image and likeness. Um and so the links are in there for parents to to learn a little bit more. So um appreciate Mike and the work that he did to make that happen. Thank you. Uh, this requires a voice vote. Uh, any additional discussion on that? This
033requires a voice vote. All those in favor state I. >> I. >> Any opposed? That passes. Next up is the staff handbook. Is there a motion to approve the staff handbook for 2526? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Uh, we have a motion and a second. Any additional discussion? Hearing none. This requires a voice vote. All those in favor state I. >> I I. >> Any opposed? That passes. Next up is the uh approval of expulsion hearing officers. Uh is there a motion to approve Steven Pufall and Renee Sabi as expulsion hearing officers and readdopt policy 5610.01? >> Some moved. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Any additional discussion on this hearing? None. This requires a voice vote. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? That passes.
034Um, next is the review of reading curriculum. Um, in our policy 2131.01, 01. The reading specialist shall annually prepare a re report report evaluating the reading curriculum of the school district and forward the report to the superintendent who shall present to the board. This is information only to >> uh yeah just uh gives you a snapshot of some of our goals um evaluation of our curriculum and some adjustments we've made as a result and and kindergarten or uh reading readiness. So, uh it's an annual report. >> Uh any questions on that? All right. Uh that was information only. So, we thank you for that. And finally, we have an annual review of policy 2261.01 and approval of title 1. Is there a motion to approve 2261.01 as required annually? >> So moved. >> Second. Any
035additional discussion with this one hearing? None. This requires a voice vote. All those in favor state I. >> I. >> Any opposed? That passes. Uh, next up is petitions and communications in your handbook. Uh, along with future meeting dates, we have a regular schoolboard meeting August 20th. And then we, uh, you had mentioned August 28th is the great Everest get together. I mean staff get together. the staff. What is it called? Celebration >> kickoff. >> I like the >> great staff. We can we can do that. We can rebrand. Yeah. >> August 28th. It will be that. So mark your calendars for that. And then finally, we >> No introduction. >> All right. Uh I will make a motion to adjourn to close session pursuant to 19.851F 851F Wisconsin statute for considering financial, medical, social,
036or personal histories or disciplinary data of specific persons, preliminary consideration of specific personnel problems, or the investigation of charges against specific persons except where paragraph B applies, which if discussed in public would be likely to have a substantial effect, adverse effect upon the reputation of any person referred to in such histories or data or involved in such problems or investigations. Um, is there a second? >> Second. >> This requires a roll call vote. E. >> Shannon, >> yes. >> Katie, >> yes. >> Larry, >> yes. >> Ben, >> yes. >> And Josh, >> yes. >> And I vote yes. We will adjourn from close. So, thank you.