001Hey, hey, hey. Good evening. Uh we'll call to order our regular board of education meeting for Monday, February 9th, 2026. >> Tracy, would you please read the school board mission statement? >> Sure. Together. >> Thank you. Could you uh verify that public notice was here? >> Public notice was given to the requesting news media. The agenda was posted in school district buildings and on the district website. >> Any revisions to there are no revisions to this evening's agenda. >> We approve tonight's agenda as second. >> Motion by second by Tracy to produce approve tonight's agenda as published. All those in favor? I move into public input. We do have a request for public input on tonight's public agenda. And as a result, we will move now into recognition items. Like to welcome the an Alaska
002dance team had a great weekend this last weekend. It was really fun to follow uh on social media what you guys were up to. Uh understand state championship in jazz, right? And fourth place in P big goals that I know uh has been after for a number of years. I'll turn over over to you guys for some commentary. Um I'm Britney. I'm the head coach and seniors. Um I just wanted to kind of talk about our season a little bit and then I'll let the girls tell you about our exciting day we had this weekend. But um yeah, like you said, this was something that we've definitely been working for for a lot of years. This year especially, um I think we just kind of had a totally different mindset this year. We usually go
003into it and you know, we want them to be good strong dancers and obviously want them to do well at competitions, but we also want them to be humbled. So, it's never been the goal of we need to be state champions. But I feel like this year we just kind of went in with the mindset of like this is our end goal, like this is what we want and all the decisions that we made and um just all the choices and practice all all of the things came together and um especially all the way up to this last week where we kind of sat the team down and we were like, "Do you believe you can win?" And they kind of looked at us and they're like, "We're being serious. Do you believe you can
004and we just had this really open and honest conversation and like they did believe that they could win and after we were done we're like regardless like you have it in me to do it and and they did it. So um I think every season has it challenges um this one was no different but we just like overcome over overcame all of those things and really grew. um we became a family like we usually do and it's just so fun to watch them grow throughout the season and to have the end goal happen on Saturday. So, I don't know what the girls >> um I transferred my sophomore year to an Alaska and this season, I know we've definitely talked about this. This season, it did not start out how we planned it to go,
005but I feel like just things kept like piling on and we were just like, let's just take on another thing. It wasn't even like a question. We all just helped each other and >> it just made us grow so much closer like We start in like June, Julyish and we like go to camp then and we've gotten so close. Like literally these girls are like our best friends. Like we tell them everything >> and just been crazy how much we've grown this season. And I don't think we I don't think this could have happened if we didn't like go through what we did this year. It like caused us to like force us to grow with each other and just with dance. I feel like our performance needs to be authentic. Especially with our jazz
006dance we had this year. It couldn't be something that was just like an emotion we put on our face. It had to be authentic, which really the judges like told as they could tell because like I have never felt more like calm going into a competition day like especially one's biggest days and like I could just feel that throughout the entire year especially coming up to that day we were all like really building up our self-confidence and like not only like within ourselves which is really difficult to do to know that like you're capable of winning like we all individually believe but also like within each other. I never had a doubt that like somebody I never would think that somebody's going to mess something up. I I didn't doubt anybody. I could feel that
007everybody had trust in each other and I don't know very like they were all came together. >> I feel like looking back at our goals, I remember at the beginning of the season we like write out all of our goals and I remember one of our goals was like we don't get deductions like regional champs and I feel like we had an incident that happened at regionals that just like caused us to push each other so much harder and I feel like goal setting also was a big part of this year and like communicating and not just having like captains and seniors speak like we needed to hear from the freshman and hear from every single class because it's not just like I know dance team is a lot of like senior base and a
008lot of stuff like that but like you can really tell with judging like if the whole team is not working together what Britney said about our talk about believing was a huge I feel like changer because we knew like we have the technique, we have the team to like do this and I feel like really that conversation really helped. >> Yeah, great season. That's a way to end. >> Congratulations. I I I know uh just based on experience with my own daughters like you know how long you've all been at this, right? I mean starts from here like not maybe taller than the tabletops here and and it keeps going. So the level of commitment, the number of years of practice and dedication all show up when you when you come together as a team.
009So that's really awesome. Congratulations. >> Thank you. Okay. And now, Ben, we have some donations. So, with Hill Copper Pride, I'd love to acknowledge and share our gratitude for the following donations. $100 from Edith McDougall for the student lunch fund at Irving Perch Elementary. Uh $2,500 in gift cards from St. Patrick's Church giving tree for student and family needs and clothing, headphones, and board games from Bernie Buckner uh incorporated for student needs. Thank you. >> Once again, always really uh reflective at the the way that our our district, our students are recognized in in terms of donations. So with these are these are with rec They don't require board approval, but they're nonetheless a very impactful much app. Let's jump into student representative and administrator report. >> Um, so a few weeks ago, the an
010Alaska scholarship portal opened with over 60 scholarships for seniors to apply for. So seniors should submit one application comprised of a resume, cover letter, essays, and an optional family financial form that's require required for some of the scholarships. And additionally, the 2026 senior class is the first to have the opportunity to apply for the Patty Gupta WMadison full tuition scholarship. And this scholarship provides one graduating OHS senior who will major at WMadison in the STEM degree with a full tuition scholarship for four years of undergraduate school. And just to kind of put that into perspective, a year of um education at UMass right now costs about $31,000. Um so that would bring the cost of tuition per year down to about I think it's 19,000 having tuition paid for. So it's a really special opportunity.
011And additionally, many teachers at OS have been using AI to enhance or supplement their curriculum. And I see this AI used mostly in math and economics. My math teacher uses it um from time to time to create worksheets or statistics like warm-ups for the beginning of class. And my economics teacher uses it to actually create videos that explain really complex topics and with like really good graphics so you can kind of understand it more than how he could explain it. Um and then also worksheets with some of like the graph work that we do. And it's just been really interesting to see how like correct the AIS is in a way because sometimes like on the math sheets we'll be like going over some of the answers and we we're like this is completely wrong
012like this is like not even close to we did but it still creates really cool problems for us to learn about and like think through that our teachers like might not have been able to do. So those are a couple things that are happening at the high school right now. >> Thank you. >> Just a reminder that with the dance team recognition tonight, state dance is always the beginning of the end of the winter sports season. We're only three weeks away from the start of our first spring sport and so reminder that spring is very close by um as we get warmer weather this week. Last week uh Thursday we had a school visit River Falls High School and then on Thursday this week Wisconsin Rapids High School visiting. Um, those visits are always really
013cool because, you know, they're coming for a specific purpose, but as some of my teachers cycle in and answer questions and share feedback and share their perspective and and the questions that we get from different tools when they come, um, it really helps us think about why we're doing specific things and then specifically why we aren't doing this or that at the same time. So, um, it's really insightful when those schools come and they learn, but like we're learning from them at the same time. Yeah, over at the middle school, uh, we've been having a lot of meetings. Uh, I want to give a shout out to our English and math teachers who have been having some expert meetings with me looking at our midyear data and specifically an area that we struggled the last
014several years on our report is the growth of our target group of students. And so that's the bottom 25% of students based upon last year's forward. How are we making to grow our learners who are furthest behind. And so we're trying to put an extra emphasis on that this year. And our English and math teachers um are going an extra step to try to make sure that we're aware of who's in that group and make sure what are they doing during time, those types of things. And so they've been putting in some extra time lately with that. So want to give them credit for that. Um, our sixth grade science students um were doing a virtual lab today on dissecting a frog and they will get to dissect actual frogs tomorrow. And so it was
015neat to be in there and see them just try to get themselves mentally prepared for tomorrow. But it was cool the program that they have. They mess up, they just hit a button and it resets. And so it was nice to to see them practice with that and just be so engaged and excited in the the process of learning science. And so that was cool. And uh finally, we have our our winter wellness day coming up this Friday. And so it's just a day that we set aside for um both physical and mental health and just kind of recharging. And um students will have the opportunity to go either bowling, ice skating, or to jump start during the day as well as do some other activities. Um just kind of break up the winter bl.
016So, it's always a really fun day that students and staff both really look forward to and so we're excited about that coming up. >> Thanks, Abby. Elementary, >> excuse me. So, for um elementary, each of our buildings had a day of learning with people last week and constructed our schedules around um teachers and team self-reflections and then also input. So, it was really tailored to what each grade level needed. Um ranged from modeling lessons with Shannon, coaching teams while Well, our teachers co- taught a lesson with Shanner and then also some unit planning and skill or standard specific question and answer with Shannon. So really, you know, dialed in on which what each grade level needed. Um we also welcomed some field experience students from WL and also students last week. Also celebrated our national
017school counselor week with Denise at Northern, Nicole at Perch, and then Sue at Eagle. And she had her first day today. um celebrating her in particular too as she starts with us in an Alaska. Um we also are celebrating our Wisconsin school bus driver appreciation week. So we're creating notes and things for our school bus drivers. A very important job of transporting our kids to and from school and also for field trips and special events. Um and then just looking forward to conferences next week. We sent out a link for families to sign up today. So we're looking forward to connect connecting with them next week. >> Thank you. Uh Janet, we'll turn to you for uh we have information on the second Friday January pupil count. >> This is an information item. No action
018is needed. There are three attachments to this. And looking at our student count for January and remember twice a year we have the student counts the one in September determines what our financial resources will be for the year through the revenue limit. And then this January count more important for state aid, the amount of state aid that we look at. So, um the first sheet that is on here is just looking at building counts uh over time. So, this is a 9-year look at what are or the number of students that are actually in our buildings. This is a head count, not an FP. And then what's not included in these numbers are our offsite 4K program as well. early childhood both um early childhood students are serviced in their in their homes and then
019we have off-site 4K partners and what's important to notice on this is this um you'll see at the very end is yearly change but looking at that change longitudinally over time and it really um brings importance to the two big heavy lifts that we are looking at for this year but I think both very important for trying to change this trajectory of our all day 4K program that the board has already approved. And then tonight you'll be looking at our charter u venture upward agreement. So both I think really important to look at that. Then the next two sheets are looking at um same data just year-over-year. So looking at our September count and then our January count for 2526 and then 2425. So you can see that how that count has changed from from
020um September to January and then year overyear and again a loss. So um importance of trying to to change that trajectory. Are there any questions that I can answer? Thank you, Janet. We'll turn now to action items. And first up is discussion about uh notice of intent related to online charter school. And I'll turn it over. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Um uh have quite a few items I'd like to share regarding this item. What I'm asking the board to vote on tonight is just simply uh to approve a notice of intent to move forward uh to create a charter school. That doesn't mean that we are. It is you saying that we can submit a letter of intent to do so. Um certainly any kind of agreement with the charter school or moving forward
021with this would need final approval from the board at a later date, but this is just part of the process. um we've presented to the board um I think it was a couple meetings ago and uh pretty much weekly we've had u items that we've been exploring and we've met with venture upward a couple of times during our process. Last week uh was an interesting week because they had sent out postcards to existing uh resident homeschool families and we have approximately 50ish um students in our district that are homeschooling or home educating. And I also want to remind the board that we have about 40 plus students that are open enrolled in our school district boundaries to other districts that provide an online learning option. But uh these postcards went out to just existing uh
022homeschool families to gauge some interest. They had an event at the bowling alley in town and uh we had some interested families come and we uh L and I uh was there along with venture upward and answered questions and provided some uh information to the families. Um the idea was to see if anyone would be interested in u meeting with us to look at the option of creating a governing board because that is the requirement to be able to even apply to be a charter school or to enter into a contract with a school district to become a charter school. And uh we did have interested uh parents and I also uh had some interest from a parent that came to one of our my talking conversations that I have and we had one of
023those a couple weeks ago as well. So uh from that we had a meeting a virtual meeting with those interested parties and we invited the director of the DPI division for charter schools and online learning to be able to walk through the group uh all of the requirements uh that we would need to move through to be able to be considered to be a charter school. We did that and uh there's a few major items but the biggest of which is we need to create a a contract and that contract basically um lays out the agreement that a governing board charter school would have with a school district school board, right? Um there is a governing board requirement piece but it is all under the umbrella of the school board. you have that final say.
024And u we did get some examples of highquality contracts of charter schools and uh Lis did quite a bit of work on a draft uh to customize that. Her and I met today and we got through about half of it. It's uh I don't know 25 pages, 23 and and uh so you know we got through about half of it. we have to try and find a little bit more work time to get through the rest. Um then you know our thought is to uh probably send it uh as in draft form to this governing board to get their thoughts on it and uh then get it to a point where we would feel comfortable to send it to DPI for them to put their eyes on it. They don't um approve charter schools u
025but they are responsible to make sure that any kind of charter school is compliant with the law. So they I guess advise districts or charter schools to send a a possible contract to them so that they can review it to ensure that we're compliant before we would go through the trouble of bringing it to the board and have it not be compliant. So then that would be one of those next steps. running parallel uh to that. Uh we have uh created a workg group that we will be meeting every two weeks and I do believe we have one of those meetings on the books as well which would be folks from venture upward and then our team as well and there would be a Google meet and uh the people that we will have on
026the table uh we'll have our communications folks because we'll need to create a name a logo website which include all of the enrollment uh parts to all of this. There'd be a very robust marketing and communication uh part of this. Um but quite literally we don't even have a name of the school yet, right? So there's that component. We'd have our uh registration folks that specialize in that uh because uh pretty much any well most of the the students that would participate in this program would be open enrolling to this uh district would which would create a lot of I guess new workload for a register's office uh by getting 50 to you know speaking optimistically maybe 100 plus uh open enroll applications uh in one year that we otherwise wouldn't be getting. Um we'll
027have folks from curriculum and instruction to ensure that the curriculum is aligned with state standards um to make sure that that matches the the onway and it's a model school district as it relates to online learning. We'll have special ed representation because there'll be special ed components associated with this. Uh we'll have finance, we'll have HR, um you know, so there'll be some hiring pieces. So I mean just pretty much every aspect of a school district will need to be represented uh throughout this planning process. So I guess we have uh you know different work happening running parallel to each other and to be able to uh possibly start this brand new school up for next school year. We don't have time to kind of wait. So we're doing lots of things all at one
028time. It is uh it is quite uh I don't even know what the word is to describe it. It's a big ball that we're going to be we're we're uh we're going to be throwing up in in the air. Um we think it's the right thing to do and we're asking the board to I guess take that next step to approve this notice of intent we're calling it to move forward. So with that, I'll ask the board to please vote on that or ask any questions that you might have. >> I have two just general questions. So one is is there and I apologize if this was covered at a previous meeting. There was some technical issues, but um is there a cost for families who choose to participate in this? >> No, there's no
029cost to any families. So they would be open enrolling to our school district. Um you know so basically um the students and families that we are targeting not exclusively but the students and families we are targeting are uh families that have already chosen based on their value system to home educate their children. And um I sent you the the board in an article about a week ago that showed the data and this the fastest growing demographic in Wisconsin is homeschooled families and we talk a lot about vulture schools and prochill schools but homeschool families that are choosing to homeschool is uh far uh is far more right. So, uh, we feel like we can provide a value ad to families already choosing to do that. We are proud of what we're we have to offer
030here and, uh, we feel like we can provide a service to families who really at this point have zero support and they're kind of left to themselves to figure it out. And of course, families that are home educating have support systems and networks and things like that they're partnering with. But we feel like this is a model that uh, can open enroll, still continue to home educate, have that flexibility um that they desire in their families. Um but also have um strong solid curriculum that's aligned with state standards that would have a uh online platform, if you will, to be able to have that uh curriculum and instruction warehouse access to a certified licensed teacher in the state of Wisconsin. Um it may also have some benefits associated with having some of their school supplies
031uh supported and some resources associated with that. There's another piece that is pretty popular with families um in this program is called venture school as well where it's basically and this isn't really done through the school district but it's a another part of it where there's kind of regionalized areas where families can come together and have some enrichment uh where families participate in the program can go. So there's again much more to it but In a nutshell, we basically um a family open enrolls to us. We receive their state aid. Uh we contract for service with a company called Venture Upward to provide the curriculum and instruction component, but we hire and uh we have the teachers and it's our program. We're just contracting out for service with this provider for some of these other
032things that we can't, you know, we just don't have the infrastructure to be able to do on our on our own. >> I can definitely see the benefit for even some of the kids that found that online learning easier to them like during co and the pandmic and stuff. But your final statement kind of led into my next question. So this that we're looking at currently is just K through eight um right now. So, if let's say they get through 8th grade and then they want to transfer into our brick and mortar school, are they able to just transfer newly from that to our inerson school? >> Well, if they live around here, Tracy, yeah, absolutely. But, uh, you know, we're going to expand to the farthest northern boundary of our state, to the to
033the east, to the west, to the to the south. So the brick and mortar won't be a practical option uh for most of our students that are enrolled in this program. Um however uh you know we know that there will be a time that we will need to explore um some possible solutions at the high school level. uh we're just not prepared to to have those discussions at this point, but just kind of thinking of this p practical um that we need to start somewhere. Um and I've been pretty open that I I don't feel like um venture upward upward would necessarily be our solution at a high school level. Um but when we get to a time and a place to explore that as an option, that's when we would bring in u many
034of our team members um at the high school level to explore what our best options could be. >> Sure. For sure. I was just curious if there's like a smooth transition, they could just pop into our district if they were local, of course. >> Thank you. Sure. Ben, can I have a question? I just wanted to clarify the numbers. Um and I love that we're going to like expand north, southeast. I don't know how much further west we can go, but >> yeah, you know, I was thinking that as I was saying it, right? I still don't have my geography quite down. >> All right. So, my question is you had mentioned that there were 50 homeschool students roughly that were um invited to the event at Kulie. Um were those people that live in
035our district or would th that would count as open enroll in or are they out of our district that would be I guess I'm trying to figure out are these people already living in our district boundaries? >> Okay. So the the um the students that I referenced before and I referenced 50. >> It's kind of tricky because you know we have our numbers that we know at the beginning of the year and then as the year goes that she those numbers do change. >> So we we could get you the exact number. I think 50 is a pretty good estimated number. >> It was pretty close to 50. Sure. I was just trying to figure out where they're so who the postcard were the ones that were >> Yeah. So, so the 50 the 50
036homeschool families are the are the families that live within our district boundaries. Um and we have a very small geographic area as we know. Um but there's you know 50 students and I and I should quit using the language 50 families 50 students because and this is a generality but it is very common for a homeschool family to have multiple children. So you know it could be possible that you know the 50 students of student need or school age uh could belong to you know 20 families. >> Okay. And then did you Liz, feel free to answer too, but did you guys get the sense that evening that there was a lot of people would opt into something like this? Obviously, no one's fully committed at this point. >> Yeah, in general, the families were
037really positive about the opportunity and that's where we got some of the people that were interested in serving on the governance board as well. So, definitely positive. >> And I guess that leads me question Can you elaborate a bit on the process of selecting those people and their background? >> Well, um, they were interested. >> Okay. >> They Yeah. I mean, I'm not going to sugar coat it. I mean, they uh they they were interested. Um, they were interested enough to to, you know, pull their many children out of their homes and and bring them to a bowling alley. and they asked very good questions and they were very committed um to home educating their children but also was very clear to me that how much they cared deeply about the quality of education that
038their children were receiving. Um there was at least one of the uh actually two members that are sitting on this governing board are educators. Uh, one is an existing u online teacher but across the river in Minnesota and the other um is a a teacher that was a special ed teacher for for many years and chose it was was best for her and her family for her to stop um teaching and stay home with her children. Um yeah, so that's pretty much it. >> All right, sounds good. I was just Curious. >> Um, that's a good question. That is something that we haven't we hadn't, you know, discussed doing background checks, you know, for the folks that wouldn't sit on the governing board to start our charter school. No. Um, yep. We, you know, we
039have it, it's really tricky and we're going to talk about our budget uh more in our board development session, but anytime we put a a budget together, it's it's, you know, the only thing we're certain about when we put a budget together is that it's wrong, right? We've all heard that because you're based in upon projections um on revenue, based upon number of students that you have, you're basing things on, you know, expenditures and those kinds of things. Um admittedly, you know, starting a school that from scratch, um there's there's more um a sense of confidence in our reliability on what those projections should be. Um but we do know you know, running the numbers that um you know, it the numbers that we're using right now is if we could start our first year
040with 50 students um you know, we would come out plus 100,000 plus more, right? and just kind of to do the math um you know for the group if you want to put a pencil to it and there's you know there's certain complexities to this yeah I would say if we got 40 students um that could be a break even and I would say that your first year is always going to be your by far your most expensive because, you know, we're making some we're going to have to make some expenditures to get some people in place before we know exactly how many students that we're going to have in the program. And you know, one of the the first things that we're going to have to discuss is starting is having someone that will
041leave the program because I will tell you that in this online virtual world, it's very competitive and if a family is considering you know, home educating or online virtual environment. They're going to go to Google. They're going to Google, you know, online schools in Wisconsin, right? And they'll probably come up with 50. And there's a there's there's a few good ones probably and a whole lot that probably aren't so good. And but I'll tell you one thing, if if they call or they email and if they don't get a response in the day, they're moving on to the next place. And that's where customer service side of this is gonna is pretty huge. >> I can speak to experience from that. like I homeschooled my son for two years and exactly that if you don't
042get a positive experience when you call for information people do move on but you know we want to be a model school district and >> if you know I'll tell the board from the get-go I mean there is a there is a risk to this but any successful person or organization or anything the great ones have had to take risks and it's the board's decision right? Whether you want to go on this journey or not, as your superintendent, I'm laying this in front of you as a strong option. Um, and asking you to trust us and we're going to do give it our all, but there's a chance that, you know, maybe it doesn't go anywhere. And if it doesn't go anywhere, then we then we stop. We just dissolve the program and move on.
043I think for me it helps just to frame some of the the good things we're talking about. I don't think anyone's risk adverse necessarily, but it's probably good to be judged, especially for folks that are watching when we speak about hearing words fast and speed and throwing the ball in the air. That could be a lot how much work has been done already. There's been a lot of staff work that's been done, a lot of courses actually been have been analyzed and the sense of urgency is clearly conveyed but underneath that is a whole lot of work on the curriculum on different courses of action on effectiveness and ROI. So I would just want folks that are listening there's a difference between risk and gamble and I think gambling is not what's on the table.
044I think a risk is but I think it's calculated to the degree that we want to use that word. And then if we think ends, ways and means like these are all geared towards the end of being that uh district of choice, high levels of learning for all. This is one of the the ways that we do that, one of many. But I think it's good for us to keep reinforcing that being fast, having speed does not mean that there's not a whole lot of hard work being done underneath. And that scrutiny is good, being judicious is good, and it doesn't necessarily mean uh risk of risk in any way, shape, or form. So, I think of it about quick versus hasty. I think we're being quick. And for folks watching, I don't think we're
045being hasty. I think that's a very good point. Um, the more and more I learn about this often, I'm just more excited about it and I think it's the right thing for us to do. I do have a question I guess maybe coming from the policy committee. Is there not to create some the board to create some new policies? >> Well, I would think that most um most everything would fall under existing policies, but yes, there may be things that we would have to consider. I mean certainly um this new school would have a unique handbook if you will compared to our brick and mortar schools. Um things like attendance policy, right? They there's just a lot of pieces that our principles and their teams work hard to have in terms of their procedures for
046their schools that follow our policy. Um we'll have to create that for this school. Um, you know, I think that it is just important for us to realize that like we are quite literally opening a brand new school. And this is probably more difficult than it would be if you were just going to we were growing so much and we needed to open a new brick and mortar school. A new brick and mortar school we could easily adopt the same procedures and handbooks and pieces that are already existing. um because we already have brick and mortar schools. This is going to be this is going to be different and unique. Um and you know, I think it's been said it before, but I'll continue to say it. I mean, this is this is not this
047does not look anything remotely like a brickandmortar experience for students. Um, it's virtual, it's online, it's flexible, it's aligned with with, you know, family values that choose to home educate. And it's just different. And we'll continue to say we feel that we can serve our students the best if we have them in our schools with our teachers on a daily basis. Um, but we also honor and respect families that choose to home educate. And if they're doing that anyways, why don't they do it with us? And I know that the board has been concerned about declining enrollment for years, probably a decade or more. It's going to be difficult for me to be able to put new babies in the small geographic u existing homes in the school district, although we'll try. Um but but
048what we're doing is we're trying to expand expand our reach to the whole state, right? And this is some there there are un a lot of online programs, but this is somewhat of an untapped group that's really highly focused on existing homeschool families. >> I guess I wanted to add to that then when Venture Upward was here giving that presentation, I felt really good with that. I felt very comfortable. It wasn't a big sales pitch or anything like that. They just laid out what their program is. And I know I'm talking way more than I thought it was going to be. So we have a short, but it's my fault. Um I would say that because there's so many different models out there for online people have choices on what kind of online experience they
049want to have. And not everybody's going to love this model. A lot of people will, but if you know, I I I think we're not going to try and pretend to be something we're at this, you know, we're going to put forth an education model that that we feel is the right one. And if a doesn't fit a family's, you know, what they're looking for, then that's when they can find go to another online provider that might be what they are looking for. All right, I'm gonna quit my commentary. You know, we've been talking about this, you know, even in development meetings with the board for some time. to Eric's point, we've been considering this for a number of months and the ground appreciate all the work that he has done to date and this
050is an item that does require I'll make a motion to approve the um online charter school notice of intent to venture upward um as described by Ben and outlined in enclosure charter school. Second and I'd like a roll call. >> Motion by Tracy seconded by Bridget to approve the intent for an online charter school as detailed charter school. >> Eric Tracy, yes. Bridget, >> yes. Yes. >> Brian or I'm sorry. No, Brian. >> Yes. >> Mark, >> yes. >> And Aaron, >> yes. >> Team, thank you for your work on that. I know it the work starts now, but uh important first step. That's really exciting. Um we'll move on to our consent agenda and we are going to pull uh item B1 from the consent agenda. Are there any other requests to remove items
051for separate consideration? Hearing none, I would move for approval of the consent agenda as presented with the withdrawal of B1. >> Motion by Mark second by to approve the consent agenda agenda as presented with the exception of item B1. Are there any questions, comments? All those in favor? >> I opposed. And that is approved. And I think you have comments to make about being >> Yes. Janice Soie honored and privileged to speak about Janice's wonderful career and contributions to Seagle Bluff in our district. Um her connections and commitment really run deep and span several decades actually. Uh as she um kind of started as a parent volunteer in 1999 when the building opened and was in fourth grade as a parent volunteer, a substitute teacher and then full-time regular teacher for the past 17 years
052at Eagle first grade. Um, again, all three of her children are Eagle Bluff graduates and OHS graduates. Um, and uh, she has just made a tremendous impact on the lives of kids um, and done on me personally. You know, I I believe we all we all probably have a board of directors, right, that we can go to and and get honest feedback from. And I must say that Janice is one of those people for me who tells me what I need to hear and not what I want to hear. And I've really appreciated that about her over the years. Um, yeah, she will be greatly missed, but we uh we wish her all the best in her next venture in life. Always a little bittersweet when of our favorites besides bless to have a couple
053of my own students go through that classroom and fantastic experiences congratulations and appreciation and hoping Motion by Bridget to approve item B1 from the further questions or comments. All those in favor >> I >> approve. We have no further business. Second >> motion by Bridget, second by Brian toou. >> All those in favor? >> I this meeting is adjourned. We'll break for five minutes and then convene our development meeting. Thank you.