001Good evening. Uh, welcome to call to order the board of education regular meeting for Monday, July 14th, 2025. Trist, would you do a roll call, please? >> Sure. Uh, Tracy >> here. >> Bridget is absent. Eric >> here. >> Mark >> here. >> Brian >> here. >> Ann >> here. And Aaron >> here. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands one nation. >> Mark, will you please read the school board mission statement? >> Yes. Working together to ensure high levels of learning for all. >> Thank you. Kristen, was public notice given? >> Public notice was given to the requesting news media. The agenda was posted in school district buildings and on the district website. >> Are there any changes to tonight's agenda?
002>> There are no changes to the agenda. >> I move that we approve the agenda. >> Second. >> Motion by second by Tracy to approve tonight's agenda as published. We have no request for any public input on tonight's published agenda. And move into our recognition items. First of which is to welcome someone new at the table. Ben, we've been waiting for this for some time. Uh it's great to have you here at the table with us this first regular meeting. Uh just very excited for what we'll do together uh here in Alaska. >> Yeah. Well, thank you. Thank you very much. I don't uh I'll keep my words short, but it's an honor and pleasure and I've shared with people a dream come true for me to have the opportunity to share and continue my
003professional passions as a school leader and be in the place that I love and want to be and where my family is, right? You can't get any better than that where you can match your values um all together. And it's been I think 14 days I suppose that I've officially been on the job and I just want to thank everyone for welcoming me with open arms. And uh it's we we've been able to accomplish a lot together in a short amount of time, but it's really building and um it's it's called building my knowledge of our team uh building our knowledge of the community and our school district building that team and then also building lots of relationships and we've been meeting lots of people a lot of extraordinary people that support our school district
004and uh I'll end my commentary there because I could you'll find this in me that I do probably talk a lot and you'll at some point probably make fun of me about it But that's okay. You just need to tell me to zip it. But thank you very much >> again. Welcome. And tonight we also have a recognition. And I'm going to hand it over to Lori to start us with that. >> And Dr. Mar, if you'd like to come up to the table. >> For those of you that don't know, this is Todd Mar has been our district medical advisor for 30 years now and one pandemic. Let's not have another one. >> Yes. And he is retiring from his practice. And so we brought him here. We thought it was a good time
005to bring him here and celebrate all the service you've provided to our community, to our families, to our school, to our nurses, to me over the years. Um, and just thank you. It's been a pleasure working with you. >> Well, thank you. It's been great to be, you know, a taxpayer on an Alaska and see what you guys to have two uh children go through the school district, both excelling and doing well. It's nice to give back. Um I've got somebody lined up to take my place. We're still working out all the specifics. I'll be around until he starts. I promise that. >> Yeah. I just want to say on behalf behalf of health services. Um thank you and it's been always great to work with you. Anything we ever needed, you were there and
006you answered and and were quick and um it's just been really really great having you. So we're going to miss you for sure. >> Keep hiring good. >> It's nice knowing um working in the in the state through the Academy of Pediatrics American Association. We nice to actually hold on Alaska Health as a model. We do a nice job of what we do. Thanks to all of you um who work hard. I want to thank my wife, Deb, my kids, and Gunderson Health System for allowing me to do this over the years. Um it's now amplified by Gunderson, but they've allowed me to do it and it's been great. And without the nurses, this I couldn't do what I did. So, it's always been wonderful. And signing off on forms is what I love to
007do. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Well, I was asked by our board president to top it off here tonight. Again, thank you. And of course, we've had a long personal relationship, you and your wife and your children. And um it's been great to know that you've been behind us helping us out. And >> yeah, there was that pandemic. >> Created some interesting times. Thanks. My pleasure. So Todd, we do have a uh certificate of appreciation for you in recognition of your compassionate care, dedication, expertise, and unwavering commitment to the students and staff of the School of Alaska. And uh and a note from the from the >> and a check from Ben. >> Well, just like when you were back in elementary school, you can hang this on your fridge. >> Okay. Thank you
008so much. and agenda item 11 tonight. We'd like to recognize some donations that it's my honor and like to share our gratitude for the following donations. A golf bag from CR Newberry for the golf program. $1,000 from Ronnie Gatscla. Did I say that right? Uh for the high school art department, $200 from Delore Kenyon for the student lunch accounts, and $250 from Marine Credit Union employees uh for student lunch accounts. So, those are donations. Uh we have a lot of gratitude and acknowledge and thank all of those that donated to our students and our community. Thank you. >> Thank you, Ben. And while these donations don't uh reach the threshold that requires board approval, we always like to recognize the various ways in which our community uh recognizes our students and the district. So, thank
009you uh to all of these uh donations and uh and for the thoughts that are behind them. We'll move now into uh item 12, which is anformational item, and we'll have our annual student health services report from Amanda. Okay, thank you for having me. So, we will go through the health services report from this past school year. So, the goal of health services is really to provide medical care for students while minimizing um academic interruptions throughout the day. So, we have one director of nursing, which is myself. We have a district nurse, which is Kelsey. And then we have five health care professionals, so one in each of our buildings. And then Dr. Mar, who we just um saw, kind of oversees us. The annual report is aligned to the district health service services policies,
010which are listed here, and we'll go through them. So the first one is emergency nursing services and this is our overarching policy um that gives direction to people if nurses aren't available and um how to care for students. It lists a lot of other policies in it. Um an example of that would be field trips when nurses aren't there. We do try to help um help get those ready and check meds that are going. So this year we checked 187 meds for overnight field trips and then um left the rest of the staff who were going. The next policy is health services and it talks about screenings we do in the district. So we do vision and hearing screenings. We do vision screenings on prek first, third and fifth as well as any new students
011and then hearing is on all first graders and any new students. So you can see the number we did and referred for each of those trainings. And the other thing under this policy is our dental clinic which is bridging brighter smiles and they provide twice a school year screening, cleaning, fluoride sealants and referral assistance. They can eently and urgently refer students. You can see on there there was four eently um referred and 101 that were urgently referred. So they are doing great work here. And then there was 32 early which means they wanted to recheck them the next time they came. The next slide shows the enrollment data which the number enrolled is increasing every year which we're happy about. We especially like to see the 4K and kindergarteners get enrolled and then also high
012schoolers before they graduate. The next policy covers care of students with chronic health conditions. So health alert data is entered into the student chart by the parent at the beginning of the year in registration and then can be updated throughout the year by parents um or by the nurses. We're involved in all section 504s. We review health um health medical records there and can update information. The data typically stays mostly the same. Mental health and ADHD numbers rise every year. And then we also had neuro conditions and migraines rise this year. Based on this data, we had 40 individualized health plans for students in the district this year. Um, policy 5330 is administration of medications. So, typically our health are responsible for medication administration at each of the buildings. Um, and this is daily and
013PRN meds. So, this year we had 16,129 meds administered. And then this slide just breaks it down. buildings, you can kind of see where those meds are being administered. And typically, it's more at the lower or upper levels of the schools. We also like to track med errors just to make sure everything is going well. Um, we focused on late meds a couple years ago and we've done really well there. So, of those 16,129 meds, we had 23 this year. So examples are if they didn't get it as scheduled, if it was missed on a field trip, um if it was damaged in some way. So when that happens, the nurse is contacted, the parent is contacted. Um we do retraining with the person. So we're really focusing on that and we'll hit it again
014this year in the fall. This policy focuses on delegation of care and states that nurses are responsible for making the decision when delegation occurs. So this year we had 38 different um rescue medications we call them which are more like emergent meds and or procedures that we delegated to 247 different staff members. We also delegate epipens and broncoilators at the beginning of the year and also started um with nlloxxone this year and delegated that to staff as well. 8450 is control of casual contact communicable disease. So, we look at our immunization data on the Wisconsin immunization website to update it and also by forms that parents turn into us. This year, we had 117 waiverss, which is pretty typical for what we have. And we were at we were at 98.4% um compliance and we
015would like to be at 99. So, we're very close. And one of the reasons we monitor it is to for any if there was any outbreaks through the year, we would need to know who is immunized and who isn't. So, we did not have anything this year that we needed to do that for. And then also, we have fifth grade. So, we have staff that will do um their education on vector training and then we do fifth grade student education for contagious versus non-contagious illness. So, we have a presentation for them that goes through the illnesses and it's interactive. Um, so they can learn about it that way. 5340 covers student accidents, illness, and concussion. So, during this last school year, we had 2,630 injuries, and that was down from last year. We evaluate this
016on a monthly basis to look at trends or any areas we need to address. And staff are prepared to take care of um injuries. They take first aid training, CPR training, and then our healthcare take that as well as get extra training from the nurses. We also track peer injuries just to make sure that um nothing out of the ordinary is happening. This is anytime a peer is involved. So, it could have been they stepped on them or threw a ball. Um but it's pretty typical from year to year. It stays the same. Then we just look at locations of where they're occurring. And this also pretty much stays the same every year. Recess is a common one just because kids are out burning energy. Um, PE and classrooms are also pretty common locations as
017well. Then we like to break down our head injuries that happened so we kind of know where we're at and we have this level system so we know the severity. Um, so that kind of tells you how we determine level one, two or three. And then we track those levels. Um you can see on this slide and on the next one. So we had 585 head injuries this year but then of that we like to know how severe they are. Um so then we break down those based on the level. So this year we sent 70 concussion plans to staff. Only four of those happened at school. Most of that is from sports in the community. That number might seem high but um we like to have them reported so that we can get them
018on a return to academics and protocol so we can make sure their brain is healing. And then this one breaks down those levels like I was saying. So you can see the vast majority are the level one um some of them level two and then just one level three. So that's good. And then the last thing we check is total health office visits for the year which are listed here. They pretty much stay the same year to year. Um, we track everything that kids come in for except if they're coming for a daily medication. And we do have a self-s serve station in the middle school and the high school so that kids can help themselves and we don't need to track those visits. Um, but everything else is on there. And that's the end
019of the question here. So many years and I I think um just want to compliment you on the you know you're managing students in five different buildings you're managing a lot of kids a lot of staff um and just the staff in your own in such a critical part of what we do kids health obviously is so incredibly important and so I just want to thank you for that and just keeping this data and managing this data um is a big piece of that um probably the the least favorite thing but um it's just an impressive report that you pull together and and it's sort of I'm struck at the number of contacts you have with kids uh throughout the day and the school year and so I just want to say thank you for
020the work you do and you know obviously those numbers are going down. So, um you know, some things are working and um that's fantastic. So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> I also want to thank you for that report and um I just had noticed in reading it earlier that uh I was wondering if you wanted to elaborate on the dental related thing. You made a change there. >> Oh yes. Um a couple of years ago we started using Bridging Brighter Smiles because they provide so many more services versus Um, so it's been I think it's been great to have them. They come twice a year. They see do all the referrals for kids and can get on top of dental care early. Um, so it's been they've been great. It's been great. >> Yeah.
021>> Sure. So, it's mostly band-aid. There's alo also things like a fingernail clipper. Um there's some gauze, tissues, just like basic things. So if they just need to take care of something themselves, they can. >> Any other questions for Amanda? As always, thank you so much to you and your team for everything that you do. >> Thanks for having me. >> We're going to move into item 13, which is uh building project updates and we'll start with Charlie. As you look at this report, you can see, you know, as they mentioned, there's lots of things in progress that can attest to that. Um lots of people in the building and lots of movement happening each and every day. Today, for example, I know they're they're trying to line up our our water supply with our
022chillers and our main um main input and that's gone well. It started today at at around lunchtime and the chillers should be back um full board tonight at midnight and then they're testing the water and things should be back on uh tomorrow afternoon. So all they didn't find anything they didn't want to find when they were digging as far as connecting things back to the to the main port. Um so that was that was good news we got at the end of last week. But as we look at the images here together um the overhead doors are in our our tech areas there as you see and some of the acoustical panels on the top of the the music area to the right as we go through the images. Um new uh lower level door
023openings as you kind of This is near our English stairwell as we call it that enters our science room there. Um as well as our our business and world language hallway to the right. And if you haven't been by Wilson Street in a while that that was tore up about a week and a half ago. So they are waiting for the water supply to be sound and connected before they pour the rest of it. They did just a little bit of concrete work and they were digging and laying everything they needed today. So we're hoping in the couple of days, it'll look much different than you see right here. If all goes well with testing tomorrow, um the elevator is certainly in as as I was peeking in there a couple of days ago. So,
024that is coming to fruition as as getting closer and closer. Um the north gym uh bathrooms are coming into place even more so than that picture there. Um this is along outside our tech hallway um kind of leading into our near the um the fieldhouse and in the stadium there as they put in new firewall that they need for for that hallway and also the band storage areas. And then finally, you can see the progress that continues with the drywall with within our world language and business areas. Looks fresh and new and it's coming along. >> So excited to see this. >> Lots of people in the building. Thank you. Middle school. Heck yeah. So over the middle school, similar thing. A lot of extra summer help on the job site. So things are moving
025along at a really Right now, this first picture here is the second half of the playground. The first half last summer was that beautiful turf that we have. And now we have um you can see on the right of this picture, it's kind of small, but there's a a playground with some climbing equipment and stuff like that. And then those two courts right in the center of the picture are going to be basketball courts. They got to drill the holes to put the hoops in yet. Um and there's a threelane track going around all of that on the black top. In the bottom right, you can see we've got four, excuse me, three four square courts mapped out and then we have a an adaptive swing for our IV program um on the playground there.
026So, our playground is about to double or even triple in size in the next couple of days and our summer school students will be able to test it out for us before we get going. Uh similarly, in the next day or two, our main parking lot is going to be done and complete. The paving was completed on Friday. They were striping today to just touching up some stuff and hopefully tomorrow we'll be able to open that back up to for our summer school staff to park in there. Um we almost doubled from what we were using this past school year in terms of our main parking. And so that'll be that'll be nice during the school day, but it'll be especially nice when we have things like our open house or music concerts or sporting
027events and whatnot. We have should have a whole bunch more parking. So almost at that point there. Um this is so you can see this is a shot of what is going to be teched and art along the what is the west side of the building there. And there's a little bit larger opening because both teched and art are going to have some outdoor spaces like classroom spaces um where they could go outside when the weather's nice and do some projects out there as well. And I was I was uh hobbing all around in there today and um they're making really great progress getting a lot of the walls up for Arteette as well. They're done with the demo and they're almost done with the build back with the the HVAC and plumbing and everything
028and filling back the concrete and there's a there's a picture of that's a few days ago of filling in that the plumbing and all the new section there and putting the concrete back in like I was just saying. There's the So again, that is uh you're looking at the new art and teched areas, but again, it's it's further along than even where these pictures are. Again, the interior stud framing up those rooms again. Uh so this is some site work that's going on on the south side where the bus lane bus drop off is completely redoing the sidewalk landscaping and the the road as well. Like everything out there is getting redone so it'll be nice and great for all of our students to take the bus. This is inside the choir room. Um they're
029working on the ceiling grid in there. Actually this is that's actually the orchestra room. It says choir, but I can tell from the picture that's actually the orchestra room, but the choir room looks similar. It's just about twice as big as the orchestra room. And they've got these really cool ceiling tiles that come down and they're slanted at all sorts of special angles that I think uh will make them sound better when I go sing. So, and I think that's all the pictures we have. Um, so still still on track at this point in time to have our spaces done by uh right around the start of the school year, give or take a little bit. Um, and then the the Boys and Girls Club space shortly after that. That'll be the last. >> Great
030update. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Go by last week. One day looks really nice from the outside. It It looks nice from the inside, too. >> Go ahead. >> You mentioned the bus will be just from now on or drop off. >> So, it'll it'll be the same as it was this past year in that all parent drop off and pickup will go on the north side of the building with that that drive-through lane off the back where the playground is and all of the bus um will be on the south side of the building off of Quincy Street. Any other questions for Charlie or Ben? Thank you both. U we'll move on to item 14 uh which is the 2025 26 induction handbook and presuming is a big overf and uh the main
031substantial change that I wanted to highlight today onage where we've decided to pause our hiring of a literacy coach for next school year. You're not completing the position. We hired somebody last summer and then they reposted for a while and so we decided to pause for the years pilots. Now that we're looking at next year, the way that we're pivoting um is that we're creating based implementation coaches who are going to be teachers in each grade level. It's just like a slightly different way to that we're gonna assess forward appropriately. So then the other change um is the uh support seminars uh orientation dates and things like that that are required for new certified staff members. Those are on pages 17. and fantastic that we have this details, but also out of school. Um it
032is it's a robust program and we use the induction handbook. Um we always send that to our certified staff members before they start over and we also share it with our mentors who are being newly trained and mentors who are staff members. So great communication philosophy of the program phil supported staff. Absolutely. Essential teachers and it's always fantastic eclectic array of experience you have your teachers who are very position and then we get people 15 25 years experience they alling our district at the very same time we like to always think that's one of my favorite Any other questions for fame on this topic? Thank you. We'll move in to action items now. And we have a grant from the NEA Foundation. >> Yeah. I just want to foundary. and this amount is essentially a
033donation from the NEA Foundation. So, it does require approval. >> I'll make a motion to approve the grant for $3,185 from the NEA Foundation for professional development for Irving Elementary. Director Ann Marie D. >> Motion by Tracy, second by to approve the 3,185 grant from the NEA Foundation for professional development for our LMC director. Any questions? She's just coming and share with the board. Any other questions? All those in favor? >> I opposed and that is approved. Thank you. >> Uh next we have the notification of academic standards for the 2025 26 school year which is required for review by state. >> Got us started pretty well there. Um so each year we provide notification to district parents of all um of the adoption of um Wisconsin academic standards in the areas of ELA um
034math and science studies social emotional learning and English language development standards. I apologize. I was looking at the enclosure. Um, so we we adopt the common core Wisconsin academic standards for each of the subject areas. We also adopt the essential elements for um for each of those subject areas, ELA, math, science, and social studies. And those essential elements are for students that guide our our learning of students with significant cognitive disabilities. This is less than 1% of our population. very important to acknowledge those standards on my not in the standards link in the agenda. You can get to them. I'll make sure that that link is so taking you to the right place. Um I apologize about that, but we um also include this annual notice once um approved in our districtual notices that we
035send out and prepare and update each year. So that Are there any questions for this? and the next generation. >> Second motion by seconded by Brian to approve the notification of the academic standards for the 2025 school year presented by fame and detailed in the motion presented from team. Are there any other questions? >> All those in favor? >> And now we'll move into a presentation of student fees for the year. And that can be found in enclosure 17. Start with draw your attention to a few changes that we have installed with senior PE adventure for fitness and fitness for life is to expose students the not things just not happening inside of our school but the opportunity that exist outside of our school exposure to introduce them how to get involved, how to try
036yoga or how to get rock climbing or bowling or whatever activities that exist when they're done with us at OHS. So, transportation costs are are really eating up our our PE budget more so than they ever have. So, this helps us maintain the things we need for PE, but also the exposure that we want for these classes out there. Um the other change yearbook price just went up the cost of what year are a couple of additions to our activities that are newer to us. So we have optional fees. So our yearbook price has been the same as well as insurance. We as a school cover the cost of students and we also do cover. Um as far as cocurricular fees, we still have just the one for so otherwise no big changes. Yeah, you
037might recall that over the last years we've done a lot of work at the elementary level. for us to put number. But we als And then I notice there's a district contract for transportation. Uh we adopted a policy I don't remember how many it was quite a few years maybe five years ago that allowed to be able to at the same point offer transportation those who are they don't fit the general definition issues the barrier and then why would we pick them up if we're able to add them um so what we usually do uh with these transportation uh costs we enter into agreement with the parent and then we usually turn around and we will not have to pay. also comes into play if for some reason a family did want transportation attendance was
038not an issue offering that service any questions for any of the servicees or student fees that >> can you just clarify the parent contract transportation so is that like people whose children are already attending school here and they're just like volunteers being paid to like pick up extra kids or how is that working? I guess I apologize. So, um a scenario would be let's say we have a student who consistently struggles to get to school of transportation bicycle and they're um what's our transportation? Two miles. So, they're within that two mile radius. wouldn't have able that they would make it to school even though it's cold and their only mode of transport. So that would be a scenario where we would offer this contract to the parents and then they would be agreeing to the
039payment. We would turn around and wave the fee because we want the student to be here and we recognize that transportation is a barrier that's preventing the student. >> Who's actually providing the transportation? >> Oh, so not the district. >> Correct. >> Okay. That's what I was trying to clarify. I was kind of confused. >> No, no, you're good. You're good. But we have that students picked up a variety of reasons on different routes and buses. And usually we can almost >> Okay, thank you for clarifying that. No, it wouldn't be just as mentioned. So, we would never allow that to be a barrier. Second motion seconded by Brian to approve the student fees for the 202526 school year as presented in closure students. Are there any questions? and we just want to make sure
040that we're in line with that because even though we're scenarios a service and I want that $230 and contract. >> All those in favor? >> I have action item 18, which is project. It's a transition program for students who have disabil with a business and um in this case for eight years now the entire program happens in the workplace and students who qualify for the program that's there are interns and they work and learn the skills in a variety of different departments within And the hope for they can train those students and hire them as employees when they're done with their one year of the students of course to get a job at when they're done. So they try out a variety of different locations department align with what they're interested in what they're good
041at. Um and and where we come into this is that there is a capacity of the program and some years I believe last year had enough students to fill the program. So they didn't offer it outside of their district. We have had students in the past participate in project just and this year for this coming year we have two students who because there was capacity within the program they opened it up to other neighboring school districts if there were students who were interested to apply for it but retain the agent of it and so in order for us to have our students participate in it we enter this basically we for our students participate in what >> do these students typically are they also part of likeility program that's a great question 18 to 21
042year old program it targets different students sometimes we have students projectility and then they go to project and then they would be typically concurrently follow That's awesome. Thank you. >> Are there any questions for >> I'll make a motion to approve the agreement for 66.03 agreement with the school district for project search for the 2025 2026 school year as outlined by detailed Project search >> motion by second by to approve the district to enter into a 6603 agreement with school district for project search for6 school year as detailed project search. Are there any questions? All those in favor >> looks like Glory will stick with you to talk about physical therapist services. This has been a good partnership again under that neither one of us. So a number of years ago we share more than
043we do. They are the physical agent and then basically we You might notice there is some evaluation time in there. Also, um we had a couple students that we had to evaluate this summer. Um that needed a physical therapist on the eval July >> and we wouldn't have known last year at this time that we were going to need that after July >> medicrapy. She builds for our students for us. >> Motion Bridget. Second by approved the district entering into a 6603 agreement school district for physical therapy services for the 202526 school year as outlined by Lor. Are there any questions? All those in favor >> we'll move into policies. These are on for second reading. Uh I'll ask Mark, Tracy, or Eric if there are any changes or further commentary that's been had since
044our first reading. I don't I think we're ready to present them as they >> are. Motion by Mark, seconded by Tracy to approve the board policies presented in enclosure 20 policies. >> Are there any further questions? >> All those in favor? >> I know that know how much work. I appreciate the work that goes into it. >> Personal report. Are there any requests to remove items for separate consideration? The first one is I think it's important that we And you know it's no secret there's a tradition of excellence in academic instruction in school district Alaska that's not by accident instruction here for years and done extraordinary work but I'm happys You're on the next chapter of your life and you're going to continue to do great things and we know that you're not going to
045be far away. Once you're a hilltop, you're always thinking lead us through the pandemic. was the director of instruction during the pandmic and you all know how quickly we needed to respond during that time we did learn a matter of week of thank you for your service and fame on behalf of the board. I know we had a chance to chat a little bit earlier, but with just much appreciation for everything you brought to this room and more importantly to our to our certified staff to the and ultimately to the students uh in that sixyear time frame. So, it'll be an interesting meeting in a few weeks without you sitting there at the table with us, but I wish you well. >> You have to register for public input if you want to come back.
046>> No, but really I'm stepping away, but I'm doing it with like nothing but But it's been a tremendous one. Five years of service with the district. We have two teachers coming on board. Heather Burles will be our fifth grade teacher. and then our school also and then two custodians will be joining us starting actually this last week and then title one services we have funding federal funding that helps support the broker professional rules and what are the needs in the building. You'll see a few creations just in terms of our district. There's an additional enclosure for a few summer school changes and then starts our fourth grade teachers to kindergarten. I would move to approve by seconded by Brian to approve the personel report as presented. Any further questions? All those in favor? >>
047Oppos? Are there any requests to remove items from the consent agenda for separate consideration? >> Seeing none, I move that we approve. >> Motion from Brian, seconded by Mark to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Are there any questions? All those in favor? >> Opposed? approved. We have no further business. >> Second Brian, second by Tracy. All those in favor?