001here. Uh, one student board member and Noah's excused. He's at DECA. Um, has this meeting been posted? Yes, it has. All right. Uh, we'll begin the meeting with the pledge of allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. Are there any communications tonight? Yes, there are. Over the last couple weeks, Mr. Curry, Miss Copelitz, Miss Olsen, and I have spent time engaging with the middle school community around information, feedback, adjustments, and next steps regarding the middle school schedule. At conferences on Thursday, February 12th, Mr. Curry gave three presentations to a total of approximately 15 families. Video of the presentation was shared with families. Mr. Curry and I used professional development time on Friday, February 13th to facilitate
002conversations among staff and the team has made progress towards consensus. Social studies and science teachers identified a preferred delivery plan for instructional time. The staff made a list of needs to be able to move forward with some program changes and subsequent schedule impact. Mr. Curry will investigate building cross-ep departmental teams and will share sample schedules for adults. professional development in a few areas identified will be addressed between the time the change is finalized and the start of the school year. Next steps to address support and make additional adjustments will be shared with staff this week. As this work continues, the recommendation is not on the agenda this evening. When the team is ready with a revised recommendation, it will be put on a future board agenda. To improve breakfast participation, excuse me, the district tried
003a pilot at the elementary level in the fall to allow for grab-and-go breakfast for students arriving right before the bell. The pilot resulted in a small increase in participation. So, we have continued it even with slightly lower K5 enrollment. We are seeing steady participation with the growth of 10 to 15 meals per day with 2% lower enrollment. Participation rate has gone from 10% to 12% for breakfast. The community connections black history month celebration was last Thursday night. More than 150 guests enjoyed special performances by the 2026 art and essay contest winners and we are the drum plus artwork by black artists from create creative house. That's how you say it right. Um boutiques to go classy candle company Leonel Leon Leonil and other Milwaukee area blackowned businesses were in attendance. This amazing event showcased music,
004dance, and art from our area's black community for our school community. I visited with community members during coffee with the superintendent at DIA Cafe last week. Grandparents of current students attended and asked questions on engagement opportunities and provided their impressions of experiences at our elementary schools. Additionally, the group discussed school finance in light of the conversations at the state level. And we have a number of donations to uh acknowledge. GHS Robotics received the following donations in exchange for advertising. $250 from American Transmission Company, $1,8024 from Exact Automation, $1,80.24 from Chris Galleti Galazy, uh 20 $2,54.64 from Burns and McDonald. Brian and Melbach donated $1,100 to GHS athletics and activities fundraiser for jerseys and supplies and a donation was made in the amount of $2,000 by Terry Gares to be used for future bench recognition. That
005concludes my communications. All right, thank you. And then we'll move on to the student updates. The Palm Scene has returned from Florida after performing in a Disney World parade on February 15th. She also recently returned from Florida from their nationals performance and moved on to compete in state this weekend or this past weekend, winning first for the second year in a row. In addition, she is hosting a play date for 8th to 11th graders interested in joining the 2026 2027 team this Thursday. Educators rising students had an opportunity last week Wednesday to listen to a panel of GHS graduates that have returned as teachers. A high school battle of the books team named Bookmarked for victory will be representing Greenville this Wednesday at state. Juniors have continued preparing for the upcoming ACT, making an account
006today and receiving test prep and practice from their core teachers. The last math practice ACT is happening after school tomorrow in room 120. The digital announcement club GTV put out their third video today and advisories talking about the latest events in the school and pop closer moments surrounding the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics. All right, thank you. And then we will move on to comments or questions from visitors. I just have to read something here, so bear with me. Uh, welcome to all those who will be speaking this evening. We would like to remind you that the schoolboard meetings are for the purpose of carrying on the business of the district. They are official business meetings held in public through schoolboard bylaw 0167.3. The board allows citizens to make comments by scheduling two opportunities on
007the agenda to receive citizen comments. Persons willing wishing to address the board are asked to come to the podium and state their name and address for the record. Comments are limited to one time. Individuals who will be speaking will be limited to three minutes. Citizen comments are limited to a period not to exceed 30 minutes. In accordance with the intent of the open meetings law, please be aware that although the board of education welcomes comments from the public, it cannot discuss or debate items brought up during public comments. Board bylaws require that all comments are directed at the presiding officer, who is me. Comments must also refer to items within the legitimate jurisdiction of the board. As the presiding officer, I may interrupt, warn, or terminate comments when the statement is too lengthy, personally directed,
008abusive, obscene, or irrelevant to the business of the board. If the presiding officer exercises his right to terminate comments under the above guidelines, written comments may be submitted to the presiding officer instead. And with that, we'll take comments. Good evening. My name is Brett Meyer residing at 5313 ME road. I've spent the last few weeks engaging with the administration and board regarding the proposed schedule restructure. I reached out to Mr. Curry on February 10th with specific questions. While it took eight days and a follow-up for me to receive a response, I appreciate that the dialogue has begun and the vote has been delayed for more planning. However, we must be direct about how we got here. This proposal was brought forward in January with a lack of community and staff input. When an administration moves
009this fast on a plan this disruptive and is slow to respond to stakeholders, it creates a predictable breach of trust. It forces parents such as myself to adopt a watchful eye because the transparency simply has not been there. While we aren't looking for professional placation, we are looking for a roadmap that respects this community's intelligence. The core issue remains a math problem. Our most recent DPI scorecard shows high achievement. In fact, consistent increases. But our challenge is growth. I recognize that in a fixed school day, any increase in core minutes acts as attacks on our Encore programs. By my current math, attacks of 37 minutes per day. We cannot protect the arts as advertised while reducing their footprint to chase growth in test scores. Our encores are the engine of student belonging. We should not
010be diluting the very experiences that make students want to be in the building. Before we upset the foundation of the Encore experience by focusing on one group of programs to source time from, we should also consider other existing time sources. For example, the morning meeting block consumes 20 minutes per day. That's 3,600 minutes or two full weeks of school time potentially underutilized every year. By surgically adjusting those hours and integrating social emotional learning goals into core time or proposed studio time, we can accomplish the desired growth without a complete overhaul. There are plenty of professional articles that focus on weaving strategies and content into existing academic coursework. I also ra raise an eyebrow at the t management of tier 2 intervention. Asking one teacher to lead highquality intervention for some students while most students at
011or above grade level are left with independent practice or enrichment is a logistical stretch. The administration confirmed in our communications that a formal professional development plan for this is still to be to be developed. We are essentially building the plane while it is sitting on the runway, risking busy work for our students while our teachers are left to manage a delicate balancing act in an unvetted plan. I request the board discourage complete restructuring and instead encourage surgical approaches. I am not saying no to progress. I'm saying no to a narrow vision that focuses so intently on a single tree it loses sight of the entire forest. I stand here as a reminder that before the March vote, we still have some work to do. So, thank you. All right. Thank you. Hello, Kevin Sabota, 7220
012Horizon Drive, Greenale. Obviously, uh I also happen to be friends of music president. Uh first of all, I think anytime there's a negative, there's always positives that come out of it. Um, despite this being a little bit of a rocky road and a lack of trust, I have had the opportunity to talk with every uh one of the board members along with Superintendent Kim and and Maggie as well. So, I do appreciate that and I do appreciate the responsiveness from everybody as well. Um, one of the things um I've had the chance to do is also talk with a lot of parents and students as well uh throughout this process. One of the things that seems to be interesting to me, I thought I had the Eureka moment and the solution to this whole uh
013problem and to me it was let's get rid of uh as Mr. Myers had mentioned, let's get rid of this morning meeting and use that time as educational time. So, I want to focus on that one piece today. Uh I have other concerns and other thoughts as well, but I want to focus on that piece with a couple uh uh pre-written statements here. I understand the proposed schedule changes are intended to improve uh state test scores. However, I have serious concerns about the strategy being used to achieve that goal. The proposed proposal reduces music from three days per week to two days and decreases science and social studies instruction by 34 hours per year. I'm just going to repeat that. reduction of science and social studies instruction by 34.5 hours per year based on the
014things I've read. I worry that narrowing the curriculum in this way may unintentionally reduce student engagement and limit the background knowledge that supports reading comprehension and critical thinking. Science isn't just about memorizing facts. It teaches students how to ask questions, analyze evidence, solve problems, and think logically. It builds perseverance when experiments don't work the first time. It builds confidence when students test an idea, revise it, and eventually succeed. Those are not only academic skills, they are life skills and core social emotional skills. Social studies develops perspective taking, civic understanding, and thoughtful discussion. Music strengthens executive functioning, attention regulation, collaboration, and discipline. When students rehearse, perform, and improve, they develop focus and self-confidence. These subjects are not extras. They are environments where both academic skills and social emotional growth naturally occur together. If the goal is
015to improve test scores, integration in strong instruction matter more than simply shifting minutes from one subject to another. Thank you. All right. Thank you. And I'm not seeing anyone else. So, we will move on to approving the meeting minutes. Looking for a motion. I move approval of the January 26 regular meeting minutes and closed session minutes, the February 9th, 2026 special meeting minutes, and the February 11th, 2026 closed session minutes as presented in agenda item 1.1. I second. All right, we have a motion and a second. If there's nothing to add, we'll do a roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Um, yes. Motion passes. Uh, moving on to Jonathan with the financial reports. Included in your packet is financial information for the month of January of 2026. This was reviewed at the finance committee meeting
016last week, Thursday. Um, on the revenue side within the operational budget, we're about $800,000 ahead of where we were last year. um that has to do with the mix of the January property tax payment and the amount of that those revenues that are being um assigned to fund 10. Um there's no concerns within the the revenues um in all funds in terms of how that lays versus budget at this point in the year. Um on the expenditure side um we're slightly above budget at 42.22% versus 40 40.78% last year. um provided some commentary on that in terms of some bills that were paid a little bit ahead of schedule, some of the change in costs um in salary and benefits year-over-year. And then the other um variance we talked about at the finance committee meeting
017is just that the fund 27 transfer overall will be lower. And so we're seeing a slightly higher share of expenses um that are spent year-to- date. Um but we still uh see that as on track to budget. um and don't have any concerns when we look at expenditures through the month of January at this time. So with that, we'd be happy to take any questions that the board has about the January financial report. Any any questions for Jonathan. All right. I'm not seeing any. Thank you. Thanks. And with that, we need to approve the checks and dispersements. I move the approval of checks and dispersements in the amount of $3,399,761 is presented in item 2.2. I second. All right, we'll do a roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Um yes. Motion passes. Uh moving on
018to the uh fiberline maintenance agreement with the village. So this is the same as presented at the previous board meeting. There were no additional comments from the board after our last meeting. All right. So, we need to approve and we'll look for a motion. I'll move approval of the village cooperative agreement for fiberline maintenance as outlined in agenda item 4.1. I second. All right, we have a motion and a second. If there's nothing to add, we'll do uh roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I'm yes. Motion passes. Uh moving on to the parent transportation contract payment number two. As required by law, when we provide transportation to the public schools, we also need to provide transportation to residents attending private schools. Um this contract is a more cost-effective way to transport students to the
019private schools than to contract with buses to transport them. So recommend approval. All right, we need Oh, Kathy, just one question. Dr. Midzik, this came up with Wisconsin Association of School Boards when we were doing our policies and res about possibly scaling back and just doing one payment per family. Have you heard anything about that? Um, we have not heard anything about that as of yet. This is the current law. Okay. It is. Okay. Thank you. All right. So, we're looking for a motion. I'll make I'll move approval of the parent transportation contract payment two as outlined in agenda item 4.2. I second. If there's no other questions, we'll do a roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I'm yes. Motion passes. Uh moving on to the 202526 budget amendments. So presented in your packet
020are um budget adjustments that we're making at this time. These reflect adjustments that we've had for different federal grants as we've made budget transfers during the year. Um it reflects additional technology purchases that were not in the beginning of the year budget, some audio purchases, um final transportation costs from the fall, um specifically around extracurriculars, and then uh update to tuition for Greenale Global as that pilot group grew from 8 to 15 for second semester. So that attachment we provided additional detail um regarding those budget amendments and um again this was reviewed at the finance committee meeting last week Thursday. So I'd be happy to answer questions that the board has. Um this revised budget would still maintain the board's target to um add 1% to fund balance at the end of the 2526 school
021year. All right. Thanks Jonathan. Any Kathy? And with that note, um will we be at 15% then at the end of the year? So the final audited amounts for the 2425 year um the adjusted final fund balance actually landed right at 15%. So with the 1% increase, we would actually expect to be close to that 16% number with this current projected target when we get to the end of this year. Thank you. I just want to thank you for the work on that. I know it's something that's been a work in progress over the last couple of years, but thank you for the work with that. Yep. Looking for a motion. I move the approval of the 2526 budget amendments as presented agenda item 4.3. I second. If there's nothing else to add, we'll do
022a roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I'm yes. Motion passes. And finally, we need to approve personnel or take action on a personnel. I move approval of the teacher resignation and re-employment of administrative staff as presented in agenda item 4.4. I'll second. We have a motion and a second. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I'm yes. Motion passes. Uh moving on to the first reading of the policy updates. Uh the policy update recommendations uh come from Niola that were reviewed by administration and then with the policy committee. Many of the changes come about through either law changes or uh legal action that has happened in other districts that uh require clarification in policy. Um specifically you see third grade promotion and retention on the list which is um part of act 20. and you see
023personal communication devices, which is part of the law passed last year around uh student cell phones in schools. Both of those are not a substantial change in practice, but they are updated policies to align with current law. Uh there's a number of other policies in your packet, and I know that the policy committee members would be happy to talk through questions, as would I, uh on any of those. Anyone have any questions? Yeah, I have a um a question about the board superintendent relationship policy is at 1210. Um there is a addition to it about individual board members who receive communications um regarding matters that are within the purview of the administration should refer them to the administration um which I think we do. How how would members of the board protect anonymity? I'm rereading
024the sentence so I can understand what would require anonymity. Um it does not say that you need to refer the person to the superintendent. You would refer the concern to the superintendent. Okay. So there would or if the concern relates to the superintendent, you would refer it to the board president. Right? So there would be a way where um if a a student, parent, anyone came with a concern and did not want their name shared for any number of reasons, the the board member receiving that would be able to relay the concern without having to relay that individual's name. Correct. And they you can also anyone can be referred to um speak up speakout. there is opportunity to provide um concerns or information about safety concerns whether that be um physical safety or emotional safety
025without um anyone knowing who it is and then they'd be able to respond to questions and communication followup. So the policy itself does not state that you need to refer that for it to the student. It does not say refer the person. It says refer concerns to the superintendent. All right. Anyone else? All right. I'm not seeing anything, so we will I'm sorry. Just one thing. Um I I'm on the committee, so we've already kind of talked about all this, but I do want to um compliment I I think um AI it'll be something I talk about in our professional development later. Uh, but I think we have a pretty comprehensive um, policy at this point with it being something that's changing so often. I attended a session at the um, state convention on it
026and just in hearing other districts, I think our district does have a good layout for how we're addressing it because obviously there are many pros to using it. Um, but if you guys get a chance between now and the first and the second session, you may want to look into that just to see if you have any questions. Brian, I just had a question um on the intercolastic athletics um 2431. I was just trying to understand. So, we're saying that the board's adopting the NIL compensation standards sent by the and then it did they not cross out WIAA or is that it's still there? They did not cross out WIAA. So WIAA exists still. Okay. Because when I printed it out, it came out crossed out. So I just wanted to make sure clarify online
027difference. Yes. Um so it does follow their standards. Correct. Okay. All right. Uh no other questions. All right. Thank you. Uh moving on to the high school gym balcony ramp proposal. This was Go ahead. We have two projects that are coming forward for the board um to review and provide feedback and it'll come forward for approval because both projects exceed the $100,000 uh as denoted in policy. So, the first project has to deal with the upper gym balcony ramp. So, currently when you get to that gym balcony area where you've got upper seating for the main gym and you've got the cheer practice area, um there's just stairs that exist. And so it presents limitations in terms of students that can access that space. And we notice when we have things like all school events,
028community events that that limits how um comm certain community members or even students can participate in activities in those spaces. So, we spent um quite a bit of time with our designers, architect team from growth being able to discuss um what potential renovations we could make to that space in order to make it more functional. Um and what we found was there were a couple different needs that we could try and meet with the same project. And so um uh one of the needs is creating uh a ramp that would provide full accessibility. That requires moving the current set of doors that exist in that space and moving those towards the cafeteria um because you need enough height in that um uh ramp in order to replace the current staircase that's there. And so we
029couldn't maintain uh the door set as it exists today. So that would be getting fully replaced. There would be a double door set um that would lead into a six- foot wide ramp that would take you down to the bleacher area. And then separate from that there would be a separate single door. Um and that relates to a classroom that actually connects um on both sides. One part of a classroom actually connects into that upper balcony area. Half of it does. And then there's a separate um doorway that goes into the hallway. So we have to meet some code compliance and so maintain that separate door. So we'll have um both a double set of door and then a single. That double set of doors will be six feet wide um and then have the
030ability to prop both doors open. So if you have all school events to be able to get everybody in and out easily. Um as we collaborated with the cheer team, we also found that they're moving mats. um a number of times and there's like a slight I think it was slightly over 4 feet width that they need to be able to do it. So it's not ergonomic at all for them to do that with the current doors that exist today. So having a double set of doors that would open six feet wide would allow us to make that extracurricular activity a lot more functional if they have to move mats into the upper gym or move those into the MPR. So we can meet those needs. Um we also have programming within summit start at
031the high school where they have um time periods built into the day where they're getting additional physical activity. And this would be a space during the school day um near that cheer practice area where they'd be able to set up equipment and be able to access. and if they would have students that are um in need of a ramp to access that area, right, it becomes fully adaptive for those needs. So, we see it like um both meeting curricular programming that we have extracurricular programming as well as meeting um some of our adequacy needs for all students in our school community. So when we looked at it versus our rubric um for grading facility projects, we found it was one of the highest graded projects. And so when we had reported to the board in
032January of those projects we would want to prioritize with limited funding, this was um the one that was of highest need. So, we worked with our team from um Celser Orst and got um a total budget of $168,000. Um that would be all in for all the construction work for that area and wanted to bring it to the board here this evening to get questions and get some feedback and then we would bring it back um if it's appropriate, bring it back next Monday for the board to approve. um if it's approved, we would plan to set aside those dollars within fund 41, which is the capital expansion fund. And then we've been building those dollars as a set aside um on the revenue limit in fund 41 as we've been building the preliminary budget.
033So with that, I'd be happy to take um questions that the board has or go over anything on the the drawings that we included of what that'll look like. Thanks, Jonathan. Any questions for Jonathan? Just one thing, Jonathan. I'm I'm trying to picture. So, we're going right down the hallway here. It's the or straight ahead. Um, it'll come out somewhat from there into that hallway there then. Is that what I'm understanding? It's going to be pushed back so they can make the ramp up there. Correct. Okay. And then, um, I see this is slated for June, right after graduation. Is there anything that this is going to interfere with? So, we've talked with the team about that. U Mr. Pollock um mentioned that like for volleyball in August, if that construction is still continuing on,
034we would need to just route like um uh spectators that through the other staircase from the newer um gym lobby area and there'll be we may need some support from the construction team of just like making sure it's safe and guarding the area. They may be still completing, but we've got a separate staircase that we can use on the opposite side of that upper balcony for spectators. Um, and it'll be might be a little bit less convenient those last couple weeks in August. I think that was one of the main the main concerns that we had um looking at the project. Got it. And I just want to thank you for this project because I think it's long overdue that something be done to help accommodate up in that area. And I'm sure that the
035visitors to our school as well are going to find it an option for them because of the stairs and everything else. So, Sure. Thank you. Yep. Jonathan, where are you going to relocate the cheerleaders? Their season starts in May. Going to relocate. Tell me more. The cheerleaders use the upper gym starting in May. That's wonderful. So, you're talking about like after school time. Yeah. So, the construction team would be working like during the daytime. We've also like shared um some of that info with the the team of like a construction day is typically going to start at 6 in the morning and then go until like 2:30 3:00 which would be right about the time that the a typical practice would be starting. Yeah. Um, and so what we going to what we'll have to
036do is coordinate um, that in terms of that end time because we haven't set like final subcontractors that would be working on it and any asks that we would have in terms of when they'd wrap up their day. Um, and then we'll also have to work on logistics so that we're keeping areas clean and separate so they can do that work and continue on with practice. Yeah, I recommend you talk to coach Zamian because they use that the upper gym during the day like during the morning period starting in June. So I would recommend that you contact her and find out exactly what her schedule's going to be. Yeah. For that summer so that we have a place to relocate the cheerleaders and the mats and the tumbler. Sure. Thanks. Yep. All right. Thank you.
037Anyone else? All right. Thanks, Jonathan. Yep. Sounds good. Um well, we'll go right back to you with the Brinkman parking lot proposal. So, as we look at capital projects, um one of the items that continues to come up is condition and safety around the Brinkman parking lot. Um we did have the village reach out because of planned construction on Southway this summer about um the interest in the district also bidding as an alternate or a full redo of that Brinkman parking lot. Um we said we would have interest on that and wanted to see where um pricing would come in for that project. They did add that as an alternate and included in your packet is the background um for bidding that item. I'm just going to click on one thing. So, the alternate bid
038came in at $108,86550. Um we talked to the board in January. We said that original $100,000 estimate had grown that it might be closer to 150. So, we were happy to see that the number came in closer to the original $100,000 target. Um, we would split, if approved, we would split that budget between um community service funding for a little less than half of that project at 50,000 and then an additional 58,000 would come through fund 41. um which we'd also use for that upper balcony ramp. So we'd have a targeted tax levy of 250,000 in total for that fund 41 um budget when we add in both of those projects. Um uh this project um would happen alongside the planned um road work that would be uh beginning um the full shutdown would be
039beginning in mid June and then going into July. So happy to answer questions. This would beformational this evening. Happy to answer questions um the board would have. There was one question at the finance committee meeting about condition of the walkway that connects to that parking lot. Um I did go out there and then reviewed that with Steve Kums. There's no planned um modifications to that walkway that's still in good condition. Um but this uh 108,000 would include the whole parking lot area for Brinkman. So between the softball and baseball fields is the Walkway Village property anyways. Uh, we're talking about the walkway that connects the parking lot to the stadium. Oh, gotcha. Okay. That had come up in our conversations last Thursday. Okay. Um, my question is, is the church going to contribute at all?
040So, we've been in conversations um with the church and verbally um they shared that they were hopeful to contribute um at least 10,000 towards this project. That's not a like a final um commitment, but verbally that's what they were discussing the last time we had conversation about it. And given that this is tied to that larger Southway project, um what is the plan for handicapped accessible parking during the baseball softball season? So this project would begin during the time of season we would just have youth um baseball and softball going on. So, we had the conversations about two months ago with those groups telling them uh about the potential of this happening um and asking them to look at alternative uh location for games this summer so that they'd shift around and we've renovated a
041number of baseball fields within the community. So, I asked them to look at alternative spots as they were scheduling for the spring because that'll be it's possible to get down to uh the Brinkman softball field while this is going on, but it's going to be very difficult with the whole roadway shut down. Uh you can't get to that parking lot anyway. So, you're going to be walking quite a ways if they do decide to have any games. It's not going to be that functional. But, we did have that I want to say in early December. We met with the lead coaches for the um junior Panther baseball and um twi night. Yep. So is it expected to be done then by July 3rd when the road is done? The road is expected to be done
042at that time. Um that would be a chunk of the the time period. Um I can report back on Monday what the exact end date would be expected to be for this. Yep. Yeah. I'd imagine even if the the parking lot's done, even if the road's closed, no one's going to be able to get into it regardless. Yeah, it might be the opposite question that Tasha might have. Will they open up the road because that's under a tight timeline and continue to have construction on Brinkman. So, I can bring that back next week of like when the timing would be that they believe that would be wrapped up. I could maybe answer a little. I did attend the village board meeting last week. You're talking about their part. they do plan to still have the
043ability to get through over there. So, I'm guessing they're working one side to the other and they did say July 3rd is their target date. So, um I just want to compliment both you and the village board for working on this project together. It's I don't know if you have an estimate of how many thousands it's saving us, but to work with the village on this is a very smart move because I do not think we would be getting a $100,000 or $18,000 parking lot without this combined work with them. Yeah, there's definite cost efficiencies and we have real close working relationship with the the village. So always happy to partner just like the fiber um memorandum of understanding that we talked about earlier in the agenda. They're always looking for ways that we can
044save taxpayers money, find efficiencies. It's a great working relationship. Then just to echo Christy touched on it. I was going to I talked to Dr. Midzik about it today too. I think it would be a good faith gesture um if our community church would kick in a little just because we are definitely allowing them to use our parking lot. Um so I appreciate that there's those conversations and and I trust them. So y thank you. Thanks. Any other questions? All right, moving on to the co-curricular recommendation. Um there has been some consideration over the last year around uh equity and co-curricular pay. Um tonight this is being presented for information. We welcome your feedback and we'll do some adjustments based on feedback and conversations with staff um before bringing it back for approval. And I'll
045turn it over to Julie for presentation. So, as you can see in the report, it's been a long time since we've made adjustments to the co-curricular schedule. And so, looking at making some um substantial changes there to recognize the years that we haven't made adjustments on the schedule. Um clubs are difficult to compare across districts because it's mainly driven by student interest and there aren't um equivalent clubs in all of the other districts that we're looking at to see where they where and how they have those placed. When we talk about clubs um we're looking at our internal equity as well in terms of the time commitment required of the adviser and how much um how much they're being compensated for that. And so looking at aligning those and making them comparable at least internally
046um if we don't have those external comparables for athletics um looking at where our coaches currently fall within the existing schedules um as well as the market comparisons that's easier to do across districts. um the number of competitive events, the games or matches that they have throughout the season, the length of their season, and then looking at making an adjustment again because we haven't done that for a long time. So, grouping those um into three main categories instead of the 13 categories that we have currently and then um providing some additional monies and additional stipend when they have completed a certain number of years in the position. um and so they would have uh incremental increases as they continue and gain experience in the system. So um this is a draft of our recommendations and
047where we would look to place the coaches. Um, we would issue the 2627 contracts in accordance with this, making sure that none of the coaches would be making less than they currently are and most would receive a pretty substantial increase um from their current compensation just based upon the placements. With that, are there any questions? Uh, where does robotics fall? I'm glad you brought that up. Robotics is one of the clubs and should be added to the list. Um they are currently compensated so we would look at that comparison. That's a newer club for us. Um so it's I think it's um currently placed and we would look take another look at that. Okay. I was going to ask um outdoor ed used to be considered. I don't know if it was a club or
048not. That's not on here either. Is that something that will be included? Yep. Okay. And then um did you have benchmark districts that you looked at or how do you get the market value for these? Um I have a pretty extensive um CISO one survey of most of the districts in CISA 1. Um for the most part we're all pretty close and similarly haven't done adjustments over the years. So there are a couple outliers that have very high compensation. Um, and just looking at that overall, looking at the averages, looking at the medians of what those payment ranges are depending on experience. Okay. Have we been finding that we're retaining most of our coaches? For the most part, yes. Um, the ones that do turn over or leave, it's generally because of other job commitments
049or that they are moving out of the area, those types of things. if they're not an internal um person that is coaching and then generally they'll leave once they have children or other commitments that are pulling them away. It's it's not really driven by compensation. Okay. And I know this isn't like the educators, but is there any sort of evaluation? I mean, I'm guessing someone just wouldn't be offered a contract if they weren't doing a good job. There is an end of season evaluation um that is done with the athletic director and feedback is provided to the coaches. If there's areas of improvement, um those are noted and and worked on. Do players have any input in that the players? Yes. Okay. Surveyed typically at the end of season. Awesome. Okay, great. Um thanks Julie.
050I have a couple things. Um it would be we have a couple coaches who have been here like 20 plus 30 plus years. Yes. And they get cut off at 11 plus. So, it would be great if we could see some added levels like that 11 to 15, 15 plus, like if we stop at 20, we stop at 20, but it would be great to see some added levels to recognize that they've given 20, 30, 40 years to Greenale schools. Um, so that would be great. And then the assistant varsity coaches, so they only get that amount no matter how long they've been here. So, no. Um, they don't. So, the amount that's listed there, um, that's an area that we really, and there's a typo in varsity there, um, but we need to, um,
051address that separately because it varies by sport. Um, so there are some sports that have assistant varsities, there are some sports that don't have assistant varsities. There are some sports like cheerleading that have a separately identified, it's more of like a JV coach level. um and it's not identified as an assistant varsity. So that will need some I will clarify that within the schedule. Okay. The the the two assistant varsity coaches share one salary. They split one salary between the two of them and it's different than the salary that's shown here. Okay. So yes, we will we will address that separately. Yeah, if we could look at that. And then um is there because we have so many um sports that go beyond the regular season into tournaments and championships and all that, can we
052see the some sort of added compensation for that extended season, whether that's a stipen for the travel they have to do to Florida, whether that's um you know, you go an extra two weeks, you get this amount, because we have so many that are doing that, we should be compensating the coaches for their excellence. Well, and I know that's been done for robotics because if the school goes to worlds, that's usually I think the end of April. So then they're still working for like another I don't even know month and a half. Mhm. Maybe Marquette I mean they always go to worlds so they might have be a good um measure. Okay. Is there a way to calculate the amount of hours each I mean I'm guessing you base it on that at all or
053not at all because there's so many length of season and number of contests. Yeah. Gotcha. There's no way to calculate how much each coach puts in behind the scenes. It's countless. I mean these are the most some of the most dedicated people we have. So there's no way. How do they break down like the track and field given like kind of like one head but multiple? Is that just kind of in that same category where they're So there is currently um for track and field there is currently identified a head varsity coach and six assistant coaches. Okay. So they don't and they are not the assistant varsity level that you see here. They're really classified as JV coaches currently. Okay. That was gonna be my next question. Are they considered like a JV kind of
054tier? Yes. And then Okay. Yeah. And honestly with track they often will hire someone who is a throws expert and they are there 25% of the time and share it with a 75% running code. Like it's it's very very specific in their skill sets. I'm sure this is very complicated to put together. So thank you. How often does something like this get reviewed? Because I know this said 20 years. I don't think we should wait 20 years necessarily. I I agree. I was thinking that if we put it on like a three-year rotation to review it, making sure that we are competitive. Um I think some of it with the clubs, those change really by year depending on student interest of something might run, something might not run. Um and so I think like a
055three-year review of it um overall as a system makes sense. Have you communicated this to the coaches yet? um they know that it's under review and that we're looking at it. Um but with this presentation to the board, the next step would be to share it with them and then have an appeal process of if they think something is mclassified so that we could come back and look at that. Um and like I said with the comparisons, particularly for the athletics with other districts, I think we have a pretty good sense of how things are appropriately placed. Um it's really those clubs that get more um into the details of the time commitment. Gotcha. Thank you. Um, and then for like sources of strength, there's advisor and coordinator. Aren't there like two of them? One
056for middle and one for high school. Um, so there are different um there's a coordinator that oversees and runs the program districtwide and provides the training and then there's adviserss um at at a different compensation level. Okay. Any other questions? All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks J. Uh moving on to uh professional development for the WSB convention. Who would like to go first? I can start. So um just kind of an update from the delegate assembly. I know we had it's now been a month I think already. Um we did have a couple things that came up that we had discussed. Uh pretty much majority of the things that we supported passed. So they passed the vote to remove the caps from the parental choice program. Um they passed the revisions to the school
057district report card process. Um with a focus on eliminating financial scoring, financial efficiency scoring. Um they amended the fund dispersement resolution from previous years. they amended the authority to schedule um the ref to schedule a referendum. So basically they're looking to keep it open that a school district could call the referendum whenever they would need to. Um they also passed in support of the substance use disorder treatment and policy and instituting using some of the money that is given from the state to institute uh therapies within the high school and school environment. Um they also um voted to increase the vocational training um for the students and increase partnerships openly with the state um to look into greater support of that. Um universal meals did pass. Um actually passed 171 to 110 which I was
058actually surprised that was not one of the closer votes. Um they did not pass the education endowment. They did pass the support of the early childhood resolution. Um they opposed the decoupling of finances and then they also encouraged the schoolboard participation in the WIAA policym um which was different than what we had voted to look forward to. Um there was an emergency resolution that was brought forward um to address the state legislature to fund the school specialed reimbursement at the past law level of 42% and specifically to hold them accountable to that 42% not the 35% that they were coming out to say and that actually passed unanimously 260 to nothing. So that was a final resolution that went through uh the delegates pretty quickly and I would say the conversation was less than 5
059minutes for the whole resolution. So it was pretty quick which was nice to see and it was a constant support that let's hold them accountable. They passed it. Let's keep it up. And that's what I have from the delegate assembly. I'll just add Brian did an excellent job. He got up to testify. Was it for the um help mental health the substance use? Um he did a great job getting up there and um like he said things kind of moved along this time. Tasha's first year unfortunately it did not. It was like six hours long or whatever. Uh but people were pretty good about working together and I too was a little surprised because in the past that meals program one did not pass by quite a large margin. So uh but there wasn't as
060much debate on that one either this time I think because it's come before them. So, but yeah. So, that was it for me for the delegate assembly. Anyone else want to talk about sessions at all that we attended? I mean, no, you don't want to know. It's It was a good conference. It was good meeting other people from other districts. Go ahead. Can I just bring up one that I would like to see our school district and possibly even the village work together on this one? I attended one uh called share your story. It was the why, what, and how of hosting a legislative day. Uh we have invited legislators in before. I know Chuck Wickers came to several of our meetings in the past and I think it would be really nice if we
061did set up some sort of a day. um it would probably have to be during the school year because the way they did this is they had the legislators come in and um observe classrooms in action and so forth. And I I think uh giving our lawmakers who don't necessarily have background in education um the opportunity to walk in the shoes for a day and visit our great community of Greenale. I think it would be something and I'd be happy to work with you, Dr. Midsick and any board members that would maybe like to and maybe the administration if if we would like to do something like that. But um Stoton was the district that presented on this and it was extremely interesting online. They provided a whole schedule and everything of how they plan
062out the day, how far in advance you have to reach out to them to get them on the calendar. So, I just thought we we oftentimes we're not we're always trying to advocate and I know Jonathan and you you Kim are constantly advocating and then we have our day at the Capitol, but I think inviting them into our schools, especially because that changes over from time to time who our elected officials are that they actually get a glimpse of Greenale School District. There was there was a presentation that I went to that was on um health insurance. It was districts from around the state talking about where they were at programming that was successful. I was surprised that there were a number from the northern part of the state that were talking about um being
063proud that they had gotten staff off of their health insurance. And that was like a strategic goal was in order to sustain they needed to get more staff off because the costs um were that significant. It was causing problems with them providing programming within their districts. Right. So the administrative team here is um um you know faces challenges trying to navigate the self-funded plan. We work closely with our broker from RNR Insurance. Um, Julie's been helping to uh run a staff um health insurance committee to get feedback as we plan for next year. And we continue to hear even through that committee like what value the um staff see in the level of benefits that we're able to offer through the health insurance plan. Um and so that was like a different a different narrative
064to hear that, right? Um, and uh, we definitely shared that with Michelle, who's our broker, that that's the situation others are facing. Um, and we're trying to find additional creative ideas. Um, we are working on a new direct contract partnership with Orthopedic Associates of Wisconsin. So, we recently signed an agreement and are working on launching that um to be part of a series of different um, direct contract partners that we have. We're trying to find other ways to continue to keep the plan sustainable um for staff and want to continue to support those staff that want to take part in those benefits. If I could just add one other thing, um Jonathan got a shout out a couple weekends ago. I had my quarterly regional director's meeting in Madison. Jonathan and I were even texting
065during it. Um he he said I was working on a Friday, but he clearly was too. Um, I want to say that the Wisconsin Association of School Business Officers, um, director, I think right, Mike, um, Barry and Danielle, and I forget her last name from PWA, but they came and presented and, um, really learned a lot about our business, you know, our business directors. We are extremely fortunate here in Greenale to have a business director. 49% of districts across the state of Wisconsin do not have business directors. They hire people that are bookkeepers. They do all kinds of other things. And Jonathan does wear a lot of hats for us. But he was actually mentioned during that meeting. Mike Barry started looking around at our name badges. He goes, "Who's from Greenale?" And he said,
066"You have Jonathan Mitchell." I said, "Yes, we do. And we're not letting him go." Um Jonathan is very highly respected amongst business officials across the state of Wisconsin. And that was an excellent presentation to the point that we have asked them to come uh next year to the state convention and put that presentation on. I think all school board members should hear just the the uh vast array of things that you guys have to deal with and they put it in layman's terms for us too. But it was it was very interesting. They presented for about an hour and we obviously had some questions for them. But I was really happy when they gave a shout out to Jonathan. I texted him and said, "You just got a shout out." So that's kind. Thank you.
067Anyone else? No. All right. Uh so then we will move on to committee updates. Anyone with committee updates? The Greenale Global um Charter School, our grant is due Wednesday. So, we've been working a lot to get that put together and Jonathan has been helping with the finance piece of it. So, thank you. It is 98% ready. So, tomorrow will be the final review. So, we're almost there, Brian. Oh, I'm Oh, fair enough. Uh yeah, Kathy and I had the policy committee meeting which obviously we discussed here and then um I wasn't able to attend the park and recck meeting because we had a meeting. Uh but one thing that uh Trustee McFall brought up was that the restrooms are on schedule and in Gazebo Park. So look for those uh by late summer, early fall.
068So, and then the winter programming was another huge success, which seems to be the standard as of late with programming. Go ahead. It's not necessarily a committee, but I do want to ask Jonathan um regarding um the Trimbor meeting that's going to take place Thursday. There's some movement on that. So, we may at some point be coming back to that discussion about parking over at 84th and Graange, right? Uh you were kind of waiting to hear how that's going. There is a public meeting that's being hosted by myself at uh Greenale Village Hall this Thursday night from 7 to 8:30. I welcome the entire community to come to that. Sounds good. Thank you. And board calendar. Uh so it is one week until your next meeting and there's an education foundation meeting on Thursday. But
069most importantly, the pops concert is at the high school in the multi-purpose room uh at 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. on Saturday evening. So I would expect to see many people there. All right. Uh, everyone left so there's no comments and we will adjourn and meet back here in a week.