001commendations prepared. So I will be happy to read the introduction the names for you. >> Perfect. I just have them. >> Good. That's but I'm prepared. >> You can run it. I'm just here. >> All right. Well, the time is now 7 o'clock. So, we'll call this meeting to order. Uh roll call will show that all five board members and both student board members are present. And we will stand for the pledge of allegiance. I allegiance to the >> to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. Uh we'll begin today with commendations. >> So we have a number of commendations for our students in the theater. Uh these stars won prestigious Jerry
002awards. The Jerry Awards presented by the Overture Center for the Arts recognize excellence in high school musical theater in Wisconsin. Under the direction of Jeff Shetsky, the cast won not only one but two awards for outstanding musical. To put this in perspective, Greenell High School last won an outstanding musical award in 2018. First, Sixth Musical Teen Edition was an ambitious undertaking and the team absolutely nailed it. The six queens put on an amazing performance with all of them nominated for the award of outstanding lead and three of them winning the state award. Annie Brilo as Ann Bolin, Clara's Vabota as Jane Seymour, and Fiona Glorioso as Katherine Parr. So congratulations to the artistic team, cast and crew of six. And you can come on up and uh accept commendations from the board. >> You guys
003start right on time. It says 659 out there. Oh, you know mess around. >> Two of the queens made it. Okay. >> Summer. all time zero and second. >> Yeah. Yes. >> All right. One, two, three. [Applause] >> Then following six, a large casting crew produced two weekends of the Adams family. Again, the show was phenomenal and earned one sorry and earned one of the outstanding musical awards with Fiona Glorio also earning a second award for outstanding lead as Alice Bicki which I believe is what contributed to some of that confusion and Ethan Reyes in the role of Gomez Adams won a spirit award as did Kendall Kaggins as a member of the ensemble. Anyone who attended the shows can certainly attest that these honors were welld deserved. So congratulations to everyone involved. Here [Applause]
004you go. It's cute. Excellent. >> If you want to come up quick, too, you can. >> I know you want to. [Applause] >> Just would like to say thank you on behalf of our department. for a supportive administration and a supportive district and board. Um we feel the support feel resources um in scheduling and show choices and as someone who's been around here since 75 um it's really great to be a part of a great tradition of a school that supports the [Applause] >> Thank you Jeff. I wish I could be there in person. Um, but I am joining you from home this evening so that I do not spread my germs with the world. The last thing we need is we're preparing for a new school year is for the the administrative team to
005go one at a time through illness. So, I'm keeping my distance. >> All right. Well, thank you. Uh, moving on to communications. Uh in-person registration events have been held at Greenell High School and families are currently completing online online registration as part of the back to school check-in. We are looking forward to welcoming students at the meet your teacher events at the elementary schools on August 26th and the middle school on August 27th. Tomorrow night the village board is hosting a public conversation about the economic development of the Southridge area. I have participated in the consultant and will attend another meeting on August 7th to further understand community input. A number of class reunions will are gathering at village days uh which will begin at the end of this week. Two of the classes, the
006class of 1970 and the class of 1975 requested tours. Kitty Goyette will lead one on Friday and I will lead one on Saturday. Uh, the district received a $1,000 donation as part of an Eagle Scout project from Cole Nelson to be used for benches and receding the soccer field at 84th and Graange. Thank you, Cole, for your work on this project and for your donation. If you've been out there, you might have seen some caution tape around the field as they're working to do some reeding of the field. And Cole is doing one of two Eagle Scout projects that are currently underway in the district. and I'm looking forward to recognizing both Eagle Scouts when they earn that award. The park and recreation department received an anonymous $400 donation that benefited the Greenell Senior Social
007Club. That donation to support our senior programming events is very much appreciated. Uh the Canterbury PTO submitted a donation to the district in the amount of $54,655 for the 5K playground. Yes, you're hearing that right. nearly $55,000 that they raised over the past year to replace the playground on the kindergarten side of the building. Um, this is an enormous donation and a great undertaking by the PTO. And what we'll talk about during the annual meeting agenda is potentially recognizing them um with a commendation at the annual meeting. The reading buddies program was the recipient of a $500 donation made by the district uh by Beth Sorber. We would like to recognize and thank Beth for the donation to that special program. And finally, uh, $50 was also donated to the Reading Buddies by Clark and
008Carol Richards, and we'd like to thank them both as well for their donation. And that completes my communications. >> All right. Thank you. Uh, moving on to student updates. >> All right. Uh so the Greenale DECA officer team had a great time at Madison for the annual annual career opportunities workshop in which they all bonded over teamwork activities and preparing schedules for the next year. Several of the officers were also finalists in the written test role plays and recreational activities. Graffiti Robotics also had a lot of fun at Emrock, the offseason Maguano scrimmage, where they held a workshop about educating people about the first organization and let team members practice driving before the next season began. Uh, fall sports are nearing their beginning with captain's practices being held and football starting tomorrow, girls golf starting
009next Monday, and more sports starting within the next 3 weeks. Continuing their season, cheer is starting their I Want to Cheer Camp for younger kids in the district today and wrapping it up this Friday. Yesterday, the Palms team took first place at the 45th annual state fair competition. And last week, band students finished their three-week camp learning their show and music, ready to perform at Friday night football games in competitions in September. Student council has also continued meeting. In their most recent meeting on July 17th, they voted on homecoming themes and discussed the class shirt designs and upcoming opportunities within the club. Students have also received their yearbooks from last year and taken their photos for the 25th for the 2526 school year at the readiness days last week, Monday, and today. >> All right.
010Thank you. >> Hey, Rob, before we go on, >> I do have one additional commendation or communication that I said I was done, but I'm not. Um, as the students were speaking, I was reminded that this summer has included some interesting weather experiences that have required activities to be adjusted for heat advisories and air quality alerts. I continue to monitor conditions directly with the National Weather Service and follow their guidance. Uh, we have not communicated with all families as we would typically do for winter related inclement weather, but the administrators responsible for each activity have been in communication with impacted staff, families, and participating students. And I just want to say thank you to Jonathan for being helpful in navigating these circumstances over the last couple of weeks. And now I'm truly done with my
011communications. >> So thanks Dr. Midzik. I that's actually the point I was going to bring up is a um accommodation for the administration for your um amazing diligence to the weather as a parent who is affected by that. My kid is in SACE and uh I am getting constant updates about the changes that are being made to the day schedule, the different walking routes that are happening, the option to opt out of certain events and activities based on the weather. So, I think that um your team has done an amazing job going above and beyond to make sure that parents are informed and accommodated and that you're keeping um the students best interests at heart. So, thank you very much for your attention to that. It has meant a lot as a parent to make
012sure to know that um that you guys are are paying attention and staying on top of it. So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. Uh moving on to comments or questions from visitors. All right, we'll skip that. Uh so we will we will move on to approving uh last meetings minutes. I move approval of the regular and close session minutes from July 14th, 2025 as presented in agenda item 1.1. >> I'll second. >> We have a motion in a second. Uh if there's no questions or comments, we'll do a roll call. >> Yes. Yes. Yes. >> And yes, motion passes. Uh moving on to new business. We need to approve uh personnel and a teacher appointment. I move approval of the teacher appointment as presented in agenda item 3.1. >> I second. >> We
013have a motion and a second. If there's nothing to add, we'll do a roll call. >> Yes. >> And I'm yes. Motion passes. Um moving on to approving the 2025 2026 employee handbook. So, you reviewed a couple of changes to um illness and the reporting procedures at the last meeting and administration recommends approval. >> Looking for a motion to approve. >> I move approval of the changes to the 202526 employee handbook as presented in agenda item 3.2. >> I second. >> Looking for a roll call. Yes. >> Yes. >> And I'm yes. Motion passes. And lastly, we will approve the contracted cleaning proposal. >> Jonathan, can you speak to the recommendation for the contracted cleaning? >> Yep. So, provided in your packet is information regarding the three bids for contracted cleaning. Um, our current contractor
014came in uh about $65,000 higher in total cost. So, we did a full background check regarding the low bid from Royalty janitorial. All of the references provided positive feedback um regarding the business that's been around for 39 years. uh we feel comfortable with this and have had conversations with uh legal counsel about the contract and they're helping us finalize final details uh for signature if the board approves that this evening. So we'd recommend approval of the contract from royalty janitorial of $278,720. This would be a three-year contract and would have a 3.5% increase for years two and three. >> All right. Thank you, Kathy. >> Um yes, thank you and thank you Jonathan for that um for always looking out um for the best value for our money. Uh $65,000 is nothing to, you know,
015look away from. That's that's a lot of money. Um my question real quick and I forgot to ask Kim this when we spoke earlier today but so this is the high school, middle school and Highland View. Um do we just use our internal cleaning service like our our staff here to do the other buildings or who takes care of those? >> Yeah, so the rest of Highland View would be covered by that elementary staff. Canterbury is all district staff and College Park is all district staff. And then the majority of the building cleaning per this contract at night is for the middle school and high school is under that contract agreement, but they're supported by district staff as well. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yep. >> Looking for a motion. >> I'll move approval of
016the I'm going to say it wrong here. the contracted cleaning proposal as outlined in agenda item 3.3. >> I second. >> All right. If there's no other questions, we'll do a roll call. >> I Yes. >> Yes. Yes. Yes. >> And I'm Yes. Motion passes. Uh moving on to new business. Uh we will hear about the 202526 district scorecard. So one of the most important roles of the board of education is uh providing approving strategic direction uh district scorecard measurements and the strategic plan. So strategy is something that is a a critical responsibility of the board of education. In 2021, um the uh community recommended some updates to the strategic plan and the board approved them and the strategic plan has been the tool that we've been following as we prepare the scorecard on an
017annual basis. So, uh our mission in the strategic plan says all students belong and are empowered to learn, grow, and engage as part of a global community. And the strategic plan also set vision which is cultivating excellence in every student. And then from there the strategic uh planning team looked at four pillars and set six strategic priorities. So as they set that um excuse me, as they set those strategic priorities, those are our guiding our guidepost. Um and then we set we meaning uh administration recommends goals aligned with those strategic priorities every year. And so this year I want to walk through what our recommended goals are on the scorecard. And those I have seven goals for the four pillars and six strategic priorities. So the first strategic priority is to provide every student access
018to a challenging, balanced, and equitable education that sparks curiosity and engagement. Uh we've had some conversations over the last uh several years post pandemic around some achievement needs and we have been turning the ship uh with some curriculum improvements uh some highly aligned um quality curriculum materials and professional development for staff. We have started to see some increases in achievement um that are bringing us up. What those are again are embargoed until September, but we'll be happy to report on those when they come. But administration is recommending that we continue to work on that increase in the percentage of students achieving proficiency in ELA and math on standardized assessment measures by another 10%. So that is what we're working on. Um as we present short cycles for the year, we recommend that we are looking
019at the actual results of standards aligned assessments. So, I'm open to any conversation or discussion as we go through each of them because tonight is an opportunity for you to give us as an administration feedback so that we can make improvements to these scorecard goals prior to bringing it forward for approval at the August 18th meeting. Any feedback on this one? >> Any feedback for Kim? >> I think just one question. You talk about the target 10% increase for each grade span. Is that something that how are you holding that for like a level of accountability like they have the observation? You have the goals but like obviously say it's only 7 8% what is it that you're looking at for target if it's not averaging at that 10% increase which I think is very
020aggressive and good but I'm just trying to make sure that we're >> within reason of what the increase is. So, one of the things is we from a data standpoint, we're trying to increase 10% um until we get to 80 because then 80% from a research base is how much kids all kids should be able to be at mastery according to research. So, we believe that we can have double digit gains, which is 10% or higher in our grade level spans. And we're watching that through our short cycles, looking at curricular um indicators in ELA and math to see how they're doing and then responding to the instruction. So if they are at a lower um threshold because we're able to kind of watch that, then we're able to address that with the specific teacher,
021the specific students, um or a specific grade level, if we're noticing a curricular issue or if we're noticing an instructional issue or if it's a learning issue for a student. So really being able to diagnose those things. >> So then would it be worth it to look at including something like going towards an 80% target? Because I just worry that if we start getting a grade level that is at that 80% or a section then it's well we're looking for a target increase for the whole crew. But if we're getting one or two and that's going 82 83, you know, it's not going to look to the same result as what we're looking for in the grand scope of things. I think that's great feedback and we can take that back for sure. >> And
022in terms of some of the systems that we're continuing to work on, we have the um multi-level systems of supports so that we're identifying who needs universal instruction and are there students that based on those classroom assessments are needing more intervention. and we have a set of data rules and bi-weekly meetings of teacher teams to look at the results of state of classroom based assessments. So that's how we're holding them accountable and I appreciate that feedback. That is a great idea to go to the 80% target and anyone who's below 80% we're looking for a 10% increase but approaching or reaching 80% would also meet the goal. Um the second strategic priority is around Oh, is there more feedback on that first one? >> Kathy, you had feedback. >> Okay. Um just a real quick
023question. Um Kim, as far as the act 20 uh reading training is going, are we we're in the second year of that, right? In Greenale or >> um correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe every staff member who is required to complete that training plus some has completed the act 20 training. >> That is correct. The last few are finishing up and will be completed by the end of August. >> Okay. So um just in terms of that 10% then too those teachers will all be at that point where they'll have had that training. Yes. >> Yeah. And we have a plan for uh teachers who are coming to us without it. Um and we're working with new hires who are at the grades that act at 20 affects as well. >> Okay. Great.
024Thanks. So the second strategic priority is to prepare K12 students with the skills to explore and be ready for the college andor career pathway of their choice. But we've done a number of things uh in this that we've achieved. And um when I met with the student board members last year, Maddie suggested that with all of the ACP work and the interestbased ideas last year, we really focused on bringing in um a guest teachers to classroom to courses that were within the career pathways. And she suggested that we expand that so that everyone has an opportunity. So here what we're looking to do is increase student access to the community partners to either present, coach, and engage with students in one of five career pathways. Um the ones that are most heavily uh aligned with
025where our students have been going and our highest level of student interest using some of that ACP data where they have interest inventories and uh skill alignment. So, healthcare, business, human services, communication, and the media as well as so we'll be focusing on the number of students participating in opportunities and we'll share some of the opportunities that were provided. And so, I'm ready for feedback on that recommendation. >> Any feedback? >> I'd like to ask our students if you have any feedback on that. I don't want to put you guys on the spot, but what do you do? Those areas seem good to you. >> Yeah, I think it's important to um allow everyone to have access to those opportunities and make them more widespread because we do have them. It's just not everyone like
026knows that they're there. So, providing that and expanding it, I feel like would be really helpful for students. Thank you. >> I I had spoken um with Kim earlier today as far as um like job jobs after college and career pathways. I had mentioned to her that with everything changing so quickly, especially with AI, maybe um we should at least be aware of what's out there and the changes that are coming forth so that we are offering like the right or the better opportunities for the students to find jobs. I don't know your thoughts on that. We're actually going um we have a team of teachers and our tech director and myself are going to an AI conference on Wednesday um really to make sure that we're staying a breast of all the changes because
027they are so fluid right now um and uh working with our teachers on how to use utilize it and then seeing how we can ensure that we're giving our kids access to um AI in an appropriate way and they are also getting some we were piloting some curricular materials um around teaching kids around AI um at the middle school throughformational technology class. Um I think that's very helpful and it might actually help to shape a shift in potentially a future academic and career planning lesson that happens during advisory where students are spending some time focusing on how do you determine where the market is shifting and where what jobs are available. So doing some sort of lesson on that like here's your interests now let's see what's available what's happening in the marketplace in that
028space. So that's a good recommendation and we'll work on how we can put that into the >> How much do we use as a school district? Do we use um like RIT or technology partners um and various teachers? How much do they interact with the students or give them is like a flip the script kind of idea where they see the access and what they're doing on a day-to-day basis here just in the district. We're starting some of that. I mean, through the informationational technology, we kind of got some feedback around how often kids are using it, how they are using it, so that we're able and we were I think some people were very surprised with how often kids are using AI and how they're using it. So, that was really informative for us
029to know how to meet them where they're at. And then also with um Danielle Brandon who is our new media specialist. You guys all met um when she did her leader um uh library media presentation with Tara. She is also a huge advocate and has been working with us around how to support students in that as to also make sure that we're one being responsive and two we're being safe and making sure we're following all the protocols and working with um Ryan Jonas our director of technology. So our new we upgraded our in um our tech team that used to kind of support teachers around new technologies and how to log in and do things like that. We just created a new team that is also supposed to look at the um the work around
030AI and how to ensure that our kids have access and our teachers do and what that's going to look like in the future. Well, I guess I'm kind of looking also too just even in like the strategic priority that we're utilizing the student access to the partners within our own district. Like I know, you know, who's, you know, who we already have relationships with, you know, whether it's an HVAC engineer or looking at the technology team. Are we utilizing some of these people as a way to shadow or engage some of those students like the health careers pathway? Do we have the NP kind of walk them through a little bit when they're here? Like are we utilizing those services here already or people opportunities? >> Yeah, I think that's really >> Yeah, we are
031using some but not all. um we have not marketed to them in the same way that uh we've been working in other spaces but Tom Herman has been working with uh teachers in those pathways and I do know that some of them have been out um educators rising that is um Maddie you can speak to this but that's almost exclusively where we get our guest speakers are um teachers in the field in our district and I do believe that um Mrs. Goya has gone out to do some communications work with classes. Uh so we have not capitalized on that as much as we could but we have started to work with um the resources we have in building. >> Anyone else have anything? >> All right we can move on. >> All right. The third
032uh strategic priority is to strengthen our relationships with families and community. The sense of belonging, mutual respect, and safety for all families inclusive of all racial or ethnic identities. U one of the things that we have been hearing from families recently is that there's so many places to look and um we've heard that from staff at times too and we've been working to streamline those communications, but we have some people who are dependent on Facebook. We have some people who are dependent on the weekly. We have some people who don't read the weekly and are looking for it on Facebook. And so what we're looking to do with this goal is to increase the consistency of both our one-way and our two-way communication between families and district staff through the adoption of a universal platform
033and protocols for frequency and format of communication. Uh we've recently transitioned the website which was shared with all families as part of the back to school check-in online registration system and the new website platform has some features and tools that allow us to have an app so that families and uh district staff and um students have one place to look and they log into that app um and they can see essentially filtered content based on their role. and their needs. And it is in a format that's similar to a social media platform, but it's taken out all the ads and all of the white noise that is uh taking you in other directions. So, we are working to train staff on how to use that platform so that we can increase our focus for our
034communication with our families and our students. >> Is that an app that works within the Chromebook? So, it'd be like a Chromebook edition or like an app they download that they could log into via the school software. >> I know Kitty's there. Is Ryan still there? >> Yes. >> They're both nodding. Yes. >> And it's cool because when you download it off of um the apps, it's a it looks it says Greenale Schools app. So, it's not you don't have to look for a different app. It is our app. So, it's and it's very slick when you go into it. It looks very professional. It looks like a Greenale School's Instagram. And it is it's very um user friendly, too. As someone who just downloaded it and was like, "Oo." >> Anyone else have anything
035to add? >> Just a quick comment. I really like the way as I was looking through this over the weekend that the priorities one, two, and three all dovetail together. And I think that that says a lot about um the the way that that Dr. Medzik and the administration and the teachers look at their roles and responsibilities. Um they all go they all complement each other really well and can build off of each other. Certainly more involved parents lead to better scores and more involvement with kids. There is a wealth of people who can offer us you know health care and STEM and other you know opportunities and guest speakers. Um and then obviously the whole community benefits by bringing more people in. So, I I just loved the way that those three of them
036came together in such a nice way and so I just wanted to compliment you on that. >> Thank you. >> The fourth strategic priority is to provide appropriate training to support student well-being and staff to meet student mental health needs. And we have uh a number of new members of our team, a new school psychologist, two new school psychologists, two new social workers, and one newish school counselor. So in order to maintain the continuity of programming and response that research response that's so important for the well-being of our students um our goal recommendation here is to build consistency of the people services oops that says serves but it should say services team response through onboarding of the new members of the team and training for everyone administrators and people services team member members on evidence-based
037practices is for building resilience in students and trauma-informed response. So, some of us have had that training before, but a refresher is really important. Um and others have been onboarded since that training was delivered and it would be critical for us to all be back on the same page to ensure that consistency of response so that when students or teachers are seeking support uh that we have consistency among our team open for feedback on this priority area. So we had talked about this earlier today. Um I don't remember what the name of that survey was. There was this is kind of goes with healthy communities and um like respect among the students when the in the school. I think it's like a >> panorama. >> Yeah. >> No, she's referring to the screener. >> Oh,
038okay. >> Maybe >> a savers screener. >> No, I feel the sabers screener. Well, I was it was at a parent teacher advisory meeting at the middle school and um Rey was going through like the results and it looked like overall that there like do you feel safe? Do you have a trusted adult? Do you feel that you are shown respect by fellow students? Do you have students? You know, do you have a a close friend? Um and overall it looked maybe that it was improving, but we asked to have it split out between like the male and the female. and the it the male answers skew what the females are answering. So in general the males response were that they do feel that they're being treated with respect but like from a female perspective
039they were like maybe 10 points lower. So, I'm just thinking that it would be nice to like take that and like maybe split it out. So, to find I think it just has to have a deeper dive. And I think maybe if we address some of that situation that goes on like in the hallways and like the interactions at the lunchroom that I mean it might make a big difference. Yeah, I think from a school-based level, um, we absolutely need to look at the de demographic groups and make sure that we're making sure that if there are those discrepancies that we're addressing those, um, and making sure that we're um, following through with people services and teachers and giving kids to school so they do feel seen it and regardless of their demographic background. So,
040I don't Yeah, I don't know where that rusted la, you know, this past school year, but I I'm sure you could. >> Yeah, I can definitely follow up. >> Yep. >> And we certainly look >> we'll take a look we'll take a look at the data to determine if there is an area that needs to be targeted and consider adding a goal under this priority um that would be focused on building culture and climate based on that data and feedback. So, I appreciate that reminder to look back at that data. >> Great. Thanks. We do desgregate the data when we um meet for our DAT meetings because we're looking at that SEAL component, but we can certainly continue to do that as well to make sure that we're looking at all different types of things.
041>> Anyone else have anything to add? Okay, the fifth strategic priority is recruit and retain quality staff, including staff representative of our students. And what we've been talking about for the past uh several years is we don't have enough subs. Our classroom teachers and our pair professionals are frequently subbing. And as we looked at the data around that, we had over 2,000 unplanned staff absences last year, which when calculated by uh total time over the year, equated to almost eight full-time staff members. Um, and so we have been working and frequently and constantly interviewing for subs and our subpool is just smaller and there's fewer subs available. So another way to approach this problem is to reduce the number of unplanned teacher and support staff absences. The target is 10%. Which would be to reduce
042between 180 and 200 days of absence over the course of the school year. And we're not looking to ask people to come to work sick. Um we're not asking people to um do things that would be unsafe or unhealthy for our students. But um what we are going to be working with an employee group to talk about what would be an incentive to schedule your um dentist appointment for 3:30 instead of 11 and using a full day of absence. Um so those are the kinds of things that we'll be looking at and understanding a little bit deeper where the absences are happening and what we can reduce our um our our workload for teachers by not having them cover classes as often by reducing the number of absences. I'm open to feedback on that. >>
043Thank you. This is this this has been my my thing all year and so I think that this is great and I appreciate that you're getting stu teachers involved in this conversation. So I just want to say thank you. >> Anyone else? >> No, we're good. >> Okay. And then the last strategic priority is to support innovation to remain competitive and a district of choice for families. There are two recommended goals under this. The first is to pilot the virtual charter for 6th through 12th grade and establish a a charter with the Greenell Global Academy board. Um and even if you don't want to approve this goal, we're already moving forward with it because you did approve um the running of this pilot to move towards a charter. So um we have eight students who
044have expressed interest and we are working to get them uh registered in classes through Greenbell Global Academy in the next two weeks. Any other conversation about that? >> I'm not seeing any. >> All right. And then the final one which is also under support innovation and remain competitive in a district of choice is to increase our fund balance. Um we were recently contacted by Moody's which is a rating service and uh Jonathan you can jump in or talk over me at any point if you want to. Um because we triggered a review based on the reduction in fund balance that the board planned for uh when we were having a conversation with the community about making cuts or um approving an operational referendum. So now that we have completed that conversation and the community has
045shared its interest, we were able to have that conversation with Moody's which is the index rating and um remain at the same level of um uh the same rating as we've been. Um but part of remaining at that is to build our fund balance back to uh within policy targets between 15 and 20%. And so uh the goal is to increase fund balance by 1% in 2526. >> Anyone have anything to add? >> We're all good. >> All right. So, that concludes all of our recommended scorecard goals. Um, and we will take the feedback, make some modifications, and bring that back for discussion and hopefully approval at the August 18th meeting. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. Uh, moving on to the annual meeting agenda. So the annual meeting is scheduled for September 15th
046and uh we need to provide notice to the community of the agenda. So I am uh talk I'm bringing forward an agenda for your review and discussion. Um there are a couple of important uh powers of the annual meeting and that is to authorize schoolboard salaries, adopt the uh tax levy recommendations from the community and um authorize payment of actual and necessary expenses of schoolboard members when traveling and the performance of duties. So those are on the agenda. uh the current agenda is in compliance with um what is expected to happen at a meeting and uh we will be looking at some commendations at the meeting which I do not see on here but we will um there are two groups that I'm going to be having a conversation with to see if they can
047come and uh hopefully begin the meeting um after the national anthem have some commendations for a number of group for two groups that have contributed significantly over the course of the year. So, are there any questions or suggestions about the annual meeting agenda? >> Kathy, >> I just have one thing because every year we do this and there's not a real good representation of the community at this. Has there been any thought in like ways to try to engage the community more in the annual meeting? >> Yes. There has been um there's a number of strategies. First of all, um the board has a citizen finance committee and we will be looking to uh remind them and invite them and bring them in um to the meeting so that they participate. Uh I encourage schoolboard
048members to talk with the u friends, neighbors, families that you associate with and ask them to come because they have an important role at the annual meeting on voting. Um and then we are also the commenations uh will hopefully bring community members who are active and engaged in our community into the meeting to participate in the meeting as a whole. Any thoughts on like the PTO's at all um involving those groups? Every year um I ask principles and you know have conversations with any of their uh groups. So I don't know if you remember but 2 3 years ago it was one of our goals was around establishing advisory groups for every administrator in the district. So um Tasha spoke earlier about going to the middle school parent advisory meeting. Um so I have asked
049uh our principles and our administrators to invite their committee or their um teams to the annual meeting as well to participate and engage. Is it possible to move I know we talked about the commendation for Canterbury PTO move that to the annual meeting. >> That is what I would suggest. That is one of the groups that I would suggest that you recognized at the annual meeting. >> I would agree with that. >> I know Angie and her teams put in a lot of work, >> right? >> That was a lot of money. That was a lot of money. So >> yeah, I think the recommendation and recognition would be more than appropriate then. >> Yeah. >> And maybe I will personally reach out to the presidents of all the PTO's this year and ask them
050to bring their their teams to the meeting. Maybe even precede it with their monthly meeting. I think too if we go to I forget what schools everybody has, but if we go to the first PTO meeting, I know I'm at Canterbury, but >> College Park, >> like College Park, Highland View, um maybe the representative can go to at least put a bug in their ear. >> Yeah, it's good. Well, if it's before the annual meeting though, I don't know when the first PTO meetings are. >> I know Canter's is usually that first Tuesday, so that would be before the >> the annual meeting. At least give them a couple weeks. And just just so you know, Kim, I think we have a role in that too, obviously reaching out to our network. So, you know,
051I'm sure every one of us has groups of people we can get the word out to. Um, typically there hasn't been a lot of involvement by the village board, but they are invited obviously. Um, I know there I've seen >> I send letters to them. I send letters to all elected officials and invite them to the meeting. >> Okay, so hear me out. Whichever school gets the most people there, >> oh, there we go. >> Gets like an added incentive in the fun run. Like you get an extra like hundred participants added to your school for if you have the most kids or the most parents come >> and register for the school. That fund run is really competitive people. And I think if we were to make it that >> starts now, show up
052to the annual meeting, >> right? Whichever whichever school gets the most parents there, you get an extra like hundred. Or how many parents show up? >> I say how many parents show up I think would be a great idea. I like that. I like that. >> Yeah, >> that's the only way to beat. >> You came one kid. Yes. >> The only way to beat College Park. >> We beat College Park, right? >> I mean, some schools will bring bring grandparents. >> We're all winners here in Green Day. >> That's fine. Grandparents. >> If it's more people, that's more the better. More information to share. That's good. grandparents, parents, caregivers, by all means. Yes, please come and participate in your community. >> We will certainly uh take that. >> We'll put it on the ad
053team meeting on Monday. >> See what our options are. Yeah, we our ad team is meeting on Monday. So, we'll certainly look at that. >> This is the first true test of priority number three. >> Look at us already putting that scoreboard in action. Anyone else have anything to add? >> I say maybe throw in like a coffee for the administrative team of the school with the highest amount of people. You know, a coffee breakfast to start. >> Yeah, I like that. >> Something that would be deliverable as well for them. >> Yeah. Whoever whichever school gets the most teachers or the most admins there. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> I assume you guys are footing the bill. >> I chip it. >> I love the donations that are flowing in over here. >> I will
054I would go to Panera and get some bagels. Absolutely. >> I'll get some coffee for him. Yes, let's do this. >> I'll get I'll bring a boom box. Better yet, I'll go to Sugar and Flour and support a local business and bring all the morning buns y'all want. Okay. Cuz those are amazing. >> This might be my favorite board meeting right now. >> All right. >> Well, moving on to the board calendar. >> So, in the next two weeks, there are many opportunities to engage. The most populated one will be the uh village days events this week. Um there's also the village board meeting tomorrow night in which at 700 p.m. at the safety center they will be addressing the South Ridge economic redevelopment. And then um the following week there is a board finance
055committee meeting on the 13th that overlaps a rescheduled library board meeting. So I'll be making a choice there. Um and then I believe that is all we have until our next meeting which is on the 18th. And board if you are available you can mark your calendar for teachers back to school presentation all staff uh which will be on Monday morning August 25th. >> All right. Any questions or anything? I I will just say I'm regretfully I will not be able to be at the welcome back this year. So I'll probably send a little note or something. Um that is my first day back as well this year. So but from what I understand the staff preferred to have it this way because it was two broken up weeks before. Right. >> That was their
056request. Yes. >> All right. >> And we are honoring their feedback. >> That's good. So that's 9:00 a.m. that morning, right? Uh yes, breakfast begins at 7:30 and my presentation 9. Okay. >> All right. Thank you. Uh moving on. Second chance for comments. Still no. >> Yeah. I gota I got to read a little something here though. >> I got to read something. >> I I do. >> Oh, >> it's short though. So, uh welcome to all those who will be speaking this evening. We would like to remind you that the school board meetings are for the purpose of carrying on the business of the district. They are official business meetings held in public through school board bylaw 0167.3. The board allows citizens to make comments by scheduling two opportunities on the agenda to receive
057citizen comments. Persons 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 this or 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 debate 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 statements are too lengthy, personally directed, abusive,
058obscene, or irrelevant to the business of the board. If the presiding officer exercises his or her right to terminate comments under the above guidelines, written comments may be submitted to the presiding officer instead. See, short. Hi, my name is Kyle Manger. Um, I have a 12-year-old son at um Greenale Middle School. My address is 6280 West College Avenue here in Greenale. Um, this is my first time attending a meeting. Uh my comments are probably going to be quite offensive to some of you, which is whatever. But um so I I see a lot of obsession with racial inclusivity and ethnic inclusivity, which when I see that I see brown and black inclusivity, but white exclusivity. So I guess my what you guys are doing a lot to promote ethnic and demographic inclusivity to obvious white
059community. So my my question would be what are you doing to ensure that the white students are feeling included as well as the minority students as well? That's that's my my biggest concern because white children nowadays are browbeat. Um your ancestors were slave owners and they're they're browbeat with this anti-white rhetoric and I want to ensure that my white student is going to feel welcome and now browbeat for the color of his skin. So that's that's that's my main concern. I I've seen two different scenarios where they were talking about demographic inclusivity. When I see that, I I I I I think white exclusivity because you see black excellence groups, whatever, Native American groups. I don't see a an all-white group. That's racist. You know, they they call that racism. Um, so I guess that's
060just are you guys doing your best effort to ensure that white students are also feeling welcome and inclusive or are you browbeating them, making them, you know, feel racist for the past and all these other things that had nothing to do with them? That's that's my comments. That's what I have to say. So you don't have to say anything. I guess >> we will follow up with you um late tomorrow. So, we'll give you a call uh to follow up with you because if that if some of those things are happening to your child, then we definitely need to address that. >> Okay. Okay. Thank you. >> And after the meeting, I can get your number and talk. >> Okay. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Uh we will adjourn this meeting
061and the next school board meeting is August 18th at 7 o'clock. Thank