001I'm going to All right, the time is now 7 o'clock and we'll call this meeting to order. Uh, has this meeting been posted? Yes, it has. All right, roll call will show that all five board members and two student board members are present and we will stand for the pledge of allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Are there any communications this evening? Yes, there are. Um, Greendale Global Academy update. We submitted an application for the charter school planning grant. this academic year and we were not successful in securing funding. However, we received encouraging feedback inviting us to submit another application for the upcoming school year, giving us optimism for potential
002funding in 2026. Also, this Friday, we have two very fun events. One, we have the prom. Greenell celebrates Aviva Las Vegas prom this Friday. The community is invited to the grand march which starts at 5:00 pm. So please come and see our lovely students. Um this Friday we also have professional development um where social studies and math will be working through their curriculum review process. Elementary teams will be working on backwards design and partaking in an ed camp style professional development. Middle schools showcasing their work on scaffolding and differentiation. and high school is working on a strategy called tracking while watching to increase feedback with students. In the afternoon, teachers will be working on student data and their student learning outcome goals. Also, child development day screening um is available for all Greenale residents who
003have children three to four who are not enrolled in Greenale School's K4 program. Child development days are set and any information that you're looking for is available on our website. That is the end of communications for today. All right. Thank you. Uh moving on to student updates. Sure. So, the Greenale High School chapter of the National Honor Society recently had all of their hours due and this year there were hundreds of hours going towards the community because of this organization. Then AP exams have ended at Greenill High School except for AP psychology which has been rescheduled nationwide due to a technology outage during the exam. For my updates, a select group of juniors helped administration interview candidates for the associate principal position, giving them both a tour around the school and asking a select couple
004of questions to each of them. And then finally, Sources of Strength uh begins their dodgeball tournament tomorrow. Tying in with the month of May, which is mental health awareness month. Uh on top of that, several members of the Greenell community have taken part in the Active Minds Ice Bucket Mental Health Challenge, raising awareness for the cause. All right. Thank you, gentlemen. I'm not seeing anyone in the crowd tonight, so we will skip comments and move on to approving the meeting minutes from the May 5th meeting. I move approval of the May 5th, 2025 board meeting minutes as presented in agenda item 1.1. I'll second. All right, we have a motion, a second. If there's no commentary, we'll do a roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I'm Yes. Motion passes. Uh moving on to the financial
005reports. Jonathan, uh the finance committee reviewed the financial reports at the meeting last week, Wednesday. uh the revenues year-to- date, you'll see there's a number of funds that are above 100% of the budgeted revenue. So, the fund 21 for donations and gifts, the non-referendum and referendum debt funds, and the cooperative funds. So, we're at the time of year where we should be getting a lot closer. And you can see that that we're on track in terms of revenues um yearto date. And then on the expenditure side, um the operations expenditures are at 60.87%. So that's slightly above the pace last year. So similar reason we've talked about before. There were some dollars that we set aside for health insurance um for our self-funded health last year. So we ran a little bit under in expenses
006at this time. So we're right about where we would expect. Um, and then when we look at expenditures and other funds, the other two that stand out is fund 21 for donations and gifts. And that's based on accumulated dollars um over time. And and those those funds are individually within balance. They have enough funds collected, but it could be over multiple years. And then fund 49, which is the capital projects fund, that's related to the van purchase that we made and we're still waiting um final dispersement of dollars on that new state trust fund loan for about 45,000. And so that would actually increase revenues and so that's why we're ahead of expenditures because we didn't plan that at the beginning of the year. So with that, happy to answer any other questions the board
007has about the financials. Any questions for Jonathan? I'm not seeing any. Thanks, Jonathan. Thanks. So, then we'll uh approve the checks and dispersements. I move the approval of the checks and dispersements in the amount of 2,277,89912 as presented agenda item 2.3. I second. All right, we have a motion in a second. If anyone has anything to add, otherwise we'll do a roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I'm Yes. Motion passes. Uh moving on to new business. We need to approve the Renaissance contract renewal. Yep. So, we discussed this at the prior meeting. The main question that the board had at the prior meeting was looking into a fourth and fifth year and trying to get the vendor um to provide additional um uh agreements on cost increases to try and limit cost increases in
008year four and five. We had that discussion. The vendor was willing to extend the contract if we financially tied ourselves to that for year four and five. So, it wouldn't just be like we're agreeing to it at your option for year four and five, but we'd financially have to lock ourselves in. And when uh Miss Olsson and I talked about that, we believe that there's too many unknowns when we get that far out that that would not be in the best interest of the district as it would limit our options as we get three, four years out into the future um for, you know, for the additional cost control. So, we've brought forward uh back the renewal for the three-year proposal, and we think that that strikes the best balance that in years two and
009three that we would be limited at the three 3% cost increase. And if by the end of the three years we would want to continue with that software, we would have to start over with negotiations on cost at that time. All right. So, we're looking for a motion to approve. I move approval of the three-year Renaissance contract totaling $101,736 as presented in agenda item 3.1. Second. All right, we have a motion and a second. If there's no questions or concerns, we will do a roll call. Kathy, just one real quick. Um, so this went before the finance committee as well. Is that right? Yes. Were there any um questions or concerns? I know we asked you quite a few questions last week. the finance committee was interested in like knowing more about the software. So
010I would say like Kim and I spent most of the time explaining that but there were not um concerns about bringing this forward uh from the finance committee. Okay. Thank you. Yep. 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. approving personnel. Yes, there is um two teachers for um full year um 2025 2026 teacher contracts and we're hoping that you approve them. I move approval of the teacher appointments as presented in agenda item 3.2. I'll second motion and a second. Do a roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I'm yes. Motion passes. Uh, moving on to the 2025 2026 board meeting dates and calendar of reports. All right. So, every year we have a calendar of reports where we are setting
011out our board agendas and what we're working on at each day. Um so the we typically have it on the first um Monday and the third Monday of the month and then there are some dates that that changes for holidays or for um other um things such as like the annual meeting and things like that. So you all have um that are there any discussions from the board regarding the calendar of reports that I can give feedback of the draft and then come up with a new draft that we can approve with after your feedback. Uh just a quick question. This was cross referenced with the 2526 calendar like school days that we already approved. Yes. Um the only one only day that is um not a school day is the April 6th. It's a
012PD day. So that is um also um that is a day off for students. So if the board would want to look at a different date, that's something that I could bring back and um address. No, I just want to make sure because last year we ran into some issues. So I just want to make sure it's cross reference. Thank you. Yeah, I won't be here on that April 6th. I can. Well, we will move it just for you. You don't have to. I will call in something just so you know. Busy lady. Yeah. Already planning for 2026. I was just going to comment. I um this is a little bit of a new format. I do like it and in particular the Panther Pride that the logos that are indicating that I think um
013it definitely highlights that we'll be hearing and seeing some of the great things going on in our district on those days. Um and then I think we had talked about February 2nd as well if it was needed. Did you want to Yeah, absolutely. So, one of um February 2nd doesn't have a lot of action um and only three things that um that are reviewed. So, we could easily move some of those to the 23rd or the 26th. So, that's something that if the board would like us to look into and um update uh the this report with that integrated in the 26th and the 20th, we 23rd. We could do that. Well, I won't be available at the February 2nd meeting. So, there you go. You guys have a busy 2026. I I will be
014at nationals with the cheerleaders. So, we already knew our schedule for next year. Yeah. So, I quote, "Do you want us to perfe?" Yeah, you can do that. All right. Do what? Uh combined both February meetings into one meeting. Yeah, I think that. So, then we wouldn't meet on February 2nd. Yeah. Yeah. And then there then there would just be July and February would be our one board meeting and then every other month we'd have two. Would that have any I see there's the clerk's election candidate report. Um will that be a problem for that? I don't think from a state standpoint, but we might just want to decide if it's going to be the 26th or the 23rd so it won't be too lagging information or too early. I think the 26th would probably
015be preferred just to have it done. Yeah, it's only a week difference. And if Kristen's traveling to nationals, then she doesn't have to worry about it. Yeah, that's fair. Can we also put the candidate report on the January 26 meeting? Yeah. So, I'm hearing that the candidate report and the clerk's election should both be on the 26. Is that accurate? Yeah. I mean, that's not a timeconsuming thing. Yeah. We have one meeting in December. Oh, three months. Thank you. Because we had the board academy. Yeah, you're right. So, it' be three months. Thank you for correcting that for me, Denise. And just clarification, October 6th, what is the conferences? That's the week of parent teacher conferences. Okay. just so we don't have like a Panther Pride or something like that on that day because we
016know kids and families will be busy or do uh accommodations on those days either. I did have a question about the ESSER funds. It's being listed on December 1st. I thought those were expended. Yeah, we'll update that as well. Okay, that's that's accurate. Any other You guys are finding lots of good nuggets. This is good. any other feedback? All right. Then we will update the February 2nd look at April 6 um and um update the SSR funds from December 1st and bring a updated um calendar of reports for our next board meeting in two weeks. Oh, sorry. Did you have one more? One one more. They had the note for the park and wreck committee appointment in June. Um, don't we typically do that during the reorganization or is that for not board appointments? That's
017not board appointments. I think that's a bigger board. Yeah, the committee, not the board. Does that make sense, Brian? Yeah, just clarifying. The this the park and wreck board itself. Yeah. All right. Thank you for that feedback. We'll get that back to you. All right. Uh, moving on to the proposed budget for 2025 2026. Jonathan, great. So, there was quite a bit of information in the packets for the preliminary budget. Um, we just posted the presentation that I'm going to share. That's just summary of some of the key information. We just posted that this afternoon. So, I'll make sure that that's up on our district budget site, business services site if there are people that want to read that after the fact. And then all this information we'll revisit in two meetings um when the
018board reviews the preliminary budget for approval. So just want to provide update on the budget and preliminary tax levy and just next steps. And so we always ground ourselves in uh the values that we keep around the budget and that's allocating our resources towards priority areas that are going to make a difference for kids. And we want to make sure that we're being good stewards to the community and they're seeing that and how we're utilizing financial resources. And so we're thinking about our strategic plan and that's part of our values that we use. Um and one of those four pillars being managing resources responsibly. So, we're thinking about needs identification. So, as we've gone through that, again, we've utilized budget values. So, we're building a budget that puts students first. We've created a budget that's
019driven by data and we've gone through many conversations over the last four months and how we've developed the budget. Um, we've built a budget that's in line with the board's class size targets. It meets the curriculum needs of the district. um and provides equity and equality in our resources and we've utilized outside the box thinking and how we've built that budget. So again, these are the class- size targets 4K to grade 12 that we utilized and we maintain these targets as part of the feedback in the community operational referendum that was approved in April of 24. In terms of our student population, we know that within the village of Greenale, our public school enrollment represents 92% market share and we're able to touch um an additional portion of those students through programming that we have
020in field workshop. So you think about our homeschooled um students, we're able to reach out with them and partner with them through some of that programming as well. So the vast majority of um students that are within the community are engaging with our programming. We talked about class size targets and so we're at the point that we're finalizing full-time equival equivalency FTE for our staffing model in this year's budget. Additional investments that we've made. So we think about key areas. So one I talked about uh budget value being investments in curriculum and instruction. So, we're allocating funds within the budget for the K12 social studies adoption. Um, for capital projects, we have a number of projects that are queued up, which include the need for two smaller classroom spaces that would be going in the
021sixth grade wing at the middle school. Um, exterior door replacements for safety and security and ongoing maintenance. Um, repairs to the pool pit room here at the high school. uh drainage for the College Park Community Field, replacement of the HVAC controls at the middle school that are in need of replacement based on age, uh vehicle replacement within the district, um for our operations and our facilities team, the need to reseal tennis courts that are here at the high school, and also resealing resurfacing parking lots within the district. And as you remember, that was one item that was deferred when we talked about the need to replace the boiler equipment here at the high school last summer. So, we want to get back to that um and take care of that deferred need. And then from
022the technology side, investments in network switches. So, the board took action previously to uh move forward with a project that was about 188,000 and half of that would be funded through federal funds. and we've received word from um USAC which is the overarching federal organization that we were approved for that 50/50 share. So we should be getting that federal reimbursement for that project. So that means about 94,000 is set aside within this budget for the network switches. Um then safety security cameras within the district. So we have about 300 cameras district-wide and they last about 10 years. That means on average we need to be replacing 30 cameras a year just to maintain status quo that we don't have deferred uh maintenance there. And then investments in replacing classroom technology. So that's one thing with
023um dollars that we've been able to set aside within the tech budget this year is being able to replace if it's new TV replacing a dated projector, it's having speakers that um function within the classroom. we've been able to target classrooms based on relative need um throughout all five buildings in the district and continuing um continuing to get ourselves on a cycle of rotation for those as well to keep up with those needs. So in total when we add up what's budgeted for all these areas is just over a million dollars within the budget and about 10% of that is federal funding for the the um switch project. About 10% of that is dollars that were set aside within the community service fund and about 80% of this is through operations funds uh revenue allocation.
024So, we're at the point that we do not have direction on what's going to happen next with the state budget. And as we've been updating the board, we continue to have conversations with our legislators, excuse me, conversations with our legislators and conversations with other districts around the state, around the board's public policy priorities to align uh the conversation as much as possible. And so right now uh we've built in assumptions in terms of our revenue expectations of the $325 per student which is in law and that was just upheld by the state supreme court and then um what we estimate in terms of special education reimbursement. Uh the board has advocated for at least 60% that reimbursement but at this point we don't know whether that's um going to come to fruition. So we have
025a number that really reflects where that reimbursement is today just for building the preliminary budget. And so uh we've hit our target uh for right now uh at this time of year which is to bring forward a budget to the board that's in balance. So here in fund 10 you see that we've got balanced uh revenues and expenditures of $ 38,225,08. That's utilizing the full operational referendum authority of 2.5 million and that would leave the fund balance level essentially at the current level of uh 14.4%. As we've talked about previously the board target is to keep that at 15% or higher. uh special education, we've got uh budgeted expenditures of 7,376,030. About 60% of those budgeted revenues would come from an inter fund transfer. So we'd utilize about 4.4 million of the 38 million we
026just shared on the previous slide would be utilized to pay for the portion that would not come through state and federal revenues. So the combined amount uh for state and federal will be about 40% is what we would target for next year. Uh we've built in a number of assumptions in building the budget. So I mentioned the first two. We've built in projections rolling over uh revenue limit based on projected enrollment. We're going to talk about tax levy. The tax levy that we've proposed in the budget would be flat from the current year level at 15,236,103. Here in the assumptions, uh we show equalization aid with a projected decrease of 859,000 from last year. And that's really driven by the fact that we had done a one-time prepayment of debt of 3.6 6 million which
027boosted our state aid on a one-time basis. And so at this point we have a conservative figure of what we project. We also have that debt prepayment that's fallen off. Uh in terms of expense assumptions, we've built in 4% for teachers that are moving within the salary schedule and 2% 2, excuse me, 2.5% for all other staff. For health insurance, we've projected a 5% increase. Um, at this point in the negotiations for our renewal, um, as of September 1, we expect to hit that 5% target, but we won't know for sure that we're able to hit that level until we get additional numbers on our stop-loss renewal later this week. Um, but we're working to target being at or below that 5% level. We talked about investments in curriculum budget. So, there's additional dollars put
028into the curriculum budget for the social studies um renewal with the expectation that those dollars will recur in future budgets based on where we are in the curriculum cycle. There's $120,000 that we've taken out of the 2425 budget because we did one-time summer stipens for staff that needed to do training for ACT 20. And then it says $50. It means $50,000 um from an SR3 grant that we had on a one-time basis to provide for the professional development services for act 20. So there was a portion for about 50,000 that was the training itself and then about 70,000 for the stipens to pay for that time. Um our oped allocation so post-employment benefits we reduced that allocation from 120,000 to 100,000 annually. We had discussion about that in the finance committee and at this point
029we project it'll take four years for us to fully allocate funds that we would need to make cash payments for our other post-employment benefits. So we need to add about another 400,000 after this year. Jonathan, could I ask a question about the act 20? Yeah. Um, so I know we did offer those stipens early on for teachers. So now as teachers are getting trained in this, are they getting professional development time or are they being asked to do this on their own? Yeah. So I I can answer that. Um so any new teacher that comes to us, we're hoping that they have been trained because they were supposed to be trained by July of um 2020 that 2025. So that's our first assumption. If there are some teachers that are moving grades or something like
030that, we are paying for the training and they are getting a smaller stipen for their time, but not as much as it would have been if it wasn't the first cohort. Is that accurate, Tracy? You hear me? If they are required to take, if they're required to take the training, they receive the stipen. Some of them uh there are some teachers that just want that to increase their learning. They're doing that on their own. They're okay. I just um I think it was great that I mean this is obviously a mandate by the state again and the state's not the one providing this funding. It's the district that's Is that right? It was we had a grant from DPI for a letters training for 50,000 that um and then the rest of it was funded
031by the district to pay people for their time. I just feel that, you know, our lawmakers in Madison need to understand when they're asking for these things, they they do need to provide the dollars to support um what they're expecting out of our teachers. You know, other professions when you do professional development. There often is a stipend or salary increase or something. And um you know, oftentimes in education, I'm seeing that it's always on the backs of the educators. So, I just want to, you know, point out that I I definitely am glad to hear that we're doing some sort of stipen because that is time that they're spending getting up to speed with something that was mandated. Absolutely. And it's really important and it's really great training and the training um is going to
032have impacts on our kids for years to come. So, it was really right on time. Okay. Uh interest revenue. So at this point, um the Federal Reserve has kept interest rates pretty stable the last couple meetings, but there's expectation that those interest rates are supposed to continue to decline over the next year. So we've taken down the expectation regarding interest um revenue for next year's budget. We have pulled out the mental health grant. There's continued conversation about new mental health money being put into the next bienium, but without information on that, we've just held off um budgeting for that for next year. We've made assumptions for open enrollment revenues coming in that there would be 279 seats filled and 65 seats out for students going out. So, there'd be a net of uh 214 students
033more coming in versus out through that open enrollment program. Uh we've made an estimate of 73 seats for the voucher system at a cost of $822,588. The district and the board is a pass through. So those dollars wouldn't actually come through as um funds available for operations within the district, but they'd essentially just become part of the tax levy for the district. So we won't have that final information until October 15th, but at that time it changes the revenue limit number and is an exception. So it doesn't impact um the operational funds at all. Then there was a new uh personal property aid that was added in the last bianium budget. Uh this year it provided additional spendable revenues. Um, but there's been discussion of that being modified to provide tax relief. So, we've pulled
034that back in terms of it being listed as spendable revenue until we understand how that's going to be utilized in the next budget and whether there'll be any modifications to that. Um, we've set aside $151,000 as year two of the federal Stronger Connections grant. So, again, that was a $300,000 grant over two years. So we have about half um estimated uh remaining and we talked about act 20. We've provided no assumption for any revenues coming back for the state reading grant. There was a survey that DPI asked us to complete recently and we immediately uh completed that to provide the information. Um but it's dependent on uh a court how the courts are going to handle the um disagreement between the legislature and the governor over the partial veto by the governor of that state
035reading grant bill whether or not those dollars are going to actually be allocated before the end of the benium budget and what's been shared with us is that if that doesn't get resolved by the end of June those dollars just go back to the state coffers they can't be rolled into next the next bianium budget without new action. And so it's possible those dollars would just go away and there would never be any reimbursement. And so we've submitted the survey assuming that um it's possible that that's going to there'll be a ruling that will allow those funds to be distributed. And we had spent 374,000 on K5 reading curriculum in alignment with the law. So, we would very much like to see some of that funding come back because we still have an outstanding loan
036um that we need to pay off for that adoption. And then we had mentioned ESRE allocation that's all fully expended. So, we have nothing in terms of ESR allocation within next year's budget. Uh before I jump to the kind of the last part of the presentation, anything else that the board has for questions on assumptions? Just had one thing. uh regarding the fund balance being at 14.4% I believe. Um and I believe is it in our board policy that it's supposed to that we'd like to have it at a minimum of 15%. Yes. So that that is just one question I've had because in traditionally in my years of serving on the board I believe we've been closer to 20% with that. Um, and I I don't know if you can speak to that, but
037um, is that something that we're going to be able to get, you know, back at a higher level at some point? Uh, that's a goal to get the board back above that 15% level, but based on the limitations around state funding, right, we talked about the inflationary gap and needing to go to the community to ask for additional funding, right? There was an approved deficit budget last school year that took the board below 20% for the first time in many years. And so we're at the point of the year that we're starting to wind down uh our district level budget. And that's definitely a consideration as we're looking at any unused funds is that the board would have interest in seeing that fund balance tick up. So, I don't have we're at the point I
038don't have a specific dollar figure that we would be trying to target because there's a lot that we still have to continue to invest in here at the end of the year, but that's definitely, you know, front of mind is that if we can, we want to preserve a little bit left in the budget to start to replenish that. But it would take us um a considerable amount of time to get back to that 20% level. Well, I think this was mentioned in the audit report this year, too. the was me it was definitely mentioned that the board was below that threshold because of the policy. Yes. So, yep. I think the goal is to try and work towards the 15% over the next several years. Okay. All right. Uh we talked about board public
039policy priorities. Um board members, myself, Dr. Dr. Midzik participated in the day at the capital in March. Um Dr. Midzik and I participated in the joint finance committee along with one of our teaching staff members back in April and we have linked in their uh testimony that I provided in alignment with those board public policy priorities. Uh we talked about tax levy that would be in balance with prior year. So at 15,236,18 Um, in order to do that, um, at this point in the budget process, we have about 1.1 million that's allocated within our referendum debt fund that was allocated for prepayment. So, we've used the term defeasants, we have dollars that were allocated for prepayment. And based on the um board taking action last year to adjust um the tax levy, the tax levy
040went down about uh one a little over 1%. Um we would utilize a small portion of those additional dollars to help to just smooth the fund 39 levy um and smooth the overall tax levy in order to keep that in balance. And so that was a strategy that the board opened up um by making the decision to do um defeas defeasants over the last several years to limit how much um change uh in variation the community would see within the tax levy. And I know that was something that we communicated with discussions of the operational referendum was trying to have strategies and options for the board so that uh the board would be able to follow through with that commitment to keep that tax levy stable even if the operational referendum was approved. So other
041things that we do to manage the budget and find savings, utilizing cooperative agreements, state contracts, sharing services with the village, sharing services with the Franklin School District, um the self-funded work with our health insurance, and we will get final numbers on that um shortly. uh we talked about prepayment of debt and refinancing of debt that we've done and then uh future planning with the village of Greenale and the community should be seeing that in full flourish right now with the community um center park and the new playground what's being done at JC things are very much aligned and we were able to find additional savings and how we did those projects by working together and we've been planning together for multiple years. So, we want to continue to build on those partnerships. Um mentioned the
042project that we're doing at College Park and the drainage for that field. Um that was in partnership with the village and we were able to uh leverage their bidding power to get a much lower price on doing that project. So, with the 2526 budget, continue to maintain the budget values. We want to show that we're good stewards of funds for this community, invest in programming that's data driven. We've provided a balanced preliminary budget to the board of 38.2 million for operational budget and a flat tax levy. And we continue to work to push um the board public policy priority with our legislators. So this just lays out timeline. The first conversation regarding preliminary budget is here this evening and then in two meetings the board would take it up for approval so that we would
043have a budget in place by July 1 and that's best practice so that we have an understanding of budget even though we will get additional numbers once we get into the fall and then just dates for annual meeting and final approval for the budget in October. So, with that, be happy to take any questions that the board has right now regarding the preliminary budget. Um, just off the bat, I'd like to thank you for your work with this and just making sure and just even teaming and jumping together with the village to um lower costs and kind of bid together. It's really appreciated. Um, I did want to just make sure and clarify that our tax levy we are levying is going to be level, but we have no control over the vouchers that could
044add or increase that levy if that's the case. Correct. That's correct. All right. Any other questions? All right. Thank you, John. All right. Thank you. All right. All right, we're going to call in audible and remove the open enrollment update from the uh Yeah, we're going to table that till next next meeting. Yes. So then we will just jump into Kathy's legislative update. All right. Um there's several things uh I'm going to just go through. So, first of all, um there's a bill uh SB Senate Bill 170, and this is the bill on rehiring retired annuance. Um two committees held a public hearing on these bills. Um and the Senate Committee on Transportation and Local Government met on Tuesday, May 6 to hear Senate Bill 170, which is a bill allowing WRS annuance annuance. Am
045I saying that? annuitants annuitants to return uh to work without suspending their annuity. And I believe this is because of the teacher shortage that they're trying to find ways to bring some retired teachers back. The bill is similar to past proposals that allows a WRS annuantint to continue to receive their annuity for 60 months, which requires employers to pay into ETF equal to what the annuitant would have paid into ETF had they foregone their annuity. And it also still will retain the 75day break in service. So that is before them right now. Um, there was something about mobile hotspots. I don't know if we do this if it's necessary to bring it in. Do we do mo mobile hotspots for students? So, I'm going to skip that one. Um, there was the highost special ed
046uh aid versus a general special education aid. And um this one here, as budget negotiations continue to ramp up between the governor and the legislature, discussions have been um gone over with increases in special education aid. Some in the legislature have begun to discuss increasing highcost special education reimbursement aid as opposed to general special education aid. Increasing high-cost reimbursement would be of great benefit to eligible special ed students. However, school districts have been asking for the special ed as we know the increase of categor categorical aid uh to 60% reimbursement at some sufficient. Um I found this one interesting with lunches and maybe our student board members want to comment. Um this one here um is a bill regulating school meal ingredients and um there was a a bill that was to change uh which
047student and No, that's not it. Hold on. Uh I can't see the number here. Here it is. AB uh Senate Bill or Assembly Bill 226 is a bill to ban certain ingredients from being provided by schools through the national lunch program or the federal school breakfast program. Um these names are kind of interesting. Broinated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, proper you know this you're you're pharmacist. Um and then red dye number three. So um these are things that they do not want to have in school lunches that are provided by the national government. Uh but this does not affect if we have like private vendors bringing in additional food items. So I don't know if you guys have any comments on that. I do not feel qualified to to comment on those. I just found that
048interesting. I hope they're not feeding that to our students. Um and then um there is a state the state will still have a $4.3 billion surplus but it will take in less than less revenue in 25 through 27 and um the legislative fiscal bureau projected that the state will finish the 2325 budget with a more than 4.3 billion surplus as I mentioned which is a slight improvement over its January estimate but now expects lower tax collections over the following 2-year period. Um the net impact is 335 million less in tax revenue for the capital to play with as lawmakers and the governor tried to reach an agreement in the 2527 budget. And then there was one on um this one is act 12 and it has to do with um safety uh new report mandate
049guidance on crime statistics and uh the purpose of this statute is to collect data on state and local law violations that occur on school property. Uh I don't know if we ever get that in our safety reports, but that would be kind of interesting. Um and that is it. All right. Thank you. Uh, moving on to board committee updates. Anyone with an update? Uh, just a reminder that the Greenville Education Foundation is hosting um, uh, people at the Milkman game on Saturday, May 31st. So, if you want to go and support the education foundation, which does a lot for the community and a lot for our schools, um, tickets are available. Uh, CISA one annual meeting is tomorrow, so we'll have an update next time. That's an exciting meeting. Uh Kathy, want to tell us
050about your appointment to the WASBY regional director? Um well, I uh expressed interest over the last couple months. Um Brett Hyde was previously serving in that role and he has decided not to run for reelection. His term would be up this coming fall. Um, so there was a period in which you could apply for that particular regional director seat and I did express interest. You had signed off as our board president. Um, and I was uh notified about a week and a half, two weeks ago that I was selected to be the regional region 11 interim director until our fall regional meeting. So I'm really excited about that. Um Vicky McCormack, who was a previous board member, served in that role. prior to becoming the president of WASBY and um I just feel it's gonna
051open up some opportunities to have our district connect with other districts across the state. So um I appreciate your support and you know me doing that. You had 150 characters that you had to write why they should select you and so you know I'm not always at a loss for words so I had to make that very I mine was 148 actually. Um but I'm surprised it wasn't 150 right on the dot. I tried. I was going to put thank you, but I thought that was weird. So, um, anyways, but I I'm super excited for this opportunity. Brett Hyde is a great friend and a mentor to me. Uh, Larry Dukes from Pewwaukee just got um elected into that role uh for district or for region 15. So, he's always been a good friend and
052a mentor to me. So, I've got uh great people I'm working with. um this interim period will give me an opportunity to see how that fits my busy lifestyle. Um but I do know that the meetings that they do are typically on Fridays and Saturdays go into the weekend which I often have that time available. Um they meet like every other month in Madison. Um so I'm super excited for that opportunity and um you know appreciate the support. Yeah. Yeah. And just for people who aren't familiar what WASBY directors do, it's a board of directors and they charge um with the overall management of affairs, funds, and property of the association. And we're really excited that you're doing that for us and representing Greenale and um and our region. So, thank you so much, Kathy.
053Thank you. Yeah, congratulations. [Applause] And Dan Ross Miller, you know, is the executive director. So, just like we oversee Dr. Amidzik on this board the region regional directors oversee um the executive director for our association. Excellent. All right. Well, thank you Kathy. Congrats. Um moving on to board professional development. Does anyone have anything to to add? No. Do you want to? Oh. Uh so Rob and I attended a conference a couple weeks ago. um hosted by the Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty on uh school policies and um it was very interesting to hear uh not only some of the projections about what's going to happen but also some of the struggles that other districts are dealing with and uh kudos to Jonathan for hosting a fantastic session on school finance um and explaining it
054uh in a way that people in the room could understand and um uh just really making sure that people my take away from that was that there are very uh serious things um serious consequences that are on the line um for school funding right now and districts need to uh do what we're doing. Prioritize, be very cautious and judicious with their dollars and uh and really keep a focus on the kids. So that those were my takeaways from your presentation and congratulations. It was a it was a full room and it was a great conversation. Where was that help? uh walkshaw. Yeah. Uh the um Marriott. Yeah. Um and then uh I think one of the biggest ones was the presentation on social media for kids. Uh the uh how would we explain it? The
055horrors of don't give your kids social media. Yeah. An hour and a half. Don't give your kids social media. Don't give uh and just talking about different policies that boards can adapt and and whatever. So it was scary. Yes, there's also a good session on um superintendent. Yeah. Uh finding new superintendents, keeping superintendent, but obviously that doesn't really pertain to us. But uh it was pretty interesting to hear um some of the trials and tribulations that boards go through uh when they're forced to look for a new superintendent. So um and we had great greenale representation on that presentation too. Um both Mark Caposious and uh Dr. Bill Hughes were uh part of that conversation. Yeah. So it was a good opportunity to learn and a very interesting topic. So thank you guys for attending.
056Yeah. Did you have something? I just going to mention I talked to you about it Rob and Christiey's I believe going to put it in the DU but um the summer I'm going to get it wrong. The summer learning symposium is going to be taking place on July 11th and 12th in Ste Stevens Point. Um there um Charles Franklin from Marquette University will be the keynote for the dinner on Friday night and I can't remember his name right now, but there is a gentleman that is um nationally renowned who will be coming to do the keynote on Saturday morning. Um there are several sessions in there for board presidents. Um there's it it's a leadership opportunity. So um hopefully people can do that. I'm hoping I'll be recovered from surgery by then and I'm thinking
057I'm going to attend it. So anybody else we could maybe carpool. Fantastic. All right. Thank you. Um board calendar. Yes. So this Friday is um Greenale's High School Prom. Monday is a holiday. It's Memorial Day. Hope everyone has a lovely Memorial Day and celebrates our veterans. Um then we also next week have um middle school concerts on Tuesday and Wednesday. And then if you want to support College Park, they have a dine out at the hot h up the dog house in the beer garden. And um there is a talent show at the high school on Friday. So lots of fun things happening in the Greenale family. Excellent. Uh thank you for that. Uh moving on. Uh additional comments from visitors. I have not seen any. Uh so we will adjourn and come back. Uh
058June 2nd. Nick, is that your last meeting? June 2nd. All right. One more. All right. He'll probably come for citizen comments while he's in college.