001it's rehearsal so I asked you to stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the United States one nation under God justice for all all right this evening miss Semitic will be sharing out communication from the district the community came together on October 18th and October 21st for a conversation about welcoming diversity the diversity equity and inclusion steering committee shared a draft of an action plan to create a more welcoming kind and inclusive community in Greendale mm-hmm the community-wide plan is committed to challenging discrimination in all forms while focusing on race and racism district leadership students and staff were in attendance we will continue to engage with the community and participate in the plan the plan can be found in the district's home web page students and community members enjoyed
002the step up to better health fun run walk on Sunday October 20th is a beautiful day to get some fresh air and exercise and to celebrate the district and the community funds were raised for school PT os3 Grinnell middle school students participated in Marquette high school's annual fall math meet on Sunday October 20th with more than one hundred and sixty-four middle school students one hundred and forty nine school students high school students from roughly 40 schools in the Greater Milwaukee area the Canterbury first graders and their seventh-grade buddies had their first visit of the school year students see their buddies once per trimester throughout the year they enjoy time together working on school projects and forging great relationships the reading buddies program has begun at the elementary schools retired Greendale community members and volunteers read
003with first graders at all three schools during their buddy time students and buddies read discuss and write about what they have read each student keeps a journal of their reading and shares their ideas and new learning with their families each week last week midday Wednesday a student reported to a teacher that racist comments were written on the wall in the bathroom immediately the bathroom was locked and the administration began an investigation to identify the person or persons responsible this behavior is unacceptable and students will be held accountable as you aware students were not in session on Thursday and Friday there has been some concern in the community regarding the timing of sharing the messages with school families some have gone so far as to say the district only shared the information because it was called
004out on social media and they were inquiries from the media this information is inaccurate administration denounced the act of hate and communicated with parents in the community when progress been made in the investigation communicating too early could compromise the integrity of the investigation and keep students from approaching approaching administration with information today the GHS administrative team completed its investigation and a student has taken responsibility for writing the racist message on the bathroom wall the school is issued disciplinary consequences moving forward our pupil services team in collaboration with administration is working on restoration and healing in our school community appearances partners workshop titled speak up at school and in the community will be held on November 6th beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the high school this event will provide strategies and information on how to respond
005to every day everyday prejudice bias and stereotypes all are welcome to attend the fall play letters to Salah will perform on November 7th 8th and 9th at 7 p.m. the play is adapted from the book solids gift by Ann Kirchner the play is a true story of a young girls survival during wartime Germany and the following donations were received by the district 500 dollars from South West Milwaukee optimist club to the marching band trip for the Rose Bowl that concludes my communications all right Thank You mr. Mitnick any comments from visitors this evening and again welcome to those who will be speaking tonight we would like to remind you that school board meetings are for the purpose of carrying on the business of the district and they are official business meetings held in public through
006school board policy 186 the board allows citizens to make comments by scheduling to opportunities and the agenda to receive citizen comments in accordance with the intent of the open meetings law please be aware that although the Board of Education welcomes comments it cannot discuss or debate items brought up during public comments and in order to hear from all citizens who wish to speak and to ensure that the official business of the district is addressed board policy sets a time limit for citizen comments and will be adhering to those board policy as time limits at tonight's meeting persons wishing to address the board are asked to come to the podium and state their name and address for the record and comments are limited to only one time during the meeting individuals will be speaking will be
007limited to three minutes or five minutes if representing a group of persons citizen comments are limited to a period not to exceed 30 minutes any comments this evening my name is Kerri Juan 56:23 beaver quartz I was part of the welcoming diversity event and I it was very disappointing that the superintendent did not prioritize it enough to be present and I came here I'm not sure what information that is shared with the board from the schools about racist incidents but I wanted to make sure that you're aware of a few more incidents so that you have a better understanding that this topic does need to be prioritized there have been two instances of the same sixth-grade girl using the n-word this year at Greendale Middle School the first incident was her throwing the N word
008around casually in sentences in the hallway and it was reported the second time she called a black student the n-word in class in front of the other students and the teacher she has had numerous other disciplinary problems and she still attends Greendale middle school I suppose this is one of those times where the victims are told next time don't react how many times does a kid have to turn the other cheek administrators need to enforce punishments that will end the problem it is not up to the victims to tolerate it and I didn't see any restorative justice from her or apology is in either of those instances and then of course you spoke of the racist graffiti that used the n-word and referred to black students as animals in the Greendale high school bathroom this
009racist vandalism is a hate crime and it should be punished as such the actions of administrators have clearly not been effective as these incidents continue to occur and you talk about restorative justice there's a team you referenced where is the restorative justice from that students what is she going to do to make it right where's her apology where's her participation in the restorative justice every time one of these incidents occurs if parents are even informed we are given soft email saying we are saddened and disappointed or we are committed to being welcoming to all I'd like to compare Greendale's response to that of the Brown Deer superintendent and it has her comments when the racist incidents occurred at her school and her response thank you for your comments so yeah my name is nat godly
010and I will be reading a letter article by dr. Deborah Kerr Superintendent of the brown bear School District who may have already seen it it's called enough is enough equity is not just another cliche the school district of Brown Deer is proud to be one of the most diverse school districts in the state of Wisconsin families moved to Brown Deer to be an integral part of a vibrant community that accepts people for who they are celebrates diverse perspectives and come together to thrive as an all-america City obviously this is something we aspire to here in green else's kind of why I'm reading this I think it's got some good guidance for us two weeks ago at a high school conference football game it happened again the marginalization of our Brown Deer students while speeding in
011an athletic contest sanctioned by the Wisconsin in Interscholastic athletics Association white football players from another school used the n-word directed at our quarterback and other students of color the white referees were non-responsive and complacent the coaches and athletic directors from both schools have investigated the matter and weighed in with no final resolution the administration from the opposing team has apologized and so has the coach however they did not commit the racial slur in fact last season this very situation occurred with the same white privilege players as they competed against a racially diverse football team why has there been no resolution no apologies from the perpetrators no lessons learned the adults who are responsible for ensuring the safety of all students can no longer turn a blind eye or sweep under the rug the continuous acts
012of blatant racism leader going on right before our very eyes how long should students of color be expected to carry this weight of trauma interestingly enough the students who continue to be exposed to these behaviors have never been students with allegations of being the perpetrators a legate an acts of verbal or physical aggression are unacceptable inappropriate and should not be tolerated by anyone had the tables been turned the outcome would have been different it is important for privileged individuals to understand the negative power of a word they will never be subjected to because white privilege allows them to navigate a society where they never have to prove their worth where they are never second-guessed where they do not have to work twice as hard to be considered just as good and where good is never
013good enough as the proud superintendent at Brown Deer I'm speaking my truth and I encourage you to read reflect and be willing to act my Brown dear scholar athletes are speaking their truth they did not imagine any of this and have been subjected to racial slurs even our white kids repeatedly by their suburban rivals enough is enough I can reveal numerous situations where our Brown diffs students have been marginalized because of the color of their skin these situations have occurred during both girls and boys athletic contests on the basketball court during soccer matches and even when I chaperoned a student group to a sectional baseball game also I am very aware of our neighbor Milwaukee Milwaukee Public School District as their neighbor as their students have also experienced persistent marginalization across the suburbs and the
014state unfortunately these situations keep happening over and over again it is now time to hold school districts accountable for the actions of their students and the school community is extremely important that all of us become allies in this work so that all of our students feel loved and supported if we are silent they were complicit with endorsing these kinds of behaviors who will advocate on behalf of all children we will together and I can send you a copy of this for the remainder of it thank you thank you for your comments mr. Godley shitty snacks a year ago two incidents happened with a girl who called me the n-word I never thought that I was going to get in trouble because I never did anything wrong but that is not how Sarah Derick saw it
015she said that I was a threat but didn't take me out of class for another 30 minutes I was never aware of the police going to be called I was scared frightened and alone only wanting to call my mom what I thought to myself is that is this how they treat kids of color by calling the police I'm glad that Paige is trying to help the students of color and come together to help fix policies that the board lacks more incidents have happened since I have left the school when will it end this is a real issue that needs to be fixed now this is not a new issue this is just the first time people on the outside world are seeing what Greendale lacks I'm going to continue to fry it for a change
016because I can't stand by and watch another student go through what I did I want to end this off by saying I still was never made whole a whole year later I don't see Gary here but this was meant for him Gary you should have jumped on this issue instead of spreading lies about me thank you for all your time I will be back if nothing changes thank you for your comments DNA I'm area I just want to address the statement about you guys going sending out the emails two days after the event occurred maybe it was a coincidence after the reporter has contacted us and contacted the school that an email appeared because I am aware that in February there was racial graffiti written on the walls and there was no email so I'm
017not quite sure what happened to that email that time a year ago I came to this board and asked you to investigate the wrong for suspension of my daughter what would have happened if you all would have listened to me no one listened and then no one is listening now to the students of color in this district what are you doing what you are doing is checking the box and reacting to bad press I went to the media a month after the injustice happened and it wasn't until months later when ACLU got involved the district wanted to scrape together a plan a year later and how far have we come to true equity not far enough today today officer Val I came up to me and said how is Chaney's doing I hate she loved
018that once has anyone on the board except Kathleen axed how is Cheney's doing how quick you all want to jump over the girl you damaged to help other students of color well let's start with her I have taught two of your daughter's on this board and I treated them both with respect I wonder how they will feel one day when they learn how Chinese was treated and their fathers could have right it the wrong it is not enough to say hate has no home and allow it to run rampant in the schools it is time to be a part of the solution it is time to act your superintendent why he wasn't at the steering committee why he didn't tell us that he was in China it is time to look at all these racial
019incidents and say we have a real problem I don't want to see another email I want the culture to change what I want most is for you all to do your job or walk away and let someone else do it thank you for your comments I'm Heather godly five three three one Millbank Road in Greendale Wisconsin and I know that the district has reached out to many different people the speak out teaching tolerance group is coming next week and I just you know hearing the Brown Deer letter I think it's it's really valuable to reach out I know some of you have reached out to school districts around here and dr. Kerr seems like a very good person to kind of collaborate with Greendale as well I just wanted to read her call to action
020and I'll be as quick as I can we all need to responsibly create the necessary conditions to eliminate the persistent in inequities and marginalization of our students on the athletic field and in our classroom and she has a seven-point plan acknowledge the egregious behavior take ownership immediately offer sincere apology and a and applied developmentally appropriate education this applies to both students and adults number to eliminate placing the responsibility on students of color to just deal with acts of racism this is an issue that needs to be addressed by adults number three teach our young people that racism is never acceptable at any place in time create opportunities to engage students in diverse learning environments or situations that will help them understand the value of different perspectives and better understand different cultures number four develop school
021board equity policies that explicitly state non-negotiables for conduct and much-needed values of character in our schools engage our parents and learning to understand what diversity in closing achievement gaps is all about it's a fact that every school district in our state has an achievement gap identifying the support that our students need is mission critical number six advocate for changes with our local state and local organizations such as the WIA to provide expectations for high ethical standards of conduct surrounding equity for example concise language in all schools athletic code handbooks manuals that speak to the protocol would that would be implemented by all this would also be similar to the new rule instituted by the WIA about athletes who have committed a felony even though they haven't been found guilty in a court of law yet
022they are suspended until they have completed the judicial process and number seven learned from other diverse school committee communities on how they collectively engage in discussions about race marginalization and in a and some of these elements of course are present in the plan that the steering committee developed but it just seems like one group working alone is not as effective as banding together with other school districts to try and push these things forward so thank you and I will mention that I did have the opportunity to sit at Friday night's equity meeting with a member of the Greendale community who is also the director of HR in Brown Deer Schools so I think there's an opportunity to engage and learn from from Brown Deer with a community member that's invested here any additional comments this
023evening name is kill no Curtis 53:18 Olympia Lane Greendale Wisconsin it I'd like everyone to take a close look at me I'm minority you know I've been fighting racism and discrimination on a full-time basis for almost 50 years my parents were Cod Pickers they were slaves and you know this is not new myself and my wife and all the Greendale residents are not part tying people that fight racism so obviously kind of start out from here made of seven Gary Gary kills school superintendent publicly admitted there was a racism problem this was reported on Fox News may the Senate the seventh Gary kilt School Superintendent hosted an event to heal wounds this was also reported by Fox News more than a hundred people were in attendance Gary kills school superintendent formed a steering committee to
024complete an action plan plan to fight against discrimination September 15 I asked and again we talked about what could have happened September the 15th I a speacial hold a town hall meeting to discuss racism pays founders stated not not not at this time they had no answers for me at all October the 18th page was asked if they had a number to report good racial incidents pays founders again yet we run short they had no answers October 21st guilt Gary kilts was in attendance when I asked page questions to complete an action plan for diversity and again look at me and I'm a minor I'm standing look at me I'm a minor page I found a page stated to me we can talk about it later they didn't have any answers and I'm mine but
025Jared Kilson listen to my voice several school board meetings and you can see out on YouTube Guerry kilts has attended several steering committee meetings to help complete the action plan October 25th a page founder announced that the district is moving quickly enough to respond to issues that should have and they should have made an announcement to residents about the issue October 28th Greendale high school principal steve louis provides a follow-up letter stating a student has taken responsibility for racial slurs slurs that were printed in the bathroom on the walls disciplinary action has occurred the principal has also reminded people to speak up at the event that's scheduled to take place November 6 just like the one that I asked to do on November tonight that page decided that we didn't want to do that moving
026forward the curse is and many Greendale residents are no longer a part of page as a September 22nd as a group doesn't line with Curtis morals and those and those of some Greendale residents do the right thing and tell them the whole truth the courtesies have been fighting discrimination again four times since the 70s full-time not part-time so that means when we wake up we're fighting it non-stop we don't have to form a group or anything else like that we don't want to continue with division that page appears that they're attempting to do is create more division we want to work with the school board we want to work with it with the the village to move things forward we don't want to slow things down at all we're behind superintendent Gary kills the school
027district and the residents for their good work to fight racism keep telling the truth even when it's difficult for you thank you for your comments a lot of comments tonight I would say that we typically don't respond to comments but I wanted to reassure the community that this Board of Education is behind everything that we need to do I think someone made a comment earlier that we aren't there yet and I think we recognize that we aren't there yet but no one is saying that we aren't behind efforts to make improvements we can disagree on are they moving quick enough we can disagree on is there enough happening is there a loud enough voice but I don't think that it's a fair assumption or a fair representation to think that any of us in this
028room is not fully committed to making improvements to this community any additional comments tonight alright then we will continue on next item on the agenda is approval of the minutes I approved the regular meeting minutes of October 7th and the closed session minutes of October 7th wait 2019 as outlined in agenda item 1.1 I second there's been a motion in a second to approve the regular meeting minutes of October 7 and the closed session meeting minutes of October 7th 2019 any further discussion then I call for a roll call vote yes yes yes yes and I am yes motion carries next on the agenda the financial reports this evening have your financial reports for the month of October revenues and expenditures tracking as what we would expend expect at this time so about seven percent
029of revenues through the month of September month of September is where we begin to get our state aid payments we'll get money again in December for state aid and then our larger receipt is for property tax payments we get that in January so right now between the end of October and that time period in January is really our lowest spot during the year in terms of our cash reserves so this is where our fund balance plays in to the fact that we continue to pay our bills without having to do short-term borrowing for that period of time our expenditures are at thirteen point seven two percent again that's aligned with the 2018-19 year all right any other questions and later on we'll hear about the 2019 2020 budget but any questions about this month's checks
030and disbursements otherwise I'll call for a roll call vote I'm sorry alcohol for a motion to approve payments in the amount of three million four hundred thirty six thousand two hundred eighty six dollars and ninety seven cents and payroll in the amount of three million one hundred and sixty five thousand one hundred sixty three dollars and sixteen cents for a total of six million six hundred one thousand four hundred fifty dollars and thirteen cents second there's been a motion in a second to approve total check some dispersants of six million six hundred and one thousand dollars four hundred fifty dollars and thirteen cents any further discussion and I call for a roll call vote yes yes yes yes and I am yes motion carries moving along to attend a on four point one we are
031here to approve the resignation of dr. Gary kilts is there a motion to approve I move approval of the staff resignation of Gary kilts as outlined in agenda 4.1 a second there's been a motion in a second to approve staff resignation any further discussion and I call for a roll call vote yes yes yes yes and I am yes motion carries and I just like to read a statement at tonight's board meeting the Board of Education has voted to accept the resignation of dr. Gary Celts effective immediately from his position as superintendent of Greendale schools the board requested his resignation following an investigation conducted by outside parties which documented a pattern of use of his district issued credit card for personal purchases which is a violation of district policy doctor kills has not upheld his
032fiduciary responsibilities to the district in the community and the district has sought repayment of the funds and dr. kilts has agreed to repay the district for his personal purchases the concern was discovered by the district's internal financial control processes and based on the findings of the district and independent investigations the Board of Education made the determination that is in the best interest of the district to accept and request this resignation the Board of Education will develop a search process in the coming weeks and in the interim the district will be led by Kim Ahmed's ik director of curriculum and instruction who will work closely with other district administrators and building principals the team will work collaboratively during this transition Greendale schools remain an outstanding school district led by a team of professionals committed to the
033academic social and emotional learning of our students our village can take pride in our academic artistic and athletic achievements the board and the administration teams are committed to working together to ensure a smooth transition for staff families and students as similar communication is being shared this evening with families as well as through a press release continuing on the agenda we will move on to agenda item 4.2 and 4.3 where we are here to approve the final budget for the 2019 2020 school year as well as the tax levy so Jonathan anything you want to share about just a couple of items to highlight that were included in the written report as an update the FTE membership was increased to 2000 504 from 2015 so an 89 student increase that's similar to our prior year so
034we're one of the faster growing districts in resident enrollment the last two years so that's noticeable because that that will increase our revenue limit our three-year average is at two thousand four forty nine so that is up sixty-eight full-time equivalents from from last year and it's even up fifteen students from our preliminary budget so we had projected that that would increase but not at the level that our actual enrollment counts came in at four third Friday we've got some information regarding our exemptions for private school voucher payments that increase eighty four thousand four hundred and eighty eight dollars there's no additional state equalization aid for that so all of those dollars and now that's two hundred fifty eight thousand and total becomes an additional tax levy to the community and then those dollars are distributed
035to those schools that are participating in the program our FTE is at 31 and a half that's up from twenty one point six last year the cap of the enrollment is four percent of our aid membership so it's about a hundred and one tewi we're currently at 31 Jonathan can you explain it how that what you just read has no net impact on our budget so once those numbers are finalized and we don't receive those until the October 15th state equalization aid payments are made we receive from the DPI account of the total number of students that participate in the program and then that's added as an exemption to the revenue limit so it increases the revenue limit but there's no increase in state aid for those dollars so it becomes just all an additional
036tax levy amount to the community thank you so the way I understand it is it's a requirement by the state for the district to pay the voucher money to the families in the the schools that participate in it so that's a state requirement but the state does not offer provide any resources or money for it so that investment of that cost is borne by the community correct thank you our state equalization aid came in at fourteen million eight hundred and seventy eight thousand that was down seventeen thousand dollars from our projections a very close in line it's about 0.1 percent from where we were so we were very close on that the total tax levy came in at sixteen million five thousand six hundred and twenty three dollars or eleven point three percent from the
037prior year there's an additional attachment which breaks down comparisons from prior years I would note that while that's an increase from the projection levy at the annual meeting it's a result of our revenue limit our FTE increases so we had additional students and programming to serve those we had an additional exemption for transfer service for students that had IEP s and other communities that came into our district and we had to continue to provide services for them as well as what we just previously mentioned with the voucher increase for the nineteen twenty year so the the final came in at sixteen million five thousand six hundred and twenty three I would mention that in the preliminary budget approved in June we projected 16 million thirty three thousand six ninety three so that preliminary budget from
038June ended up being closer than what we had projected in our our annual meeting presentation but it was below our original preliminary budget projection so how much of the 1 million six hundred twenty thousand is referendum in number five yep so I would compare the fund 38 and 39 increases for this year and so we are talking about an increase of let me go to that info about 1.1 4 million about 1 million 140,000 of that is our increase just for a referendum debt service fund and can you remind us so we have borrowed part of it nearly all but not all and part of the referendum so the budget is just based on the portion that we have borrowed at this time the budget is based on a projection that we would borrow the
039remaining dollars mid-year okay thank you and so related costs for that final round of borrowing okay thank you any other questions anything else Jonathan that you want so these are separate items four thousand four point three so we provided recommended administrative motions for each of those two items on page two of that background document and the non referendum debt service fund is that the energy efficiency projects that would mainly be yep non referendum debt correct in last year the capital expansion fund helped pay for the new turf field correct okay and I was told that you know the typical amount that we used for roofing for example wasn't necessary because of the referendum construction hmm so what will this be used for this year so the 200,000 has already been allocated for the portion of
040the turf that was done after July 1 so it kind of went over two years so the dollars accumulate until you spend those so right now all of the dollars and that capital expansion fund have been expended towards that that larger project okay that makes sense thank you and the additional questions so we've seen this budget throughout the year I think the first time we voted on it was in mid-june to approve a budget for the preliminary budget for the 1920 school year we received an update then again at the annual meeting in September when the community took an advisory vote but this is the the final budget approval as well as the tax levy and because we are at the final stage we do need a 2/3 vote by the Board of Education so
041any other questions otherwise I look for will do a motion to approve the original budget and then after that gets voted on we'll do a motion for the tax levy I moved to approve the budget for all funds of 59 million three hundred sixty thousand seven hundred twelve dollars and forty three cents as presented second there's been a motion a second to approve the budget for all funds for the 2019 2020 school year a fifty nine million three hundred sixty thousand seven hundred twelve dollars and forty three cents any further discussion then I call for a roll call vote yes yes yes yes and I am yes motion carries and I look for a motion for the tax levy I moved to approve the property tax levy in the amount of 16 million five dollars
042six hundred twenty 2023 for all funds as presented I second there's been a motion a second to approve the property tax levy in the amount of 16 million five thousand six hundred twenty three dollars for all funds is presented any further discussion then I call for a roll call vote yes yes yes yes and I am yes motion carries continuing on to new business for tonight's agenda we will be hearing an update on resident enrollment so Jonathan talked a little bit about FTE and how that impacts our budgets and state aid and Julie I believe will share with us a little bit about where we came in that for enrollment this year sure so this report comes following the third Friday report in September this year in looking at our resident plus non-resident enrollment including
043the open enrollment students we have 31 open enrollment students compared to 270 in the prior school year the purpose of tonight's report and third Friday look specifically at resident student enrollment those so in looking at that we had projected that our resident student enrollment would increase by 30 for residents students and we are actually up 49 students so that's a good thing we exceeded our projection this resident enrollment is different than when you hear Jonathon talk about Resident FTE and the calculations for students that is a different figure that is used for revenue purposes different than the actual number of students we have sitting in seats on third Friday so that's where the 49 students comes from increase from last year's third Friday report the next page of the report breaks out where the students
044where the increases and changes have occurred in time for learning we are down slightly from where we were last year some of that's just a matter of birth rate and and the number of students in time for learning kindergarten enrollment we are slightly higher than our projection about 10 students higher than the projection and in addition to that it's an increase over where we were at in 4k so as would be expected we have some Greendale residents students that are not attending 4k and Greendale but do join us for kindergarten in grades one through five we had some increases particularly at Highland View specifically but overall looking at all three elementary schools we netted at an increase of two students at the elementary 135 in grades 6 through 8 we also netted it pretty stable
045however I did make note in the report that we did have a significant increase in 1718 I'm sorry in 1819 and we did maintain that in this year so although we didn't have a significant increase again this year we we are up about 28 students at the middle school over where we were two years ago in grades 9 through 12 we were projected at 778 residents students and we are actually at 785 so again a similar our projections were close to the target at the high school level with regards to resident open enrollment that's open enrollment students that reside in Greendale but are open and rolling out to other districts this year we have three more residents attending other districts through open enrollment than we did last year there are 77 total open enrollment out
046and the final page of the report breaks out which school districts those students are attending from a trend perspective it looks very similar to the numbers in the districts that were being that were attended in prior years and I do note that some of the districts that are being attended do have virtual options and some of the students are attending a virtual school through those districts lastly there are three students that attend Milwaukee Public Schools through the chapter 220 program in 1920 and which is a slight decrease we had five students in Chapter 220 going out through Chapter 220 last year and this year it's three students the last final page of the report then is the third Friday report that shows the breakout of students per class and at each school and grade level
047are there any questions I hear of a lot of kind of summer drop ins or drop ins late August is that just perception or is there more in that category of recent years last year I was anticipating that we may continue to add students even into September this year particularly given the early start and although there was some of that it was not a significant number that we added after September so I think that that speaks to we did a good job communicating about the early start and getting families registered we didn't see a significant influx in early September a couple quick things on the third Friday report one was just a clarification College Park I believe has three sections of kindergarten that is correct not 24 students the other one was a question that
048came answered for me before the meeting but I think just to state it out loud in case others are listening I wasn't sure what sixty six point zero three zero one stood for and I assume many people don't so I don't know if you could explain what that stands for within a 6603 agreement is an agreement between districts and you have approved several we have a 6603 around Perkins we have a 6603 around our enrollment with an alternative school and Whitnall our 6603 guides our consortium classes and so 6603 refers to an agreed upon shared service between two districts and so if we host something students come from our consortium districts to us and that's at 6603 in and when someone else host something that's our 6603 out that was one of those things as
049a new board member was a new term for me so I appreciate it that's kind and then my question was in general looking at other Greendale residents and seeing there's an increase overall in those numbers which is obviously really positive to see coming through but there's also an increase of the total number of outgoing residents and I was just you know being the person I am doing the math behind this and so three years ago there's 3.3 percent two years ago is 3.6 percent this last this year it's 3.9 percent which is a trend that obviously is moving in the wrong direction for students going out do we know anything about why we're seeing that increase the most significant reason is our virtual schools in our half-day 4k program so the fact that our 4k
050is half-day and wraparound care is required students and families might need full-day attendance so that there's no cost for wraparound care and we see we've seen an increase there in our open enrollment out and then virtual schools at the high school level have increased in accessibility and I don't know the word I'm looking for but there's more something more common yes they're more common it's less stigmatized to be in an online school and so it's a more desirable option that students are taking we have had discussions and can certainly around how do we bring our students back and offer an online virtual option for our students within the school district and we've been working on that we're piloting a program this year with I can't remember the name of the software Steve Edge's here so
051we're piloting a jasira to do an online virtual school for a handful of students at Greendale high school in an effort to try and bring some of those students back and a committee is working on exploring our 4k program to determine if if it's feasible to make some shifts there and you'll hear a report on that at some point this school year do you have a sense for the 4k whether or not they come back to Greendale then as a kindergarten students or sometimes they like the school where they attend 4k and they'll stay through elementary school and so we lose them for multiple years interesting I just had a question regarding the class sizes I know Julie I think you said the middle school is up 28 are we running on the high end
052of some of these limits the levels that we seek as a board and are we over that in any case I don't believe are over it in any case the board has established the class size guidelines target at the middle school it's 26 to 30 and we use that for the purposes of open enrollment determinations based on capacity for open enrollment so we stay within those guidelines at the middle school level there's one class currently in eighth grade and that is the algebra class that exceeds that by two students but that's because the other math classes are lower and below that so that is one place where we have communicated with families and that are slightly over but just in math in their other courses they are not and what is the high school range
053high school range is 25 to 30 and I think for high school because it's it's hard we use that in determining open enrollment we look at what is it like an English class or something or correct English sections at ninth grade based on the number of students there are some classes and I think this is where Joe is going with regards to the enrollments in FTEs we have some classes we use fifteen as our minimum size at the high school there are some classes that run closer to that minimum number we do have a handful particularly this year depending on how sections broke we had to make decisions about staffing implications of that so there are some that are at times upwards of that thirty sometimes thirty one thirty two depending on the course in
054physical education and music programs are above any other questions so this is kind of tied you know we hear enrollment updates throughout the year for different purposes alive it is tied to the budget and I think the next time we'll hear a report on enrollment is probably early winter when we start looking at approving open enrollment it's actually sooner than that I'll be back in November to bring the the projections so we use this data now to make our purchase last year which then comes into play when we look at open enrollment seeds in January and just as a clarification because of the complexities of all the budgets and how this all fits in with numbers so these are real numbers the numbers that were presented over here are based upon a three-year average of
055and that's where the FTE comes from for our budget purposes so you received information that would be our current year third Friday FTE as well as the three-year average but as Julie pointed out the FTE count is going to include both students that are coming in as well as residents students who are going out that account for revenue limit but that'll be open enrollment payment that's set by the state that we would pay out from that that revenue limit amount the other piece that gets figured into that student FTE calculation is summer school which isn't accounted for in my third Friday numbers the difference and we continue to trend an upward upward in our numbers which also is somewhat problematic when you use a three-year average because as we continue to increase our three-year average
056for budgeting purposes is not obviously increasing as fast as our numbers are increasing for students correct legs when you're increasing but also legs when you're decreasing there any other questions all right then next item on the agenda is 5.2 early college credit program the early college credit credit program was authorized by the legislature and administrative rule last year it replaced both youth options which had been in place for a long time and course options in place for several years so early college credit is simply a vehicle through which students can request to take a course at an institute of higher education if they have exhausted all courses available at Greendale high school we do have a robust curricular offerings but in alignment with our college and career our pathways we have been partnering and collaborating
057with MATC and WCTC to offer more courses to students so we have only three students requesting courses that would have traditionally been a youth options course and that's two for computer programming different computer programming courses and one for dental hygiene and then beyond that - all of them are reflective of our partnerships so the certified nursing assistant program we have traditionally done in summer and for the first time we're partnering with MATC to offer that as a second semester class that will be on-site at the West Allis campus for students and there are currently nine students enrolled and then what you see with the dual enrollment program that is linked what four of the programs are linked these are programs in which during their senior year of high school students can take up to five
058classes on campus and work towards their first year of an associate's degree and we have students enrolled in nursing welding protective services robotics construction IT and fire science small numbers in each but the opportunity exists for them we've talked about this when we looked at the budget because there is a cost to it and the numbers have not risen to the point that it impacts staffing and enrollment here at the high school but we these are courses that we can't offer and so it offers students an opportunity to advance into careers sooner so in the past a youth options required board approval you'll notice that this is just an information item the new policies allow administration to approve as there is no reason to not approve so we are providing information now that we're in
059course options so I'd be happy to answer any other questions so no money comes from the state there is a reimbursement and it is a small reimbursement that is 25% that we can apply for the other place that we are seeing reimbursements but it will end in 2020 is the current technical education incentive grants that students who earn certifications that we will we will receive funding for them so we file a report at the end of a school year on the number of graduating students who earned a industry certification or certificate while in high school certified nursing assistant is one of those there are all of these programs have certificates and so when we file that were reimbursed an incentive grant of approximately a thousand dollars per student and so we've received that for the
060last two or three years but next year will be the last year that the state will fund the technical incentive grants it is this part of our legislative outreach I mean that was so long ago when we looked at them in terms of talking to Senator Craig and representative scrotes about this yes mandate I believe that it is part of our talking points and they had they did come forward with a little bit of money but it's it's not covering the costs there is also MIT C has grant funding that reduces the cost there was a sale of there was a sale and that money then came back and is funding scholarships for students so that is coming to us so there they have reduced costs from some scholarships that are available at MIT C
061so do we have a total cost I know we don't have a total cost here it is in the budget that you approved and I can bring that back to you on Friday thank you what is the the process like if someone wanted to pursue a course that wasn't being offered is there process and I was just kind of curious too because like are they requesting a course are they requesting a specific program in a specific place when they come to they're requesting a specific course at a specific institution and sometimes they will list two institutions if they see the course at multiple institutions and when the schedule comes out they'll choose but they are requesting a specific course at a specific institution it is communicated in the course selection handbook that the opportunities are
062available and the students will work with counselors and as they're making course selections they will say I'd like to try this or I'd like to do that there's nothing here for me and that's where students have the opportunities so the increased in the dual enrollment Academy is a direct result of counselors making matches with students who have career aspirations and interests who have exhausted coursework and are ready to move on so what's the difference between the weld so I see welding in both the dual enrollment program as well as the course option so they differ the of course the early college credit option is a consortium with MATC it is a it is a single course that is offered after at the end of our school and that is a single course for three credits
063the dual enrollment Academy is actually entering a full day of coursework they accumulate if hold on a link out and tell you the number of credits so a dual enrollment they're taking 15 credits per semester so they are there for the majority of their day they are there from there's usually a time here oh that's the information meeting they are there for approximately four to five hours during each school day and they have the opportunity to return to Greendale high school and take an English course or to take another course that they might require for graduation we have students who take band and they do the welding courses during the day at I make T C and then they come back for band so the difference between the single core is that there's one course
064versus a complement of a full schedule at this time the students are responsible for their transportation and we do have that is part of what's communicated there is some discussion about how we might make some shifts in that there have been some students who needed transportation that may be provided as part of an IEP team decision but we have had conversations that transportation is barrier any other questions look I was just there's one program and I know is really kind of gaining a lot of steam Arizona State University has launched their global Freshman Academy which is I don't know how that fits in necessarily with this but it's an entire first year which is offered to students to participate in and so they come into the university as a sophomore essentially and it's free and
065then once they pass the course they can elect to pay for it or not if they want earn the credits so it's a very different model which i think is going to crush some of the models that we currently have in the state of Wisconsin especially at a university that already has a hundred thousand students on the ground and aspirations have a million on their platform shortly so just something to be cognizant of a sure you already have a towards one of ASU preps last year so I've seen their goals ya know an opportunity for students that in this would not apply in terms of the school's paying because this stipulates that it has to be an institute of higher education in the state of Wisconsin all right any other questions or comments all right
066thank you for that update in and I think we'll keep this in mind as we I think later in the year we typically hear review any new course additions or deletions at the secondary level so this is always good to reflect that and you know what classes are we offering and what our classes are our students taking elsewhere all right thank you next item on the agenda is generate on five point three talking points of division so this is something that came out of one of our one of our sessions and I think Kathy and Noel you worked with administration kind of review and and proposed some talking points so that we have a consistent message and in a clear and concise way of explaining some of our 2020 vision so anything that anyone wants
067to share the ways it was provided yes we there's a page of talking points for project-based learning for personalization the career pathways and student engagement so there's examples of where it's happening and how it's happening and why something that we continue to pursue for the project based learning did you consider under why it's such an important model to add that it's culturally responsive and representative I was not part of the conversations was that a conversation that was included also on that same page I seem to recall recently said 60% of teachers are trained correct project base is there any plan to make that 100% yes that is one of the goals on the scorecard is to increase the percentage of teachers who are trained and I think that we're looking from 60% to 72% I'd
068have to go back and double-check the scorecard but yes there's the goal is to eventually be at a hundred percent and that's PD within the school year not just the summer correct other than that same vein I think that would be a nice piece to add and all they used to say kind of where we were kind of high level with the scorecards last year to where we want to go this year and then one other comment was I know these are talking points and I think all of us know what these are but I'm just wondering if they get used elsewhere hoping they are pretty nice out of you have us one-pager some of the acronyms should probably be spelled out just to make sure that yeah exactly yeah throughout and I know like
069for example pbl spelled out in the project-based learning one but then there's it's mentioned again in some of the others and if it seemed separately you know just to spell it out one that was mentioned [Music] yeah spell that out yeah otherwise I think these are really nice just to have is a one-pager or I think it helps provide some consistency across there's great progress that's being made and be able to kind of talk about not only why this is important and kind of the kind of the Golden Circle if you will of why how and what but then kind of also where we're going to advance this work so I think that's really nice so thanks for both us together for career pathways how often our career surveys taken we often do the students
070take the career service they for sure take it in ACP Emma I'm gonna defer to you because I haven't been an ACP lately seen us do different ACP so we do like scholarships and if have send stuff I know freshmen and sophomores did one recently yes and and it is part of the sixth seventh and eighth grade ACP as well so at least once per year they're reflecting on their career interest inventories do you do the teachers then review the survey results for the students or is that strictly the counselors so as you look at one of the next steps is around launching a Kinect program we will be launching media communications as our first career pathway or Kinect and we will be using that data to market to students who may be interested in
071registering for the new program that's one example of how we're using that data do staff receive PD to go through those results and what I mean by that is obviously counselors are well trained and well versed in going through results of well it says you could be interested in this your average classroom teacher may not be familiar with all of those career options so how frequently do they get that PD to go through the results with the students okay thank you and the additional questions or comments for the student engagement at the very bottom disaggregate the data to look at marginalized groups and ensure participation through all of these activities who is going to do that that is part of the scorecard so that will be done by administration on a regular basis we have
072three points during the school year that we'll be reviewing addressing and working to increase proportional representation is the phrase thank you all right any additional comments or questions will these be posted are these gonna be posted what I heard is that there are some revisions that are desired by the board and so then at that point if you would like it to be posted we can post it within the website maybe where we have the vision 20/20 any kind of that includes there okay and I am looking getting back to John your question about career readiness so in March we'll have an update on academic and career readiness report so we may be able to talk a little bit more and just understand about what that process looks like and and share any thoughts or
073comments at that time as well all right continuing on next item on the agenda is the policy committee continues to meet and tonight we're bringing back to policies for our first reading so the first one has to do with computer network and Internet use for students that is an existing policy so there have been some revisions to the Hat and then the second one is a new policy that came out of the policy review with wasd earlier this year regarding physical force and corporal punishment so we've got the policies in front of us and I think for the first one because it is a revision you see some of the changes so the big piece on this was essentially deleting thirty six three three sixty three point two and then rolling it into what was
074formerly known as the rule as the actual policy and the rationale behind it was one it was mostly duplicate 'iv of one another and then also some of the things that were non student-focused were covered now in the handbook for staff so I was able to separate those and keep that simple the only things that were really not mentioned were added into item number three you'll see a couple bold words where we wanted to make sure that it wasn't just an appropriate use of language but also of images and media files and then lastly adding into G you'll see the word bullying added in to also harm and harassed as it reflects in that policy to make sure that it covered everything else that was part of the the original 360 3.2 and just cleans
075up everything so now we don't have two different documents have one document with everything in the same spot and then you'll notice we call ourself the district is kind of one of the things that we're doing is a cleanup as we go through versus having to spell out Greendale School District Greendale School District Green does constrict and in some places depending on when the policies we're updated we call ourselves other things so we're just doing those cleanups that consistently will be caught the same thing throughout all of our policy all right any questions about the first policy tonight I'm wondering if Angie where you talk about use of the network to harm bully or harass others and I will put or include hate speech or so as part of that sounds like a good idea
076thank you and then the other the other item which we are looking at is a new policy and this was a new policy on corporal punishment or physical force and corporal punishment Tim I believe was this you you presented this and then the only thing that we kind of struck from the initial presentation when we discussed it was just making sure that it was inclusive to all staff within the district and that's that's included in the final copy that we received here in front of us so the phrase reasonable and necessary force obviously is used repeatedly do we have any data on how often that is used in terms of reasonable necessary for us outside of seclusion and restraint it's not happening in our buildings that we're having to resolve method I don't know if
077there's a larger data source in regards to the state of Wisconsin or national data related to that but this is just firming up from a district perspective that we're not going to engage in those types of behaviors and really spell out instances within the policy that will explain in area that we we may have to resort to that type of physical nature to respond to events that happen in the school buildings any anytime you put hands on kids in the school building it's reported there's a report filed that we had to intervene in some manner so that's a report that actually comes to me in terms of the use of seclusion and restraint we are using training for that and on violence nonviolent crisis intervention training we train staff and we track their licensure within
078that and offer trainings to recertify for them to be able to utilize those techniques in the buildings it's not required for all staff any staff that has a reasonable need to potentially utilize that we want to try to train in a proactive manner and if a staff member would like to just receive the training they can also request that absolutely yep yep is that a two-year certification for that we tried to recertify every 15 months with our staff you can go as much as two years but we feel 15 months is kind of a better radar to keep our staff certified all right any other questions or comments about this the second policy is each purposely vague it just appears I'm sure would the last item age incidental minor a reasonable physical contact designed to
079maintain order and control and that could be a lot of things yeah I think throughout the course of a school day there's opportunities where there is contact with kids it's just a natural part of the school setting that there's guiding of students and things like that that there are times during the school day where a staff member is going to have a hand on somebody not in an aggressive manner thankfully that kind of covers that type of engagement that we have with kids that's just part of being in a school thank you all right so this is our first reading we'll be bringing this back for a second reading and there are a couple of revisions that were requested tonight so we'll get the second reading at our next board meeting continuing on under new
080business student board member report any Emma anything that you'd like to share so we have some exciting things first girls volleyball won their game on Saturday so that's cool boys and girls cross-country will be going to state based off of their performance this past Saturday which is the first time they're both going together so that's really awesome teens with impact is working on a campaign to spread awareness of mental health resources within our school and the Greater Milwaukee area their first step with that is within our school so our guidance counselors school psychologists and our social worker are going to get a cute little page on their Instagram and that will make information more accessible and students will become more aware of the research that they have sources of strength finished there we belong wings
081last week this art shows the diversity within our school as well yeah students were asked to write a part of their identity and what makes them them on a wing or multiple wings and that will hung up this week student equity team met this past week and the survey was created to be sent out to family and community members in hopes of planning an all-inclusive cultural event this spring aside from this set members continued to be examples of how to leave conversation around racist incidences within our classes and serve as peer leaders that can emphasize how important it is to listen and understand where we are at as a community so that we can move forward and provide healing for minorities who are affected by these acts of hate and then theatre department went on
082a field trip last week to Concordia where they learn more about the Holocaust as it pertains to the fall play this year I can't remember the performance date off the top of my head but it's in a week or so and then Concert Chorale will be attending the Carthage choral Festival this Thursday and Molly United Nations will be attended attending their Carthage Conference this Friday which is an exciting opportunity to grow their global perspective and show off what they've been learning any questions thank you very much mo legislative update chalid there actually has been some activity going on in medicine and a lot of it exciting actually the energy efficiency project is coming back I don't know if Jonathan you had heard about that they're adding more hoops which is no surprise if they're going
083to bring it back for example a school board must hold a hearing 30 days before voting on such a project and public notice must be given ten days before that hearing school board also must issue a report providing the info about public savings but I'm I'm happy that those projects can come back in the thousand-year band or moratorium could possibly end moving on this is also something quite exciting Senate bill 408 a full day 4k attendance five days a week a bill is being debated in committee currently and that they would be counted as one pupil and not 0.5 and on occasion point six I was reading up on that Julie that's that sounds very confusing how it's point six sometimes I don't think we need to get into that but anyway so that I'd
084those to write for public education is good news and then on the on the topic of mental health to assembly bills are being debated currently promoting peer to peer suicide prevention grants are awarded by TPI dpi up to a thousand dollars a related bill has ID card this would mean a school that has ID cards must have contact information on the card for suicide prevention which I thought was pretty interesting now with this last one Julie you can speak to this it's a change to the requirements for reciprocity what does it look like now somebody shows up from Illinois and I want I'm applying for this opening in terms of licensure it depends on what state they're coming from dpi so it has changed in that if they have teaching experience in any other state
085if they've taught for at least one full year they automatically qualify for a license in the state of Wisconsin which creates different standards for teacher quality for teachers that graduate from a UW system school if they struggle to pass the Ford exam if they go and they teach out of state for one year they can come back to Wisconsin and potentially qualify so it's an issue that I think dpi is continuing to wrestle with and try to determine the qualification criteria around it's constantly changing is that to help curb the teacher shortage or what is that that's the reason behind this right mm-hmm okay so that's all I have it's exciting news from it I was reviewing this all right any board committee reports or updates anything from from Park and Rec so we had
086a meeting on October was it October 9th and a couple of just quick notes one is the seventeenth and final a benefit auction is November 2nd 2019 so if you haven't already I don't know I think they might be sold out or but if they're not in you're really interested contact the Park and Rec and hope they can get in still one other thing to note is that the Greendale Community Theatre winter production is going to be Rock of Ages and the there was also an attempt rouse key though is the new auditorium manager that was hired at the end of August which we heard about that was brought up to the committee as well in our last note and those were the three things that I wanted to highlight from the parking right committee
087is the reason that the auctions the last year is there any reason behind that or is it just phasing out I think it's one of those things that is lots of reasons it ran its course this course I there may or may not have been certain employees is that if we do this again I'm not sure if we're gonna be here next year so so that might be part of it as well but I know that it's been a phenomenal effort but it's a big effort that's taken on and Jonathan and I ended up wandering over up to the meeting even to help carry over some of the items because they lost their space again this year just to kind of set up so they were doing it in the basement of middle school and
088then during you know the school day they had to put everything away in storage and every time we have to do with had to pull back out to kind of organize things which you could imagine there's a little fun to do on nights and weekends so I think they're ready to be done with the benefit auction but it's always a great event for those that have been very good anything else anything from that Oh Education Foundation has changed somehow its meeting it used to meet every month but now it's meeting every other month so we will have a meeting in November we're starting to gear up for the cheers for education in February so work on that and moving forward with some other fundraising efforts all right thank you [Music] I think many of us
089are ok so that that's taking place tomorrow I also just wanted to mention the state the National Convention taking place in Illinois there was some talk of us potentially all attending that this year because of the proximity so I think that'll probably be a future discussion I'm guessing yeah let's talk about that I think we do have a policy that requires that if more than one or two board members go we need to vote on it so if we want if there's interest to doing it and there might be some like you said given the proximity that it's taking place in Chicago that there might be a desire for for more of us to attend that calendar review we heard a little bit about the different events so again the speak up at school and
090in the community is taking place on Wednesday November 6 that'll be in the high school at the MPR we heard about the the theater production they'll be taking place next weekend November 7th through the 9th so that's taking place anything else that in the community or that's happening we heard about the benefit auctions of the Park and Rec all right then we are at the end of our agenda any additional comments from visitors this evening Laura Miller 5 2 3 4 Lakeside Drive and I just wanted to read to you a note from the ACLU of Wisconsin that reminds the public schools of their constitutional obligation to protect students from discrimination which was sent out on October 7th and I don't know if you actually got them but they were supposed to send them to
091the all the school boards in Wisconsin but I'm gonna read you some excerpts ok in the wake of numerous reports of harassment in public schools the ACLU of Wisconsin is reminding school leaders of the responsibility to protect all students from discrimination a letter was sent today to public school administrators and board members expressed Express the organization's serious concerns regarding complaints of persistent racial and sexual bullying and harassment in school districts across Wisconsin school districts have an obligation to protect students from harassment based on race color national origin sex or disability including bullying and harassment by other students schools must be held accountable for turning a blind eye to harassment and discrimination students have a right to an education and Wisconsin schools must ensure that the hostile environment does not interfere with that right over the
092past several years the ACLU of Wisconsin has received complaints that report the use of racial slurs and inappropriate comments about sex and gender made by students and teachers alike as well as the absence of policies and practices for prevention and response to racial and gender harassment of students the organization has also received reports of students failing to take schools failing to take complaints seriously suggesting harassment harassing behavior should be taken as jokes and failing to take action to implement meaningful and adequate measures to ensure these problems do not occur and noting that students of color and students with disabilities are also expelled at disproportionate rates in Wisconsin the ACLU of Wisconsin also warned school administrators against adopting zero-tolerance discipline policies that impose explicit predetermined punishments for specific violations of school rules regardless of the circumstance
093or context of the behavior and that is some of it and I will try to email it to you if you guys don't have it it's five pages long thank you for your comments this evening all right seeing no additional comments we are adjourned to our next board meeting which is next week given that we're meeting in the fourth week of the month on Monday September 4th we are adjourned