001Take a roll. Tim. Here. Steve Here. Uh, Jessica. Who? Kailyn. Tom? Here. Angie here. Tucker. Okay. For the record, we do have a quorum with four. So we continue, uh, first order of business. We'll need a motion to approve our minutes from our February 17th regular board meeting. I'll make a motion. I'll second. Motion by Annie and seconded by Tom. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Nay. Hearing none. Motion carries to approve the minutes from the federal meeting. Next is are public comments. Um, Jim Whiteman, Whiteman, sorry. Come on up. Okay. I'll try to keep it short and sweet and not ramble. Um, I just got a couple topics I want to talk about. Thank you board members for this time. I'm Jim Whiteman. If you don't know who I am, I'm
002an Athens community member, father, um, a former teacher, and now business owner. I'm here to discuss a few topics that I would like the board and community members to think about in the near future. Um, the first topic, a lot of these top these two topics. You might not be able to do anything tonight, but I just want to kind of get a feeler out there. I would like to discuss the next referendum. I know it's two years away, but that time we'll be here quickly and we'll have to do another referendum unless the state and federal government are going to spi our, our school of funds. Um, I know the state of Wisconsin is sitting on a rainy day fund of $1.9 billion, but I doubt that they're gonna use it to fund education.
003They didn't want it two years ago. I really don't know. Um, what is a more rainy day fix than fixing your school funding? Um, with that being said, what are the next steps for Athens School Board for the next referendum? I know it's two years away, but I would like to kind of plant the seed right now. Um, I per, I bring this up because I personally, other committee members hope we are prepared to get a positive vote on the first try. Um, just want to kind of, and then the second topic I would like to discuss, um, is it this family of public education or of the Department of Education, I should say? Um, that's going on. And I'm not here to discuss if it should be dismantled or not. If they should or
004if they should not. My concern is the funding that it provides f in schools. I'm very grateful for the title programs that helped me in a, as a child in speech, reading and writing, which led to a successful high school, college professional life. I'm also very fortunate that my children were offered the title programs here at Athens enhance their speech, reading and, and writing. Um, the title program was a huge factor in deciding the school district that we were moving to. Um, back to Athens, we were here and then we moved out and we came back. Um, it sounds like we have lost some really great teachers in the title program 'cause of workload. Um, they moved on because of over workload from that's what we've heard. Um, my concern is how are we gonna
005fund these programs for future generations? Um, is the title program going to stick around without federal funding if they dismantle the department of Education? If so, how are future generations? Um, See where My concern is, how are we going to fund these programs for future generations? Um, is the title program gonna stick around? If so, how will the funding work? Are we going to add more monetary needs to future referendums? Um, I know that you may not have answers, but I hope the board members and community think about the future with the federal funds because it may not be in, it might be in the near future. Something to think about. So that's all I have, so Thank you. Thank you for your comments, Jim. Appreciate it. Okay. Uh, our next, uh, order is to,
006uh, recognize and commendations. Anybody have anything? I just wanna give a shout out to all our junior achievement people that have been coming in our building and just doing some great things with our kids at all levels. And I know that that takes away from their work. Um, and yet, uh, we really appreciate it. And I think they did a different vision of what's like inside school and inside classrooms too. So Thank, Thank you to all of them. Thank You, joy. Anyone else? Okay, left. Uh, we'll go into our board members reports. First being our Marathon County Special Education report. Um, highlights from the February 20th meetings and our active information. You'll have a chance to review it. Um, any comments or questions on it? Otherwise, we just recognize that in our minutes and we
007review it. Okay. Administrator's reports. We'll start with our superintendent, please. Thank you. Um, tonight in our report, I'm gonna highlight, um, three different individuals who are part of our leadership team here in the school district of Athens, who are going to share updates and information about some, um, things that are happening, whether it's in their departments, um, and or in the things they are teaching. The first is under student staff engagement Goal number one, to foster and support quality citizens who are college and career ready. It is, um, my honor to introduce, um, Michelle Markowski, our business information technology instructor, who's going to highlight some information around our YA and School to work programs, as well as provide the board and our communities and information about our reality activity that's gonna happen on April 9th.
008Michelle, thanks for joining us. Thank you. And, um, some paper work for you guys to take a canor at, so hopefully it makes it a little bit easier. Um, I wanted to highlight our school career program, first of all. Um, so we have a school career program, which actually entails two separate pieces. Uh, we have a co-op and a youth apprentice program. They're the same, but different. Um, so both programs are meant to give our students real world on the job work training. Um, they're different in that co-op programs are focused more on soft skills, so it's only available to our seniors. And the requirements from the state are a little less as far as time goes. So they're required to be on the job, a total of nine new hours. And again, it's more,
009um, broad, so it's more soft skills, communication skills that the students are working on. The youth apprentice program is much more, uh, career specific. So that is open to juniors and seniors and they directly align with the career pathways. So the students are working in the industry that they have expressed an interest to after high school. And because of that, they have to meet certain competencies that are set by DWD and they have to re, they have to work depending on if they're doing a one year or a two year program, either 450 hours a year or a total of 900 hours at the end of the program. And, um, there's kind of a lot that goes into both of those, but that's just a quick overview. And on the back page, I just wanted
010to kind of highlight some of our 2020 4 25 highlights for our program. So this year we have a total of 21 students in the program, and one of them is a co-op. 20 of them are yas. So that's a big accomplishment I think for the Athens School District. It's a big thing for our students, um, for them to enroll and take the initiative to get into those programs with those 20 students. Um, four of them are returning yas, so they are completing their second year of their youth apprenticeship. And we also, with those youth apprentice and co-op students, we are working with 15 different area businesses. Um, so that's, that's a great accomplishment for our students to go out into our community and work with our businesses that we have right here. Um, kind
011of the other bonus of the YA program is through NTC. We receive money through a grant, um, sponsor, sponsored by DWD for every YA student that we have. So at the end of every year, we project how many we have for the next year. Last year we projected 12, and obviously we beat that goal this year. Um, kind of the sad part was, is, um, the grant would only or could only pay us for those 12 this year, but it's a big accomplishment for us to beat those, those numbers every year. So those are, oh, and then we finish off the year with an appreciation breakfast. Um, last year was our first breakfast. It was a big hit with our, our work sites and our students. So this year we are having our, uh, appreciation
012breakfast May 2nd, 2025. So hopefully some of you will come down and visit, um, for the breakfast. And this year I'm very excited to bring the Reality Day to Athens High School. I've worked with this program at other schools that I've been at. Um, so this year we're bringing it to Athens. We are working with Marathon High School. I've worked with him a couple of times in the past. So we are working together. Um, it will be April 9th in right here at Athens. We'll be using the gym. Um, we're working with some of our local businesses, again, between Athens, uh, marathon and wasa. So what the school or what the students will do. So I just have an example. I think I sent this letter to all of the board members. So you probably
013have seen this before. The, uh, intro letter is just a little description of the program. And we had some good turnout, um, or businesses offering to help. And I had the deadline of February. And after the deadline, of course, I had a couple of businesses say, oops, I missed the deadline. Can I still help? Obviously we'll always take help. Um, so we're still adding actually, businesses to come and help on April 9th. And then the other two sheets that I have is, this is what the students will get. So the seniors actually got their, uh, profile today, and this is their profile that gives 'em their financial information that they need for the month. It's based on their career path. So they told us what they want to do after high school. So what I
014do is I look up the average starting wage in Wisconsin, and that's their, that's how we figure their, uh, monthly income. And then yes, some of them are married, some of them are not. Um, we give 'em a credit score. And then today the seniors got to name their kids. So some of them have kids and some of them don't. So that was their job today. And then what they do is on the back page, they fill out just that left hand column, figuring out how much money they actually have left after taxes and all that fun stuff. Um, and then their beginning balance is what they will need for April 9th. So then April 9th, they go to the gym and they have to hit all of these different, uh, areas that are on
015the right side and on the back page by the end of their simulated month of financial obligations, they have to have a positive balance. Some, some will, some will not. Um, if they do not, then they have to go back and they have to figure out how they can pay their bills. So that's where the, uh, business owners play a part because they will kind of be manning each of the tables and, um, sometimes they will be helpful, sometimes they will be salespeople like, Nope, you can afford this. Go ahead. You can afford this. Um, and the kids have to make good, hopefully financial decisions. So I'm really excited for the financial day to take place. Um, I hope the students are excited and, uh, be the first year here. If you have any questions,
016please let me know. I'm happy to explain more if you need more information. Thank you That the next portion of my report, um, piloting family and community engagement. I wanna recognize, uh, the work of, uh, Becky gl. I'm Trevor Raki, who have worked diligently really for probably six to nine months since you probably started in the position last summer. Um, one of the areas that we had received feedback on, um, and hoping to make improvements is we utilize our infinite campus. That's our student information system for online registration. So every year we ask a family, uh, who's going to have a child or children attending our district to complete online registration. So with Becky's leadership over the last several months, um, she has attended trainings both online and in person. She's gathered information and she
017worked to really improve the system based on that feedback that we received, either from families or staff or other community members. So I'm gonna give her the opportunity to maybe highlight a few of these significant changes. And if you are a parent in the district, these um, may or may not seem familiar if you have indeed already registered a child or children. If not, we'll forecast what's ahead. So Becky, Thank you. Um, so I think a couple of the big changes that we've made, um, our EL families have a survey that they need to fill out. And previously we would have our translator come in and this was all done, um, via paper. Um, and now as part of our online registration, if they answer yes or no to a question, automatically is going to
018take them to that English language survey. Um, which then we can run a report out of campus. And it's just a little bit more seamless, um, than it was in the past. Um, another big thing is our activity and athletic registration. Um, this is now being done via the parent portal. Um, we're trying to eliminate a lot of the paper signups and the Google forms and all of these different avenues that students could sign up for their activities. Um, so now in the parent portal, we have our school store set up and families add, um, for each of their students, their clubs or their sports that they are interested in. Um, currently we do not charge fees for any of those activities. Um, so your cart shows a $0 balance. You would go through the
019checkout, um, and then the athletic director is able to track that interest in the activities in the sports, um, in real time. So as soon as you submit your online registration, and if you say that your, um, freshman is interested in baseball and your junior is interested in basketball, that automatically will go into our activity monitor, which we can watch. Um, a couple small things. Um, our medication information, if we have students that are scheduled to take medication during the school day, rather than parents having to reenter that every year, it's just going to roll over. Um, and you would just have to say no if, if they no longer are scheduled to take it. Um, we've made a couple small changes as far as our trans transportation. Um, so we'll be able to run
020some reports for our Fisher Transportation to kind of just eliminate a lot of the, the middle communication that gets a little clunky during the beginning of school. Um, another little thing is we ask parents if they are okay with their par with their children's photos being used in, um, promotional handouts, um, social media posts. And we ran into the issue that we asked that question, but it didn't go anywhere. So, um, unfortunately we weren't able to see which parents said no in a way other than going into each student's profile and looking. Um, so something small change, but a, a huge asset to be able to just run a quick report, see who says no, and make sure that those kids aren't shown in anything. Thank you very much. Facilities and operations, um, I've shared
021with the board in the past several months, um, that we've had an interest in conducting a facilities audit and assessment of all of our facilities throughout the school district of Athens. Um, this speaks to Mr. Weidman's opening comments of preparing for an upcoming referendum in approximately two, little over two and a half years. Um, we'd like to gather some current information to find out, um, really what's needed, um, in each of our facilities to help us plan not only for upcoming maintenance, but if there's been deferred maintenance for one or more years as well. Um, Jimmy KY has taken the lead, um, in working with the C nine team who has been both, um, on site and then, um, on the internet, uh, talking with us back and forth in emails. So I'm gonna turn
022it over to Jamie to give us an update on where we're right now in the process. Okay. Um, so during the week of February 17th, we, um, had a project manager and facilities advisor come from CSA 10. Um, they started out by asking me a series of questions, um, for this facility, um, and then all the other things that we have. Um, we then met with the principals and food service, uh, then we took a tour. They took pictures of a variety of different things. Um, and that was pretty much that day. Um, we did, they have to do a separate day for Maple Grove just 'cause we ran out of time. Um, and then on March 3rd, satanic came and met with Andrea, uh, talked to her, gave her, um, just some general preliminary
023findings that they found, um, and then kind of gave her a timeline of where we would be down the road. Um, I think towards the end of April they planned to have the report complete. Once that's complete, and uh, Andrea and I go over that with them, they will, we will then invite them to a board meeting to do a formal presentation. Um, the report that you're gonna see is gonna be very similar to the ones you've seen in the past. Um, just because of funding, we haven't been able to take care of quite a few things. So quite a few things have been deferred. Um, but we have been able to take care of a few things, um, via donations from the Maple Grove Foundation at Maple Grove. We were able to take care
024of the boilers there shortly after the building was purchased. Uh, COVID Relief Funds helped us out with some rooftop units, air handlers, unit ventilators, uh, throughout the district. Um, and then, uh, some grant funding was, uh, allocated for some of the items we've done at Maple Grove, um, as far as the flooring and items like that. So, um, what you'll find in this report is just stressing up to the referendum and during a referendum, you know, we might have to do a capital in order to take care of some of the deferred maintenance, so we just can't defer any longer. So, And that's all I have. Okay. Any questions? Thank you. Unless there's questions. Steve, you good? Yes. Okay, good. Okay, then we'll have, uh, our Maple Grove, uh, charter School Principal report. So, um,
025you can look at my report and see you have questions and I'd be happy to answer, but I'm gonna focus in on our food playground that's coming. So, um, as I talked about throughout the process, um, we have partnered with a company called Being in Stock and being in stock is out of, um, Ontario, Canada. They have a sister company that is also in Colorado. Um, the company that will actually do the construction is coming out of Chicago. Um, but they all correlate together and being in stock, um, really focuses on nature scape playgrounds, which is just the hands-on of real, real nature artifacts that, um, help develop the child as a whole child looking at the texture of things, being able to, um, just discover and really move up in their play. Um, going
026from building the, the muscular strength in their arms by the different climbing. And that's what the equip the equipment that we have chosen to put on our playground really helps kids to from little on be able to grow with the equipment and, um, use it in different ways. Um, it's a safe approach to it as well as it is, um, all manufactured to, um, stay together, not to move, um, just to be set into the ground so that way there isn't, but it is all real logs. Um, and we'll, um, the maintenance that is required is every year we have to put a special, um, coating. Jamie has been involved in all these meetings, um, to know the maintenance piece of it. But, um, other than coding it, it should last us 15 to 20
027years, um, with the different equipment that is on there. Um, our committee consisted of myself, um, the kindergarten teacher, a third grade teacher, uh, parent from our PTO, um, and another parent from the PTO as well. And then, um, Jamie and the, um, company, they are made up of, um, a variety of people. They have, um, different people who come from a diverse background horticulturalists. They also have, um, people from that do little, um, development as well as larger development in kids. Um, they have psychologists on their committee as well. So the, the committee goes through a variety. Um, the playground goes through a variety of people, um, before it is finalized so they can look at all those differences. And, um, and they also have to do everything with compliance, um, a playground standards
028and compliance. So that is all up to code. So with that, do you wanna pull it up? Yeah, I'll let you see it. Um, we revealed at our open house last week to our families and community members that attend our open house. So that was the grand reveal here. We have sat through, um, several meetings with being in soc all virtually, and they finally came to our 3D Um, drawing. The playground itself will be started the beginning to middle of May. It's expected to be about four weeks to, um, build it. And so it'll be completed, um, before the end of June. Once again, this has been made possible because at the beginning of this year, we were awarded an additional half a million dollars that had to be, um, utilized within the first year
029for the implement or within this year for the implementation grant. This came from, originally the grant was a four year grant. They moved it down to three years to align with other federal grants. So, um, then we were put on a pause for a while for spending money. So it's been quite a roller coaster with this grant not knowing where the funding, how the funding, um, if it was gonna stay, if it was gonna go and we had to like reapply for it, then we had to go through an audit process. Um, so through all that they're like, oh, we have extra federal funding, let's disperse that. And as long as we had over a hundred students, which I'm happy to say we do, um, and we were spending regularly on the grant, they, um,
030we had to submit what we would want the extra money for. And with that we stated, um, we asked for the 500,000 and were awarded it had said that we would do, um, the playgrounds with a huge majority of that money. So this is an aerial view. Um, currently there's two trees there and those will stay there that are, um, the bigger trees, um, that you see, those will stay in that location. But it's an aerial view of what you'll see in the front of the building. And that's just with the trees removed. So you can see, um, one of those storage buildings was purchased with the grant as well last summer. So that's houses all of our playground equipment and extra equipment, um, like our rakes and our shovels and, um, different things that
031we utilize on the school grounds for our different labs and activities. The front view that you see here. So it'll really encompass the whole front of the lower playground, leaving green space for, um, over here kids love to play soccer and football and stuff in this green space also, um, the woods area where they still, um, play in. But this portion here, this is, um, actually a raised hill, like oversee what's all there. And, um, the bushes and trees are also, um, picked by the committee to help with sensory on the smells that they choose 'em and the texture of different things, knowing that kids are going to play and touch and handle those plant materials. So as you see here, when you enter the playground, it has a, it has a flow and a
032system to it is our swings, swings are pretty popular at Maple Grove and we have your traditional swing set still in the upper playground, but this is more of a swing set that four, five kids can fit in one of those swings. And just the creativity of working as a team to balance it out and be in there, um, is what those swings will provide. Just a closer view. And then as you go through the pathway, we'll um, take you to our log ash. And this is really what it sounds like. It is a crisscross of different, um, you can go to the next one, different, um, logs and obstacles that the kids can climb onto, but you'll notice the safety features that are in place. It is, um, all, um, concreted it, there's concrete
033and metal holding it all together. Um, so it doesn't move, it doesn't shift. There isn't a safety issue. And our littles are, um, learning to, um, maneuver and manipulate, um, the bottom to eventually be able to crawl onto the top. And as you can see, this student here, um, is walking all the way up there. And that is what, um, essentially it is meant for them to take risks in nature and be able to, um, and our kids are doing it in a safe place here. They, um, they would try to take those risks in the woods if you allowed them to do that. They are going to, this is a safe area that they can take those risks, risks and continue with that. So, um, some of the log matches also include like ropes
034for pull-ups and chin up. Um, we had looked at a couple of those, I'm not sure if that is in this one as well. So then as you see, you see the pathway that keeps on going out. We already have a natural hill right here. And so with that hill we thought that'd be a great place for a slide. Um, kids love the slide, but um, the slide we currently have is an, there's two of 'em there. And when I first came on board, we all know that kids love to go up slides and we're constantly telling them, Nope, don't go up that way 'cause you're gonna run into something. Well, I knew that coming in, so right away we took those slides and we put arrows on 'em. There is a up slide and
035a down slide and so they can use 'em both ways and they, it is very much utilized that way to go up a slide and that is building all that difference, gross motor of climbing up and all those different muscles that you use for that. So we wanted to make sure we continued with, um, the double slide. And that is, that slide is made out of plastic. We looked at a concrete slide, um, a concrete slide. There's, there's advantages to it. It's more unique, but it is also, it was also way more expensive and just thinking about kids like slipping and hitting your head on the back of it and just some safety issues. So we did, um, go with the plastic slides with that. So, but you see the grasses and um, vegetation that's
036around that is for kids to explore and to to feel, to touch, to, to smell the different smells, the different, um, birds and things that we'll attract to it. Um, so looking forward to just having that natural piece right on their playground, not only in the forest that they get to explore And that then the pathway leads over to this whoville house is what it's called. So, um, like a little playground, um, little playhouse area, but it's actually made out of a stump. So a stump that is hollowed out that they can walk, um, back and forth like they're going to a new world or a new dimension really set aside for our kids that would, um, rather play quiet and more, um, just solitude. That is that they can go through this little house
037and, um, it stands about nine, um, with the top of it, but they will go through it and, um, enter into the next world or the next realm. And in that realm you'll see there is a mirror on one side and a chalkboard on the other side. And in there the kids can, um, draw on both of 'em so they can draw and that's where they could do artwork or play school or whatever their imagination leads 'em to. But that is an area that they can utilize um, at that time once they go through that food bill. How is that it? Yeah. Okay. So, um, like I said, this will start, uh, beginning to middle of May and um, we're really excited to get rid of all the pedals that are in there too and
038have, um, more of this, um, solid, um, groundwork that they are bringing in this more natural groundwork. Um, but excited for just the new adventure and what this brings. Questions. So is this company take care of everything then? Or do you have to have like a special landscape company and a fence company and a earth work company? So, um, the fence isn't included. We are looking into the fence just 'cause it's bent in some areas and stuff to fix that, but that would be something separate. Um, but they take care of all the groundwork, all the, um, the water drainage and making sure that's a big part of, um, what they've discussed with us is making shrubs, Shrubs In the grass. Yep. And so, um, and just the flow of water, um, because we know
039that it can build up, um, on our blacktop area over, um, in like this corner here, some of that water can seep into there. So they really are helping to pull that away from the building as well. They do take care of the landscaping is a huge part of what nature scape is, so they take care of all the landscaping and that groundwork. Um, I did send them a manual of, uh, pricing from here on our bushes and stuff like that, that has been approved through the DNR, which came from our consultant from Field Adventures, um, provided that for them so they can have ours pricing. Um, and we had some say like they were, they had some evergreens and stuff planted in there and we just didn't want those up front covering the school.
040So staying more low key with some of those, um, smaller trees that won't get quite as large. Um, they, there was another question you asked, but yes, they take care of all the groundwork, all of that piece of it. Was there anything you wanted to add to that? No, I think it was one of our first meetings that we just wanted to make sure we had the drainage taken care of. Um, and before this we're gonna have, uh, Brandon about West Falls is gonna be doing, uh, the removal of the old one. And we might look at if we're gonna be doing all that work in that area, what else can we do to help with drainage alongside that building? So we don't want it to go into the, the new area and necessarily wash
041stuff out. Um, and we don't want put the new playground in and then all of a sudden have to dig get a year later because of the water issues. So, and hopefully that'll all be taken care of before we before it's completed. So Recommend you talk to 'em about a maintenance plan too right away with all the new grass and all the new shrubs they Got probably be fairly, uh, maintenance free, um, that there's A lot of watering required for the first 60 days. Right. That part of it. And they, there was, um, talk they could put in a whole irrigation system. Yeah. Um, but the cost of that was, I mean obviously astronomical to put that in. So yeah. Knowing that there's new plants and stuff like that. Um, and they do put that
042as long as we continue, they give us the whole thing up, they go through the whole maintenance plan with us as well as give us the hard copy of what that maintenance plan looks like and then, um, they guarantee it for that whole first year with any of the plans or anything like that as long as we continue with their maintenance, um, maintenance plan. But when they first showed us this, there were bushes where you see the low lying green that was all bushes, there was bushes everywhere around here and I'm like, oh, lots of he and spots right. And um, I'm like, who's gonna trim all those bushes but looking to get bushes that are pretty low maintenance that don't need the trimming all the time. Is it wood chips on the play area?
043It is manufactured. Um, it's not really wood chips, it's engineered wood. Oh, okay. I just worried about the decay and rock. Yep. And so you're not supposed to have to replace them like you would have to with, um, regular wood chips all the time. 'cause that was another thing we, that's, that's one of the reasons I believe that all the pebbles are there because the wood chips were there before and it's always bringing in that load of wood chips and having to replace almost on a yearly basis. And so pebbles were put in, but those pebbles get in those little kids shoes all the time, they come right into the building and we have 'em all over. So, um, yeah, excited to see the new groundwork and see what that brings. It's cool. Very nice.
044Thank you. Thank you Robin. I'll leave this out if you want. Take A seat Closer on the back table. Tanner will be out there watering every day. Garden hose. Luckily we have an outside faucet now though, so we have an outside faucet that will get some long garden hoses, some sprinklers, I'll be out. Anything else for Robin? Pancake breakfast is coming up too, so I'm gonna put a little plug in there. So that is at the Hamburg Town Hall on the 30th, so always a good turnout and hoping to, potato pancakes are awesome. I like potato segments. Homemade. Okay. Joy Elementary, principal please. Well, um, got to just a lot of appreciation going out. We've had, um, lot of people stepping up and doing some things, um, for our, For our internal, um, teachers and
045supports and like our guest group and also for our western. And we have great donation, um, coats for kids from food and also some teachers kind of reaching out and see what they can do for meet in their classroom. So kudos to Lisa Thompson. She had received a donors choose grants for some classroom materials and just lots of parents that and volunteers stepped up, um, to help support teachers throughout that conference week. So we really appreciate them. Basically just our assessments and different various meetings and trainings that we've had. We are still working on our ELA curriculum team. We'll meet again this week, um, hopefully to keep narrowing down and start making some strong decisions as we go. Last week we had, or two weeks ago, uh, we had Brian Kenny was here and did
046smart team, extreme team building activities, was all grade level, so really appreciated his enthusiasm and all day support and helping students, uh, complete things and have to work through struggles and frustrations. And, um, I agree with Robin with, um, taking risks. You know, we we're noticing kids don't necessarily take risks and um, and learn that failure is a part of learning. And so just continuing to encourage that theme. We really appreciate that. And shout out to Deep Brewster, even though she's separated in different buildings and things, she, um, helps support our literacy week with we across America. So thank you for, for Salina. And she, uh, even pays on her own pocket for winning Bingo. Ice cream's fine. I'm just saying. Uh, so I appreciate all that extra that people do. Um, our community walkers,
047we still have some people come in even though the weather's nice, but that'll probably go down now that people can be out and about. So we had a really strong, I think, attendance at our parent teacher conferences and good conversations were had and lots of registrations are already coming in, so thank you. And I wanna take kudos to Becky for making those big changes. They, and small, but they're pretty big and they, they matter. So, um, and there we are. Second page. It's just a page of students in actions. Any questions? Very good, thank you Joy. Um, next we have our middle high school principal. This is Dr. Peter had a family working sometimes, but her report is in our packet of information. Is there anything you wanted to highlight or mention? Um, no, I
048think, um, you're welcome. See, look at her report and if you do have questions, um, certainly including honor, she, Yes. Okay. Um, information and discussion items. We'll start with our 24 25 budget amendment. It's gonna be the best thing, Beth? Yes. Mm-hmm. Um, so tonight I am asking for board approval to make a budget amendment for our food service fund. Um, the outdoor condensing unit had gone out and Jamie had replaced that. So the, um, the work and the unit came to a total cost of $13,400 and that is part of our food service fund fund 50. So I'm asking the board to approve an increase in those expenses. Um, that does affect the general fund as we are, um, anticipating a transfer from fund 10 to fund 50. So that's why there's four line
049items there. Any questions on that? Steve? You have any questions for it or That's Nope. Nope. I'm good. That's an action, action item for later. All right. If there's no concerns or questions, we'll go to our next item, which is our viola policy updates, uh, for volume 34.1. Yes, You want to give us some highlights on it? That'd be appreciated. Never at all. I'd be happy to do that. Um, so in your board materials, um, there are two sets of resources. Um, the first is volume 34. Number one, technical corrections as a general reminder for the board and our community, technical corrections are minor changes to current policies. They don't require no demand board approval, but I always feel it's important for the board to know if there's been even minor changes to a policy
050that's been approved in the past that we continue to follow. So there's an overview document, uh, for the board to review as well as our community and those resources, um, you know, actually see what, um, the updates or the changes are. Again, sometimes it's, um, grammatical, sometimes it's a, a simple word change. Nothing that's going to impact the actual content of a board policy. So the first packet of materials, I'll pause for a minute if a board member, uh, has any questions about technical corrections, Okay, then moving forward, um, you also have in your board materials, thank you, um, our policies that have been either revised or updated. Um, there's also an overview document which gives a general overview of what some of those changes are. So I'm going to, um, go through the different
051policies at any time. Please, uh, stop me if you have questions or if you'd like to discuss prior to beginning. Um, I would remind the board in our community that, um, policies are reviewed by the leadership team, um, in the school district when the updates become available, um, typically twice a year. So that includes on campus administrators, it might include school counselors, members of the business office. It really depends on the policy and who would be involved in implementing a policy because they should have, um, a voice in the overview of any changes. And then the board certainly has the final approval. So to begin, um, the first three policy policies, although, um, not in numerical order, are grouped together, and that is because they're similar in nature. So these are policies. 1130, policy is
05232 30 and policy 42 30. So the first one, ethics and conflict of interest is an overview on that topic in particular. Then as a reminder, the 3000 series are specific to certified staff and the 4,000 series is classified staff. So the policies read almost exact, it's just a different classification of employees. So it's important, uh, to draw attention to that. So, um, an overview of these, the three policies in particular, um, again, you'll see anything struck with, um, a line through it in red are recommendations for not including policy. And then the green highlights are the recommended either choices or updates. So the overall policy at 1130, the first one, um, there are some significant changes on page two, um, under F talking about, um, different administrative employees officers, um, walking through different information.
053And again, this information typically comes from a change in statute or law. Um, and there are attorneys which guide this work, um, for us. Um, so we appreciate their insights. So on page two and then on the last page as well on this policy, you see some updates. The next policy again, uh, 32, 30 and 42 30, very similar in nature. One for certified staff and one for classified staff. Any question on that grouping three, stop, stop me at any time, I'll just kind of keep moving forward. Uh, the next policy is, uh, 1241. This is, uh, non reemployment of the district administrator. Some updated language here. So you'll see, um, some language in red that's stricken and then green would be included. Um, there's also a more detailed explanation of non-renewal or unilateral termination
054towards the end of this policy. And again, this is, um, updated policy information based upon state statutes. Policy 2210 is around, uh, curriculum development. This one has a minor change. On page two, uh, letter Q is removed. All right, the next two, uh, policy 2264 and 2266. I'm going to read to you a statement provided by OLA in regards to these, uh, one policy that we're suggesting re Cindy, which is 2264, and then policy 2266, um, which is where there are updates in response to the recent US Department of Education. Dear colleague's, letter issued on Friday, January 31st, 2025, stating that it was adopting the judicial picture of the rule in effect invalidating the 2024 regulations. A revised Dear colleague letter was issued on Tuesday, February 4th, 2025. Further detailing the USD E'S position concerning
055Title IX enforcement. It's clear these letters of the Office of Civil Rights or the OCR will enforce Title IX pursuant to the the 2020 regulations rather than the 2024 regulations. Accordingly, school boards are advised to take action regarding policies adopting pursuant to the now validating 2024 Title IX regulations. So as a reminder, in July of 2024, um, the board did approve, uh, policy 2264, which was current at the time. We're now asking the board to rescind that policy regarding Title IX and reenact or approve policy 2266, which is in alignment with the current Statutes of law. Um, moving on Policy 24 16. Um, this is student privacy, parental access to information. Um, this talks about parental, uh, parents' rights to inspect surveys, um, before their child or children were to complete them. Again, just updates
056on best practices, um, aligning with the policy. Um, we also have some information under personal information for marketing or sale that we are, um, needing to follow as well. And then notice of requirements, which is updates Policy 24 40 0 1 Summer interim school attendance. Um, this was a policy we had very good discussion with the administrators at the table over the last few weeks. Um, just as during the regular school year, if students are attending our summer school program, um, we need to be taking attendance. That's also necessary because dependent on the number of students who would be in attendance, we can also then, um, submit for FTEs and receive reimbursement from the state. So we can use our Infinite campus, our student information system to be able to track attendance both during the
057year and in the summer. So this policy just draws attention to the practice that we would be Following Policy 32 81 Personal property at stamp members. Um, this talks about personal communication devices. This alliance, previous policy was 75, 37 student officials of using personal communication devices and is dis more in alignment with that practice. So again, a recommended update, policy 51 13, um, open enrollment, um, as describes, um, the process we follow as a school district when it comes to open enrollment. Um, there's some language updates on page two under full-time open enrollment, annual phase of determinations, um, detailing specifically having space for both the regular and special education students, LSC 55 12, the use of tobacco and nicotine by students. Um, we have some choices here on, uh, page number one. Um, talking about
058traditional tobacco, and I believe this is where we also call out different types of nicotine. Um, sometimes we're doing, um, policy work. I will say as a leadership team, our representative from OLA is very insightful and provides us some good updates on current, um, trends in the field of education. So I think that's a nice way to say that you sometimes receive as much education, um, as we try to share it with the board of education in our community. So updates around current tobacco and nicotine used by, uh, policy 55 40. Um, this is a new policy. This is in alignment with the practices that we currently have in place. Um, should ICE ever, um, appear in our school district, we have communications at our schools or practices we would follow. But first and foremost,
059we need to have an approved policy. So again, this is recommended, um, by our attorneys during Ebola that if we did not have this policy, we should have the board approve this such policy and put it in place. Policy 62 31, um, is around budget implementation. Um, this is, um, an updated policy to continue being transparent with the way that we operate when it comes to our budget. This is a precursor to, you've heard Bestin and I speak about in future months, we'll bring to the board a policy we'd like to have your input on to approve around fund balance. So this is the first step in that process. Talk us about, uh, again, planning and un planning, how we might use a fund balance reserve, find ourselves in a situation being very transparent. Then
060with the board in our community policy 74 40 is around facilities security. Um, this is very timely. We shared with the board that we utilize the Raptor system for, um, systems security and uh, most recently in the past several months, we've also implemented the emergency management system. So this is around keeping our facilities safe and secure, but it also aligns with the practices of event Policy is 75 40 0 3, 75, 40 0 4 are both regarding student technology, staff technology and acceptable use of safety. For example, these policies I reviewed with our technology team to request any insights that they might have. Um, again, there are a few updates here as well. Um, nothing too substantial. Um, those are two policies. Then we have a copy for volunteers on this policy, 81 20, um,
061against some, um, brief, um, limited updates here as well. Again, aligned with state statute and then practice. Um, we do use this policy if we have volunteers, um, on a short long period of time. So this is an active policy, but it needs some revision policy 83 0 5 Information security. Again, this is a policy that I discussed with our, um, leaders in our technology department. Um, some specific, um, information in green that has been chosen. Um, and then directly aligns with our ology director and or coordinator. We have oversight and some other information that was removed. Policy 83 95 Student Mental Health Services. Um, again, recommended updates here with some additional language and words as such as student mental and physical health services. Just the title in and of itself is more aligned with
062industry standards and what we're seeing for students and their needs around mental health and physical health services. And what we can or can't provide Policy is 85 31 free and reduced meal prices. Um, and here we have additional language, um, around the school, um, milk program. Otherwise there are no other changes or additions on that policy policy, 8,600, um, around transportation. There is some new language, um, around students with disability as it relates to transportation to and from school. And that's on page one and no other changes on page two. That's an overview of the draft policies in the board packet. I would be happy to answer any questions that you might have or go deeper into a policy that's in packet. I just have one question. Um, 2210 has page six. Um, was there,
063I'm just curious about why Q was eliminated from that policy on curriculum. Um, so I'm gonna just read the overview that came from our annual of representative. Yeah, that'd be great. Um, it says this policy has been revised by removing language that's part of the educational outcome goals and expectations included in section one 18.01. Wisconsin statutes. Okay. Uh, not curriculum standards is outlined in PI eight of the administrative code. Um, the appropriate language is included in policy 2131 on legal citations have also been updated. Um, and this revision is, um, recommended to accurately reflect against. Perfect. Okay. Any question? And that's why I'm always appreciative that our new and representative, because some of that background. Okay, that's good. Great question. Thank you. Okay. As was stated that also we'll be an action item for us.
064We Get that Annual policy updates. Steve, any questions on the policies? No, I'm all good. All right, then we'll get into our, uh, C nine and CS 10 shared service contracts, which are also action items for tonight. Yes, that's correct. C nine. So I'll start, um, with C nine each year, uh, the board of education is asked, uh, to approve the upcoming year. So 25 26 shared service contract. Um, this contract is between the school district of Athens and C nine. Um, and I'd like to just walk through the different, um, resources and what we're requesting for the upcoming year. So some of the fees associated with our service contract, um, are charged to all districts. For example, um, the continuous school improvement services membership, the first line, um, that includes different meetings that, um,
065I might attend a superintendents. Um, also our campus principals attend multiple meetings throughout the year. So there are some regular and routine meetings and professional learnings that occur that are lumped into one general kind of cost. Um, and each district within the CS nine is then charged for that fee. Same for administration, which is overall administration cost. Then we have some choices. So I'd like to walk through those with you. Um, so for the upcoming year, um, I'm recommending, um, that we purchase days, um, of an individual named Amy McGovern. Amy McGovern has been in our district, um, the past several years, specifically this year in particular for a few specific specific reasons. She's helping to facilitate the vetting process at Athens Elementary. Um, we're looking at purchasing some new ELA resources. Um, she has
066a very comprehensive process that's followed. Um, and as Joy and I talked the last several years, and we knew this was something that we wanted to accomplish, um, because our resources specifically at the intermediate level, um, are somewhat outdated and maybe not aligned with the newest research around the science of reading. So that's been an ongoing yearly process. Um, and in addition to that, um, Amy has been instrumental in the Act 20 work. Um, she was actually the chair of the advisory at the state level. So she's been, um, a good partner, uh, for us as well. So thinking ahead to next year, wanting to be consistent with someone both that our principals and our staff are familiar with. Um, by utilizing her services, she will come into the district and continue to support, um,
067in that manner. She also has been in the district this year. Um, we have a new title one reading teacher who does a three 16 reading license. But the DPI requires every district in the state of Wisconsin to have somebody on staff that has a reading three 17 specialist license. Um, that is something our reading teacher might have been interested in into the future, but when you don't have someone, uh, locally in your district that has that certification, again, we can purchase time with someone like Amy McGovern, which actually is very beneficial. So for example, this year she's been on site 10 days, about once a month she's coaching and mentoring our new reading teacher, and they're providing supports at all of our schools. So, um, it's tangible to benefit there as well. We also
068have another customized, um, curriculum work that's been occurring at the middle of high school. Um, in particular, um, high school we are focusing on, um, continuous improvement planning and math. And then at Maple Grove we've had a wonderful coaching opportunity paid through the implementation grant. So when we take a look at the essentially coaching, mentoring and support, um, through the CSI days for Amy McGovern and others, um, we have a significant price tag associated with those. However, we'll be using grant funding to pay for them as a district. Um, we are going to have through the end of September the implementation grant at Maple Grove. So that will help to cover those coaching costs. Um, we also have received an implementation zone, um, grant, um, in emailed of $30,000 for next year. We won't use
069all of that money, but a great majority of that will help to pay for, to govern. Um, we also have, um, what's called the 10 network, uh, resources or grant, um, because we've been identified and needed some support with students with disabilities to continue to improve their um, growth. So when we take a look at the different areas and some of the significant money that we are gonna be paying for coaching and support, we will be utilizing grant money and then we also utilize some title two just questions about the season nine shared service contractor. Did you talk about the administration cost on there? Is that, is that development for administration or is that administration of the services? It would be the second. So it is overall administration of the services. Um, and there's a
070lot of, um, different I'd say preparatory costs that each district in the Susan I are charged. Mm-hmm. Um, it's their administration oversight. Gotcha. Good question. Thank you. And there's 57 thousand's already been accounted for in our budget. It would hard year budget, yes. Mm-hmm. Is this comparable to what we did this past year-ish? I don't have like the records exactly up, but it, It's similar. Um, we have paid more the last two years because of the implementation grant and Grove, we have had somewhere between 40 and 50 days, I believe, of season nine support. Um, but because I grant will, um, end in the end of September, um, we feel that we can accomplish about five additional days up until that time with our current coach and then Robin will work with our coach to
071identify what those days that look like. Okay. Continue. Any other questions? Okay. You want to highlight the C 10 sidetrack also? Sure. Um, in season 10, um, there's going to be two services, um, that we're gonna be purchasing for the upcoming year. Um, the Sweeten network, um, we have actively been a sweetened member, uh, for several years. Um, and the services we received through Sweeten, uh, offer us that opportunity for students to take online courses as well as our teachers to teach online courses. So, um, the Sweeten network in general is, um, one cost, and then we're going to do E-Rate support and technology planning through season 10. This is intentional because our technology consultant, uh, Sam Kano, has a very tight working relationship with members of the CS 10 staff. He actually has been
072working with someone on staff and myself even yet this year to write for a grant for next year. Um, and then we'll streamline some of those practices and he will leave the overall fee rate process. So we pay a small fee, uh, for some of their services, but Sam overall will take the leave With, We also have a separate contract with CA 10 when it comes to, um, Jimmy and your department in particular, we're doing some asbestos trainings of things in particular environmental. Yep. Yep. Yeah, they, there are environmental health agencies, so they deal with, um, asbestos training, uh, six month surveillance, um, regular, you know, inspections that we're required to do by the state. Um, also we do have, um, an online, uh, SCS platform. So the old material data sheets, um, are now
073SCS sheets. So, um, we do have that software with them that you added stuff in so that we can, uh, when it's done, we can actually put a link on our website so people can see what, what we have. But it goes, cradle to grave is a, is a, um, a saying that they say there. So even though we used it 20 years ago, we still have to have that on file in case somebody came through and said, I worked for the district and now I have X. Okay, well here's the SP you know, we have to be able to have that on file. So again, that's under facilities management as separate contract than what we're talking about tonight. So with Jamie's input, we will work with our colleagues at C 10 and develop, um,
074what our needs are and then be submitted probably with a separate proposal. And the annual cost of that contract is 18,660? Correct. Okay. Um, A few, uh, next we have our human resources report, please. So we have, um, two individuals, uh, that I like to draw attention to. Um, the first is recognizing the request for retirement for Kathy Luther. Kathy is currently a fourth grade teacher at Athens Elementary School. Um, I'd like to share with you, um, just a brief excerpt from her letter of, um, retirement. She said it's Julie been a privileged to work alongside such dedicated colleagues and to contribute to the growth and development of the students in our community. Over the years, I've witnessed many changes and accomplishments, and I'm proud of the work we've done together, um, as I reflect
075on my time in Athens Elementary and filled with gratitude for the opportunities to educate, mentor, and learn from the wonderful students. And it's been an incredibly rewarding experience I'll cherish for the rest of My life. Words be to share with You the Board of Ation. The other is a new hire, um, a replacement, uh, had also retired, um, in the end of December. We've been filling that vacancy with a long term sum. Um, but thanks to Joy Redmond and her team, um, they're requesting a replacement of Janelle h who will join us as a core care parent educator, um, in the next week or two. She a real ringer. She's a what a real ringer. I, we should hang that door. She's just, she's really young and she's in education and she's, you're always in
076good. You're always good at finding the ringers. Okay. Our human resources report is also an action item. Recognize those. Any other questions? Employee compensation. Mm-hmm. So this is a formal presentation, uh, developed with best tank and input from myself. So I'm going to turn over, uh, to this. Yes. So as part of our budget development calendar and process, we are beginning tonight the conversations around employee compensation for 25 26. Um, tonight is just discussion and considerations. The board won't be asked to make, um, any or take any action until the April board meeting. So I just wanted to bring to the forefront the communication that was shared in the April, 2023, um, operational referendum. The referendum was critical for the district to retain staff, invest in technology, sustain, um, opportunities for students, as well as
077rebuild, um, financial stability. So just wanna keep that at the forefront. Um, before we dive in, just wanted to take a look at where we're at now. Here's a summary of our fund 10 revenues. Overall from last year to this year. The revenues have, um, remained pretty steady. Open enrollment numbers, um, continue to change as students move through the districts. So that won't be finalized until late spring. General aid saw a slight increase, but again, that doesn't give the district more money to spend. It just shifts the burden from the taxpayers. And the federal revenue consists of the title grants, and you can see there too, the Esser dollars are at zero. The last one with the other revenues is primarily the Maple Grove Charter Implementation Grant. And as you can see on this slide,
078the, um, salaries and benefits make up approximately half of the district's overall operating expenses in fund 10. Um, the district contracts out for things like transportation, special education, it, cs a services, things like that. Um, just like we have revenue coming in for open enrollment, there's also an expense that goes out. The district is at a net positive for open enrollment at this time. The, um, non-capital and capital objects, there's an increase there. And that is again, primarily due to the Maple Grove Charter Grant. And then the fund 27 transfer is the transfer to the special education fund that, um, consists of adjustments from the Marathon County Special Ed Consortium. And the fund 50 transfer is an area that we do continue to monitor. Um, we're currently anticipating 41,000. If the board approves that, um,
079budget amendments we talked about earlier, that would take us to about 54,000 would be going into our food service fund or fund 50. So, as you know, there's a lot of variables that we don't know yet. So the numbers, um, that we're looking at are based on what we know. We use the Baird Budget Forecast model. That'll give us a five year outlook. What we, what we can anticipate. Um, so a few notes to highlight when you're, um, taking a look at the, the options or considerations is staffing makes up approximately half of the district budget. Um, the industry standard for school district fund balance is 15 to 30%. And the final year of the non-recurring operational referendum is the year 20 26, 20 27. So currently the CPI, um, for consumer price index is
080at 2.95%. So this first option includes that full CPI. To quantify what that would mean for the district in the first year, it would cost the district approximately 100,000. And then also the average full-time certified staff member earns approximately 52,700. So that staff member would see an increase to their base pay of approximately $1,555. The second option is a 2.5% base increase. To quantify that for the cost to the district would be approximately 85,000 in year one. And that same average staff, uh, certified staff member would see an increase of $1,317 to their base pay. And the third option is a 2% increase to the base pay that would cost the district approximately 68,000 in year one. And that full-time certified staff member would see an increase of 1050 $4 to their Base pay. And
081option four is similar to what was done, um, for the 24 25 fiscal year with a 2% increase to the base pay and a 0.9% one time stipend. The cost to the district would be 100,000. And that certified staff member would see, um, an increase of 1050 $4 to their base and then a $500 one time stipend. So those are all lotted numbers. Um, lot of scenarios. Again, the board will not be asked to take action until the April board meeting, but if there are things you want me to go back at or scenarios you want me to run, um, we can have discussion. Steve, you got any thoughts or questions? Not right now. Okay. No, No. I'm just running some numbers through my head. You got 30 days. Thank you. Beth. Actually, one quick
082one you're conservative on are, how sure are we on the health insurance increase? I'm assuming these are all estimates and we're on the conservative side for these. Yep. All of those are assumptions and they're on the conservative side. Okay. Based on the past history. Okay. Are there any scenarios or options that are absolutely off the table or difference that you want to see? Well, I think that's a, I think they're all good options. Yeah. Yeah. They're based in reality at this point. Yeah. Have we heard where other districts are going? Mm-hmm. Are other colleagues and districts around our area are currently where our board is having conversations. Um, it's my understanding that most will be making decisions either this month or next month. Do not anticipate districts exceeding the CPI. Who knows what's gonna change
083out in Washington DC in the next 30 days too. Right. Yeah. Well, okay. Sit here and watch smoke come out ahead. Ears. Um, I guess we can go direction items, right? Um, Beth, do you wanna highlight your revenue dis expense reports? Yes. So first on the revenue report, we did receive um, 37% of property taxes in February. That equates to 1.3 million. We will see in the next round in April. That will be much smaller. And also we receive the first, um, 33% of the A GR dollars and next round will be in June. Um, and then to the expense report. Um, in fund 10, you'll see a negative, um, there in the 800, um, transfers that is due to a refund from the Wisconsin Retirement System. So, and also in fund 50. I wanted
084to note, um, there's a, a decrease in salaries. Um, our, we've been monitoring one of our positions, our payroll specialists. We've been monitoring how much time is spent doing food service, um, duties. So after half a year of evaluating that, we were able to make the adjustment going forward. And, um, this budget amount does not include any increase in the base budget for the fund 50. That will be included if the order proof that Tonight. Are there any questions on the expense and revenue reports? If no has any questions, we'll need a motion to approve the revenue and expense reports as presented. I'd make a motion motion by Andy. I'll second. Seconded by Tom. And roll call to please. Tim? Yes. Steve? Yes. Jessica. Caitlyn. Tom? Yes. Angie? Yes. Ann Tucker. Alright, Thank you. Um,
085we need a motion to approve the checks and cash receipts, uh, register that's in our packet of information. Nobody has any questions or I'll make the motion. Motion by Tom to approve. I'll second. Seconded by Andrew. And one call in please. Tim? Yes. Steve? Yes. Um, Jessica. Caitlyn. Tom? Yes. Angie? Yes. Tucker. Thank. Okay. Next, uh, we need a motion to approve our budget amendment in the amount of 40,002 14 and 52 cents as discussed earlier. I'll make the motion. Motion by Tom. I'll second. Seconded by Angie. And a roll call on that too, please. Tim? Yes. Steve? Yes. Jessica, Kaitlyn. Tom? Yes. Angie? Yes. Tucker. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, we need a motion to approve the Theola policy updates, uh, volume 34.1 as discussed. I'd like motion. Motion by Angie. I'll second. Seconded
086by Tom. And we better call too. Tim. Yes. Steve? Yes. Jessica. Caitlyn. Tom? Yes. Angie? Yes. And Tucker. Thank you. Uh, we need a motion to approve our CA nine service contract in the amount of $57,681 for next year. I'll make a motion. A motion. I'll make a motion. Motion by Steve. And seconded by Angie? Yes. Okay. Second. And, um, I need low call too, please. Tim? Yes. Steve? Yes. Jessica. Caitlyn. Tom? Yes. Angie? Yes. Thank you. And we also need a motion to approve our C of 10 shared contract in the amount 19,660. I will make a motion. Motion by Tom Second. I Second. Okay. Okay, let's give it this seat. Checking. If he's paying attention, roll call please. Alright. Tim? Yes. Steve? Yes. Jessica. Caitlyn. Tom? Yes. Angie? Yes. And thank you. And
087last but not least, we need to uh, we need a motion to recognize the human resources report that was presented. I'll make a motion. Motion by Angie. Okay. Second. Uh, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Nay. Aye. Hearing none. A motion to approve the human resources. We report this. We need a motion to adjourn. C You sure. Morning by Steve. Seconded by. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. You sure have approved. You're adjourned. Thank you everyone. Thank you guys. Thank you Steve. Thanks Steve.