001couldn't wait. >> Good evening. Uh before we start the meeting, we'd like to take a moment to remember Miss Ramberg. All right. Um, we will call this meeting to order. Today is Wednesday, September 17th. The time is 7:04. Uh, first order of business is the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Let the role reflect that Nate and Dave and Erica are in person. And Lance is calling in. Red on the line. >> And Jeff, >> can you mute? >> Okay. >> Is not present today. >> Was this meeting properly notified? >> Yes, it was. And as a reminder, it's being livereamed and recorded. Welcome to visitors.
002Is there any public comment? No. >> All right. Uh we are going to table the highlight on youth tonight and move it to a different um meeting. Next up is comments by board members and superintendent, the first weeks of school update. >> Yeah, we uh had a great August professional development uh week. Um pretty special thing we we uh were able to uh do was we had seven seven staff um volunteer instead of a keynote that seven staff volunteer uh to speak uh on the topic what I love about SEC and it was really really really cool and a great way to start out the year and a good reminder of uh the amazing culture and staff and uh students we have here. Um it it was a it was a great opening day and
003then like I said a full week of uh four days of PD and then uh the first days of school. Um the first nine days were absolutely terrific. Um one comment I know uh we've heard a couple years in a row now is the difference in the kindergarten students just having 4K on site and uh being in the routine. And you would think well what's the big deal? But it's it's a big deal. um kindergarten students that have spent, you know, the previous year in the building. Um it just hit the ground running. Um sometimes literally um yeah, those first nine days were amazing. >> I think it was one of the best PDs that I've been through. It was awesome to hear our teachers speak. Um some of them are from here, some were
004not from here. or grew up, I should say. Um, but it was the same kind of theme that I think Tim and I had as well. And none of us spoke to each other about what we were going to say, but it was the same thing. Everybody cares. Um, gratitude, joy, um, just and then the last three days. um just um really it's it's heart-wrenching. Um but on the other side, heartwarming to see how our staff, our community, our surrounding schools, our surrounding communities have really rallied around us and Mindy's family. Um and that's uh pretty special to help um get through this. So I want to recognize all the many many people uh this collective of individuals is amazing um here and beyond um our our doors uh and the outpouring of support is
005absolutely overwhelming but very welcome and uh the challenge has been just you know like so many people want to buy lunch so many you know it's like you know um so got lots of lunches for our staff the next few weeks. Uh it's just one example. So I need to recognize this very special culture we have and the school and community family that we have here. Um that's why we'll get through it because we are great community and great family. So we have each other. So, we'll move on to the 26 um WSB state convention. Uh January 21st through 23rd. If you're interested, Cali needs to know certain dates. >> The rooms don't open until November 3rd, so we have a little bit of time to >> decide who wants to go. So, start thinking
006about it. And then you have Wisconsin schoolboard appreciation week October 5th through the 11th. And that um week we also go into the schoolboard members go into the buildings and provide a scone breakfast and that is Wednesday October 8th and we need to pick the buildings. Who wants to go where? >> I'm out. I'm in Louisville. >> All right. That's your favorite one of your favorite days. >> Back to just some leftover sculpts. >> There won't be leftover forgot to leave. >> All right. So, you're out. How about you guys? Where would you go? >> I'm in lacrosse for tavernly all week. >> You are too. All right. >> That's all right. >> Okay. >> What do you know? 7 a.m. >> 7:15. >> Uh, I'll go middle school. >> Middle school. >> I'll go
007to the high school and I think Brad was going to jump on, but we'll we'll talk to him. We can go wherever that. >> Yeah. Yep. I'll take care of that. And then we've got the WBA fall regional meeting October 28th. Anyone's interested, you can let Cali know. >> It's all the way in Oclair this year. And that was the one that was I think we all went >> We all wish we would have skipped it last year. >> So maybe we are. Lance is being recognized for you know level one uh which you earned through obviously participation in WSB events but >> probably that long what was that down at the convention was that him or was >> delegate >> the deadline for that is October 24th so a How about at the next
008board meeting? >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> And then although school board appreciation week is October 5th through 11th like last year, um Sandy Food Service is going to provide a meal and dessert on our uh October school board meeting. Um, which I think kind of maybe uh brings us to maybe the next point about um some con conflicts with upcoming um board meetings. Um the October uh >> 12th, I'm sorry, uh board development date. Uh you know, Brad had said he was going to not be able to make it in the past. I know the board has been pretty committed to having everyone here. >> So, just uh Erica wanted to just throw that out there. >> I said I wouldn't be a available for that. >> Wouldn't be there on the 12th either. >>
009Okay. >> Not that that's not important, but I do believe the Packers play that Sunday evening. I might even have to work >> and I think that's why Brad's not going to be there as well. >> So, when do the Packers play on the 9th? >> Are they readily available? I just know what Dr. Lee that was that Sunday evening I think. >> Do you have any? >> Usually don't on Sunday. >> Well, maybe just plan on not meeting on the 12th and then the board can communicate. Cal can send out maybe a survey for availability and dates and include Dr. pritz with well in that. And then the other one Jen wanted to uh bring up is the next the October board meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, October 15th. And uh uh at that
010meeting, October meeting, uh the board is supposed to approve and set the levy uh for the annual budget which has to be sent in the the state by the end of October. on the 15th there's usually it's it's late in the day early evening that we get a lot of the uh information needed for the budget like state aid so um it's kind of a crux to be able to approve something without having all the numbers so she was asking if we could um push that date back to the following week October 22nd >> would we move the board meeting to the 22nd >> that's what I mean board just have one meeting instead of having to have a special meeting between 15th and the 31st Does that work for everyone? >> That should work
011for me. >> Okay. 20 seconds. Okay, I think that takes care of all of our dates. Um, next up is scheduled presentation by guests and staff members. We've got summer project update and we've got building supervisor Nick Yoder. Welcome Nick. >> Afternoon. >> As far as summer projects go, there was not a whole lot of big capital projects. It was more most of my time was used up working through a lot of the um project wrapping up the project from the referendum. Still working through some things with that but mainly just standard sustaining turn around the buildings carpet repair smaller stuff. little things that we could do, but no big major projects we had going on this summer, but things are going good with the project. Couple little things still hanging out there, but we're
012working with Mark and Jonathan to work through those. >> Was the gym repaired in the elementary that >> Yep. So, we >> we might have to do more repair next summer, but it is ready to play. Surface is smooth. They're ready to go. So, >> so that whatever they did like the >> from that crack or whatever was leaking. >> Yeah. The HVAC duck work sweat was what happened. >> School. >> No, I was thinking the the elementary school when we were doing the referendum there was like a crack. >> Oh, that epoxy repair. >> Yeah. That was done right before I came in. And yes, that's >> that's held up. We haven't had any water in that gym. >> All right. Any questions? >> Thank you. >> All right. Next. >> Well, yeah. One,
013>> what do you see coming up that needs to be repaired and what should be set aside budgetwise? >> Last year, you were talking about a pile of heaters on on the roofs or like that. That was the start of how to really start capital planning. we're not a fiscal turnar around. >> Um so that was really carving out known issues that I could just put out there. >> Um but that that can grow to many many things whether it's interior exterior doors. I mean you got to think your commercial fire doors five grand. You know what I mean? We talk about a bank of doors. Right now what I'm staring at is skylight issues. So with Most of our skylights are probably blown molded injection. So they go over the curb all one piece
014of material and those are fine. But when you have glass aluminum expansion coefficient, you're constantly cutting and reccocking. It's constantly moving. So struggling with skylight repairs right now. We have a leak in the high school that we 40 mil poly over the top just to prove it's not a curb issue. That's an actual skylight issue. I've gone through a couple different possible ways of repairing it. And >> how many skylights do we have in the school? >> The main skylight issues are going to be we have one at the high school, the big one in the atrium of the middle school. And a big problem with that is that that does provide a ton of ambient lighting that space. And then you have two smaller skylights at the middle school also that are like a
015laminate fiberglass material >> and aluminum framing that we're having issues with too. So you go up there struck the it up but give it a few months things move. It's a constant battle. >> You don't want to hire a glazer company. That's >> a glazer. So I've talked to a few people. There's a material that I've used on on roofing before that's a spray on, but you end up in that same cycle of the materials moving. Right. >> So, as far as like reglazing, doing new glass, is that what you're proposing for? >> No, I'm just saying as far as sealants and and coaul and just different products that >> Yeah, like EDM, whether it's Vulcom or Yeah. working through everything. Well, or yeah, maybe something even a little bit more commercial grade like what
016you'd see on a stadium or or you know on a commercial building, a a large scale commercial building. >> So, I've used the spray material a ton um for like stainless for like steel roofing, but that it's the same type of thing. It gives you better coverage than but you're still dealing with expansion coefficient. At the end of the day, I think it's easiest solution is delete them, right? you're roughing material right over the top of them. And that's kind of the idea with the poly to prove out like this is not in the curb, it's in the skylight. We know what's going on. But the alternative is you're taking away that ambient light. And so just working through that process right now. After this week, I'll be able to say for sure it's not
017a curb issue, it's a skylight issue. >> So if you did take them out, is there is it pretty easy to run electrical over there and and hang a commercial grade light from that space? Oh, that would be that would be tough. So, it's like the high school where I pol it, we could easily get away with it. And then middle school, I think we'd be looking at what is it going to cost to add lighting interior. And so, this is like this just popped up like the first week of school. And so, getting a handle on it, polying up, proving out that we know it's actually a skylight, not the curb. we'll know after this week and then after this week it's how we're going to tackle the high school and we'll get some
018different options of how we want to go about go about it but how do we do it and do right so we're not constantly start going back to the same issues >> so skylights are a big issue right now >> just right now just it popped up right that first week of school so that's first in my head >> roofing issues So, we've had I worked with Pioneer Real Thing. We got a a warranty claim approved through John Mansfield, who is a material manufacturer, Pioneer certified to do the work. Um, but they only approved about $1,200 a board Pioneer out and it's two grand per stop. >> Yeah. >> So, fighting that fight with them with Pioneer and how do we get these issues rectified? Same same issue with root causes were circled back around,
019right? What do we got to do differently to stop circling back around? >> So, our roofs are I mean, not on the new not on the new addition or the what was done worked on the referendum, but are you talking middle school, high school with that? >> Maybe the middle school. >> And is it where it all ties together? >> No. So, it's I've never had builtup asphalt grow like this. I've never worked with them. Usually rubber, steel, whether it's rock or glue down. Um, and so what I'm finding with this is that it is truly it's like an asphalt road. It's constant expansion. Go fish move. Everything's moving, right? Um, and so I have a hard time beating up on these guys that come out trying to fix this type of roof. I just
020don't know. I just know that we've brought the installer out who's certified to do the work and repair it and it's not we're coming back and circling back to the same same issues. Hence why I filed for the warranty claim. Next thing is fighting hard only gave us 1200 bucks. >> Yeah. >> Just wondering what she's foresaw coming cuz if you don't have any money in that kitty, it's tough. It's >> tough. Yeah. Have >> to draw it out of it. >> Yep. >> Hopefully we can get some there soon. >> Okay. All right, next up is the SEC Ice Fishing Club. Fourth grade teacher Pton DL, high school social studies uh teacher Zach Trinary, and student Damian Indic. >> Welcome. Thanks for having me. >> Are you running the size? >> Yeah. Give me
021the next slide, please. >> Now, just give me the queue each time when you're ready. >> What do you want for a queue? >> Next slide. >> Man, today you swung. >> I like that. >> All right. So, today I'm going to talk about the ice fishing boat. I think that it would be a great addition to the high school. Uh here it shows a couple key points of what it what it really really is and why could it benefit the school. I think some very key points would be how budget friendly it is for the school. How many options it could give to students that don't prefer sports, want something to do in the winter, want something to do with their friends, something that's super flexible, something they can take their parents along with,
022something they can get outside and say they did, something to try. Uh, next slide. Uh, the WE organization. The WE organization is actually huge when it comes to high school ice fishing teams. Uh, this organization has been around for, I believe it's almost 100 years now. It's a huge organization actually with over 130 schools in it. Now, it offers scholarship opportunities for students. It offers funding for getting this team started in your school. It offers all kinds of deals for students. It's a great organization. They host the state tournament at the end of the year. >> You want to learn more about it, you could click. >> I can piggy back off of that, too. I've been in contact with the president, vice president. Um, super great people. Um, very communicative, offering whatever you can
023do to try and get a team started. They're always looking for new people, different fundraising opportunities, and different ways to get teams involved. Um, but I've had nothing but great responses from them and the starting of trying to get a team started. area teams. Actually, coincidentally, Oyola last year won the state tournament. I believe that they've won three out of the past 14 years. Uh Richmond is another huge school. They started their team back in 2014. I've been in contact with their head coach off and on a little bit. Their head coach is phenomenal. He's done a lot for the team. He's done a lot for the school. But they're another great team. They've been at the state tournament multiple times and then through some other uh middle border schools in there. I figured I
024would need a little leeway to help us out. >> Thanks so much that Prescott Freder's a lot more surrounding area. So it's such a growing sport for sure. >> So here's a schedule that um we found some events for off that website. So we're kind of thinking some four uh two practices, two events. So, the first practice will take place in my classroom. Get the kids in the classroom that are interested in joining. Tell them all about it. Uh do some plans like here's some weekend tournaments we're thinking of some events. Then second practice will take place on Sunday, January 18th. Uh we'll just go out on the lake, we'll probably find an event to do or just go on the lake, have some fun and fish together. Then the first two events we'll do,
025the first one, the state qualifier. They haven't came with a date yet, so they're going to be Saturday or Sunday on those. And then the second event will be regional tournament somewhere in the area in the county nearby on the 7th. And then the state tournament will be the 20 20th and 21st of February and that's over in Lake Wasa and Kaplan Lake all those other lakes there. >> Is it always do you guys know if it's always in Wasa or do they go? >> Um no. So last year was in lacrosse so they change it. Um regionally rumor is it's going to be in CH coming 2027. Not sure if that's true or not. Um, but a lot of these tournaments, um, schools will host a tournament, but you don't necessarily have to go
026to their water to fish it. Um, it's all they have an app called the Fish Donkey app. So, one of the coaches are responsible for the app. So, we can go in a tournament and it might be the biggest 300 in. So, we can fish if we want to go to Cedar Lake, we can fish in that same tournament. It's all through an app where we take a picture with the measurement, then you take a picture of you holding the fish and you're in that tournament. So some of them you go to host lakes, but there's a lot of tournaments where people will host it and it's just any lake that you want to fish. So it gives flexibility too of where to go and especially on the weekend. You know, we're also kind of
027talking about some athletes that might be in with their sports on the weekend on Sunday tournament. They can come along with us and I fish too in those tournaments as well. So get an option to a lot of kids over the weekend to do and a lot of sports and things come with practice, practice, practice. This is one where we can just we go play. We just try see what we do. And we got a lot of good fishermanmen in the high school with a little experience. Couple hot honeys were fishing. So talking about me, I think we would be okay. But um transportation um from our side of the end um we had a meeting with R.J. Mr. Vilcher last um last month. We talked about different things and logistics of things. Um for
028transportation um we were looking at possibly an opportunity to use a school van and a trailer just so for some gear and also to transport some students. Um it works well with football games and other sports. We thought maybe for our club that could be a good opportunity. Um we sent over a survey and we put that in the Panther Nation Google Classroom for the high school. Um, we got some responses on that of around 20ish kids that would be interested involved and there's a lot more that talks at football practices and different things that they'd be interested in. Um, biggest thing we thought about was transportation, how that would work in the Google form. Um, we listed would you be okay with transporting yourself to the event or riding in the van or getting
029transported by an older student and 100% of the responses were yes. Um, so we just wanted to put those logistics together and kind of see what that would look like. We also said there'd always be an adult driving the vehicle. So, coach, myself or Chinary and the vehicles would never go onto the ice. Um, those stay off of the ice and then we'd be able to walk onto the lake because I know that be a little bit of a liability thing too if you bring a school van out onto the lake. So, next slide, please. Um, startup um reoccurring costs. We are looking if possible to get around $1,500 to start this up. Um, I've talked with local coaches and different places on what schooling has funded for them and it's different variations. Um, kind
030of taking a median there. We're looking to purchase one ice auger, um, some tip ups, some jig poles, um, baits for certain events, little payment for coaches, and possibly lodging for the state tournament. Um, different schools have done it differently. Some of them pay all the transportation, some of them get them a lump sum, some of them will pay lodging for a state tournament. Um, but we're just looking for a startup cost for this year. We're looking around 1,500 to kind of establish ourselves. I've also applied for a grant through the WEIFA. So, they offer up to $500 for starting off a team. Um, or if you want to do a project of some sort, so I've just soon as we get the go-ahad, I can click the apply for that grant. So, another $500
031would be great just to get a team up and running with that. So, that's what we're looking for. >> Two sponsors. >> Okay. and Strikers emailed me a couple days ago about sponsoring our fishing ice fishing club we started up. So, we have some options there, too. >> There's a lot of great businesses in the area that I feel like would be willing to sponsor us. >> Next stop. >> Um, and fundraising, too. Um, our thoughts were if we were to start start some sort of fundraising to try and bring in some sort of money. and maybe necessarily it wouldn't go on the school anymore for one day we could just be our account where the school wouldn't have to donate as much money to it um if we get this thing rolling and going.
032Um through the the WEIO organization though they they offer pretty good fundraiser where um participating clubs take home 70% of the earnings. So I've been in contact with TED too if that's some route we wanted to go not necessarily it doesn't have to be. Um, like Damian was saying though, with donations and sponsorships of local businesses, it seems like a lot of people would want to give opportunities to students to go fishing and actually compete with it. A lot of times you can go fishing with mom, dad, grandma and grandpa, but to actually compete and um for some different prizes and things like I've seen my my dad as a coach in Chekch for their ice fishing contest or their team and like they're giving away backlars at tournaments and ice augers and gear and
033so it's some pretty cool stuff. um and eventually where we could create some sort of event or um some way to benefit our division team in the future would be a really cool thing. I think we could probably get the community. >> I think so, too. Next slide. Uh the cost for the league, it's actually super >> I don't know the word. >> Economical. >> Yeah, that word. I didn't know you said. Uh it's actually super I'm not going. All right. But the cost of the league, that's super >> economical. >> Yeah, it's super economical. Uh, it's free to join the league. Actually, wea as a school, we can join the league for free. That's another great thing. There's no startup cost for the school as far as joining the league and getting going to
034tournaments. The main cost for any and all things would just be on the person themselves if they wanted to have gear. Our hope is that there's people with extra gear that can share. There's people that are willing to donate gear. There's people that are willing to go buy gear for someone. I mean, as far as fishing goes, you can start out really cheap. There's no need that you need all these fancy things, all these expensive things. Although they're nice, they're really nice. Uh, there's no price when it comes to fishing. And that's why just the main cost would get some gear for those students who may not have that. Students who maybe have never fished or have an opportunity to come. Um, we think that's a big thing when we want to starting to get
035this thing rolling too. That's the last. >> Any questions at all? >> Like what does a typical tournament look like? Like is it like you said, you mentioned inches or they have different, you know, northern or walley or crop hand fish categories or how do you score and win? >> Yeah. Um, a lot of it's kind of set on different depending on the tournament. I know one of them does just a biggest bass northern game fish one and they'll do pan fish one. A lot of them it was the most you can get to 300 ines with the least amount of fish. So if you get more game fish, you're obviously going to have a better chance with that. Like I said, it's all through that fish donkey, which is pretty crazy the technology now
036where it's all together with that. If you want to off that, >> I mean, I could attest to that. I've actually been in a couple of tournaments with a couple buddies, not as a school organization, but we were able to enter tournaments on the app. Granted, if you make sure to turn the notifications off, it's very annoying. But it's pretty simple. All you just got to catch the fish and you got to take a picture of certain way and hold it a certain way and make sure you get all your measurements and you're able to submit the photo and you're already entered onto this leaderboard. And like most of the time, the tournament will run for the day. So, you're not allowed to submit a fish like before 6:00 a.m. or after 6 PM and
037at the end of the day at like 600 p.m. you find out who won. I was going to say a typical day is you meet there kind of a rules meeting in the morning on the ice with whoever the hosting school is a lot of times if you're going to that one otherwise it's a virtual one and then they give you the go you come back and then that's a lot of time where they give out the prizes and different sorts of things >> I don't know if you but how many participants are >> can be on a team >> um it's there's no >> say tournament is 12 >> and there's no maximum for the open given one >> like 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. typically is your window. >> I would say like
038we lose at 6:00 a.m. A lot of the tournaments start at 8, so you can be everything ready to go on the whole school a lot of times. And a lot of the events right now, the dates are to be determined till they figure that out. >> That that app's pretty cool. Go by length versus weight, right? We've seen fishing tournaments where they cheat with weights and stuff. That eliminates and I assume then your picture's timestamped to that you caught it that day. actual >> and then tonight you're looking for just kind of more information and you know come back asking for official board approval or are you asking for board approval tonight? What's kind of your timeline? >> I'm asking for board approval. >> Yeah, I mean it would be great to have board
039approval. So, because there's a lot more stepping stones to get through with the WEFA and different things in gear because it's already been September, we're looking for >> maybe we should just wait till next year. >> I feel like timeline wise it would be great to get it approved as soon as possible if the approval is in the cards. As far as timeline wise, if we can get this going and we're able to host fundraisers, obviously a fundraiser is going to take time to get things started and to find interest in other people. we just think around like logistics of like moneywise and like the bank accounts and deal orders and things like that. I think that'd be important to take some time with that too. I think a simple fundraiser asking for donations. A
040lot of people get behind it get the 1500 easy or the board, you know, the board's 1500 and then whatever the community pitches in or a lot of folks maybe have grandpa's ice fishing equipment that's been sitting in the attic might donate it. >> I'm sure you're looking for like electric ice, right? batteries like >> ion are the way to go and you only need one >> right trying to it on it flood it holes >> and do that >> yeah let's make a motion >> make a motion to approve the formation of an ice >> court discussion Dave made the motion. Derek second. All in favor? >> Yeah. >> Oppos? >> No. Sorry, that was a I might have just been delayed. >> Just for clarity. Just for clarity, what are you approving? >>
041The $1,500 allowance for the team for the 2025 2026 season. downloaded it. >> Congrats. >> Thank you. >> Look forward to it. >> I look forward to it. >> Be great. >> Demo, you don't have to stay anymore. You can go, buddy. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. Thanks, Damian. >> Okay. um summer school report. We're going to table that till a later date, but we will do the communications grant update with communications coordinator SP. >> This will not be as exciting. >> All right. Um so for the annual grant and communications report, we will start with the grant portion of it. Um just kind of an update from previous years. Um just always kind of try to throw a few things in there about current things that are going on. Um overall federal grant funding
042has been on a downward trend which has made it a little bit more difficult. Um they estimate that nonprofits 30% of nonprofits rely on those government grants and that foundations would need to increase funding by 282% to make up for the loss. Um it makes people adapt to finding new strategies for finding the funding and relying on more state and local funds and foundations were planning to increase their giving. U challenges continue to be that you know you have approval rates that differ by funer type. Um, for nonprofits, um, you you're looking at higher success rates with local and state in like the 25 to 50% range, but federal grants are around 10 to 20 right now. Um, the 2024 giving barely kept up with inflation. Um, they're relying on getting more clear data driven
043results. um when you follow up on how spent the dollars and foundations are tending to go more towards DEI initiatives as the public and state sources roll back on them. All right, so these are a few that we tried for um last year. Um we are still waiting to find out official word. This is a big one. Like this is the biggest one we tried for um this last year. So, not knowing for sure if we're getting that $71,000. It's kind of it would be nice to get that. Um also have not heard back on that one for a glue table and clamp and a clamp storage system at the high school. >> I've never known them to not award one quarterly. kind of a little strange. >> And just for everyone, MDR, what does
044MDR stand for? >> I don't remember. Chad is here. >> Yeah, it's for Chad. Um, it's something to do with how like right now we have a company that is doing some cyber security stuff for us and adding this would have somebody watching it 24 hours a day and if something lagged on their end, they would contact Chad right away or something along those lines. I didn't understand. Um then for some like arts grants, we did try the St. Croy Valley Foundation is pretty good about um these music education grants. We did try to get it for some posture chairs at the high school and did not, but um Miss Davis did get them to get her ORF instruments at the elementary school, which she received $1,500 for that. Um, and then these are a
045bunch that um we tried for a Dollar General youth literacy grant to get some decodable books for the first grade classrooms. Um, they had over 2,000 applicants for that one, so we did not receive it. Um, we tried for a gifted and talented grant for the middle school for 10,000. Um, they had limited funding and a large number of proposals but did invite us to reapply next year. and then Wisconsin. I'm And that's another like I had a couple of teachers reach out to me last year wanting these bouncy bands at the middle school and now this year more of the teachers are. So this is going to be one that I'm focusing on this year to get more than that. Like so all of the classrooms for I believe it's seventh grade get them.
046>> What are bouncy bands? >> They are a band that like wraps around the bottom like of the legs and then kids can it's like a they don't make noise or whatever but get it like out. I would love that if I was a teacher. >> Keep your legs quiet. >> All right. And so, so far we have only received um $1,500 from last year, but we requested 95 and waiting on that large 71,000 one is we're hoping that that one comes through. And then that just shows what we received last year and what we had requested like the previous years. So our current grant focus for the this year is going to be continuing especially if we do not get that grant continuing to look for security cyber security things districtwide. Um staff wellness
047grants for districtwide. Um, a lot of teachers want wiggle seats or some sort of flexible seating options in their classrooms. And that's pretty much at every school. For the high school, we're going to work on getting some updated workshop equipment and possibly some Fab Lab editions. At the middle school, we're going to retry that gifted and talented grant. Um, I've been working with Mr. Beasy on updating the 3D printers. um the bouncy bands. Um the special ed had reached out about some sensory if we could find something on sensory room updates and then key master keyboards and then at the elementary school I'm going to continue working with Miss Heinbuck on decodable books. All right, communications. Um so for the virtual academy we continued with our digital advertising at the 35,000 impressions per month. Um
048you can see kind of how it will dip at certain times of the year but then you know like over the summer it it kind of went up again. So fluctuations on the click-through rates, the conversions, things like that. um for the digital advertising. Um and then you can do next slide. Um we also add paid social media marketing with the same company. Um 35,000 to 44,000 impressions per month. Um was $1,575. Um I think we are possibly looking at rethinking this one. Um because um if we do the next slide, well, this just kind of shows what our ads have looked like and kind of when we ran like different like over the summer, we did a alt enrollment opens July 1st and then after apply now for fall 2025. Um and I just
049had them switch back to that online education school schedule one now that we're into the school year. Um but now we are this is a it's called over the top and they uh put our advertising is the video on >> Yeah. Where next? There it is. Um >> and then the geographical target I think is is important to note. >> Yeah. So our primary target we can target it down to adults 24 to 44 with a household income of 50,000 plus. And then as a secondary target, have it be households with kids that are aged 5 to 18. And we're focusing in all of the counties around the Milwaukee area. >> They're able to do that. It's not live TV. It's streaming through the streaming services. So they are able to target the demographic that
050we're looking for. >> So they just got this up and running on the 15th. And this is our ad that's going to be running. Sproy Virtual Academy offers an opportunity for students across Wisconsin who are looking for an alternative to the traditional brick and mortar school. We offer flexible online education with virtual online courses for grades 4 K through 12. Our vision is to cultivate a flexible and supportive learning environment that empowers students to succeed in a dynamic world today and in the future. St. Croy Virtual Academy provides an equitable, innovative, and flexible education driven by compassion and a commitment to student success. So, being we are only running like we're able to target in specific months that we want to do a higher number of impressions. Um, being we just started midway through the
051month, we're only going to have like half of the like the 28,571 impressions. Um, but then October through November, we'll also continue at the lower, but then in January, we will go up to the higher and then back down February through April. And then we can take the summer off and come back in like August, September when people are starting to look again for the next school year. And then this is just kind of an outline of what the last three years of what our enrollment has been on in September. And then this little map um staff post provided shows where our students are coming from this year. So that shows like why we're choosing that Milwaukee area when you see that there's that big cluster down there around Milwaukee where our students are coming
052from. And then we have continued with the getting the newsletters out quarterly. So, um, we started that last spring and, um, so that's just the last few quarterly newsletters we've put out. Um, and then our Google Analytics. Um, we're continuing to grow with, um, the amount of user activity that we have on our website. Um, those numbers are as of today. Um the next slide shows like some of our topped top Facebook posts over the last couple of months. And then um our Facebook followers are currently at 4,123 um which is 333 new since last year at this time and we've had 24 new in the last seven days. Um our Instagram which we didn't have until February 1st of 230. We're up to 615 followers as of today on that. And then showing what
053where we rank according to what we're putting on with other middle order conference schools. We're still kind of in that Amory and Altuna are kind of always above us as far as the number of people who like their page. So we're always kind of in that third area. [Music] And next slide. And then for the virtual academyy's Facebook, we have 407 followers. Um we had 318 last year. Um, we are going to try to I put out a a post on the district page on August 21st and we've we got a lot more out of that because we found last year when we were putting out the the graduate pictures that people didn't even realize there was a virtual academy one. So, we're kind of trying to push getting more people, more of the virtual
054academy families to even though we have a virtual academy Facebook page. And then we just created an Instagram for the virtual academy to go with that paid social media marketing campaign. So, we're gonna start trying to grow that and getting some posts out on that to get a few followers on there because that might be a good place for the actual students themselves to be out on. Um, and then new this year, I've taken over I'm going to probably at some point in time kind of redo the community ed newsletter to make it a little more eye popping. And then I'm going to work with Amy Stevens to start a new social media student ambassador program. We're going to start with the yearbook students to try to have them. I can set them up with
055a moderated account on wheelchair and they can actually put the post in and I would have to approve it to make sure that it stays school friendly. Um, so we're going to work on doing that together. Any questions? Have we done a just simple math based on how much we're spending in advertisement with how many new students we've pulled into the virtual school? You know, something rough like, you know, we got 10 new students and we spent 18 grand. It still makes sense. >> Yeah. We we haven't yet. Uh um Steph is tracking like when when uh new students enroll like how they heard about users. She's finding you know they don't always fill it out. So yeah, we're trying to get more data analytics on that return on investment as well. Now it's there's
056and there's not even anecdotal like it's hard to tell. It's we've been struggling with this for just started it. Um, and then now that that I I I think we we should be able to tell a little better by where our students are coming from in that Milwaukee, you know, Milwaukee County area. Forget more Milwaukee students that obviously their address is easily tracked. Um, >> and we haven't seen Yeah. He says he's going to give us a weekly update on >> a report as well. >> So, we'll see what his looks like. like maybe he'll have a little bit more of the information showing not necessarily that they actually sign up but >> that they actually do >> some sort of action >> and our strategy has just been kind of a >> something is
057better than nothing you know shotgun like now we got oh we got you all like these things with the Google analytics or Google advertising and the digital marketing and social media marketing and now the streaming Milwaukee area marketing So we talked about let's really focus on those three and watch them probably going to pair it down to two but you know it's not a big capital it's not a big expense you know that for like like I said for most of these one student pays for it for the year now with the new marketing in Milwaukee and the streaming TV you know it's going to take two to pay for it for the year but so that's not a big risk but yeah I do want to somehow try to get more >> what's that
058>> 15 for that year 246 three two month three months of two grand and nine months of a thousand. >> Yeah. And and yeah three >> 10,000 for open world student. So >> there's obviously some inherent value in just the brand like continuing to push it out there you get some recognition. But yeah, it it would be good if we got to that point where we try and I know some of the impressions and the clickthroughs, you know, you don't always get but just to try to take that extra step to >> at least again even at a high level say we signed up 10 students even if they're all from New Richmond just to ensure that that grows with the money you spend so that it's Yeah, >> we did find it interesting that
059this guy from the CBS is in Milwaukee and he heard of us because he saw our Facebook ad. >> Got it. Yeah. Good. >> Our biggest competitors are the Green Bay area for virtual or >> Yeah. the Fox River Valley and and even central Wisconsin and Maryland. >> I think I've seen Fox River Valley on like the WIA sports like the state tournaments. So, I don't know if that's a spot that we could advertise on, but how many followers do they have? Do you know on their Facebook pages? Are we close to what they the valley like I'm curious how we try to figure out >> world batch virtual academy RVA is kind of the bigger ones now as well. Yeah, Steph Steph is in contact with a lot of those and kind of, you
060know, there's a lot of networking and what works for you and what doesn't. And um although they're we're all kind of competing. Um it's we still find that the majority of our students as you saw on the map come from our area. Um and we're finding anecdotally uh word of mouth this friend telling of another friend and and then once we kind of got into Milwaukee a little bit seemed to grow more and yeah that's where they're coming from but that's also where you know the most students are you know concentrated as well. also makes sense there and where how to say this people are looking for other opportunities other than maybe public school >> there in Milwaukee >> else thanks >> thank you guys >> good night see you guys Friday morning >> oh
061god Okay, we have financial reports now. Dave, >> as of August 31st, 2025, our balance in the citizens obtained checking is $4,70,195.39. Our money market account is $12,29287. 146 is at $61.3. Suicide prevention is $5,43.71. That service account is $935.34. The referendum account is $60,9204 a total balance of $4,149,88.38. Motion. >> Motion to approve. Second. Derek made the motion. Lance second. Is there any discussion? All in favor? I oppose. Motion carries. Uh, next is consideration of the consent agenda and there is no uh virtual courses to approve at this time and we do do need approval. Do you want to go over what the project search is? Yeah, it's through the 6630, you know, agreement. Uh, like we've done and other things. Uh, um, but this one is focused on transition transition uh, life skills
062um, for uh, students with IEPs um, near graduation. >> Okay. >> And we've done this before, >> correct? I believe last year was the first year that partnership. Make a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> Second. >> Dave made the motion. L second. Any more discussion? All in favor? >> Post. Motion carries. Administrative reports by Tim. Student enrollment update. >> Uh this is just the first uh um month-to-month enrollment report of the year. Again, as a reminder, it's not official. It's not our third Friday count, but it's it's a pretty good read on on where we're at with enrollment. You'll notice uh September last year to this year down about 40 students. Um and again, uh I think almost entirely attributed to the size of the classes we're bringing in in 4K and kindergarten,
063you know, now under 100. And uh we graduated class of 140 last year. So, uh it's it's pretty I think simple math and smaller classes coming in uh because of birth rates. uh like it was predicted in the last population study. And then speaking of that, uh we have initiated uh our next we do one about every three years and it's time for that. So uh Hazel Reinhardt is working on the next uh population and housing study. Uh we'll be uh presenting that to the board in the next couple months when it's ready. Um and then yeah, as usual, you'll see uh our our uh open enrollment in and out. again up trending very positively mostly attributed to our open enrollment in our virtual academy. You can see there uh we are trending upwards of
064where we were at last year with our virtual academy 239 students uh this September as compared to 209 um completely open rolled and virtual last year. So those are good trends and we'll obviously uh monitor this and report it each month. Please the key work of our school board plants. >> So, uh, thank you to Andrea Felberg, Stacy Pashki, Alicia Kur Kr, uh, and Amy Bohara. Thank you for all the work on the school backpack program. The amount of care and compassion you put into this project is truly nothing short of amazing. The SEC community is so fortunate to be able to benefit from all of your hard work. Ladies, you are very appreciated. Um, and then Cara Deitz, thank you. Um, congratulations on your most recent announcement announcement of being named president of the
065Minnesota ORF chapter. Awesome. This is very welld deserved. I can't read. We could tell. >> He was a really good athlete, though. >> Thanks, Lance. Core agenda items. Consideration of approval of second reading of board policy 532.2 staff holidays. We need a motion on that. The other one is just a first reading. >> I'll move to approve core agenda item A. Second >> made the motion and Dave second. Is there any discussion? >> All right. All in favor? >> I close. Motion carries. Uh then that's >> under 13B. I just a little context. Um working with WASB and Barry Forbes and the policy resource guide. we, you know, focused on policies and board policies. But, um, through, you know, some some, uh, things that transpired this summer, he started asking questions. Well, what does your
066411 rule say or whatever when we do it? You know, we're doing an investigation, for example, regarding a complaint, the formal complaint and the investigation. And and he says, well, you really should be adopting these rules. Um so at at his advice or legal advice uh we now are going to go through the policy resource guide and start adopting um presenting the rules to the school board. Um there are certain ones that just are very practical. Um so the rules are close cousin to policies play off each other. So uh that's the next step you'll start to see uh the rules come through. We started with this one because that's the one I said should have. >> How do they distinguish between their recommended policies and rules? What's the difference? >> Yeah, the the rules
067are more the drilled down procedures more more detailed. >> Okay. You know, include forms, you know, kind of like our uh objectional reading materials form, you know, was kind of an example. Um and then these ones Yeah. are more detailed with processes >> versus policies are are generally written so that every time somebody changes a position or you change a uh a resource, you don't have to change the policy. >> Yeah. >> Possible future agenda items. The upcoming dates that are important. Uh October 8th is board appreciation and staff breakfast starting at 7:15 in each building. We've got Eric at the high school, Lance Middle School, Dave Elementary School, and Jeff. And then we need to reschedu the board development meeting. Kelly's gonna send out a survey um with us and Lee and Tim looking
068at no Sunday late afternoon again. Uh the October 15th was board meeting was rescheduled to October 22nd. So Jenny can get the information ready for the levy. And October 28th is the Wville fall regional meeting in Oaklair and we'll lock that down at the next meeting if anyone wants to go. This is the 22nd, right? So that brings us to convene to close session. Motion >> make a motion to uh pay per Wisconsin statute 19.85 uh 1C considering employment promotion compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility. One approval of resignations, retirements and terminations. to approval of appointments and contract modifications. >> Second motion second >> I >> time is 8:05. Ready for that gym