001for presid with the exception of death pres all right um was this meeting properly notified yes it was and as a reminder it's being live streamed and recorded all right welcome to visit is there any public comment Right Moving on uh comments by board members and superintendent we have the 2324 audit overview so last Wednesday and Thursday we had the Auditors in District and everything went pretty smoothly I mean there's always a couple little things of course that they find that's what they're here for but um probably we had one journal entry that was very small like $600 that will need to be changed and then we had a reporting requirement for a grant that was not quite right so we'll probably see a finding on that one but otherwise everything went very smoothly and
002just kudos to the district office staff because they work hard all year long to make this happen and that's really our like Olympics to you know get everything ready for them in such a short amount of time because we have stuff coming in even after June 30th that we still have to get in the books for the prior year so it really is a crunch and they just do an amazing job so thanks to all of them any questions specifically or no thank you second Kelly are there any extra agendas for audience members yeah how would like got yeah I can keep it up here too but all right thank you all right let's move on the superintendent annual Timeline review that's a me I thought you were G to say so we um submitted
003or everybody worked on their um comments and their kind of the what the their assessment of Tim he well first of all he completed it he gave us comments he reviewed um gave his thoughtful reflection of everything that has went on in the past year submitted it to us and then we filled out the form and made comments and then we will work together on that review tonight and by August I don't know 20 like the end of August you and I will get together and we'll have a conversation about it so that's then we're done per policy yeah per policy okay any questions or okay uh Financial reports we'll move on and that's Dave okay all right as of 6:30 2024 balance of the Citizen State Bank checking $1,881 19472 U money market $1,283
00454 fun 46 is $7.94 suicide prevention is $513 64 uh ADM Debt Service [Music] $168,800 128 the other referendum account is 3,750 6139 another Debt Service account $2,867 19 for a total of 8,1 169,900 $328 thank you a motion motion to accept the report sorry DK made the motion Lance second is there any other discussion all in favor oppos they're approved next is the consideration of the consent agenda [Music] and there is one part-time and two full-time curricular modification requests to enroll in Virtual cles for 2425 does that have to be separate no yeah need a motion second so Lance made the motion Dave second any more discussion right all in favor I post motion carries we'll move on to the administrative reports nothing okay key work of our school board we've got student staff
005and Community recognition and D's GNA do that for us tonight yep so we've got a trap team that apparently is amazing three out of four years so congrats to the Trap Team and the coaches at another State title three state titles in four years is an impressive feat um and our next recipient is Justin K Justin congrats on your runnerup finish at State trap thank moving on to consideration of approval of annual notices yeah so annual notices are done every year in July and so WSB basically puts out a packet telling us what notices we need and then what the requirements for each notice are um not much really changes from year to year so this year there was just a couple of changes one was the um menja cockal disease one we're able to
006get rid of that so we'll be eliminating that one and then um there was one that had to be added so it's class rank under the University of Wisconsin's guaranteed admission program which is basically um every year the 11th graders in the top 10% need to be notified that they're in the top 10% so not really too big of one but and these will be published in our a most of them are in the newsletter all of them are on the website and then there's some that get um published in the newspaper so okay so we need a motion yeah soov second so Dave made the motion Lance second any more discussion all in favor motion carries uh consideration of approval of notice of identifying pupil academic standards in mathematics science reading and writing geography
007and history for SEC School District for the 2425 school year so this has to be done separately um we have two different ones because we have to do a separate one for the brick and mortar schools and then one for the virtual school so we just have to identify what academic standards we're using and this the exhibit link um goes to the notice which has the link um that we just used the Wisconsin academic standards nothing has changed that's what we've always done so we just have to approve each of them separately okay they're all posted on our website as well are there other standards that can be used by District um not if we want to be in compliance with DPI yeah in every uh curricular area is reviewed with a committee Statewide um
008every 10 years 10 year cycle okay I'll make a motion to approve C second right me the motion Derek second is there any more discussion all in favor oppos motion to approve D second Derek made the motion da second any more discussion right all in favor oppos motion carries moving on to core agenda items first up is consideration of approval of updated student fees for 2425 school year so as you know we already approved these back in May at the reorganizational meeting however since then there were some changes to some of the Dual credit class fees um it sounds like it's a timing issue where the universities are not really notifying us until late May to early June so I know when we set the fees um Mr redond had said for the cap classes
009if there was any changes to go ahead and make those updates you know that it was pre-approved so I'm thinking in the future we we want to do that for all of the Dual credit class fees because it does seem like they come in later than what the other ones you know the ones that we're setting ourselves so some of the changes are the ones that are list that are highlighted in yellow so the education 303 at w Stout that is a new class um music 105 and 106 through W River Falls was originally approved as $315 and you can see that that has gone up to $330 um math 225 at U River Falls also was an additional class that one's a little more expensive because that's a four credit class instead of a
010three credit class and then the two at the bottom through the University of Minnesota I'm not sure exactly what was going on there but we had some textbook fees you can see that the history 1307 now has a $90 online textbook fee and history 1308 does not have a textbook fee so those are the changes for approval for tonight everything else on the document is the same as it was in May thank you I'll make a motion to approve the changes second I gave me the motion Brad second is there any more discussion right all in favor oppos right motion carries moving on to the consideration of approval of revision of the 2425 staff and student calendar so as you recall January every year uh the board approves this which you did um then it
011came to our attention um late this spring um potential conflict with the graduation change so we've since I can remember we've had graduation on Friday Memorial Day weekend we changed that propos change for next year to get that away from that weekend uh seemed to be more cons associated with Pros with that weekend and um moving it back uh to the 29th or the 30th originally um we thought it' be okay we talked to the good Robert's Good Neighbor days folks and knew that you know okay graduation is going to be from 7 to 8:30 on Friday night and and that was a change and we didn't want to negatively impact that but they understood and you know it's done by 8:30 and it wasn't necessarily prohibitive to any one the good Roberts Good Neighbor
012days or you know graduating seniors and their families um so that wasn't the conflict um what we found out was um track sectionals are that Friday and we didn't want to put any students and or coaches but especially graduating seniors in a position to have to choose between a sectional track and attending their graduation ceremony um so our with our proposal moving it up one day to Thursday um we do recognize there could be uh baseball or softball U postseason that night but the difference between baseball or softball and girls soccer that wasn't girl soccer it baseball or softball and track is that track has about 13 teams that would be involved so moving it is pretty unlikely where As baseball or softball it' be we've done this before we did it two years in
013a row maybe now with El tuna you know we could if we if there was a conflict we would move the time up to 1:00 or 2 o'clock in the afternoon or moving up a day perhaps so um we are recommending because of sectional track conflicts um changing to Thursday May 29th for graduation we thought about it you know what kind of issues we could run into if folks had had reserved the Hammond Town Hall already for the 30th or whatever 31st we figur while a graduation day earlier shouldn't be a problem with their grad party so we couldn't think of any reason and um that this wouldn't work a lot better than the 30th so we're proposing two changes moving graduation to Thursday May 29 and secondly we uh as long as we were
014red doing it we looked at uh our professional development calendar and we moved it from November 15 professional development day for teachers to November 1st we we try to accomplish about one per month it still accomplishes that still gets it um moves it a little farther away from our Thanksgiving break and a bonus this next year is it's the day after Halloween so we uh we understand it's tough for especially trick-or-treaters that might be out later parents um and to have that day off for families might be more beneficial than November 15 so those are the two changes we're asking for you to consider and potentially approve on November 1st PD day and Thursday May 29th graduation dat motion to approve second made the motion Dave second is there any [Music] discussion all in favor
015I motion carries move on with graduation a week earlier than normal that just take too much time away from yeah we looked at that and it was yeah yeah it was three weeks that they would be out of the classroom right okay um moving on to consideration of approval of the 2324 budget revision so we have one budget revision for last year DPI brought this to my attention and we actually had our expenditure coded correctly but in the budget amount um when you have a when we have our like debt proceeds that we receive and then through beard there's always a refinancing of that it usually creates a rounding amount and that amount is res what they term as restricted for refinancing so then in the next year we have to next fiscal year we
016have to clear that amount out of our books I had it originally budgeted for in function 281,000 in within fund 49 and it should have been budgeted in function 282,000 in fund 49 this all rolls up into 280,000 function but because of the difference between it being restricted and not being restricted it was considered a budget change so this was the one change that we had from our original October Levy budget so it didn't change the dollar amount at all no motion to approve second Derek made the motion and Dave second is there any more discussion I just to clarify the difference is one is restricted one isn't restricted right functionally there's no there really is no difference it's it's part of the aid calculation so when when you have this rounding amount and then
017you clear clear it out of your books the next year you don't receive Aid on that 124,000 so that's really all it is okay to make sure that that is coded properly so that we don't receive Aid on it and like I said the actual expenditure I had coded properly so that was fine it was just the budget amount and DPI asked if we could change that got it okay thank you more discussion all in favor I oppose motion carries uh next up is the review of the proposed 2425 budget and lovees to be be presented at the annual meeting all right so cie put your packet together so this is the same packet that we will have for next Monday's annual meeting and we'll kind of just go through it and then we'll come
018back and talk about the the budget information a little bit more so it's pretty standard this year we are meeting on the 22nd of July and it will be at the middle school library so we'll meet at 7 o' we will have the budget hearing that's usually about a half an hour and then we'll go right into the annual meeting once the budget hearing is done so you can see that first page the second page then is the table of contents that shows all the different items that are within the packet the following page is the agenda so this is what we will follow we will again we'll start with the budget hearing at 7 pm we'll go through the budget once that's closed then we will immediately start the annual meeting it has some
019basic information on there as far as what we're proposing for tax levy inil rate and we'll talk about that in a little bit as well as um to make temporary loans up to 900,000 and that has been at that amount for four or five years now I didn't look that but the next page is all the resolutions so once we're in the annual meeting then we will go through the resolutions and approve those and of course this is a community meeting so the community a is able to make a resolution and you know be a part part of that process and and vote during that process the the next page labeled four two pages labeled four and five are the meeting minutes from last year's annual meeting in July we always include the treasures report
020as of June 30th so that's page six and then we have our letter from the Auditors on page seven that says that they have come they've gone through our books and everything seems to be in order pages eight through 13 we will go through in just a minute as we move on to P 14 that's our Community Education summary so we put this together every year for the community so they know what programs are offered through our community ed program we did add to the central Kids Care Program um that we will be you know looking at leasing the property on 207 Packer drive and Roberts just so they are aware we don't have much information as of right now but just to get that word out page 16 is our Revenue limit exemption savings
021update so each year because we Levy in fund 38 we are required to report what our Energy savings are from those improvements that we made back in 2012 so until those bonds are fully paid off we'll continue to do that uh page 17 is our seesaw 11 mill rate summary for 2324 so you can see all the different districts and what they're levying for the amounts and what their mill rate is for the 2324 fiscal year page is through 21 I believe yep are are the debt schedule um summaries that be provides us with that shows the outstanding debt of the district so you can look at those and then we have our equalized value summary on page 22 and finally we have a copy of our calendar and I believe that was the one
022that was updated tonight so this is the the most accurate so if we go back to page eight we'll start in on the financial information so as of June 30th our fund balance remains stable at right around that 17% we added about $625,000 to our fund balance to keep that at 177% which was a bit more than normal and it's mostly because of the the CTE addition for the advanced manufacturing portion of that addition because it's being paid for through the restore grant that is being put through into fund 10 so that part of our general operating fund so we're coding those expenditures to fund 10 we're receiving the money from cbtc into fund 10 so that added about $1.5 million to our expenditures for 2324 that we wouldn't have had otherwise so that was
023quite a bit and you'll notice that as we go through to that it it's causing kind of a hump in our revenues and our expenditures that we're going to expect to to decrease for next year but overall we're still in compliance then with our gby 54 policy which says our fund balance needs to be between 17 and 18% going into the fund 10 revenues our Levy and trailer tax in Source 210 you can see was increased quite a bit for 2324 um part of that was because we received about $165,000 for to District payout from the village of Hammond so that was a onetime thing and then our Levy for this coming year um of course we not include that because those were onetime dollars and we're basing that on flat enrollment and a stable
024summer school FTE as well at 40 so of course we'll adjust them after we do our student count on the third Friday in September and make sure that we have all those amounts accurate so when we set the levy in October we can adjust that it works in relationship with the um General Aid estimate so in we received just shy of 13 million in state aid and our estimate for 2425 is about 14 .5 just shy of 14.5 million so it is going up quite a bit EST you know as an estimate preliminary estimate um and that's partially because we paid out quite a bit in debt service we had levied two two different years and additional payment for Debt Service but that all got paid out in 2324 so that's going to kind of
025help us a little bit next year for that um General Aid source 210 also includes a small amount from The Villages for um mobile home tax it's about 35,000 year so I'm just going to point out some of them that are like different so if you have any questions about any of the other ones of course ask away um Source 260 for your non- Capital sales you can see in 2223 we only brought in about 40,000 and then in 23 24 was more like 75 and that's what we're planning on for next year um that was because that was that one year that ashkash decided they were going to collect the cap c cap class fees and we did not and then the next year they went right back to us having to collect those
026for them so we collect those then we pay them back out to UW ashkash um 280 Source 280 is interest on investments so you can see over you know even compared to 2223 to 23 24 we've earned quite a bit more in interest on our accounts um and that's mostly through Citizens Bank over in Roberts um if you go back even further you would see that we in the past would never earn more than about 5,000 or maybe $7500 so they have definitely you know increased our interest rate and we try to take advantage of that by keeping as much as we can in that money market account that earns a little bit higher interest rate even than the checking we are thinking that that's probably going to decrease a little bit for next year
027just with the Outlook of what's going on with the economy and the talk of the Federal Reserve Pro possibly decreasing that prime lending rate that will affect the amount of money that we will receive on the money that we're holding to so so we're anticipating closer to maybe 190,000 next year instead of the 250 of course series or Source 340 that is our open enrollment um Revenue that we receive from other districts most of that is for our virtual charter school so you can see how that amount is growing and how we anticipate that to continue to grow into next year Source 510 this is the one where the restore grants for the advanced manufacturing um addition over at the high school is being coded so you can see we did have some restore funds
028in 22 23 but then we had quite a bit more 1.8 million almost most of that is for the restore Grant not all of it there was a little bit for the nursing Grant I think it was like $5,000 so most of it is those restore Grant funds there still is restore grant money left I did not include a budget for that as of right now because we're finalizing this year and then we'll know how much we have left for next year so when we set the levy in October we'll make those changes so Source 620 that's what I was talking about earlier with the equalization Aid so you can see we went from about 13.5 million in 2223 down to about 13 million and now they're anticipating that we'll be back up to about
02914.5 million and the other one I wanted to point out in the 600 series is 690 you can see that I'm anticipating that to go down just a little bit and that's because our threeyear rolling average is decreasing so that per pupil adjustment eight is based off that threeyear rolling average so is that is decrease I our Aid is also decreasing Source 730 that is federal aid so all of our Co Esser money has been going into Source 730 so you can see in 2223 we spent or we received a shy of a million dollar um it also includes title two but that's a small amount about 25,000 um in 23 24 we received about 1.1 million and of course now that is pretty much fully spent I ended up with about 20,000 left we
030do have until September 30th to spend that so we'll have just a little bit that's going to carry over into 2425 and then that will be cleaned out by the end of September Source 750 is our Title One Aid you can see how that is changing over the years as well as we Bop along the poverty line I believe it's 5% so if you're a little bit above 5% then you are eligible for another pot of money if you're a little bit below 5% then you don't get the other pot of money and it's about half so you can see in 22 23 about 55,000 and then 23 24 12 24,000 now in 2425 we're back down to about 65,000 some of that is carry over so I think our allocation was just over 60,000
031but we carried over a small amount so our 770 this actually changed we did have about $1,100 for 2324 but we didn't receive that until after this had gone to the newspaper so that was one small change for that year but it's a small amount of money um let's see here 790 oh that's our eate funding so Chad was taking advantage of a program called ECF that was running kind of through the co years and I believe my understanding is that has ended so I'm thinking those um revenues are going to be down and in the past we had received right around that 75,000 so that's what we're planning on going into the 800 series um sources 870 that's where we record our bus leases so when we take on a new bus lease or
032any type of lease we record it as both a revenue and expense in the first year so you can see in 22 23 we had just over 110,000 in that account um that was for one bus that we had purchased this that year in 23 24 we had purchased two buses so that is the full lease amount for those and we're not anticipating any in 2425 so that is a zero so overall let's see here oh 970 I guess you can see that you know it kind of Bops around a little bit but we're just estimating like what we expect as far as money over under we never know what that's going to look like and for um 970 that is um the workers comp dividend so that can change a little bit from year
033to year as well and there's a few other things that go in there but overall for 2324 our revenues increased by about 15.6% and we are anticipating about 99.8% decrease for this coming year 2425 mostly due to that advanced manufacturing restore grant that we won't have any specific questions on the revenue piece all right we'll go right into the expenditures then so of course most of the expenditure changes and in any given year are with salary and benefits so Andor Staffing changes this year we did not really add any staff um we kind of strategically I think we added a teacher but we got rid of a couple peras and so there were some Strate strategic moves that we made but overall um of course at the May 15th board meeting the board approved a
0344.12% salary increase for staff um we did have four retirements during and at the end of the 23 24 fiscal year that will affect some of the budget amounts a little bit and some of those functions just because most of the time you know the person retiring is way at the top of the salary schedule and we're hiring someone with quite a few less years years of experience um the budget assumes a 10% increase in health insurance starting January 1st of 2025 and that is what our two-year agreement is that's the second year of a two-year agreement with Health Partners a lot of times we are able to renegotiate that in the fall as we're looking into the next year and um they will sign another two or three year agreement with us and reduce
035that amount so hopefully we can get that to come in at less than 10% but that's what we're planning on we're estimating a 2% increase in dental insurance and that that 403b contribution will remain at 2% for those eligible positions I did not include an increase for vision District HSA contributions life insurance disability and cash and lo of option so those normally remain pretty stable and I did find out that the wrs just we received notification earlier today that the wrs are increasing. 1% overall so 05% for the employee 05 for 5% for the employer so mine included a 0% increase so that'll adjust a little bit but it it won't be that much and just a note that most of the building budgets remained the same for this coming year um of course with
036the for 0.12% staff salary increases and the essr funding basically being spent this year the budget was pretty tight for next year so I did have some requests for increase in building budgets and I wasn't able to allow those at this point in time so depending on what happens in October with our student count we may be able to allow some of those things but as of right now it was pretty pretty pretty flat um normally we like to budget for an increase in our the amount that goes into our fund balance and you'll notice that our revenues and expenditures in fund 10 are the same for 2425 and but I think we'll be okay because of those restore Grant funds it kind of temporarily inflated our expenditures which is what we base that percentage
037off of so I think that we'll still be within that realm and we won't have if we have to put anything in our fund balance it'll be fairly minimal so that's what we're looking at um I think one of the big ones to point out again is that function 250,000 you can see in 2223 it was at 3.9 million um in 23 24 it was up to 5.4 and then in 2425 of course going back down again that's where the majority of those restore Grant funds were coded for the building projects any other specific questions on any of the fund 10 expenditures all right we will continue on then with the special funds so fund 21 and 27 are combined so fund 21 is our Student Activity accounts and fund 27 is our special edit
038accounts so those are combined on on this sheet um for the purpose so that ending fund balance that you see there is actually all the the account balances for fund 21 special ed zeros out at the end end of the year fund 38 is our non referendum debt so that's those Energy Efficiency projects I was talking about earlier so all The Debt Service payments for those run through fund 38 and then fund 39 of course is our um Regular referendum approved debt so for fund 39 we did Levy an additional um W for 2324 and we will again in 2425 to keep our mill rate steady at $920 um that additional amount is about $3 million so we'll be able to prepay some more of that debt that we took on that was at those
039higher interest rates some of that is like 4 and a half to 5 a half% and I know when we made that prepayment this year we say saved over a million dollars just in interest costs so so that will be good to to be able to do that again um fund 40 that's our fund 46 that has the $57 in it and then it's also all of our referendum projects that are being run through there except for the advanced manufacturing potion so you can see at the end of 23 24 we still had about 4 .4 million they're left in that fund to spend on construction projects and they are anticipating completion of course right around the time school starts so our food service fund you'll notice again that the fund balance there is decreasing
040um this goes back a few years ago but during covid when the federal government was paying districts for all meals not just for free and reduced students they had increased the reimbursement rate quite significantly because the cost of food overall was going up very rapidly and our district already had contracts in place with Chartwells to mitigate a lot of those higher food costs so we didn't have the same impact and it put money into our food service fund balance we're only able to keep three months worth of operating expens expenses in that account so over the last two years we've been spending that down so that we're in compliance with that so we are good now with our fund 50 fund balance so moving forward you'll see that that um fund balance either increase slightly
041or remain pretty stable uh Community Ed I don't think there was anything too significant there except for our numbers for 2425 do not include the additional daycare um plans we just didn't have time to get those numbers together so when we set the levy in October we will make those changes you can see at the bottom or toward the middle of the page there the proposed property tax levy and the amounts that we will Levy into the general fund for non- referendum debt for those Energy Efficiency project projects for referendum debt and then for the community ed Service so a total Levy of about 12.2 million and with an 8% increase in property Valu is estimated for this coming year that keeps our mill rate rate at about that $920 per thousand of value Pages
04212 12 and 13 are basically the same information it's just in a more condensed version so everything in there is the same as what we went through I guess the only thing additional you can see on there is the difference in the total Levy from year to year right at the bottom of that second page any questions so this is what we plan to present then on Monday night at the annual meeting yeah I guess maybe one question h how does what's proposed in this change if you were to make a change like a like the the lease mid year like where you would then potentially see Revenue in and additional expenditures out like is there a unique process with that well that's kind of where some of the budget revisions will come in at
043the end of the year if we do decide to do something like that but each month as we go along and you guys meet and approve the bills and approve a new lease it's automatically approved as part of the budget sure so it's not like a separate approval is not required okay so there may be a Reconciliation kind of like you had we had earlier in the meeting that recategorize something but it doesn't change functionally what you're doing it all throughout the year correct at this annual meeting is approved by the electors as a preliminary budget um it's a wonky timeline situation with school Finance approve this but then we don't even know how many students we have Friday in September and then so the final actual budget submitted DPI is end of October so
044we should it will look different than this yeah yeah because things change along the way like our general Aid amount will be different most likely than what our estimate is and our student count might be different than what what we're estimating so okay thank you y right so um next we can move on to the consideration of approval of the second readings we have second readings e through n motion to approve e through n so D made the motion Lance second there any discussion right all in favor oppos motion carries all right yeah for first readings um just as a reminder you know what first readings are first readings and how we do our our process but I understand there's you know there's there's a lot of information I want to present tonight on on
045policy 113 anticipate questions and discussion and kind of but first of all I just want to catch up the speed because this has been a lot of recent developments in the past three days essentially so backing up I got to back up two steps in order to catch us up to speed so first of all in in uh your handouts I I gave you an example of a policy 113 from wb's policy resource guide what's again WB policy resource guide Wisconsin Association School board has um a program that we can subscribe to and pay for annually um to get a bunch of sample policies that have been developed and vetted by their legal council so it saves us a lot of work um now they don't have all of them so for those policies that
046they don't have as sample policies we go out CI and I and find samples from other school districts kind of make them our own um and and then uh vet them with Le council at WSB and then present to you to consider for first reading and second reading policy resource guys been awesome we're we're in the 800s now we started in the 100s I think three years ago um we're nearing the end um I think in about three or four months from now we been through every policy been vetted legally been updated um and we're good so with that said um I need to tell you that the first reading can't be considered tonight because there was a a mixup so here's what happened we just discovered it today uh when we set up our
047right before we set up our meeting with with Barry our legal councel um uh every Tuesday KY and I meet and cover policy at two o'clock and it's it's has a different timeline start it revise it and then we get get input from principles Jen or whatever the policy is and come up the final one to present to you guys for consideration so we did this one so you know I start started hearing about uh Title Nine and these policies in August 1 implementation I think it was the last superintendent meeting in May and um like oh August 1 they GNA have some new language okay and then it just really um very little communication about that but then it started to really um be talked about and title title N9 Title 9 we looked
048in it oh yeah okay we'll adopt it so as part of this so you can see there's a 113 put in here because of that so Kelly and I went to the policy resource guide we pulled up their policy and submitted it and um you can see you just insert school name or Insert Title right that's all we really need to change things we don't change the essential wording and and legality of it um and that's where it's at even in my communication when I uh with the board uh this this this last week so then I think so oh I know I asked Michaela well Michaela had just went to an HR conference and all this got a bunch of information I just got some recent information um from WB literally this morning and
049I said Michaela can you do me a favor while I go to the construction meeting and compare our old policy to the new one I come back and she says it's really about the same and she's like there's not even a transgender or gender identity or pregnancy here I'm like wait a minute that was the gist of it so then I asked Cy I said can you pull up the policy resource guide again and she soon as she pulled up oh it says updated July 2024 she's said this wasn't here before so then all started making because I was thinking what's the big deal I'm not seeing a lot of you know changes I do know what the big deal is we'll get to that um but then so when we called Barry I was
050like oh I bet she was recent so when we talked to Barry Forbes at WSB because a recent guidance said talk to your legal councel so we set up a 115 phone call with them Erica and I and and and CI mckaela so it had to do with HR had to do with obviously board agenda and had to do with policy so in that I explained that and I go we did you just put it on there he goes yeah we put that on there late in the afternoon at July 3rd like ah that that makes sense we met I believe it was July 2nd calendar July 2nd so first of all this isn't a first going to be a first reading it can't be it's not the updated one so that's my fault my
051apologies um kind of uh check that off the list it's not a first reading all right so then now back to uh the the new laws and actually rule because it's it's an executive uh Branch thing where you know again was uh taught and what I learned about this so this isn't called Title Nine it non-discrimination and District programs activities and operations of which title n is included in there and the gist of um and I asked Barry you know again there's um 700 Pages no 1500 1500 pages you know within it and let's look at the executive summaries and all that I mean let's let's get down to condensing into into something and um the uh the gist of it is um is that it uh discrimination on the basis of sex includes discrimination
052on the B basis of sex stereotypes sex characteristics pregnancy or related conditions sexual orientation and gender identity so that's the biggest thing all this is about non-discrimination and prohib prohibition of harassment right which I think we all can believe in what's different is those different protected classes now are being added in there so um you know I knew what we've been hearing but I said Barry what what what have you been hearing what's the biggest push back for this he saysi essentially hear it's it's regarding Athletics and the concern that you know biological males could participate in girls Athletics and I said is that anywhere in here it says no as a matter of fact Athletics are not included in this at all um you can see that one document I sent you you know
053they they got lots of I think 30,000 pieces of feedback immediately or so about that so that's currently not as part of this it's being considered there'll be future guidance on that later um I said he does recommend so in that one uh uh what is this mean for school districts from the WB legal council today so Bob Butler is another attorney with Barry Forbes um what does this mean moving forward due to the circumstances and because Wisconsin school districts are not all similarly situated on these issues WB staff attorneys recommend that school district officials contact their District's chosen legal counsel to help them determine when or if their local school districts should adopt and Implement one the policy and procedural requirements of the 2024 Title 9 regulations two the various substantive interpretations of Title
0549 and those regulations three uh the title N9 employee training mandates found of the regulations and four their continuing obligation to prohibit sex discrimination under Title Nine legal couns can also advise School District on districts near term approach what we're doing now to Title Nine WSB is Bing the situation provide updates as become available so Barry recommended to continue to watch for further legal updates um um but I said back to that argument like um and I asked you know again what's law what's what's rule I said this I've heard both terms thrown out there uh law is a general term I.E statutes adopted by legislature legislative bodies whereas a rule is more administrative um by the executive branch which this is you know this is by the Federal Executive Branch um and I understand
055um how this has become politicized you know and um I don't use that term loosely but I think that's part of it um you know because it's from the executive branch it's from the federal government it kind of raises people's dander and uh becomes politicized and you know I think it's our job and our to listen to our legal council and and I said well what do you recommend he says well it's the law you know you know um and I said well what about this argument that it's a slippery slope if you prohibit harassment well not prohibit harassment I don't think that's the concern if you prohibit discrimination based on gender identity I.E potentially allowing biological males to compete on Girls Athletic teams um you know I understand that that is the argument that
056that's a slippery slope this is opening the door cracking the window or a slippery slope and I said what do you say to that Barry her legal coun he says that's pure speculation um not complying with the law based on the possibility that there may be further development of the law is purely speculative um so that makes sense uh to that so you know it would be my recommendation in my ask we've we've we can't even really well you won't see the new we can table o for tonight yeah that's not even tabled um well I guess you would have to because it's not the right one so you certainly should because it's not not even the right one number two you know buys another month to even talk more and learn more about it
057and then um also as a reminder in our second reading policy it doesn't say the second reading has to be the next month doesn't have to be the consecutive months it has to be a subsequent subsequent meeting so if we need more time I you know I certainly recommend take it as much time as we need to get the information we need I asked Barry what about this August 1 deadline because I knew we weren't going to make it anyway even if this was the right policy and we went to Second reading next month we wouldn't meet and he says I'm not aware of uh any districts anywhere ever having federal dollars withheld because they weren't in compliance so that made me feel a lot better and then just some you might ask how how
058many federal dollars we talking 7% of our budget is that what it is well it's 4.1 million so um 70% I mean it's it's a good chunk of change but the good news is you know uh I think the compli you know the federal government doesn't have a slew of compliance officers that are checking our website to make sure that we publish August 1 sounds I mean I mean there's obviously some injunctions against it and yeah um you know I see every school in our district has an injunction against it I mean if if it's the law like say that again well there's like an injunction against title n but I mean well yeah the one that's being peeled in moms of Liberty right her mom's yeah so when you say our every school in
059District isn't just shows that there's something been filed for each School in our district with moms Elementary Middle he where did you see that because the list I I can share really okay yeah which means what well just meaning that they're it it's basically on hold like they like basically we shouldn't adopt any policy until the litigation is done yeah andal are you Mom your school I said well I don't know what that means are they in our school like did they get a membership card basic there's a you join moms for Liberty and uh they have to have a a a child in that school and then as they do they sign up for and sign the petition and then those moms have your school covered under their their litigation it's a parent not
060staff right I think because it's in Kansas right now it's not clear what other states are covered I saw a list somewhere but I can't remember it was a very short list yeah yeah and then it sounds like it'll eventually head towards the Supreme Court you know so I I just that deadline is what kind of probably raised everything with August 1 um and then just mean in the agenda I think it it raised some questions and and you know here we are today talking about it yeah which is perfect that's what these meetings are meant for so my question to you is what yeah what how do you want to proceed what I don't want to do anything with it until it's done litigation yeah why something at yeah why have a polarizing topic
061for our entire community that could go to the Wayside three months later that we don't we might not have to deal with on either side of the spectrum okay so you're you saying let not even put it on the agenda let's wait so I understand that in your head you're going to thck what's the risk because that's the way you think and that makes sense to me but we already have a policy in place for discrimination that is was fine up until two days ago so why do we have to change it now right yeah yeah I'm just thinking all the it doesn't it doesn't discriminate or encourage harassment in any form of any of our students our current policy right and and by by just sitting on it isn't um saying we don't care
062about right pregnancy and and sexual identity and all that right this is more like yeah because of the injunction you know and appeals so we're put it on hold but how is our admin staff prepared to handle this going into the school year I mean are we just saying zero change the same policy we have today what we would say would have said yesterday and last Friday be honest whatever policy we have is not going to change how we do business with the admin like we're going to treat every kid we want to treat our own kids and and but yeah I know people go to extremes right away we don't want men and girls bath we don't have any I don't wants we we we don't have it today but what if the start
063of school we do and no policy requires that no policy specifically prohibits that so our policy right now allows Prov to administrate but we provide a different facility we cover cover inous some of the very specific issues I don't remember probably nine months ago six months ago that did deal with very specific issues like that okay I think this is probably more of an overarching I don't want to say more meaningless because there's a lot more like fluffy language this than some of the policies that we did already went from 40 40w policy to 1500 pages Who the hell's got time to digest 1500 pages in 24 hours I'm not that smart it could take me three months and I'm not smart enough to figure it out so yeah so yeah I think we table
064it till it's out of litigation I don't want to deal with it until we have to than so it's the motion okay table policy 113 consideration second on litigation dere made the motion and then Brad second is there any more discussion I guess before before it's voted on just because it's written that way is until it's out of litigation prevent you from ever talking about it prior so do we just take I do do you want to put before the opportunity or before it us from what things change that's that's I mean I mean it probably if it's in litigation it'll be likely years and if there's certain things to discuss about it between now and then it may you might not want to have a clend window and continue to Monitor and watch for
065further legal development you want amend motion am the motion do we have to vote that down first what we since it wasn't voted it was Motion in second yes second we didn't vote on it vote on it so we're just going to go ahead and say we can we can vote it down so what he said we're going to not support because we don't like the language of it so all in favor oppose okay motion is not um carried so now let's make the next motion motion to table consideration of 113 and monitor uh the situation through the court system and have the opportunity to uh follow up month to month second direct me the motion BR second is there any other good okay all in favor I oppose motion carries okay now we move
066to we're just looking at the first readings for the other 800s yeah motion but we do need c motions to z a a BB CC right um for the eliminating the no first readings just CC CC elimination I'll move to approve core agenda item CC second made the motion Dave second is there any discussion oh I see all in favor I oppose motion carries all right next up we've got Eric gisto from Market Johnson thanks for coming Eric usually these are near the beginning of the agenda he had a conflict and be near the end Eric actually I hear um he's first place in his Gul leag skip Gul leag be with a shattered [Music] ankle zero change orders no change or change or are bad right I think the last time I was here
067was about two months ago so a lot progressing very well with the construction Pro process so that's why I wanted to make it appearance today three things I believe I have a few pictures to show I'm sure all of you had time to stop through the the three buildings it's turned out great but for the community members if we can share those they made the pack they in your package there you can pull it up on the screen it down there go and then uh just walking through the pictures and just a quick schedule update and then uh end with budget updates which everything is looking really good at this point starting with the pictures um Greg green uh the nomination of the facility with great event I thought that was a good picture to
068lead off with we keep scrolling down so you got to work your 46 years old like Greg get your name on facility you know Greg's retired but I'm moving down again this is the elementary school the furniture showed up that that really made a big impact to the space so it it looks great in my personal opinion full school year to be utilized um Haven really got a lot of feedback great space I had one in there AAR another picture of the outside um again as far as just the infrastructure the mechanical systems haven't had her anything mechanically water leaks which is always a good sign as we continue on I'm moving down I don't know if anyone has seen the new big panther sign that's right out uh in front of the new shop
069spaces and does light up which is kind of a cool feature so drive if you haven't seen a drive by at night it really stands out pretty nice uh next few pictures are just the inside Space so this uh this is from the CVT or not CV Advanced manufacturing space again didn't have any pictures of the uh equipment but the college has started delivering some of their very expensive molders cnc's it's really shapen up uh this is in area J as we call it but that is the the shop classes so this is kind of a flex space it is uh as you guys saw the last tour that we did it's a real big space but you can see the finishes starting to come together with the ceiling and flooring um actually we did
070house pictures so things that you would see in in a True Manufacturing facility so awesome to to give the the students an opportunity to experience it before they they get out of school there's a picture of some of the welding Booth stations I think previously to this space you had two or three now you got uh 12 stations so kind opens up a lot of flexibility for the students I'll talk schedule here in a sec but this is the one remodel spaces that we started right as soon as school is out so this will be the new culinary arts lab for teaching home act so you can tell we're well underway just wrapping up drywall so over the next two weeks the finishes will start going in the flooring the ceiling then all the uh
071food service equipment another picture of the uh culinary art space that's where the new walkin cooler will go which will be a nice addition for for just the teaching staff there uh right next to that culinary arts this is the cafe space we a cool job on that uh so right behind us that's where that school store will go and then however this will function but having a space to make coffee Donuts things of that nature you can see it's it's really coming together then oh there we go so that is the the school store that's got some uh tagboard sort of speak so you can hang your apparel up nice neat orderly that's a picture of the greenhouse which is I believe we're going to do startup on that here in the next two
072weeks with some training sessions for the teachers Etc H from technology is amazing the technology the wind direction the temperature Sun Ian everything just automatically opens Shades closes Shades opens Windows total irrigation system should have named that the Greg Greenhouse [Music] there's a picture of inside holy just compared to the space you had before this in my mind open the realm of opportunities then the other Wing which we call H but the business the business Ed wig one you guys took the tour that was well under way so we just did the final punch list here last week wrapping up the the last few fixes um Theory the goal is to get teach in here over the next month so they have adequate time to feel acclimated and get ready for the on the first
073day of school this is another room there in area H or the business lab this is the food Sciences lab you can see all the the different ranges and hoods I probably butcher the the curriculum in this space I believe right they cook food and test different varas what's in fast food things of that nature so a lot of space which is cool to see uh next one down this is right right across the hallway but this is the an animal Sciences lab um again similar space but a lot of good new robust tables equipment so should designed to to stand up to a lot of abuse and last a long time saw the dog washing SLG groming table that rises up and down and today that was pretty cool it had rubberized grippy thing
074that were shaped in the shape of dog bones instead OFA yeah pretty cool and then last space um the printing room I will I think that's the the name of it but fabric production fabric production thank you and you can see some of the equipment that was purchased here uh a press it's right there under that big Hood melts on paint just the uh the equipment even going into the space is is very cool to make our own t-shirts banners all of that yes I smell like view so this is the uh the green room or the uh video education room we'll call it so this is a a green wall you can see how the paint is little different colors that was one thing we're wrapping up here last week but what they call
075it is an Infinity wall you can see that radius Arch there I think the dop processes when you do the green screen uh videography whatever it's called you it's a much clearer picture you do a lot of cool technology with it then the last few pictures um is the middle school again not as aesthetically pleasing but the infrastructure of the mechanical system is going to be a huge upgrade so that's on top of the Middle School roof that's a new unit that was set here a few weeks ago um a picture of set unit and then a few more at the high school just the the facil or the thought that was put in by W for for the maintenance staff getting up and overair Pits on the road I thought was pretty spectacular so
076as far as pictures there just a few and whenever you guys want to do a tour by all mean just let us know more than happy to walk you through it schedule wise uh start with the middle school we are would say slightly ahead of schedule right now next week we're going to start putting ceilings the flooring back in certain sections of the uh of the school we broke up to three different wings so next week we'll start putting uh call it Wing a back together following week Wing B then last Wing would be Wing C so trying to give um Nick and Kyle the maintenance staff plenty of time to get their portion of the work done and get teachers in there couple weeks early so they they feel confident going first school year
077as far as the high school U feeling really good outside you guys have driven by lately the home bleachers are in with the new Press Box next week the visitor side will be in and they'll set the Press Box over there more or less wraps up the U The Stadium August 12th that week we're going to do a full millon overlay for everything that's remaining or existing in the back that should clean up nice as that we're more less wrapped up inside that area H or the business Wing like they said Bunch list happened last week another week of putting bling touches on it then we should be able to turn it over to teachers to to get in there get set up area J or the shop area we did the bunch list today
078um again two weeks to wrap up the last uh bits and pieces I'm with that the shop teachers are huge help they're in their helping Place equipment Etc so we're making final connections the goal is to give them two three weeks in their space getting acclimated accordingly and then last but not least the the culinary arts lab or the area that we started remodeling here this summer plan is to wrap that up here around August 23rd nature of what we call Summer slams getting a lot of work done in in a month and or two and a half months wish we could give that teacher more more time but August 23rd that space will be wrapped up the goal is recalling substantial completion on August 23rd pass that I'm feeling really good about the schedule
079we wa on track I think we've overc every hurdle that we have up to this point just executing over the next month didn't to see the finished with that jump into the budget the sheet you have in front of you again always starting at the bottom the good news if you look at the bottom two lines you got the total project budget with the grants from uh the CTE Grant through the college and then with interest earnings the total referendum budget or uh at this point is 32,600 with some of the owner items that have been F purchase through teachers or through gen um through the construction cost through the Professional Services we're projecting that we're right there at 11,000 savings which is a good place to be right want to allocate all those fund
080by the end um there is that line right below it that's in bold 47,000 so that's construction tendency that is not yet that and claim s to speak so there is a good chance that that will be available here as we wrap up in September uh very high level I guess I'll open that budget sheet up for any questions concerns that you guys have and I can speak to those what you got planned for the other 1.9 million that has to be spent 1.9 now where you where you seeing that a difference in in 30 30,7 32653 the bottom yeah grand total projected GMP projected GMP here dark blue Grand toal oh thanks yes I'm sorry falling what you're coming in under budget a little bit right now right oh so the 11,000 sorry so
081right now if you look at the overall oh those aren in millions that's just in 11 million yeah so at the end of the day as we're projecting out into September 1 I think the budget is more or less allocated to this point there's a couple unknowns that I think are potentially conservative conservative and that would be the interest occurred at the end of the day and then with the help of CX Partners or the commissioning agent that you guys hired with some of the the focus on energy grants there is potential of some more money there so not confident enough to make that allocation quite yet but it's looking promising any other questions or concerns schedule related and then I know this is a ways out more conversations you guys have to have but
082at some point I I know you guys discussed an open house whatever that would be or as U when the project would be available I would I would project August 23rd anytime after that final SE was achieved received turn over to you guys yeah discussions have kind of tentatively you know been end end of September um just to make sure teachers are comfortable in their space they're getting the programming kids are becoming familiar with equipment by that time you know the community like to welcome in and see the the staff and students you know using the equipment and using the spaces and really really encourage our community to see these amazing spaces I just want to give a shout out to Eric as project manager and entire Market joh Johnson organization um Erica you're at
083the same weekly meetings um you see every day um how they going above and beyond um and uh there no excuses just ask something yep you bet and it they with a smile and make us feel like we are the only people on the planet like and Eric's got many you know things going on and you don't even know it it we're always feel like a priority completely trust them never given us any reason not to quite the opposite um they do things that I got to find out about later that they did for us from from Greg vley Nick Mac and yeah um so that's very much cre appreciate it and uh I said that trust is there and we're able to accomplish you know with the million dollars off our bonds and interest
084just with the interest Market you know and then we're able to add some additional things uh that have been wonderful um um like softball Press Box and you know parking some editional parking and and the list goes on and on he put together the list it was it was 1.8 million to to date of additional scope U because of stuff that they have save and interest occurred um so yeah and then I continue to be surprised and amazed at the equipment that shows up um you know Ive been involved in every detail of equipment so it's I said stuff you see at northw Tech or cbtc and I'm so excited for our kids to use that or staff to use it for our community to see that and really ties into our strategic plan which
085we just talked about in our business Partnerships Etc how much does set the star every year we just did that's we asked for three stars because like we want one at every school again that's something they do and so can you build a couple more of those and can we keep the one you build yeah so then they train our staff how to put them up and they'll go sweet is the Middle School gym repair finished or that um yeah I guess and update down that so very unfortunate situation with the with the water damage so mint mint gring out of the Twin Cities area they're the ones that got the work again uh their fault but I have to give them props for for coming through they they we met with the owner of
086the company and he's owning up to it so he's going to be paying for a whole new gym on the fixes I think that's going happen over the next 10 days so it'll be ready for volleyball season but the getting the whole replacement out of it I thought that was echoing of that owner's instead of pursuing trying to get it completely repaired right away and there's no way that that's not going to impact F and other programming volleyball so if we can get it usable it won't be aesthetically perfect but usable and safe full replacement next year and shout out to mitt rfing um they're GNA be about 220,000 they're going to have to Fork out on a I think about a $20,000 project they had so um Kudos they were yeah they they stepped
087up and owned it and it happened stuff happens but I'm impressed with them and how they own that and then Mark and Johnson obviously as the general project managers that just took um oversaw that and again take a lot of stuff off of our plate and and managing all the that uh negotiation so to speak but yeah so we're getting another new gym floor because of water damaged but apologies I know that's a little in convenience so at the end of the day I think glass half full attitude it's it's a good thing but do understand the the inconvenience to the players appreciate the patience on that it's a good time of year to have it happen though right and in the water came through from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. and people were cleaning up
088right away but just water and hardwood do not mix it's not very well awesome than you for everything have a good night all right we can move on to uh possible future agenda items there any none well just go over the important upcoming dates July 22nd is the school district annual meeting budget hearing at 7M and the annual meeting immediately to follow at the SRO Central Middle School library August 8th is our school board development meeting at 5:00 pm here at the district office August 21st is our next Schoolboard meeting at 7 pm here at the district office so we will need a motion now to go into close session with reading the statute move to Convenient close session for Wisconsin state statute 19.85% superintendent's performance review perfect Lance made the motion second Dave second
089so at 8:32 close session thanks for