001Yeah. >> And I just put that and you that's for the I had that out there for the public. >> So Kim Kim, can we vote inside? We vote on it inside six, right? >> The last thing says it. So the slide has that on there. So talk about it and then you'll vote. >> Does that make sense? >> Yeah. >> When we talk, we need to talk loud enough so they can hear because at the last meeting I got a couple complaints that people can't hear what you are saying. >> Yeah. >> I have a mic. It's just that I haven't push >> Hey, they're registered today. >> Did you do it? >> Yeah. Okay. >> Jesus, why is not >> What's the purpose of it? Why do we have to register every day?
002>> Welcome. How are you? >> Good. Thank you. >> Good. >> I see you walking every day >> and collect my money. >> Don't you walk? >> I didn't do that. I didn't have time. >> I skipped that analysis. >> Oh, I thought you were Maybe I was confusing you. I >> Okay, >> it's probably Mr. Mr. Barnes. Good for you. Be nice. >> I know. I know. >> But I'm glad you came. >> House looks good. >> Got the house painted. >> Looks nice. >> Yeah, looks good. Yeah, it makes the makes the dark on the bottom stand out more. Look sharp. >> Absolutely. Good contrast. Cheese. >> This morning, >> I can't. >> Hey, I'm helping you out. [Laughter] >> Joe is running a little late. Hi, Chris. Hi, Chris. >> I'd like
003to call the meeting of the Silver Lake Salem Joint One School District to order. Please stand for the pledge. 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. Go ahead. Roll call. Mrs. Gouch >> here. >> Mrs. Ragnar. >> Yep. >> Mr. Hurst is running a few minutes late. Mr. Gentiel, >> present. >> And I am present. Open mean compliance check. >> Kim open. >> Yes. I'm sorry. I was distracted looking for Sean. >> All right. Uh, and then are there any questions on number five, the consent agenda items? I think the only thing that I just want to highlight is that um we need to get these um monthly financials sooner
004than 24 hours before. >> Yes. >> Um I know we Mrs. Gouch kind of had a conversation on that and we echo that same thing. >> Well, in the monthly financials, I do have a couple questions. I see that there's payments in there for um the floor stripping the the gymnasium floor and that. >> So, does that money get put back into our general fund and taken out of the referendum? >> Yes. Once once all of the funds are set up, then Sue does a journal entry and moves those. >> Okay. And then when we get our monthly financials, will we actually get a report on where we stand with Okay. >> So the amperand was part of the monthly financials this this month. >> Yes, I Yes. >> Um that's the report that we
005will be giving. >> It just doesn't show any expenses out of there other than purchasing the CDs on there. I understand that. But it still would be nice to have it in a capsulated form so that it's easy to understand and we know >> we haven't done any withdrawals yet. So that's why that is that way. >> So that journal entry will get done at a future date. Okay. Excellent. Thank you. >> Is there a motion for approval of the consent agenda? >> So moved. >> Motion by Mrs. Gallich. >> Seconded. >> Second by Mrs. Ragner. All those in favor. >> I opposed. Motion carries. Next we'll move into the fun 80 presentation and discussion. >> Okay. So this a this evening thank you for um coming out. I know we um posted about this
006discussion and we appreciate the community involvement. Um the I'm going to start with a presentation on fund 80 and um the proposal of um possibly adding an SRO as as well as um some other authorized expenses. So, I'll talk about fund 80 and an um what the SRO means. Um after I'm done presenting, there's an opportunity for questions and comments. This is outside of the public comment portion. So, if it's not um a comment or a question that is around fund 80 or SRO, there's a separate time for those public comments just as a reference point because there's certain policy that we follow around public comments. Um, so then there will be that time to be able to talk about back and forth um and answer any questions we have. Um, the board will have
007a also have a discussion about it and then um there will be a consideration to make an amendment to the school district's preliminary budget which is posted in September related to the 2526 budget for fund 80. So, I thought I would start today with giving some information and background about how this got started. I've gotten a couple emails. Um, the idea of an SRO started when the another school district in our area added the position. So, some things were happening simultaneously. That was happening. Um, there was a couple critical incidences in the area and in Wisconsin. um and the village of Salem Lakes also the board trustee um Hopkins started having the conversation as well with some of our board members. So it was all kind of happening simultaneously. We were also looking at what
008kinds of things we could use fund 80 for which I'll talk about in the next slide. Um and um it came it it came up that Fund 80 could possibly fund an SRO as well. So all of those discussions were happening. Um, I was looking into fund 80 at that time. I was talking to our auditors at that time. We're talking about um things with other districts. The DAs were having conversations, board members having conversations, community members having conversations. So that's sort of what how we got to today. Um, so what is fund 80? Uh, it's a community programs and services fund that's outside of our general fund. It permits a school board to establish and maintain community programs and training. um and educational things for the community as well as athletic programs and services
009that are outside of the regular day. Um if it's going to be used for extracurricular activities, it has to um be offered to all pupils that are or students of age in uh the community, not just students who attend Riverview. So homeschooled students, students that go to private schools, maybe they're open enrolled somewhere else. Um and so we have put um some things in the paper regarding that and on our website. So it does allow fund 80 allows the school district to do a separate tax levy outside of the general tax levy. So that's sort of where where the discussion is coming today. when we um the the funding model that we've sort of talked about um as of today is that if we went into a um partnership with the Village of Salem Lakes,
010Village of Salem Lakes would utilize an SRO if we move in that direction um for the summer months. Um from my understanding, it's a third shift position, so they would fund the position at about 33%. I did attend the board meeting that was recently had and and there was some discussion about that. Um it seemed to be very favorable at that level. I attended that because our budget sessions are when we adopt fund 80 is different than when um the village of Salem Lakes also um adopted our budget. So, I wanted to have sort of an understanding if that was something that the village of Salem Lakes would possibly um do. And then Silver Lake Salem would fund the 66% out of fund 80. It's estimated to be about $90,000 for the SRO position that
011would come out of and we would tax levy for $90,000. Um, I say estimated because there is still um I think the the police union is still in negotiations around raises and that sort of thing. Um, so fund 80 is the additional tax levy. It's estimated that um that increase without an SRO to taxes next this coming year would be about $120 on a $300,000 home. So if if we did not um go forward with an SRO, that is what is estimated right now based on the equalization rate, all of those things and the referendum that has happened that was recently passed. If you remember when the district um put forth information um we were estimating that it would be a $165 increase for taxpayers if they owned a $300,000 home. So, we came under
012significantly because of the bond rating that we had and we got really good interest rates. You know, all of those things sort of helped um decrease the amount of money that was actually going to um that your taxes would actually increase. If we went if we move forward with an SRO um and taking into consideration that that's about a $90,000 increase, it would be um the tax increase would be $159,000 $159 a year on a $300,000 $300,000 home. So, it's still under what we projected would happen when we passed if we passed the referendum. Um I thought >> I do have one question, Kim. Uh Lieutenant Gilly. Yes. >> If the village of Salem Lakes in their budget decides not to approve um their 33% of it, similar to WOA and Wilmont, how you guys
013move an SRO to conveyance to patrol. Is that still an option if we were to move forward? Yes. With an SRO in our district >> at this time, as far as what I've been given, no. They don't want to move forward with that. I don't think the sheriff's office is is looking to create they have to hire a whole new position to backfill that position and they're they're not looking to do that currently. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Um so just some general um need to knows about the SRO position. They would be an employee not of our school district or um yeah not of our school district but of the Kenosha Sheriff's Department. SRO are active law law enforcement so they will be wearing a full uniform or a police vest while at school.
014um their work work schedule could vary depending on some of the events that we have at school. They won't be attending all all of the extra events, every game, all of those kinds of things, but would be available in an adjusted schedule to attend some of the bigger events. Um and SRO's will not be involved in school-based discipline. So, they are not um you know, that's the job of our school personnel. They are not handling the discipline issues that are coming to the office. Um, and the primary purpose of our of the stated purpose of the SRO is the education of students, families, and the community about law enforcement. We're really looking at this right now as a proactive measure and versus a reactive measure, which a lot of things um in the past have
015been reactive to when something happens at um our approach here has been to consistently layer in things that are safety related. So, for example, we passed a referendum that allowed us to fund a crisis alert system that will be going in in the fall that um will have our teachers wearing badges that if they press it eight times puts the school in automatic lockdown and notifies the authorities immediately. So, um we also have other obvious layers in our building, the locked door and vestibule, another layer. What we're trying to do is make sure that as much as we can to take human error out of things and to make the school um safer as we continue to add some of those things. Um so it's really a proactive model to support and pro promote safety
016um a safe environment and build relationships with all the stakeholders. Uh rapid response to any critical incident that would occur so we wouldn't be waiting if there was a critical incident. and community programming with things like bike safety, digital safety, um safety patrol, ch um training our students on um how to be good citizens and um doing crisis um crisis curriculum um lessons with our students as well. And then just some other things that fund 80 can be used for that we're considering tonight is um extracurricular activities like I mentioned before. So sports programming and clubs that are offered outside of school. Maintenance of the facility space that are used by those um can also be funded through fund 80. Um those costs right now are estimated to be around $82,000. So um that sort
017of lays out the the nuts and bolts. There's also I I think many of you picked up a um flyer that has some of those things outlined too in a little bit more detail. >> So, President Hopkins, I'm not sure how you want to proceed, but >> at this point, you know, we're open for question and comments from the board. I'm sorry, from the community and then um after you guys have your questions to us, then we can have a general discussion after that. >> So, community any questions, comments, just feel free to stand and name and address officer. >> Can you just provide your name and address for us, please? >> No, that's fine. >> Okay. Um, can the SRO officer do medical emergencies for students or staff? >> Do you want to stand
018up? >> I just really quickly introduce myself. So, my name is Lieutenant Tom Haley. I'm a leazison with the build and >> I'm sorry. That's okay. The fairy school. So, uh, tonight I I brought along with me. So Alex Hyde is currently our our central SRO. I have Deputy Chris Bishoff who's currently our Wilmont SRO. And then Max Isaac is he he's our former Wilmont SRO. So here he also is. I was never a school resource officer. So I'm counting on these guys to kind of give their experiences to you and and the relation talk about the relationships they built with the staff and the community and the students. So you wanna Yeah, sure. >> Um yeah. So, we respond to all sorts of emergencies just like we do on patrol, right? Um, so myself
019personally, I'm trained in CPR, stop the bleed, um, and then tactical combat casualty care. So, anything ranging from amputations, chest wounds, excessive hemorrhaging, bleeding, all that stuff. Um, we have all the skill sets necessary to treat that. So, >> good question. Yep. >> Hi, my name is Bill Hopkins and I live in the community since 1989. My kids have gone, all of my kids have gone to this school walking and so forth. The thing about this SRO is as we hear in the news today, it's becoming more and more prevalent. Most recently, we've seen it in Madison. We've also had an incident in Kenosha uh that turned out to be a false incident, but at the given time they didn't know that. I personally do not want to see any school having to go through
020something like this. But my granddaughters go here today. We took him out to lunch with my wife and we started talking about this SRO. My two granddaughters, one's going into first, one's going into second, started talking about what they do in the event someone comes in and starts doing a heinous act. It's sad when we have to teach our kids that they know how to block doors with chairs and this sort of thing. Kindergarteners, that's sad. My two cents, I want to see an SRO in every single school. every single school. >> Thank you. >> Mine's lengthy per usual. I'm sorry, but my name is Ashley Whitting. Um, we open roll our kids at Riverview every year because we love this place. Um, the conversation about an SRO is not about putting more enforcement in
021our schools. It's about something bigger, which is trust, connection, and mentorship. It's about showing our children that law enforcement is approachable, supportive, and invested in their growth. Um, I picture an officer who knows our kids by name, who shows up at their games, who helps them work through conflicts, and brings lessons on safety and leadership to life. I imagine our children looking forward to seeing that officer because it needs fun events, hands-on learning, and chances to feel proud of themselves. In the community here in our county, we already see the value of this type of approach. Um, we have Deputy Friendly's program that's been long focused on DARE and I think Riverview could be the pilot site to expand that scope, bringing in not just law enforcement but also EMS firefighters in the DNR so
022students gain a broader picture of public service. The Kenosha safety center in the city of Kenosha where 10,000 area youth attended safety programs each year with the city's officer friendly and team has even invited Riverview to bring our students for great appropriate field trips. Pairing these experiences with inschool opportunities like assemblies and safety patrol would give our children fun formative leadership moments that stay with them for life. At the same time, an SRO provides something no program alone can, which is an immediate response in an emergency. In moments where seconds count, it means protections for staff, students, and visitors without delay. Emergencies can be medical, mental, emotional, or safety related, and sometimes they're painful interactions that our children or staff face, which also need swift and caring response. We need to expect the unexpected. Um,
023that presence is not about fear. It's about reassurance, readiness, and peace of mind for every Riverview family member. This decision is also fiscally responsible. When our community passed the facilities referendum, safety was identified as a top priority. Utilizing separate funding available for community service can help provide our kids with strong academics, updated facilities, and stronger security without compromise. In short, this role would allow us to bring the heart of officer and deputy friendly warm, positive, and inspiring while ensuring every child, teacher, and visitors protected, supported, and connected to the community that surrounds them. Thanks. In the back, >> if we're if you could stand up and say your name. >> So, I have about five pages in 12 fonts. You want me to go after someone else? You good? Go ahead. Okay. So, um, this
024is a statement first and then I have questions. So, >> Oh, oh my god. >> You want him to say his name? >> Can you say your name and your address, please? >> Isaac Suni and I live in Silver Lake. If there had been an SRO when I was a student at Riverview, >> can you hear me? >> Yep. >> When I was a student at Riverview, I'd be dead. This isn't an overexaggeration. I spent much of the time I knew about the decision to add an SRO comparing it to my own experiences at Riverview. I share my perspective not because every person is like this but because at least one person knows. Riverview is a specific school in a specific district in a specific community. It deserves to be recognized as an individual case
025and not a statistic. I started Riverview as a fifth grader and lost contact with our neighborhood friends. Then I switched schools and lost contact with the friends I had from my old school. Home life was difficult and complicated. I didn't feel safe enough to explore the town we moved to. And when I eventually did, I didn't feel safe enough because I knew at the end of the day I always have to return home. I came into school with the fear of authority. This included Mrs. Zachary, the DA at the time, and some teachers. I didn't respond with fight or flight. I responded with f response in a 5minute panic attack in the bathroom. It was more difficult to see that I can pinpoint specific things that kept me that prevented me from killing myself. In
026my sixth grade English class, a teacher made eye to eye contact eye contact with me. Put down the poem, do not go gentle until that good night. And to that day, I have no idea if that was intentional or not, but I know that made me so angry that they thought that they assumed a poem would stop me from killing myself. They were correct though because I remember picking a different reason. I don't remember what it was, but it was a simple interaction that lasted less than a minute. And I know that for some reason it worked. I only made it to sixth grade because a fifth grade teacher cared enough to make me feel like someone who should exist rather than someone who happens to. And whether it was intentional or not, I was
027forced to stay alive until her class cats died. He cares. She cared enough to make me a person, not just a student. Dare affected me in a horrific way. I was terrified to interact with the police. I have never talked to a police officer before and the idea that there was a person right in front of me who could arrest me if I said or did the wrong thing. I was I was raised Catholic. I was raised with the concept of if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. Um I knew I was trans at a young age and this felt like something I should have to hide. I've been told this was bad and made me a bad person. Who does the place arrest? Bad people. The reason Dare was moderately
028tolerable was because it was scheduled. It was It was once a week and I knew it would end eventually. If there was an SRO at Riverview, I would be dead. I wouldn't be able to ignore the cop. Even if I didn't see it, it would be somewhere in the school. I would always wonder, are the teachers forced to say this? Are the police monitoring what the teachers are doing? Can I trust the kindness that has been offered to me without the expectation of something in return? Would I be mishandling? Would I be arrested for mishandling guinea pigs? I have some questions. Um, so there has been very limited ways for you guys to receive community feedback up before this. So every single flyer article and even the board website itself had incorrect contact information and
029this meeting is 11 days after the first thing was scheduled. Do you believe you have enough uh information from the community to move forward to September 22nd for your final decision? >> Yeah, thank you for your question. Um so Mr. Gentiel and I and Kim had a conversation about um looking at polling the community and we did surveys in the spring and we had very low um very low participation rate from our families on the surveys um around um their classroom experiences and teacher experiences and so we wanted to hold hold more of community listening sessions like this um we'll have one this month and one in September before the annual meeting. And just a question, what what was incorrect about the um contact information? >> Oh, you just it just wasn't work. It was
030wrong. The email and phone number. >> Okay. Could we look into that? >> Did you Did you receive my correspondence back with you? >> Yes, yours was correct. Uh but like you said, if you contact a board member, they're going to tell you Kim Taylor, and that was wrong. >> The only way I knew is because my mom works there. So, >> yeah. Mrs. Taylor's email and her phone number were incorrect for McGuire. >> Okay. >> Even yesterday's >> thank you for bringing that to our attention. We'll fix it. >> Oh yeah. >> Um so like Randall's board decision for this was um took five years. And so why is Riverview's why is Riverview able to make the decision with only a few months between August and September? >> And feel free anyone else to
031hop in here. The nice part about our decision is all we're making a decision on tonight is to put this to the community. Um in September we have the annual meeting and that is a meeting of all the taxpayers. And so the nice part about this vote is that it's not the five of us making this decision. We will all have an individual vote in it. But any community member that's a taxpayer can come to that meeting and can vote on that. And so, um, to your point of why is it so quick, uh, we started having conversations, um, about school safety. Uh, I know when I got on the board, we started having more questions from Mrs. Zachary and Mrs. tailor around our practices as well as uh back in February started having more
032conversations with uh the village of Salem Lakes about what this could look like to add a community partnership that would save money for both entities instead of one cost for one. So um that kind of moved more quickly uh once the referendum passed and once um the village was moving towards their budget talks this fall. If I could kind of piggyback on that a little bit. Um, also with the feedback that we got from the strategic plan that we did last year, uh, one of the highest priorities of the community was safety for the school. I think a lot of the community recognizes, as Mr. Hopkins presented that there is an increase in uh atrocious acts at schools and so a lot of the community in in our outreach during our strategic planning had indicated
033that school safety was a paramount priority to them. >> What community did you pull? >> Our local community. >> Absolutely. >> Correct. Yeah. And we had with the strategic plan, we had uh quite quite a large amount of responses. >> Five listening sessions. >> Yeah. And and five listening sessions with community members that were very well attended. >> Uh and and and school safety was one of the one of the top uh comments and topics that was brought up amongst the community. So that was one of the reasons why we spurred kind of moving forward and and looking at potential outcomes and and things that we could uh institute to help facilitate higher school safety. >> Okay. Okay. Um let me see. Has Riverview ever considered an SRO before the village of Silver Lake? Uh
034brought it Salem, excuse me, brought it up. When I first got on the board, it was one of the first conversations I had with Mrs. Taylor about something I would like to see. Um, I am a teacher at a local high school and I work with um the special ed population and a lot of students who are at risk and I have worked hand inand actually with Deputy Isaac and Deputy Bishoff and seen the impact they have on a daily basis um to build connections and to build relationships with um students that need it most. And so I thought it was very important that um you know we had look at this possibility as our school district. And so from my individual board member perspective, it was a goal of mine to have this conversation
035and move this discussion forward uh for the people to vote on. >> Okay. And was there the conversation had before Miss Taylor joined? >> Mrs. Taylor, I'm sorry. >> I probably Mr. Jal can answer that one. I I don't know that uh the conversation was had previously to uh Mrs. Taylor. Um I do know that when Randall and Lakewood um added theirs, we began discussions ourselves. Obviously, we saw things on social media. Uh myself, Mr. Hopkins kind of had some discussions off to the side about what what next steps would look like and then obviously the village approached us. So that's where we're at today. Mr. Hopkins, >> if I could add to that, um, back in the late 90s, I was also a school board president here and we did have an incident with
036a student who threatened a bus driver and who had access to shotguns. So, it could happen. And this is another reason why I approached the schools, not just Riverview, but Salem as well as uh Trooper Wilmont in a partnership because residents not only in Silver Lake want more law enforcement. Um but they want to see it in the critical hours at night. And I know from a village perspective, uh, a fully costed u sheriff's deputy is about 130 to 140,000, which means we would dump that back on to the taxpayers times three. What we're looking to do and and yeah, the schools are going to pay the brunt of it, but at the end of the day, the schools would have an SRO protecting our kids. the village would gain additional law enforcement in the
037summer months so we could potentially have roundthe-clock coverage which we do not have today. Well, we have it today but it's not dedicated to the village. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Um could I ask you a question? >> Uh I'd rather you with the school board. I'm just >> like you. >> Okay. Actually, I'm sorry. >> Can I ask that? >> Just to like further. So, I'm Lauren. Um, we actually live out of district but open enrolled. And I can say just from a parent that literally my child was bullied in kindergarten. And without Wilmax SRO helping me to facilitate, it would have been very, very difficult. She wouldn't go to school. She was sick all the time. We didn't know the things that were happening at school until there was a threat incident and
038they had to tell us. So because they didn't tell us, we didn't know. But Wilmont SRO once they were involved was able to give me guidance to help my kid move here for the last seven days of last year. She literally moved her kindergarten here for seven days and she is excited to come back. We went the entire year not knowing why she was sick, why she was upset, why she cried, nothing. So without that we would have been lost as parents. >> Oh so the will not river they helped you out with bullying >> the we went to a different >> and the bullying have been there. >> Yeah. So Wilmont was a total resource to us and it would be phenomenal to have a resource here. >> I understand what you're saying but
039how is that specific? >> Because it happened at other county schools 5 miles away. So, it's not that it doesn't happen close and they were phenomenal to be able to help us like we had to involve law enforcement. There was a police report. I'm literally a 5-year-old. >> Okay. But if they're helping you with that >> and just sorry guys, just to be clear, this is a conversation with us you guys. So, I appreciate the conversation, but it's to us or to the sheriff's department or the village, not with my >> Cher. I'm sorry. >> No, you're good. You're good. Thank you. Isaac, would you mind if I if I just posited one more one more perspective here? Um, >> it's a little subjective to your experience. Um, and and I appreciate your experience and
040I can understand where you may have um some some drawbacks to having an SRO officer based on your experience. Um, but what I would posit here is is that maybe and it's again this is subjective and and but but maybe had you been exposed to an SRO officer at Riverview from the very beginning, you may have had a more positive um interaction and a more positive perspective on your interaction with an SRO that would have potentially relieved some of the some of the anxieties that would have been created by having an SRO officer for you later. >> Here is my problem with that situation that you can't prove that. >> No, no. I as I said, it was it was definitely subjective. I'm just positing it as as a as an alternative potential that that
041you know could have could have. And I do think, you know, the the piece we're also, you know, kind of missing here is nothing changes with our administrative team, right? Like Mrs. Zachary is still working handinhand with our kids and our families and that has been happening for years. And so if she feels at this point that there's a need to bring in a relationship with the SRO, she would do that with the SRO. It's not going to be the SRO inserting themselves into a situation, it's going to be at the direction of Mrs. Zachary, Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Young Bloodood, or or teachers. So, it's not going to be this is their realm to do as they please. It's going to be at the disc discretion of the administration in terms of building relationships and
042working with kids. >> Okay. Yeah. I'm I'm not trying to like I'm I'm genuinely asking. I'm trying to say yes or no. I'm just asking. >> Yep. I appreciate your questions. Then I guess if there's that sort of idea, especially with the violence and everything like you brought up, if we already have this connection to Wilmont, what do you have any examples, I guess, of things that would have been improved specifically at Riverview? >> I will maybe let the SRO's touch on this. Let me just so I I answer your question correctly. Um how can you ask the question one more time again? >> Yeah. Um >> do you have any examples or things that have happened like scares or threats or whatever or actual things like that would have been improved within SRO Q
043>> here. So I mean I guess if I would look at it and can I speak about your experience here? >> Um so as deputies and especially SRO's we go through an extensive amount of mental health training as far as ident identifying individuals in crisis. Um and it's just even so it's just another set of eyes on our children on a daily basis that see the changes that happen in them. Um that recognize that you know we'll use Susie as an example. Susie's usually a cheerful, bright, young girl. But now the last week she's been upset. She's just been isolated, quiet. Um, and so that's just another set of eyes to identify something like that. And as a deputy, we have the training to kind of approach that in a gentler way and just see
044if they're okay or to bring it to the attention of the school that maybe they're busy with something, they haven't seen it. Um, I feel like we could have helped you. I'm so I'm extremely proud of the the journey that you that you've gone through and I'm sure that's made you the individual that you are today. But I wish I would have been there to help you get through that process. >> Um, and I think if I would have been there, we could have built that relationship to where there would have been trust where you would have felt safe coming to me in the event that you weren't safe coming to someone at school. Maybe maybe there was something in you didn't feel the school was doing. this is an outside party that can assist
045you and provide you with a service. >> I think actually what I wrote is that I was appreciative with what the school was doing. >> Perfect. >> Okay. just to make it clear. Um, but >> I I see it firsthand with and I obviously, you know, I might be partial to these two, but there I'll visit the schools and I'll see their interactions with the students and kids all the time are stopping and saying hello and just they they can pick up on these things. Another benefit they have currently too, they they work with their deputies who are out on the street and a lot of times like these kids have uh situations at home that maybe faculty at the school they're not aware of. Um however they can communicate this to the school resource
046officer and uh we even in fact we we completed a form. is called a handle of care form. And so the patrol officer is going to actually send a form to the school or to the school resource officer and say basically just say, "Hey, this this child uh was involved in a serious incident, a critical incident. Um just kind of keep your eye out for for this child. They're they might be having a rough day." So um there it's it's amazing what they can do with these kids and the relationships that they build. It used to be that unfortunately a lot of times kids your first experience with a law enforcement officer would be uh a situation at home or it might be an arrest of a loved one. Uh it might be us notifying
047uh a family member of a death um and that's what sticks with them. So I think the ability that we have this opportunity that we have to build these relationships at a young age um you can't measure that. I I don't know. I mean, I know people like numbers and everything like that, but to me, that's just you can't put put a price on. >> I don't think anyone in this room is against an officer being in our school. God forbid someone comes in here with a gun or something like that. But that's not all that a re a school resource officer does. And I think if you gentlemen who day in and day out can give a different perspective of what your day-to-day looks like to help us better understand it is about building
048relationships. It is about giving kids a positive experience with law enforcement that would help us better, you know, get a better picture for why an SRO is becoming more popular throughout the schools. It's not, no one would go, you know, $120 a month or a year or $160 a year. Anyone would give that if there was a shooter at that front door, but I think we all want to say that's one in a million, but it does happen now. So, I can you guys help us better understand maybe what your day-to-day looks like at the schools, which I understand high school is different than our school, but just give us a little bit bigger picture of what you guys do on a regular basis. >> And I don't I don't mean to cut you off.
049Are you >> Oh, >> are you good? Um I'm sorry. I don't >> Isaac, are you are you good then? Any other questions or >> I guess >> Thank you, Brian. >> The only thing I want to say is I respect your perspective. However, please respect. Okay. >> Thank you for sharing today and your questions. I appreciate it. deputies. >> We're a massive support role. I mean, my favorite thing to do is to just hang out at the school store and have the interaction with kids. Um, I know a lot of them by name. They know me by name. Some of them call me Alex. You know, it's a little dumbed down. And most of teachers, hey, don't call me by my first name. I've got to know them that well that they feel comfortable
050doing that. Um, I mean, I go get coffee with them. I I make my reports wait sometimes so I can make sure that I do, you know, the the PR stuff that comes with the job uh because it's more important to me, you know, to get to know the kids. A lot of them, hey, can you come to my band my band concert, you know, can you will you come to my game? I mean, all that kind of I know he does the same thing. Um and it's just off personal interactions with these kids on a positive note. And the ones that are negative when I go in, uh, this will be my fourth year going at Wes Stoia. >> Uh, this is my senior year, right? So, the freshman, they're they're going into senior
051year now. I've seen some of them grow from where I've had to talk to them every day to where they're fist bumping me and they're, you know, on the honor roll. Um, I like to see that. You know, I'm not saying the school staff can't do that, but sometimes when you have another person there as a a mentor or a decent role model doing something different than teaching, I think it makes a big difference. >> Alex, were you responsible for getting Dunkin' Donuts in over there? >> I think I was partly responsible. >> I had to ask. I had to ask. >> He's such a coffee snob. So, yes, if it was for the dogs, it would be more so me. >> He stopped at having coffee with them. I just want to know if
052you have donuts with them, too. You know, we all have that. Sorry, >> rude. >> I was for four years at high school before I was promoted to a supervisor detective bureau. I went into the position of an SR not knowing what it was. It was probably the most fulfilling opportunity I had in my career. There's a lot of things that I didn't know that I'd be involved in that are instrumental. The school threat assessment group of Kosha County. We meet monthly with all the schools, the district attorney's office, DCFS, so we can identify children who might be on that pathway to violence so that we don't end up on the news so we don't end up as a statistic. We work with all the agencies to make sure that the support is at the
053lowest level possible. So we're not elevating everything to a law enforcement level. So the cops aren't responding. We have that communication with all the different agencies. One of the things that we deal with a lot that I don't think people know is truency. It happens a lot at the high school, but I guarantee it happens here at the at the elementary school level. We have that relationship with the school, with DCFS, with the students where someone's not coming to school. If a if a third grader or fourth grader isn't coming to school, it's probably not because they overslept and missed the bus. There's something else going on at home. You have that opportunity to develop the relationship. go out to the house, knock on the door. Hey, what's going on? Why has Kimmy not been
054in school for the last week? We know that attendance is tied to graduation. It's tied to better grades. So, have that relationship. Figure out what's going on. We can bring those kids back to school. If mom, hey, sorry, my car broke down, kids, I can't get them to school. We can bring them to school legally. Um, if there's something else going on, we have that relationship with DCFS or juvenile court intake. So, we can call them and say, "Hey, this is the situation. Let's help get this solved." And a lot of times they can bring additional resources from the community that the school might not have, the law enforcement might have, might not have. So we have those relationships. That's a really really big part of what we do. Uh the added security of just
055being on on the grounds, that's a good everyone knows the cops are going to help keep things safe. It's the little things that happen each and every day. When I was at the school, I used to keep the refrigerator in my office for kids that were disregulated or just having a rough day. They knew that they couldn't be in that class and were just causing disturbance. Instead of sending them home on suspension or whatever, which is a school discipline thing we didn't get involved in, everyone in my school knew they could come down and hang out in my office for a little bit. Cool down. Coffee, water, energy drinks. Not too many. Try to keep >> Yeah, we're not doing that >> down the road. Kids who they could just stop down my office and
056if they were having just a rough day and they needed 15 minutes, they could come down and they could just work outside if they had. It's obviously a little different than high school. If they had a study hall or a free period, they can sit outside my office, work on their homework. Sometimes I'd help them, usually not with math or science, some stuff I could. Um, you develop that relationship. Statistically speaking, all the violent critical incidents that have happened in this country, every single one of them, the number one key denominator, they did not have a single adult that they felt they could go to or trust. Every single one had no responsible adult that they could go to. this is just one more person that could be available that can build that trusted relationship
057with a kid, help kids off a pathway to violence, help them be successful in the community, graduate, and go on to whatever comes next. So, it's more than just being a cop. It's about the educational portion when these guys talk about some stuff that they can instill in a curriculum. Um, but it's about that relationship, helping keeping kids in school and then eventually leaving here and graduating and contributing to the village. >> And to to uh Sergeant Isaac's point, I personally have been on several home visits with Sergeant Isaac. um in the last six years where uh we saved a kid's life from a bad situation at home and the ability for our guidance counselor to go to the case manager and say, "Hey, we have an issue." And then him and I can go
058knock on the door and immediately we have resources that we wouldn't have by just any deputy off the street was instrumental to to helping that young man. Um, another situation was a non-verbal student of mine who had a bad interaction with um, a different police force. Um, and they were injured. Um, immediately the parents reached out to me and said, "How can we build the relationship with Deputy Isaac at the time who turned into Deputy Bishoff who's still doing it with one of my students of let's change that experience that kid?" And they both come in my classroom every day and and greet that student. So I I do see on a daily basis from my teaching perspective of where they are way more than just the police officer. They're an educator and a friend
059to kids. >> I have a question. >> How do we offer more at risk children of specifically color or um I called superpowers which are special needs or um different sexualities, transgender for example, how do we offer them like a safe space without singling them out in our SRO relationship? >> I can see what I did when I was at Bulmont. Translate here, but essentially um I worked with the school social worker. They had a group that met pretty regularly and she said, "Hey, would you be willing to come and sit down in our group?" Talk to me. I said, "Sure." I went in and said, "What do you want to ask me?" They just started asking questions about my job, what my perspective was, talked a little bit about some of their needs. Would
060not have happened had we not sat down and then it became a regular basis where I would go and then go to those meetings. Then they became comfortable. Not everyone, but some of them become comfortable and they felt comfortable coming to me, sitting down talking to me. They might see somebody else. Hey, do you know you know Deputy High? He was, you know, I saw him last night at a different game or do you know whoever? And then we'd have those conversations. So that familiarity breeds comfort. So just seeing that person on a daily basis, understanding kind of what's going on and then being able to craft their our response to those needs to individuals. >> Yeah. Um humanizing the badge, right? Um I'm a huge advocate for community policing. Um we're, you know, our
061patrol uniform is what most deputies wear on patrol at the school. for giving a little uh variety so to speak. We can wear plain clothes kind of um I still make it a point to wear my uniform about three times a week. Um just because I do like working with Mr. Hopkins special needs children. I want them to put my face to the badge, right? Um so they have that that comfort. They have that knowledge that if they're in danger, they can come to me um in their like moment. Um, so there's just there's so much we do as far as that. I sorry I get really emotional when I talk about it because I could see it in their uh the kids don't you know there's there's so many kids that just you wouldn't
062they wouldn't stand a chance if we didn't have that opportunity to build those relationships and kind of go from there. I mean, you hit on that question. I think >> is there anyone else in the community that has questions or comments? We'll start in the back and then we'll work our way forward. >> So, curiosity, if it goes forward and they choose to do a vote and if that is yes, so we're moving forward this, how is an officer chosen? >> Yeah. a regular officer is it have all this additional training I can address. So I mean we currently have some deputies are they've worked closely with these gentlemen. Uh they have filled into schools when the school resource officers were on vacation or training or whatever. Um and so we would go through an
063interview process. Um we want to ensure that these deputies also have a minimum time on on the department uh about three years. uh but and they would also attend uh you know the basic school resource officer training. So yeah, it's not just going to be any deputy. We know we recognize that not everybody is fit for that position. >> Yeah. >> Um we want somebody who uh can think on their feet. um that it's not necessarily I mean we got a lot of people who understand we we we can arrest people no problem but when we come to schools that's not really the the first option we're we're going with you know we want to be able to uh explore other other aspects um so non-punitive uh measures so yeah we would definitely have somebody
064that really wants to do the job and we do currently have some candidates that really have expressed interest and uh these gentlemen I trust their opinion too as well and and got gotten their feedback on a few people and uh so yeah we'd be ready to go. Um I have some good candidates that uh again you would go through a an interview process but I feel pretty confident in people who would step in. So if that's the school have any say in that when it's not hired like from they're not necessarily does the school have a say in the interview process or in the I guess the select few that it may go to >> question. >> Yeah that's a good question. Um I I certainly we know that's a little bit above my pay
065grade, but I would definitely invite it. Um because I would like them to be there too as well and and have a voice um but I would have to get approval from the administration. >> And I I do believe Captain Cling Cameron said at our meeting in July that he would invite the administration in. Okay. >> Um to have a a voice and who the candidates might be. >> Sure. Oh, okay. >> Yep. >> Yeah. >> Correct. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Perfect. >> Thank you. >> Yep. Next. >> Hi. work here also crossing guard duty here. So I put it before the board that if we have an SRO that our SRO could help re-educate our parents on proper um crossing guard eting guards there's five of us. We had a log of how
066many times we almost got hit and it's ridiculous. So if we're almost getting hit, your children are almost getting hit and we purposely stand in front of your children so they don't get hit. >> But I should be able to go home tonight. >> All right. Just >> Yeah. Um >> comment on something like that real quick. That's the exact sort of thing that an SRO would do. So you would have that conversation where this person was driving recklessly. You let the SRO know and our first goal would not be to go write that person to take it or rest up. It could be a conversation. Maybe they're coming to pick their kid up in the afternoon. Stop by out the car. Hey, you know, check the videos. We saw you got a little close
067to the kids. Please be more mindful of this. Have that conversation ahead of time. Obviously, being with a mark patrol SC uh squad with uniform traffic vest. If you need help traffic direction at the end of the day before school, drop off, we can position the squads in a position in an area to help with that sort of thing. A lot of times just the presence of a cop car parked in the area slows people down. It just happens. Know that our goal is not to write tickets and arrest people off the bat. Being able to have that communication. I couldn't tell you the number of times I called with high school kids. Someone be driving recklessly in the parking lot. Calm down. Hey, watch this video. You almost just hit two teachers and school
068bus. And then if that stops, problem solve. And if it continues, then we address it on the way. But it's a good avenue to get law enforcement involved. you don't have to call 911. We handle it right then and there and we don't write a report on that. It's not something that goes in any permanent file. It's a conversation and then we move on from there. >> And and to that point, I do think when I was in school, I graduated in 2008 from Review, uh the Silver Lake Police Department was still around and Chief Kingsley, they would always have a squad car parked on School Street. And so I do think to his point, having a police presence or a squad car presence um >> you would think so >> alone would be helpful.
069>> Not always. There have been times that the deputies do come in part and we're like, "Did you see that?" They just that all just like >> Yeah. >> Any other questions? >> We have one back here. >> We had one by the right over here. One on the right. >> My name is Jordan Oliver. I live in Shber. Um I currently have four kids that go to Riverview and next year I'll have all five. Um, just to give some perspective of where I'm coming from, I'm a sergeant with the Antioch police. Uh, we have two SRO's uh in our town, one at the high school and one at our grade school. We have multiple, but there's one that is shared. Um, and I can personally attest with everything that they've been saying with how
070the SRO's interact with the kids and how the kids interact with them and the just overwhelming positive impact it has for the kids. Um, there are I can think of just endless reports in my head where a kid is not comfortable talking to a teacher. Like they don't want to talk to their teacher or their principal about an issue they're having at home or why they're depressed or sad, but they are comfortable talking to the SRO who they've had this relationship with. Um, we've been able to get ahead of problems and issues before they've developed into the domestic or something like that. We've been able to stop those things before they happen. Um, the SRO's within a couple months will know every single kid's name, right? They'll know most of their parents just by by
071how they look, what they drive. They know those types of things when we talk about like school, right? Pick up and drop off. They'll be able to know like, hey, this, you know, this red uh Toyota, whatever. Oh, I know those parents. Aud McCall will fix that. Right. So, um, the SRO just has I've seen it. I see it day in and day out. I talk to my SROS every day. um the impact that they have on the kids and that the kids the relationship that they build um is just it is overwhelming positive. we've been able to stop so many issues before they've um and and another thing I know all teachers are mandatory, you know, um reporters when it comes to DCFS and things like that. Um but they don't have the years
072of experience like a beat cop has with seeing and then how to detect things early like how he was mentioning how a kid might be acting off. Um and being able to understand like I think something might be going on at home, right? And being able to dig into that and stop something before it bubbles up to a critical incident at home where all of a sudden there's flashing lights parked. I was in front of somebody's house. So, uh, just my two cents. I've seen it for years at my department. It is an incredible resource, right? That's the key word, right? Right in the middle, resource. That's what they are. Um, they're not there as a disciplinarian. They're not there to punish kids or do any of that. They're there for the kids. That's what
073they're there for. And I am uh commend the board for taking this step and I look forward to seeing this come to fruition. >> Thank you for sharing. >> Thank you. >> Appreciate the comments on that. I just want to add to it too. It speaks again to the level of creating a first interaction with a law enforcement officer as a positive one which helps tremendously as the kids grow and have more interactions to look at the law enforcement officers as advocates for them, advocates for the community. It's a huge opportunity for these kids to have a first, a second, a third positive impact with law enforcement, which could shape their perspective on law enforcement and their interactions with law enforcement for their foreseeable future in their life. So, I appreciate you bringing that up.
074>> I'm Holly and I have more of a question about the fun part of it. Um assuming maybe people don't agree on their percentages the village or the school are we able to still utilize the fund for extracurriculars or is it just being assigned for this and if it's not agreed upon it doesn't we don't get any funding for extracurricular yeah it's two separate things so many things can come up out of fund 80 um and so extracurriculars can be totally separate from an SRO. >> Okay. So, like we could have funds for an SRO but then additional funds. >> Yes. >> At the same time, >> we originally planned in our budget to add the funding position or the budget anyways. This is just an additional amount amount levied for that. >> It's not
075one or the other. No. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> Thanks for the question though. >> Yep. >> Uh Teresa Silver Lake, my kids will be attending. They're going to be in prek this year. How are teachers or the RSOs going to explain that to like the little kids? Why there's a cop here? >> They might be a little confused. >> Thank you. >> Oh yeah. So's a great example of this in my opinion. Um, the principal there really focuses on my position not being a hammer, not being just a like a threat to the children, so to speak, and it's more of an educator position. Um, so I know Deputy Hayatt does the same. We do a lot of teaching. Um, I think it'd be really cool to implement a bunch of uh different topics
076monthly to interact with the children and associate our position as someone there to help, someone there to educate them. Um, that also keeps them safe. Have you guys talked to like the staffing of especially the little kid classrooms like hey there's going to be a cop here kind of for their little brains to comprehend. >> We have go. >> So we're going to have um curriculum actually that the teachers we had a committee we already do some of that already um but there'll be like a crisis curriculum. So that'll be part of that when and if because even if this passes, this isn't looking until like January. Um so that would be something that we have a lot of time to build up to. And in the past we've had um officers that are typically
077in Silver Lake have stopped in and we had officer like she liked to come in and read to the kids. So we try to do that already. We obviously we have the DARE officer too and he's he's done some presentations for other kids, not just fifth grade. So, we've tried all the like I give tours all the time also to the police officer just because I want them to be familiar and you know there's different police that patrol in Silver Lake. So, the kids have often seen me walk with the police officers and they're really great about like hi and you know being super friendly. But that would definitely be something that we would work in with the kids and obviously whoever gets hired will come in I hope prior to starting so that they
078also can get familiar with kids, familiar with the building and making sure that we are stressing the fact like this isn't someone coming into discipline. Um you're going to see them on the playground because I'm hoping they'll do playground duty. Um definitely doing some of those. So different than high school. I know. But doing those type of >> playground. >> Yeah. Because I mean them going out and playing and interacting on the playground with kids will you know just build that. So we will definitely work that into curriculum especially with our levels. >> You guys said the vote is going to be in September for yes or no. >> Yeah. So the vote that we will take is to uh make an amendment to the prelim preliminary budget. Okay. and add in uh the funds
079for the SRO position. >> Okay. Who all votes in that? >> It's just taxayers. And is it is it like one per family, two per family? >> Anybody who shows up. >> Do you know if it's one per family or is it any anyone that can vote? Correct. >> Voting adult. >> Yep. September 23rd is our annual meeting >> and that's here. >> Yes. Yeah. >> Um and then my last question is if let's say it gets passed, when are you guys expecting the officer on? >> We'd probably say January. Um because now there's the you know it gets because also the village of Salem Lakes has to vote on their budget as well. >> When is your guys vote to be clear? >> We typically vote on the levy in mid November. >> Okay.
080>> Yeah. >> And different than what they do in the schools. It's seven of us on the village door that would approve it. >> Thank you for asking. >> To your point on like the little kids and hitting home on them is like part of this is talking about like maybe it's them coming in and talking about bike safety. This is how we cross the street. I know like our last day of the year or what's the I want to say game? Yeah. Field day. The cops usually show up and they'll just come walk through the crowds and laugh and play in tugof-war with the kids. So we are always trying to introduce them so it's not like oh my gosh you know there's a scary cop here but it's like trying to get those
081little things in and at different grade levels maybe it's talking about more DNR safety and boat safety and fourwheeling at like the 12 13 age but like hitting the different age groups. Well, I think I was more referencing like initially like as soon as my comes in in January, you know, fourth, let's say, and all of a sudden now there's a resource officer and you know, a lot of kids are known police arrest people like what they see on TV and little kid shows and cops and of course we tell them that they're good too and do good things, but they might be like, well, why is there one in my school all the time? So I guess that was more like what are teachers or resource officers going to be stopping in the class
082like that very first time they're here or that in that first week are the teachers going to be addressing this like as soon as this is going to happen. I guess that's my concern. Well, and and I know um when Sergeant Isaac transitioned out of Wilmont and Deputy Bishoff came in, um Deputy Bishoff was transitioning to our school for about eight weeks, six, eight weeks, just coming in, meeting the kids with uh Isaac at the time to slowly build the capacity of the kids and the >> of course like the older kids know. Okay. Great. >> So once we got like if the board were approved it and we approve it, then we would ask the sheriff's department immediately to start that transitional process, whoever it might be. >> Thank you. If I could add
083one more thing to that. Uh when the village does go to approve the levy in mid November, I would encourage all residents of the village of Salem Lakes to attend. Uh and voice put your voice in. Uh again, it's going to be a partnership and uh we hope the school's going to go with it. I hope our board will support it and we can move forward with the initiative as a whole >> and at your preliminary conversations what was the straw poll with the village board. >> So we took a consensus it's not a vote uh but for us to move forward with more discussions we took a consensus and that consensus was unanimous to go forward. Now, we start our budgeting cycle here this coming month in September. And right now, we have three
084dates uh to discuss the budget. Uh we plan to televise through YouTube all of our budget meetings. So, if you hear of something, see something that you're not in favor of or you're in favor of, voice your concerns, voice your your opinions. Uh we work for the taxpayers. You know, it's a cliche, but it's a fact. And I can tell you in previous uh levy uh meetings that we've had, oftentimes we have zero attendees when we go to approve that budget. Zero attendees. >> Is there any other questions or comments? >> I just would like to add on to Mr. Hopkins comment. Um don't wait until November. If you're really in favor of this and you want to see the SR, don't wait until November because that's their final budget vote. They've already they've already
085put things through. So, you need to start when they start their budget process. Even before I think you can go under citizen comments, you can express your opinion at that time. You don't, trust me, don't wait until the last minute because they don't add things at the last minute. I' I've been through that experience. >> Thank you, Mrs. Gosh. >> Did you have one in the back? I saw you put your hand, but I was just was curious. Yeah, like like the little kids because the kids here are a lot different than the Wilmont schoolers and just what kind of educational topics you guys will come in and how often coming into the classrooms. You guys kind of touched on that. >> Well, I mean, that's going to be in in partnership with administration and
086what they want us to do. But um you know as far as for the littles there's um there's various topics and I'll kind of break it down. We talk about school safety, school based um you know school fire drills, stranger awareness, uh kindness and respect, how to be a good friend, anti-bullying basics, respect for others, internet safety, safe use of devices. I mean the littles, it's amazing the devices that they have access and how quickly they figure things out. um you know, adults, uh asking adults for help. Um personal safety, knowing names and addresses. There's a lot of kids out there that they they don't know their their home address. I'm just kind of um kind of nailing down this uh safe versus unsafe touch, uh safe grown-ups, talking about community helpers, who helps us,
087the police, fire, EMS, uh problem solving, basically naming emotions, talking out, telling versus tattling, uh good choices, consequences, following rules at school and at home, not just at school. Um and safety review and a fun day. bike helmet safety, some of the other things that you folks were talking about, um, you know, maybe the DNR, things like that, gun safety. So, a lot of different topics that we can cover for the sounds. >> Go ahead, sir. >> Oh, I'm Dustin. I live in Truver. My daughter's hoping to move here. My son will be next year. First of all, is an amazing school compared to where we came from. We had a lot of problems with the other one. We came here for the last seven days. My daughter was so happy to come back here.
088Secondly, um I I'm not from here, so I was used to an SRO being in my school from a very young age to my high school career. I graduated in08 from a school in Illinois. Um in that time frame, there was a bomb threat. The school staff didn't, you know, we were like, "Okay, this is what we're going to do." But the SRO knew exactly what to do. So they evacuated us all at the gym. you know, this is what the bomb is, XYZ. They were able to get the police there much faster than, hey, we have bomb threat. They're already there on site. So, it's very proactive. It was also we had a student that was being sexually assaulted by a teacher and that student didn't feel comfortable telling a parent or another teacher.
089They actually told SRO and SRO dealt with it. They dealt with the teacher. That teacher obviously was arrested and was brought to different things. So, it's another thing that is proactive as far as if your if your kids don't feel safe talking to an adult at the school that that student felt comfortable talking to a police officer at the school because they know they can help them. So, I think that it's very positive and wonderful thing to have at our school to protect our children from not just anything that could happen here outside but inside the school too. So, >> thank you. >> Great. Is there any other questions or comments? Mr. Welcome. Whoa. >> Chris Welcome, 422 School Street. A lot of you know who I am. I've lived across the street from the
090school for 37 years. Seen every addition that went on this school. The school pretty much has a at times a 24-hour security because I see everything that goes on here. And when we had a snowstorm, I remember the truck with the kids milk was on it. I'd come across the street and tell them, "The school's closed. Go back with the milk." But anyways, this this is a winwin situation to have these officers in the school. No one wants to be a part of this school that somebody got in and made a bomb threat, a shooting, anything. We've seen it. We've heard it. And we have an obligation to the kids of this school to provide for their safety. So, and I applaud our cing guard. Her and I stand out there and we we shake
091our heads. We can't believe what goes on sometimes. But I think this would be something that is very beneficial to this community. Yeah. No one wants to be around here if something happens, but no one wants to turn their back knowing that something will happen. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Yep. My name's Patty. Uh, uh, I also work here. I'm a school secretary. Um, there's not a day that I don't think that at some point somebody could come into this school and I'm going to be the first one because I'm at the window. And I don't ever want to think that, but it does run through my mind. So, for me to have a school resource officer here and especially with our crisis alert system, like when it's going to be a medical emergency,
092it's like three buttons, three pushes, eight buttons. If it's a lockdown, I'm all for it. Um, I also was the secretary at the time when we had a disastrous medical emergency where all the admin team and the health team had to go deal with a student and I'm trying to call 911 and I have nothing to relay because they're hands on trying to deal and save this student. But an SRO would probably be able to communicate that to 911 or to medical way better than I could because they're asking me all kinds of things and they're busy. Nobody's being able to really relay messages to tell 911. I don't know if this kid's breathing, but they're going to take some of that stress off of me, honestly, because I don't handle stress real well. But
093you never know until you're in it. And I'll tell you that day when we were here for school, none of us could have imagined that day. And we all kind of go back and like I always second guess or I think, oh, I should have done better or I'm looking up online how to handle like emergencies like that or like a script of how I could have done better. Like you just never know. And I would feel a whole lot safer having one in my building. So that I don't have to like I'm not going to say, "Oh, he's here. I'm not doing nothing." But just would be helpful. >> Thank you, Patty. >> To that point, too, I do know um it is nice in a critical situation if it's, you know, it's a
094lot less not a violent situation, more of a medical need. um if it's a student with a seizure, a student that falls, a teacher with a heart attack, um the ability to have dispatch on their shoulder and not have to go through 911, it's an immediate response to the people that you need to get through and um in a school at least Wilmont, there's not a lot of good service at times and so having dispatch right there is is really beneficial. >> I think you touched on it. I just wanted to know do they have normally if they're wearing their cool gear or whatever maybe they don't have to wear it completely do they have the radio on them at all times. So situations like that >> all time. >> They're all saying all time.
095Yes. They're over there stating all the time. >> Thank you. >> Is there any other >> Are you guys going to push out more information about the vote on September 23rd? Because this is the first time I've heard about it. >> Yep. >> Like on social medias and stuff like that. >> Yep. we'll push out for the annual meeting. Um, we vote on a number of things that day, so we'll we'll certainly push out what's being voted on and and do that. Is there any other questions or comments from the community? >> I'm Michelle. I didn't have a teacher here, too. I'm sorry if it was addressed, but are they here from 8 to 4? Is it going to vary? What is the schedule that >> I I don't know. I did say I would
096like them to be here from arrival to dismissal because of driving and cars and those things. So that would be something I would look for. I' be up to these guys, but certainly that'd be a need both those times of the day. >> Our current contracts say that we can flex however the school needs us. I would assume that it's going to reach something along the same. >> So if my I mean I normally work 7 to 3. If they told me, hey, can you start working 8 to 4? That's my obligation to do it. I would imagine it would be similar. >> Is there any other questions or conversation from the community? Okay. Uh before we start our discussion, I would ask if you feel comfortable, if you are in favor um of having
097an SRO, um if you would raise your hand. Okay. And if you are opposed to having an SRO, if you raise your hand. Okay. Thank you. Moving on to the general school board discussion around uh the fund 80. At this time, we're not going to have any conversation from the community. This will be just the board. Really quick before I move on, I just want to say thank you. Like this is what we look forward to and this is what helps us make better decisions for our school, for our district administration board. All these conversations are driven from the conversations or the feedback we get from you. So thank you all for coming and if you spoke, it means a lot to us to help move us forward. >> Yeah, I want to second what
098Amy said. uh we make our best decisions as a board being fully informed by the community and what direction they want to see and what is important to them. Uh that's what we strive to do. It's it's been difficult because there has not been a lot of community involvement and so to see everybody here tonight on the topic is super encouraging for me. I don't want to speak for the entire board. Um I would love to be able to see this on a monthly basis. It's truly truly welcomed and appreciated. >> And to Joe's point is why when Mike and I had the discussion, we wanted to have community listening sessions and do this because you don't get this from a survey. >> So, >> just really quick, is this something that's usually posted like
099I just started following the review page and that's how I found out about this? >> Are the monthly meetings and topics? >> Yep. >> Usually pushed out like that. >> They're on the website. So there's a when you go on our website, go to the school board, it says all of the >> Yeah. And it's always the fourth Tuesday. >> Yep. And then on the agenda up there, you'll see the dates of our regular meetings on the side as well. >> And then it's always the fourth Tuesday unless it's falls during like a break or something of the month at six o'clock in the library. >> And there is an app on that you can put on your phone and you can get notified if there's changes. >> Okay. >> It's very useful. Mine has
100been humming. So again, I do want to remind the board too, the conversation that the the vote that'll be being had is not if we're going to add an SRO or not. It's to allow the SRO to be considered in the preliminary budget. So um discussion or we can take a motion. >> So has obviously we're going to take action in September potentially uh based on community involvement. Village won't be till November. Have we had any discussions or thought about what happens if we move forward and the village says no? Right? Because we're approving essentially twothirds of a position um if the village vetos that line item. What happens to the tax levy for the community if they are so moved to go that route? >> There was an individual that reached out to Kim
101and I this week um who's been trying to push a big conversation from Salem grade school's perspective on it. Um and he did say that that Captain Clinammer uh conveyed that they would consider a position uh for the schools. So I im that's my first question. I I would actually like you to go back if you can to whoever makes those decisions if you guys would consider looking at a position similar to Wilmont WOSA regardless of what the village does. I think this community wants an SRO and >> we'd be >> that's yeah that's that's entirely up to the administration. That's that's my favorite. Um I do know that um they they would have to then cover you know that deputy deputy position essentially they're they would have to cover that the summer months >>
102that third. So there's a it's a whole another position that would have to be filled uh for those essentially those three months. >> Could you bring that desire to uh the administrative team then with the sheriff's department that this is something that looks like the community does want to move forward with regardless of what the village does? Yeah, I was going to say obviously my concern would be right we we have a community that seems engaged in this process, seems willing to move forward with it and our vote is going to come two months prior to the village. I'd hate to say yes and then have to go back to our constituents and say, "Well, unfortunately Sam Lake said no, so we're not going to move forward with it." Um, we've we've pulled our community
103if they're in favor of it. You know, I think it's our obligation to figure out how we make it happen. >> Absolutely. >> I think you get that. >> Thank you. And I do think at that point we may have to look at other options of if the sheriff's department couldn't do it, do we reach do we reach out to Twin Lakes? Do we reach out to other entities that are local and say we have a desire for this position? How can we make it work? >> Any other questions here? >> I have some. Um, first of all, I just want to make a comment that I I also support the SRO because I believe that it's a person here that would help support the administration, take off, hopefully alleviate maybe some of the stress
104that they feel when they have to do the training or if there really is an incident that they have someone else that has they're trained in it that they can rely on to help them out. Um, and heaven forbid that we don't ever have the incident. Um, but I have a question. On occasion, we do have deputies that are here and through the rumor mill we hear or people are asking, I mean, why was there a deputy there? What was going on? So if in fact there is an incident that happens, if we have an SRO on duty and we have an incident here, is the community going to still be informed of the situations that they would be handling so that we actually know um that they're being put to use by other than
105just um communicating with children or whatever, you know, so that that we know that they're they're handling incidents here. >> I guess my thought is right now they're informed the community because it's not common to have a police officer here during the day. And so if someone's here and it's part of their daily responsibility, I'm not I don't know if we necessarily need to inform the community every time that they have they handle a situation. >> I'm not talking about all situations. I'm not talking I but I'm talking if there's a serious situation where uh I believe that the community should be informed that there was something that went on at the school and not left for people to speculate on what happened here. Why, you know, maybe there's another squad that shows up or
106whatever. >> Can I just speak to that? Please do. Okay. Um, since I've been here, I feel like administration has done that where we'll say, um, you know, and we're pretty brief obviously to not give personal information out, but typically we will send something out. I know Kim would usually or admin in the past would always send to the board and then we would usually send something out to the community. Um, we've done that numerous times and I don't think that should change just because the SRO is here. Okay. >> I feel like if it's something that there's going to be speculation or concern, I feel like we try to do our best to get that out because we also don't want kids going home and you know the telephone game. You know how it
107right. >> And so I think that we've done a a good job and I don't see that changing just because an SRO is here. I think that if it's something that, >> you know, kids are going to come home or nervous about or scared or any of those or question that we'll definitely send out, >> right? I I think it's important to give out factual information instead of >> rumors and speculation on what's going on. >> And then um Sergeant Gillies made a comment about >> um like internet uh safety and things like that. So, is there a possibility to do uh like adult training, adult interaction for that? because we do have uh an elderly community and um you hear on the news how many people have lost their savings because people have and
108um I think to have somebody to come in and like help them through it. You might be surprised how many people would be willing to come. And I'm not talking, you know, like every month or whatever, but just have some type of training so that they know or they would have a place maybe they could interact with you and not you're not here just for students, but to help us older people. >> So part of part of funed >> part of fund 80 and part of the requirements of this of utilizing the fund is to do community programming. And so it's really important that the SRO's are reaching out and and actually a very big benefit because as many people know teachers and administration and the schools have become everything and you know you were
109planning for all of the things. We're supposed to be experts in all of the things and so it's nice to have somebody else be able to help and support with that. And a lot of times I think officers or police force get you know you are alerted to all those scams and all the things that are going on way ahead of us and sometimes they're alerting us at school when we don't know about it. Um I just think to to your point I'm trying to remain neutral but to your point is that you can't be experts in everything and and the SRO are trained specifically in crisis management. None of us really know how we're going to react if there is a critical incident because we're not practicing it to the same degree that you
110all have practiced and been trained in it. And to Patty's point, it's stressful. You know, there's people's lives at stake. You're trying to make high stakes decision decisions for something you haven't really I mean, you've been trained but not trained like the professionals over here. And um and then you have hindsight. and the hindsight is, you know, something you live with. So, I think um all of those things are really important, but it the community portion is a big part of the proposal in really engaging all of the community, you know, not just our families. >> Excellent. >> And I think the conversation we had was at least monthly community Yeah. >> resource opportunities like you suggested. Okay. >> Any other questions here, guys? I'm going to make a motion to approve the proposed 2526
111preliminary annual annual budget to include a community service fund for the purpose of funding an SRO and extracurricular activities. >> I'll second that motion. >> Motion by Mr. Hurst, second by Mr. Gentiel. All those in favor? >> I I opposed. Motion carries. We'll now go to public comment. This is anything else that you want to talk to us about, but there will be no back and forth between the board. Can I just thank the sheriff's deputies for being here today? You guys were a great resource and it was genuinely appreciated. Thank you guys for what you do. >> Thank you guys. Appreciate it. >> Sorry. >> Oh, you're good. >> I thought maybe they wanted to stay for another public comment section. >> In case it gets unruly. >> Yeah. [Laughter] >> Are there any
112public comments on anything? If so, stand. >> I just want to thank you because As a parent, it's very uh it puts my knowing that they're putting someone here to keep my kids safe that has a little bit more trading than you guys. I appreciate you guys. >> Thank you. You could stand just say your name. Actually, sir, can you say your name for us so that >> Okay. >> I'm um I usually don't say anything negative about Riverview Riverview, but outside the around the kindergarten spot is looking pretty rough right now. Do we need help cleaning it up like before the beginning of the year? Like >> the custodians, >> there's no back and forth. >> I know. I was going to say >> right now. >> I'm willing to help. I just don't
113know what the situation is. >> We can't speak to that, but we appreciate it. We appreciate the comment. >> Follow up with Mrs. Taylor after the meeting. >> Can you say your name again? >> Emily Kelly. Are there any other public comments? >> Yep. Say your name for us, please. >> Arrange something's >> any other. Yep. >> Absolutely. Winning. Hi. Um I'm really excited to see what comes of this. Whether we get the SRO, whether we don't. I'm super pumped to see the community involvement and really what we can do. I mean, there's so much we can do. We've got kids hunting. We've got kids who are on ATVs. We've got, like she said, the elderly population. There's just so much good that can come from this. >> Thank you. >> Any other comment? >>
114Okay, we'll move into reports. District administrator. >> So, the first thing is just start with some celebrations. That's my favorite part. Um, so we've gotten quite a few things done over the summer. None none of the huge projects, but um that's coming next year or next summer. Our um and I'll talk a little bit about it in the referendum update, but our um boilers are in. So that's a you know, little fun picture. Um the school floor in the gym was redone. So was our cafeteria. So, I would encourage you all to check that out in um at back to school night, but also have the board go down there. Um it looks beautiful. Um it was was a great addition to um being a to the summer to be able to do that. And
115then the fence is up um at the back of the field. So, just a few celebrations and we're going to talk a little bit more about some of the celebrations from our um teacher PD over the last couple of days. um quickly over the referendum and I talked about some of this. The fob system was um is completed and was um completed a few weeks ago. So every teacher has a new fob. Um there is now a camera at the front door and the door is locked. So Patty only lets in um people that she is seeing on the camera. So that was a great addition. >> Is that a full view of the person? Um maybe >> where they stand >> trying to identify people by their feet. >> Vicki, >> don't be telling
116stories about >> people. Yeah. And sort of like when we talk about layers of safety, that's the first stop, right? Not letting people in. And so Patty telling them to reposition themselves so that she can see them is important, >> right? So I mean, don't my whole thought about asking that question was if they're bringing in a tote with something in or backpack with something in, can you actually see that? But you're that the answer is really no because they could put it down by the door and you would never see that >> until Okay. Thank you. Um fence was completed as I just said. Um there is a little bit of conversation I think we're going to have tonight about um some fencing. Um also I should say Brian Schmeld, our custodian is here
117tonight too to um address if there's any questions. Thanks Brian. I know it's longer than you usually say. Uh boiler duct work controls are set. Telephones, PAs and clocks have been completed. Um so the staff is um going to be setting up their voicemails tomorrow. Um PA system was divided so that we can get in touch with just the the gym teacher if we need to because it's hard to get in touch with them in the gym and all school. Um that was a fairly easy um changeover. um little bit of snafoos here and there, but for the most part, we did pretty good with that. We're still waiting on some lighting quotes and then all of the other quotes for the other systems. The only thing that I don't have up here is the
118update on the Centiggics, which is the crisis alert system that is set to go in the week of September 8th. Then the admin gets trained and then we train the teachers. So, it'll be in October before we're fully up and running because it's um pretty robust system. This is for you or Brian? I know obviously the rooftop unit is on order. I think you said late September. Do we have an ETA on how long that will take? Because obviously uh it's a little warm in here right now. >> It's set to go in September 29th, which is the >> One day. It'll be one day in and out. Perfect. >> Okay. So, it won't be too long because it's it's toasty and it's cool outside. >> Well, I don't think it's that toasty, but >>
119it's warm in here. >> Brian, is there anything I missed? >> Okay. >> It's warm in here. Y and I I said this last time, but Brian has done a really great job of managing some of this and um responding to all the emails that are going back and forth with PSI as well as keeping up his regular um cleaning things and um maintaining the outside. >> Yeah. Then we want to address the outside. >> I appreciate everything that you do. I think it's probably [Laughter] >> all the wraparound things and I honestly think it's just like the kids using it over the summer. I >> appreciate everything. >> The gravel is junk and that's going away next year. >> So hopefully a year from right now everything's real nice out there. But no, I
120agree. >> I'm offering to pick up garbage and I >> the garbage can be an everyday thing. The kids are mad in the summer. I don't think And the weeds, they're kind of, you know, this year was a bad year for weeds. >> And I got to be careful far as spraying. You know, that's kindergarten area. You don't want to spray around up there. >> So, I appreciate all you do, >> but I'll do my best to get those weeds. You know, even though they're in gravel and, you know, they're kind of bad. >> I'm willing to help you. >> Brian's got two more days because back to school night is his deadline, right, Brian? >> If you're walking by and you pull weeds, we are not going to Brian had a deadline. He told
121me, "This Taylor, I've been doing this for how many years? I It'll be ready." I said, "Okay, >> um, do you want questions on the fence now or later?" >> Uh, it's fine now, I think. >> There she's doing. >> Okay. Can you explain a little bit more around the fence and what we're looking at and possibly the additional cost that we may add on to that? >> So Brian and I Go ahead, Brian, if you want. >> So we looked at the fence. I know there's some agreement or disagreement about the length of the fence. So right now it overlaps by about 20 feet with first baseline on that baseball field. So to go another 65 feet would be roughly five grand and you still can't go to the woods because the village cuts
122that area and there's drainage there. So you can't cover up the drainage. It would it would cause a dam there. So either you go another 65 ft and you still can go along the the north end or you leave it because you're already doubling on the the first base line ball field. Is my understanding correct that the extra 65 ft is the 5,000? >> Yes. >> Yeah. That would be adding on to the end of the fence to go towards the woods, but you're not going to go all the way to the woods. So, you're really honestly you're not gaining a whole lot. It's still going to be an open area along the woods to get to the tracks. >> Could Could you have some sort of like natural barrier like uh you put bushes
123in that' be cheaper? something to extend I mean we put the fence up right to create a barrier between the the kids and the the train tracks and if we can't add a fence at that cost or if it doesn't make sense or we can't do it because the drainage can we put a natural barrier there if some >> well you're still going to interfere right now the village cuts behind our new fence and then they come up along that north wood line >> so why can't >> so we would we need their blessing then to to >> they take care of that railroad property if you want want to say or you know it's kind of a honestly I really don't know who owns >> is that the village or or is it the
124railroad that maintains that >> do they enter from press or they enter >> right off of >> the railroad doesn't maintain anything >> right at the turn down here cut behind and that's why we left that little buffer there to get behind the fence to mow that for the village so >> so why don't we why don't we put a fence there that they can open why don't We put a gate there that they can open because >> other thing is snow plowing. >> So when the village comes down procer, they need to put their snow somewhere and we need to leave that area kind of open there so they can relieve their snow plow, turn around and go back up the street. >> But again, can't we leave the gate open for the winter
125where naturally it has a barrier formed? Because personally for me right now, I look at that fence and I think it draws kids to it to like run behind it. Now, so the fact that we're trying to act like the first baseline is a fence and then we have the fence run with it, we're me as a parent, I'm more concerned of my kid being on the other side of that fence now and there are huge openings on both sides. So, if it's a gate, a big gate that we need to put on this left side so that they can put a handle at the top, they can go in and mow it, shut it back up in the winter time when they have huge mounds that they need to push back, open that gate,
126and leave it open for winter because if it can't close, there's a huge mound that a kid's probably, well, they might run up, but at least there's a wall there and down. If we're running that fence so that there's a huge space that all they're doing now is just running between the big fence that's up there and that first baseline again. It's like an it's to me it's more of an open invitation for these kids to run along that fence now and then it just stops >> where if Sorry. Go ahead. >> No, no, I don't mean to cut you off. I just just So I I'm just trying to make sure I understand what you're saying. your your perspective is is that having added the fence has now created a bigger liability because it
127entices kids to go behind the fence. Whereas before when we had no fence, there was no enticement for the kids to go behind it. >> Yeah. And I think as a parent, if my kids over there in a spot that they shouldn't be, I can get a direct line to them where now you have this huge fence but huge holes on each side that the kid is just going to run around. I just it seems unfinished to me. It's to run with the first baseline and have this huge gap on the left side. Put a gate then and then on the right side run it till we can't. And if it's a matter of putting up some trees or bushes or getting Salem Lakes approval to go further, if we're putting up a fence, usually
128a fence is to have a full line that they can't run beyond. If that is >> I've got I don't want to cut you off, but So, if you want that totally locked in, bring the fence then on this left side to the third baseline fence. Now, you're going to square it off. If this is what you're getting for, you know, you you sound like you want it totally enclosed. >> Yeah, >> that's what you're looking at. >> Well, a straight I mean like it doesn't need to come back towards the school, but a straight line >> from one side to the next. >> That's third base and it goes like that. He's saying bring this all the way down. Yes. >> And that gate will be real, too. >> Yeah, that gate. >> So,
129I guess the best thing is take a walk out there. >> You want to take a field trip somewhere? >> Absolutely. Yeah. >> And we could discuss this more. >> Do you guys have time to maybe do that this evening? >> Sure. Yeah. >> The only thing I also thought to add about the fence was I know like a lot of the baseball diamonds and high schools and those things, they have the uh wind screens. I think it'd be cool to add some of our branding to that of maybe putting like Riverview Home in the comments on it. So when the kids come out, they do see some more signage of of Riverview. Um >> talking about in the chain link. >> Yeah, it goes right in the chain link and the wind gets through
130it, but it I mean you go to high schools that have for baseball and it adds a lot of um kind of a cool look to it for >> branding >> for branding. So I think it would be really cool to have something like that. So >> I also think you need to if the village is involved in maintaining that you have to have their interaction. you I mean >> you're going to demand an access point, >> right? I think that's um because otherwise, you know, you could always take over the maintenance of it. I don't think you want to do that. >> So, I think you need to talk to the village. >> You have to talk about installing a gate to be able to get back there to access it for mowing and
131then to access it for plowing snow back there. And the gate then then we're not talking about $5,000 anymore. We're talking about significantly more gates add a large amount to the cost of offense. And then if you were to do what what Brian was talking about about squaring it off along that I think you said second baseline >> third baseline. >> Now now you're now you're adding some more length to that. So, we're very quickly going from an additional $5,000 to and I'm just speculating based on my fence bids that I get, but you could jump anywhere from five to 10, maybe even $20,000. >> Where I'm going, if we're going to consider this a safety thing, we need to think of all aspects. I totally agree with you on pricing, but I think it
132also all needs to be considered. I think there'll be more to come after we take a field trip and talk to the village, look into it and see where comes next up. >> What was the original cost of the fence that we have now >> that was installed? >> 12,500 without, you know, the all the PSI stuff. But yeah, 12,500 I think um you know the barrier it was designed to be a visual barrier to stop kids um if they're running. >> Yeah, we put stop on the wind barrier. >> So um I think it turn >> it's going to take a little bit more time to um we can talk to the village of Salem Sale Salem Lakes find out about that um get some additional pricing um for some of those alternatives. Okay.
133Um, quick budget update from 2425. Nothing new. Um, just reminding the board that we are projected to increase our fund balance by about a h 100,000. We were projected to take money out of the fund balance. Um, we came in under budget this year. So, it's a really great celebration. Um, so our but our fund balance is projected to go to about 38.8%. So, it's a really healthy fund balance, which is nice because um those are the types of things that keep us from an operational >> um referendum. That came because we got a little bit more revenue um due to our due to some interest paid and our expenses were down because we had less open enrollment out than we had projected. Um again, just celebrating that fact that we came in less than
134the expected budget. um bud fund 50 budget was reduced some um and we're going to continue to work on reducing that budget so that we can get to the threemonth sort of savings that we that DPI requires us to have. And then for 2526 of course at our annual meeting we will talk a lot more about this but possible new revenues coming in um is from fund 80 and transfer of service. Transfer of service comes when we have a child that comes in from another district that requires additional support through special education. Um we can levy for uh transfer of service. Some new expenses of course were raises. Um we did the board did approve hiring an additional EA um to support our first grade classrooms and we have an additional math specialist. Um our
135enrollment continues to fluctuate day by day. We I think we have a new enrollment today. Um right now we're at 447 um students or what we call butts in the seat. Um 397 of um those students are considered full-time um enrolled students that we get paid for. Our open enrollment numbers are projected to be 100 students in and 66 out right now. So we're looking good on that. um the Gallup survey results. So if um I could just remind the board that in the spring we took the Gallup survey. It's an engagement survey. Um we had 85% participation. So it's open to all staff, not just teaching staff, um custodial staff, office staff, and we had 85% participation, which is great. Um this is the first time we took it, so it's baseline data. It's
136not good or bad. Um it intentionally taking this will help us intentionally focus on things. However, um we need more data points to be able to set some of the the goals and things that we want to do throughout the year. We give it twice a year. So, we're going to give it two more times this year. Once in October and then in May. Um, and um, it's sort of like I think when we talked with the people that um, are helping us with the Gallup, they described it as the first year sort of like a dumpster fire, right? We're just gathering all the data. We're looking for patterns. Um, second year we're sort of getting comfortable. So is our staff and then we start to see some movement in the third year. Um I'm
137going to go over the results, but I I want to caution everybody that this is the first time that the um staff has taken it is 12 questions. Um and we are going to take it twice more this year to look at where the trends are. So there's 12 questions. Um it's on a scale of five. Um these were sort of these were the results. I'm going to highlight just three questions. Um and then again I will report out in um the fall and then again at the end of the year. Um the I think the biggest thing to highlight is that we have three questions question five, eight and 10 that really speak to the culture of our staff and the engagement. The results from this show very positive trend in our culture data
138and what people feel how they feel about working here. So um the question 10 I have a best friend at work. We we have a 4.25 which is very high on on a survey like this. They rarely see that. Um, so again, we're taking the survey data sort of with a grain of salt right now until we have some more data points. I did take it to our sale leadership team which is comprised of admin and um staff and we are not going to do much with the data right now. We are going to wait until we have a couple more data points. Um the next part of this is um showing how many people the percentage of people that or staff that are engaged because we have um under a 100 employees. The Gallup
139will not talk will not predict about will not be a metric for I should say whether people are actively disengaged or not engaged. it only will give us information about engagement and what are what is your employee engagement. So 27% sounds like oh my gosh right um again it's first data point but also the average nationally is 30%. And globally it's at 21%. So when you start to put it in perspective like that then you feel like oh okay um there's been a decline um in engagement nationally in the last 12 years there's only been two declines and just this past year was a decline and so it sort of speaks to society and where how people are feeling about work in general. Um so uh the other thing that um when I talked to
140the people at Gallup they talked about was that they're seeing more and more managers and um administrators and supervisors in all fields being more disengaged as well. So um the Gallup is not something that is just done in the K12 sector is not an educational survey. It is a survey that is done across all businesses um and administrated worldwide. So, um, I guess I I wanted to see if there was questions or comments from the board. >> So, obviously the mean percentile rank is that organizationally as a whole, like obviously you touched on that, >> you know, businesses like mine might do this as well. Are we lumped in with education or do they look at it as separate? >> No, it's all lumped in together. So, um, like I said, 30% nationally, 21% globally
141were, you know, in our first survey, pretty close to the national average. definitely above the global. But again, it's not a good or bad. It's our baseline. This is where we're at. We we want to just continue to grow and to look at the metrics that are there and have conversations. It's a good starting point to have start having conversations with our staff as well about the things that we are doing and the things that we could continue to do to continue to engage all employees. So, as a baseline, it it shows I mean, even though it's one data point, it it does show current strengths and weaknesses based off of the initial test, right? >> I would say it's not good or bad. It's just where we're at. So, I don't know that it's
142a weakness or a strength. We scored higher in some areas, um, obviously, but I don't know that I would consider it weaknesses or strengths quite yet. Okay, we have some teachers who have come to um help with the sale presentation um that we're going to do tonight. Um so I've been talking to the board a lot about this. We started this with our strategic planning. So I I wanted to just talk about the first slide and then um we're going to have some people from our um building leadership team. We're we've we've talked about what we should name it and it just we continue to land on the sale team. So, we're just going to call the sale team. Um we started having conversations about strategic planning and goal setting and getting everybody on the
143same uh rowing in the same direction in spring of 2024 with the community. Um it was led by the Donovan group. That's where we we sort of came together with our tagline of um empower, embrace, and educate. Um it's helped us develop our values. Last year um we spent a lot of time in staff development around um PBL because this the um community teachers kids talked a lot about having more hands-on learning experiences. Um Andrea in a few minutes is going to talk about what we call the ELF's development. ALF is an acronym, another AC acronym um in education for adult learning frameworks. It's in essence a rubric of sorts. Um we developed those over the course of the year as well as um >> sorry I got distracted Miss Zachary. >> That was my
144fault. Please think the sale team was also created and so as I said our sale team consists of admin but also staff members. We attended uh a conference this summer that really helped us narrow down our focus and develop some milestones. And Andrea's also Miss Zachary is also going to talk about some of our inservice with our teachers around this. So this is really our year one of the strate strategic plan. It's the go time operationalizing it. Um, we've done some PD initially. We will continue to do PD throughout the year. Uh, we have goals now set for three years, which we're going to share with the board and the community tonight, as well as milestones and timelines. We want to make sure that we're celebrating the wins and looking at um really focusing in
145on 90-day chunks of growing um and reaching the milestones that we set. And then years two and three of the strategic plan is continuing to monitor the milestones. Um we will as a leadership team, the sale team continue to um go to workshops. So we have one in November, we have one in the spring and then we have yet another full year of um attending those workshops. So it's a two-year cycle. We also have a coach that also works with our leadership team and sort of helping monitor the milestones and the things that we're doing. Um and then we'll be reporting to the board on pro on the progress of those things. So um our team is going to talk to you a little bit more about the pieces of what we're doing um and
146how we set the goals. >> So um last year on Tuesdays the staff come at 7:30, the teachers come in at 7:30 and what we worked on um throughout the year were our our elves and we based them around our six core values. So there there's an example of here of what collaboration looks like. So it's a it's your typical rubric. So um all of the values have a rubric. Um and the top talks about what is it? What does collaboration look like? Like we have these values that came out of our strategic plan, but what does that mean to when you walk in a cla in a classroom to say, "Oh, the kids are collaborating or the teachers are promoting collaboration." So the teachers um talked about that and worked on um the different
147elves to say, you know, if students are doing this, what is it going to look like? If teachers are doing that, what's it going to look like? And it's on a rubric, so it's not present beginning to approaching mastery. Um and you know, what characteristics are happening? Um we're using these rubrics when we do like walkthroughs. We use them in sale to set like our strategic goals and the end of the year the teachers took a a survey of like okay where do we think we're at knowing we're just beginning this. So kind of looking at where do we think we're at and where do we want to be? Um and we're going to talk a I'll talk a little bit later about inservice and that was one of the things we talked about. We
148we're good. we want to move to great and when we look at this we're we're good and we want to move to great and what what is that going to look like? So those are our elves. Yeah. And I think it's really important to um continue to highlight the the amount of staff involvement in these um in the creation of these. So teams of people like Andrea said worked all year to develop them as sort of the look force like this is what we want to see out of our kids which came from the community saying this is what we value. So we're really trying to operationalize and say to the community we're taking it serious. You said you value these things. We want to see them in our kids and our teachers. >> Thanks
149Michelle. >> All right. I am Michelle and I am the specials perspective on the sale leadership team. Our three days at sale were very extreme and intense, but they walked us through a very thorough process to help us create our plan. Our three days over the three days, we developed the two goals, which we'll talk about in a second, but we introduced the goals to our staff yesterday in a PD. Our focus was working in teams to enhance student learning. Over the past two years, we have been building our teams through project-based learning and co-plan co-serve. This year, as a staff, we plan to introduce peers to coaching as another form of teamwork. By aligning our teamwork with our core values, which are the six that we kind of talked about, but they are collaboration,
150communication, compassion, love of learning, autonomy, and perseverance. We aim to reach our first goal by the June of 2027. Um, so now taking a look, our first goal, we will increase the average alignment score with reviews values from 2.7 to 3.5. So that's our teacher assessment that we took and that's where we're at. That's where we plan to go. Um, and using the ELF's data, that's the ELF's data where we got those goals from. Anything else you want to touch base on? >> Nope. >> I think that's pretty good. And our goal too, by the end of 2027 28 school year, our value added scores on the forward exam will meet or exceed 4.0 for all students in math and reading on the school report card. So students in the grades three through eight take
151forward testing every year in the spring. Our value added scores are 0 to six range uh with the average being three, zero being low, six being the highest. Um these scores show how our students are growing to compare students across the state. So where we were at in 23 24 ELA was 3.6 and math was 3.3. So we're trying to get to four for those scores. >> Samia, >> I just want to commend you for that for when you say all students raising the bar for all kids and all learners. That's quite a that's a good goal to see. That's really awesome to see that. Um, and then I'm just going to talk a little bit about our 100 day plan, which is really for us as a sale team and as a school community
152to take what we did at sale, have a clear plan and vision to hit the ground running. Um, and really like a shared joint accountability to make sure that we're taking what we did and that we're putting it into practice um to move our vision for the district forward. So, this was one of the last kind of pieces that we did at our last um day at sale. And it was by the time we got to our 100 day plan, we had done so much cognitive lifting and it was like we sat in this room all afternoon and just we're trying to get everything laid out and put together. Um, so it was a lot of work, but it was really rewarding to get this plan put in place and now that we're starting to
153see those pieces come together, it feels really cool and rewarding. So, some of the things that we've done so far with our 100 day plan, um we spent a lot of time over the summer developing some of the PD and inservice work that we've been rolling out this week looking at, um some of the foundational pieces related to um trust and building like our staff relationships because some of this work requires a lot of vulnerability for our staff. So, we felt like that's been a really important piece um that we're frontloading this year. And then kind of moving forward throughout the year, we're going to be doing a lot more work um related to like the ALPS that we talked about, continuing to gather more data with teacher um ratings for themselves and what they
154see with their students, as well as setting some um general dates and timelines for getting into classrooms for admin and our coaches to do some observations of what that looks like. Um, and then also with some of the other new pieces that we've rolled out with this with our instructional coaches, trying to be really mindful and thoughtful of setting norms around what that looks like when we are working together, when we're supporting teachers, um, to make sure that we have a lot of consistency and clarity and driving this work forward throughout these first 100 days. And then there will be another 100 day plan after that. And then again after that to keep moving forward. >> No, you did great. Um, I think there's a lot of excitement around it. Um, I think, um, teachers,
155staff are starting to see how it's all coming together, right? How everything kind of works together. It was so awesome. Um, Mrs. I'm going to let Mrs. Zachary talk mostly about it, but she wasn't quite there for this when I um, we had the the teachers in concentric circles and they were sharing with each other and I really wanted them to talk about how do all these things work together? How does coaching, right, because that's part of the model, PBL, um, co-plan, co-serve, how does that all work together? And the the resounding thing was, um, we're growing it all has to do with feedback. How are we giving feedback to students? How are we receiving feedback? And how are we giving feedback to each other? And there's a a researcher, his name is John Hattie.
156the number almost the number one thing that has an impact on student learning and I would say on adult learning is feedback and good feedback right and so we've spent a lot of time talking about that so our teachers are pretty excited about having the uh resource of uh coaches and we talked to them about this is really a investment in them when you're providing them with a coach so um it was good and I have to commend our sale team. They put in a ton of time. Our our teaching staff and our admin, it was three days during the summer, but I'm telling you, we were calling them in for meetings. Um I think Sam was on every committee um this summer. And then also being very It's hard to get up in front
157of your peers and deliver PD and they did it very very well. Um and it it just takes a lot of guts, I think, to do it and to feel um safe in doing that. So it was amazing. Um really I I just think it was awesome. It was very wellreceived. Um some of them did small group but some of them did a whole group yesterday um in front of people leading them. And it's just it makes your heart so full to see that leadership. And that's what it's all about, right? Like developing leaders. A leader is anybody who has impact on someone. And we want all of our teachers and staff to feel like they're leaders as well. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> So, Andrea, I didn't steal too much. >> Yes, she did.
158>> Anyway, um so I just want to talk a little bit about inservice like what we have done and what we will do the next couple days. So, um we did we start on Monday and we started with um um we started with really talking about and um parents, you'll see we all look dressed alike on uh back to school night about Riverview's talent. Um, so we kind of went off of uh America's Got Talent, which I've never watched, so I'm like, I don't know what we're doing here with these golden buzzers. But, um, just focusing on we all bring talents and so do our kids and championing that. and we all took an Indigo assessment and really looking at well what's our skill base and other people on the staff that have that skill
159base and what does that mean and what can you bring to leadership into your classrooms and working even with kids on that like we all bring talent um every last child and just championing that and um so that's how we started out the feelood right um and then we went into presentations and yes I want It was the um some of the teachers on the sail team were very nervous about getting in front of their peers and they they did so well and I think it went so well because it wasn't the administration standing up in front of the staff. This was you know what here's what you guys worked on as a staff. Here's what we said we are going to work on. Here's how we're going to get from good to great and
160just that buy in. And they they did a really great job. Um we really we talked about the elves like we showed you and we said okay here's where our goal says we're going to move to here but how are we going to do that? So they worked in groups and we did anchor charts and gallery walks about how are we going to move now like what are things that we can do to you know bring up collaboration and autonomy and love of learning. So that was our beginning. Um and you know just focusing on we gave examples of like you know Six Flags good but you know Disney World is great and what are the things that Disney World does to bring that and then they were able to pick like you know other
161ideas and people were like comparing Walmart to Target and you know and I said you mean tar tar and you know so just thinking about what does that mean to move from because you can live live in the land of good, right? Because you're it um but pushing ourselves. So, we really we spent all morning doing that. Our afternoon sessions um talked a lot about our goal to well, how are we going to move all students? What are we going to do? Um so there were sessions on co-plan co-serve which is working with special ed teachers and special ed staff working with gen ed so that um these great things that we can do with kids not only are going to help special ed kids but they're going to help all kids and how are
162we going to work together and do that planning um we talked about it's called the fate form I know just another acronym um but it's really about looking at the whole child like if a child is struggling well let's let's look at them as a whole not just oh they can't read you know we got to give them intervention with reading. Okay what are things they like and how can we tie in their interests and just looking at the whole child and meeting as a team and and what can we do before we're putting labels on kids. Um and then also the coaching um with our coaching roles we did a session on you know what are the coaches going to be doing to again enhance student learning. So that was our first very full
163day. Um today I worked with um John Graph who's from CISA 6 and he does um assessment and learning and I have worked with him before and he worked with our third through 8th grade. We looked at our forward tests and really broke that down into what are the Wisconsin standards. So, it's not like teaching to the test, but realistically, the forward test is measuring, are we teaching the standards that that's what we're supposed to be doing. And it was a really long, very data um meeting, but I feel like it was it was great. It wasn't just like, oh, we got to take the forward and here's our overall score score. It really broke down like every single ELA standard and how many questions on the forward exam address that and it really can
164be broken down into our powered standards to make sure like those are the things that we are for sure hitting um and really making some data. We're going to have data meetings. So like what are we bringing to the data meeting? So, we're making informed decisions on kids and what kids need to be nudged a little bit and what need what kids need, you know, more reinforcement and what kids need to be pushed because we want all of our kids growing and we've been really great at growing kids who um you know need the extra help and then they've all grown now to be on that you know average or good. How are we going to push them to be great? um and and making sure that we're pushing the kids that are scoring in
165the 90th percentile too, not kids just, you know, they're scoring in the 11th percentile. So, it was a pretty intense um day, but I feel like it was really we got some really great data. Um I was excited because I'm kind of a data geek, but um tomorrow morning we're going to do um some just logistics like going through the crisis plan and and um things that you know we need to remember to do. And then we also have a speaker coming in. I'm gonna call on Sam. Make sure I get his name. Um I don't know how to say his last name. >> Dan Heisen. >> Okay. And he's going to come in and talk about the work of Ross Green. And again, it's it's really like looking at a child will will do
166well if they can and what are we going to do to be able to make sure that they can do well. And I don't know if you want to add anything else, Sam, because Sam is gonna um has met with him and has done some training and we appreciate her bringing him on. So, >> yep. So, Dan is going to speak to us about Ross Green who is an author um and a behavioral researcher. He does a lot of work on that idea of kids do well if they can. And so, it's really grounded in the idea that everybody, kids and adults, we all want to do well. So if for some reason someone's not doing well or not meeting an expectation, it's not because they don't want to. It's because there's 99% of the
167time there's something else that's getting in the way. And so our work is going to be focused on for us as educators if we see a student who's not doing well. Instead of assuming that it's the intent of the student not to do well, it's identifying what are the barriers, what are the things getting in the way and how can we work collaboratively, not just with staff, but with the student themselves to move them forward and help, like Andrea said, get from good to great. >> Yep. Yep. >> And Thursday, don't forget back to school night. Best time of the year. Um, and it'll be actually from 4 to 7. So anytime and if any of you want would like to come while I know some of you come. It's fun but um this is
168a great great time and yes there'll be pictures so that's always fun. Um, and then as far as some updates this summer, I know Kim kind of touched on this summer we um gave staff opportunity to do some summer group work and it's like holy cow. We had a lot of staff in here and the things that they accomplished were it's amazing. So, we had a group um that worked on our PBIS which is another acronym I know um positive behavior interventions and support. So like the fun things that we can do with kids and um you know we really want to focus again around our core values and you know call out kids when we see them doing great things and making sure like that they are being not just rewarded but you know
169getting recognition for those things. So, some of the things that we're going to do with that, um, we had the crisis curriculum. I kind of referenced earlier when we were talking about how are we going to make sure all kids are like aware of the SRO and also why do we do these drills? And so, there's going to be curriculum that the teachers are going to be able to work with kids. Um, we kind of have script already like with our lockdown drills and fire and tornado. Um, and when we start the year, our first week, we always do our crisis drills and their walkthroughs with kids. So, it's not we're not going to ring the fire. We're not going to like have a full-blown tornado. But, we really try to walk with the kids
170and inform them like this is where we're going to go on fire so that when it we do drills that there isn't that um the panic. We will be walking to um the the county or not the county. Oh, that would be a long walk. Um the community center I'm really tired. Um the community center again because that would be our evacuation site so that all kids know where that is. Um and that that we want them to go there. And why do we want you to go there? We want you to be safe and make sure that you are feeling good about that. So the the crisis team worked on that or the crisis curriculum summer team. We had our 4K through third grade come in and do some curriculum work. We had um
171choice time, which is something new that we're going to do with our older students instead of study hall to try to do some choice activities that they're going to be able to pick if there is a need that they want study hall or like we have to give them a test or whatever, they're going to be able to do that. But then they're also going to be able to choose from um like going to the idea lab and you know working on all that like robotics and things like that. So different things just to build. Um we're going to do some art so that they have a choice. It's not just sitting in a study hall. It's it's really some more enhancement activities. Um the MLS team and PBIS team. So lots of summer work,
172very like a lot of staff signed up um to do that work and it's always awesome to see it's not just us doing things. It's you know really the staff working and presenting to their peers. So, um, also this summer I found out, I'm like super excited, sarcastic, um, that our eighth graders were chose to take the NAPE test. So, not only will they be taking the forward test, but we also will be taking the NAPE test and got that. So, I'll be working with them. Um, the NAPE is the national scored like math and ELA testing. So um we will be different schools are chosen obviously and then use that for the national norming. So our eighth graders will be part of that. So I'll be all obviously getting information out to eighth grade
173parents as that comes closer because it's going to seem like a lot of testing but we obviously hopefully can space it out enough and it would o it's typically only fourth or eighth grade are chosen. Um our report card, just a couple things has not come out. Um but we're already finding out that there's going to be changes again to the report card as far as cut scores. They also um it used to be based on a threeyear now it's only based on twoyear. So um again it's sort of frustrating because you know what do we learn in science like you have to have some sort of control right and you change one variable so how do you know like it's very hard to compare every year when they are changing the criteria or the
174cut scores so um was a little disappointed and so I'm not sure like what that will do for our school report card um is there has been um a lot of talk that throughout the state there was a drop in math scores like consistently um there was a few different things with the forward like they took the the math testing from two sections to three sections and um the cut scores were changed also so again a little difficult to compare um year to year the state has also which if you um I'll ask Kim to speak that a little bit more but um if there's questions had put in for a waiver for assessments. So, I don't know if you have any >> because of all the differences in the federal IDA laws, um, different
175states are putting in for waiverss to try to find like loopholes and to how to get different funding or get out of things. And one of the things our our state put in a waiver for is um to forego some of this testing. So, not sure if it's going to happen. Um I talked to the deputy state superintendent about it. Um so just another reason to remember that it's one data point and the most important data is coming from our teachers and the educators in the classroom. Good. Okay. Thanks Mrs. Zachary. All right. Board celebrations. Anybody? >> I have a couple. I should have said this before, but I would like to thank all the community members that came out that are in attendance. I would hope that you would be um our leazison with
176other community members and pass the word about the SRO whether you're for it or not. um still presenting factual information that you've heard tonight and not to cause embarrassment or anxiety, but I would like to thank um Isaac for telling your story. >> It touched me a lot. So, thank you for that. That was very nice. Um somebody else needs to go. Yeah, I um also like to thank Isaac um that it's hard to be up here as a board member and to have to at times speak out against a group or against specific teachers or administrators or kids or families and the fact that I don't know how old you are, maybe 20, 21 somewhere in that area, right? I you have a ton of courage and a great backbone to be able to
177stand there and and speak your truth. So, I commend you for that. Um I also want to have a few celebrations. First, the sale team. um all the work you guys have done this this summer uh to get ready for this upcoming year. Um it's really cool to see as we first talked about that first meeting with the strategic planning if we're going to pass the ability to if we're going to have one or not. Now starting to see intentional plans focused on um what we decided as a community to see that come out is exactly why we made the decision we did as a board at that time. also the community for being a part of that. Um Kim, Andrea, Courtney, the office staff, everything you guys have done to help facilitate that and
178and the work you guys have done to again be more intentional as a district about where we're going in our direction. And also I want to commend the board um for sifting through uh various issues and drama and different things and staying headfast as to you know our focus on policy and procedure and the intentional direction from our community with the strategic planning process and focusing on what's best for kids and focusing on what's best for our community. So I think this board has done a really nice job of doing that. I'd like to give a forward uh celebration to the new school year with the re veteran staff coming back and the new staff coming in. I hope it turns out to be a very good year for all of you and thank you
179for supporting our students. >> Yeah, I want to top on that. I'm excited for this school year and I think it's a great time to be a comment from the referendum passing and seeing everything that is happening will be happening all the hard work from the staff and the vision moving forward and all seeing all that come to fruition is a very good time for our families and our kids. All right, fan trip. Miss Frisky, >> a long night. You picked >> You picked the wrong better than September. Um, I'm just here to answer any questions that you have about our band trip and ultimately ask for your approval to offer this opportunity to our students. Um, three schools are teaming up to work together, um, Riverview, Randall, and Lakewood. and we um will come
180together and create one band with this those students from those schools and um take this trip. There are performance opportunities. There's um obviously some sightseeing things and they um do even get to see a musical when they're down there too. So, um it's a really great it's a really great opportunity for the kids to kind of get to know their future like Panther like teammates in the band world and to um to get to be with people who are really excited about music too. and um you know they recognize each other at the different events and it's kind of cool to see those bonds form between them them and then um you know two were getting they're getting to experience somewhere outside of western Kosha County too which is always cool to see. So I
181think you got a chance to look at the itinerary. >> Um it does cost uh it's95 is the trip cost. I don't think that's I don't remember if that's on yours or not. It's on your presentation. >> There will be three fundraising opportunities for um the students that are going on the trip and the money from those will specifically go to um that student that does the fundraising. So, it directly goes towards them. Kind of different than how all our schools do the stuff where it's like just towards the band program, but these three fundraisers are um just for them. And I mean we've had students fund raise nearly the whole trip before if they are good at that. I would like to echo uh Miss Frisky's I had two grandchildren that went on this
182trip and um you know while we see a lot of sports and kids get to interact a lot with other kids from different schools and that this band trip um to see the excitement building to go there and then their meetings where they practice and that and you know I get to be the driver of the grandchildren's So to hear the comments while they're in the back talking about it, it's a great excitement for them. And some of them stay in band, some of them don't. But it's still it's another way to interact with students from other schools and I I support this. I think this is a very good opportunity for them. >> We always tell them too, they kind of get to be like real musicians. like they are like you're on the
183road like you're playing, you're you're gigging, you got to like get your stuff ready, get your uniform, like be there at a certain time and um you know play for people that aren't your parents and have never heard you before, which is always kind of cool, too. >> Yeah. My h my grandson must have taken your words to heart because he went they went to Nashville. He went full cowboy when he got there. >> He got a shirt, a cowboy hat, and it's like good lord. He took it all in. >> He did take it all in, but it was a very, very good trip for them to go to. I I support this. >> I think it's a great opportunity. >> And you did say um that n they do have the opportunity to
184fund raise the full cost of the trip if they can. >> I mean, it depends how good you are at, you know, like I was always like the kid that was like my parents took it to work or we like bought the box of chocolate. So, um, but there are kids that really work. I mean, there are kids that really work their neighborhoods and they're, you know, so >> looked like there were three options for fundraising on there. >> Yes, there's going to be um a butter braids sale in the fall, a cringle sale in >> January, Februaryish, and then um some kind of floral like flowers or bulbs or something in the spring. student who was engaged in all three of those and quite convincing could hypothetically pay for that entire thing to the
185>> fundraiser. Yeah, I I mean they're good. Yeah, it it varies. It all depends, like I said, >> how much effort they put in. >> Yeah, I mean I think um I think there was a student last year who raised like $400 just on the butter braids. So, or not last year, last time we went. So, and it is split up too. Like it's not like fork over the thousand dollars at once. I think it's um between like 150 and 200 uh payments. So that that kind of breaks it up too. So it's not you know >> it's easier to plan for. >> Um they will miss it is in May uh May 14th or 16th. So they'll miss a Thursday Friday um of school and then we'll be coming back on Saturday. And the
186extra time is so that we um weren't driving overnight. We learned through experience. We've been doing this since 2016, I think. And um >> it's just easier to get them fresh and like everyone like and the I I mean all the bus drivers are trained and everything to do that, but it's just we're all getting older, too. All the directors, but >> I commend you for doing that. We had an overnight with 83 football players and six kids started puking and I never want to do something like that again. So, >> Good luck. Better you than me. but not that good. >> I'd like to make a motion to approve um the bus the band trip. >> I'll second >> motion by Hopkins, second by Mr. Hurst. All those in favor. >> I I motion
187opposed. Motion carries closure. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. And on behalf of our students and other schools too. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you, >> Miss Young. >> Okay. And I'm going to share our seclusion and restraint report. It's from last school year. So just to clarify, um seclusion and restraint is report that we need to report out on in August. And so this is the data from last year. Seclusion is anytime that we have a student in a room and we restrict them from leaving. Physical restraint is just that. If you want to click on the next. Thanks. Okay. So our data from last year, we had nine incidents of seclusion total. one student involved in seclusion and one student with disabilities involved in seclusion. We had 11 incidents of
188restraint and one total student that was involved in uh restraint and then that one student also had um to look at the bottom data across the school year. So, nine total seclusions this past year, 11 restraints equaling total, but we had a decrease in the number of students um that were involved. So, previously it was three students, this year, the last year was only one total. Um so, even though the numbers are a little bit higher, um we're seeing less students who need to use seclusion or strengthen here. So, that's that's our our staff went through CPI training. um everyone who's working with students who require that are trained. Um and then administration also got trained in uh CPI training which uh Mr. Hopkins is a trainer too. So >> any questions? >> I make
189a motion to approve the 2425 seclusion or restraint report as presented. >> Motion by Mr. Hurst. >> Second by Mr. Gentiel. All those in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries. Thank you, Mrs. Young Bloodood. Um, our next meeting will be September 23rd. Uh, that'll be our regular meeting and the annual board meeting. Again, I want to echo, um, that if you are in favor or opposed, um, please come and and allow your, it's not very often in democracy where I think people actually get to vote on something as opposed to going through an elected official. So, this is your opportunity to do that, which is really cool. At this time, I make a motion to move into executive session to discuss the items listed above in accordance to Wisconsin state statutes. >> Second by Mrs.
190Gallow. All those in favor? I >> I oppose. Motion carries. We will move into executive session. Thank you, everybody. >> Thank you. >> Are you off, Patty? >> Thanks, ladies. >> Thank you. >> Mike, I'm hot, too. >> It's terrible. I don't know. Kimson over here saying