001[Music] We can't have game changer. If we have time, Joe, I can talk to you about the roof and some things with I don't know some leaks or something. What section of the building? uh the gym something I talked to Brian today something about when they move the rocks he's going to contact SRS too but what that's part that's part of the replacement phase you know like to call the meeting of the silver lake Salem Drwoodland school district to order the boy scouts are here so please stand for the pledge led by I aliance 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. Thank you, boys. All right, roll call. Mrs. Gallich, here. Mrs. Rgnner, here.
002Mr. Hurst, present. Mr. Gentiel, present. I am here. We'll move into the board reorganization. Did you want to do open meetings? Sorry. Open means compliance check. Yep. Um, we'll move into the board reorganization. Uh the process for this, someone nominates a board member and asks that person if they're willing to accept the nomination. Board members can nominate themselves. Once the board president is nominated, that person directs the rest of the meeting. The board can decide if they want to allow for discussion on the merits of the nominee. Do we have a nominee for president? I nominate Brian Hopkins. I second that. We have a nomination and a second on the table. We'll do a roll call. Mr. Mr. Hurst. Yes. Mr. Gentiel, yes. Mr. Yes. Mrs. Galluch? Yes. And I'm a Yes. Uh, vice president.
003I nominate Mike J. Mike Gentiel. Is there a second? Second. A nomination for Mr. Gentiel for vice president. Start with a roll call. Mr. Hurst. Yes. Mr. Gentiel. Yes. Yes. Mrs. Rgnner. Yes. Mrs. Gallich. Yes. Mike will be the vice president. Is there a nomination for treasurer? I will nominate Joe Herz. I will second. Mr. Hurst? Yes. Mr. Jen Teal? Yes. I'm a yes. Mrs. Ragnar. Yes. Mrs. Galluch? Yes. And a nomination for clerk. I'll nominate Mrs. Ragnar. Is there a second? I'll second. Second by Mr. Gentiel. Mr. Hurst. Yes. Mr. Gentiel. Yes. I'm a yes. Mrs. Rnner. Yes. And Mrs. Gallow. Yes. And Mrs. SC will then be the board member at large. You betcha. Any public comments? Again, these are limited to uh no more than three minutes. Any public comment? Okay, we
004will go into the approval of consent agenda items. Is there anyone that like to pull anything out? If not, I'll look for a motion to approve. I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda items as listed. Motion by Mr. Hurst. Is there a second? Right. I abstain from the board minutes from March 18th. I was not here. So, does that do we pull that out or do them individually? We'll pull out B. We'll approve A CDE E and F. So, can you um make a nominate for your Yeah. Motion? Make a motion to approve the consent agenda. AB CD A CD. I'm sorry. ACD Ef Mrs. Gouch. All those in favor? I I I You got to abstain. Oh, you can. Yeah. Right. And then I'll make a motion to approve consent agenda item
005B. Second. Second by Mrs. Gallich. All those in favor? I. I. I abain. And Mrs. Rner abstains. Reports. District administrator. Okay. We'll start with the salute awards. These are like I always say my favorite um part of the board meetings. Um today we are going to honor two um people. One is Natalie Butler and Mary Ackam. She's not here tonight. She couldn't be here. But both are our reading core volunt well volunteers, trained tutors that come into our school every day to support our youngest learners. Um they've been working with about 44 kids this year combined together um in grades K through three. Um I want to get this right. So together they've served 44 kids and of those 19 have already reached their goals, which is excellent, and graduated from the program. and 92%
006of them are currently in the program and are exceeding expectations. Um, they just have remarkable dedication to the program. This is Natalie's second year and last, correct? No, one more year. Two more years. Oh my goodness. Okay. I thought it was a two-year stint, which is great to have you back. And um, building the relationships with the kids. They love going. Um, and Mary Ackum, this was her first year. She came in and did a dynamite job. She has a lot of years as a former classroom teacher, so she brought a lot of that experience with her. So, we wanted to say thank you for the board and myself and the district for all the work you do every day. I know um Miss Rose loves working with you and um having you support our
007students. So, you can come forward. Walk around so we don't trip. There you go. Thank you. And then we get a picture with the board. Um, they usually stand in the middle. Oh, Julie's gonna take the picture. Take the picture. Oh, I don't want to hold her. Thank you, Natalie. Perfect. You almost got Amy almost. I stop. Okay. Then moving on to celebrations. Obviously, one of the biggest celebrations is passing the referendum by the biggest margin in the state. So, that's great news. Um, and I'm going to talk a little bit. Jordan from um Barrett is here to get get us up to date on the financing, but I'm going to also talk about it when I talk about PSI. Um we also had our first run with the Gallup. So 82% of our staff
008currently the window is still open for the survey for the staff engagement survey. 82% of the staff have taken it. They were very excited. Um Ted Nitzky or Nitsky did a great job coming and talking to the staff and um then most of the staff that were there took it right away. So we should be getting those results probably in the next two to three weeks. So that was exciting. Um the other thing that is exciting is um Samantha McGarvey. She is our um one of our guidance counselors. She is running a book club for parents and staff. And so they this was following a PBL project that Renee White Cavage did about social media. And so it was um t you know the kids debated about the effects of social media. Should it be
009limited by the government? Shouldn't it be limited by the government in front of their parents? And then we announced that we would be doing a book club on a book called The Anxious Generation, which many staff well none our staff members read something different, but many staff members have read that book and it's it talks all about the effects of social media on students brains. So she's going to be running two evenings with that. So we have some parents and staff signed up for that. So that's exciting as well. And then um I asked Julie if she would give a little bit um a little summary or update on library of media services and some of the new things that her and I have been talking about in terms of connecting it to our what
010what did you say? I said you caught her mid bite or oh sorry she's panicking looked like hurry up in terms of our strategic plan and um some of the things that Julie is going to do to support that. So go ahead. So, one of the great things that we are doing is we have invited some volunteers in to help with our library, which is going to give us extra hands into um organizing, creating a better learning space in this area for our students. Um, sorry, I'm losing my voice. I have drama practice. Uh the other thing that we're going to do is we are going to integrate our library classes with our technology classes. So there's more of a synergy so that the students are getting more of a 21st century learning experience and
011they're learning how to do more research and they're learning how to use different media to that they can take back then and work in their classes with. Um, we're also going to be, fingers crossed, creating a maker space lab in my office where we are going to then take those skills and put some hands-on um activities for our students to be engaged in that they can teachers can either um use the space with their classes. They can come in as a whole class. um we could do it as almost like an independent study where if students have you know free time they could come in and they can work in that area as well. And just bridging all three of these things so that we can engage our students so that we can build upon
012their curriculum and they can get some hands-on learning experience no matter where they're at. Awesome. Exciting. Go ahead. What's a maker space for? So I are you going to call it a maker space or I actually call it an idea lab. Uh it's a little bit more of maker space is more hands-on where students are actually building things. This is going to be it's going to be maker space where they can build things, but it's also going to be a place where they can be creative where they can come in. We're going to have the green screen in there. They could come in and they can videotape. They can um they can do their own little podcast for an assignment. They could make a video. They could do voiceovers. They'll be able to have that
013accessible to them. So, and I'll be in there to show them how to use it. Um, it's going to be everything from puzzles to um marble roller coasters to Legos to it is literally everything that could create excitement within that learning space. So, it's it's really it's a work in progress, but it is definitely it's been started. You ever walk back in between the library circulation desk and the lab? There is a pile of items that we've been purchasing that are going to go in there. We have to get them cataloged, which again is why we have our library helpers so that we can start getting those things cataloged and we can get them into bins and then we can start putting them in that space. It's really exciting to to see this all coming
014together. Yeah. So, it's exciting because we're getting the community involved um to coming, you know, by coming in and volunteering and that helps us maximize our um our time um and um also supporting the strategic plan around being more hands-on. And so, as kids develop projects, right, part of the that development is creating those projects and thinking outside of a poster or some diarama or something you have at home. there's 3D printing. Um, now it's not always about the product, but that is part of what engages the kids, right? And and how can you do more of that? So, creating a space for that so that they can go to that, the teachers can utilize some more technology because we're not probably tapping in to the immense amount of opportunity that's out there with technology
015between AI and all the other things. Um and so by having Julie in this role, she's also understanding the budget around common school funds and what we can use to leverage that to get some of those materials in there. Um one of the things that's going to be happening very soon as Julia and I are meeting with the Wilmont um like technology club or something and they're going to come over and do a video for us on PBL. They're going to interview people. You know, it's free. It's nice. We're partnering with them. Well, we would love our kids to do that, right? and and create those things and um because it just opens the world up to them and kids are so much more adept at that than we are um if you give them
016the opportunity and the resources to do it. So, it's exciting that it's going to be in that space and we can kind of transform that um mean and also get kids um Julie's going to do more classes with especially K2 more kids in the library with the physical books in their hands and um being able to research topics of interest. So, it's great. Is that is that something other schools do or is that like is this a new thing? I wouldn't say it's new. Um, so Julie's, um, you've been to Randall? I've been to Randall. I going to Okay. So, going to other places, looking around. I'm going to be at WASDA this week and there's like, you know, they always have all the vendors there and so I'm going to go see one of
017them about the smart lab. So there's the the ideas are kind of endless and it's going to take a little bit of time to build it, but um I think it can be a really great opportunity for our especially for our middle schoolers who are right there to be able to come in and do some of the projects. That's exciting. Yeah. Thanks, Julie. I appreciate it. Um okay, so I wanted to give the board just a few updates from um budget updates. I did include the budget adoption form in your um board packet. Um as a reminder, there were some savings that we planned for this year. Um I shared this with you um last I don't know probably around this time last year about some of the things that um we had moved around
018or changed. Um the one thing that wasn't on that list was the high cost claims. So Angie has done a really nice job this year along with Tim Stallmacher and Sue in finding ways that we can make um more highc cost claims in fund 27 to get some of that funding back. So that $7,000 was not accounted for um but will continue. Um if Tim has it his way um I mean I I think he wants to get blood from a rock somehow, but um so they're working really hard to make sure we're maximizing the dollars. um and trying to find different ways to u move things around. Um projected for next year, there are a few just minor things. Um one of the things we're going to talk about at the end of this
019um board meeting is a hazardous transport unusually hazardous transportation plan. Um and so I'll talk about that more, but some of the bigger savings are um we moved our um aids into fund 27. So that gives us some money back um on their salaries. Also, because um the referendum passed, we're able to move some of our tech costs and our maintenance costs there because um if we're, you know, much of what we um were paying big money out for were our um was our roof and uh boilers. If we have new things, the idea would be we wouldn't be paying for that. So those were some cost savings. And then um there is uh the special services agreements that we have um the board the last time I think we met we talked about um
020starting a fund to 80 and so that'll um we'll see some savings from that and then um I told the board I think I might have done an update um we've applied for several grants um one of them was an advanced learning grant um so we'll find out about that in July and then um we are also working with Wilmont on a peer mentoring grant that would probably get us between5 and $10,000. So, just some increases there um that I'm projecting. Um but I also am we are also losing our declining enrollment exemption which is $96,000. So, trying to find ways to offset that um was part of what I was doing as we were um putting the budget together. the $325 increase. Um, if you were listening to the news, you probably heard that
021the Supreme Court upheld the veto by um, Governor Iver. So, we we already had that built into our budget for next year. Um, I think it'll be an interesting bianial budget because I think there's some politics going on with like you got the $325, should we give you more? Um, so I'm not optimistic. So, I think um being really conservative at this point is probably prudent on our ends on our end because I don't know where we're going to be with that. Um on the last slide, the $9,000 savings. What is that? Oh, MIBS. Oh, you don't know what that is? No. No, I don't know what I don't know exactly what MIB stands for. What? MIBS stands for um Well, I don't know what exactly it stands for, but it is our ser our
022managed service provider what they do for us every month. And so we switched from one provider K12 to Compunet and when we switched we saw $9,000 savings. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. But the acronym I'm not exactly sure what I if I can tell you exactly what it means. Okay. Um year to date for fund 10, you have the budget adoption form in your um hand in your board packet. Um, some highlevel things just to um to be aware of is we're projecting about a $30,000 $30,000 in increased funding from open enrollment in. So that's good. And um we're going to be sending out about 40 did I say 20,000 no what did I put in there? $40,000 less out for open enrollment. So that's some savings that we're going to see in this year's budget.
023um we're going to see a little bit of a loss in fund 27 um because it was projected that it was going to be 33% of um reimbursement through categorical aid and it's coming in more at 30%. So that's going to equate to about a $20,000 loss in that fund. However, because of our um high claims, we're going to get some of that back. So it offsets it a little bit. Those are the big pe those are the big chunks from um the board and prior to about a year ago we weren't receiving any funds back in high cost or categorical aid. Well, categorical aid, yes, but not for AIDS. Not for maximizing categorical aid, I think, is what we found this year. Yeah. And we were not doing as much high cost claims as
024we could have. I think we we did it for one situation, but not as many as we are. That was the only one I think we ever Thank you. Yep. Any questions on on those? Okay. Um, so I'm asking I'm gonna ask Jenny Javiar to come up. She wants to give just an update on where we are with summer school and um what it's going to look like this year. So just real quick, summer school's going on for four weeks from July 7th through July 31st. It's just Monday through Thursdays because we found school on Fridays weren't showing up. So it wasn't really a good use of our time. So just Mondays through Thursdays starting after the 4th of July. Um there were a couple changes we made this year. We changed we had jump
025start programs for post grade which was like getting ready for like second grade or whatever it is and we changed that this year to just being reading support for kids who are currently receiving either reading help from Mrs. Butler in reading core and Miss Stamp or from Mrs. Rose. It's going to be taught by Mrs. Rose which should even though we don't have to be compliant with act 20 by now until like 2027 we will be so we'll be ahead of the game. So that will be very nice. Um, we also made sure that the classes were aligning with our strategic plan this year. So, there's going to be like a lot of STEM classes, hands-on classes, a couple different type of like sewing, building, engineering, stop, what is stop motion, stop motion, just something
026different, interesting, life skills that they might not get to normally do. And with that, if we integrate the reading and the math with that, because there's a lot of math in like if you do counting cross achievement or if you're playing a math a game or even in basketball, there's math. If you break it down, that they'll get the reinforcement in a lot of academic schools that way instead of just having a reading class or a math class that's not necessarily targeted. It's kind of integrated. Um, we did reduce it to three classes a day instead of four. I made the classes a little bit longer to allow for more time for projects. So you're not getting everything out getting started and up it's time to pick up the switch. So the classes are a
027little long. There's only three a day. And to help with classes being more full, um we are doing an online program for math. If parents want, they can sign up for that if their child would benefit from it. If the program will walk the kids through it, there's like teachers on it and ask them question as they go. So that way we won't have classes that are not a good mix where we had like third to sixth grade in one class just because we didn't have a lot of kids and there was only a couple that would show up. So it'll be a better use of our teachers and our time. Any questions about summer school? Um thank you for aligning it to the strategic plan and bringing some of those classes. Thank you for
028aligning to the strategic plan some of those classes. That's great. So, we did look at how to maximize the dollars during that time because there were quite a few classes last year where you'd walk in and it's one child and a teacher. So, that's what that's some of the movement and and why we lengthen the classes and shorten the time period. Okay. Word celebrations. Well, obviously, um, thank you to the teachers, staff, admin, um, all of our community members who went and knocked on doors. Obviously, it was a a great group effort, uh, to get the referendum pass. So, certainly appreciate the support there that we received. Um, and then the other thing I would just like to highlight is I came the night that Mrs. Wvich and her class did the uh, debate and
029uh, it was quite entertaining. Um, kids were engaged. They did a very nice job. um was a little difficult at times to hear them, but I got to imagine it was pretty nerve-wracking debating, especially if you were on the side that you didn't believe um you know, in front of 50 people or so. So, but I thought it was a great project. It was great for me as someone who doesn't truly know and understand PBL to come see it in action. So, um appreciated that opportunity and uh kudos to her and her group for doing that. Yeah, I would echo that. The thank you to the yes committee. Obviously, passing the referendum is huge. Um Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Ragnar. Um I mean Anna Anna um obviously the teachers for the you know phone calls you
030guys made the families um the administration team but uh and absolutely Kim for the work that you put into behind the scenes. I'm not sure everybody knows quite frankly how much went into that and um you know we had a lot of conversations offline about the work you were doing to make sure that we were prepared for all the information we needed for that. So thank you everyone for that. Thank you. I will echo the that path the referendum passing as well. It was very exciting and I know there was a lot of hard work from every person I feel like in the community. So much so many different conversations. I love the videos from the kids that were online. Um it's just a exciting time for all of us. So very fun. I have
031nothing to add. It's good. I wouldn't say anything that wasn't already said. So, okay. All right. Um, so Jordan, Miss Nika is here. As I said, um, he um, I've met, well, Sue, myself, I think was Tim there too was meeting with you. All met with um, Jordan last week um because now the referendum and that work is done and now there's a whole new shift of things that um, we need to handle. And so Jordan's going to talk about the financial piece of it and what that's going to look like and what um the board can expect as we move forward and a little bit of timeline stuff. So thanks for coming in. We really appreciate it. I know it's a drive. Yeah, no problem at all. It's a short drive. So you you're
032gonna Yeah, I can do it. Is it okay? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um Yeah. So it's exciting that now we don't necessarily have to think about it in terms of hypothetical and estimates. We actually get to talk about the action plan going forward now. So, as Kim said, uh about a week and a half ago, we met as a team, um went through the whole process of how do we move forward, what are all the steps for a successful financing for the district. So, I'm going to talk about interest rate update, go through the detailed financing plan, and then go through a timeline and what can you can expect going forward. So, I've shown this to you guys and the community previously. This is the long-term history of taxexempt interest rates. So this is an index
033of of what you can expect for interest rates uh because you'd be issuing on a tax exempt basis. So unfortunately with all of the tariff talk going on the the trade talk interest rates have spiked quite a bit. Uh you may have seen in the equity market as well there's a lot of volatility in the market with all of the uh the talks going around uh globally. Uh thankfully they they have come down a little bit but we're still in a very volatile interest environment. The good thing is we're not in uh looking to issue debt for you right now. We have so a little bit of time for it to play out. Hopefully things calm down over the next month or so. Um but we do have a plan in place to try to
034be really flexible and and and try to do what's best for the district in terms of timing. Then I'll get into that a little bit. But on the grand scheme of things, we're still in the good interest rate environment. So that's that's kind of the takeaway. If you look at the the 30-year trend, we're still in the normal interest rate environment. So what are the goals for our financing plan? Uh so I want to make sure that we are consistent with what we told the community, right? Uh so one of the main goals is that referendum mill rate impact of 55 cents for debt, right? So that's really important. That's what we told the community and we want to make sure that we hit that as we're finalizing the debt for the district. U along
035with that, we want to minimize total interest cost. So, we want to make sure we're doing what we can to make this issuance attractive for investors. And then think about it in terms of timing. When is the best time to issue this debt? We want to minimize interest rate risk. Same thing what I just said. Think about what's going on in the market and we want to try to minimize your risk. uh and then maximize investment earnings. So, I may have talked about this with you guys previously. One advantage about the environment that we're in right now, short-term interest rates are actually relatively high and how that can help you is, you know, we're going to look to issue this debt for the district. This $7 million, you don't need all seven million of it
036right away, right? The majority of your expenditures are going to be summer of 26. In the meantime, you can invest those funds, and there are firms that specialize in this. You get to keep all those investment earnings, and those can go into either additional projects that fit within the scope of the referendum, or they can pay down your debt. Those are the two uh the two options for those investment earnings. The vast majority use it for additional projects. Every district can find additional projects. I'm actually working with a district that actually spoke with today that said, "Look, we have an additional million dollars that we can't do anything with." That that's an anomaly. I guarantee you will find projects. Um, so thank you. So, yeah, but that's an important factor because as you're earning four
037plus percent on your investment earnings on $7 million, that adds up. It's meaningful. So, as we're going through this debt issuance process, um, we're going to receive a rating on the district and on the debt. Your district was most recently rated by standard import. So, there are two firms. It's Moody's and Standard Empors that rate the municipal bonds throughout the state for school districts. Um, you were previously rated double A minus by standards, which is a great rating. So on this equ this Moody scale that's equivalent to AA3. Um you lost that rating as your debt that had it matured in spring of 24. Okay, that was your energy efficiency exemption debt that was ultimately refinanced. So you no longer have that rating outstanding. Since then, Standard and Porters has kind of updated their methodology
038for school districts and they've really focused a lot on the economics within a district and within a county. So, I'm thinking it might not be as favorable for you guys. So, so we run scorecard, we have scorecards that we can run that we put in all the data for the district, the county, the state data, and it provides an indicative rating. Um, and it came out a little bit more favorable for Moody's than it did standard pores. So, it's not a certainty, it's just an indicative rating, but I feel more confident going with Moody's. So, we're going to go with Moody's for this rating, and we're going to hope for a double A3 rating. Um, there's there's no guarantee it could be lower than that. And it would mainly be because of things outside of
039your control, right? what's going on in the economy, uh, employment, uh, inflation, that type of thing. For the structure of the debt, we're going to stick with the structure that we've been planning all along. And I'll show you the financing plan in a minute, but, uh, we're going have a 20-year repayment. That's the maximum repayment for school districts in Wisconsin. Um, and for you these types of projects, it makes sense for it to be 20 years, right? These are long-term projects uh that make sense to pay off over a long time period, but we're going to structure it around your existing debt that's outstanding. So, you don't have any referendum debt, but you have your energy efficiency exemption debt that you get to levy additional funds for to repay. So, we're going to structure it
040around that so that outside of your operational dollars, your levy is relatively consistent. And then there will be a slight drop in your debt payments after that energy efficiency exemption debt falls off. I'll show you that in a minute. So again, this is going to be a $7 million issue. So we're going to issue it all at once. And the main reason again, you don't need it all right away, but um you're going to minimize issuance costs by having one issuance. And again, to to get those dollars to reinvest right away is is really advantageous. And you're locking in an interest rate once you have that lock once you issue it. Right? This is fixed rate. So to be able to lock it in and know where you're at this will help mitigate that interest
041rate risk. So I told you that I wanted to have flexibility in your plan. So what we're going to proceed with is called a parameters resolution. So, historically, how we've issued debt uh at times is if your board meeting is on a Tuesday, we're going to sell the debt that morning and then the board approves it that evening. Unfortunately, that Tuesday might not be the best day to sell debt for your district, right? So, think about what's been happening in the market. If it happened to be one of these days that uh you know president announced a 80ome percent tariff I mean it there was a day two weeks ago in which interest rates went up.5%. Which doesn't sound like a lot but that's over $500,000 of interest for your issuance. So and and nobody
042was getting deals done that day because of the uncertainty. So we want to avoid being locked into a given day ahead of time. Even your next meeting, your May meeting, that's the Tuesday right after Memorial Day, right? That's not a great day to sell bonds. People are were on vacation. They weren't looking at it ahead of time. So, it's hard to get their attention. So, what we're going to do is called a parameters resolution. And this will be on your agenda for your next board meeting in May. So, it's a resolution that stipulates all these parameters that we have to meet to sell the the when selling the issue. And if we meet all of them, the approval of that issuance is delegated. So rather than the board, we're going to delegate it to Kim.
043So the board is approving the parameters and as long as we hit those parameters, Kim get Kim is uh approved to sign off on the actual sale and of course she will come back with the sale results. But it gives us flexibility, right? So in essence, then after you approve that parameters resolution, we have the flexibility to sell the bond issuance whenever we're ready and when it's a good time to do so in the market. Right? There are also other districts that were successful around the state. So we also want to make sure we're not selling on the same day as you know a larger deal that's going to take the attention away from your issuance as well. So any questions on that? So you talked about the interest or the money we can essentially
044earn on on the money. Do we can it go in the general fund? Can it go into fund 46 that we established like for capital improvements? Does it matter where it goes? Yeah. So it's going to stay in your fund 49 account which is your project fund. It has to stay for the referendum dollars. So again, the only things you can do with with that investment earnings is additional referendum projects that fit within the scope of the referendum. And if you have questions, you would ask the attorneys about it, council about it. Um, or pay down your debt. Okay? So, it's going to stay in that fun 49 account. If you don't have any projects, it would be transferred to your fund 39 account to pay down your referendum debt. Thank you. Go to the
045next slide. Uh, any other questions on that parameters resolution because that, like I said, that so that's going to come at your next meeting. Um, so I want to make sure you're comfortable ahead of the next meeting. So that is there a time frame like so is it like a two week stint where within this time frame of the parameters being met or is it really just ideally we would look to sell it very soon after. Okay. Um as long so we're going to be ready to sell the issue probably by that May meeting right around that time. Um, so whenever it's a good day to do so in the market is when we're going to look this out. Would it be advantageous if there's like better days you guys can forecast to have like
046a special board meeting earlier in May to I mean it's tough to do because sometime I mean there are days where you know I'm working with our underwriter and they say you know this deal's no longer pricing I think we should sell tomorrow. So it'd be hard to get a special meeting together. I mean, ideally, you would still want to know about that. Well, I mean, like when you say that Tuesday after Memorial Day is a bad day. What are the good days? Oh, yeah. So, so that's a part of it, right? It's the Tuesday after holiday, but there's just so much volatility in the market in general right now. So, there's no trends like within the month. Not really. I can't tell you that that Wednesday is going to be a good day right
047now. There's just too much going on globally and politically to be able to predict. You're saying a special meeting to give them the flexibility to go sooner if possible. Yeah. I don't think he was talking about our board meeting is not till the 27th going soon. Our board meeting is not till the 27th. We have a lot to do before then kind of. Yeah. So there's still a lot to do for this issuance and I'll show you a timeline shortly. Um there's a lot to do on our end. We have to prepare a large document that says everything about the transaction, everything about the district. Um we have to have rating call with uh Moody's. Um they need time to be able to provide the rating. Um there's attorneys involved that has to prepare all
048the paperwork. So we probably wouldn't be ready to go ahead of that 27th meeting anyway. Could you hold off then till beginning in June? Well, it doesn't matter because once we give the approval of the parameters, they'll go when they're ready. Like they don't need our approval. They just have to get in touch with So you approve it on the 27th, the parameters resolution, we could in theory price it on the 28th. So I guess what the thing to keep in mind if you guys get ahead of schedule and we need to put a special board meeting together to push it back on you guys like do it whenever you is best for you. We would be willing to do a special board meeting to get the approval to keep the district in a good
049We definitely keep that in mind. It's a pretty tight timeline already. We're already kind of going as fast as we can. Um I think the point is we just don't want to be the ones slowing it down. No. And you're not. I think the timeline is we're laying it out works perfectly. Um we're already kind of rushing things as fast as we can. Um but yes, if for some reason the the rating call comes in sooner and they can turn it around faster um and there's a reason to do so, we'll definitely keep that in mind. And I'm also meeting with what are those companies called the investment companies. Is that would you say? Yeah. So we talked about the investment of the bond proceeds. There are companies that specialize in this. Um so there
050are a few companies that that Kim is speaking with to to see who she's mo most comfortable with. Um and ultimately we'll choose one. So I'm meeting with them. Sue is on those calls and Tim. And so we're reading we we had one meeting. We have one meeting tomorrow and then I'm setting up one more meeting and looking at the different companies and you know Tim's doing some research in the background and and Sue's been on the calls as well and then we'll make a decision, let Jordan know what that decision is. So those things all take a little bit of time to be able to sort through. There's a lot of work going on behind the scenes. Um the other good thing if you pull back a minute. Um, so another good thing about
051the process and how we're doing it is so we have a team of underwriters and salespeople that are going to sell the bonds for the district and we're trying to sell them to large institutional investors. So think like large mutual fund companies, uh, insurance companies that they invest their portfolio and large banks. Um, but if you have a local bank that the district has a really good relationship with, let us know and we can have our salespeople reach out to them if they're interested in purchasing a portion of it. Um, it doesn't happen every time, but it's not uncommon for a local bank to be interested. Okay. So, yeah, just let me know on that. So, this is the detailed financing plan. I know I've showed a hypothetical version of this previously. Um, so it's
052a lot of numbers here. Uh, but I'll try to simplify it here. Uh, the good thing is right here is our our interest rate. Uh, this is somewhat conservative and and to be honest, we ran this last week when the volatility was really high, but we're showing a 5.12% interest rate on this. The good thing is it's below our referendum estimate of 5.25. So, we're still below that estimate. Um, which is obviously great. We're still hitting our tax impact estimate of 55 cents. Um, but again, so we're structured, this is your existing energy efficiency exemption debt that's being repaid until the 334 school year. We're going to structure around that such that your combined payments are flat throughout. And actually, there's a little drop of roughly $50,000 after your existing debt is paid off. Um,
053and then of course the far right column is your tax impact showing that 55 cent impact. Okay, so this is the the timeline going forward. Um, so obviously we're discussing the plan tonight. So from here, as I said, there's a lot of work going on behind the scenes. We're going to have a rating call with Moody's. Um, we're going to have a call with the attorneys at Corals and Brady to go through that offering document uh to make sure all of the the eyes are dotted and the tees are crossed. Um, and then you're going to see that parameters resolution at that May 27th meeting and that's right around the time when we should receive the bond rating and and when our bond desk is going to start marketing the issue to investors. So hopefully
054late May, early June is when we're locking in that interest rate. And right now we're projecting to close this issue at the end of June. And that's when the district receives the $7 million of bond proceeds. And then of course having that first payment uh being next year once after you receive your first levy. Okay, that's a lot of information. Uh, any questions on any of this? No, I thought you did a very thorough job of explaining it quite well. Thanks. It It's a lot and it's not something you do often obviously, especially district your size. So, just know if anything, we're a phone call away to help throughout the process. Um, but yeah, hopefully shortly after that that May meeting, Kim will be able to share the the results with you all. So, If
055we don't receive any funds till the end of June, some of this work that you were thinking might not be able to get done or how are you? You know, they sort of know that. Yeah. Right. Okay. So, the contractors should be flexible on that. Um just tell them, look, we're getting our funds at the end of June, so you know, the architectural fees, that type of thing. Just if you can wait till then. The other route is you pay for it out of general fund and you can reimburse yourself. Okay. Yeah, I asked that question too. Okay. And it was it was fine. Okay. Most of most of the contractors like you said are okay with that especially when it's with public school after they pass direct on them because they know the funds
056are coming and a lot of them are a lot of them are 60 to 90 days on a lot of the stuff anyways. So be impactful. Any other questions? Jordan's been great. He's uh we I'm so grateful for you. Um so came out. I mean the next day you emailed me and said, "Hey, Kim." I was like, "Oh man, I can't even get like 24 hours and um came out and uh met with with us and explained things in detail. I had a ton of questions and so thank you so much and lots of good emails back and forth. Um the whole Bear team is just you're you're really amazing. I appreciate the comments. Yeah, it's great working with the district. Thank you. Thank you guys. Appreciate it. So, any other questions on the parameters
057resolution as you're going to see it next month? So, you're going to go through next month. You'll actually explain the parameters that you guys are looking to hit. So, I wasn't planning to, but I I can um I'm probably going to be the one. We have it in advance. So, the attorney should be able to provide it ahead of time, ahead of the meeting. So if we have questions, we have time for back and forth if there is. So So the big things are like a maximum interest rate. I think we'll set that around 5.5% knowing that we're at 5.1 or maybe 5.75. We want to have some cushion there, right? Like some of it's out of our control. Uh a lot of the other things are pretty straightforward like the repayment. We know which
058years it's going to be repaid, but that's in the parameters resolution. Uh there'll be a parameter like associated trust is going to be the paying agent on it. Meaning the district pays associated trust and associated trust is the one that pays bond holders. That's what is consistent with your current debt that's outstanding. Um, and then you know it's going to state that it's delegated to Kim assuming we meet all of those parameters, but the parameters are all going to be consistent with what you just saw in the financing plan. So yeah, when you get it, if you want to review it, if you have questions, pass them along. Otherwise, if if you guys want me at that meeting, um I can probably make that work, too. If Kim can explain it to us, we should
059be okay. I think if we have it in advance and we're able to ask any questions that come up, give you the opportunity to if you don't know it. Right. Right. Okay. That helps. Yeah. Thank you for Sounds good. Yeah. Thank you for your time. And again, I know this is a lot. So, if you know you're a week from now, question comes up, just pass it along. Be happy to help. Perfect. Okay, thanks Jordan. Thank you Jordan. Appreciate it. Okay. Um, so I thought that I would just give you a little bit more of an update around the referendum as well. So, um, I met with Baird also. Um, I met with PSI and their project manager um, uh, to sort of say, okay, like now what where are we going with things? Um
060so PSI will come um probably at the next board meeting to talk a little bit more in detail. It was a little early. So um obviously the referendum passed. Um right now we have a contract with um our attorneys. So PSI drafted the contract. Now our attorneys are looking at it. They're going back and forth making some adjustments. Um and then once that is signed um and they've already started with some bidding um or not bidding but coming out and looking at things when we sat down we talked about what are the things that I that we think we need to get done. Um for sure the boilers right we want to have um good heat this winter. Um the fence is an easy thing to knock out. The the lighting is an easy thing
061to knock out. So, we had some people around the lighting come through and u Brian walked them around and then um their architects or people from PSI came and also looked at our roof because one of the things we're trying to do is put off the roof until next year and do some patchwork again um minor patchwork so that um that money can stay because it's a big project that money can stay and earn interest. Um, so that's sort of where the timeline is. Um, and then the other big things that will be done next summer are probably the vestibule, um, the roof, uh, the playground equipment for sure. Some of the playground equipment especially, you know, we need to get more community and staff input on that. We may do some furniture purchasing ahead
062of time, you know, this summer. We'll have to see how that all goes. Um, so their process is they go gather the bids and they bring them back. And so that's sort of what they're going to talk to you guys about next time. But for this time, um, I'm asking the board. Go ahead. How when PSI is going to get these bids, how are they determining the contractors that they're going to get these bids from? So from some I'm giving them some. So if there is like I said, I wanted SRS to come and bid, right? because they've done our roof before. Brian, if he has people that he that we've worked with, we do that. If the board has people, we can we can So, we have like local companies that we want to,
063right? And they bring the bids out like in the daily reporter or something like that where they have schools and county work and different things like that. Wait, what are they what are you asking? It's called the daily reporter where you can put requests for bids to go Oh, like an RFI or RFQ. Well, it's a request for bids to receive it. It's well, it used to be called the Daily Reporter, and it's more for uh public entities to put their request for bids, and they put their information in there, what they're looking for, and I mean, it goes out statewide and whoever gets that and you and maybe you might get some, okay, interesting pricing. So, Vicki, just so you're aware, in my conversations with PSI, that's the aspect that they handle. um that
064it's essentially the same the same thing, but when they when schools public schools and a lot of public entities used to do that, it was before they had companies essentially like PSI who do that. Okay. Um and that's why they told us from the beginning of this that they'll take whatever contractors we would like to suggest, whether they're local contractors or contractors that we're familiar with. Um and and then on top of that, then they will also go out and use some that they've worked with in the past or ones that they're familiar with, that they've used. Um generally speaking, unless it's a government project outside of a public school district, that kind of stuff doesn't go to open bid anymore. Oh, it doesn't? I mean, it is it is an open bid, but you
065don't post for public bid just because you don't you're not required to. and also because that's one of the aspects that PSI handles as part of the service that they provide. Okay. So, how many different bids do they get? Like I believe they look to have at least three bids for each scope. Um but they're they're not they won't they would get more if we wanted that. And and that's the other thing too is if they come back to us with all these different bids and we say we're not comfortable with these, we want to get additional bids. They'll do that as well. That's all right. Yeah. Okay. And I just on the back slide, is the roof going to hold out for Well, Brian, go ahead. The roof needs just a few band-aids and
066and we'll be fine until next year. Okay. Um it does need a few things done to it, but I think we can get by by, you know, having them come out, couple patches on it, we should be good to go. Okay. So, there are bigger buckets. So, the band-aid cost makes sense for the money we'll make to keep it in. Yeah. Generally speaking, with with that type of I mean, I assume a lot of these are just really small areas. Yeah. I've got a couple small leaks in the big gym that need to be done before we do the floor. Isn't this what you were talking about before? These are like two, three that we have. Yeah. Yeah. Take care of those and then they can come in and take care of the floor. Yeah,
067to to do something like that is is way more cost effective than than to do the whole section at a time and it doesn't put us back a whole lot to do that. It's very very affordable and considerable considering everything that we're going to have to spend in the next few years. Awesome. So, the um I'm asking that um the the board authorize me to be able to sign the contract with PSI with the parameters that um it's approved by our legal attorneys. Our um attorneys, like I said, are looking at it now. And it uh must not exceed $7 million. So, it's the contract between the district and PSI after it's authorized by our attorneys and not to exceed $7 million. So, if we made money on our money and that exceeds 7 million,
068would we need a new contract? Then if we use that for referendum stuff, no contraction, they're just interest. Good question. Uh, I'll make a motion to approve authorizing the district administrator to sign a contract between PSI and the district to uh for work with the referendum pending the approval of the district's legal council of the contract not to exceed $7 million. I'll second motion by Mr. Hurst, second by Mr. Jentiel. All those in favor? I I motion carries. Kim, just out of curiosity, I know brought up if there is a list of vendors, do you want us to get those to you? Yeah, that would be great. if we have people if you have people that that could do any of the work. I've sent them a couple. So like I had some furniture ones
069that I knew. Um they are not if when we get to the gym floor, I'm not going through them for that. We're doing that ourselves. Um I'm doing the crisis alert system myself because I had already started with some relationships with people. So I'm working Bruce and I are working on hearing their um you know spiels and stuff and getting that. So that's outside of the scope, but it's still going to come through the referendum dollars. Does that make sense? I'm just not giving PSI that time to go, you know, they have to go bid the rest of the stuff. Okay. Um Okay. So, um do we Sorry. Do we have to bid out all the projects or like something like that? You Joe, you said something. Are we required to go? you I I
070don't hold me to this, but I believe that when it when it when it's a public entity, you do have to allow it to be bid by at least three contractors. If it's a government entity outside of public schools, then it does have to go to public bid. You have to put it out to public. So for those like So our policy says two if it's over I think 20,000. It's either 20,000 or 22,000. Um I have to get two bids. Um and so but not you don't have to go to public bids, right? I just have to get two bids. Does that make sense? Yep. Okay. So um we're going to shift Rick Leian is here um from NIS to talk about um our benefits. Our benefits advisory committee has been meeting for the
071past three or four weeks. Um I uh they've been doing great work. Um so if you remember the board approved the committee, Brian and Vicki are on it. We also have staff members on it and Andrea and I are attending the meetings as well. Um we looked at really two options for the district. Should we stay with the um with UHC and look at what their increases were or should we look at IKRA? We spent a lot of time with um you know sort of helping the committee understand where we are financially and what the impacts of both programs would be. Um and so oh it says this Thursday. Yeah, it'll be I put this on there for Yeah, this was part of last week's but they met again and then I met with some
072teachers today. So Rick's going to kind of walk the board through the um the plan called ECRA that's different than UHC so that you have a handle on what we're proposing. Go ahead Rick. So IRA is a different way of providing health insurance stands for individual coverage health reimbursement arrangement. So right now you have a group plan with United Healthcare very traditional. Um the group market particularly for schools any employer under 100 lives has been very volatile has been for a number of years. Um I don't know if I told you this Kim but a district elsewhere in the state slightly larger than yours with United Healthcare got a 50% increase a week ago. 50. So, um, you know, we we talked about are there the traditional model is well, shop it out, see what
073Anthem will do, see what WCA will do. But, uh, sorry, Rick, can you stand over here so people behind you can see the the screen as well or Oh, sorry. Yeah, thanks. Can you see? Okay. So um few years ago really this IRA concept started to become available in the marketplace and the idea is instead of an employer group providing a group health plan it's a defined benefit arrangement instead we're going to say we're going to give you money to all of your employees and allow them to go on the individual marketplace and get their own health insurance with the assistance of an adviser And so, uh, the one of the big advantage, several advantages, but one of the big advantages is the health status and the claims activity of your covered staff and their
074families do not come into play in the individual marketplace. So, um, this group that's getting a 50% increase, they have some large ongoing claimments. And so, United Healthcare has lost money and basically is saying, you know, we don't want you anymore. That is not uh a risk of the individual market. So, how does it work? Like I said, uh it right now the district pays a certain percentage towards the group health insurance coverage and instead with a move to an IKRA, they provide tax-free funds into this RA account. OneBridge is the vendor that we've partnered with. They have uh full legal team, full agent support. This IRA concept would not work in my opinion if you just gave the money to your folks and then threw them out onto the marketplace and said, "Go pick
075a plan." There's like 14 carriers in the Wisconsin marketplace. Each of them offers I mean there's literally hundreds of plans. Um it would just it would fail because people would be confused and scared. So, One Bridg's adviserss take them through a one-on-one consultation and help them choose a plan that fits their family's needs. Okay. Um, they use the funds in the ICRA to pay those insurance premiums and any unused funds stay with them and roll over yeartoear. So, one of the big advantages of an ICRA is right now you have one plan design with United Healthcare and one size does not fit all necessarily. Everybody's family has different health needs. They see different doctors. Um so in the individual marketplace, they take that money and we benchmarked the contributions to an individual plan that's similar
076to what you have right now on a group basis. But each person can take that money and if they want to buy down to a less rich plan, they keep that difference. They just gave themselves a pay raise in effect. Okay? or they can choose to buy something similar to what they have right now or they could buy up even to, you know, a richer plan if they wanted to do that. Okay, so kind of hit on these a little bit already. Tailored fit coverage. Uh you can even choose within your own family. So if I I've got four family members, three can buy a lesser cost plan. Let's say I have a bunch of health care needs coming up, surgeries, things like that. I could buy a richer plan for myself and then we
077could change that or make different decisions at next open enrollment. Um, every employee gets a one-on-one consultation and we had three members of the benefits advisory committee go through a mock enrollment with an agent and really they just came back with glowing marks. They said, "I feel so much more comfortable ever after having gone through it with the agent." Yeah, I think all three of them were and there was um one of them had single coverage, there was family coverage, you know, um more mature in age, younger in age. Um and they all all three of them said it was a great experience. They learned a lot. They felt like it was really personalized and they understood what was going on because they come to the meeting with here are my prescriptions. here are my
078doctors, what's going to fit? Because mo many times the question is, well, if I change, is my doctor going to still be in the plan? You know, you have longtime doctors, you're comfortable with it. So, all of those things sort of I I think really helped those three feel very comfortable and I think the one had already filled out the questionnaire, so the representative from Onebridge already knew all the information. So her contact with them was she stated was less than a half hour and she had already they had already uh had a plan for her but did go over other plans and when she hung up she said she uh felt very good about what she went through. So this process is very similar to what our more mature citizens go through when they're
079buying their Medicare supplements and Medicare open enrollment. Kind of think of it that way. I can attest to that. So this just gets into the agent assistance that's available through one bridge. So it would be during the initial open enrollment during the plan year. So you bring new hires on board or somebody has a qualified life event, they would assist with uh helping people make those decisions. And then upon separation of service, they can continue to because they may still have money in that account. uh they can continue to work with their agent, they can help them, as I said, when they get to be Medicare age with supplements and things like that. Okay? Because I feel like I'm the bearded guy now. I don't have as many numbers as as guy but um what
080we modeled it after was you can see here um so this is the uh premium for each of these different individual plans. So we they chose two bronze plans with United Healthcare and Anthem, two silver plans and two gold plans. and we modeled the premiums for those plans against the contributions that the district would be putting in for a person age 48. So, we just kind of picked a, you know, kind of a middle-aged person. And you can see here that uh this contribution will allow them to buy a gold level of coverage which is actually better level of coverage that they have um on the group plan currently and uh save a little bit of money, have money left over that is in their account. You can see right now a single enrolly pays
081$138 a month for the current group plan. So that would be going away plus they'd have a little excess left over. They could also elect to buy a silver plan or a bronze plan and have additional excess in their HA account. So, the idea here is there's going to be plenty of people at the district that can either get a really good level of coverage or basically get a pay raise because their contribution towards healthcare is going to go down, but it's their choice. Let me pause there. questions about any of that that I just covered? I don't have questions about this particular aspect, but before we go too much further, I do have a couple of questions about things we've already covered. And maybe I missed this one, but why is it that uh
082self-insured is not an option for our size district. It's just too risky. Um, typically we want to see at least 100 employees on the plan, closer to 200, because it can just be too volatile, number one, and um, you run the risk of the reinsurance or the stop-loss carrier that takes care of the large claims uh, giving you a whopper of an increase. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the definition of of self-insured then. So, when we're talking about self-insured, that's the entire district insuring, providing a package for correct. So right now you're what's called fully insured with United Healthcare. So they set the premiums every year. The district pays them, but they're not taking any risk. In a self-insured model, the district would be taking some claims risk. Okay. And I did investigate that. Um I met
083with a couple of DAs and well and obviously he said we're too small, but um one of the um districts that I met with um one district had a 40% increase. Um you know, they went to self-insured. Typically, you don't get that much of an increase, but they did it that year. And the other district said if they have another bad year, they will lose their what did you call it? Stop gap insurance. The stop loss, which means they'll have to come off of self-insured because yeah, the stop-loss insurance. They're they're they're dipping into that too much because they have too many high cost claims. And then uh my next question is is with this model that you've presented here, how is that how is that alternative to say an individual employee going out and
084finding their own insurance as opposed to taking insurance to the district? And and the where I'm going with this is is what if instead of providing insurance through the district, the district provided a reimbursement to the individual to go and seek out their own insurance through their own provider. Well, that's in effect what we're doing is Yeah. I mean, it's essentially what this is except for it's through the district. The district is providing this, right? No, they're just providing the funding. They're putting the money into the account and then they're with the assistance of a one bridge a onebridge agent going out onto the individual marketplace and buying their own coverage. So in they will own the policy. They own the policy but the policy is provided through where we it's just the money. It's
085just the district giving them the money to to do it. But but the the districts are not giving the money directly to the employee. The district's giving the money to it's putting it in the because it's a tax advantaged vehicle. So it goes in taxree and comes out taxree for eligible premiums medical and dental whereas if we were to just reimburse the employee that amount they'd be subject to tax. Yeah. Okay. Understood. Thank you. Yep. You're welcome. Okay. And they shot this. So it's stays like your typical insurance in regards. So there's an open enrollment period and then any like lifech changing instances. It kind of all follows that same model. Correct. Although the open enrollment, so with your plan right now, it's a group plan that renews July 1st. So you would typically be
086doing open enrollment next month. Yeah. the individual marketplace uh their open enrollment is every November for a January one effective date. So it would just that's just how the individual market works. Everything renews and resets for January one. So how how would we get caught up then with where we're at? How would that work? We have to do you have a short plan year. They're going to have to do it staff have to go through this twice essentially. Yes. The first year they'd be they'd make which is actually not a bad thing because it would enable them to kind of make a choice. and then see how that worked for July one and then again in November they'd be able to either keep the same plan or make a different choice for one one of
08726. So essentially kind of gives them the scapegoat if they feel like they make a bad choice. Yes. Well, what we talked with the committee about too is because there's an open enrollment every year and because they don't care, it's a large large pool of individual risks at the state level. somebody, let's say I had a surgery coming up and it wasn't like I could wait on it a little bit, say knee, hip, or something like that. Maybe I have lesser coverage this year and then I buy up to a higher level of coverage, get my surgery done and then make a different choice at next open enrollment. So definitely can do that. And can either of you speak to the uh staff perspective on this from the committee? Um, it was unanimous. They loved
088it. Yeah, they did love it. Yeah, it was unanimous. I think I went around to each one. I talked to every one of them today as well. Um because and and Rick's going to talk about this a little bit about this gold plan, but um I think there the people that were on the committee were very excited about it and felt like it was it's almost like hm is there going to be a shoe that drops because it's it feels like Yeah. Well, to your credit and the benefits committee and all the people that were on it, you know, a month or two ago when we started this, as you might imagine, there was uncertainty, there was questions, maybe a little bit of fear, but because we took some time and we educated and especially
089because people got to go through that mock enrollment, by the end of it, those fears were, you know, kind of went away. So, is the agent support just to get the employee set up on their benefit plan and then they would call like a 1-800 number on the back of their new insurance card? Yes, they'll get they would get their own insurance card. And what we've said, it's it's no different than a group plan. There's questions that come up when you use your health insurance. Sometimes you don't understand your explanation of benefits or sometimes you feel like a claim was not covered properly. We would always advise members to contact the insurance company first. Nine times out of 10, they'll get that resolved. Maybe one time out of 10 they're spinning their wheels and feeling
090not heard and, you know, frustrated. That's when we want them to contact the district, get us involved. It'd be the same thing with, you know, One Bridge is that contact carrier first, but if you're having problems, reach out to your One Bridge representative and see if they can help. And I think it's true to state that in the beginning, in fact, at our last meeting last week, it was actually stated that in our first couple meetings, there was a lot of nervousness about this whole plan and that and then when they went through the open enrollment, the three of them that did and saw the ease of it and actually reported and then more information came out about the plan based upon some questions. Um you could see that this last meeting that the tensions
091and fears a little bit. Right. Exactly. Right. Right. Yeah. And it was I mean in the room you could see there was a different attitude that was in the room. It was really it was good to see. I wish this was around when I was young and dumb. So um this exhibit here really speaks to the 18 months. So the last slide was the how the members would be impacted and their costs. This is the impact to the district and this assumes a 6% increase for January 1 of 26 in the individual marketplace overall. We looked at the last four years of historical trend in the individual marketplace when pegging it at that. So this was so with your United Healthcare group plan, we actually got a reasonable 8% increase this year, but this is
092the uh employer costs over an 18-month period with United Healthcare. And then the same projections by putting in the money into the IKRA and carrying that down. So, for the first six months and then the 12-month period, January to through December of 26. And you can see the savings over that 18-month period, a little under $200,000 of savings for the district by going to this model versus the group model. Not every analysis that we've done looks as good as it does for Silver Lake. just it does in your case based on how the numbers and and the the current enrollment and ages of your staff. I see what you mean before when you said it's like almost waiting for the other shoe to drop, right? This looks it's kind of a no-brainer. So, um one
093of the things that um the committee asked Rick to do is um look at So, there's different levels. There's the bronze level, silver level, and gold level. And um the committee asked the him to go back and and price out because originally they priced out the silver level because the silver level was what was comparable to your group plan and then we would also at that point be contributing to their HR, right, that 2,000 4,000. So we asked them to go back. So that that came and that's why I talked to the the teachers today um to go back and say well what would the gold cost the if we just funded the gold um and then people could choose from within that um and did not do the HRA contributions which we don't need
094to do if they are on the gold because there's zero deductibles right that's why we had the H contribution so um hands down and I know Brian and Vicki you were on the committee and this is the first time you're hearing it. But hands down the the the people on the committee said, "Of course, we want the gold because it's a Cadillac." Um, and it's basically a cost neutral for the district. So, we're not really saving more money because we would be giving HAS, right? Instead of the silver plus the HR, the idea is just fund the gold and have the H go away. So, it's essentially a loss. Yes. And six months. No. So, we're going to make an 18month um Yeah. that we're going to make an 18-month um sort of commitment to
095that funding because it's too much to be changing in the middle of the the year and going back and forth. So, with that, not taking not giving the contra first of all, it's internally less work and hassle because there's no, you know, Sue doesn't have to do all of that work and then it's also costneutral. They're getting a better benefit. And if people still want HRA money in their account, they could take a lower plan and then their money would build up as you saw in that last slide. Does that make sense? Because it's individual. It's individual, right? You're saying 70% of them could take the gold and take but they would still get the money for the gold. They would still get the money for the gold. So anything that's less the contribution would
096become H funds, right? Yes. So care premium I should say correct and that acts as a buffer too for the people that do that you know if rates go up because every year the district if they stay in the sick model every year the district will make a decision what to do about the funding level you know are we going to increase the funding a little bit typically that's what employers do because costs march up but um so people can take that funding for that year plus whatever they still have from last year or the year prior and have that to either pay their premiums or um if they choose a bronze or silver plan that has a higher deductible, they can use those monies taxfree to pay deductibles, co-pays, you know, unreimbured expenses like
097that. So, Kim, I have a question then. So, in close session, we're discussing CPI raises and where they might fall with all this in the picture. how much money is going to be more in their paychecks because they're moving towards so at a at a single. Yeah, thank you for that. So, for a single if you're single covered, you will you will get an additional $1,500 a year in your paycheck around. Does that make sense? Because that $1,500 isn't coming out of your paycheck. If you're a family, if you've been taking family plans because we're paying the premiums, you will see an additional about $4,200 because those things are not being removed. So essentially, depending on what the board, if the board for instance goes with CPI, it in their pocket as a single if
098you were if you had single plan, you'll see about a 6% raise. If you're going on a family plan, it becomes more 13 13% because of what you've been having taken out of your check will no longer come out of your check. And is that CPI on the base or on the mean? That that's calculated on the base. If you calculate it on the mean because of these savings, if if the if the board decides to give CPI on the mean, this with the with you're still getting more money than you would if you got a raise on the mean because this they're getting $2,700 or something, right? And the cost on the mean would be about $2,000. So, the money that the the teachers are going to feel is a 6% increase or a
09913% increase depending on if they were taking family or single coverage. How many how many employees do you have that have take no coverage? We have 15 employees I well professional staff members that take um that have um cash currently. I mean, they can change. One thing I didn't mention just real quickly, the some of the folks sitting around here may know this, but on the individual market, the rates for policies are based on age. So, the contributions that were uh we used in the forecasting are so that each person has the same purchasing power. For instance, a 25y old the same health insurance plan as a 60 year old, it might be $400 versus $1,000. So if you just gave everybody $700, that younger person is going to be in a great position. The
100more mature person's going to be out of luck. So one bridge through their analysis made sure that there is similar purchasing power. So more senior staff are going to have more money to spend, younger staff less, but they're all going to be able to purchase a similar plan for that money. Okay. Very much fairness thing that we looked at. Any other questions for me? Is that everything that we had, Kim? I think so. Okay. Any other questions? Not for me. Thank you. Very informative. Thank you. You're welcome. So next steps on our part is um obviously for the board to determine if this is something you want to move towards. Um I already have a meeting on the um books tomorrow with our staff to kind of talk through this if if the board goes
101through this or then talk through whatever other option we're going to look at. Um NSI will come in to present to the staff. Um, and Rick said it would, you know, we would video it or record it so that people could watch it, you know, if they don't get it the first time around because it's a lot to absorb. Um, staff will meet with one on one with one bridge reps. So, we'll set up those times so that um, one bridge has said it a staff our size would take about a week to complete to get through the entire staff. um and the NIS NIS I'm I'm um hoping that they'll be able to come and meet with the board in um a special board meeting to talk then about the next step which is
102oped benefits and and what does that look like and then the committee is also going to be meeting about that that's the next step for the committee that happens May 1st um and then at the end of May or possibly in June um the board will have to make some decisions about the OPED benefit packages and um we'll we'll have to revisit at what our staff support our support staff packages look like too. So this is right now professional staff package. Do we know what United Healthcare came in? Yeah, 8%. Yep. Anybody else have any questions on this one? Seems like a no-brainer. Yeah. Is it What's the negative? Yeah, I asked that too. The negative is um that we have to make a change, right? And that some staff I think the staff will
103I'm going to meet with him tomorrow to say like slow down Jill. And um the committee members that have been working on the committee are available to talk to um you know especially those three that went through it. Um I don't know that it would have been unanimous had it if it wasn't as favorable as it is. Um staff members are going to get a Cadillac version essentially. I don't know when the last time anybody had a zero deductible plan and not have to pay for it. Are we going to have these staff members available during this during this meeting that they can kind of Yes. Yeah. Tomorrow they're coming. Yeah. Wow. So last question I have. Are we essentially if we make this motion and move forward with it, we're doing this for an
10418-month window? Is that accurate? Right. Yes. So, we're going to try it for 18 months. And as the committee talked, we talked about um just like anything, you're making the best decision you can in the moment that you have, right? And so, who knows what two years is going to bring. Two years ago, we didn't know that this was going to be that this way. So, that's sort of the deal. Does the 18 month need to be noted in the motion? That's that was why I was asking is do we need to document that we're we're making this change for this upcoming insurance plan and sure we can put 18 months in there if you want. I didn't know if we need because we re we re-evaluate it every year. Yeah, we typically don't come
105back like I typically don't have to come back to you unless there's a change. Right. There's not going to be a change. So next year we would if you want it's not going to hurt it to put 18 months in. I'll make a motion to approve moving to the acre contribution for the professional staff uh as a Silver Lake Salem joint one school board district's healthcare benefit for a term of 18 months. Motion by Mr. Hurst. I'll second. Second by Mr. Gentiel. All those in favor? I. So, did you capture the 18month? Okay. All right. Thanks, Rick. I really appreciate it. Their team, just like Jordan, has been amazing. I mean, I'm sure you're sick of all the emails you're getting from me because I no sooner launch an email and then another question pops
106in my head and then I'm emailing them again. So, I I really appreciate plus phone calls. Happy, you know, that's part of our role is to help find a good solution for all of our clients. So, I'm just thrilled we worked out. Yeah, you guys should reach out to Wilmont High School, one of our neighboring districts. Well, don't worry. I've been um I've been talking a lot about it with districts. Appreciate that. And I'm telling my husband's work, too. Is it type of company under 100 employees? Well, there's really no restriction on size of company at all because they're individual policies. There was just stipulations on us because we had fewer than 100, right? It was more the group market was alluding to, you know, the group market any size. Okay. Thank you very much.
107All right. You're welcome. Thanks. Thank you. Next, we have the uh fifth grade teaching position and middle school teaching contracts. Is there a motion to approve the full-time contracts for Kylie Wil the contracts? I will make a motion to approve full-time teacher contracts for Kylie Wilmont, good name, and Brantina Dela Dalva for the Silverlakes Salem Joint One School District beginning August. Sorry, I'm zoomed in. August 1st, I'm assuming, August of 2025. Motion by Mrs. Raggner. Is there a second? I'll second it. Second by Mrs. Gallich. All those in favor? I I Motion carries. Next is the Compun contract. You want to talk about this a little bit, Kim? Yep. So, um I in the board packet is the link to the Compun contract. Um we've worked with them now for the year, which was um
108it's been a really great experience. I've worked very closely with the owner, Amber, um in in lots of meetings. Um I feel like they're very very um responsive. The gentleman that comes in one day a week, his name is Payton. He's doing he's very friendly but also very attentive and um I don't know, the guy just walks around. He's just happy all the time. Um and he um they're very responsive. Our service has been much uh better. I don't ever have internet problems anymore like I was. I haven't heard of a lot of that um going around. So, um I and in this contract um looking to increase some of their services um over the course of the next year to do more of the hardware management with the Chromebooks, getting those ready um being
109the point person for our testing and taking over Google as we move Julie into um a focus more focusing on the instructional aspect of our school whether it be AI, PBL, our library of media services. There has to be some freeing up of time as well on that. Um, and so, um, I talked to them. I've been, like I said, been meeting with them good portion of the year about what are those services look like. um how can we um sort of streamline things for accountability purposes, freeing up some internal things um so that the time and talents of the person um that is internally is working more directly with kids and with our staff. Um so that's what that contract shows in the contract. There's a couple areas that it says as requested by
110staff. Which staff does this refer to? Let me look at there's a couple different Can you read it to me, Vicki? When I get that open, just gives me Do I have it in front of me? I don't think I the help desk and uh No, no, just so I can say to you all of our staff, including myself, which I don't like to do. I like to just get the help right away. You put in help tickets, it's called. And so if you're having an issue with something, you email the help desk. The staff is requesting, can you please, you know, I need this taken care of. There was something going on with my I can't even remember what it was with my computer that I couldn't figure out. And so then they a
111lot of times remote in and they take over my computer or Payton works at Randall, too. So sometimes he buzzes over. Other times, um, it waits until Thursday when he's in. One of them is in the red and it says manage and maintain a surirly web filtering for all policies and URLs requested by staff. I don't really know what that means, but who's the staff that requests that? It's probably me, the staff, as far as the requests that I'm putting in for like So, right now, securely is the program or software that we use that um helps make sure that kids aren't going on sites that they shouldn't be going on. Um, so it helps us monitor that. Okay. I just didn't know. I mean, is that open-ended? Anybody can request that? It's really That
112one seemed rather important. the other one I get the help ticket thing. I understand that system um given my past employment but yeah there was another area but that one just seemed like just needed to have a little bit of explanation. So thank you for that. Yeah. Do we have a motion on the table? Is there a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the amended managed service provider contract with compunet beginning July 1st, 2025. Motion by Mr. Hurst. Is there a second? Sorry. Second. Second by Mrs. Gallow. All those in favor? I I opposed. Motion carries. That was H. All right. Advanced learning handbook. So, this is something that um you know I I put in the state statutes that's required by Wisconsin state statutes um for districts to have a plan in place
113that identifies and supports our advanced learners. Um so, we've historically had a plan. It wasn't formally documented. So, one of our staff members was working on that this year and unfortunately had to go out on leave. So, I kind of took what she did as the foundation of it, um, and worked with DPI, some internal staff members to make sure we had a plan in place that identifies students who have advanced learning needs. Um, so that the the plan, as you know, I have it linked in your board packet is there. Um, which is what I'm asking for approval. um we um put together the parameters of when we consider students advanced, how we test um and next year the goal would be to build out some of those areas. So there's five areas um
114that are identified or or looked at through the state as areas of giftedness or advanced advancess I guess. Um and so right now this plan really focuses on the academic piece of that. There's also like leadership and creativity. So those pieces are also going to be built out um over the course of the year and the plan will be added to. All right. Any questions, discussion? I will make a motion to approve the advanced learning handbook as presented. Motion by Mr. Jent Teal. Is there a second? Second. Second by Mrs. Gallich. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Next. Okay. So, Andrea is going to talk a little bit to the board about two positions that um we are seeking to have board approval for. Um sort of the reasoning why um why now
115and um the benefits of both of them. Um so I know I won't read this to you because you re you had that in your packet. So I just kind of just wanted to talk in my own terms about it and not read through that. So, um, the math specialist slashcoach would really be like having another Marlene. I mean, Marlene has I wish she didn't leave because I wanted to I mean, she's done an amazing job with act 20 because it I don't you don't have to do act 20 luckily at the high school, but it's really like here here do all of this, but we're not going to really give you any money to hire extra people. So, she has been doing like all of the testing that's required and writing out the plans
116and contacting parents and meeting with them if need be and still doing intervention and going into comment time and working with teachers um making sure that we're all updated on the requirements and this is just about reading. Um, so math has really not been a focus and we don't want that to not be a focus. Um, historywise if I mean for those of you that have been on the board when we looked at our TI and interventionists, we had two interventionists um, and you've heard me over the years talk about our growth and why our test score or our report card looks so great and it's because of the growth because we're growing kids. um especially at the lower level and it really had a lot to do with our kids that were getting that
117extra support. Um so Marlene has I mean we're really trying to focus not so much on the pull out into small group. She's been going into comet time. So, I mean, she's all over the place with trying to get into everywhere between K and four to um go in and be an extra pair of hands and helping teachers with differentiating and and working. But we also have kids that are considered a tier three that need to have that individual time or any kids that are being referred for like SLD, there has to be like you have to have a scripted program. So I mean Marlene has I don't know how she's keeping saying because it is a lot that is being required through act 20. Um so looking for math we were we're requesting to
118really be able to have a person to do similar things um that Marleene is doing when it comes to math. So, um, helping teachers with looking at data and differentiating and again doing all of the things that Marleene does as far as like pushing into comet time and helping out with um, you know, kids that need the whole spectrum. So, not just the kids that are lower level like we just talked about with our advanced learners. We need to look at what are we doing with our advanced learners um, and and helping out with that. Um, and then as far as coaching, again, being able to go in and work with teachers, you know, we talked about like obviously in in a couple years we're going to have a pretty large turnover or maybe not.
119Maybe people will stay till they're like 70. Um, hoping so. Um, but when you have a building that has five, six new teachers, like being able to mentor and go in and work with them on a more consistent basis. When you when you have a mentor who's a you're a fourth grade teacher and your mentor is a sixth grade teacher, you know, that's a lot different than a coach being able to come in and work with you and watch you do your math lesson and here's a suggestion and, you know, working on our with PBL and we talk about like kids, you know, being more individualistic and having some choice. Well, as a teacher, you have 24 kids and you want them all to have that choice. So really just having that extra person um
120like I said because act 20 isn't going away. So Marlene's jobs are really not lessening anything that you're seeing that the government is pushing. So um I don't see all of the things that she's been having to do this year and how thinly stretched she is and not really being able to focus at all. She has no time to do any of that with math. I mean, it's just not possible. So, um, and I know you guys were able to look through this, so if you have questions, too, I just I just wanted to speak and not necessarily read to you. Um, I was just wondering, does this focus on uh, students from all grades? Yeah. So, currently with Act 20, it's been such a big push that we really I mean, technically it's K3,
121um, but Marlene's really focusing in on K4. Um, but obviously we need to I've been kind of helping out with the older grades with her for now. Um, but definitely we would rather it be as much as we possibly can. Hey, there is a little more leeway because you don't have with act 20 you have to do like reading plans where math you don't have to do that. So I feel like this position will will be able to stretch farther because there isn't such a push of you have to do this intensively with K3 kids. You don't have to do that for math. Did all the teachers have um input on the need for this position for the need for this to come? Um and we didn't formally but uh there is great concern from
122the staff that we are not doing this similar like reading is definitely getting the focus the focus like there has been a lot of concern about the math part of it. Um, I know some teacher in our in our in in our audience have concerns about that. Um, because they really are the ones trying to try to do all this with act 20 and have our our individual groups with with reading and then now they're trying to do that with math and there is no extra pair of hands for that. So other than supporting the teachers um in the co-plan co-serve model, would they provide any SDI minutes or closing the gaps for kids with disabilities? if they had the right license. Yeah. You know, if somebody comes in with a um regular education license,
123then we could look at getting them licensed for special education so that their minutes could count. as um SDI. One of the things that Marlene is doing, she is focusing mostly K4, but when we have a student brought up as a referral, she is then providing because we have to have two rounds of intensive. It's kind of a it's like a catch 22 because you can't deny a referral because there hasn't been intervention, but you also can't qualify without the intervention. It's just this weird special ed like tornado that um so like currently Marlene um doesn't provide especially with act 20 this year she doesn't really do any SDI with our um she is a reading interventionist so she can so I think I think that would be fantastic if that person came with a
124license that's already qualified to do that and if not you could do an emergency license and get them licensed. so that they could help out with some of those math interventions because I know not just the regular ed teachers but the special ed teachers as well, you know, have some concerns with um that math time getting those supports. What is an SDI again? Specially designed instruction. I'm sorry. No, that's him. Educators acronyms. If a student has an IEP, they're guaranteed, it's like a legal guarantee that they get this many minutes, and it has to be from um a special education teacher, an interventionist. So, if a kid has an IEP and they need math minutes, a regular education teacher teaching them doesn't meet the requirement at all, even if they may know the content. It's
125like just the way it works with licensing. And so when we post for this position potentially, is that something that we include in the post seeking somebody licensed with this? It would probably be you can say you can list the licenses you're like requiring um in this day and age. We wouldn't probably say it's a you know it's not a requirement. We don't want it to be requirement because we can file for an emergency license. And so then the other question I would ask in that is is is you know obviously somebody with that qualification already I would assume has got a little bit higher of a cost associated to them um potentially I mean depends on their years I guess I guess my my followup status is what would the difference be between bringing
126somebody who doesn't have that license because obviously if we're filing for emergency license I assume the district is covering the cost of that licensing for that is I Is that by the individual? Yeah, I think how we would structure it probably is uh it might be a pay differential but not because the license goes with the person. So, we would probably not pay for the license, right? Because they'll take it with us, right? Because they'll take it with them. The um cost of that is figured into the budget plans that I've already submitted that I've given to you. That's I baked that right in knowing that um we may go in this direction and what that impact would be. Um I think you know the the position is written as you see in your um
127board packet 50% coach building teacher capacity really to meet different learners needs within the classroom and then 50% intervention um re I mean there's a ton of research around the delivery being done by teachers within the classroom but the skill set has to be there to be able to do that. Do do we are we gonna post internal first or do you have internal cannons that Yeah, you we I think I mean we have it in policy that we post first internal because my question is like I'm assuming you know if someone's coaching teachers that's going to be a more veteran yes teacher they're going to be higher on the yes pay scale. Yep. That's I put that in very conservatively what their pay would be and full benefits. You mentioned earlier that she's managing
128K through four right now, but that typically it would be K through three. Would it be safe to say even if she was just doing K through three, she would be overwhelmed with the amount at this point? Marlene. Yeah. For reading. Yeah. Is that going to be the focus with this math person, too? Is that K through three grade level or Well, I mean, we like to focus. Not necessarily. I mean ultimately you want to put intense lower because you're hoping then you're going to see that benefit. So and I deep down I think that's when they did you know at 20 that was their thought too like we're going to pour all this money and help which we didn't get um into the younger grade so that it will benefit. So obviously we want
129to make sure we're hitting our younger hard. Um we also have requested from Americanore to try to get math people. So fingers crossed that that would help because with reading um some of some kids are getting like double dose from Americanore and from Marleene and some of the kids that Marleene you know can't reach are with Americanore and you I mean they're making great gains. So, we're hoping that potentially Americanore will be able we we actually have it out there now and they're trying to find tutors for math for us, too. So, that will depend if we get that that helps take some of that younger burden off and she can move and that's why Marlene was able to help out with four. Um, it's kind of an influx of kids that, you know, come
130in and out of the program, but obviously we want to focus young. Um, so that hopefully that we kind of headed off at the path, but obviously with advanced learners, we're going to want to make sure we're doing something for all kids. When we talked about act 20, wasn't it what was the there a test or something that had to be the identifier? What do we use for math? Is it the same test or is there something I have to create now for this or is it the standard tests like to identify kids that need the interventions and stuff for that? Yeah, we're going to have to do that. Okay. So that would be something this person would have to do. Maybe you are an education. That was a good question. That was a pretty
131pretty impressive. [Laughter] Currently in the screener we have we you can have a map part of it also. And I think too, just some of that instruction in the classroom helping teachers because even in the older grades, you have kids that aren't identified with an IEP, but you still have some pretty varied math skills in the older grades. So to have a coach come in who can provide um some of that support on how to differentiate lessons because it's hard sometimes to figure out how do I teach a kid who doesn't have these based skills. So that would be helpful. All right. And the building sub. Um, obviously, um, I always feel like every year I come to you guys about how many people would like to sub. Anytime you guys come in the building,
132I'm like, maybe you'd like to sub. Um, so we at one point had two permanent um, building subs. I think it was like the COVIDish right after COVID. and the permanent building sub. Now, obviously, it doesn't solve all of our problems because there's been very few days throughout the whole entire year that I've only needed two subs, but the difference it makes is I know I have those two people where right now we have a certain amount of subs, but a bunch of them also sub for other buildings. So, it's like, who can I call quicker than another school? where two permanent subs. I know that they're going to be here every day and I know I'm already going to be able to use them. Um, as you see, like there's only been nine days
133this school year so far that we've either had zero to two staff. So, that's wild. Yeah. Um, it it's it's been tough. Like Angie and I have subbed and then we start to remember part of it is that we've had some long-term absences. Yeah. Right. So, that we've had some people on leave. Um, so then that knocks out our yes sub. Obviously our one building sub is taken for the rest of the year and then we obviously you know have people out on maternity leave so then that becomes someone else. Um it's it's just helpful like I said to for planning and even for like um you know if we're doing some trainings or anything like that like I know I have two people that I can use every single day and like I said
134there's not a day that they don't have there's never been a day that Kim has never had an assignment um per se. So and it helps with even like IEP meetings and anything like that. It also helps. I think the kids have like consistency and the subs know rather than someone who's in the building once a month. Like the kids know them makes things a little bit smoother when there's a sub. Yeah. Um and I put that with consistency with planning because also, you know, have a sub that takes a job and then cancels. So the and with the two building sub I mean obviously if they're sick they're sick but sometimes we'll have subs take a job and then in the middle of the night they cancel for whatever reason maybe they found a
135job somewhere else you know so it's like there's just less of that happening when you have the permanent subs. So I just want I one little clarification here because I'm dyslexic and I feel like I'm reading this wrong. When this says only nine days of school year that had zero to two staff members out, is is that to say that all the other days had more than zero to two staff members out. Okay. Yeah. Sorry. Like I said, my dyslexia made the way that was worded difficult for me to comprehend. It might be the way I worded it. Do we have a person in mind or will this be posted? It will post. Yeah, we're not going to post internally though, right? I was waiting to see if you could get that. Well, then we
136just got to fill another spot. Yep. Does anybody else have any other questions? Nope. Is Is that normal? The zero to two like nine days only where we've had less than two staff members or is this just a bad year? I mean, um I just think circumstance wise. Um, but we had quite a few days last year, too. Some I was surprised at how many subs were in the building every day. So, this I don't think this is a one-off year. It's been a difficult year. More difficult, but I don't think it's a one-off year. No. Well, if nobody else has any other questions, I will make a motion to approve one to two building sub positions for the 2526 school year. Uh, and a motion to approve adding a full-time math specialist position. Can
137these be put together as one? Yes, they can. And you just have to say two buildings. I put one two because I didn't know. Yeah, sorry. 122 building for the 2526 school year and adding a full-time math specialist position. I'll second that. Motion by Mr. Hurst, second by Mr. Mrs. Gage. All those in favor? I I opposed. Motion carries. Next is Jim Floor. Jim Flor. So, um, Brian, you have been so patient. I know. I feel so bad, but there were so many people to present that I didn't know like I didn't want Jordan here long. So, I'm sorry. Um, so, um, Brian has done a great job. He started looking into what we needed to do to get our floor in our gyms redone, resurfaced. And so, I'm going to let him speak to
138it. And, um, if you guys have questions, I'll be able to answer. So, the floor has never been finished all the way or sanded all the way down. been since 97. So there's probably 57 coats of polyurethane on it. And as you go in there, you can see it's yellow. So, but I mean, everyone that's come in to give us an estimate says that it's held up great. I mean, they say for how old it is, it looks good. Holly look pretty good. So, my biggest question was how long is it going to take to get that off? You know, they're not worried about that. So, it'll sand off um sanded down. It'll be nice white maple again like it was when it was new and um two coats of sealer, two coats of poly
139and naturally repaint all the stripes and make it look nice and it'll look brand new when you're done. So So in the quotes there was some options to remove the insert cover plates and repair like for I'm assuming that says existing volleyball. Is that just just the same? Yeah. So, they're too close to the walls right now. So, they're relocating them. Yes. And then they'll come in and put new wood and you'll never even know that that they moved them, but we're like if we're sanding it all the way down right now. Absolutely. Yeah. Neil and I talked in volleyball like the the boys side, which is the stage side, they I mean those boys go running into that stage all the time. So Neil and I just talked about moving them a little more
140to the center. Roughly six feet. Yeah. Moving and then shifting shifting maybe a foot. We're talking about how we only use one side for volleyball far for the bleachers go. So maybe push them one way a foot and move them from the wall six feet. Okay. How how far together or apart does that put the interior parts of the court to each other? Yeah, there's we've we've looked at it and there's plenty of room for our football referee stands and everything there. So, yeah, we got plenty of room because we have times where there's two matches going on on each side at a time, boys and girls. And so, are we increasing a risk of potential head-on collisions are we still have enough space? Yeah, we've got plenty of length to mess with far as
141moving them in. They have to go through two sets of benches, right? Yeah. And I mean, if you've like ever been to like a club tournament, they're way closer than that. So, um I mean I don't want to generalize. Typically the boys are a little more aggressive aggressive as far as chasing a ball down than the girls, but we've had kids run into the wall. Yeah, I've seen it before when they were playing volleyball. So, and and I assume the old the old cores they just replace with new wood. They just pop in. And I asked, they don't just scab in little chunks. So, you'll see the seams. Yeah. They actually take a full Oh, they'll take the full planks out to replace with a new plank. So you don't go in there and say,
142"Oh, there was a hole there." So he claims from Kefir that you'll never even know they were there. You know, they're probably removing all the planks that have a that have a hole cut in them, replacing them brand new. And then are they going to do any like new design or the same design? Well, that's where we're, you know, I've been talking with Neil and we think, you know, instead of the white paint in the center, that big circle, get rid of that and just put the blue logo there. And then it's called like where you put the letters instead of the white paint you leave they call it naked you leave it naked so the the pine or not the pine the maple is shown through there instead of the white outline. Yeah the
143outline and then you see the wood. So there's a common would be there's some really cool pictures um he could show you but I've got all kinds of I mean Neil has a lot of thoughts you know gets excited Bill gets excited. Neil gets excited very easily. Yeah. Yeah. It's all he talks about right now. Neil gets excited very We got our new chairs. We're going to have the floor. I remember when I was coaching and you got we got the scoreboards. Did you have a preference of which company you prefer to work with? No, I I've been talking with three of them. ProStar, Kefir, and Veteran. And the one that I would recommend is Kefir. And they actually came in the cheapest. What What sets them apart from the other two? Well, if you
144go on and well, for one, the guy that came in, he knows his stuff like where the other ones, you know, they're good. They're all capable of doing the job, but Kefir by far, if you go on their website, they do Purdue, they do Northwestern. I mean, he's got a ton of pictures. Have they done Have they done any area schools? They did Randle. They just did Randall last year. Okay. So, and it turned out really nice. I will say too in in the uh veterans quote um they use RV review once but then they use hawks instead of comments and so felt like a little cookie cutter kind of quote instead of put on our phone you know actually but they get a discount you know but I think when you're spending $35,000 it's
145important to have your quote and be intentional in your that's copy paste I was say that sounds like a copy paste job to me so yeah we're moving the standards we're actually getting new base on the floor where it's slopped up. The black base has got a bunch of poly on it. That that quote from Kefir is, you know, that's part of it. So, and they're painting the lines in the cafeteria, which really needed. They haven't done years. Are they finishing anything in the cafeteria? Well, I'll strip it, take the wax off, they'll paint it, then I'll wax it. Okay. The only thing they're doing is painting. And the lines won't wax off. No. Strip off. They'll never wax off. Wax on. her a little pratty kid. So, do we need to decide then what
146options we want here or just No, we just need to approve the contractor. Yeah. So, the options are already included in that lump sum. Yes. So, the nine or $10,000 is in that total lump sum or these are all you looking at the floor now? Because if are you talking about Kefir? Yes. Yeah. Kefir shows a sale price for the 8,800 square feet of sanding, refinishing, painting, etc. And then below it, it has uh option add, remove the four insert, cover plates, and repair. Option add, repaint game lines, and small gym. And then the option ad is the the base uh the vented code that I would just we're just approving the proposal with all those options. And I have I actually one he actually did us better. Knocked a couple grand more off. What
147about the dumpster? We don't need that, right? No, we could use our own. Okay. Yeah. He says sometimes they show up, nobody has a dumpster and they get these sandbags that they got to get rid of from the drivable riding sander. He's like, "We show up and there's no dumpster. We got all these bags." So I said, "We can just use our own so we can save time." So what did he come in? So total with everything said that was about $1,000 less right than what it was. He gave us a $2,000. Yeah, it's it's it's significant. And then that'll be done completed this summer. So yeah, roughly two weeks. Okay. We don't want nothing done until after we get the roof leak done and then those doors that are in bad shape. Get them
148done so they don't mess up our floor, you know, and then have these guys come in. So, I'm thinking like late July. Um, summer school may want to use the gym. So, I'm like, you know, so either late July or very first week of August. the more time they have to put get it on the schedule, the more likely they are to keep it on the schedule for that day. So, if I could call them like tomorrow or for sure that's we're good to go on. I'll make a motion to accept the propose the proposal from Kefir in its current form uh for the gymnasium floors. Motion by Mr. Hurst. Is there a second? I will second that motion. Second by Mrs. Rner. All those in favor? I I opposed. Motion carries. Congrats, Mr. Daniels.
149Can we do a Can we do a training on the chair carts so people aren't yanking them across and scuffing it up because floor hockey? You already told them that's done. Yeah, cuz that scares me too. Like when we have the events and the parents try and be helpful and they drag in the chair racks and well some of the chairs the rubber falls off. That's what I'm saying. We got to really look at that stuff if we're going to invest this money. So, and even looking at like when we do put the chairs down, like what the cost might be for like the who's the rug company that comes in? Um oh like cents centas to like can we get long mats when we have like graduation so we're not putting just chairs on
150top of the brand I think stoppers are missing half those chairs are missing rubber stoppers because they've been here for those chairs I've been at events at Riverview for 20 plus years and they're still the same chairs in the same spot they last forever. Well, maybe we could order some felt, you know, just saying something to look at, right? Yeah. Yeah. Because I hate to invest this money and then we screw it up when we have our first event, right? We're not getting more patted. All right. So, the next one, unusually hazardous transportation. I know it's like the official name. That is the official name. Okay. That is the official name. So, um, thanks Brian a lot for doing appreciate. Brian's gonna be a busy bee, right, with all these people coming and I'm constantly
151texting. I'm like, "Uh, we're gonna have people coming through at 10:30. Are you okay?" Yeah, I'm fine. But he does try to ignore my my calls on the walkie. My walkie works. I don't know. Somehow it's only my walkie that doesn't get to people. It's very interesting. Perfectly. Yeah, she hasn't figured that out. Did you say she has to push the button on my side or be on the right channel? Yeah. Oh, that. So, thanks. You take that so well. So, well, I really got to get my life together most days. Um, so I I uh found out that there is some funding. It's not a ton of money, but funding available to district transportation for schools that are having to bus kids that live within two miles because of an unusually hazardous condition. So
152busy streets for us it's the railroad track and so um I reached out to so DPI requires in order for you to get that money which is $15 per child. We have 132 kids. So it's only a couple thousand dollars but it's a couple thousand dollars, right? um you have to um get maps of where all those stops are. Then the sheriff has to come out and determine that those stops are actually there and write a letter saying that yep, the stops are there and actually there is a railroad track there. Um we have to have the board approve that the stops are there with the map and that the letter was written. Um, and then I have to submit that to DPI. Um, so that we can get reimbursed. Um, and so once we
153get reimbursed, then every year after that, we can just resubmit for reimbursement. A lot of jump through hoops to get that. You'd think that the bus company saying there's a stop here and then a map that shows the train would be significant, you know, sufficient. It was. I felt bad because I had to stay after uh the sheriff because they're not used to having to do that, right? and he had to come and drive around and I sent him some exemplars of like this is what the right this is what you could write up. So I did feel bad because he's got a lot on his plate but um he did it very he was very kind and uh wrote the letter. So is there a motion? I just want to ask a qu is
154this based on the number of of stern students who qualified to ride the bus or actual riders whoever qualifies to ride the bus. I would like to make a motion to approve the unusual hazardous transportation plan for the Silver Lake Salem JT1 district as presented. Motion by Mr. Gentiel. Is there a second? I'll second by Mrs. Gallich. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Our next meeting will be May 27th, 2025. Um we will move into executive session uh for the following deliberating or negotiating purchasing of public properties. You want me to You just have to say to discuss items as listed above if you want to. If you want to read it all, that's fine. That's new. Was new last second. Motion to move into executive session to discuss the items listed above
155and Wisconsin state statues. Second. There's a first by Mrs. Gish. I'll second by Mr. There's a first by Mrs. All those in favor? I I opposed. Motion carries. We'll move into close session. Thank you, Julie.