001call the Germantown School District Board of Education meeting to order at 7 p.m. June 16th at the PAC in Germantown. Um, please stand if you are able for a pledge of allegiance and a brief moment of silence of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Item 1A, official meeting notification. Mr. Uh public notice of all means has been given by communication from the superintendent's office to the public to those news media who have requested such notices and to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Northwest Now Express News and the Westbend Daily News. Public notices also been posted in schools throughout the district and on the Germantown School District website. Thank you. Uh B roll call here here. Brown here. Barney's here. Lo here. Pollock here.
002here and Berson excused. Uh we'll move on to item two, approval of agenda. Motion to approve the agenda. Second with the motion. Mr. Barney with the second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none. The agenda passes. Madam three reports 3A district administrator Dr. Wider. Thank you Mr. Eward. Uh just a few updates. Thank you to all the board members who were all of you were at the uh Germantown High School graduation last Sunday. Um it was a great event. Um we were able to send all of our college and career career ready graduates off into the real world. Um thank you to our Seven Val Victorians, great speeches and for the first time a new tradition has started. the senior class voted and uh Mrs. Catalano, one of our high
003school social studies teachers, gave a speech um that was great and connected to her kids and she was uh fortunate to give the speech of the graduation where her son would graduate as well. So, it's a cool honor and as a parent, I talked to her um also an honor to be able to speak. So, I appreciate Mr. Smith bringing that forward and starting a new tradition um as the new high school principal. Also, thank you to the board members um for joining us at the KMS promotion ceremony. I had a lot of feedback again this year. It's their second year in the fieldhouse. Mrs. Garren hit that right at 40 minutes on the mark, but um it was great to have that venue and uh the kids that are going to be next year's
004freshman see the fieldhouse and be a part of that. So, again, thank you. Um right before uh graduation the state uh track and field competition took place and I was getting feverish text messages sat Friday, Saturday and Sunday from Dr. Enerle of all the great things going on at the WA state track and field uh tournament. So I just wanted to highlight a few of the many um student athletes that participated but people placed in the top three in their given fields. Uh, we had third place. Our girls 4x400 relay took third place at states. Uh, P Piper Eie, I think I pronounced that correctly, was second in the discus. Our girls 4x200 relay uh, took first uh, took, I believe, first place. Aiden Dystra was first place in the high jump and Josh Burner
005was first place in the pole vault. So, pretty cool. And you could notice them, many of you probably did, as they came up on stage wearing their state champion medals um, to get their diplomas as well. So, we did awesome and I know Dr. Nuro is going to speak uh in a few minutes about our spring sports. Um just to highlight though the end of the year, some really good stuff that was going on. And then the last point, um we ended school last week on Wednesday for kids, Thursday for teachers. And I think as you know, we we go through the hustle and bustle of a school year and go through schoolboard meetings, finance meetings, and talk about all these great things that we're approving. We have to sometimes step back and just think
006real quickly. I jotted down some of the things we should be very proud of as a school district. We again exceed expectations. We came out of this school year. Our audit was clean and we we are financially sound as a school district. Uh it's hard to believe we just finished the third year or fouryear-old kindergarten which was approved, you know, four years ago and we're coming out of uh a third year of a very quality program. uh we have a higher teacher retention rate at 90% and above and we'll we we will continue to um try to make that number even higher and better and continue to bring in the best talent is also retain the best talent. Um tonight I'll be the next presentation I'll be talking about um the overview of our community
007growth and student enrollment projection study as well as we've gone through a facility study. So, we're looking to the future while we still do the work in the present day. And um tonight, hopefully you as a board will approve our strategic goals for the next three years as we think about the long-term success not only physically for this this school district, but uh most importantly, the growth and development of our kids and how we engage our staff and how we continue to maintain these facilities. So, um I compliment the board as well as our entire workforce of this past 2425 school year. We've we've accomplished a lot and it's just the beginning of great work to come. Fantastic. Thank you. Um I guess we'll go to B MD Raffers report. This is the enrollment study
008that study that we've been discussing. The village is anxious to hear from us. We'll be presenting with them next week at the planning commission along with MD Roers himself. But uh Dr. Reuter will give us a overview of the report we've all had for about the last week now. Yeah. So, I've been able to speak with Mark Roers of MD Roers and Nick Johnson, his consultant who con completed our report. Um, all of these documents, the full 72page report as well as this presentation are on in our board documents and online for anyone at home that wants to access them. As well as, as Mr. Eert said next week Monday um myself him and representatives from MD Roers will be at the plan commission and they will be presenting a more comprehensive presentation than I
009am tonight. I they were unable to be here tonight due to travel plans. So they gave me some as Mr. Loath would say Cliff's notes and I will do my best to share um here and answer any questions I can. Um any questions I can't we'll bring back to uh Mark and Nick to get further explanation. So I have about 30 slides tonight. I'm going to go through them quite quickly and but highlight a few of them that are key for the board and the community to understand as we think about possible future expansion within the district. Um so overall uh MD RERS works with um districts all sizes that are urban, suburban, small, rural um with less than a thousand students and some districts with over 15,000 students. So they don't just work with
010a demographic like ours. They work throughout the state which is one of the reasons um an administration brought forward as them as a uh as a consultant because of their vast knowledge of the state and the demographic of this state when it comes to future expansion. Um this presentation outlines the key things here. Recent enrollment and demographic trends, housing trends, the methodology of how they went about their work, housing projections, enrollment of student projections, then comparing projections to the current building capacities and possible implications us as a school district and you as a board to consider as we move forward as a school district plan for the next 20 plus years. So, as you can see on this slide, um enrollment slightly decreased over the past decade in Germantown School District and that's a decrease
011at all levels. Even with the advent of bringing in 4K, we have seen a decrease overall. um after a period of decreasing births in the late 2000s and early 2010s. That helps explain the past 10 years and why slight enrollment decreases have uh stabilized uh because of decreasing birth rates and those birth rates now have stabilized too. And I did a presentation a few months back in uh to Washington County elected officials. Washington County actually has of of all the counties in southeastern Wisconsin has one of the highest decreasing birth rate um trends because the demographic is getting older and less young people are coming into Washington County. Sorry, bear with me. I'm navigating two computers here. Uh and on on this slide you'll see that the population is growing in this school district but
012the majority of the recent increase occurred in the population is 65 plus which I just alluded to. So child age population is decreasing which is why we see a decrease in enrollment. So the population is getting older or older people are moving into Germantown and not as many young people who are of childbearing ages. And this this slide outlines um the population of students that go to private schools. We've seen an increase in enrollment in private schools in the within the confines of Germantown school district, but it's mostly concentrated at two private high schools where we've seen the uptick and those are Kettle Marine and Living Word. Um enrollment at the other private schools have remained stable as we've seen over the last 10 years. So, now we'll jump into recent housing trends. And I
013am not a realer, so I just preface that before I start. Uh, we've seen the price has increased, and we all know this. Our assessed value of our homes, regardless of what county you live in, uh, has increased more than doubling in Washington County over the past 10 years. Uh the median home sale prices are lower in Washington County than they are in Ozaki and Walk Waua County which are our neighboring counties. Um but the median home sale price may affect who can afford to live in the Germantown school district. So you can see those those numbers and how we compare to our neighboring districts or neighboring counties, I'm sorry. Uh, housing construction has trended down in Germantown, especially over the past few years, mostly due to fewer new single family homes in Richfield and
014fewer new housing units in the village. So, you can see those numbers and how we're trending down over the last 10 years when it comes to new construction. Uh MD Raffer's analysis showed each new single family home in the Germantown School Gen District generates about61 students. So every time a new home, a single family home is built, their estimate is that that generates.16 students. So a new subdivision of 100 students would likely generate between 60 and 65 students. And that's similar to other suburban Milwaukee school districts in the area. I think that's a key number that we can use and that will be shared with the plan commission and the village board as we think about future expansion. Single family homes produce the most students within the first 10 years of being built then decrease
015as students age until turnover occurs when the home is 30 years old. So obviously as a new home is built if they produce 6 student which you know give or take one um after 10 years students move out they go on to college or after a period of time they they age out but families stay and want to live in Germantown. So though new developments come in um that doesn't mean people as soon as their kids graduate they're selling their home. People want to stay here. So homes can age out. And the map on this uh visual shows where home sales are greatest within our school district. Neighborhoods built in the 90s and 2000s will be prime candidates for turnover through 2040, which this study outlines. Apartments and multif family housing generate students at a
016much lower ratios than do single family homes, which is obvious. older market rate apartments, so apartments that are existing produce about 0.16 student per unit and newer apartments if built would be.11 per unit. However, these ratios are only based on a few new developments over the past 10 years in the Germantown School District. So that's um because of obviously the size of of a of an apartment and and the capacity there. They're going to produce less than the 61 that we'd see in a new build. So when we're looking at new other new fa multiple family developments focused on in mixed use redevelopments across this area, the uh MD Rogers discovered a ratio of 0.04 04 to 008 students per unit with a total combined thousand plus units generating a ratio of 0.06 per unit.
017These are developments composed mostly of studios, onebedroom and two-bedroom units which is very typical of new multi multiple family uh products being built in surrounding neighborhoods like Meccoan, Cedarberg, Franklin and Oak Creek. So when we hear those comparisons at the village level, they're saying that when they come to onebedroom and two-bedroom studio style, um we're not producing many students, which would make sense because the capacity of those those builds would not generate uh families. Uh here's the methodology that Rafers utilized. Um MD RERS divided the Germantown school district into 75 unique neighborhoods based on factors that are shown on the screen points one two and three. Roers determined the number of housing units by neighborhood in March of 2025. That's when they began this project. And they placed Germantown school district students in each of
018the 75 neighborhoods. It's called geocoding um them based on their student addresses. So that's how they were able to calculate the current demographic and that's the methodology they utilized. Uh they analyze demographic change uh women of reproductive age and total births that have taken historically household turnover expectations and new housing expectations across those 75 neighborhoods. They projected housing developments for the four projection periods of 2027, 2030, 2035 and 2040. And then they determine student per housing unit ratios based on demographic and housing characteristics. So these this is the formula of how they developed their projections into 2040. Uh step seven here shows that they provided resident student enrollment projections and step eight was assigning those resident students to each elementary based on their attendance area. So they took the current information that we have as
019a school district and then and were able to determine per capita of those 75 neighborhoods how many kids fell within each of those neighborhoods. So here's the big thing, their housing projections for moving forward. Uh MD Raers projects over 2,100 new housing units within our Germantown school district area through 2040. So that's across the entire district, not just the village of Germantown. Uh the pace is greater than the past decade, but similar to the pace of development experienced in the early 2000s and based on several expectations shown within this list. So the expectations for more housing construction is based on obviously significant need for new housing um in this region as as well as nationally. Municipal plans and policies generally supporting housing development. So that you think about the 2050 plan within the village. New
020residential development proposed over the past couple of years. We're all aware of that. It seems like every month there's someone coming to a village board meeting with a new proposal. uh projected decrease in interest rates over the next few years. We all hope that the interest rates go down which would lead to a boom within the housing market, significant and growing number of jobs in Germantown. We see all of our businesses that are popping up as well as um some of the things that we've talked about this table and I know many of you are involved with at the community level when it comes to uh businesses that are are booming. And then again, we have a great school district. We exceed expectations and we're on the up. it's a destination school district that people
021want to send their kids to. Um about half projected to be single family homes and about half to be projected multiple family homes including condominium, senior apartments and duplexes and those type of buildings. And we've just heard that last week at the uh plan commission when it came to a proposed development off of Lannon and County Line Road that I know Mr. Eert sat in and gave gave his vote um to move forward with that project. Uh 1,700 new housing units are projected in the village, an average of over a hundred per year, which again is more than the past decade, but similar to the experiences and the pace that happened within this village and the school district in the early 2000s where we saw a boom in expansion. New housing, especially new single family
022homes are projected outside of the village of Germantown in the villages of Jackson and Richfield as outlined in this um visual here. and our ho and MD RERS's housing projections are broken down by elementary attendance area show 40% will be built in the current MacArthur attendance area and 30% is in the current Amy Bell attendance area based on the student uh generation ratios and understand that single family homes generate greater numbers of students MD Roers projections show new single family homes split into thirds among Amy Bell Rockfield and MacArthur Elementary so those would be the impacted areas um over the next 20 years. So that would then lead us to if there's development within those regions, what does that mean when it comes to student projections? MD RERS projections projects an enrollment increase of almost
023150 students through 2040 with most of these increases at the elementary grade school level. Increases will be concentrated mostly in neighborhoods with significant single family housing development. Of the 129 projected increase in grades 4K through five students, we project slightly more than half will occur in the MacArthur area attendance area, increasing by 73 students with others increases at Amyville and Rockfield. And Roers projects an enrollment decrease of 26 students at county line, mostly due to the school, our current attendance area and how it's built out. So we see a decrease at county line but an increase in our three other elementarymentaries based on their projections. Uh and we we would then see a slight increase at the middle school level through 2040 and an overall stable enrollment at our high school through 2040. So we
024we will continue to maintain where we're at but see an influx over the not to say that after 2040 those numbers would not increase at middle and high but this projection is to 2040. So when we think about that possible increase in three of our four elementaryaries and a stability at the secondary level, what does that mean for comparing our enrollment projections and our current capabilities? So the uh RERS projects elementary enrollment below the combined maximum capacity at of the four elementary school buildings. However, MacArthur is projected to approach at or above the 90%. And if you remember, 90% is actually what we shoot for at the elementary level versus 100% given safety capacity and what real capacity means from an industry norm. So MacArthur is projected to approach at or above 90% its capacity
025by 2035 and Rockfield is projected to approach at or above 90% its maximum capacity by 2040. So those are the two push point schools where you can see the biggest increase um over the next 15 to 20 years. Uh projected enrollment at both the middle and high school is several hundred students below maximum capacity of those two schools. The uh Robert's projection projects no enrollment to capacity issues at our secondary level over the life of this 2040 plan. So we have to think about um alternative assumptions and if new housing developments that are the belief is that they will come and they will be they will impact the school district. The first is no new house. The first assumption is the no new housing alternative applies to our model for to enrollment projections but with
026only demographic change existing home sales home turnover would uh projected 2040 enrollment would decrease by 426 students. So if nothing changed we might see if everything stayed status quo we would see a decrease of students over the next 20 years which makes sense right if there's no new development. However, uh the greater housing ar alternative is that applies to their model is if we do see an increase um and it's more closely following the village's 2020 2022 comprehensive plan and that projects out to 2040 enrollment would increase by 280 students at the pinch point of those two elementary schools we talked about. So, the implications for us as a school district, what does this all mean and what do we have to do? Um, Raers advises, and we're already in this stage as a school
027district, that we undertake a facility planning effort in the early 2030s, if not sooner, to think about elementary capacity um and the possible projection of that increase. Options are and not limited to. We could address this by um thinking about um attendance area shifts, which the district did what, five, six years ago. Um as well as thinking about expansion of schools and how we could add on to current schools or building a fifth elementary um or grade level shifts to bring fifth grade to the middle school. Those are just preliminary ideas, but those are things that other school districts start to think about long term. we have time, but um it's good to know where where the road could end and what we need to do as a school district and the decisions the school
028board would need to make. So that is my cliff's notes. Um, as I said, next Monday, Mark and Nick, uh, combination of the two of them will join Russ and I, we're going to crosswalk some of the, um, work that came out of the JP Cullen Presentation and facility use study to look at, um, enrollment capacity of our buildings and they're going to go deeper into a very similar presentation from their expertise and be able to answer questions to the general um, to the plan commission. So I wanted to give you the highle overview to kind of break down that 75page document you got. This is kind of the highle breakdown of the good, bad, the ugly and what we have to start thinking about as we move forward questions. Um just a couple of
029things that come to mind as I was reading through the full report. Um the difference in multifamily housing uh with the current construction that had occurred in the village. Uh the they made note that the multifamily units were larger two or threebedroom in design um versus what other communities have seen that Studio One may be a two-bedroom style apartment. Um so that's an important thing to understand what type of not just multifamily housing but what type of multif family housing the design the purpose behind it. Um yeah I think I to your point Mr. I think we say multif family we ought there's a mental model but to break it down these neighboring districts or communities what does that mean a studio is very different than a two-bedroom apartment and I glad I'm glad they
030gave us the numbers of all of that right so we can understand if it's on the current track of what we've had built or right or is there going to be a shift over to these more one studio studio onebedroom apartment style uh developments Um, I think that is very helpful information because it is the the numbers are different than what we've seen projected um or talked about in the village realm. Um, it's interesting from a village standpoint. I know this is a discussion on their end to see the aging of the community. I think we have to take note of the investment and development of senior living that has occurred within this village that does increase that number. And is that new age citizens coming in or is that our citizens transitioning, right? Opening
031up their houses like we talked about in that new construction, right? That 30 30-year market turn. Um, I think that's another really good point obviously to highlight if we're we're allowing construction, the village is allowing new home construction, we kind of have a 30-year cycle with it, heavy influx of students and then a Wayne and then we'll see that trickle in effect after that um as people move in downsides, whatever. Yeah, there's a lot of information that that um goes into this or we can take from this. I think to your point, the suggestions they have at the end. What do you need to consider? Obviously, there's a wide range of solutions or potential solutions, we'll dial that in, especially with our facilities use study as to what that is and as we partner with
032the village around continued development. The good news is the first the first recommendation is start something we did last year. Correct. Correct. So, I appreciate that that we're already in that how this became on our radar. Yeah. Um, as a study that we'd like to have to dovetail with it, I think that the key to this is there's we now have the information or the projected information. It's not going to be a guessing game. It's it's a the fog is lifted a little bit. That's going to help inform this district's decisions as well as the village as well as Richfield as our surrounding municipalities because we have a study that'll help set the course in many facets versus we're guessing, right? Yeah. I think I think a large pro purpose of this report or to
033have this study done uh was to take the objectivity out of it and give us information based in in in data not assumption. I think that's exactly what we got and I think some of it's interesting to see from a perspective of well I didn't see that portion of it coming but it's great to know it. Uh regardless, we're going to make a decision at some point that's probably got a financial impact in this community, but now we can do it and or help the village to guide decisions around development that allow us to make those financial uh decisions um based in more certainty or predictability. Um so we're not basing it off a unpredictable um enrollment um based development. Obviously, we'll always my goal here would be to always um champion um predictability into
034the future as far as village development goes, which allows us to invest the community's money uh in more certain scenarios than than scenarios that may wean from year to year or every two years or three years. Um and we're now we're investing in the wrong area. We'd hate to to invest a large amount of money into a school and find out we needed to go to a different school for that sitting empty, right? Yeah. So, this is basis for that. This along with the facilities you study. I do have one question for you and and probably for them. So, they talk about capacity. How does that compare to the facilities you study capacity model? They're using the same in my understanding from reading their report and we'll I'll get clarification on this but their report
035and what we got from P they're using the same norms when it comes to that 90% is actually capacity at the at based on uh elementary settings. Yeah. So it's not capacity of building uh right we're not putting kids in closets or you know it's not in the hallway but it's capacity of functioning instructional space. Correct. Yeah, building's 90% capacity is really 100%. Yeah, they're referring to the 90% of what our facilities you study brought out. Thank you. Yeah, I could talk about this a significantly longer time and we will as the future goes on. Does anyone else have any input or question? Not a question, just so much a comment. As far as from the buildings and grounds committee perspective, I think this this information uh for all of those committee members, keep your
036notes handy because I think when it comes to prioritization looking out the next several years, we're going to have to at the committee level, but also the board level, we're going to have to make probably some more difficult decisions as far as where we direct resources. And I think uh inevitably we can lean on this a bit because there's a third party who's done this research and when it comes to we need this and we need this we could kind of lean on some of this and go well picking up MacArthur MacArthur's expected to have more students so we may have to direct resources there as a priority versus some something else whatever that something else is. So, I appreciate this because this is going to add that extra layer of information for us when
037we go through our checklist of how do we prioritize resources for our facilities based on the uh the study that's been done. Absolutely. Mr. L. Yeah, a couple comments. Um Amy Bell has room uh for construction for a fourth track. uh they have room uh in the septic system also which is important. I believe Rockfield has room for more construction, you know, expanding the school. MacArthur does not have room to expand. Um this doesn't mean anything. I'm just throwing it out there. The I believe it's the Windong carve out that goes to MacArthur. That area surrounded by areas that go to county lines. So since the uh county line school looks like it'll be 21 students low somewhere in the future that carve out to MacArthur could come to a county line means nothing parents
038on this stage is you know it's a possibility uh the other thing I believe is there the development will be north of MacArthur and I think uh the school district should consider purchasing ing land about 20 acres several miles directly north of uh MacArthur and maybe slightly west. So if you look where our schools are today, you know, we're situated to the west and in the south of the district. There isn't anything in the northeast corner of the district. So I'd uh recommend purchasing about 20 acres for a possible future grade school. uh just in case it's needed because that's where the future development uh is going to be. Yeah, I think there's a lot that kind of can go into that discussion. Uh you could go down that path of do we want to
039purchase land? Um, with that comes the the building of a new school, the hiring of new administrative staff and hire new teaching staff. Do we want to expand existing buildings, shift shift uh elementary boundaries and then invest in teaching staff to for those expanded schools versus administrative staff to want a new site. These are all and I don't these are all conversations that are going to happen. Absolutely. They're going to happen. they have to uh we could discuss um shifting of borders along with potential school expansions um that only affect new incoming versus the current enroles because we know those will age out in several years as they move on to the middle school and high school. There there's so many different possibilities. The whole point of this and the whole point of starting this
040last year is to get into those discussions. But to your point that should really all of it should be on the table and all of it right now is absolutely on the table. But but it dovetales into the conversations with the village where these developments what type of developments are getting put in and and we go from there. I'm going to talk about one in my in my um item E here coming up shortly that I that we use this information. I was able to use it. he had it in time to use it um to to to bring context to that conversation for the planning commission a couple weeks ago. I'll talk about that shortly. But to your point, yeah, all of it should be on the table, but to everyone that's listening, doesn't
041mean all of it's happening. So, and I know we can get into that. Oh, they're going to buy this or they're going to buy, right? There's plenty of things to do between now and then. The point is we got on to this in 2024. They're asking, this report says we should start considering some options in by 2030. We have a great amount of time to plan strategically to save and invest strategically and that's what we're going to do and that's the point of the strategic planning that we're going through now. Any other comments or questions? Yeah, for uh for the land, I would suggest uh quality, no swamp and no power lines. Uh the school district did own uh 20 acres off of Holy Hill and it had uh high voltage power lines running through
042it. It was not suitable for a school, so we sold it. Um I think there's time if citizens know of something that's for sale. I've watched a little bit in the last year for it. Uh but uh I did find something but I think it was a little bit low in on most of the property so it was not suitable but we have time and uh I think when something turns up a citizen could uh let us know would be nice and uh we'll go from there. Anything further? All right. Uh, item C, performing arts center. Mr. Report, Miss Ellis, come on down. I don't know who's going to manage our sound between now and when you're done. All right. Thank you for having me. I'm going to keep this short for you. Uh, we
043have an update on everything we did this past year, some financials, as well as looking into next season and what that looks like. Um so I went ahead and broke down the facility usage um roughly by hour. Uh this doesn't include setup time or when people pop in for unscheduled usage or classroom usage even. Um so we have about uh roughly a 6040 I think it's technically 44% of community use um versus our our school use there. So you can see that that breakdown that is pretty uh common breakdown for PAC's. Move on to the next slide. Uh this is a little breakdown of our uh three show drama series at the high school. Um everybody loved the plays. It was great. Um so you can see our attendance is uh pretty, you know, fairly
044stable depending on the type of show that they're doing. Um we really uh had a great turnout for um six which is awesome. Next slide. Uh we did win some awards this year for the Jerry's. The Jerry's are a Wisconsinbased award um system for high school drama series. Uh so we did win uh Leah Cully. I'd like to recognize her as well as uh Connor, myself and Laney uh that did the lighting design 406 did uh win some awards. So good for them. Uh they also had the spirit award. Uh they were both invited to Madison for the statewide um recognition ceremony which happened uh I believe two weeks ago. Move on. Uh we also hosted the uh KMS musical. Again we've done this for two years now. Uh first one was Honk. Uh this
045past year was Shrek. Uh lots of kids in that show. It was great to have them and they've been coming in in about February. So you can see uh that's kind of like a pretty standard uh ticket breakdown of about two weeks out all the way up until the um final performances and about a good amount of the community is showing up for those events. So that's awesome. I would just add the Kennedy parents have given a lot of great feedback of thanking uh Heather and being able to use this facility for their production versus the Kennedy cafeteria and I think you're going to have some future great people a part of the program because of the excitement here. So, thank you Heather. It is great to um get them started at a young age
046and I am aware that the the middle school um stage is really not big enough for the number of students involved. Uh but our stage is quite large. Um it's an understatement. Uh just an overview of some of the big rental groups that we have coming. Uh we have about I think maybe somewhere between 11 to 20 outside groups. I think 11 consistent annual groups that are renting from the theater. We do a really wide variety of things. A lot of dance recital, but we also have um some musical groups that come in. The Nutcracker comes every year. Um and we also do some work with the community band as well as a lot of like little oneoff events. Um so really uh something for everybody which is great. Uh I wanted to talk about
047the uh community series. So this is the series uh that we as a PAC host uh to bring in events for the benefit of the community. Um so this year we were able to host four events. Uh we started in October with the World Culture Fest. That's a free event. We actually got a ton of local businesses and um community groups as well as some of the school groups that uh hosted uh little performances as well. We had tables in the lobbies. We had food trucks. Um, so that was great. Uh, then later we did uh uh celebrate the purchase of that new piano with uh Billy Joel and Elton John, a tribute group. We had first brigade band here as well as uh hits of the 80s and 90s tribute band party band in
048March. Um, and you can see the attendance on there breakdown um for how that series has been going. Um so moving forward uh there is an advisory team that's meeting to discuss future seasons and how we can get more people to these events. Um the general consens consensus from the attendees is they love the shows. They love what we're picking. Um and they just aren't sure why more people are here. They're so excited about it and they uh you know part of it getting the word out there. So, I think that's really going to be the focus for 2526. We have another great lineup of events. Um, but we want more people to come to these and enjoy um what we can bring to the Germantown community. If you want to head on to the
049next slide. So, we do have uh these are the advisory team members currently. It is welcome to all community members. Uh please come. We'd love your input. Uh we meet about one time per month. um and the meeting coming up, we are probably going to be deciding um some of these events for the 2526 season. So, if you would like a say if you think you can help in any way, uh please reach out to me or any of these team members and we will definitely get you on board for that team. If I could jump, if I could just jump in for I think one of the important pieces about this team is that last bullet point. we meet at kind of a weird time because it kind of fits with other people's schedules.
050You can call in and join and and have your say. So, that's a that's a key piece because not everybody can escape from work for an hour and and have these conversations, but you can call in and let your voice be heard for these. I'm excited about this next meeting because there's a couple things that I'm hoping we're able to do and start to share some of that stuff, too. So, I'm really excited, too. I think the community is going to be just super excited about the 2526 season and we can absolutely get you in virtually or by conference call if you want to participate in that. Um this is looking at the breakdown. So you can see this uh year we were at I believe 77,000 I think is going to be the ending
051number on um the rental revenue. Uh that's probably the upper end of what we're able to achieve within what is already happening at the PAC without really moving things around dramatically. Um so I'm pretty happy with that rental revenue. Um it is covering all of our fun 10 costs for sure and then some which is great. Um we do need to increase our ticket revenue but that's also going to come into effect with getting more people here. Um, but we're making progress uh this summer. Uh, bring your kids in. We have uh almost uh I think three spots left for Direview Olympia Kid, but we have lots of spots left for Mean Girls Jr. Um that is a two-eek camp. Uh those happen here at the PAC and at the end of the camp they
052have to produce the show. And uh so we're really excited about that. We've been doing this for a few years and I think the kids are really looking forward to these shows. We also have our family film Fridays. We do this about every August and January when it's slow. So, you can see the poster up there. Come in. It's free. It's a really great way to get the young ones in a movie setting if they're not quite ready for the full movie ticket price. Um, we have snacks, we have games. It's a it's a really good time. So, I suggest uh bring your kids. Uh just touching on our volunteers, they're very important to the theater. They are what keep keep us moving. Um we always need more volunteers. Uh this year we logged about
053almost 500 volunteer hours um with 58 volunteers. If we were to have as many volunteers as I'd like, it would be about twice as many hours as that. Um, so we are really riding off of the backs of a few very um, helpful, dedicated volunteers and we definitely want more. Um, you do get free tickets to the show if you're volunteering on that show. So that is something you can reach out to me for. We have a page on our website about volunteering. So special shout out to those few that have really um, really supported the theater this year in volunteering. Um, and ah, we'd love to have anybody middle school a age and older. Um, it's usually walk in and I can show you exactly what to do in about five minutes. Uh, you
054should always go to our website if you'd like to buy tickets, donate, get any event info. Our Facebook page is still growing. Uh, really proud of that. We have so many followers and page likes and you can see all kinds of photos from the past year. Um, and if you are the kind of person that prefers to, uh, you know, work in person, you can always call the box office for tickets or email us and we will, um, we'll definitely get you sorted out. Any questions? Um, not necessarily a question, just a comment. I've noticed it's either the village or the chamber has really stepped up their marketing game recently. um might be an opportunity there to try to partner with them to see if we can get some of our events into their little
05530 secondond spots because they've been highlighting what like some of the restaurants um some of the acts that they've been bringing in for entertainment things like that. There's no reason that we couldn't highlight some of the events that we have coming up as well. Absolutely. There is a very comprehensive marketing discussion happening at the next meeting and we are aware of that and uh definitely going to be upping our game with the community and on a lot of different levels I think. So yes. Excellent. Do you know the dates for the summer uh program? Summer camp. Yeah. For the show. Uh, I want to say July 18th and 19th are the performances if you'd like to come in. Tickets are only $5. It's a deal. Um, and the shows are Mean Girls is going to
056be about one hour and Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a shortened version. It's going to be about 40 minutes. Okay. And tickets for that are available. You'll be amazed at how much work and effort and the final result after two weeks are. So my my daughter has done this. We'll be doing this uh this year and it's uh it's a full show. I mean it's an hour but it's a full show, full production singing, dancing all you know the full boat. So it's always you sit in you sit in the audience and you you're kind of amazed at how much work they put in and how what the final result is. And I I would just say that uh our younger group increased uh twofold um for this past summer. We had I think
057about 24 kids last year and we almost have 50. So um it's definitely something the community is excited about and that makes me excited about it. So can't wait. Anyone else? I just want to say thank you for the great work. I don't think everyone understands exactly how much work even just putting on a meeting for us this evening that goes into it. So, thank you and thank all the volunteers obviously for us. Thank you. Um reports D athletic activities report. Dr. Yuro top that. Good evening. Is this on? Yep. Okay. Thank you for having me here tonight. Um, many of you have seen from the weekly Warhawk Pride co-curricular newsletter, um, that can be found on the high school website as well as the high school Facebook and Instagram pages that we had a
058remarkable 202425 school year in the co-curricular world. So, that being said, I will be brief, otherwise we would be here well past midnight tonight. First thing, Germantown High School is again honored this fall at the WIAA athletic director area meeting with receiving the WIAA award of excellence. We received this in 2019, 21, 22, 23, and 24. And we're about to turn in our forum for this past year. So, we will have received it six out of the past seven school years. This award is presented to athletic programs that excel in the areas of sportsmanship, ethics, integrity, leadership, and character. A huge congratulations goes out to our coaches, student athletes, and the athletic department. Moving on, we inducted five former student athletes into this year's Hall of Fame class, as well as acknowledged our athletic trainers
05927year tenure with the Germantown School District. And we also honored Germantown alum Becca Murray on her most recent accomplishment of winning a silver medal at last summer's Paris Parolympics. This all occurred in the fall on the night of our homecoming football game. The wall of fame committee will meet in two weeks to select this year's class that we will again induct into the wall of fame at this year's homecoming football game on Friday, September 26th. There will be a ceremony before the game right here in the performing arts center and the inductees will be honored at the halftime of the football game. We had numerous state champions this year as Dr. Reutder uh referenced earlier as well as had many individual and team records that were set this school year. We even had a student
060athlete break the state record for total career tackles in football. You can locate all of our individual and team records um on the co-curricular website as well as on the record boards in the hallways by the fieldhouse and the pool. Last summer, we added an individual state champion record board. Uh we only had a state champion team and runnerup trophy case. So, we added an individual state champion record board and we will add five more events won to that board this year. Back in the fall on our girls swim and dive team, we had a swimmer win the 200 individual medley and the 100 butterfly events. We had a diver and the 200 free relay came came in second. Um, and as Dr. Reyder referenced, we had a girls track and field 4x200 uh meter
061relay win as well as a boys palter and high jumper this spring. We also had a female runner up in the discus throw. In the fall, we had a Greater Metro Conference swimmer, diver, and defense back athlete of the year. In the winter, we had a Greater Metro Conference male wrestler of the year. And in the spring, we had a Greater Metro Conference softball player, female track and field athlete, and a baseball pitcher of the year. So, all in all, Germantown had seven Greater Metro Conference athletes of the year. This is another remarkable accomplishment to celebrate. We are also able to do signing and commitment days for 24 student athletes this year, which is also an incredible number planning to play their sport at the next level. Our wrestling team was crowned conference champs again
062this year, making it the fourth year in a row. And our boys volleyball and boys golf teams were sectional champs, both advancing on to team state. This spring, we also advanced a boys double tennis pair to the state tournament where they had a strong showing. On the activity side of things, we had numerous groups compete at the state and national levels, and they all had many successes and accomplishments to celebrate. The Wall of Sound plays second, a place up from last year at the WSMA State Marching Band Championships. And as you heard from Mrs. Ellis tonight, the cast and crew who performed at our three shows this year again did a fantastic job with some even coming away with Jerry award acknowledgement. All in all, things went remarkably well in the 74 plus co-curricular programs
063that we offer. And a huge thank you goes out to our hardworking coaches, adviserss, parents, guardians, community supporters, administration, and the board. All of you for allowing these programs to exist. Without your unwavering support, our students and student athletes would not have the opportunity to excel. So, thank you. and thank you for allowing me to highlight just a few of our wonderful accomplishments this school year. Thank you. Any questions or comments? I think there there's a lot there. I mean, athletically there there's plenty of success, but I think that the key is there's plenty of involvement and I think that extends. We obviously we can highlight it's tangible to see the athletic accomplishments, right? co-curriculars and this board consistently year in and year out we're reviewing you're bringing you know proposals ahead of this group
064or that group and just one that I'd like to highlight because I don't think I've seen a group take off like this before is so and I think the last number that somebody had mentioned to me is over 133 kids part actively participating um that says something I don't think we have an athletic team that has 133 kids in The key is kids can find an activity to be involved in. 133 found it in some football, whatever the athletic ability, whatever it is. We provide that because we know it adds a connectivity to school and makes it more about the classroom work, makes it about their life and extends it and then creates buy in um not only from that student but their family and their siblings. Um so thank you for for your work
065and your team's work in that that aspect. Um everything you just highlighted kind of shows why that works necessary, right? The investment is necessary. So, thank you. Thank you again. Seeing um no other comments, we'll move on to e uh village of Germantown leazison on reports. Um we're going to have Mr. Barney, did you not sorry, Mr. Pollock, could you have a parks and rights? Yes. So, uh, we did have a meeting in May. Uh, just a couple of items to note. Uh, with regards to the potential land swap between Blackstone Creek and the village, uh, village president Bob Solderberg had asked the park and recre recreation commission to review the initial information that was provided as part of the the uh, the proposal, the proposed land swap between Blackstone and the village. uh and
066asked us to provide guidance one way or the other with regards to whether or not the village should move forward with into entering into negotiations only. Uh that that proposal did pass uh and was sent off to the the village. Um we were also asked for feedback and other ideas as far as uh things for the village and the plan commission ultimately to keep in mind as as this if this progresses forward. And so we we number of different uh topics and areas as far as what we what we would ask them to to keep in mind. So the other two items July 4th just as a reminder there is a morning parade. I believe it starts at 9:00 with fireworks in the evening. The park and wreck uh is running the the parade again.
067Um so any volunteers that might be interested uh reach out to the village park and recck area. Um they're they're needed from about 7:30 in the morning till about 10:00 a.m. Lastly, uh just as a reminder, music at the pavilion started already, but this coming Thursday is uh uh at Fireman's Park is Cherry Pie. One other thing to note with that is there's always food and beverages, and there's always an organization that is involved with music at the pavilion to raise funds as well. I believe actually the the wrestling team was involved uh at the Love Monkeys, the first show of the season. So that goes throughout the rest of the summer as well. We will have our meeting tomorrow night. Yes. Uh Mr. Reutder, I know it's Germantown Village of Germantown reports, but you
068represented the school district regarding a vote. Can you Yeah. Um last Thursday I voted on behalf of the district based on your action in the Richfield TID one expansion and voted no um as directed by the board. Uh that though was upheld to expand 4 to one. Thank you. You're welcome. And myself uh on the planning commission we met on the 9th. Um, I'll just highlight the main topic that affects the school district, which was the home path financial uh request for reszoning uh on the property in the northeast corner of County Line in Landon Road. That's an 88 acre property. They're proposing um a housing development of 273 total units. 171 of those would be single family. 102 of those would be multifamily by their their um their terminology. I would look at those
069as more single family based. Uh the 102 are either sidebyside villa style condos or row style homes uh with the intent of ownership. Uh this company does have a a rental arm and a rental management arm to it. They did allude that depending on how inventory sells, they may opt to to utilize some of that um capability until those units sell. But the intent is uh single uh home ownership in this development. Um they're the first uh this is their second meeting they came to. The first they proposed or um predicted about 134 students. This time around they said about 155 students. Uh I was able to I just got to pull this up. Utilize the new report numbers and all indications on that were roughly 166 students if we use the rawers numbers. Um
070I would say this is the first um developer that brought forth what I would consider um a significant approach to actually providing some statistical numbers around potential student enrollment effects. So I appreciate appreciated that uh the community did show up in a large number. Most were surrounding residents about 5050 Germantown and Monomony Falls residents um that were against the development going through. Um it's described as um a dense development. I don't think it's dense in in the like apartment structure style. This is just smaller lots um on this 88 acre property uh which is which is a a turn from the current housing developments that have occurred halfacre acre multi-acre lots that we've seen in the village. Uh get being able to put the the student ratio in and um look at what Amy Bell
071this would be the elementary school that this would affect. Talking with Dr. Sounds like we would be able to support these students. Obviously, 166 students. Not all are attending the elementary school, middle school, and high school uh would also be involved there. We don't know to what realm, but Amy Bell has the room as currently situated to to lot accommodate the education and the potential children that would move in here. my vote and it was an anonymous vote, unanimous vote to approve the zoning changes um for that parcel of land. Obviously, this is the beginning steps in this development. We'll see how they continue to go through with the village and bring back any updates um from there. Anyone have questions? Seeing none, uh we can move on. I believe that's the end of village
072uh leaison reports. We can move on to citizen comment. None since the beginning. Okay, we have none. Uh item five, consent agenda. A, approval of May 19th, 2025 meeting minutes. B, approval of June 2nd, 2025 meeting minutes, open session only for closed sessions. C, approval of teacher contracts. D, approval of teacher resignations. E, approval of donations. Move approval of consent agenda items A through E. Second. Mr. Barney with the motion. Mr. Pollock with the second. Is there any discussion? Yeah, I'd like to hear the donations, please. For sure. MacArthur Elementary PTA, $2,400 for buses for a fourth grade field trip. MacArthur PTA $1,34756 for first grade buses for field trip. MacArthur PTA $1,39.76 for second grade field trips. Amy Bell PTA $1,267 for TV and bass for Amy Bell conference room. Randy and Sue Hollister,
073$255 in gift cards for eighth grade teachers, staff, end of the year lunch prizes. Three and two Booster Club, $4,891.74 cents for the purchase of baseball jackets, hats, and coaches apparel. An anonymous donor, $2,500 to the Germantown High School Robotics Club. County Line PTA, $424.64 buses for field trips at County Line and Cousin Subs, $1,000. the Germantown High School War Checks. Generosity of our community is outstanding. That's over $15,000 in donations. Every month it seems to to be in that ballpark. It's quite impressive. Um I'd like to pull out teacher hires, please. Mr. Noak, can you give us a synopsis of It looks like Seven new contracts being approved this time around. Yeah. Um, as we've said over the course of the last several months, this is sort of a first wave of hires. Um,
074some of that you'll see are um the result of retirement. Some are because of resignations that have occurred. Um uh as the personnel committee was presented with the first three uh Allison surveys, Christina Burmeister and Taylor Rounds, the additions since last week are Nick Ford, special education at Germantown High School, Morgan Weber, second grade at Rockfield, Katherine Borin, first grade at Rockfield, and Elizabeth Hart, who is actually uh a part-time reading specialist with us in previous years um whose role because of restructuring is now at 1.0. So in her in her her scenario she's adding hours so we're giving a one full 1.0 FT correct in pre in previous years we were we had two 50% people in that role. Um last fall um one of those uh resigned to go to a different district.
075Um her part-time status was upped. This year she's expanded to the 1.0. Um I'm just looking at the dollar amounts attached to this. I see one at our base rate. So, I'm assuming, and correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like either market value or experience are driving the significantly above base higher. Correct. Yes. And and in the case of um the person that we were just talking about, she's an existing employee, so that it goes in line with that. But the others are very closely correlated with um experience um and you know qualifications. Mr. Vivak, do you have anything to add in regards to the consolidation of two part-time into one full-time reading specialist? How that maybe affects either the positive or negative of the program? moving from the two part-time to one
076full-time. That's a positive in our view. It creates consistency uh for our students in that they're working with the same interventionist when they're receiving uh those services. In addition, uh our teachers work with our reading specialists in terms of implementation of our reading curriculum. So, it offers an opportunity for um that one individual to to see the K5 programming and and support our teachers. So, it's definitely a positive moving from the two part-time roles to the the one full-time. Thank you, Mr. Noak. I'll go back to you and I just focusing on that. It's kind of a unique situation, but beyond the hours and the increased pay, I'm assuming there's a benefit or added benefit uh to that employee as far as benefits package because going from part-time to full-time, correct? So, it's uh an
077additional investment from the school district. Fantastic. Um, we saw special education hire in there. That's something I'm hearing in the comm in the community. Um, Katie Co. Um, yeah, I'd love to uh provide some context with our special education teaching staff that aren't returning for next year. Um, just so you have an understanding then that how that goes with the hires. Um, so we have eight teaching staff that are not returning. Um, three of those eight are retirements. We had one at each level. Um, one at the high school, middle school, and elementary. Um, two out of the eight are um staff members that are leaving the teaching profession and they're going on to do something different. So, they're not going to be employed with another school district at this time. Um we also have
078um two staff members that um their return was um a mutual decision between the district and the individuals that it wasn't the best fit um for both. And then um finally that leaves one that's a a true resignation where that staff member will be a special education teacher in another district. Um so that's the eight teaching staff. Um, just to note as well, um, regarding our, um, special education support staff, um, we do find at the end of a school year that we do have turnover in in those positions. Um, that's regular um, kind of part of the school year, but that's also not unique to Germantown. Um, all all school districts have um, somewhat of a turnover in those positions and um, have openings that need to be filled for the new the upcoming
079school year. Sure. as you stepped into that role this year. Um that there's concern in the community that there's this great turnover there. Um as as far as kind of your your level look at at that department obviously is there some changes that are occurring. Um do you think this is in result to some of those changes? Are we making changes that make a larger or smaller staff more necessary? I could help us understand. Yeah, I think eight overall maybe is more. Um I don't know the numbers historically. Um but with three of those being retirements, of course, um we wish our staff well when it's time for them to retire. Um so really that that true eight um and again to when people um determine, you know, other opportunities outside of the teaching profession.
080Um but really we've been able to maintain like for our um elementary, we've had some movements around um but we've maintained that um those those staff in those roles. um being able to be at that same level. I do think we we're are making some strides in in a positive for our students. Um change is part of that, but we're also working really hard to support the teachers as we're as we're working towards those changes. Um so we we do give them the opportunity to provide us feedback after we do professional development. We've had surveys that we've given and we've gotten really positive um responses to that and then we use those responses to then plan forward. Um, so I think that, um, you know, taking their feedback as we're doing those things throughout the
081year is really important so that we do make sure that we're supporting them. Um, you know, and that we we do want to keep high quality high quality staff. Um, we want to develop the people that we have. Um, and it's, you know, when people retire, we want to bring in good staff and and get them up to speed as to where our um, veterans are. Thank you for that. I think it's key and it's a it's a it fits in this this topic or item agenda item that we're on. I guess as best it can. I appreciate you kind of bringing some of that context around. I appreciate your approach to that department. We need all indications to us where there were some adjustments that needed to be made and I think you were
082the first wave of that. Um but you didn't just go in and change everything, right? We we took all that feedback and or you took all that feedback and you're helping to provide us with some of that understanding and are making incremental changes. But the point is to provide the best educational environment for our students. And sometimes that change resonates with current staff and sometimes it doesn't. Um to your point, we're always going to celebrate retirements. That's the reason, right, these employees get to that part of their career and they deserve that. That's not a negative. That's evolution of of the hiring cycle. Um others that find different passions outside of the building. We're not going to, you know, hold them and contain them and try to keep them here if they have a passion
083that takes them elsewhere. We need the their full attention here. Um and we'll support them in their ability to leave if that's their choice. Um and then and we'll work with the other things. But the key is allowing that feedback. I think this administration from from what I hear internally um allows that allows that upward leadership of feedback and then to build understanding because some of that feedback is warranted and some of it is misunderstandings that or you know assumptions that lead to to misunderstandings and I think this this administration is doing a good job providing correct context back down and generally after conversations are had it seems like we that spot and continue to elevate the performance of the staff which is the key portion. So, thank you for that. It's I know it's
084a little it fits in here but I appreciate you taking the time. Thank you. Any other items on this? No, we're good. Okay. Uh with that I will all in favor I. Any opposed? Hearing none, that passes. Six, buildings and grounds committee. Mr. Paul, thank you. Uh, buildings and grounds committee met on Monday, June 9th. We had a few or items uh that we covered. First off was the work order completion report which covered roughly the latter part of December into um the roughly the halfway point of the year. Frank went over all of those different items, all those different requests that came in. Um, gave us some perspective as far as how how fast he was able to close some of them, how and why some items stayed open longer um, you know, than
085than 60 days. The request was was thrown out there as far as reviewing those reports more frequently. So, going forward, I think we'll be looking at shorter periods of time um, as far as what what Frank and his group have been working on. all of our buildings. As part of our first real step forward with regards to the facilities assessments uh and conditions, um study that we received, we covered a little bit of the priority level one crosswalk. Uh the facilities reports roughly, 1100 pages. Um, and so what what the priority level one crosswalk was meant to do was to consolidate that list down to those items identified as priority level one so that uh the committee as well as overall the board can can review that information and begin that first step going forward
086of trying to identify really what are we going to cover first versus quote unquote last. Um, so I would encourage anybody out there to take a look at the buildings and grounds packet from the 9th. So you can see that consolidated list. Still lengthy list, but consolidated list. Uh, that being said, we also talked about the building tours and when when they were going to be scheduled. One of the big important pieces for this committee as well as any of the board me other board members that can attend is to actually visit the buildings and see some of these items up close and in person. And so uh the schedule or at least I'll call it tentative schedule has uh has been identified. Fortunately for us, we've moved our meetings to Tuesdays as a board
087and a committee and July happens to have five Tuesdays. So, uh, over the course of July, the buildings and grounds committee will be very busy. Um, the idea is that we will be covering two elementary schools, uh, at a visit. So, MacArthur and Rockfield are combined. Amy Bell and County Line are combined. We do have a buildings and grounds meeting uh, in between in the middle of the month that goes along with the full board meeting. And then we'll be visiting Kennedy Independent and uh, GHS Independent as well. So, uh, these meetings, these tours are open to the public. So, uh, this is everybody's opportunity. If you have a favorite building or your your student is going to be entering a new building this fall, this is your opportunity to see up close and in
088person all the different aspects of the buildings. And and honestly, some of the behindthe-scenes stuff that if you're interested in it, it can be quite interesting and pretty cool to see some of the workings behind some of these walls that that people happen to normally look at but don't necessarily realize how much uh actually happens behind the scenes. Mr. Pollock, we will be posting those on the district website and then promoting them as they get closer on Facebook as well so that that schedule is out there for general public to join. Hey, come meet your buildings and grounds committee up close and in person. So, uh I just want to say I appreciate the approach to that. Obviously, you could hold a full board meeting during a full committee meeting during during one of those
089building tours, but you have to take the tour and then bring that information back for discussion in this setting where we can record and preserve that that conversation. So, thank you. Anything further? Item seven, teaching and learning about the teaching and learning committee met on Monday, June 9th. We had a pretty light agenda that night, but a very important one. Uh, as GSD continually seeks to improve on curriculum, the identification of students needs for intervention and monitoring of student progress, growth, and achievement. It also looks to keep families informed and engaged in their students educational journey from the moment they step into the district in 4K full of hope and promise until they graduate full of possibilities. Um, next path has been identified as a valuable tool that will aid administration, teachers, students, and families
090on achieving these goals. Um, it allows for the collection, consolidation, interpretation of data from multiple sources and across schools to give a real-time picture of a student's progress and will help ensure students are on track for graduation both academically and behaviorally. Um, it allows for the creation of targeted dashboards to gauge the impact of extracurricular activities, attendance, and interventions on the success of students with the ability to um with the ability to break down by such things as grade, school, gender, and race, allowing for the identification of patterns across both schools and classrooms in an effort to ultimately improve student outcomes. So, it's a great tool for new tool potentially for the district to really be able to keep our students on track and identify those that aren't. So, we're really excited about that. We
091had an in-depth conversation on it on last Monday. We heard a little bit about it today in finance. So, we'll wait for the exciting conclusion on our vote here. That'll come forward through finance. It does come forward. Yeah. Well, went to a positive um to finance and then positive from finance to board. So see what happens. Um just on this topic, this is another thing that I've kind of heard through through the community uh the investment in and processes that free up teachers time. Mr. Mizak, I know you had a full meeting, but maybe we could just rehash some of how this could do that. Yeah, there are numerous ways where next path can s um save all of our teachers time. Uh during the meeting we talked uh about interventionists and school sites that
092have to regularly pull data from multiple sources. So it's a huge time savings on their part as well as for our principles. But every year I'll you know a constant process that all of our teachers go through is they set student learning objectives or SLOs's for the school year in which they have to analyze their students data. And this is an opportunity for them to have a data set that's at their fingertips and it pulls that data very easily for them and it also gives them a chance to monitor that progress and then check in midyear and end year how their students are doing. And then again at the elementary level this tool has the capacity to to form groups for our teachers. So they could pull a particular standard that students are struggling with
093and they can see uh you know the students who are doing well, the ones that might need some additional support and it gives them some quick information about how to pull a small group. So it does a lot of that um data analysis piece for teachers pretty rapidly so that it it gives them information at their fingertips. So it it should be a timesaver for all of our teachers. Thank you. Anything further? We'll move on to item eight, personnel committee. Okay, personnel committee met on Monday, June 9th and it was business as usual with the reports and updates. We went over teacher contracts. Uh at the time, I think we had three teacher contracts and since then we've uh got four more out for a total of seven. We had teacher resignations. Uh in that
094amount of time there were two additionals that we're talking about tonight. We did the staffing update um Under item seven, we bring forward two items that we'll bring to the full board for motions. And the first one is the employee handbook modifications of which we had discussions on these modifications and approval of the handbook take take place every year. Most of the modifications come from input from the staff and employees themselves. Um so it's the first item of business that we bring to the full board for approval. And the second one is regarding an administrator resignation. Okay. Are you bringing forward a positive recommendation? Item B, approval of employee handbook modification. Correct. Okay. That comes forward as a positive recommendation. Does not require a second. Any discussion? I will abstain from voting on this due
095to a potential conflict of interest with a family member that's an employee of the district. Thank you for the transparenc. Any anyone else? See no further discussion. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none that passes with one abstension. One abstension. Thank you. Then the other item that we are bringing forward with positive recommendation is regarding administrator resignation of Mr. John Fox who joined Germantown School District in 2018 over at Kennedy Middle School working with the music program and kind of the go-to administrator there. In the last year, we gave him the opportunity to come to Germantown High School and further his repertoire as a assistant principal and did a good job. He's moving on to I believe it's uh North Lake or Hartland Heartland Lake or Northshore Middle School in the Heartland Lakeside School
096District. It's a mouthful. It is. So, we wish John now a night. We wish him good luck in his new role out there and uh glad we were able to provide him the opportunity that he was looking for. that comes forward with a positive recommendation. Does not require a second. Any discussion? I say I had a chance to speak with Mr. Fox who I've known for quite some time. We were thrilled when he was willing to step up for that assistant principal role at the high school. I know his heart really is in the middle school levels. Um talking with Mr. Smith at the high school as well in regards to that. So, we're glad he found a position there and he kind of recognized we have a young staff here and unfortunately we can't
097offer him that but we need him to be where his passions are. So I'm sure he's going to do that district a great great service and and at some point who ever knows if there's an opening here and we may see him back. But uh his his commitment just a personal note of one of my children that we're going into band and we asked about an instrument where should we rent it and uh I think within 15 20 minutes. We had about three Facebook for sale posts. This one looks good. This one looks good. This one looks good. Contact any of them. And and we're instead of a rental fee, we were able to purchase an instrument at a very small. There's passion there was that was through the summer getting them ready to go
098in. That's just one example of what he brought to our district. We wish him well in his new endeavor. Hopefully he keeps an eye open at some point. Maybe he'll join the German town crew again. So, Mr. Fox, thank you for that. And if there's no further discussion, we can take a see none. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none, that passes. Anything further from personnel committee? There is none. Item nine, finance committee. Mr. Loath. Yes, the finance committee met earlier this evening at 6 pm in the PAC here at the high school. Um that video will be posted in a few days and uh therefore we will go through this quickly. Uh doing the cliff's notes version this evening. Um full board item 9A committee updates. Uh we went through and approved vouchers.
099Britney gave us her variance report. Next item was 9B, the 2025 2026 preliminary budget. Britney answered a few questions for us and uh we we will make a motion with a positive recommendation to the board of education to approve the 2025 2026 preliminary budget as presented. Comes forward with positive recommendation. Does not require a second. Any discussion? See none. All in favor. Any oppos? Hearing? None. That passes. Okay. Next item. Full board item 9C, the 2024 2025 committed fund balance. And we have a motion with a positive recommendation from the finance committee to the full board to commit the amount of $120,000 to the June 30th, 2025 general fund balance sub account committed fund balance for the purchase of core line materials K through8 forward with a positive recommendation. Does not require a second. Any
100discussion? Seeing none, all in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing? None. That passes. Next item is full board item 9D as in David. And this was uh for next path. We just discussed that a little bit. Uh motion with a positive recommendation from the finance committee to the board to approve the purchase of next path and professional development for an amount not to exceed $20,000 using a grant slashgeneral fund comes forward with the positive recommendation does not require second any discussion seeing none all in favor I any opposed hearing none that passes next item is full board item 9E Edward 2025 2026 district copy paper purchase. Shall we discuss it some more or just go right into it? Since we like talking about paper so much, by the way, it's fine writing paper just so everyone
101knows. Um, we bring forward to the board of education with a positive recommendation from the finance committee to purchase white copy paper from complete office of Wisconsin at the price of $29.55 per case and purchase color copy paper from Veritative at the price of $49.95 per case. comes forward with a positive recommendation and does not require a second. Any discussion? I think it's worth mentioning there's uh right now we're looking at 26 pallets of white paper and five pallets of colored paper. Enough to fill up one semi. It's the way to do it. Y it's an item to buy and both for sure. U I'll reserve my comments. I think I made them well known at the committee meeting. Thank you chairman for allowing me that moment. You're you're welcome. Any further discussion? Hearing none.
102All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none. That passes. Next item is full board item 9F as in Frank uh hydroponic gardens. So, we discussed this at the building committee and earlier in the finance committee meeting, but we will be growing our own uh greens for the uh school lunch program here at the high school in the near future. They also recommended that the full board meet for a type of field trip where we would eat lunch and u have salad with homegrown uh dark greens in the facility. Uh motion with a positive recommendation to the board of education to approve the construction project of classroom A102 and to purchase of 10 Fork farm flex units for a hydroponic vegetable garden at GHS with a not to exceed cost of $125,000 funded from the food
103and nutrition budget. comes forward with a positive recommendation. Does that require a second? Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none. That passes. And we adjourned at 6:47 p.m. Couple extra minutes. A little before the school board started. Yep. Item 10, new business. A discussion action to approve KMS and GHS co-curricular handbooks. Dr. Yerle. Uh yes, we are looking for approval of the Kennedy Middle School and Germantown High School co-curricular handbooks. There are minimal um changes to the both of those. This year we updated the the years. Um we replaced Mr. Noak's name with uh Mr. Castro's name. And then we added the mountain biking club at both the middle and high school and then ice fishing club at the middle school level cuz middle schoolers can participate in that group.
104Very minimal changes this year. Thank you. I will entertain a motion. Motion to approve the 2025 2026 KMS and GHS co-curricular handbooks. Second. Mr. Barney with the motion. Miss Higin Bath and with the second. Any discussion? I know last year we approved a change that involved um attendees uh actions may affect parents parent attend sorry parents attendance to events their behavior and actions may affect students ability uh to participate. Uh do we know of any incidents where that came to fruition? I know there was some scenarios that brought about that recommendation last year and obviously approval. Not this not this year. We had a great year uh with our spectators. Perfect. Thank you. Yes. Unfortunately, Dr. Nerdle and I did not talk as often this year in previous years. So, any further discussion hearing? None.
105All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none. That passes. Uh B discussion and action to approve student handbooks. Mr. Reuter, thank you. Uh you'll see that the elementary has no proposed changes and the outline changes for Kennedy Middle School for the 25 26 school year um as well as the high school are noted here. Again, very minimal changes. Kennedy's changes have to do with the change in schedule that the board uh is aware of that took place this year. And the high school has minor changes to parking regulations. With that, I will entertain a motion. Motion to approve the proposed Germantown School District student handbooks for the 2025 2026 school year. Second taken by Mr. Barney with a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? Any opposed? Hearing none. That passes. Uh, new business
10610C discussion action approved Germantown school district strategic goals. Dr. Thank you. Um, as I've presented throughout the course of this last year, um, survey data related to our parent satisfaction with academic achievement, uh, employee satisfaction and with their engagement in workforce as well as community satisfaction with our appropriation of district funds and utilization of resources as well as Mr. has presented our annual assessment report to show our overall performance as a school district this past year. U many of those factors as well as the work that this district has been doing the last three years. Um I'm coming forward tonight with four goals related to a proposed um work forward with the strategic plan for the next three years so that us as a school district have a clear aim or aims in this case
107of four priority areas that we can work towards in academic achievement, growth for each student, workforce engagement, environment, and community relationship. Those are broad terms for goals. Um, but attached in your packet, you'll see definitions of what each of those goal areas mean, as well as uh tenative areas of work that's either currently happening or that administration would recommend will happen over the next three years um as as areas for improvement to make sure our district not only maintains but continues to excel and exceed expectations for community, students, staff, and uh the general public. Um right now our administrative team is um over the next three days are working towards prioritizing and really just establishing how to build a roadmap 100 day plans hopefully towards these goal areas. Um and that the intent is if
108the board were to approve these goals this evening um during the course quarterly um district administration would report out on progress of towards these goal areas. First in this fall we We share a full length strategic plan in a year at a glance and then from there report out quarterly with um key performance indicators and how we're measuring that so that the board's aware of the work that's happening not just through committee work but on an ongoing basis. And when principles um would come to share monthly as we have spotlight schools they would not only have student presentations but they'd share work related to these goal areas and how they're engaging their staff. So we can see that cascade effect from a single sheet of paper down to the student level what that would look
109like. So earlier I presented obviously on the enrollment study. Um Mr. Eward spoke to working with the village and thinking long term. This is another caveat of how we can be more strategic in our approach to the work we're doing not only in the moment but thinking and casting forward. So um this is it should shouldn't be a surprise to any of you. I've talked about this and um the goal is to operationalize and put this work in place so that when you are making decisions at this table, we can look back at these four goals and say, does that decision align with one of these four goals? So that we don't get um caught by shiny objects or the newest and latest, but where are we going? What do we want to accomplish? How
110are we to get there? And how are we measuring if we're being successful? Absolutely. Um I guess I'll take a motion first before we open. Motion to approve the Germantown School District's strategic goals for the 2025 through 2028 school years. Second sing with motion. Mr. Pollock with the second. I will open for discussion. I think the key piece uh I'm not surprised so I can confirm that you've shared some of these items specifically with either me or the board. Um, I think the key piece to this, um, for for people to understand is because I, when I read these, I like them, but there's still the additional work. There's still the additional definition that that you've already pointed out that is still going to be happening over the next several months. And so, I think
111that's the key piece. I mean the one of the ones of the most basic ones that that uh just kind of jump out to me as far as how we're going to measure this is simply number three workforce engagement C attract develop and retain high performing workforce. If we're at 90 in three years we need to be at 93. Those 10 of levels are still a work in progress. So um I I like them all. I think they these are all important. Of course, there could be others. We could maybe remove a couple of these, but the the bottom line is is that if we are successful with all four of these items, we will be in a much better position in those three years. I think the key here to your point too, Mr.
112Pollock, is these are just goals and I I live by um a saying that a goal is just a wish without a plan. So, there are going to be more information that will come forward to you as a full board. Um, as we're now starting summer, which is the planning process, so that we can kick off in the fall when our full workforce returns. Here are our goals. Here's where we're going. And this is how we're going to do it, right? And that's that's the harder work. The easy part is to put down a goal. I want to lose weight. I want to run a triathlon. It's the work to get to or do a complete a triathlon. Um, it's the work to get there and that's the next phase that'll come from having the
113established goals. I would just echo kind of what both of you said to the point of these are the anchor points. These are the four categories for one I don't want to call them categories but these are the four anchor points that that we work on and say is the work we're doing today affecting one of these things. U to your point that work has to be outlined uh in the plan to complete uh will come based off of that between now and in the next three years while we work through this. There's going to be a lot of conversations that come that are going to pull us off of these topics and we're going to either have to say is that something we need to include in this or stay the course, right? And
114we'll continue to reevaluate this. These are while they're anchors. The conversation can always be fluid, right? Yes. So, uh I'm excited to see them. A lot of this is conversations you and I have had from multiple hours. I'm really excited to see them down on paper. I'm excited for the community to kind of see and understand that process and then work work from here. It's a lot of this is already being done. We're just it's formalizing it and fantastic to see it that way. Any further discussion hearing? None. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none. That passes. D. Discussion action to approve updated summer school contracts. Mr. Mizak and Miss King. The summer school contracts that I brought in May were slightly adjusted. Most of the adjustments uh have come as a result of
115staffing changes of who will is teaching the class. Uh there was also a reduction in sections due to enrollment. So uh we only offer garden adventures during session one instead of session one and two. Uh the largest uh update came with uh the last assignment that's on here which is for the educational interpreter. uh we added that staff member to support a student um who has some needs throughout the the summer school sessions. So uh that that's a special education need that we are supporting. Cole, did you have anything? I mean Jake explained it perfectly but really it's just a um a sign language interpreter that's needed for students to participate in our summer school sessions. So I just want to verify we are supporting students in summer school um to a degree. Yes. So
116during the summer uh their specially designed instruction isn't provided the same way that it is during the school year. Um one of the big shifts that took place three years ago in our summer school program. we eliminated basically our self-contained programs where we had students who were being pulled out um of a lot of the the classes that we had and they kind of had their summer school experience through limited offerings. So, three years ago, what we tried to do is expand those offerings and kind of replicate what we do during the school year and make sure that if a student has an IEP or there is a need that we need to fill, uh we figure out how to do that through our our normal summer school programming so that they can all of
117our students can be with their same age peers and and have the same access to all of the uh programming that we offer during the summer. And just to add, um, uh, our staff gives feedback and provides, um, the information needed to know what students do need as far as support goes for summer school. And then we use that information in order to make sure, um, that we are giving them the ability to be able to participate. Thank you for providing that context. Any further discussion? Uh, I need a motion. We'll take a motion before discussion. Motion to approve the summer schools contracts as presented. Second, Mr. P with the motion taken by with the second. Any discuss. Thank you for the context and information there. Um, obviously it's more than just summer school. We
118know that that continued work through the summer allows for easier transition when the full year reboots and we don't have as much aggression as we could have. So, thank you for continuing to work through that, working with staff to help provide that leadership out so we can provide the right programming back down. Uh, no further discussion. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none that passes. E. Discussion action to approve extended school year contracts. Miss Cole. Um, yes. I have um two staff member contracts for extended school year. Just a reminder that extended school year um those are IEP team decisions um we look at that for each student every year to determine if there um would be a significant regression or um an extended amount of time to recoup skills. So we might determine
119that a student needs extended school year services. Um so two of those are staff members and then the third line is the new vision um company that we're going to be using for next school year. They are going to be providing um vision services for um a student that needs those. as far as their extended school year services go. So, we are um working with that company right away to do our extended school year services. So, I've included that contract um along with the two staff members who are also a part of extended school year to support students. Those are um both interpreters. Entertain a motion. Make a motion to approve the extended school year contracts as presented based on negotiated wage after July 1st, 2025. Second, follow up with the motion. Mr. Barney with
120the second. Any discussion? So, this is a new contracted service or a different contract. So, it's the the company that we're going to be using for our vision services for next school year. It's the same company, but this is specific for extended school year services. Um, so it's it's starting before their contract. It's it's um additional. So, we have a separate contract for it. Okay. Thank you. Any further discussion? Seeing none. All in favor? Any opposed? Hearing? None. That passes. E. Uh, sorry. F. Discussion and action to approve certified staff wage increase for the 2526 fiscal year. Uh, Mr. Noak will help us out with this discussion. Thank you. The administration supports a pay rate increase for certified teaching staff in an amount equal to 2.95%. Increases would be effective July 1st, 2025. The below
121chart notes notes increased distribution amounts based on 2024 2025 teacherbased salary amounts. Negotiations for the 2526 school year began in April of 2025 with communication between the Germantown School District administration and the Germantown Education Association. The following memorandum summarizes the outcome of of negotiations between the board of education for the Germantown school district board or district as appropriate and the Germantown Education Association GA or association for the 2526 school year. The board is approving an increase for teachers in the Germantown School District for the uh 2025 2026 school year outlined below. The final offer from the Germantown Board of Education is as follows. One, an increase of 2.95% derived from the base salary amount for a total of 527,649.32. Two, distribution will occur tiered as illustrated in the chart below. increases will be distributed to
122the 2025 2026 base salary except for salaries at or above 100,000 which will be a stipened amount of $1,000. Uh those teachers under 80,000 will receive $2,15465 added to base. Those over 80,000 will receive 1,800 added to base and those over 100,000 a $1,000 siphon to be paid June 30th of 2026. Three increased amounts are based on 1.0 FTE with proration for part-time teacher contracts. Adjustments will be made when teachers in one salary tier pass teachers in a subsequent tier in overall salary in the school year. And finally, four, the agreement is for the 2025 2026 school year. Uh to receive stipen pay, an eligible certified staff member must fulfill their entire 2025 2026 teaching contract contract. We ask that you uh approve the recommendation as noted. Thank you for that. So that's the technical
123side of this. Um I just want to provide some transparency for the community in regards to process on this. Um uh as it started in uh November of 2024, the administration on behalf of the board reached out to in negotiations um with the intent to build on the continued positive relationship that started last year on a settled agreement prior to to leaving uh for the summer so that staff would know their their contract rate coming back for the following year. Um unfortunately at that time we were informed um that that they were following the advice of um the state on not participating negotiations. Um and we continue through the winter months to reach out I believe monthly my understanding destroyer and um continue to ask them to please engage us um during that time u
124it was continued not to to um progress. uh late spring um they contacted us um with the intent of their willingness to come to negotiations. By that time uh CPI uh was set at 2.95 surrounding districts had already settled at that rate. Uh many of the surrounding districts you know the surrounding districts had settled at that rate or were in the process of settling um at that rate. As a result, we made an offer at the 2.95% CPI. Um, and unfortunately at that time, it was made known to us that the GA negotiation team was not taking the offer to membership to the phone membership for a vote. Uh, district um later made a secondary offer uh which is the one you see uh before you uh with the tiered approach. And once again, We
125were informed uh that they uh there was not an intent to take it to the to the full union membership for a vote. Um was that that's disappointing. Uh we're going to stand on our um belief that it's important for the staff members to understand their contractor weight coming back next year. As last year and through the summer we received lot large amount of positive feedback and positivity around that. Um the law around in this scenario dictates CPI is the ceiling uh at 2.95%. Um that's what this offer contains. It's it's over a half a million dollar investment into the staff um which is on par with one of the largest expenses I I can remember making um well sitting in this seat. Uh We're going to continue bring forward with that a kind of
126a recommend kind of but the recommendation of the contract that's in front of you um for consideration along with administration um that this is the right way to go and hopefully we can get this approved this evening or be a few days after school let out. It'll still be well well before the dog days of summer that our staff know um and understand their contracted rate. Um I I'll add we kind of had an initial commitment and why we wanted to discuss stuff in November or start the contract conversation in November is we had an initial thought of a 3.05% and while CPI is 2.95% um unfortunately they were unwilling to come to the table at that time and I kind of hope the membership understands that um we we were generally serious and that
127was in public meeting that I had brought that member up and you can see our seriousness behind that as the uh assistant uh I'm sorry the non-certified staff and administration had received that 3.05% but due to lack of the the unfortunate the unfortunate uh approach uh we were unable to get uh that out in a timely manner. Uh so we are stuck with the 2.95% at this time. Uh it does the tiered approach I think people kind of ask questions about that and I think that lends to the commit the continued commitment of closing pay gap. We understand the entry level pay of teaching salary is not significant in the world these days. Um, and we're attempting our best within our budgetary restrictions to close that gap. And we've done that for three years now.
128And this is a continuence of that while ensuring that that pay pool is receiving the appropriate percentage um deserved by by their hard work and continued dedication to our students and communities. So um with that, I guess I'll take a motion and we can enter into discussion. Make a motion to approve a 2.95% pay rate increase in the outline distribution for certified teaching staff as presented for the 2025 2026 fiscal year effect effective July 1st 2025. I'll second Mr. Pollock with a motion Mr. Brown with a second. Um I have said what I need to say on the topic. Does anyone else want to add to that discussion? I would just throw out there that I still maintain the belief that uh we continue to reach out to the GA on a periodic basis throughout
129the year to uh not even necessarily go into negotiations per se, but to continue this discussion that uh I was a big believer in last year and still maintain that belief this year. Mr. the finance committee and I'm sure Britney Altonorf appreciates getting this done before July 1st makes things easier uh for the next school year and I'm getting a head bobbing yes from Britney in the audience. So thank you. Yeah, I think it makes obviously there's a lot that goes on as if the school year would start January 1st where July 1 would start and we didn't have the structure in place. Uh pay wouldn't be equalized to the appropriate contract rate which would cause this your office um quit the quit the workload on retroactive back pay or percentage corrections. Um, more importantly,
130it's so the staff can leave for the summer and understand this is what we're making and it's market rate. It's 2.95%. If you ask any district, if you look at any other open meetings in regards to contracts that have been settled, it's 2.95%. So, as the community understands, this isn't a rate issue. Why we can't get this done, I I'm optimistic. I'm positive in the fact that I know we're doing the right thing for our younger staff and helping close that gap. Um I really I truly believe that sitting here and that's going to continue to be the work going forward. Um why this can't be settled and why we're being asked to go to impass um in order to get it done in a timely manner and not drag this out into October and
131November and maybe December. Um I I don't understand that. We're going to continue to do the work on our end. The amount of meetings and short notice meetings we held as a negotiation team, as a board to try to get this done uh when they were finally willing to come to the table. Um we practically bent over backwards to ensure that to try to meet the end of school deadline. It's artificial deadline, but it's a deadline that myself and I believe this board really wanted to achieve. Um unfortunately, we're not there. Uh, I can speak from my experiences with 20 years in a union. Um, and most of that spent out of contract or expired contract. Um, and you can see that conversation going on now with that that entity. Um, so I understand the
132employee side of this. I spent 20 years in there and unfortunately we had three-year contracts and most of the time we were by the time we were done settling a contract we were in contract for three months for that contract to expire. So you're talking about two and a half years or two years nine months worth of either backay or retrop pay or if they were willing to provide it which sometimes they weren't. Um I understand that side of it. So that's why it's important to me to make this deadline. I wish it was is important on the other side. 2.95% once again it's that's the rate. There's there's we don't have anywhere to go with that. We met it. We could have we I would understand if we were saying 1.95 or or whatever
133that would happen to be. But unfortunately we're at the the CPI rate. This is what the other districts are settling at and why why we can't get it done. And I hope membership understands we did everything we could to get there. Um, at this time I think the importance is sending them out through the summer understanding what they're going to make next year and we're going to prioritize that. Um, and move on from there. I don't sure if anyone else has anything else. If not, I would entertain the vote. Seeing no further discussion. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none that passes make an announcement before we just want to thank Mr. Noak um this evening it's his last board meeting before he retires in two weeks so before we adjourned I wanted to
134congratulate him on his career here in Germantown a decade correct pretty much thank you for your service and your work Mike thank you yeah I I'll echo that and I have it in my notes here no that's I was concentrate on something else, but not to skip over that. Michael, thank you for your dedication to the district. Um, in the very convers topic we were just discussing, the amount of work you do in the background conversatively is immense. Helping us understand what other districts are doing uh is invaluable. And I hope you the best in your endeavors. I don't know how many basketball games you're going to be repping. Too many. I think we're keeping you from one right now, but it sounds like you're going to stay active and I'm excited for you to
135we've talked about that retirement side. I'm excited for you on that end. So, thank you. Thank you. Any Thanks. I'll give you my standard words. Uh it's what is important in life. I wish you a happy, healthy, safe, and warm retirement. And thank you for your service. Thank you. Now with that I will hear one more motion move. Second Mr. Barney with the motion Mr. Pock with the second. Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor? Any opposed? We are adjourned at 9:01 p.m. Thank you.