001Call the Germantown School District Board of Education meeting to order. April 28th, 2025 at 7 p.m. Please rise if able to for the pledge of allegiance and moment of the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. One a official meeting notification. Dr. Ryder, public notice of all meetings 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. Item 1B. Roll call. Eert here. Brown here. Barney's here. Lo here. Pollock here. Botham here.
002Here. We're all here. Thank you. Jeff, welcome to your first full board meeting. You're just participating in a couple of uh committee meetings. We're glad to have you. Thank you. Settle in and let's have a little fun here, as we want to call it. That item two, approval of agenda. Move to approve the agenda. Second. Okay. Okay. Mr. P with a motion second with the second. Any discussion? See none. All in favor? Any opposed? Hearing none, that passes. Item three, we will move on to election of board officers. I'll preside over this for the moment. 3A president. Like to nominate Russ Eert for president. Second. Mr. Pollock with the motion. Miss Higin Bothotham with the second. Any discussion? Uh, I'll just say that, uh, if you're willing to have me, I'm willing to do it
003again. It's been an interesting year. We'll keep moving forward. Um, this really is just an at will of the board here. So, if you're willing to support me in that, we'll keep the keep the motor moving in the right direction here. So, thank you. Any further discussion? I think you've done a great job in the last year. Thank you. And thank you for your service. Appreciate that. Thank you very much. Any further hearing? None. All in favor? I I. Any opposed? Hearing? None. That passes. Uh 3B, Vice President. I nominate Eric Brown as vice president. Second. Who's got second? Pollock. Mr. Barney with the motion. Mr. Pollock with a second. Any discussion? I'd just like to say again like Russ if if you have me for a second year I'll be glad to join it.
004It's been fun been a learning experience and uh work alongside you however you want. Appreciate and the whole board. Absolutely appreciate it. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I Any opposed? That passes. C treasurer like to nominate Mike Loath as treasurer. Second. Mr. Brown with the motion. Mr. Pollock with the second. No, I'm sorry. Mr. Barney was We're both good-looking, but it was glasses. No glasses. That's how I tell you apart. Any discussion? Um, thank you for having me as treasurer again. I hope to serve honorably and ethically in the position. We appreciate it. Uh it should be noted that vice president comes with the u committee chair of personnel. So we appreciate that commitment there. And treasur obviously comes with the committee chair of finance which would we go over that tonight.
005You will see how much work's involved in that one. So we appreciate your efforts in those positions. Some some nights are a little longer than others for us and we appreciate the board showing up for the entire uh finance committee meeting this evening also. Absolutely. Makes the makes the full board move. Yes. Well, was any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none, that passes. Item D, clerk. I nominate Tom Barney. Second. Mig with the the motion. Mr. Loath with the second. Any discussion? Thanks for the vote. appreciate it. You uh do a good job keeping us on track, especially when it comes to some of these rabbits rules of orders and other other uh guidelines we have to follow. I'll give it my best for another year and and your
006Yeah. And your searchability of those guidelines is is uncanny. So, we appreciate it. Um that also comes with the chair of policy, which makes sense. So, we appreciate your work in that as you'll see how much work that involves tonight. Um, any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing? None. That passes. Item E, uh, CISO one delegate. On the night, Tracy Pock. I'll second. Uh, Mr. Bar Mr. Barney with the motion and Mr. Brown with the second. Any discussion? I think there might be a little on this. So, so long story short, I' I've been the CISO1 delegate, I think the last two years, so I appreciate the nomination. I've also served on the board, which um I am verifying whether or not my term for that ends this spring. Uh
007so but I'm happy that uh that you guys have the confidence or at least had the confidence and hopefully will continue to have the confidence to send me out into the public as a as a face of of this board to the CISO1 community. Appreciate your willingness to do that. It is an extra set of meetings you have to go to way outside of the not outside of the scope of this board but outside of this meeting on top of I know you already done yourself with parks and reccks you'll hear about later. Um, so there's a significant time commitment to that and uh, keeping the pulse of CISO one. So if you're willing to do it, we'd love to have you continue. I'm not rejecting the nomination. Mr. L, after all these years, I
008do not know where those meetings are held. Where are those? Unfortunately, a lot of times they have a virtual option because they're out walk. Yeah. Pwalk. Piwalki. Okay. Paul Road. Okay. Yeah. I I did not know. I have never served in that position, so I had no idea. Are those they're open to the public? Technically, yes. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. This is this position, just to be clear, is for the delegate to the annual meeting, but I've served on the board the last couple years as well. Okay. Germantown was placed on the board and as him being our delegate representative, that's then falls to his responsibility for that. Um, so there's more than just the usual goes on with it while we're in that postown's in that position to be part of CES one on the
009board level which we appreciate obviously. Yeah. Yeah. Very good. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor. Any opposed? Hearing none that passes. Thank you all for stepping forward in those positions and thank you for the support of the full board for those people. Uh item four, reports just a district uh administrator update. Dr. Reutder. Thank you. Uh again, welcome Mr. Voyer to your first board meeting this evening. Uh Jeff and I were able to spend time with Mr. Ewards and probably about almost a two-hour meeting on boarding him through um roles and responsibilities of a schoolboard member as well as looking at our bylaws um and and just talking about a year at a glance and what that looks like. And then Mr. and I went to the WASB new board member meeting last
010Wednesday night, Tuesday. Tuesday night at Pewwaukee. Um, nice three-hour meeting where we got to uh meet other new elected board members. Um, two years ago, Migbath and Mr. Brown and I went to that as well, but hear a pretty good presentation from veteran board members across the region and and um just talk through the role and what it all entails. So, thanks for the dedication before your first board meeting of hours put in to be ready to serve the school district. So, thank you. Thank you. Um, this evening I have one thing in my report. Um, as I have shared, we've we've done a lot of surveying in the last couple months related to um our school and academic programming, uh, community partnerships as well as um employee engagement. So, this evening I wanted to
011walk you through our um first employee engagement survey that was conducted um in the last month. We had approximately 307 responses out of I think Mike what 560 is our total workforce around that um number and you can see how that was broken down based on uh positions that people hold within the district in all of those work um fields. Obviously the biggest um area of workforce is our teaching staff and we saw a 65 almost 60 cent percent uh response rate when it came to our teaching staff. Um, one of the key things too is to break down how many years of service that people that of the 307 um took have been in the school district. And you can see that almost 42% or close to half are in their first to five
012years. So it's important to capture such a large population in those zero to five years because that helps us understand how to retract and retain those employees for longevity um over time regardless of the position they're in. Um you can see then it's a breakdown by building. Um obviously the high school is going to have the highest uh completion rate given that they are our biggest oops biggest uh building. Um so the first question asked is how satisfied are you with your current role? I'll say that the liyker scale throughout is one highly unsatisfied two is unsatisfied three is satisfied and four is very satisfied. So as you can see here, our workforce that uh completed this almost um 180ish uh people are either satisfied or very satisfied in their current role within the school
013district. Uh the second question, do you feel valued and appreciated for your work? And you can see this now breaks down to almost over 50% do feel a sense of value or appreciation for the work that they do daily. Uh third question, do you feel your workload is manageable? Again, uh 64 65% do feel that their daily workload is manageable, but there are areas for improvement. Um and what that looks like. Um how do you describe the overall work culture in your school or department? And you can see that again over uh 60% do feel that they're satisfied or very satisfied with the culture of where they the school they work in or specifically a department that they work in. Um do you feel supported by your colleagues and leadership? And this question is worded
014uh colleagues and leadership because at the end of the day um leadership is not just administration. You could have a department leader. You could have a building level team leader. Um school leader. So at the at the end of the day, we're getting at do do is there a colleial relationship and do you feel supported within your work environment? So again over 65% um do 68% do feel that they are supported by their colleagues and leadership. Do you believe communication between staff and leadership is effective? And here this is a question that um I think we can always improve on communication and communication's two ways right it's what's being said but it's also what's being heard and this is an area we'll focus in as I come back to you in June with some strategic
015goals based on a strategic plan that I'll ask the board to adopt in moving forward and we'll have a very in-depth communication plan not just for our our employees in the district but also for our external factors our parents and community members as well communication can can always be improved on. Uh, do you have access to professional development opportunities that support your growth in your current position? And so, you can see this is one of those that's about 50% and that's an area that I know I've talked with Jake and Katie and if we have strategic goals that align our professional development plan vision and for the future, people can see what that plan is and understand it and what their engagement is, not just from pupil service and teaching staff, but how are we
016professionally developing Frank staff? professionally developing our food and nutrition staff, district office staff, and those type of things. So, I look at this as an opportunity just for us to be transparent with where we're going and how we're going to do that so everyone can see where their buyin is um to their growth and development because we're only as good as we are with our growth and development year after year. Um and then it it dovetales into this question, how effective do you find professional development opportunities provided by the district? And so we have to look at how are we surveying um after professional development opportunities to understand the feedback or the discourse that maybe individuals had and to see the effectiveness so we can rectify that for future development but also get better at
017explaining the why. Um I know it's sometimes professional development we want to think about I want to do X but there's reasons like we have all of our elementary teachers going through act 20 training. It's mandatory. It's state obligated. It's it's in the law. And sometimes people might not find that as being beneficial or something they want to do to grow professionally, but we have those responsibilities. So again, it's explaining the why, but also setting that roadmap so people understand the work we're doing long term. Um, this question, how satisfied are you with compensation benefits? I think we can always, and this this table has done a good job in the last couple years to think about how we're providing compensation. Um, we're in the midst of negotiating right now with the union. um as
018well as thinking about future um costs and what that might look like um related to fringe benefits and that's something that we can always improve on and I think any organization anywhere you ask are you satisfied through compensation and benefits I think it's always going to be uh in the lesser but that doesn't mean that's not an area that we can continually re-evaluate and improve on over time and be still fiscally responsible again another question related to competitive salary and benefits compared to similar districts. And I think that the key word is similar districts. We have to really think about what are real comps versus um comp comparables to districts that might have higher revenue limits than us, might have more um taxation at the local level, might receive more federal funding than us. So,
019it's always about setting the narrative of what is a competitive salary and benefits and how is that similar to similar districts, not all school districts, because as we know, funding in public education is not equal. Um, this one I'm glad to see this. Do you feel a sense of purpose and fulfillment in your role? So, though people may not feel their comp their salary and benefits are where they want them to be, we have over 85% of our staff have feeling a sense of purpose and fulfillment in their role. They want to come to work. They want to do the right work and they're engaged in their work. So, um, we'll take that information and that'll be used as we build out, um, our strategic goals from the employee workforce standpoint. Um, and I'll be
020bringing that a draft of that to you in June as a full board. Any question? So, has this been followed up or will be followed up with with probing questions as to why people answer certain way, i.e. workload? Uh, was it class size? Was it not enough hours? Was it Sure. And then something we're going to look at in May is having smaller pull- in uh representation from each building and uh focus groups. Um usually in the month of May I do listening sessions in each building and I usually it's what's went well this year? What are things we can improve on? This year I'll be doing it related to some of these questions to get better understanding. And last year we've done this before, first year doing it. Correct. Okay. We'll keep the results
021because it'll be interesting to see. And we'll measure this will be a key a key per performance indicator moving forward um to see how we can improve in areas and maintain some of the good areas. Great. Is there any way for some of these where because for the most part it look like we're satisfied except for obviously a few of those you know were strikingly different. Is there any way to show the like the age or I mean the time of service to see are is it the the you know people that are just coming in that are more satisfied or I have to go behind the scenes in the survey and drill down on that. Um, so tonight I just showed that general overview, but and that's that's important because someone who's been here
02225 years versus two years, right? We saw that in the compensation study last year. It was very different on what they wanted to see the compensation versus someone who's a veteran. And we have to scale that because we want everyone to be satisfied so that they do good work. To that same point of like digging into the numbers, it'd be interested to see like your your question on how effective do you find their professional development. If you just look at like elementary teachers, Sure. What did that number look like? Because they've had maybe a different set of professional development pushed on them because of the reading curriculum, things like that, and how that would sway the numbers. Yeah, good question. Yeah, the any right any survey data you can you can really dissect or segregate
023to find out even more pinpointed areas to focus on. And then when we think about what are overarching goals as a school district, we don't want to be so narrow, but we need to think about that variance elementary to custodial to educational assistant office staff. What it might look like. Any further comments or questions? Seeing none, Dr. Royer, do you have anything further? Do I have anything else? No. We got a long agenda. I'll let you guys talk away. Thank you. Uh B, student representative report. Is this you're on? Yeah, you just it'll perfect. Okay. At Amy Belt, we've had a lot of events happening. Last week on 416, we had our annual dinner with the arts that was sponsored by our PTA. We were able to see students talents through their artwork and the
024talent show. We also helped with a fundraiser for Archie's birthday, raising about $250 towards the fundraiser. At the end of April, we are ending the month with an exciting literacy night that families are invited to, and we are hosting our spring book fair as well. April has been a month that perfectly captures the spirit of County Line. We welcome back alumni for an all school assembly about courage and I was actually the one to go and speak to them and it was absolutely adorable. Um and reminding our students that their dreams can take flight from right here. Our fifth graders have kicked off the DARE program with officer locks building skills for safe responsible choices. In heartwarming birthday tribute to our therapy dog Archie, students waged a f friend friendly penny war that raised an
025incredible $2700 for the Washington County Humane Society. And true to our stewardship values, classes honored Earth Day by rolling up their sleeves and collecting litter around the building and the nearby trails. Together, these experiences highlight our community's commitment to character, service, and care for our community. MacArthur is excited to finish the school year strong. Our biggest PTA fundraiser, the fun run, is underway with students eager to enjoy obstacle courses and inflatables in early May. Leading up to the event, the school is raising money for field trips like the third grade symphony, fourth grade trip to Madison, and fifth grade visit to the shed aquarium, as well as classroom tech and resources. We're also preparing for a student talent show with auditions happening now. Students are showing incredible creativity and courage. Recent field trips at MacArthur
026include the fourth graders visit to WMadison's Geology Museum, Wisconsin history museum maker space and the Capitol and first and second graders enjoying Finding Nemo at the First Stage Theater. Lastly, MacArthur will host a Title One meeting on May 8th before the PTA meeting where Mr. Gonzalez and Miss Lucas will share info about available student services. This month, Brockfield Elementary is centering our character education around the theme of courage. Our staff is actively reinforcing this value through classroom discussions, activities, and schoolwide initiatives. A highlight has been the return of the Rockfield talent show with over 40 students courageously stepping forward to audition. This event not only showcased our students diverse talents, but also gave them a chance to build confidence and take positive risks in a supportive environment. We also had an April full of fun
027activities, including the Scholastic Book for Fair, third graders visiting the Riveridge Nature Center, and the schoolwide paw sale. It's the final countdown at Kennedy. Students are working hard to finish strong, building on the solid work habits developed through the year. In May, we're excited to celebrate teacher appreciation week, especially our amazing middle school teachers. They guide students through a pivotal time with care, humor, and dedication. We're grateful for all they do every single day. As we enter the fourth quarter, we're also preparing for our eighth grade grad promotion. This is a key time for students to sharpen the habits that they'll carry into high school. The eighth grade dance will occur on June 9th in the KMS cafeteria, followed by promotion on June 10th in the GHS fieldhouse. Finally, at Germantown, ACT and preACT testing
028is now behind us for the year, and AP testing starts May 5th, where our students will account for over 750 total AP tests. The GHS staff continues to find ways to support learning and engagement and provide meaningful experiences for students. There has been an increase in the student industry recognized certification attainment this year with additional opportunities being created for future students. Finally, GHS students continue to excel both inside and outside of the classroom. This week, we have students supporting hearing screenings at the middle schools, our NHS leave leading the blood drive, and students competing in DECA nationals among many other things. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, great job. Thank you for coming. And I know this is outside of your uh not your comfort zone, but just outside of your normal responsibilities in the school,
029but that's that's you as a leader, a youth leader, and then stepping into our younger classrooms. That's phenomenal. Thank you. Really appreciate it. Yeah, of course. Thank you. Thank you. Um D, Village of Germantown liaison reports, uh sorry, C. MacArthur Elementary School presentation. Sorry, Mr. Gonzalez, we're ready for it. You're all out there. I apologize. Speaking of our our younger grades, come on in. Good evening everyone. Good evening. Good evening. Right. Right up here to this right up this front. This is your microphone that you'll be speaking into. I'm single. Okay. Right. All right. Thank you so much for having us here today. And here are our fifth grade scholars. Uh I'll give you a little preview. Um at MacArthur, we've been working on increasing the complexity within um our academic instruction. So these scholars
030here, we're not trying to push them to go further along. We're trying to push them to critically think and dive deeper into their knowledge base. Uh we've been working with Sarah from CISA. We have two teachers here, Miss Way and Miss Leah, who have taken charge on that and making sure that they're pushing our our kiddos to make sure they're diving deeper. So, they're gonna have a little presentation for you. Um, hope you enjoy. Welcome. Hello. I'm Charlotte Rebecci. I'm Bria Treml. I'm Ariel. And I'm Lassia Tel. And we're fifth graders from MacArthur Elementary. Tonight, we will be showing you some of the challenge math problems we have been given the opportunity to do. We will be presenting six problems we did. All of these are real world problems we'd find in everyday life. Thank
031you for letting us present this to you tonight. So, let's get into it. The first problem we would like to share to you tonight is the expo marker scenario. In this problem, we started the year at 50 Expo markers and now we are down to five. These groups had to figure out how many more expo markers would be needed to last the rest of the school year. The steps that were needed to take to solve this problem were to first find out how many days in the school we are and then second do the calculations and figure out how many more expo markers are needed to last the rest of school. A way you could do this is by multiplying the number of days you have left in school by the amount of expo markers
032you use in one day. This soccer team, which has 17 players, three shop rounds, one coach, and two managers, is going to Detroit for their championship game. First, we need to find the cost of a coach bus that would fit the team and all the adults. Then, we needed to find the cost for a hotel in Detroit. There will be three players per room. The shop rooms, coach, and managers get their own room. We'll be staying three nights in Detroit. Also, we need to calculate the food cost. The team will have a nice breakfast this morning before the game. Finally, we calculated the cost and double checked and even triple checked our calculations. And now the team's off to the game. The next problem we present to you is the new flooring and baseboards problem.
033The goal of this problem is to replace all the flooring and baseboards around the school. First, we looked in each store website to find the cheapest, even though the specific problem does not have a budget. Next, we had to find a way to measure the school. Then, you had to multiply the area by the cost to get the flooring and the perimeter by the baseboards to get the cost for the baseboards. Then, you had to calculate all the cost and then add it all up to get the grand total. We designed and made a guinea pig home. It needed to have an area of 11,000 cm squared to 16,000 cm squared and a perimeter of 460 cm squared. This is not the exact size. Since we had to fill it with water to clean it,
034we had to multiply the area by the height, which we chose 15 cm for. After that, we had to fill 1/8 of it with bedding. We went online to find bedding, and we divided the area by eight to get our answer. Lastly, we have found out how much it cost to get the bedding. We added some fun decorations to our home. We added a hot tub, a slide, and a play structure. The model was not necessary, but we wanted to add it to our presentation. The next problem we would like to present to you is the dream vacation problem. In this problem, these groups had to figure out a dream vacation that would be under their budget of $30,000. The steps you had to take to get to figure out this problem was to decide
035on the place you were going to go and then you had to get flights to the place. Then you had to figure out what activities you were going to do during the day such as atving, water skiing or boating. And then you had to do the calculations and make sure you under your budget of $30,000. And some of these groups have went to places such as Bora Bore, the Netherlands, and even Hawaii. My class is having a pizza party next week and we have 24 kids in our class including one teacher. So that makes 25. All the girls decide they wanted 1/8 of a pizza. Now the boys decided they wanted one/10enth. First we had to convert the fractions to a common denominator and then we decided to order from Domino's because it was the
036cheapest prices we could. We finally found out the calculations and the costs and the pizza party was very successful. Thank you so much for listening to us. And now the there's a group that's going to share their work. Fantastic. Thank you. Great. [Applause] The field trip challenge. Sadly, Miles as you cannot make it. I'm Ro and I'm Logan. Our challenge was to make a field trip with a budget of $3,000 for 70 kids. We had a lot of fun doing this. Thank you to Miss Whiting and Miss Holier. And we decided to go to a brewer game. We decided to go on May 7th because kids get a 50% discount. My field tickets $15 for teachers and shops, but for kids they're $7.50. After we bought our tickets, we had $2,295. So, we bought every
037student popcorn for a total of $280. We still had $215 under budget. For chaperons, we decided to have four chaperons for each class for a total of 12 chaperon to make sure everybody was accounted for. We charged them $10 each for $120 in return just in case we needed the extra money later on. After that, we had $2,135 left. Our district does the busing right way. So, so yeah, we also had to pay the bus company every hour they were there. So, we So, including gas prices, we spent $135.94 on the bus. So, we still had $1,300.94 left. And the grand total was we spent $1,6996. [Music] Great job. [Applause] So, selfishly, I'm just going to jump right in and ask what we need to do for policy to get these guys on finance for
038buildings and grounds and transportation. My first thought is we might have to reelect officials because we got some finance uh committee members here. Well, well, Mr. Well, my question is since finance got brought up, I think we need uh a few of the students on the building and grounds committee because they calculated how much flooring we need in MacArthur around the whole school. That's awesome. Yeah. So, thank you for that. What great projects to bring forward. That was amazing. The the group of you teachers, Mr. Gonzalez, we appreciate it. And fantastic work being demonstrated that's being done in the schools. And literally, I think every one of those touched some part of topic we're going to talk about tonight at the board level, administration level. So, you should be really proud of yourselves. And uh
039just because you have $3,000 proof, you don't have to spend it all. You can save some day, right? Money that we could almost do, too. Yeah, exactly. Or you could upgrade to a coach bus. We might get that free. the great the whole group. Great work. That was fant. That's awesome. Thank you. Great job. Thank you. [Applause] Please go over. That could be the end of the meeting. The best part was them going around with yard sticks and tape measures and measuring out the rooms and figure out the square footage. That was pretty sweet. We'll be in touch. We'll be in the facility. Yeah, we could have saved a couple bucks. Yeah, get a student advisory committee. No, fantastic. Okay. Uh, we'll move on. Unfortunately, 4D village of Germantown leaison report. Um, of economic development
040hasn't met, correct? Mr. Pollock. Uh, so a couple Yeah, a couple of things with park and wreck. Uh, we met April 16th. couple of the items, a number of items to just to mention. Uh, Fourth of July, there was an update. There will be a parade on the in the morning of or on the morning of July 4th, 9:00 a.m. If there's anybody interested in volunteering, please reach out to me or Park and Wreck. And there will be fireworks in the evening. A couple of other items of note there. uh at Fireman's Park, there's an outdoor shelter that's located more towards Kennedy, not the brand new one obviously, but the more towards Kennedy that uh has seen it. It's kind of end of life. So, um they'll be doing some work over there. Still in
041discussion, still trying to figure out exactly what that is. Also, uh, fire station one at Fireman's Park. They're going to be doing a facility study to determine what they may be able to do with that building now that it's no longer, uh, a fire station so that they can be, uh, so it can be better used for park and recreation activities as well. Couple other things just to note as well, just that, uh, at the last village board meeting, all of the commissioners have now been approved for this coming year. There's been a new village board member assigned. That's Meg Cuts who's also part of the buildings and grounds committee and we now actually have a full commission of of people. Um the Easter egg hunt that was happened on April 5th was a really
042big success. There is actually uh at least a thousand people who were in attendance for that. Um also of note, if you're in the Alt Bower Park area, if you walk your dogs there, please keep them on your on the leash and also please clean up after themselves. There's been some some issues out there. Uh it is against village ordinance to not have your dog on the leash. Um farmers market begins this Saturday at Village Hall. It'll run each Saturday 8:00 a.m. till noon until uh the last Saturday in October. So go get your fruits, vegetables, and other items. Uh there was uh at Friedenfeld Park, there was vandalism at the Friedenfeld sign. So, they're looking into whether or not insurance covers it. Hopefully, it does. And if not, um there will not be a
043sign this year uh due to budget constraints. So, uh let's keep our uh our park and wreck area looking nice. And also, just to mention, our next park and recreation meeting will be May 21st at 5:30 p.m. at Village Hall. It is open to the public. That is all. Fantastic. Um we had uh planning commission met uh unfortunately it was the first meeting in three years that I had to miss due to illness. Um the commission did move forward with the tenative plans around the TID 10 proposal. Um I wasn't able to be a part of that discussion obviously wasn't there. I would say this I know there's some citizens that are fairly upset about that process. I would say given that was the day before the new administration took over from this past election
044of moving that portion of it forward does give them the largest array of options on what to do with the village center project and and I know that's going to go through some reconfiguring. So, um it would have been a difficult yes vote for me had I been there, but giving wanting to give this new administration the most options available shutting it down or taking one of those away from them, I probably would have actually been a yes. Um, just as the tenative plan moving forward, that didn't mean the TID 10 was fully approved, but it just wasn't closing the door on their access to figure out what was best for the taxpayers of the village given where that project lies. Um, they are actually meeting with a late month meeting tonight. So, it's the
045second meeting unfortunately that I'm missing. There wasn't anything too strenuous on the agenda for tonight. Um, but we'll continue to keep flexible and make sure that I can. And then the last update there is the new village president seemed fit to make me a voting member of that committee. Um, so I'll be appointed temporarily as a citizen committee till the city ordinance can change and allow me to be the school representative with a a voting authority. He asked me if if I was okay with that. Obviously, I am. I represent this district. My vote there goes on what's best for the school district. Maybe that was my personal beliefs, but we we'll always be that strong voice on that committee um for how the village and the district can work best together. So, I continue
046to support there. There's a lot of work going on and a lot of change. We'll see what what the future brings here um with the new the new winds in the village. So, uh any questions on that? um I shared with the board, but for the general public, the May 12th joint review board meeting has been cancelled and you've sent me as your delegate or your proxy vote there. So, um as I see those communications come through, if that's rescheduled, I'll inform the board. Um yeah, I apologize. That's great. I forgot to mention that we did I did appoint Mr. as the school representative for that meeting and I just wanted it to be a voice strictly tied to um the school representing the school's best interest on that board given we weren't sure where
047things were going to align at that time um he'll be a part of that TID uh until um it passes or it fails or into the future if it passes Miss Alor has always been a voice on those TI votes for us in the past but just given the This one, we figured we would take that stress off her bite. And you're welcome. And give give Dr. Reutder a few more gray hairs. Plus, she was on vacation. Somebody who approved that, I'm not sure. Um, anyways, any any further questions on on this, Mr. Is it is it TID 11 that you Dr. Reuters on or which TID? Uh, TID 10. 10 is the proposal for the village center. Y Okay. The last one we heard about. So it's not it's just and it's still in
048the planning phases. Um it hasn't gone forward. It has not been approved and until until that committee gives the final blessings. It's uh it's it's nowhere right now. So the the TID on Waki Road in Dundas Bay, that must have been nine then I'm thinking. Yeah. Nine. Okay. There's a few there's a lot of them to keep up with. Yeah. So, uh, we'll see where that project goes. I don't know if they're going to continue. They they have three parcels of land now. Um, I don't know if they're going to continue to pursue the other two parcels there or if they're going to try to scope that project into the parcels they do own to shorten expenditures. What? We'll find out. We'll find out. We'll keep you guys apprised as best possible. And obviously this
049board will always be navigating some of that vote collectively um before I speak on behalf of us at that meeting. So appreciate it. Any further questions or or thoughts? I think that's all the cross representation we have. Uh five citizen comment. I didn't get handed any so we can keep it moving there. There's no citizen comment for the evening. Six. Consent agenda. 6. A. Approval February 17 meeting minutes open session only for close session. B. Approval March 17th, 2025 meeting minutes. C. Approval March 18th, 2025 meeting minutes open session only for close session. D, approval of teacher resignations. E, approval of teacher contracts. And F, approval of donations. Motion to approve. Agenda items A through F. Second. Mr. Barney with the motion. Miss Higin Botham with the second. Any discussion? Yeah. Can I hear the
050donations, please? For sure. We have a lot of them tonight. Gelf food and beverage, $1,000 to Germantown High School robotics team. Uh Basud Josie, $2,000 for a new kiln at Rockfield Elementary. Robert's frozen custard $250 to deaf heart of hearing and deaf blind funds. MacArthur Elementary PTA $1,35956 for a third grade field trip at MacArthur Elementary. Kennedy Middle School PTA $968.40 for 10 document cameras. Rockfield Elementary PTA $500 for small band to accompany students during spring concert at Rockfield Elementary. Rockville Elementary PTA yet again for six smart TVs. That was discussed tonight in um finance committee valued at approximately $18,000 for the Rockfield Elementary School. Pet Supply Bus plus $250 uh plus a $50 gift card for a silent auction for the Germantown High School Choir Cabaret. Grand Foundation, $500 towards the Germantown High School
051choir. Three and two boosters, $300 towards the Rock Sports Complex rental for makeup games. Kennedy Middle School PTA, $1,500 for 30 calculators for each grade level to use um at Kennedy Middle School. Kennedy Middle School PTA, $1,100 for 3D printer for teched at Kennedy Middle School. Again, Kennedy Middle School PTA, $78141 for three Lenovo Chromebook micros to support KMS cafeteria t TVs. an anonymous donor of $1,200 towards our soap club for student t-shirts at the high school. And dental professionals, $250 towards the Germantown High School choir. Anyone do quick math on that? It's a large I'm thinking it's close to,000. Where are What are Max? Yeah. Get our kids back in here. Yeah. No. Uh, as always, it's amazing. Yeah. The generosity of this community is outstanding. Fantastic. Um I do just want to pull
052out um teacher contracts. Mr. Noak, if you could you don't have to go over each one individually, but can you just describe the process that we're at Matt and what these contracts represent because I think it's a good highlight for this district. Sure. We um approved our staffing plan a little earlier than we have in the past which which gave us a kind of a jump start on hiring. Um, our principles lead the way in terms of identifying candidates to be interviewed, set the interviews, go through the process, recommend candidates to me. Um, and then I go through the process of securing them as employees in terms of offering a contract, so on and so forth. um been very busy over the past several weeks um with that process and that's going to continue now
053in the weeks and um months to come but immediate you know but by the end of the school year. We're way ahead of where we've been in the past. We feel very good about the candidates that we have. Um all very excited about being here. uh many from um you know as far as um Madison um Verona um there's one up from up near the lacrosse area who are interested in being back sometimes it's because family is here and they ultimately want to be here um but we've positioned ourselves well to attract candidates um the point that those coming here really excited about and so I think I know that you've taken several phone calls. I think maybe during this meeting regarding this, but these are all contracts related to going into next school year.
054Correct. Yes. This is the first time in my three years here that we've had this long of a list headed into next year um this far in advance, which I feel only gives us the best shot at the best candidates if we're we're first to market, so to speak. So, I appreciate that work and the board's commitment to getting the staffing plan there uh so they could get their get that process going. Just wanted to highlight that. So, it sounds like we'll have more coming, which is fantastic work here. So, thank you for that. I'll I'll add real quick going over this list. It looks like some of these are can be difficult to fill positions, so you got a head start on it. Yes. Yeah. Uh without a doubt, every position is different, but
055there are some on that list that are not easy to fill. So like that alone good quite honestly is um something that we should feel good about. Nice work. Thank you very much for that. Um any further discussion hearing? None. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none. Consent agenda passes in hold. Uh, seven. We're going to move on to committees here. Policy committee, Mr. Barney. Yeah, thank you. Uh, policy committee met April 1st. We reviewed 46 items that are coming forward tonight. Um, three of the items are new policies related to SC summer school attendance, third grade promotion and retention, and consultants. Uh 27 of the policies coming forward are revisions covering items such as conflicts of interest, curriculum development, student privacy, the Stark College Now program, personal property of staff members, open enrollment
056program, tobacco and nicotine use by students, and several others. You can see we kind of covered the gamut with many of these policies here. We have four policies that we're bringing forward that are um considered replacements because they are almost complete rewrites. Um, one is a policy on advanced learning instruction developed uh with assistance from the Wisconsin Association for Talented and Gifted and another is the suicide prevention policy which was developed with assistance from suicide prevention experts and then two other rewrites are based on uh staff gift policies. Uh we have three policies that are being rescended to avoid duplication and confusion when you may have the same topic with slightly different language ac across multiple policies. One example could be the student's complaint policy that's being rescended because it could create the impression that
057there's a separate complaint procedure because it has its own policy, but that's not the case. We've got policy 9130 which is the comprehensive policy covering complaints and it also covers student complaints. Um and then policy 5341 the emergency medical authorization policy is being rescended because its contents are in policy 5330 which is administration of medication and emergency use. Um let's see what else. And the final nine policies are more at a federal level uh based on changes from the office of management and budget and their revision of their guidance for grants and agreements. So with that background uh policy committee brings forward a positive recommendation to approve the additions updates and modifications to district policies 01000 through 9800.01 comes forth with a positive recommendation does not require second. Any discussion? I think a lot was
058had during that committee. I think each one of these was specifically discussed at in length. If you have any questions on that, I would recommend going and watching the video. Uh thank you for the highlight. Thank you for explaining the rescending and and why that is. And obviously we aren't taking away students ability to file a complaint. It's just we already have a policy that covers that. It's important to note. So any further discussion? Seeing none. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing? None. That passes. Um, sorry. Did that nothing further from policy committee? Eight. Ad hoc transportation commission. Mr. Pollock. Thank you. Uh, the ad hoc transportation committee met on April 21st with a a goal of going through the request for proposals for student transportation services. So earlier this year, I'll try to
059summarize quickly. Uh the the fact of the matter is is we do have our video out there. I would highly recommend all interested parties review that video because we got into a good amount of detail, asked a lot of questions, and discussed a lot of these items that I'll I'll briefly mention here. But earlier this year, the district sent six bus companies an RFP. And within that RFP, we ask for them to price out two different scenarios. Keeping the current schedule as is, meaning a staggered elementary school time, start times or to align the scheduled start times across the elementary schools. Uh these RFPs were due by the end of February and we had two respondents go rightway which is our current provider and first student within today's board packet as well as the trans
060uh the transportation committee packet. Um, Miss Altonorf gave us uh some some tabled information regarding uh some single tier, double tier and triple tier routes, pricing as presented uh within the RFP by go rightway and for student. Um, keeping in mind that go rightway obviously has a lot more detail for our district than first student head. Um ultimately too uh what was provide pro provided for us is a sense or an example of what things would look like uh assuming we move forward with uh uh same start times as far as how the start times and end times and um when students would be picked up and dropped off and and all of those details as well. Um ultimately, uh we talked about what kind of increased pricing, uh would occur potentially as examples for
061this process, uh if we were to to align versus keep it as staggered. also brought up um as a reminder because not everybody necessarily has this front of mind, but um we are required as a school district to provide parochial school transportation as well for those students that live within our boundaries to schools within five miles of the district. And so our current cost is approximately half a million dollars a year for that. and one school in in the packet we present all of the different parochial schools that that are represented as part of that process. Fortunately, we were uh we were informed during this all during this process that one of those parochial schools um had changed or was planning on changing their start time even by 15 minutes ear I can't remember if
062it was earlier or later but they were changing their start and end times by about 15 minutes and due to that um based off of at least at that point in times uh estimate it would actually require us to add a bus line at the an approximate cost of $60,000. 000. Uh like I said, we discussed a lot of different scenarios within all of these. We discussed uh various questions that that came about and ultimately our goal at the end of that meeting was to to provide a recommendation to this board as far as who we move forward with. It's important to note before I present this motion that what this motion is meant to do is just provide guidance to administration to begin negotiations. There's no uh there was no attachment, no preference identified
063within keeping staggered start times or or aligning the start times at the elementary school. That's all going to be discussed uh as part of the negotiations that we move forward with once the board approves this. So with that, I'd like to uh make a motion to bring forward to the board of education with a positive recommendation from the transportation committee to start contract negotiations with go rightway for student transportation services starting in the 2025 2026 school year comes forward with the positive recommendation does not require a second. Any discussion? Mr. I I'm just curious on the uh parochial school situation that was going to increase our cost by $60,000 if any diplomacy was used to ask what's going on. Haven't heard back yet, but um it's it's part of our cabinet agenda tomorrow. Reached out.
064Okay, very good. I mean, it's it's not a case of I don't think it's the public school system bullying the local parochial school, you know, I I just think we'd like to know what's going on. And I think if the school day was if their school day was extended or something for increased learning, I think we could all understand that, hey, that sounds like the 60K is probably a good number. But if it's just a shift, you know, 15 minutes earlier or later, both in the morning and in the afternoon, uh, you know, the same direction that they haven't lengthened their school day or something, it' be nice if we could keep it, uh, status quo like last year, I'm I'm guessing, and avoid the additional cost. Okay. Currently the situation is those students would
065ride with our students on a a split bus line or however you want to look at that. U but because of their realignment of time and they have every right to make that choice. But unfortunately due to state statute that expenditure comes back into our school budget. Um obviously we aren't looking to unduly pressure them into decision. We won't ever step on their toes in that manner, but it's important to have a good working relationship with them and help them understand what that does financially do. Um, and then they can make their decision ba based on that. Um, and they may very well stick with their decision and that's fine and we'll work through the process, but it's an unplanned expense. Um, and unfortunately that 60,000 is potentially a teacher or some other avenue of
066expense that we may have to plan around. To Tracy's point, this is just to negotiate. We could go with option A, we could go with option B, we could go with a different version of option, one of those options that may add more or less bus lines. Um, so we'll we'll work through that. I've been contacted by multiple citizens. I know Tracy has as well and I've reached out to citizens and said talk to the board. We need to hear your input. Is it important that we spend 180,000 more, 120,000 more, whatever that that is? Is this where we want us to put that money or or do you want us to ensure it into a different avenue of expense for the district? Um but we don't know that until the public weighs in. Um,
067and if we hear a loud enough voice, we'll invest that money into that avenue to ensure that our district operates, you know, evenly across the board. But we need to hear that information. I would just add one other thing in addition to the video. I I would recommend if everybody looks at the packet as well because there are uh the best way I can describe it because there's a lot of additional information that I didn't I didn't even touch upon within the summary but uh this isn't just a basic math problem ultimately it's not 2 plus 2 equals 4 and it's simple as that. This is more of a calculus type of situation where start time, end times, how many kids are on the bus, are they two or three a seat? You know, are
068we running like like I mentioned, are we running same start times and end times? Are we still staggering them? So, it's it's complicated. And yeah, I I have had a conversation or two with folks and they shared their ideas and um at least certainly with one person uh he happened to have watched the video and uh I gave him credit for being able to understand quite a bit about the fact that this isn't just a do we want to spend X or Y and it's simple as that. So, um, definitely watch the video, definitely review the packet, and I certainly am interested in hearing from everybody, uh, what their thoughts are. Anything further? If not, it comes forward. I'm sorry. Uh, all in favor? Any opposed? Hearing none, that passes. Mr. Pock, anything further? Not
069from the transportation committee. Nine. A personnel committee. Um, this would usually be Mr. Brown's realm. Um, I believe Pilot chaired it last night. Correct. We're handing the batan over. Yep. All right, Mr. Just to be clear, just for tonight, uh, personnel committee met on Monday, April 21st. Uh, Mr. No actually shared stole some of the thunder from me uh regarding the staffing plan, how we were ahead of the game when when it comes to many much of the contracts uh that that uh are now in place based off of the consent agenda for the 2526 school year. In addition though, we did have a couple of items to take action on uh that were that were brought forward. So uh that being said, uh let me get my right information here. So there uh one
070of the items that we we discussed at the April 21st meeting was a new coaching contract. So uh specifically for for the assistant girls softball coach position for the 24-25 season. So with that, I'd like to bring forward a motion with a positive recommendation from the personnel committee to approve the assistant girls softball coaching contract for Michael Kerr. Comes forward with the positive recommendation. Does not require a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none, that passes. Uh second item here for for us this evening was some new clubs. Uh there are a couple of uh clubs that are presented. I know uh do you want to share with us some information about the clubs? Sure. Um good evening. Thanks for having us here tonight. Um Mr. Noak and I
071wanted to bring forward um the Washington County Trail mountain biking club. Um it would allow our students um at both the middle and high school to wear the Germantown logo, Germantown school colors, um be in announcements, be in our newsletters. The group could fund raise, be in the yearbook, among other things. So it it is an existing group in the community. It would be co-opted with other Washington County schools. Um Westbend would be the lead co-op uh hub for this for this group. Um Hartford, Slinger and Kiwi are also a part of it and they operate in the same fashion. Um it would be a volunteer advisor. Um they do background check their adviserss. I did ask that question. Um and it would require no district funds. So it's our Germantown students and essentially again
072we'd be giving them the opportunity to continue to be a part of this group wearing our school colors logo and have access to things that our other groups do which is announcements, approved flyers around school, be in the yearbook. Um and then they could also fund raise. Um it would be similar to like our existing bowling bowling club. Um ski team or snowboard club or ice fishing club. Um ice fishing and um bowling are not co-op but our ski team and snowboard team are. So those would be similar clubs. So we're giving them an opportunity to be out there as our students. Um the things that our other groups have as well. So that's the first one. Um, do you want me to go into the second one or are there questions about that one?
073Do you know how long that's been in existence? I I don't know how long it's been in existence. No. Okay. But we do have a handful of students that are already participating and um they have about two to three practices a week and then there's five optional races. Um they would be held to our co-curricular code just like all of our other groups. So, anybody has a code violation, they would be held out of races depending on what it was and also our academic eligibility piece, too. Yeah. I guess when this came up initially at committee, I had some of those questions. You answered a bunch of them because it's a little different than our normal club approach because it's it's more of a an outside Well, it is an outside entity that runs the
074overall, right? So, it's just a little different and just wanted to know some more of the background. So, thanks for coming and sharing that. Obviously, anytime we get our kids out there representing the district and and provide them that avenue, that's fantastic. So, thank you. Uh and then the second group would be at Kennedy Middle School and it would be a board game club. Um it would provide students in grades six through eight with opportunities to strategize and socialize in a structured setting and it would be monitored by district staff member um Mrs. uh Denny Topetsus. uh students would continue to develop social and critical thinking skills and um students at the middle school have asked for this. It's it's kind of a nice niche of students that may not necessarily be in athletics or
075some of the activity groups that we do provide. Um um and it would exist with a volunteer advisor, no district funds, they'd meet about once a month. Fantastic. Well, thank you Dr. Unertle for bringing or bringing that forward for us. Uh, that being said, I'd like to bring a motion with a positive recommendation from the personnel committee to approve the Washington County Trail Sharks Mountain Biking Club and Board Game Club for the 2025 2026 school year. Thank you. Comes forth. The positive recommendation does not require a second. Any further discussion? Mr. Love, I'm just curious. Uh, when they meet once a month, they're going to play board games, they take it. Yes. And um will they be playing what I consider the ultimate board game? One that I don't play, chess. That might be a
076possibility. The um you know, because obviously there's all sorts of board games, but I think um you know, I don't spend a lot of time watching people play chess, but I find it interesting. I think the game I couldn't play the game. It just drive me nuts. That's why I don't, you know, having to think 50 moves ahead, you know, I just don't need that. But I think it'd be good for our students. Absolutely. Yes. So, make sure if they're only playing real easy games that they uh I don't know what those even are, but bring a chess set and hold the meeting. We'll get risk going or something. m make sure they actually play the game versus just, you know, like throwing the pieces at each other. So, uh I would like to say
077I get a lot of questions. It seems like we approve a lot of clubs. And I think the answer is yes, we do approve a lot of clubs, but the point is to drive student engagement outside of the classroom and and one that we recently approved shows you never know what club is going to take off. SOAP is a cra amaz amazing example of that. The amount of membership and the kids that that I'm hearing about coming to it. It's just we had over a hundred at the last meeting. I don't know how many clubs have met that, but that goes to the point of we don't know what club fits what kid and how many kids are going to show up. So, we approve these and sometimes there's an expansion, sometimes there's not, but
078it shows the importance of it. Um, and I I know you actually happen to advise that group and it's it's an interesting group to advise because there's some touch issue, but I appreciate your leadership in that because there were staff that didn't want to take that role and I appreciate that you did because now it allows a hundred of our students to gather and and have that connection outside of the classroom. So, thank you for that. No, no. My my question on playing board games, it's kind of a question of um playing in person because I'm sure you could play most of these games online. Yes. And I I think having, you know, the person sitting across the table from you is important. And I I didn't comment on the on the mountain biking club,
079but uh I'll make fun of my age. Uh when I was in grade school or high school, that's all we had to do was ride our bikes, you know. So me and the the guys, we put we put a thousand miles easy on our bikes, you know, in summer, we didn't have anything online, right? It didn't exist yet. So, anytime I see, you know, students doing something together, riding bikes or playing board games, as long as it's not online, um I think it's a a good a good deal. Absolutely. So, very good. And thank you also for doing the soap. U really appreciate it. Anything further? No. Perfect. Uh all in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none. Those are our two new clubs for the district. Thank you. Thanks. Yes. Uh we also got an
080update from uh from administration regarding the support staff compensation study that had been ongoing for for a while. Um to summarize and Mr. Noak feel free to jump in with any any uh supporting information as well. Ultimately, the administration had taken some time to go through uh talk with our our uh support staff, got feedback. This is actually quite an array of different uh personnel, food service, uh aids, administrative assistants, custodial, maintenance employees. So, this uh this isn't necessarily a homogeneous group. This is a varied group as far as the the roles and responsibilities that they play within the schools and within our district. Um some of the some of the themes that ultimately emerged from this compensation study was uh longevity specific uh practice of recognizing employees commitments to continued employment uh concerns regarding
081compensation and the roles that they play. And so ultimately uh the proposal that's in front of us tonight or will be in front of us here shortly is is to implement a stipen process that would be integrated in their current compensation practices for support staff that recognize longevity of three 5 10 15 and 20 years presented in our packet. It provides the specific dollar amounts for each group uh that's been identified and for those years that are served. Um the stipens would be paid as an example the stipens would be paid to employees at the completion of the fiscal year. So June 30th, 2026 based off of the employees years of service at that time and is based upon 1.0 FTE. Anything else I missed? No. Um we talked about the fact that this is
082at um at at this point in time's recommendation that we'll continue to look just as we are with uh the teacher compensation study. We'll continue to look and evolve as we see fit. So sometimes some of those changes may be as simple with this group as modification of the handbook which might not need to necessarily be woven into the model. Um but sometimes it is the complex changes. This is fairly big in scope for this particular component of it. So we feel comfortable thinking forward right now. And I didn't mention to you that one of the results as part of this study was that we found that we were fairly well aligned with comparable districts to us. So we didn't necessarily have to dive horribly deeply on pay necessarily and some other things because we
083were kind of in that band as well. So that being said, I'd like to bring a motion with a positive recommendation from the personnel committee to approve the implementation of a years of service stipen process for support staff employees. Positive recommendation does not require a second. Any discussion? Yes. Just for transparency, I have a family member that works for the district in a support staff position. So, I will be abstaining from voting on this item. I appreciate not only the attention but the explanation for it. Thank you. Um I'll just make a quick comment on it. This is similar to the the certified staff um where this isn't something we just put in a closet. Now, we'll continue to review this as it comes. As we saw this survey earlier, these are the steps we're
084taking or parts of steps that we're taking to address some of those things. Um, and while we wish we could just wave a magic wand and give everybody the dollar amount they want, uh, financial realities are not that is not the solution, but we are targeting and making efforts in that area to address those concerns. So, we'll continue to do that. Um, any further discussion hearing? None. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing? None. That passes. I believe that's it for personnel. It is. Yes. And guess what? Tracy, still at the point here with item um 10, buildings and grounds committee. It's putting in the work. The buildings and grounds committee met earlier this evening. Uh basically a lot of updates for us. Um couple of items with regards to GHS and KMS. We have
085a couple of or had a couple of sink holes. Uh the GHS one um has been repaired and some preventative work and another catch catch basin has been done to prevent a possible sinkhole there. Work is ongoing to repair the sinkhole at KMS. We also got an update regarding the Emmy Bell window uh situation and and a couple of classrooms that were in need of replacement. They're both in failing state uh of condition. This window replacement was part of the 5-year capital improvement plan uh that was presented to us back on January 27th of 2025. So uh the the uh the replacements or excuse me the the work to replace the windows uh will be scheduled to take place during the summer break. We also uh had a discussion regarding the facility condition report itself.
086So we uh we recently have had the the report and assessment which I right here I don't pull a muscle. Um, and so we we discussed uh a couple of different things regarding how to best approach the work that needs to be done with review, prioritization, um, etc. The long and short of it is that we we we want to compare and contrast the five-year capital improvement plan with some of the information here to highlight the fact that that some of this work has already been planned or in the works. Uh we also want to identify ultimately someone somewhat high priority items to to better address them sooner rather than later. Uh we also discussed taking focused tours within the buildings as we discuss these ultimately uh with a goal of having something to present
087to this board uh from the from the buildings and grounds committee uh in the August September time frame so that we would be prepared uh to put forward any any resolutions at our October uh annual meeting. uh we will be meeting at least monthly if not additional uh times to to be able to accomplish this. Uh the idea that was thrown out there which I think is a good one is to uh hold meetings uh at the different schools where we can actually see uh some of the work that needs to be done to to help us better prioritize the the work that needs to get done. Uh if we go down that route, as always, it would be an official buildings and grounds committee meeting. So they would be posted and open to the
088general public as well. Um they may not necessarily be videoed. We may have to consider alternatives or or something there just to in the interest of transparency. Um but it may be difficult to do. Um, but we will communicate as a district or I would assume we'll communicate as a district to the general public as best we can with regards to to those items. Uh, lastly, as part of the report, uh, the buildings and grounds committee did send a couple of items over with positive recommendations to our finance committee, which Mr. will discuss here in just a moment regarding the GHS RTU06 coiling cooling coil replacement at the high school as well as the district office DX unit number two replacement as well. And that is all from the buildings and grounds committee. Thank you.
089We'll turn the mic over. Mr. Lo, item 11, finance committee. Yes. Uh the finance committee did meet earlier this evening. Um, meeting started at 5:50 p.m. Uh, full board item 11A updates. Uh, we approved the April vouchers. Uh, Britney Altonorf answered a few questions that we had on those. Um, also on updates, uh, Britney went through her variance report. Uh I will not try and duplicate all the numbers uh she talked about, but um what I have underlined here is we spent about $32 million so far this year. Uh that's uh $1.2 million almost $1.3 million more than last year at this time, but our revenues are $2 million more than they were last year at this time. So, that's my Cliff's notes version of that. Um, we also, uh, just for updates, we went
090through a a sponsorship program. This is also something that Britney Altonorf uh brought forward. So, the plan is to have a sponsorship programs, paid sponsorship programs run from July 1st to July 1st. So, this is advertising u around the schools and on the soccer field and uh baseball fields and that sort of thing. So, we'll we'll get a handle on that. We don't quite have a handle on it at this time. It's been a while since the board has talked about that. So, I'm thankful that uh Britney and I believe Chris brought this forward to uh finance. Uh, next item is a full board item 11B 2025 2026 vision education services of Wisconsin. And um, this is a a program that uh, Katie Cole talked about. It's a vision education services provides special education services
091in the areas of vision and orientation and mobility. So, this is for uh students that have an IEP, individualized education plan. Um, the finance committee brings a motion to move forward with a positive recommendation from the finance committee to the board of education to approve the vision education services of Wisconsin LLC contract for the 2025 2026 school year not to exceed $112,000 and funded out of the individuals with Disabilities Education Act flur flow through grant. Sorry, that comes forward with the positive recommendation does not require a second. Any discussion? Now, we may want to point out that this is not necessarily new service being introduced by a new provider. Correct. So, you've done your due diligence and found out that it was lower cost even lower cost of continued service. It's not something new. It's
092not new expense. Yeah, it it sounds and I'd like to highlight it sounds like it's coming forward with um a more positive recommendation for service and results of service results service itself being a higher level being provided at a more reasonable cost and I think this is one of those scenarios and that's we ask you guys to look at I understand the ceases are there they do provide great services in certain areas but sometimes we can find a better option instead of that lower hanging fruit and I appreciate you finding one of those scenarios for because this is going to help. I think Britney's job a little bit more budget always helps me. Wow. Wait, that's on camera. Yeah, I just time stamped in at 8:20 p.m. Uh, but no, I just wanted to recognize
093that it's it's important that we have members taking a look at those types of scenarios. Um, with a district that operates on a budget the manner we do, and I would argue we're probably the only district that operates um is intent on each penny being spent. Um it matters every every penny of that matters. So thank you. Um any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none. That passes. Okay. Next item is a full board item 11 C district office DX unit number two replacement. That is in the district office where we are this evening. and it's it's for the uh air conditioning here in the district office. Uh motion to move forward with a positive recommendation from the finance committee meet finance committee to the board of education to hire
094Butters Fetting Co. Corp to replace DXU unit number two in the amount of $60,915 funded out of the capital improvements budget fund 41 comes forth. Pause recommendation does not require a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none that passes. Next item is full board item 11D. It's a Germanone High School RTU06 cooling coil replacement. Um, it was, this is one's a little bit interesting in that it caused a flood in the Germantown High School cafeteria in January of 2024. Um, motion to move forward with a positive recommendation from the finance committee to the full board of education to hire Butters Fetting Corp. to replace the cooling coils in the GHS RTU06 in the amount of 44,130 funded out of the capital improvements budget fund 41 coming forward the positive
095recommendation does not require a second any discussion hearing none all in favor I any opposed hearing none that passes uh next item is full board item 11E smart board replacements. Um, four are needed at MacArthur Elementary and two are needed at County Line Elementary. Uh, motion to bring forward to the board of education with a positive recommendation from the finance committee to purchase six smart boards through Blam, option A, Bloom, option A for $16,770. comes forward. Pause the recommendation does not require a second. Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor? I. Any opposed? None. That passes. Next item, full board item 11FGHS/KMS Chromebook replacement. Um, these are this is going to be for 62 Chromebooks, which will be loaner devices throughout the entire district. Uh the carts will be kept in the library and um
096available for students who need a loaner sometimes just for a few hours or sometimes a week. All depends on what service their Chromebook required. Motion to provide a positive recommendation to the full board to approve the purchase of 62 Chromebooks and corresponding Google licenses from BDJ Tech for an amount not to exceed $18,274.50 using SC common school library aid comes forward with possession does not require a second. Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor? I I any oppose hearing none that passes. Next item was full board item 11G. Rockfield Smartboards. Uh Rockfield's PTA has generously offered to donate six smartboards for classrooms that are currently lacking in interactive display. Uh what we learned this evening was that with the previous smartboards we just talked about and these every classroom in the district will have a
097smartboard. Motion to bring forward to the board of education with a positive recommendation from the finance committee to purchase six smartboards through Blam option A for $16,770 pending board approval of the donation from Rockfield PTA comes forward with a positive recommendation. Does not require a second. Any discussion? I just said it was every elementary classroom. Every district, not every classroom. Every classroom. Okay, I think I upped the number a little. Yeah, every might need some more donations if we do that. Not not every classroom requires one of these, but the elementary is definitely the interaction with the students is amazing on these. Thank you for the uh teachers at home for the donation earlier this evening. Correct. Yeah, in consent agenda the donation was I'd say thank you to Miss Snow Peek and the gang
098there at uh the Rockfield PTA as always. Uh that group steps forward as all of our PTAs do. Um and we really we appreciate that because it allows us to give that equal access to this technology through for all of our students there. So thank you very much. No further discussion. All in favor? I any opposed? hearing none. That passes. Okay. Next, we have full board item 11H GHS server room update. Uh so there's four parts to this. an air conditioning unit, a BMWware server software license, a VMW Wear server hardware and server battery backup replacement battery, which we determined was a lead acid battery. Motion to bring forward to the board of education with a positive recommendation from the finance committee to purchase the four parts of the ghs server room update project for
099a total of $37,675 comes forth posit recommendation does not require a second any discussion hearing none all in favor I any opposed hearing none that passes and that was it for finance We didn't run out of money. Not yet. I don't think so. Perfect. Maybe new business will help us out with that. Thank you. A lot of those items do come from multiple committees and Mike is the one that gets to bring them all. They get approved and then then that group gets to approve whether we can pay for them or not. So, we appreciate that. Uh item 12, due business, a discussion, action to approve 25 2025 summer school contracts. Mr. Jake Mizang. Uh each year the district offers a comprehensive summer school program to support our student learning, credit recovery, enrichment opportunities, and
100targeted skill development. To effectively staff and operate summer school, the district proposes the following contracts for our summer school teachers. These contracts ensure that qualified personnel are in place to deliver high-quality instruction and supervision aligned with our district's standards and programs goals. Uh these contracts here are to match the classes that we previously approved at a prior board meeting for our summer school program. So we've worked hard to identified individuals to staff uh those classes and offerings. All of these classes are um I work with the business office to determine um that they are financially viable. So they they pass what's called their break even point to make sure that the enrollment of those classes uh funds the the cost of running the class. So all these classes um have sufficient enrollment to run them
101financially neutral. uh in some cases they're neutral and in other cases u our classes exceed the um funds that would be necessary uh with I would say the one exception u where we will run them regardless are the credit recovery classes so those ones um run regardless of the student enrollment yeah whether it's one or 10 correct uh I'll entertain a motion unless you had more uh the one thing that I'll put on the board's radar just because why not? Uh, literacy boosters. This year we're running slightly different than we have in the past. Uh, part of this is to gear up for what act 20 requires us to do. Earlier tonight, the um policy was discussed uh around um the promotion and retention that happens uh as a as a result of act 20
102and whether or not students meet specific criteria. One of those things that we have to do is offer comprehensive literacy services during the summer. We're not required to do that until 2027. So, we have a couple of years prior to that to make sure that what we're providing to kids is is what we're looking for. So, even though we're not required in until 2027 to make sure that uh we offer those services, because we have students that are on reading plans and because we want um our students to develop those skills, we are um boosting up literacy boosters. Perfect. Entertain a motion motion to approve the summer school contracts as presented. Second, Mr. Barney with the motion. Mr. Pow with the second. any discussion? I would just add that on the literacy standpoint, uh, we
103were ahead of the curve when it came to, uh, the science of reading and I appreciate you being ahead of the curve. There's no reason to wait to 2027. Give our students what they need now. So, I appreciate that. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none, that passes. Um 12B discussion action to approve education for employment plan. Miss Alex Fiser and Mr. Cole. Right. Good evening. Good evening. I'm here to present our annual education for employment plan as discussed last year. It is within state statute that as a district we are required to provide our students with academic and career planning so that we are educating them for employment after they leave us. Um, so this plan needs to be appro approved by the board annually as we created
104the primary framework last year. Um, from this point forward, it'll just be updating you on additions we've added to expand our programming for our students as well as where our readiness metrics that we established last year currently lie. So the link to the actual plan is notated there as well as in the board packet. Just a reminder of some of the components that are within our education for employment plan. So, our portion of our graduate which we developed last school year which outlines the attributes and distributions or dispositions, excuse me. We want all students to have our academic and career planning lessons um such as the Zello lessons all students engage in 6 through 12 officially this year. Our regional career pathways which outline how our programming aligns to labor market data within our region.
105our career and technical education courses where a lot of students learn those employability skills that we value as a district. Um, as well as our involvement in the Perkins Consortium, which provides us with grant funding for expanding our career and technical education courses, our career-based learning experiences such as youth apprenticeship, co-op, and teamship, which I'm going to touch a little bit on momentarily, as a new addition to our plan, as well as our industry recognized credentials, which is awesome that our student speaker mentioned that today. um dual credit opportunities and then our readiness metrics which inform um how the additions to programming that we add in order to offer more opportunities for our students. So the notable updates um for this school year as we transition into the coming school year would be the addition
106of some industry recognized credentials for the 2526 school year. So we have added the snap on precision measurement instruments certification which the board approved the um funding for that certification but that will also um offer opportunities for our students to get that industry recognized credential in their machine tool one course power energy and transportation as well as automotive systems and diagnostics. Um the industry recognized credentials are so important because they give our students opportunity to before they even leave us get resume building credentials that will offer employment opportunities for them after they leave us. But also it we receive funding for the department of workforce development technical incentive grant which again allows us to further expand these opportunities for our students. We'll also be adding the industry recognized credential of Adobe Photoshop within our introductory
107photography class as well as making that a dual enrollment credit course through MATC for any student that takes it and earns a C minus or higher in the course. Some work-based learning experience expansions. We have offered co-op, but effective this school year, we are having that co-op program certified through DPI, which again allows us to gain access to more funding through our technical incentive grant, the department of workforce development. Teamship is a new addition we'll be adding to our technical writing and communications course. Teamship is a grant opportunity that we were afforded through our partnership with CISA1 as as well as MMAC which is the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce. Um they recognized the work that we were doing on our education for employment plan. Um especially last year and they offered us the opportunity
108to work with district C who runs the teamship program. Essentially the teamship program will be embedded in a course. So students can apply their technical writing and communication skills to a business-based scenario where they will problem solve around um a a problem that a business brings to them and then use the skills that they're learning within the curriculum of their course to apply to a real-based um scenario. So it's kind of bridging that gap between what are students learning in the classroom to how does it apply in the real world in the industry. Um, so a really valuable experience that I'm excited to embed for our students. Additionally, we'll be adding um we'll be partnering with Big Brothers and Big Sisters to offer a job shadowing partners, a job shadowing partnership for our students who
109are interested in going into businesses and seeing firsthand what um a particular job area that interests them has to offer. in all of these options strengthen our regional career pathways which align with what we're doing within our community as well. And then the largest change to the education employment plan for this year is the addition of the KMS readiness metrics. So last year we developed the readiness scorecard to evaluate our programming 912 as it pertains to our portrait of a graduate. We're expanding that to establish metrics that we will use at the 6 to8 level again working towards the portrait of a graduate which will focus on the continuous improvement around our E for E plan. So specifically for those readiness metrics, these are very closely aligned to the redefining ready national metrics, but again
110tying in what our community values as essential components to prepare our students for life after high school. So, the first being math and literacy completion with a C minus or higher in each of their um quarters for the school year. Meeting benchmarks for forward testing in literacy and math. Attendance of 90% or higher, which is consistent with our high school metrics. less than two behavioral office referrals as developing those um employability skills kind of tie into student behavior in the school setting. Extracurricular participation in one or more extracurricular activities. At the high school level, we have this set at two, but as we know at the middle school level, it's more common for students to be participating in extracurricular activities outside of our district as well. So we wanted to um so we reduced it
111by one as and then we'll increase expectations as they get to the high school level for extracurricular participation um but also ties directly into what Dr. Erdo presented on with you know continuing to expand opportunities for students at all levels um with clubs and activities. And then lastly an employability skills component. Um this one we thought was really important to incorporate but is always tricky in practice. Um so for this component we would have students self-rating themselves twice a year on various employability skills dispositions and they would then use that within their academic and career planning lessons to set goals for themselves around their areas of growth. and then they would work in conjunction with their teachers um in advisory to improve those employability skills. So we're thinking about um like student focus skills. So
112am I an organized individual and how can we improve your organization skills as you kind of progress through middle school would be an example. So that data will then be tracked annually so we can watch their progression 6th through 12th grade. As an update to our data from our readiness scorecard for the high school, I have the class of 2024 data on the left and then the class of 2025 data on the right. That data is in progress because they haven't yet graduated. So, some of that's going to shift um as we know grades and things like that will shift over time. I won't go through every component of this, but I'll just point out some of the more dramatic changes. Um so, the biggest change you'll notice for the college ready indicators from class
113would be the ACT component. So, to um meet that benchmark, students would have to meet all four benchmarks in the content area. I believe a the reason we've declined in this is as I was kind of collecting this data, we have less students who have retook the ACT to achieve a higher score. And typically when that happens, they're not we are not supercoring all of their data. By that I mean if they achieved the benchmark in reading uh and science and math in the first one and then achieved the English on the second time they retook, we would count them as you know achieving all four benchmarks. ACT is no longer required for admission to most Wisconsin schools and I believe that shift has impacted our number of students who are attempting the test again.
114But that's obviously something we want to dive deeper into um to determine if there are other factors contributing to a decline as obviously our student academic success across all content areas is important to us. That's a good question on that. Um very much so exactly what you said and it's unfortunate that it's not being used at the collegiate level as much but the narrative I think our student body does get is yeah whatever you got that's fine. Um, and I always challenge the students, talk to your adviserss, but it does seem that that's the message they're receiving um, in regards to maybe you could take it and do a little better versus uh, you don't have to worry about that stress. It's not really unless you want to go to a Madison or an Ivy
115League, it's not looked at. And I'm not quite sure that's the right message we should be giving to the student. And obviously, we're seeing the decline here. So if we're not modeling that appropriately within our walls, I'm worried that the students don't receive that message in the right framework. But just because the collegiate level isn't the UW system isn't leaning on it, doesn't mean we shouldn't strive for better. Yep. Absolutely. And a component we also kind of stress is even if a college is not requiring it for admission to their school, many of them do use the ACT score as a component for scholarships as well. So we always, especially our counselors are are having those conversations with students about retaking um to expand their financial opportunities as well. We really hope that that's the
116conversation that's going on. I can just anecdotally say it doesn't seem necessarily in all cases to be the case. Um so if somebody got a reasonable score but they probably the potential is more for not being kind of not goated but um positively pressured into achieving their best score. As as Dr. Royer said earlier, communication is definitely always something we can strive to improve upon. So I'll definitely take that feedback back to our staff and see what we can do to provide better messaging going forward. So we do see growth in that area. Yeah. And I think that the context that communication too can be not only the financial impact but when you look at what readiness means even if a university or post-secary um institute that you're applying to does not look at the
117ACT. It's a measurement for yourself to understand I'm ready in English, reading, science, but maybe not in math based on multiple attempts at the ACT. So, I know where I have to focus in in that freshman year of school, which is usually the make or break year if you continue on postsecary. Yeah. And I think goals change, right? We take this our junior year. Yep. Right. Y and by the time senior year comes and we're applying in the fall, our goals may be different. Correct. Than in the spring of our junior year. I mean that's it's a short window, but it's been a short life. They're only 16 17 years old. Yeah. And they're making lifelong decisions. That that's another component to this is this data that I've collected for in progress for 2025 was
118collected mid-March. Um so there are kids who are still retaking the ACT and I still haven't gotten those scores yet. So that will also impact that data a little bit. Is there a cost to take the ACT? to re to take it the first time that they take it with us. There is no cost. If they go to retake it, then I believe yes, there is the cost. So that might be a reason to not take it a second time. That could be an impact for Do you know the cost what it is? I can't remember. I want to say no more than 100. I think it's around $100. That's right. It's it's enough. It's not No, it's not. It's not free. Yeah, but it's not. It's four hours of your life. So, yeah, on
119a Saturday morning, I I wouldn't step out on a limb here. And if there's something as a school district that we can do to incentivize that scenario to occur, and I don't know if it's financial or not, but if it's the threshold is $100 and we have 10 or 15 kids that are interested in retaking it. I don't know know if we're unable to help support that and take that part of the decision off their plate. I mean with that's a lot that's a larger discussion. I'm just saying if I if we could remove that threshold and quite frankly there are students that that $100 or households in our district that that $100 is a barrier to having the best score possible. So then the 17 or the 18 or the 19 is okay because
120I don't have the means. Sure. So, and I think that's where key people service know those families and that and that's just again to Alex's point more communication and and the anticipation of those needs. A larger discussion on that though, but I don't think that's on this agenda. Yeah, it's not um but just in regards to this there's some way we can I was waiting for him. One interesting thing to note about the ACT exam there and the data that's there in terms of that gap, you don't see that gap on our a average ACT for the statemandated test that they all take. So one to one comparison juniors for those two classes uh during the annual assessment report, you saw very little difference in terms of their overall score. So, one of the things
121that Alex is pointing to in terms of the superc scoring that ACT does, uh, it might be one of the factors that we're looking at there because when we looked at the average of those two classes, there wasn't a significant difference in their their overall mean score. Um, so career the remainder of the college ready data remained pretty consistent if not grew a little bit, but those are going to change as we wrap up the school year as well. um some career ready components. You'll notice a significant increase in our number of students who are completing a dual en a dual enrollment credit elective course with a C minus or higher. Um and that's largely attributed to we added five transcripted credit courses through MATC this year in the elective course areas. So we have
122many more students who had the opportunity to take those courses this year and they're exhibiting success in them as well. Um so I anticipating I anticipate that number continuing to increase as now our freshmen have had a larger pool of options than this year's current seniors as well. Um the industry recognized credentials again while the number has decreased by the end of the school year that will be drastically higher because we added several industry recognized credentials this year which are all going to primarily be taken this semester and they're primarily available to our upper classmen. So that number I'm anticipating um increasing significantly by the end of the school year. Community service seemed fairly consistent but an that we want to focus in growing as well. Um, and then within our life ready indicators, we
123stayed pretty consistent in attendance. Still have to wrap that up this school year. Same with the personal financial literacy. That will likely adjust as we wrap up grades. All other data again stayed fairly consistent across the board. So kind of looking at our progression and our goals over the last year to this year to the coming year. Um last year we're really focused on developing this framework. So we had a direction of where to start um or a starting point and then a direction to determine where we were going and we began implementing the ACP lessons in advi in resource for all of the students at GHS. This year we were focused on increasing industry recognized credentials and work-based learning experiences I kind of just touched on. Um and that's going to continue to be
124a focus to provide those opportunities for our students. Um we developed the readiness metrics and as well as imple begin implementing ACP lessons within advisory periods similar to what the structure is at the high school. So kids are now starting this year getting that continuum of those academic and career planning lessons. So they'll really see that progression and that exposure. And then our goals for next year will be to look at the 4K through five that should say not eight um level um to determine um some of our readiness readiness metrics we want to look at at the elementary level as well as continuing the vertical alignment work within our CTE departments. we started this this year um as well as across all content areas, but CTE is a main focus within the education for
125employment plan. And then Wisconsin released their career readiness standards this school year, and I've been attending CISA network meetings to kind of do a deeper dive into those standards. So, next year we'll be looking at doing an audit across um all of our content areas of where those career readiness standards are currently embedded and where do we have areas of growth um to make sure that all students have access to those standards. And that's all I have. So, are there any remaining questions about the education for employment plan? Welcome to Germantown uh technical college. I guess that's just that's the the feeling I get when we have this conversation. It's not the same old high school that most of us went to. It's amazing the programming that goes into it. I don't think people actually
126understand. It might be a part of that communication piece. All those things we offer, some people I don't really don't think understand that those are offered through our school and that that's the messaging in the communication side and constant improvement as we go. We we focus on adding more but then we have to focus on recruiting more kids to participate in we'll see those numbers improve as the messaging. Yeah. And I I think you know you have to think back three years ago we didn't have a plan in place. So the the vision around this and what's then transpired from the vision to the operation and the programming that's come through Jake's office, Alex's vision and boots on the ground work around this. This is um we've got a really strong product and as Alex
127shared, you know, DPI has recognized it, CISA has recognized it, and now how do we educate and communicate all the good and opportunity? Because all of you as parents, whether your kids are growing up or still in school, they're juniors in high school and they're going, "What do I want to be when I grow up?" And college is a really expensive um case study if that's the way you want to go versus going into a career field. But if they can start to make decisions of what they do enjoy or don't enjoy through their high school and middle school experience, that's only going to set them up for success whether they go right into a career field or go to a two or four year school. I think to your point, this is in its
128infancy. It's been three years and a lot of hands have worked on it. This only exponentially grows as we perfect it, as the messaging gets out there. I'm excited for this for the district. Um, I think those numbers are going to go through the roof as we continue to proceed with it. So, thank you for the work and then we'll see the fruits of the labor. It'll happen. Thank you. Thanks, Alex. Thank you. U, we do have to approve that. So, I'd like to make a mo I'd like to make a motion to approve the annual education for employment plan. Second, Mr. Pollock with the motion taken by with the second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none. That passes. 12. New business. C. Discussion action to approve overnight
129travel request. Dr. Per. Thank you. Um, we have two overnight requests. I would ask that if you look at the background for the first request from GHS, it should say 10 students and two adviserss. The worksheet that's provided outlines two adviserss. And that is U. Mr. Feifer um does this every two years, a European trip. Uh he teaches EP world history. Thank you, Mr. Mizak. Um so this trip would involve stops in Berlin, Prague, Krakow, Ashawitz concentration camp in Budapest and this would take place in the summer of 2026 from June 22nd to July 1st. And the second trip is the annual trip that happens with fifth graders at Coney Line. U Miss Schultz is asking for approximately 68 students and two adviserss to travel to Uppam Woods um October 15th through the 17th of
130for next fall incoming fifth grade. Take a motion. Motion to approve the overnight travel request for Germantown High School and County Line Elementary School students and adviserss. Second. Second. We have a motion Mr. Barney with the second. Any discussion? I've had the pleasure of attending this up trip. I'm glad to see that it's in front of us again. Yeah. Yeah. Very worthwhile for the kids. Between that and I think this is our third or fourth international trip we've approved or potentially approved. This one's a year later than Yeah. still. But yeah, great opportunities. So, any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Any opposed? That passes. Item 13, close session. A motion to enter into close session pursuant to Wisconsin state statute 119.851E 9851E. Deliberate negotiation, purchase public properties, investment, and district funds or
131conduct other board business whenever competitive bargaining reasons. Close session A, GA negotiations, and two, 1985. One, C, consider employment promotion, compensation, performance, evaluations, A, early retirement, B, district administration. So moved. Second roll caller. Yes. Brown. Yes. Barney. Yes. Low. Yes. Yes. Yes. Lawyer. Yes. We are closed at 8:55. We'll go. We will be returning. That's right. Yeah. So, we'll meet reconvene back into open session at 9:46 on 428 here at the district administration building. Um I will hear a motion on item two which is 19851C to consider employment motion compensation or performance evaluation that of any employee a early retirement consideration. I make a motion to approve the early retirement agreement for Vicki New House. Second Mr. Barney with the motion. Higenath with the second. Have any discussion? Um, I would just like to speak
132into this mic actually, but um, I'd like to thank Mi House for her dedication. I'm glad we could offer uh the ability for an early retirement. We've done that for several employees. I'm excited that we can offer that and we're in a financial position for a district that we can offer that um, and allow them to to move on to that next spot in their life, which is retirement. Welld deserved after many year dedication to our students and our families. Um, so I would just like to thank her. She was in the room. I do it personally. But any other discussion there? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing? None. That passes and I will take one more motion. Second. Mr. Barney with the motion. Miss Higen Bath with the second. Any discussion?
133Hearing none. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none. We are adjourned at 9:47 p.m. Thank you.