001is salary pretty much everything and that brings us to our mill rate so the mill rate has been declining this year it's decreased to 640 and I put another um bar graph there that just shows the total mill rate and then how much of the rate is caused by started in 2016 17 that was 6 on the mill and now this year at the do2 so it's been going up every year and the bottom chart here just shows what the actual amount for operation um the school district get and so you'll see that that has decreased quite a bit this year comp's the hisorical included a comparison to some local districts and what their Mail rates are just for um comparison I supposed and the average for these local districts was planning to fill up
002fundance going to be able to cover that all right so first we'll address the public hearing so this is our annual public hearing on the budget I'm going to open up the hearing for any members of the public who would like to comment on the presentation if you do so please just step up to the podium leave your name and address for the record and please make your brief comments is there anyone who would like to address the board as part of the budget hearing no all right anyone online no all right then I will close the public hearing on the budget bring it back to the board board members any comments or questions on the presentation again you have seen this material a number of times particularly over the last two months through various
003committees and prior board discussions any comments or questions please David one question on the voucher impact on mill rate Sarah can you explain that to me again I I see that the the voucher adds to the wusd amount and increases the mill rate um by an increasing amount year-over-year but how does what what causes that what's the background as to what lends to that increasing amount um anything prior to 2016 the state pays for the vouchers any vouchers that happened after 2016 get charged to the school district by means of Aid so they reduce the amount of Aid that the district gets by the voucher amount and then add it back into the revenue limit as an exemption and that's what raises the property taxes okay so are we at the full burden of vouchers
004yet I mean if it's been increasing since if it used to be zero in 16 and now it's up to a buck 20 right now it's been increasing every single year is not to say is that number going to go up but is our share of it going to go are we've been paying 100% since 2016 or has it been gradually uh worked into our mill rate we pay 100% okay we pay 100% and have been since 2016 since 2016 and then um you know more schools have taken vouchers and so that that number causes to continue to increase got it thank you all right any other comments or questions on the presentation okay hearing none then that will conclude our annual budget hearing and we will return to our normal agenda beginning with public
005input and this is one of two times on the board agenda where members of the public May address the board if you would like to address the board again I ask if you're here in person to leave your name and address on the log that is up there and a few brief words about what you're speaking about so ENT to paraphrase on your behalf if you're online please use the raise your hand feature and again overall please keep your remarks brief is there anyone who like to address the board at this time please you y please and and identify yourself with the record thank you sorry I'm a little nervous about this that's right um my name I write it in yes please yeah okay my name is Rebecca oo um my address to say
006my address how yeah it's 83 Co Street Watertown Wisconsin um I'm here to address the school board for change for our school um my daughter today was involved with um an altercation where she ended up getting a concussion from a fight from a girl that was an aggressor attacked my daughter because of a boy so I'm just going to interrupt for just a moment so board members please keep in mind this matter maybe come before you as a matter of an expulsion hearing and as per our rules and regulations for those it's very important that should that happen that at that hearing the only thing you're taking into account is what is presented at the hearing thank you okay um and I just just want to know what we're going to do with that along
007with the violence in our school along with the drugs that are in our school and the drug is very bad I don't know if anyone understands how bad it is it is an epidemic it's worse than our streets these these kids are going to die it is bad my daughter came to me and told me the drug she is being done in our school that I've addressed with the officer in our school with our teachers in our school I feel like nothing is being done everything gets brushed under the rug when is something going to change is my daughter going to be statistic and then it's going to change is she going to be six feet under and then I'm going to get a change what happened today to my daughter with an eye opening
008to me on how much this school does not take things seriously my daughter could have died this girl H her head on a toet I'm sorry I'm I understand I understand very I I get it but I'm just I'm upet sorry I just want to be heard and I've waited very long to be heard and I just want to be my daughter's voice because these kids don't have any if we aren't there for them and I don't want what happened to my family member to happen to my daughter and that is a drug overdose and death and that's what our kids are facing in this school and it's not just High School my 11-year-old tells me kids are asking if she wants a vape in the bathroom she wants to smoke weed in the bathroom
009kids are asking these kids if they want cocaine in our school high school when is it going to change when I I just I don't know this is this is scary it's a very scary world and it's not just in the streets it's right where our kids are and I'm not even scared of Co scared of my kid going to school and dying because of a drug you know how many times she's had lace drugs twice how many times I almost lost my daughter twice this is scary and I really hope you guys open your eyes to that there is stuff going on in our school that is not just the not the sad kids the preppy kids it's everyone it's all of our kids that are vaping and smoking and they need help we
010need resources these kids need help write all right is there anyone else who like to address the board this evening please the okay I'm just gonna bring my kids right you guys want to stay there do you hello everyone sorry I was so excited I was on time for six o'clock and you start early on me all right good evening everyone my name is Elizabeth boxel for those of you who don't know know me I am a mother of three two sh tigers and a future Watertown kiddo school public school kiddo I'm a proud member of Emanuel Lutheran Church and the board one of the board members for Unity project of Watertown and last but not least I am one of the English language learner uh Specialists for Watertown I specifically cover Webster Elementary and
011Sher Elementary so as you can imagine I believe in diversity and inclusion of all kind hi front row friends uh um I Oh and before you ask me I am not fluent in Spanish nor am I fluent in Tagalog or Albanian or Bosnian which are just some of the other languages that are spoken within our schools I wanted to come here and I wanted to give you guys an update about what your elll team has been doing over the past week we went to the weda conference National Conference in Milwaukee Wisconsin Wednesday Thursday and Friday and that is a conference that has over in this case 1300 educators of all levels from 41 different states coming together to network about the best ways to support our multilingual Learners terms also include English as a second
012language English language Learners Etc I wanted to thank you as a board for um valuing us as a team valuing our time to take us to a place where there is networking um I cannot begin to tell you the copious pages of notes that I took or the amazing conversations that I had with professionals all the way from New Jersey on down to what is it like palaski Wisconsin I think they have literally 300 kids in our school um and just the Vigor and the excitement that we have going forward working with our multilingual Learners one of the ideas that we came out with is a community resource night where we are going to hopefully host our multilingual families and several of our Water Town chamber members everybody from the hospital workers to Johnsonville Factory
013to Chandler House Bakery just a little PL to see what we can do to support our families at whatever levels that they need to be supported and to remind them that as a town Water Town is here for them I've already contacted Bonnie at the chamber she's very excited to collaborate um I'm also grateful that you guys uh approved I'm not sure the process you had individually in this but in some way you not only approved the time for us to go but you also approved the money that it took for us to spend to go there I know it came from title three I keep looking at Ashley she's the coordinator Ashley hand up she's the coordinator of the elll team thanks Ashley and I didn't necessarily check all my facts before I came
014because I was just so excited I was like I speak to board um anyway so thank you for whatever role you played in uh setting aside funds or approving funds or whatever it took for us to be able to attend the conference I know as the years go on and money becomes tighter when it comes to public education things like that are really easy to cut but I want you to know just how extremely important and valuable it is for us just to give you a little insight we have over 250 students in our schools who are identified as multilingual Learners or English as a second language and for your team we have Ashley our coordinator we have one full-time High School ESL teacher one full-time Middle School ESL teacher one lovely lady who goes
015between the two myself and another full-time elementary teacher who does Douglas and half of sh because sh might have a line and share we have 70 kids in our building in particular um so that was it I didn't really have a ton thought out but I just I want you to hear from your Educators and from who you're supporting and the students that we support and I'm just super grateful for you guys and just leaving that that time for us also there's another one next year I'm just plugging that but anyway thank you School Board you really do right thank you very much is there anyone else that would like to address the board this time I didn't want to officially comment on the budget but and if you could please give your name and
016residence for the record we still have to do water unofficial thank you I think all of us here know how hard it is to provide excellent care for our children when the money gets tighter year so thank you all for doing what you do because we know you're doing what you do so the theme tonight seem three parents um worried about their kids want to make sure that um all of our kids are welcome and safe and get um it has been sounds like it is fairly certain that some folks in our community are going to be um challenging some bols that are in our school um on behalf of many many parents um small business owners clergy um community members at large we want to express our concern about preventing our children from exercising
017their right to intellectual Freedom um Watertown is little town I love it here I came here on purpose I love our sense of community but it's little we don't we're not super diverse um we're little town in southern Wisconsin and a lot of our kids are going to grow up and they're going to go into the world and they're going to experience people with backgrounds beliefs religions sexual identity sexual orientation gender identity religious beliefs that they've never encountered in large um and one way that our kids can learn about the world is to have access to a wide variety of FS um there's a saying in education that books are um mirrors or Windows books can be mirrors if we read them they tell us more about ourselves books are windows if they give us
018insight into the way other people with their and I think as adults it's easy to forget how important it is for kids to be able to pick up any book that they want to in a library and learn about people who are different than themselves um and so when these issues come before you we just ask that you remember how important it is for our kids even though theyve see really little now um how important it is for our kids to learn about the world so that when they grow up and they go exploring they they are able to communicate and live successfully out there in that big b thank you all right thank you is there anyone else who'd like to address the board this evening they're a little slow on the addresses today
019sorry hello my name is spring Reed I um I live at 218 Margaret Street here in Watertown and I come here as a parent and it is as an employee of ourtown school district and I get to see things from both perspectives the parents frustration at how the school handles things like bullying and fighting and the efforts that are made by the teachers and the staff every day to to ensure the safety and the Ed education of everyone um one tool that I think the school should take more advantage of is the pair of professionals now I I'm I'm I heard the budget thing so I'm just here as a squeaky wheel because I think that pair professionals are a wonderful asset to our schools because they are kind of a cheaper alternative you don't
020have to pay us as much as you do the teachers but it offers extra support in each of the classrooms because sometimes as we've been learning it's a different Beast out there nowadays and having an extra adult in that classroom helps out because a lot of times I'm only allowed to work four classes of or if I if I go into work I am either missing the first hour of the day or I'm missing the last hour of the day so that means that either we have a lot of Ip students who are a lot of them put into one classroom because we don't have full support throughout the entire day just spread them out a little bit farther and it's I understand budgeting so I'm not gonna I'm not going to go into that
021one so I understand just said once again squeaky wheel here um but uh a lot of times I find that there's a lot of times the teachers have to stop the the lessons because there's a disruptive student or there's some kind of issues going on and by having a parah in the classroom it allows the the par to kind of intervene and be able to add offer support so like I can then either escort the student out so we can go into Administration and find a way to resolve the conflict while the teacher and the other students are still able to continue their lesson and continue their education because a lot of times if it's just the one teacher it turns into we start the lesson then we argue the entire class and then there's
022kids that are either just too scared to speak up or other kids are just enjoying the fact that they can keep poking that teacher to get them more and more upset so as you guys said if you see something say something right we're building walls or we're going to break down some Walls by um maybe having more parents in there and that's the other thing a lot of parents want to talk about supporting you don't need a college education in order to be a PA of so you get a chance to be in an environment that I truly love I truly love working for the school because it's understanding about my kids schedules it's a very like the staff I work with I think they're phenomenal they're very understanding like as a parent a lot
023of times I've worked in a lot of places like fast food and factories and if my kids sick I don't have people that care that much about it but if I mention it at school they're like yes we understand we're going to make do we're going to work with you and I don't feel shamed by being a parent having to go home or I don't feel shamed having to sit there and like talk about like dude it was a stressful day and I'm in an environment that's very like encouraging and supportive of me so I think that if we were to have Paris become fulltime at some point other districts are doing that that would be a wonderful asset because I promote and I try to recruit all the time but the moment that I
024mention that it's part-time and there's no benefits I lose them instantly because a lot of them are either like single mothers or single fathers who are looking for employment that will work with their thing is who can afford Child Care these days it's too expensive I was a stay-at home mom for many years because it was either I worked and paid for my child care or I just stayed home and we tried to budget within that and I think that maybe to allow parents some more of a chance to be a part of it and maybe a chance to offer more support to the schools the Paras would be a very uh financially good decision because it would offer more budget sorry more budget options and offer the support that the teachers and the staff
025need thank you all right thank you anyone else anyone else anyone online no all right there will be a second opportunity for public input at the end of the meeting we'll then move on to announcements and recognition Communications so um we do have our student representative here uh Josh would you go ahead and introduce warm welcome to CH Walter our WC board representative thank you yeah good okay uh good evening I'm Grayson Walter whs's student council representative um first I'm going to recap a little bit about homecoming uh before speaking at our homecoming pep rally sccla treated alumni Admiral Michael scharen to lunch and was welcomed at whs by our students uh during the homecoming football game the class of 1993 donated money and trees for the whs campus to honor 11 classmates that they
026have lost over the last several years our football team won their last home game on October 13th which was senior night and the score was 20 to 16 uh FFA hosted the fourth grade Farm on October 12 at whs Webster Douglas uh and Lincoln field graders learned about H Farm livestock Dairy production CRS and farm machinery uh so far this year whs band has competed in three scored competitions performed at four varsity football games and the home huming parade on September 23rd at Walker South the band took second place uh with a score of 56.6 five uh two weeks later on October 7th the band scored a School record of 62213 and took second place at Milton last week Wednesday October 18th whhs celebrated National Unity day to prevent bullying and bring students together and
027this week on October 25th National Honor Society will be hosting a trunk Retreat event in the student parking lot for water tall elementary students thank you thank thank you very much for coming this evening is do we have anything else under recognition Communications not understand all right then we will move on to strategic discussion and our first item up is an update on the Endeavor Charter School hi I have a slideshow some hold that up thank you appreciate it and you want to make sure to introduce yourself for the viewing audience of course yes I am Judy Miller and I am the Lead Teacher of Endeavor Charter School and uh this is my annual pilgrimage to come on over and update you and um try to answer any questions you may have we have a
028really unique and I of course biased but amazing opportunity for students at the nth grade 9th through 12th grade level in Endeavor Charter School and we are celebrating our 10 anniversary this year and this is a really big deal as um previous administrators would say you know the average life expectancy of a charter school in Wisconsin is about three years and we have obviously surpass that demonstrated that we can sustain a pandemic um a number of different changes in our district and and we are doing well our enrollment capacity for for our space is 60 students we currently capped our space at 55 students based on the Staffing constraints that we had so I kept our enrollment this year at 55 um one of the reasons that I did that is I had a number
029of students that were coming from Riverside St and some of their feedback was that Riverside St had grown too fast and that students had not been given the same one-on-one support that they had been used to and so we considered that as a team and decided that we needed to keep true to our ratio of of well we're doing about 18 to one right now so we have 55 students is our 10th anniversary and what I'd like to do tonight is just share a few things that we have been working on um you can go ahe do a clicker for me or are you my clicker I can do either okay that's great so this is a um a group picture we took a field trip in September to American Players theater this is one
030of our annual traditions in Endeavor I have the ability to build the curriculum based on student interests based on opportunities in the community app um and so what we do is I teach a seminar on a show that they are doing in American Players theater and then we go and see it and for most of our students this is the first time only time they've ever seen live theater and to be able to offer them that as part of our curriculum is a pretty amazing thing we do have grades 9 through 12 and we do have all ability levels so when we talk about the spectrum of College and Career Readiness we are meeting all of those needs the whole ready go there we go our mission in our school is where to create a
031school where students connect their passions and interests with life and learning goals as they pursue oh I right that's really bad how about rich and challenging curriculum I apologize for that and um so we have four core values in our school Hol learning maybe you go back one I don't think this that's going thank you uh holistic Learning Community student agency and Innovation and I do want to share with you just for a minute how these were developed we were in a um in an expansion Grant a Federal grant over the course of the last five years and one of the things that we were able to do as part of this grant as we were able to get professional development and we decided that we really wanted to focus our values and be able
032to create uh performance measures that were specific to our values because we all know that attendance and graduation rate and ACT scores are good indicators for a lot of things but we felt that it didn't tell our whole story and so we focused in our four core values with a um consultant that we hired with the Grant and he helped us take a look at everything we were doing and why we were doing what we were doing and really helped us to bring everything together so our four CES are listed there and I'm just going to take you through each one and um show you some things that we've done with this let's see if this will work for okay so holistic learning is the first one and holistic learning is that students are encouraged
033and supported to learn and develop in every aspect of their life so we are focused on academics but we are also focused on all of the parts of being a human and growing in the different kinds of areas and I'll show you what those look like in just a second thank you I know there's a delay isn't there just like yeah okay so the critical design elements of our school are that go along with holistic learning are weekly advisor meetings 21st century skills lessons and credit we have a specific what we call Endeavor hour where we're focusing on our mission and vision and they do daily goal setting reflection so you can see those are focused on all areas of their life then we went ahead and looked looked at how can we measure this
034how do we know if we're being successful so we do a biannual survey where we directly ask these questions and these are student responses from May I have grown in 21st century skills this year and you will see our numbers are pretty strong students are feeling like they are growing in these areas the next one um Endeavor students earned an average of 75 Credit in 21st century skills last year so students are expected to earn Credit in these skills and we have learning targets for these skills just like we have learning targets for English math science and social studies the second value is community and we look at community in a couple of different ways Community not only within Endeavor but also Community Beyond endeavor's walls so we do a number of Design Elements to
035make sure that we are creating this community and there's a bunch of them so we have advisory groups which are internal Community Friday challenges shared learning safe G speakers with the external Community um Community contributions projects these are group projects that students get together and they work on their 21st century skills while contributing either to the water Community the watert high school Community or the inate community and then we measure this according to these critical design elements I belong to the community so again we have really strong results that students feel like they are part of this community and that they feel like in this community they feel not only that they're a part of it but they their perception is that other people feel accepted and respected again these are student perceptions but we
036believe that if students feel these things that we probably being successful in it if that's our goal our next value is student agency and this is giving students the empowerment to have voice and choice and responsibility for their learning now as you can imagine these are adolescence with not fully developed frontal loes or giving them responsibility means a lot of scaffolding a lot of Step by Step releasing responsibility to them then taking it back and giving it back then taking it back so the design elements that we have Incorporated are a lot to try to make sure that they stay on the tracks um so we do Project based learning we do personalized schedules we have peer mentoring we have um it sounds like some sort of military thing but Target defense plans or where
037they get to customize what they're doing for every single learning activity individual pacing guides they're making choices about their learning goals and then personal progress monitoring so we have parent teacher conferences at the high school tomorrow night and all of our students have already done student Le conferences with their parents and then their parents sign up and come in with very specific questions because students have responsibility and take student Agency for their own learning our measure success here we're looking for the do they believe they have a voice and again you can see those are really really strong results the next one is am I encouraged I believe I believe it will change to the next slide there we go I encouraged to use my talents and interests because we believe that this is really
038important not just to say you have choice but also that they believe that they're being encouraged to use that choice and so um the you know the detail on here that's kind of interesting is when you look at 15% don't know if they're being encouraged and so we're working on that by being a little more intentional about saying this is where I'm encouraging you to use your interest and then the last value I think if I'm counting correctly is innovation we started Endeavor with the goal of doing things differently in education we've tried really hard not to duplicate things that students already have opportunities to do in other places um but we want to create a space that was student driven and The Innovation makes it so that the other values are executed and so
039how we measure that this one took us a long time to figure out our critical design elements are again Project based learning personalized learning cure mentoring Mastery learning Independent Learning 21st century skills learning and then we had to figure out how are we going to measure this this is not an easy thing to measure and so we're still working on that because what we would like to do this year the other ones we have all surveyed and work through but what we would like to do this year is have a rubric for ourselves and what that would look like we're we're working this out is that we would have our five most important Innovations in Endeavor and we would rubric how strongly we are in incorporating those innov Innovations so that's what we're working on
040trying to drive our school forward and also avoid what sometimes happens in charter schools as you get older is you start to have what we call Mission drift where we start to maybe fall on our Laurels and just kind of do things the way we've always done them and so we believe that focusing on our values and focusing on our success criteria that tells our specific story helps to make sure that we can stick with our mission so our staffing is uh we have one person from each of the four content areas and when it says their FTE that is their full-time equivalency so RAB harms is science and he's in Endeavor three of his four out teaching hours a day and then add down the list so you can see where are whole kind
041of can be and so we try to cover for each other depending on how many of the 55 students are in there um and um do the best we can to meet 55 student needs doing individual learning plans uh that's all I have but I am welcome to or I'm interested in your questions or things you would like me to forward to you in the future board members comments or questions on the presentation I have one yes please um one thing that we look at is we always look in terms of success yes data and while I see some data here I guess I'm wondering as a teacher as well how do the students compare whether it be GPA whether it be on the state assessment how are those things so I guess in the
042future maybe a quick snippet on that what's the graduation rate what's the attendance rate those kinds of things because I can see this looks great and I believe you that this is great but the tangibles that we use to compare other District other schools in our district I guess I'd be interested in hearing some of that as well okay I and I appreciate that I don't if the other board members feel the same I appreciate that feedback our graduation rate is 100% our ACT score is above whs our attendance rate is slightly above whs so the reason that um we went through the path of trying to look at some of the other ways that we tell our story is because we're working really hard to be different than that but I I hear what
043you're saying but it's nice other part it's nice to have Apples to Apples compar exactly I AG yeah absolutely congratul ation on 10 years and you know keeping things going and stuff like that especially you know as the average and and keeping kids engaged and you know in a different learning environment so thank you very much appreciate it so I know the board previously I think it was actually five years ago reviewed the charter yes renewed the charter yes the charter was renewed last year and then we last year so we've done that twice to make sure from a process perspective yes right yes and thank you for that i' would have been really sad if you didn't renew the D I just wanted to make a quick comment on an observation that I do
044appreciate the way that um the water the the the district itself is um looking forward to um innovative ideas when it comes to different um ways in which kids can learn and I think that endeavor definitely indicates that there's good opportunity there um for a different mode of learning the kids are not not in the same traditional sense so in that respect I think things are working um I do I do appreciate Diana's comments as well I want to make sure as a board member sitting here that um we're doing everything we can to support the learning of all of our kids in our district um and that comes with a little bit of data knowledge in that as well yeah sure absolutely how many kids were were turned down kept enrollment I have I
045have four people on a waiting list right now um I've had a couple of people call uh cold call me and ask if we were accepting more people right now mid year and I de said we have a waiting list and they haven't chosen to add on to the waiting list where do you direct them um you know the nice thing about being in the district for 25 years is that I'm pretty fluent on what we offer and so I work really hard to keep them in the district if I can um a lot of our the the people that I talked to let's say the people I talked to last week it's in the middle of a grading period right now I in grading term um I talk about I I do a lot
046of listening to what the parents are looking for and then I do my best to kind of say well given what you said about your child in this way this might be a good fit and so I talk to them about Watertown High School I talk to them about E Campus and I talk to them about what we offer and try to just show them the differences I hope that does that answer your question any other comments or questions from the board I should also say to I I created a a document probably about five years ago that's on the School District web page that compares the three different High School entities because uh I felt that that was one of the things that we were lacking in is information for families about these different
047options that we have and what the differences are and how to get into them and things like that people aren't always comfortable calling a lot of people that aren't interested in getting on the phone at all and so I feel like the more information we can give them in that PSO format of being on the website the better they also come in with really more directed questions when they do call me on the phone or set up a meeting with me they've already they've got they've done their homework and they've got resources that they've LED at so anything else thank you very much absolutely I think you're kind of staying up here to introduce our next one so you guys are welcome to you saw what I did I'm not tra so and I know
048you guys aren so so next up we have a presentation on Endeavor students summer AI camp Isaiah Johnson and Jacob Hansen hello everyone my name is Jacob Hansen I a senior in Endeavor Charter School my name is AA Johnson a sophomore and endeav Carter School we're here to outline the exciting course we took over the summer that was offered to us through scholarships from the cour holder and the Watertown Unified School District over the summer of 2023 within the month of June Jacob and I were given the opportunity to participate in a college level course directed towards computer science called AI camp we recently heard of AI camp and the feuture of our computer science class Mrs notal formed us about a rapidly closing scholarship opportunity as two very self- directed students we took the
049time to fill up scholarship application and both awaited results with being a h of a course it naturally had a high price although both of us submitted our applications we both only received partial scholarships for the of course left a little disappointed Isaiah and I both realized that finding the remaining sum of money would be challenging for us and our families however after talking with Mrs Nao we're surprised to hear that water County inside School District would be providing the remaining sum of money for our scholarships using the student services scary funds to help you all better understand what we learned Isaiah and I would like to explain the course and our takeaways from the thrilling opportunity we were both a part of that opportunity of course being AI Camp AI Camp is a course
050founded by by Stanford phds but run and guided by mentors and instructors sourc from top universities and companies from around the world universities such as Stanford Princeton MIT and more Isaiah and I both enrolled into their three-week AI boot camp where we both chose a subcategory directed towards artificial intelligence and data science we learned much about the former but we along with that we also became a part of the community and that helped us build connections with mentors advisers and peers the majority of the camp was done every day in Zoom meetings from excluding weekends and meetings lasted from 9:00 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day with a 1 hour break in between during the day we met in our Zoom meeting with our bigger group of 18 people from around the country before breaking
051off into our main groups of six five students in each group and one spoker to lead us through the curriculum our group was very diverse from with people spanning from North Carolina Florida Pennsylvania Texas and of course Watertown Wisconsin everyone in our big group is about the same curriculum but each smaller group report on different projects around the main now on to what we learned during our time in AI Camp throughout week one we learned everything we needed to know about a programming language known as python we also got into how data science works and learned to read and organize raw data using application programming interfaces during week two we learned how to make an exploratory data analysis use raw data to make visualizations and study Trends we also learned how to utilize AI machine
052learning models to work on a data set and eventually trained several machine learning models mod to predict outcomes and Trends on that chosen data set towards the end of week two we used everything we learned so far and decided on what our final product would be which was an algorithm that can create predictions on whether or not a patient has Alzheimer's disease of course for a project being as large as this we needed a way to compile resources and ideas for the former needing to be shared with six people we decided to create a Specs list the final product specs list had three issues the first two are the most important we started with issue one where we first graded a detailed outline for the project we laid out our process determined what our minimum
053viable product would be with our resources and established our accountability standards for everyone in our group with that we designated our roles that each person would have these roles consisted of product manager machine learning engineer data scientist and web designer I'm just one heads off this slide seem to be incorrect but we'll keep moving on um issue two was simply an outline of our exploratory data analysis where issue two compiled what visualizations we wanted to have those visual Iz ations were no differ from a statistics course including Scatter Plots pie charts heat Maps violin graphs histograms and more within issue two our group also discussed norms and procedures for everyone to follow lastly issue two um compiled every single type of machine learning model we were planning on exploring in attempts to find the best
054model to diagnose Alzheimer's disease within our exploratory data analysis also referred to as an Eda our outline created an issue two came to fruition using Google collab we used the programming language python to clean our data to fit our requirements once completed we began programming different types of visualizations to assist in understanding the data then part everyone's been waiting for we implemented machine learning models into our Eda we us five different models to provide diversity and more accurate results after running tests and deciding which model provided the best results we move on to hyperd parameter toting hyper parameter tuting put simply is making an already accurate machine learning model even more accurate with all that information compiled into one location the team could move on to the final product we made two websites for our
055final product the first website we made static and shows our outline of the entire project it starts with explaining what our product does and explains what Alzheimer's disease is the next section shows the main visualizations that we made for our Eda and detailed descriptions for each of them then machine learning models explains all of the different machine learning models we used in our project and visualizations that show how accurate each model was at predicting if a person has Alzheimer's disease lastly you can pop the slide lastly the conclusion section stated our thoughts on why few machine learning models worked as well as they did and what factors seem to be most important in determining whether or not someone has all disease I'll just let this play for a quick moment then get off slide of
056course AI Camp provided skills building impressive AI products modern programming languages and software web development and design data analytics and more computer science skills although the former is true the goal of AI Camp was not only to teach students about machine learning and data analytics but to provide skills that will last a lifetime these lifetime long skills include learning from Square One remote work building Hands-On skills efficiently expanding networking learning and working in small group environments evaluating skills planning skills creation of product development College and Career planning along with acquiring inance skills that can be used in our futures slide speaking of our futures I can speak for both of us when I say AI Camp has affected our futures in great ways personally my interest in computer and data Sciences has grown exponentially because
057of my newly grown interest my current Endeavor project is based on data science to assist in gaining even more knowledge on the subject with that in mind AI Camp assisted students in finding colleges to further Advance their studies in this topic which has given me great inspiration to continue post high school studies along with some of what Jacob said I think AI Camp has not only greatly improved my knowledge and computer science but has just allowed me to be more productive in general I've always had a hard time working on Hobbies or school work at home but after being a part of AI Camp found it a lot easier to work on school work and pursue personal interests even after AI camp this knowledge will stay with with us indefinitely and hopefully after elaborating on
058the success of our journey we and how we wish to apply the success to our futures we hope that the money granted to us will be written off as well as F before allowing you all to ask questions we would like to say thank you to miss nocal miss Miller Mr Vitali Mr Logan and the district as a whole for helping us get to where we are today without them we would not have heard about AI Camp nor been motivated to apply for the scholarship these are also the people to assist in our financial struggle make it the rest of the way to AI Camp without these people then this would have been possible without you guys a story would never have been heard thank you for listening board members comments or questions I'll just
059say come see me at June and I will line you up Mr Jacob is senior and um Isaiah is that's right for work he can he can he can work outside school hours it's fine I got companies lined up to take people who have one inch of what you've just done in this one Camp can I have comment please great presentation thank you thank you yes very well done ditto um just congratulations on like even building the relationships with your teachers and taking advantage of those things um I'm sure you know other students may have heard about those opportunities but you guys grabbed it and you know just your internal drive and things like that to follow through on that I know that that takes a lot of commitment and everything like that so congratulations
060on you are all right thank you both well done all right our next item up are our safety drill evaluations and safe schools update superintendent yeah so um you can see that the reports for each of the schools are there this is an annual um reporting that we have to do uh by law to you as a school board by the end of October each year this is last year's data uh that we've reviewed um you can see the synopsis of any of our emergency drills that were completed as well as um our fire drills and so on right there all for you um our goal uh for this next year is to try to get even more on the same page with the exact kind of documentation that we're asking from each group uh
061and I that is something that we are continuing to work on not only with that but uh with our Behavior data and other things that we're continuingly trying to get better at but it is there for you uh and as draw as the form and if you have any questions I'm here and some of our building principls are also present to be able to answer any questions you may have about what happened at their building if you have those questions board members go ahead please FR know the different types of documentation we have here is this largely a manual process that you're doing with this as far as the recording for right now yes um are there are we looking are there any tools that can assist with this or are we just looking at
062unifying the process by which we record um unifying the process by which we record right now there are other methods that some other school districts use um with app technology and some of the other LS to to go through and do some of that but we're not there yet Lori please um what exactly is mandated safety drill because I noticed some schools have a list of um safety drills and then like the high school obiously it's three so I just didn't know what is required right so required every month is at least a fire drill or some other emergency drill could be a tornado drill or or something like that okay uh and then um one of our mandated safety drills okay annually so if there's to Lor's question if there was three at the
063high school but there was a dozen at the elementaries just preference right yeah just different things working on at different times is there um you know I guess like when I take a look and maybe this is a different document or something like that when I take a look at that as far as like um is there an evaluation as far as like oh okay you know this went well this time maybe we need to you know an evaluation of oh okay we need to do this differently next time yeah so so that not only happens at the building level itself U but also Al we have a districtwide Safety Committee um that is run usually our our darker buildings and grounds uh helps us run that um and you guys know we're in between
064buildings and ground director so I've been helping and Lynn's been helping run uh those meetings for the district right now but we have those on a regular basis we talk about the drills how they went um we also bring in the police department and talk uh if they were involved with that um how things went things that they see or want to improve upon yes those those conversations have okay other comments or questions from the board di please um I know I asked this last year and I know that you know we're kind of new and getting into some things especially as a board but are we looking at I'm not already looking are we doing these drills during whether it be lunchtime whether it be during some of our exploratory times um sometimes when
065you're in those not so normal situations is when some of those things happen and that's when some of the chaos occurs because we're not in the normal situation are we practicing the not so normal to help them become normal yes uh and not only that not only that but sometimes we document the situation because it it happened right and so um some of what you're seeing may not be a pre-planned activity it was an activity that actually just happened that day because we had a concern or or um other reason for going into a drill state right and so U we document that as well but they can happen at any time we also practice them at odd times sometimes just to you know see what that different response is and see what we can
066get at um and um not only that but part of what you don't see is also we we do other exercise called tabletop exercises where we actually talk through scenarios um and we actually um working with the police department right now to build one that um would take like maybe a city something happening in the city maybe like a train derailment or something like that and talk about what that would look like with our involvement within something like that um and so we're we work closely with our Emergency Services coordination team also to talk about and work through those things as well as the Emergency Services Unit you mentioned the police bur coup times there I'm assuming this also fire as part of this we particularly focused with the police department our our direct is
067the police department involvement when there's a tabletop exercise that's a community one that relates to the school that's directed by that core unit uh and then we sit on as as a partner in that exercise but we have specific tabletop exercises that we do and we talk with the police department about you know what that would look like are we on the right track this is what we would were talking about um and thinking about planning for we get a lot of feedback from that way too I think it was a couple years ago that we brought up possible misalignment between us leaning on the cities police do fire department and we have labanon that's outside of the city has that been resolved that you know of or still on a docket or forgotten about
068no it's not forgotten about we we we keep talking about that as well but you're right the larger majority of the discussion has been with our local police department City Police Department opportunity the toped okay other comments or questions from the board yes please great um I I think as as it's always important to keep in mind uh about any type of um safety drill that we do that this is as much about uh students feeling some sort of preparation some sort of comfort by the effort that we're putting forth here um so I'm hoping that that uh continues enance the yeah and you you see in in the paperwork there that it's been anything from a lockdown drill through a fully vacation drill you know um so we we do um a large range
069of preparedness for everybody so anything else all right thank you and one last item for strategic discussion is an update on du language and I should say this item was reviewed in great detail at the ed services committee meeting so tonight is a high level summary I have some slides um there shortened version from um what was presented at ed services um so tonight we're just going to be going over some proposed changes for dual language programming at the high school level so um currently this is just a slide of what dual language programming looks Fork through 12 um I won't go into great detail uh we'll look at specifically at the high school um in the next slide uh the RMS programming that's new this year uh we proposed that change at the end
070of last school year and we're still doing the 50-50 model at sh Elementary um so the proposed changes would be moving the high school from a dual language program into an advanced World Language track um reasons for this change are it provides more flexibility for students with the kind of coursework that they're able to take um it also helps with stacking challenges um and we're still able to have the exact same outcome for students which is graduating with ACL by literacy so here's the current programming for uh whhs in the white um right now our nth graders are taking Spanish language arts but we are lacking a second content area that is taught in Spanish in order for ourselves to be considered DPI recognized dual language each year two different content areas need to be
071offered in Spanish um in 10th Grade right now students are taking AP language and literature um and then they also have Latin American history and then for 11th grade we have planned AP Spanish uh literature we would still need an additional course if we stayed dual language and then for 12th um grade we have a Spanish independent study or some other college course offering but again we would need that second content here area so the proposed programming gets eliminates the need for that second content area in Spanish and so students would just be taking the Spanish language arts the two AP classes and then their senior year they would be able to do uh an independent study or other college course work um if they would choose to do that um like I mentioned earlier
072students would still have that end goow of graduating with seal of by literacy that could either be the Wisconsin state seal of by literacy or the global seal of biliteracy um and the district would just need uh still need a teacher to continue to monitor that progress towards those seal any questions D but I'll summarize Ashley first of all thank you great job both that at Services as well as tonight um after I don't want to call it lengthy discussion but a lot mostly just understanding more about it uh ed Service Committee just wanted to make sure that the full board was aware of this just in case there was ever any uh information that somehow were losing something or we're cancelling something or that we made a drastic change where we promised something that's
073not available anymore and I think Ashley and the rest of the team have done a great job of getting us everything that we can with let's just say limited resources or uh inflexibility and programming to still get uh both the Wisconsin State Seal sealed by lry or the the global seal by literacy and not really losing anything that we've obligated ourselves to and quite honestly probably not losing much uh on the student side either um so this was a I don't want to call it a win-win but it was probably a necessary move and I think that Ashley did a good job of both presenting it the first time as well as giving a truncated version tonight I just wanted to make sure everybody here was on the same page because there could be questions
074and an email probably just wouldn't cut it so uh that's why I wanted it brought up one thing I would add is that for students this will give them more flexibility in their schedule because it's currently constructed is kind of a tight block of time that gets in the way of being able to take other advanced classes so this will open their schedule up great please so is it because I mean part of this is it because that we're just not able to offer that second content area period it's not like an elective by which they that's the major driving factor is finding the finding and hiring the people who have the correct lure to be able to do that in the content areas okay and it also attracts those students yeah unintentionally because two
075of their foure courses every year are together it really does eliminate that opportunity for students to explore other interests or other Advanced fores or other individuals they're together yes or other indiv and in reality we're bringing Ashley on board she's almost say cleaning it up as it gets here we're really not doing it now any I mean we're not we're not able to deliver it now this is just cleaning up what the program actually looks like and making sure everybody knows other comments or questions on the presentation what what are um what are the other options for if a student wants to to pursue a different language than Spanish do they have online courses at E Campus and they follow this programming for that um so as far as languages that are offered at the
076high school whs only offers um German or um Spanish I don't know if we've had requests for other languages in the past students have I I I recall other languages being available through E Campus but that get it's not always always ideal so we've had less interest in other all right any other questions no just absolutely great job on that presentation exactly what I was hoping for thanks all right thank you this Ben bring us two reports first off is the superintendent's report so uh superintendent report for October um just one recognition thing that I I thought of um as I was out and about in the buildings I saw these sixth grade staff members I went into one of the sixth grade rooms and they were busy on their prep period doing some planning
077uh and these are three of our ELA teachers uh and they were working on wit and wisdom in their classroom um and looking at classroom exercises that were upcoming and they were preparing activities for what they call their perer evaluation sequence and I want you to know I sat and uh listened to them for a good amount of time it was just refreshing to hear two things uh one not only were they working on this activity and if you can see you can't read the bubbles back there but actually it's kind of a notetaking strategy that they were going to be working with with the students but that notetaking strategy almost mirrored exactly something that I saw a day before in a second grade classroom matures uh and I've got a a little video message
078that's going to come out the next couple of weeks that talks about this about but how we are working on literacy but I wanted to take a minute to recognize that work that our teachers are doing within not not only literacy but math to make sure they're doing some vertical alignment but also alignment with at the grade level within um our new curricula that we're bringing in so I just wanted to put that up there and say it was a great activity and um they had some good uh feedback from their Administration and others as they did the peerreview uh and they and they went through that process so just want to recognize that they did a great job did you get it right um staff participants uh were uh also an opport in an
079opportunity um in non-violent uh Crisis Intervention strategies or n ACI um you hear us talking about nvci a lot uh we use non-crisis violent intervention strategies and we teach them to our staff um and what you're seeing here is you're seeing disengagement strategies uh those dis engagement strategies are when um something becomes Hands-On with another individual so right now uh you can see on the slide to the left uh those two ladies are engaging in disengagement strategy number one that's the you've grabbed on to my arm uh shirt hair whatever I'm getting away from you uh and then on the slide to the right is disengagement strategy number three I need to put you in a hold because you might be dangerous and how can we do that in a safe way so that not
080hurting yourselves or others and it's a breakaway method uh to try to get out of that hold so um they're just uh different disengagement strategies so in this one this is the aggressor putting somebody in a hold and this one is trying to uh break the arms and and move away from that strategy so it's a it's a breakaway and then step through um and then turn so that's how that works um but I just wanted to put that up there because it's a great opportunity and we have an opport for all of our peers or most of our paers coming up here on the 26th uh as another opportunity but we do those opportunities at least four times a year you know approximately also I wanted to share that we had some really good
081fun out at leap uh national school lunch week was October 9th through the 13th and they invited a bunch of people out there uh for uh that uh week they had the Grinch they had Gus uh and people from the fight uh Fire and Police Department Personnel were out there and had a really good time celebrating a school lunch week I was uh really depressed because this time I didn't get to call the call but I can see why they would want the Grinch or Gus instead of juring so um also across the district we celebrated uh on October 18th Unity day um Unity day uh is a day uh where we talk about um anti-bullying strategies we come together as a people uh and we share sh um the importance of what each other
082brings to one another in a positive way uh throughout our district um uh you know today is actually a nationwide day uh and this was part of our uh countywide our dual countywide Jefferson and Dodge County um they gave uh they have a we're having a mental health Coalition and one of the things was um to have a homework piece um and homework piece that um our school district decided to do was to do Unity combat against bullying and provide um Unity across the district so those were a couple of things I just wanted to give you oh some important dates um that are coming up very I'll leave it uh we have got no school coming up on November 20th through the 24th that's our fall break the November committee uh meetings are there
083and remember on November 15th we have a special uh meeting on data review that's after the fiscal management meeting in November thank you comments or questions on the report all right fiscal management right this committee met on October 18th here in the boardroom all committee members were present we also had with us several other board members including a president vice president director business services and our superintendent uh we discussed the 2324 budget which you saw earlier tonight we also discussed a uh RFP a draft RFP for a facilities Master planning um this uh questions uh has questions and suggestions for the final draft and um the RFP was approved to move forward uh in the timeline that's outlined on that um we have fiscal we discussed the UPC calendar and um one item that was
084a was in November we preparing to go to another R Fe for financial auditing Services um there were no questions on monthly reports and we adjourned in 27 minutes at 5:57 p.m. comment or questions on the reports okay HR yes we met on Monday October 16th um all of our committee members were present and um a few others joining us um we have uh we went over the consent agenda which is on resolution for tonight um as far as resignations retirements and appointments um so we'll be looking for that resolution um Jenny Bor also gave us a master teach teacher training platform overview um as far as that's something that is being used for the PA professionals um they have requested you know to be um to have more education more training feel more integrated
085and more part of the team and so um Mark and Jenny you know were able to to come up with this resource um that can help them dive into so many different areas um it's looks like a great platform as far as being able to um provide eal resources for them and things like that um and even including them as far as um on professional development days and things like that um let's see uh we talked about health insurance renewal um and we've been talking about that like at our August HR meeting so that was not um a surprise or anything like that there um we um Margaret gave us an update as far as the support staff salary review project um um it's underway they've had some informational meetings collecting job descriptions Market data
086um job information and things like that and um we are looking for all that data to be compiled and be presented at the um HR meeting in February um and then committee agenda planning um a couple topics for November that we wanted to make sure to bring to your attention of course we'd have you know regular consent agenda um but there has been some substitutes Staffing challenges um so we're going to be talking about that a little bit more in detail in November um and then um uh Margaret and team and staff will be bringing forth at the November meeting um the 20242 calendar discussion um as far as you know what the school days is the breaks all those kinds of things will be coming to us at the November meeting and then also
087um giving us a report on the rounding that's currently going on our next meeting is Monday November 13th at 5:30 thank you comments or questions on that report hearing none we'll move on to Educational Services yes said Services met on October 10th all members were present plus uh several other select guests uh Jenny gave a great update on about five different bullets uh her notes and more or less what she mentioned during the meeting are all listed in the meeting for your review the three or four major topics of presentation was Jason presented on eCampus Pathways we've asked uh Jason to uh update that presentation uh with some assistance from Sarah uh to include a cost breakdown both variable and fixed as well as what our incremental cost of additional students are in that program
088as we add or subtract uh the Dual language you just heard from Ashley pyck uh so thank you all for your participation and understanding on that one and then this was also the oh uh Jamie kep gave an update from summer school um and how many kids would participated uh there's a lot of energy some good ideas some um opportunity to potentially do that differently if we get on the ball earlier than later um so I'm not sure what the next thing we kind of push that back to Jared and his staff to figure out if we had enough time to make any changes between now and next summer um and Jared sh in his head yes so uh and Sarah's there too so um I I don't know when we'll see that again Jenny
089if we got that in coming up in let's see we'll begin the next month with additional information so we may see that round back to ed services when you guys have a plan I don't know if that'll be in November yet though or not probably not not November yeah okay um and then lastly uh was the first time we had an opportunity to meet Stacy bargan of the advanced uh for the advanced learner uh uh coordinator that we hired and um you'll see those notes in the minutes um unlike uh Fred and Tina we struggle to keep her under two hours let alone the target hour and a half um that one um I'm just gonna blame Jenny she Long window she puts a lot of stuff on the agenda you guys David to take
090one yeah team there I'm just gonna call like it is keep it I keep it shorter but uh so we're we're still working on uh keeping that to less than two hours but we enjoy each other's company so much it's hard uh so we adjourned at 9:43 and the next one's on November 14th I'll just go and say you stop inviting this guy he keeps talking too much on the phone or then you make your meetings a lot shorter next time you see that guy pop up not gonna admit just m that one that's what you do Dave don't put on that like take it okay Jenny knows I kid because I care all right time answer questions on the report and again there is a resolution on this evening's agenda for those Advanced Learning
091Materials policy uh we met Wednesday October 11th at 5:30 members and members present were myself Lori and Tina uh David Trader was absent um we had other several several other board members in attendance as well uh the first uh thing we discussed was the neol policy process by which um the process is going to take about 12 months to get through the um each section of the newal policies so there will also be a Hot Topic list by which certain U policies will be called out in that process and the board can identify um those particular needs as well but we're trying to get through that process as expeditiously as possible so we're going to keep trying move forward with that the uh the way that it will work in a nutshell is the first
092section will come before us the administration will be preparing the um those particular policies via template that um as closely mirrors our current policy as possible uh and that work will occur you know throughout between now and the next uh committee meeting so board members can actually uh log in on board. to be able to see the progress of those particular policies as they occur as all board members can see that Pro process and they can um we in uh when the time is appropriate on those particular policies um it's um what the intention is is we'll go through the first section uh we'll be presented to the board and then it'll come via um a clean will come to the board for first reading and a second reading as well uh much like like
093the minor revision process actually occurred in the past and but this is actually uh any of the red lines will be seen at the committe not at the full board level the the uh retention and procedures for retention through 8th grade we discuss that um a bit and superintendent Burke will be uh pursuing an auto process when it comes to what that looks like currently and what may need to be the next steps in relation to that the uh the personal electronic device policy we had an opportunity to speak with um principal Kerr and at least got the high schools take on how um personal electronic devices are the the expectations are being addressed and um provided to the committee some feedback and and how that is going and so far the the perception is
094that it's going well um but uh he will be coming back uh in February to share discipline data perhaps in regard to personal one drop devices uh the conversation regarding student dress code uh also involved principal Kirk and um the dress code students felt that there was there was a meeting with uh um students as well uh in regards to the address code and we may uh take a look at that in further detail at a later time as well and there's more dat up to indicate whether or not there needs to be a change in that extracurricular activities that will also be um that will be headed up there will be a subcommittee that will be formed uh with Tina Brad and Diana to take place at a later determined time yeah and we
095have the date yeah uh it's the 10th November at two o'clock so just clear that is needs to be a posted meeting yep it will be a posted meeting yep November 10th at 2 o'clock and we to work on that policy only that policy yep to discuss uh what changes need to be made to those particular definition and U the next meeting is Wednesday December 6 at 5:30 right comments or questions on the report what Dave how are policies supposed to be in board docks today they seem to be gone yeah no so okay yeah so if you go to the dropdown you'll go to the current policies yeah not the templates you don't want to be in the templates right now okay can we make that less of if I'm having trouble can we
096make that less of a challenge for our public I'm sorry we can't I I'm sorry we can't you know I wish there was a way that we could but that's goingon to be the way it's going to be until we can get through them and we hope that we get them through all within the year and we just ready to go but is there it's alphabetical so could you just maybe put a number in front of it like one policy two Neola that way it throws off the alphabetical I don't sometimes that know that weab ask yeah splash screen that says something or on the website I I asked and he's like I'm sorry it's just going to be the way it is so we we we'll try to ask again and see if they
097can come up with something for us yeah never it's cumbersome even if there's a notification that pops up when you go to the policy potentially something just says hey do this okay you have one other comment please just call principal care great job on trining context around the policies we were discussing at the high school level really helps understand how these are going into effect which helps drive that process moving forward so really appreciate you being there giving us that thank you all right fining um before I jump in the planing I'd like to jump back to ed services for just one brief second and check the date um on the district website it has the next date is November 7th but here in the minutes it says the 14th that means we have PL
098planning or not planning we had M Services HR and policy all in the same week I just want to double check that because at well at the bottom of the district website where it's got all the dates listed it says the seventh so I'm not sure which one it is just to make sure we have clarify Clarity not that it comes back later I took the dates off the slide um from our document that we are have each year unless I it should be the 14th because it should be the same week as but it's changed because of Thanksgiving so we double check that November and March are different it to the to the seven then I could have I could haveed it wrong Che double check that and get back to the team I'm
099not expecting an answer right now but just so there's no confusion later um and then as for planning we didn't meet this month we're meeting here in a couple weeks but the big thing is thank you to those especially to and Lori go through help May okay she's not over there she has put a lot of work into the upcoming or development session that Retreat coming through so super excited to see the fruits of that labor um something that we've been talking about for quite some time and then we'll keep you posted as far as what the hot topics are for planning I know we're looking at kind of doing some summary um on the superintendent evaluation process and Norms but we haven't J and I haven't really too deep until we find out what
100happens at the board retreat what emulate as the top topics and then kind of use that to drive the calendar we haven't put the ideas yet on the calendar either just to see what happens from this so I don't think people realize how big this Retreat is as far as where the D planning so thank you Tina again and so um let me um I don't have my slides but the the actual dates are and if I transposed them wrong I apologize November 7th for ed services November 15th for fiscal management uh Human Resources is November 13th and November 8th for planning so then we would just need to update the minutes or at services to State seven there so I don't remember what it said on your slide it said seven I normally double
101check this said I I don't know where the confusion may have happened or not but all right any comments or questions on plan uh no she just brought up the the thing that I was going to share though when I went through my presentation because of the fighting with this thing I forgot to say remember the dates are a little different because of November so so just keep a good eye on those dates for your calendar your person Calenders all right then this brings us to the consent agenda resolution 9 253 the consent agenda includes our board meeting minutes the committee summaries under personnel and Staffing you have appointments resignations and retirements you have the approval of bills we have first and second readings of policies tonight there are no first readings there are a
102number of second readings do I hear a motion to approve 9253 motion second moved by Fred seconded by Diana and do you accept as a friendly Amendment the um correction to the minutes for ed services to show the proper date for the next meeting yes yes y okay all right any comments or questions on the motion for the consent agenda hearing nonr call vote please Brad y yes Diana Johnson yes Tony ernes yes Tina Johnson yes David Sher yes David Smith yes Craig Wartman yes Mike Higgins yes Lor H yes and the motion carries next we have two resolutions under action items for this evening first is 92 54 which is the adoption of the budget and certification of the tax levy do I hear a motion on motion second moved by Fred second by
103Diana comments or questions on the motion sure just one question uh Sarah on that the the $20 million that's listed there as I don't see specifically $20 million in the presentation that you presented I do see the estimated fund 10 revenue and projected expenditures and see how property tax make up roughly I'll say 40% of fund 10 revenue is that what I would get if I took our projected revenue and multiplied up by that 40% that's where that 20 million ties into or 20 million is the total tax levy so that it F9 dead and fund 80 and F okay thank you and I'll just say I'm glad that I have to do what I did in Ohio which is literally read this line item by line item that's right you make motion to do
104that all right any other comments or questions on 9254 roll call vote please Fred y yes Diana Johnson yes Tony ernette yes Hina Johnson yes David Sher yes David Smith yes Craig Wartman yes Mike Higgins yes Lorie Hing yes and the motion carries our other resolution for this evening is 9255 purchase of advanced learning materials do I hear a motion so move second moved by Tina second by Craig as previously mentioned this was covered at the educational services meeting in more detail comments or questions on the [Music] motion this is coming out of Esser three brought up services as well but iue to ask that we have a a board level discussion over the moving pieces that remain in that in Yer uh funding versus continuing to just kind of Peace meal things that are
105not exactly as laid out to begin yeah agree and I believe that is forthcoming it is it's on the fiscal future planning agenda just okay please go ahead this was on our original that's correct that's correct this wasn't an all right any of the comments or questions on the motion hearing none roll call vote please Brad y yes Diana Johnson yes Tony ernette yes Hina Johnson yes David Sher yes David Smith yes cig yes Mike Higgins yes Lorie Howen yes and the motion carries there are no other action items for this evening under agend of planning I did not hear anything brought up during the course of this meeting that I need to put on a future board meeting agenda yes sir so that was already brought up at fiscal previously and is already on
106the fiscal agenda future planning speak to the board and I didn't know how that was gonna because it came up in ed services as well and then it came up in fiscal I didn't know if it was committee level or in the past we've had Sesser level discussions at the board but that could just be presented from or forward at fiscal we discussed that and determination was to start it fiscal and then bring it up they catch anything else no okay then this brings us to our other opportunity for public input not see any in the room no one online see all right then we have a closed session on our agenda for this evening do I hear a motion to go into close CL session for the reasons stated in the agenda second moved
107by Fred seconded by Diana comments or questions on the motion roll call vote please okay Fred y yes Diana Johnson yes Tony ernet yes Tina Johnson yes David Sher yes David Smith Craig Wartman yes kin yes Lor yeah all right we are in close session