6/27/22 Regular Monthly Board Meeting

001main street watertown wisconsin i want to first state i'm disappointed to read the wsb summer school equivalent 19 information for families and students but i am not surprised that w this district is not implementing additional commit safety protocols for summer school not even having any mitigations in case if there would be a certain level of an outbreak it's dangerous i am guessing this year summer school there have been absolutely no more students getting temperature checks or asking about uh their well-being with their symptoms even the uh district website for the cloven 19 dashboard has stopped which was last updated june 8th how are you supposed to know if our children are in close contact there is nothing in your summer school information about how you will contact a parent nothing with emails letters or even

002phone calls let me know this if someone had coveted in the past 90 days and then was in close contact with someone with that individual can catch covet again within 90 days even 30 days omnicron can infect someone over and over exposed no matter if you are vaccinated or not it's just if you're vaccinated the symptoms aren't as bad as the word we're not vaccinated so the term past 90 days is out the door and doesn't matter anymore you don't even have need a fever to be contagious with this parent it can sneak in with very little minor symptoms and cause problems i understand this district wants to go back to a pre-colgate 19 as back in the way as things were in 2019 but i'm sorry you just can't do that you're risking a

003lot of students and staff's help meaning both physical and mental health this district needs to bring back and have better proven 19 safety protocols and safety plans though by the looks of your district's website you're discreetly getting rid of it another thing is again with your policy 4133 5414 communicable diseases i advise you to revise this policy a positive policy for communicable diseases and viruses is important because it drives procedures and protocols allowing the school to protect the health and safety of students and staff absolutely no loopholes using may consistently it is not a policy if you have loopholes in your policy so i would like to see the following happen with this district one revise that communicable disease policy with no loopholes it's not a policy if it has loopholes 19 and other communicable

004disease illness guidelines into place meaning bringing back coven 19 protocols and safety plan have mitigation measures in case cases of sick and slash infected students and staff go up and having a covet or even influenza meaning if cases get to a certain point you do a certain thing to help protect others without getting infected i also want to see a solid mental health curriculum to somehow be taught in this district from kindergarteners through 12th graders problems can disappear if things get brighter for a student but the problems can get easily buried under the surface to only resurface with worse consequences if that student doesn't know how to handle the situation from the past so please we're going to say listen thank you is there anyone online all right this brings us to announcements and recognition

005communication and our first item up it's our soon to be new superintendent dr jerry burke welcome sir thank you very much i really uh really excited to join the team i know you guys have a solid team of individuals here and i just can't wait to get started i'll be in district uh tomorrow morning to do some paperwork um thursday just to kind of get things straight and then start to pitch out friday so appreciate that thank you very much on that contract later this evening any other communications and recognition thank you then we will move on to your seating discussion the first item up is the district scorecard all right tyler's going to keep up the uh slides that are posted and your board update the information we're sharing here tonight is simply interim

006data that is part of the overall so it's um it helps inform progress towards outcomes and output that is part of that larger planning document so folks that have been involved in the planning committee should have some familiarity with what you're seeing uh this uh references the star benchmark data which is administered to our elementary and middle school students and it is used as an indicator of progress towards proficiency on the report card at least that's its intent with respect to this plan as you can see the end of your goal um reading at 44 um our students reaching the benchmark the growth benchmark in star the goal of the reading was 60 or for mass 57 so you can see 51 62 respectively in our elementary and this is not proficiency in the sense

007of the percentage of students who are skilled at reading comprehension or numeracy rather it is the percent of students that reached the star benchmark which is set at the forty percent uh port chandelle that's the sort of sweet spot that renaissance for a student growth within that testing system each student reaches a scale score that is at that 40 percent 40 percentile or greater and that represents their progress towards academically similar students those are similar score histories so it really relies on a nationally norm group of students to be able to uh create this predictability against which our student performance is measured so it's not a proficiency measure it's a percentage of students that reach that benchmark in stock so that's the other qualifying uh information on this uh slide but it is one that

008we will continue to monitor it's a highly reputed benchmark assessment throughout wisconsin in the country and so you'll continue to reference star scores trimester data the high school on the other hand uh focused on a grade point average uh measure and as you can see here uh trimester one reached uh 51.4 percent the goal was uh 57.4 was a dip at the end of trimester two and then a rebound at the end of trimester these are uh based on the college and career readiness benchmarks in progress with the sliding bits feel free to yourself would you rather have questions slide by slide or would you rather have an idea why don't we wrap it up i guess big question diana thank you and then we'll take questions with that okay there's only a few slides

009attendance data is another data point that's being monitored so you can see here percentage of students that have missed more than ten percent of school days at the uh mid-year started at 9.7 the goal is eight so our overall attendance data is at 93.6 the target is 96.5 actually we're at 94.9 this has been sort of a fleeting uh challenge here um chronic absenteeism is really uh something that we're keeping an eye on that's just the same group of kids that you know struggled to get to school okay that does have an impact on one of the measures on our state report card so we're watching that closely and i think there are concerted efforts very targeted efforts in our schools to reach out to those students connect with them get them back if you

010of course have virtual options that that's a factor in you know enticing a student back on a regular basis so that they can uh regain some habits healthy habits and uh stature if you will financial stability uh this is more of a sort of output item to this this plan this a series of slides but you can see the business offices uh compiled um using the budget model to create all the year forecasts uh 10-year capital improvement plan it was approved by the board creating assigned fund balances and entry points with potential additional funding and financial stability goals are on target and then enrollment girls so these are uh numbers that are really focused on open enrollment in and as it relates to ecampus and then other identified non-consumers who are now then consuming are

011what we offer in the wsb if they hadn't been attended before that could be homeschooled families or new 4k families and so forth there's really a multifaceted i think market out there for families and students that um we have something to offer and so we are focused on that specific target again with respect to key campus in particular of garnering open enrollment students into the district and uh you're on target there you know these are really these numbers matter most in the third friday september and the second friday in january i think we try to reach out remain connected with our families [Music] um all right so again just a quick overview of the highlights of the scorecard um again i should let you back up and mention that this is also a byproduct of

012efforts around implementing our scooter continuous improvement plan and model so the score prior process is part of what our teams use at the sites and at the district level to again remain focused on our overall goals and use incremental data to inform what's happening and then make adjustments when things aren't going uh perhaps the way uh we'd like to see them because that's really what accountability is about questions or comments from board members i'll start off okay so if you could go back these to the literacy database so board members given the relatively new composition of the board i'd like to ask you all a question which is would you benefit in seeing a multi-year view on that star data and our proficiency data so you can see students like move grade to grade just

013see that view we've had that at the board before it's been very beneficial and understanding how does that number move over time and also how does that number actually relate to the actual proficiency scores actually there's we expect some sort of correlation we recognize they measure different things in certain sense but we're expecting some kind of correlation or something this benchmark so really it's a question to you all would you be interested in having such kind of presentation in the next few months please that was actually one of my questions is how can we better make use of data seeing more data i know we're supposed to take the 5 000 mile view but sometimes being too far up doesn't we don't see your how and why and that's what's going to suggest but what

014when you look at a multi-year it enables you to see trends and that's what we as a board need to be looking for right it's not so much the immediate data point right in front of us it's the what's the trend doing that's really our best informative perspective and then skipping to enrollment can i interject yes can we ask additional questions after this one before we jump through is that okay okay go ahead yeah okay let's stay right there all right thank you um you talked about the star benchmark and you mentioned that it's the 40th percentile of growth kind of thing i know that and again being a new board member you kind of look at things i know that through the goals that you had for this year it was making that jump

015from 69.1 to 74.1 does that benchmark score reflect a bigger jump in what you were hoping to see because looking at the date over time the district hasn't moved more than a couple points one way or the other you know what i've seen yes so you have to be very clear the data point we have measured in our goal is the actual proficiency score right as compared to the star leading separatist yes and my question is the benchmark that's there is that the typical norm benchmark most districts have it for one year's growth one year's time that's the benchmark that they utilize are we utilizing that because if so how are we going to get to multiple points i don't know if that number is big enough so if i could rephrase essentially is going

016with the star benchmark of the 40 annual growth sufficiently aggressive to meet what appears to be a fairly significant jump required and overall proficiency yeah so you know this star benchmark data is really designed to help us flag instances where students might be uh struggling and for founders of veterans through the or there are some uh false negatives you know our kids maybe are really doing well we don't want to over account for that by having the you know the threshold you know something other than 40 if it's it's too high i mean it'd be great someday and uh because that's what we're seeing with our results but if it's up to 30 then a lot of students that are doing much better than perhaps you know their actual skills which suggests i hear what

017you're saying i think that's one of the things that we have to um dig into um talked about it when cassandra was here and jared's here now we'll have an opportunity to dive into the meaning with what the data means the more there's two ways of looking at the question you look at is the 40 right number i think you could also look at is the 60 exceeding the benchmark the right number you could instead say is does that need to be 70 or 80 if you're truly going to drive a significant increase in efficiency leave the benchmark where it is the benchmark is the benchmark is the question is are we having are we getting are we getting sufficient number of students at 60 percent enough students really to see them the correlating movement

018in the proficiency they're expecting or does 60 maybe 70 or 70 to be the ap issue right and the reason behind the question is if this is our goal and we've written in a smart goal format this is our goal do we have the appropriate measures in to achieve that goal if not then we need to look at adjusting what are those action steps so my question as we go through this they will be start with this one okay so i get what we're saying here i'm diving deeper but if these are what we've set right wrong or different so reading we did not achieve so what i'm missing in this report is why do we believe we didn't achieve it and what are we doing differently to achieve it in the future conversely on

019the math effectively we achieved it why did we achieve it and what are we going to do to to continue to achieve it and or even achieve it better the action is what i'm looking for the process that it works yeah yeah um you know i think like with anything it's uh attempting to look at our programming um you know to determine whether or not we have they can through the process of our research studies curriculum uh challenging materials to do our methodologies are those things that we should be studying more through our plc process you know that uh every release time on wednesday the teachers get together and talk about this kind of thing you know that's where you're gonna identify some of these um you know the causation for some of the lack

020of performance if you will uh you know runs the runs again i mean they're related to changing circumstances throughout the years but i think that's very real for many families so i think it's it's multifaceted and in some cases look at each student individually and say you know what's going on in this particular instance that we can address immediately based on the information that we have from these assessments so what i'm hearing is not yet we don't have that that so that my question will be when can when can the board plan to to see that i mean i think when we pull together as an advent team to discuss the uh all solos when you guys get a chance to see the data up close and personal with our rotations and so through forth

021ed services meetings i mean i mean i definitely think a goal to beat you you know i guess uh granularly look at some of the state and what it's telling us because i think a big part of what we don't know effectively not us necessarily in this room but misconceptions about data is just kind of looking at the color around the report or the color on the report and suggesting that the green means you know good which typically is the case but what does it really mean so becoming a little bit like data literate you know the report card for example it measures three years of the most recent creation three years of data not many people realize that it's just the latest point in time and that's what you're looking at but uh there's

022all sorts of things i think that we can do to better understand what the data's telling us but more importantly what this staff is going to do i think what i'm asking for is i i don't mind being a part of some of that in some of the committees and boards but i think i'm asking the administrator to me it's the administration's role to take these leading indicators deep dive into them and report back to us as a board of this is what we've discovered and maybe this is the why and give us a little bit of into the data but yeah i don't want to process the data and the rest of the teams [Music] so my ask is yeah when can we have that that high level summary report back if that's the

023wish of the rest of the board is when can we have that back of saying hey we've analyzed this this is the this is the why we succeeded or didn't succeed and this is what we're going to do in the future we're not going to test anybody until september we should be having action steps or show up and fall this is what we're going to do differently there's also a summer slide so let's be real is this better data to deal with now in spring as opposed to summer because typically those numbers are lower overall do you look at just that point or do you look at fall to fall you look at spring to spring that's a different conversation for a different day but there is i mean you could technically do stuff with

024data right now and yeah it was last year's but we can go right yeah i would definitely add to that i i would find benefited as recognizing that this is a living thing like document and that data is changing according to different times of the year um i guess my question would be at the time of the planning committee we were waiting for uh student survey information coming back so i would ask if that was then returned and then the other part of that is in this presentation and part of part of the plan would it be to discuss things or kind of have a good feeling for employee engagement and things of that nature you know when it comes to planning and professional development thoughts i guess i'm looking for more uh more feedback

025from that i can visually see where our staff is in relation to where we're headed as a district and i think that's part of this plan so the july hr committee meeting coming attractions will include bill foster from school perceptions who will be doing a presentation on both the london this year's results of the employee satisfaction survey as well as reporting on the longitudinal results of our employee set engagement satisfaction survey so that's one measure that might be helpful and they'll be doing i think like 15 to 20 minutes on tickets july 8th is receive was extensive yeah i mean there's like mr vitaly said there's i mean there's all sorts of subjects and it tends to get overwhelming when you're looking at it so i i would suggest maybe just picking out you know

026a couple at a time rather than the whole trying to comprehend the whole plan something that's like the really key drivers and working on those first and at least getting a feedback was what we're looking at yeah because it was i don't know i mean david to say is no okay other questions or comments on that one paper point then any questions on the attendance data let me go back to the whf that was just star um this is it's the title is trimester data is this just reading and math so it's a direct parallel to kind of what we just saw for elementary and middle or is this overall this is overall cumulative gpa data so this includes everything beyond reading is there any way we can see just reading a map because that's

027really what we're kind of honing in on and if not you know my bigger question is we're looking at a 2.8 gpa which is a c plus and that's kind of average again if we're looking at 69.1 we're looking for that substantial growth great i'm appreciative show me that the 2.8 gpa what about 3.5 what about 3.2 or 3.8 how do those correlate because as i'm looking at this i'm going we only have about half of our kids a scoring a c plus or better if we're trying to move that bar what do we need to do to do that and i know those aren't answers for right here right now but i guess that's where i thought our goals and things were and i i'm not wrapping my brain around how that is getting

028us there so can i answer just from um from the planning committee the explanation that was given was the 2.8 was representative of a child that would that's right at that mark where a child may advance to um higher level of learning and that was kind of this targeted group so yeah that's one of the benchmarks um among many other benchmarks um so my my hope is we're reflecting a lot of baseline data this year and with college and freddie or college and career college and credit college and career readiness framework um so my hope is to bring a lot of that data back to you all in the fall to be able to get up like a comprehensive view but sedan's point in terms of can we drill down and focus on the reading

029and math like we can go to english classes and we can go to math classes um but uh i think some of the drill down is looking at some of the act data and even the subgroups and i know like the math team pulling a lot of data for the k-12 math study um that we have within like the subgroups and the indicators for act aspire as well as ac um and we have the same for for english you know so on um the act results just came back we don't have all the college and career readiness like percentages there you know for reading and math like it's not all you know nice and packaged yet um but we a lot of data is coming in with like the specific subgroups and the categories um

030that can help us do that but i i here and appreciate the feedback too in terms of hearing that goal because like well how are we seeing progress with all of our kids and move that respect other comments or questions on this slide anything on the attendance slides um so they've missed 10 percent of school at the mid-year so when it says started at 9.7 is that the mid-year amount or can you just help me clarify that that paragraph kind of converse i'm not understandable do we have a beginning of the year middle of the end of the year i guess is what i'm looking at beginning of the year be zero so what's the middle of the year what's the end of the year yeah it started at 9.7 that was the end and

031the middle of the year was what right what was the percent and at the end of the year then is 10.5 and 10.5 of approximately 100 1100 students give or take is about 116 kids just an observation on that point though um it almost seems as though we weren't issuing a lot of truancy tickets um i'm wondering if that has any type of correlation you know it's not always a solution that yields consistent changes in behavior i don't have the numbers on the rate of the continue and so kind i would add that i know our sros do make challenging referrals along with our student services individuals but um when it gets to the county level whether they move forward with the truancy that's what i would question because we've made the referrals but um

032due to some circumstances i know during covet there was kind of a standstill on a lot of truancy referrals because it was just a difficult time and i think that has gotten turned around some but and i know our sro officers are always working with those teams do we pursue insurance who are thrilled and they our sro officers typically take the ball and pass it on to the county at that point at what point does it go to the trust to the truce so typically 10 days if they've had 10 days of attendance in a row that's when or throughout the year or however you want to look at it then we look at we send letters at five days and there's another letter that's sent and that 10 is when when the conversation takes

033place do we make a choice now don't quote me on this but if we've had a tragedy and a family i don't know if that goes on to truancy based on all of the information regarding what's happening or if the kid or the family was recently homeless or living somewhere else and we were getting transportation set up they don't know how those particular situations and ten and a half that's it's almost it's over three weeks of school three four weeks ago right that's not good and i know all of the principals in all of us too have had conversations about school getting students back into full day being able to do school full day five days a week and what things can we put in place to make attendance a focus for all of the

034buildings and at one point the elementary did was it strive for five i think and they had some traction with that and just trying to continue to put the value in with the families and with the students and again we go back to engagement too because we want to make sure kids are engaged so they want to keep coming back and i my opinion is in talking with area districts attendance is something that hasn't healed yet from us being in many different platforms over the last few years who in the organization so we've got this is this is a part of the uh our greater goals who owns this portion is this the truancy officer is it this is the principles is it who's got the ownership i think it's all your staff i mean

035your parents as well from the standpoint of accountability okay but is um factor related again going back to the report card that can penalize tools that you know absolutely so it's something that we treat very seriously of course dave and i know in the past um as i mentioned earlier previous efforts have gotten as granular as our aps calling family center daily basis making home involved home visits that kind of thing to the point where we're visible and uh and that can make a difference but that's something that requires some sustainability this question yes if you put a goal on the board there should be one or two people who own that goal and are going to drive the conversation here's the action steps and here's what we're doing here's our progress on them and

036brings people together to say okay this is not working what are going to do next that's the point it's like somebody's got to be the catalyst he talks about ownership he's saying who's going to be the catalyst for this area that will drive the conversation forward because people may have different perceptions they may wonder they think oh this is the truth to the abatement officer they're not and that person may say absolutely not it's not me and i would say especially at the other levels i don't think we want our this could be a main thought process of our teaching center i mean they need to be supportive of it absolutely but i don't think that's where it lives so i think a couple feedback points for the planning committee out of our conversation here

037i think you're getting one consistent feedback in terms of are our expectations high enough on some of these measures to actually create the changes i think on this one we have a question of who owns this i'm just going to drive this one because we're not clear on that and again maybe that currently exists within the organization it's not present at this moment right so i'm just kind of like focusing our feedback back to the planning committee who then can work well i guess i guess my my comments are more geared for the fact that i'm looking at situations where if there's you know a need to [Music] expel students and there's an ample opportunity to get them in into the building but yet we're not able to communicate that somehow to individuals we're not

038setting that child up for success and sometimes in my perspective the best way to get a parent's attention is to issue a truancy ticket get them in the building and and i'm i'm you know i'm just kind of questioning whether or not we're sharp enough on that sort of thing okay all right what about financial stability so enrollment growth this is an area i want to clarify because it's gotten money along the way so with regard to enrollment we set two distinct goals here one was about the growth of the campus and the expectation was that that growth is coming from open end separately we put a goal on the board about open enrollment to the rest of our programs and somewhere on the line the two got melded and it became the 15 was

039a subset of the of the e-campus which was not the case at all we set we set an aggressive global pre-campus we recognize that but it was about getting students from outside to come into our campus and so this one's clear but that that's the goal and if you need to go back and somehow clarify the language and make it all clear i thought it was pretty clear it's two different bullet points but you know i wrote it wise so if i need to clarify it we will so just to be clear on that as a result of that ecampus is not where we are in terms of not where we want to be in terms of people we have we have that many students in it but they're almost all our own students attending

040it for one reason or another and so that one is still very much a box of room to grow in terms of what the board expectation was with that goal for the campus yep so that 14 for ecampus yeah those are new or those are not those are new but the point is we set a goal free campus is 120 expecting that 14 would be 120. my bigger question i read somewhere i don't remember all the different things we've been doing last couple weeks about a number of our e-campus students being international are any of those that hasn't happened yet i no that's absolutely not the case 15 new students to ecampus that wouldn't take much as compared to 100 points yeah then you say that so i was playing around one day and i

041just did a search for ecampus and if you search ecampus you don't find a campus water channel you have to do ecampus academy or you have to search the campus watertown so my only comment to this if we want to increase that level if there are multiple e-campuses in different colleges textbooks whatever how can we do a better job branding so that way it makes you go we achieve the achievement boom so i think that if we're going to look at the marketing piece that we talked about through some other things just how we the search is difficult yes yeah so we have a lot of work on clarifying the numbers uh it's a great conversation we have potential to attract kids of course from outside the district and when you do that um you

042know your overhead's low your margins are higher to that but there are also some challenges when folks tend to hop around and think this is the next place you can go and do nothing and that's not going to be true but we also have non-consumers within our community that are not going to come into our sites unless there's an e-option for them those are students that are traditionally uh home-based the value proposition for the campus is very different depending on families yes any other questions on this comments on this i think that is the end of that let's get some final comments all right thank you very much for that this moves us on to so3 and just to make a note we do have the resolution itself what's your pleasure [Laughter] okay mike's primed

043up right he's got the presentation ready to go that doesn't matter uh it just opens up for a second level of discussion later on yeah i don't want to answer it once and we want to do it once so if we do it now i'm really going to make an effort as your facilitator to curtail this question we get later so what do you want to do i'd rather have it later but that's just [Laughter] it's going to i think their emotions entailed the conversation and i think it will work better mechanically to do it then all right 2022 2023 preliminary budgets so i don't this is uh this is more logistical than anything else it has no tie tonight a white powerpoint and that's not exciting it is meant to provide you a framework

044of where we currently are um uh and nothing more okay there's any last changes that occur over the summer preliminary budget is wrong all these things but uh there is a process that we need to be involved in uh to be able to set ourselves up to understand what we need the heavy lifting that we do come october so the timeline just for those um on the next slide either the timeline just for those who are new it's kind of a wonky thing in education where you have a starting fiscal year july 1 and an approved budget for that year at the end of october so you're essentially working almost four months of the year right through the way through our budget so what this preliminary budget does is it gives a framework to say

045district you continue to operate your normal in your normal capacity um because we understand a framework is in place and that things are changing throughout the summer before october so right now uh we're doing lots of budget adjustments we have new hires coming in all the time we get lots of questions is this in the budget can this be in the budget what would we have to do if this isn't in the budget well we have to come out of the budget so those conversations are happening uh pretty consistently over the summer it's very exciting while all that's happening uh we're really gearing up on the revenue side for that third friday membership count that's something that's going to drive almost 90 percent of our revenues so once we have that number finalized um i'll

046certainly report that out to our finance committee in september and that really just gets the ball rolling for the october budget in september i'll bring to the finance committee what we call the published budget that's what gets posted in the newspaper um puts the uh hearing out the time and place the budget hearing the meeting for that october one is like christmas for me we get property valuations we will get finalized state aid numbers in october and then i'll do a little uh show for you on the annual budget and you'll improve the budget and the tax study in late october so that's just a brief overview of the timeline for those unfamiliar with that process so like i said the purpose here is simply an initial framework of where we currently are it authorizes

047us just to continue in operations starting july this friday it uh gives you an update of where i would currently stand on different variables and what's in the budget and what is in the budget and just so you're aware dpi uh department of public instruction they don't have an official format for what to approve for preliminary budget they certainly do for the published budget they do for when you approve the original budget in october they call it um and so this is this is just more of an informal process than anything else i can't really go uh a presentation out and just throw in a few things a few like slides a few drafts of tyler's just real quick one thing that i do want us so right now we have a balance bubble in

048place expenditures matching revenues but it's important to recognize there's still a lot of leeway between those two numbers and lots of things can change one important concept that i want the entire board to remember is that right now with our revenue if we if we lose students from last year our revenue goes up if we gain students this year our revenue goes down and that's the poor part where we are is watertown where we fall in the funding formula and how the logistics of the state budget work so right now that's the situation we're in until we have multiple years of either stabilizing student membership or rising student membership that's when that will flip to more students more revenue but we're not there right now in the formula okay so just keep that in mind

049as we move forward uh you can go on the next one so what this budget does include so i have put in there just for an ease in our own conversations moving forward a flat membership in other words the same membership that number that we had last september i have in the current budget right now we do expect that to go down um in other words revenue go up but again just for ease of the conversation for the preliminary budget there's a flat membership that i'm assuming for right now i have all the staffing positions and the staffing plan that we brought forward to the hr committee that's all the positions are in there and [Music] they're all in there i'll tell you something it's not and i'll tell you right now but not all

050the numbers for the new hires are updated yet so i've got all the positions there's they're earmarked but i don't have all the updated salaries benefit choices all those things no tyler don't yeah we're not done yet okay what it does not include that is right now i don't have any revenues or expenditures so once we have an approved plan because they offset each other but once they have an approved plan you might see a number of expenditures that goes to 50 million like how do we jump 48 to 51 and there's just an option offsetting revenue on the other side you mentioned the hires and there was a proposed compensation um a change has brought forward to the hr committee at this point i do not have that in the budget um either just

051for her own reference purposes but again lots of flexibility go ahead to the next slide so just real quick some significant revenue comparisons um we are going to be down in our revenue in the formula um and that includes you know even some transfer service that we plan on taking advantage of uh additional two hundred thousand dollars in operational referendum so we're going from three point seven to three point nine million we're still seeing a revenue limit uh that's gonna decrease by almost 400 000 um part of that is some loss in what's called the um enrollment exemption but that's um that's all part of this formula that we're we do have some uh revenue mitigation that's that's occurring in other words we would have revenue that would be down even more however um i

052guess one good part of inflation right now is that interest rates are rising and so while we have locked rates um on our debts so we don't our debt's not going to move as far as interest rates go but the money that we have sitting in our accounts are gathering more interest uh than we've seen in i don't know a couple years at least um athletic admissions i got to bump up is a pretty low number last year just given um we didn't know where we really were at the start of the year so that number's up and then as as we've kind of already mentioned we do have some momentum going as far as enrolling international students into the ecampus platform and so while it's not necessarily adding staff it is adding um we

053believe to be some net revenue there um with um nearly twelve hundred dollars right now per student to use the platforms in essence of ecampus so i put that in there as a projection right now and we'll see as we move through the summer kind of where that number lights up as we look forward so some revenue there to offset some of those losses go ahead tyler on the expenditure side the wages and benefits increase is pretty large um it's actually i was looking at this number again today it's really closer to two million um over where we're gonna actually end up for this year but the reason that's so large is right now i have cpi across the board which is uh 4.7 health insurance increase of six we've added some full day 4k

054positions with corresponding aids that go with that we have a one and a half uh ft edition of el educators some other pieces in there on the wages and benefits that's uh putting a pretty large strain um on the on the expenditure side of what's making the gap close between surplus works between revenues and expenditures in our last year of our operating referendum um the fund 27 transfer right now increasing again that's predominantly predominantly due to again increased wages benefits supply increases that's really prices rising mostly mostly in papers students say but it is that and then of course transportation and utilities right now it increases about 150 000 transportation will know better in mid to late july i'll bring that to finance and utilities it's just a matter of natural gas and kind of

055seeing where that ends up as we last slide tyler um so again this is a recommendation for approval tonight in order that you feel comfortable that yes there's a framework in place we understand that there's that framework we we know that there's still a lot of adjustments that have to occur new hires benefits return those sorts of things still need to be put into place but typically new hires and benefits for retirees offset each other we just completed the summer payroll so i was jumping in there today to see where we finished up and i think we're on a good track to um realize the 3.5 million dollar surplus that we thought we would for this year um we're going to do some july adjustments in other words there's some things that the state allows

056to do with financials in july such as possibly offsetting some fund 38 debt which is about 320 000 on next year's budget if we have the capacity to do that and maybe making some transfers from um there's that surplus this year moving some of those funds in the fund 46 which allows us to um use something outside of operational funds to cover our uh large capital projects from our 10-year capital improvement plan and then finally i'm very important through your projections as alluded to in the strategic plan we've talked about it once i've shown the committee kind of the tool that i'm using but we'll bring that forward in july and have a nice conversation okay comments or questions on the board our revenue limit formula is going to cause us to be down 380

057000 that's even including an additional 200 000 from our operational referendum and an additional 229 000 that we could be able to be able to recognize in our transfer of service even with those dollars included we're still down 380 right now in this budget that static uh enrollment mike or is that important it's a three-year roll right but when you say we're down what's the line yeah yeah i understand that oh there's a loss there's there's a exempt there's lots of exemptions in your previous slide you had 34.50 there's a little orange dot on it and i was trying to figure out aren't we at 3 300 so i was trying to figure out what you were using in your budget for membership and does that tie out to the question that they've just asked

058in the 381 so there's two questions membership is not head count membership is residence we attend publication so even if our head count even if our head count is 3 300 which is close to that our membership because all the students open and rolling out are counted in our membership so our membership last september is 3456. i'm using that exact same number for september of 22. that was my first question and i i miss stated my follow-up to it but i wanted to know if it was static as far as are we using the same headcount as we did last year yeah and the answer is yes and i misdefined membership you answered my first time so now if membership goes down we gain revenue membership goes up we lose revenue why are we down

059because we still use a three-year rolling average the previous three years versus the current three years so 19 20 21 average versus 22 21 20 average the state compares those and if you're down you're gonna lose some revenue okay on on top of that the state tries to give you back some of the funds that you're losing from having that declining membership but we're not gaining all of it back because the loss in our i know the loss in our membership is slowing so the state last year would have said we're going to give you this much additional money because wow you lost a lot but that doesn't stay with us forever now because that loss is slowing they go we gave you that much this year we're going to give you a little less

060this year as we kind of glide into that loss of membership so important thing to keep in mind is the general principle of the formula starts with at a high level here's how much money the state thinks you need to run your district and then there's two big pieces to that your local tax levy and the state fund so even though our revenue limit could be going down meaning our local levy is impacted by that and the state so you can have some offsetting state revenue the whole point is if it is down but there's it's there's complexity because it has there's different impacts on those local levees in the state so we're down dave because we are losing membership the state is not giving us as much money to offset that loss as they

061were in that's the goal exactly i mean the state basically penalizes slow decline and slow rise or stability you have to either be moving down fast you have to be moving up fast and even the moving down has a timer right slowly and that's causing that's but also realize that even this number is showing when we get to the taxes then we have to figure out and how much of that money is coming from the state versus how much it's in local revenue and now you've got an additional complexity situation we do expect state aid to go on this year that's in the biennial did you forecast that does this budget include a final budget of increase from state aid yes but all that so the revenue limit is property taxes plus stadium yeah so

062i could say we're increasing state aid by all that means is profit taxes right is that that's just a trade off a zero-sum game on the total revenue there's a question your comments on this answers you have a lot of questions important to note that when we come back to this in july we have another important discussion about the budget at which point we're going to say do we want to based on how we think we're finishing this year this fiscal year at the end of june 30. do we want to prepay debt we want to put money into fund 46 so there's going to be some questions and that's going to give you some more finite numbers to look at at that moment in time thanks for providing a very useful presentation reports superintendent

063reports no i don't have anything normal i'll just mention of course that summer school is underway second week beginning today we have come to go into staff it's keeping us busy of course technology cleanup imaging inventory and then of course fiscal management uh let's see we met out last wednesday we were all present correct yes we were uh myself jenny was there which is nice mark paid us a visit it's a great time uh we went through the payment reports several questions both emailed and at the meeting uh we went through those the variance report again kind of skim past the variances i'm really looking now just to the end of june and where we're going to finish up more than anything again dive into that today um we had a whole bunch of twenty

064thousand dollar plus purchases by a whole bunch of like ten typically we break those out um but we kind of lumped them together right now as one or else resolutions but we spent a lot of time on literacy material purchase el material purchase we looked at the season 2 contract for audiologist services we did go with our proposal is for season two over uh another vendor at a higher cost so i don't know if there was unanimous consent on that but we did feel comfortable going with season 2 for a number of reasons discuss that finance committee um the rest of things the nanny contracts and others that we can talk about when we get to propose what you said which you did receive um money uh a generous um amount of money from from

065mr martin benson uh from a stem proposal that was put together the proposal uh is attached with some detail on where those dollars um more than likely will go and um just you know want to thank the generosity of mr benson for those for those funds so that's going to look for an approval tonight as well we went through the fees meal prices facility um fees again those are all broken out tonight as three separate proposals we've spent most amount of time probably talking about the meal prices um we are raising we have not raised prices for over two years due to that because we're getting reimbursed for federal government and so with um not doing that for a couple years we need to revisit it because there are no more uh free meals coming

066from an entity we did increase we're proposing to increase prices by essentially 25 cents across the board breakfast at high school 30 cents there was some discussion that maybe this isn't even still enough which is very possible um however we do have a fairly large fund balance and food service which is its own separate entity from the district's operations and so we're hoping to kind of see you know what happens with inflationary pressures as well as are we able to operate um with the revenue and if not we certainly have the fund balance to ease our families into a more to a slower i won't call it it's gonna be a shock i guess without free meals but at least at least mitigate some of that increasing pressure on prices this year and we evaluate

067as we go through the year um we briefly also we did discuss increasing the parking fee um that's not on the proposal for tonight but all those things are out there for tonight very budget you've heard all about already so3 talk more about just remember i've got my report due june 30th and finally a land appraisal updates uh we're going to schedule 20's in the schedule meeting so july 20th is our next meeting i answer questions on the report hearing so we met june 20th at 5 30 p.m uh our entire community was there we were also visited by dortmund mike was there jenny and aaron were there and i was there soon we went over the consent agenda with it which is quite likely this month due to a successful hiring i'm happy to

068report that we only have five remaining vacancies and are working quite diligently to get food wrapped up before the start of school you'll also find we discuss the summer school contracts you'll see a shorter resolution for staffing for that area tonight um our hiring fingers crossed and that area is slowing down and should be just there might be a drug drive coming from some support months but for the most part the irene for summer school has been completed and has been successful we also discussed a compassionate lead a handbook adjustment to reflect a change in policy by extending the sickly bank donation program from covering right now it covers only the catastrophic illness or injury of an employee and we have proposed language in a resolution this evening for you to consider extending that to

069include absences or leave needed to care for a family member with a catastrophic illness or injury these are obviously rare rare experiences we have maybe one or two each year where we go into the sickly bank donations but it is seen as something that would be a positive addition to our for our staff and we don't see it as being particularly excessive in terms of new costs or anything this is the only lead that's donated from the existing leave banks of current employees so we're not creating a new main bank or adding additional we that's just a reordering of lead benefits that are already available to staff so we did we did put together some guidelines for that very similar to the catastrophic illness and injury of an employee guidelines and we're hoping that you'll

070prove that or i'm hoping that you're you'll prove that in tonight's resolution this was something that was brought up from our staff a couple months ago we were visited by a group of staff that advocated for this change in order to respond to some current needs of staff in the district we also discussed the education compensation model review committee work that committee had has been meeting had met from november of 2021 through may of 2022 and developed some recommendations we took recommendations that were developed based on the feedback from both the survey and the work of the committee members or the educator compensation model changes you recall some of you that the educator compensation model review committee was supposed to start in february of 2020. kobe delayed that by almost you know a year and

071a half and so now we're kind of circling back having done our review and we've got some changes that are composed we had a very lively discussion about the various proposals and at the conclusion of our discussion about that proposal it was recommended by the committee to refer that to the fiscal committee by understanding that it's supposed to be what might be considered at fiscal next month we also had uh dr gave us an update on funding from the greater watertown community health foundation they increased funding for our mental health coordinator position and that position has now been decreased based on that funding to a full-time position in 2022-2023 we talked with jenny and erin quite extensively about a teaching and learning staffing proposal which involves the addition of one clerical full-time equivalent a new

072position in that area to respond to some of the business needs of the teaching and learning area as well as help to minimize or reduce the need for current lte or temporary clerical assistance and also the significant amount of overtime that has been worked in that area to respond to all the demands that are part of compliance and delivering services to the teachers the administration of the board from the teaching and learning area there were additional questions at the end of our discussion on that proposal and tina johnson will be collecting information from committee members some follow-up questions and then we'll be forwarding that to jenny and aaron for further information sharing and likely that that will be a topic at another hr community the committee went into closed session to discuss the administrator compensation

073proposal which was a subset of the educator compensation model review committee's work that discussion was held in closed session no decisions were made in a closed session and as i understand that that proposal was also recommended to be forwarded to the board's fiscal committee for their consideration again my understanding that that may be on the july agenda for the fiscal committee having had a rather lengthy almost as long as fiscal meeting the committee concluded and they are next scheduled to meet on monday july 18th at 5 30. thank you so much questions in that uh yes uh mark the uh mental health support is that related to the dodge county uh counselor or is that unrelated to the dodge county council my understanding is unrelated but i think that's more detailed this is a coordinator

074not the actual two day a week council okay which would we we put that into effect roughly september of last year so that's gonna be up for that was a two or one okay it was dodge county had employed an individual that recently took a job somewhere else so we will have a different person but they're still funding it through the greater watertown health foundation with several districts but that's not this one correct i just wanted just wanted to verify which one this was thank you okay so what is this so we have had a part-time mental health coordinator in our district that has worked a lot with social emotional learning and supporting mental health facilitation with families and working in our schools chris wedding has been the person in our district that has had

075that role that has been funded and so we're now increasing to a full-time position with additional dollars provided to us to help navigate um we got we have the wea 30 thousand dollars that was given to us and we are now a part of the dpi wisconsin comprehensive mental health academy where there are going to be an individual from each school in some administration attending the wisconsin dpi framework has changed a little bit for mental health and we're going to be taking this next year to look at what we all have in place what might we need you know what is that going to look like and we need an individual that can help facilitate this work and the conversations and we're appreciative to the greater watertown health foundation and wea for funding for us

076any other comments or questions in that report thank you ed services and policy um sure as is a tradition we don't normally have the educational services meeting in the months of june and july so there was no meeting in june nothing to report however there's been a couple of topics that have come up recently plus in the side conversations with other committee members we were considering having one in july ahead of the august meeting so if there's anything that anybody would like to see on that agenda whether it came from tonight's board meeting previous conversations other topics of interest and then i will meet with dr patali in order to develop that agenda determine if one is warranted for the month of july um so that's where it stands dave yeah i mean we'll talk

077about it right and my second tuesday i'm not here but uh that doesn't mean that i i guess the the concept wasn't a brief discussion if it's appropriate to skip due to lack of things then let's skip it but let's not make it the standard uh to skip it so uh we'll maybe handle it on as needed basis in the summertime largely due to availability and making sure we have a meaningful conversation on meaningful topics um but at the same time june didn't bother me let's see what uh topics come up from everybody in the room and uh we can determine if we're gonna have one in july and then when it fits for those of us who are on that okay yep i got policy too um so thank you jenny uh jamie for

078taking all the good notes the um probably three i'm going to call it major uh topics were discussed one is the 4133 communicable diseases uh the next was student protest which was a direct result of the remember why the oh was it the what do we have people walk out for at noon one day about two months ago i can't remember yeah oh league supreme court and then the third one was uh modifying the honorary diplomas policy to accommodate uh past students who didn't complete due to them being deceased so um the they're all in your packet those are the veterans one which is the diplomas it's called veterans with paula and uh jamie and i and cassandra as well as the policy team uh they added just one paragraph towards the end i still

079think it's a little clunky in the sense that it's still called veterans diploma in which case if you wanted to go find an honorary diplomat you'd have to look for another veterans policy so we still need a little bit of work on that one but the language is otherwise it's fairly straightforward all the minor ones are the typical things that you've been seeing which is just a changing another word from you know watercolor board of education to board and then capitalizing some other things that were otherwise lowercase uh in the minors for the other two um the and they're listed as discussion a and b and then policies first of all 4133 5414 was split creating 4133.1 and 54 14.1 and that's switching it from just pure policy to also procedure and that's why those

080were born from that ninety percent of the language that was stricken from the underlying policies became the new underlying procedure so they didn't change much however what wasn't available to us at the policy meeting but is available for you in the first read is what did change and that's going through first reading but be aware that the original goal of this was to incorporate the safety plan into these policies and so i believe that lynn gilder took a stab at that based upon my information talking to cassandra but i've not yet reviewed them side by side and i'm interested in other feedback as to a more effective policy that we can use going forward into the next year so it's first reading now but be aware i think it's going to change i hate to

081say significantly but there's going to be a lot more work put into those that that sets a policy so it's there but i think it's going to be there for a while it's not going to just go one and two it done the other one student protest that was assisted by legal counsel fairly straightforward pretty vanilla and just lets everybody know that sure you can walk out uh in a peaceful protest but if you don't have your parents no you're not getting back without the standard penalty that would be given to somebody who else who walks out um so i i leave that for your review and that is also under first review other than that um i don't even know when our next meeting is is it listed in here uh yeah so that

082you that meeting typically meets every other month and uh jamie do you know after we're done with the 8 000 series we're going back to the top so for my time on the board it's been predominantly 8 000 and 5 000 series i believe um so now we're back to the 1000s if we just want to keep going in order but that's something i'll have to work with jamie on as as well as new management answer questions on that report my only comment would be if we anticipate substantial changes to 4133 and i've recommended not before the first reading second speaking if you make substantial changes after the first readings you need to read we're anticipating those could have significant changes i would actually suggest that we table those for the time being and um

083i have no issue with that given that i've not fully read through them because they were difficult to decipher at the time when we had them how much had changed and how much had been integrated in the time that uh lin had to work on it didn't give the board the the subcommittee it's enough time to actually review them thoroughly so uh i would agree with that tony i'm fine striking them from a first read okay you were uh we were debating that freedom yes and no uh portions of it were but some of the additional language that was added to the procedure well no the items that were anything that changed what happened was when you created the point ones everything in the document became underlying red as if it was new and there

084was no way to decipher them if something had actually changed in it because the entire document was new and so i asked jamie to clarify that and she did so the policy you're sitting on now shows the aspects which are had been altered when the two policies were split but at the time we weren't in a position to review that new language so the policies committee never reviewed the quote-unquote new language we were aware of the policies were split and we were aware that lynn gilbert worked on some aspects of it but we haven't really tried to what do you want to say put it through its paces to see if it will get us through the next pandemic which is ultimately what we have to check it against and so that's where i can

085imagine some of the larger changes are going to occur all right who do i study which is where we are consent agenda resolution 9131 contains our minutes committee summaries under personnel you have resignations retirements and appointments there is the approval of bills there's the first reading and second reading of policies there are a number of policies up for first reading there are none up for second reading do i hear motion on 9131 as presented in a second second by mike now that we have those on the table doug and mike are you amenable to striking 41 33 54 14 41 33.1 and 54 14.1 from your motion no i mean it's okay [Laughter] all right okay so we will remove those policies from the first reading there any comments or questions on the motion during

086non-roll call please diana johnson yes david schrader yes david smith yes doug will yes craig dortmund yes and the motion carriers next is resolution 91-32 which is for the research study proposal for the high school ela do i hear a motion on 9132 so second by that david yes thank you great comments or questions on the motion again this is just authorizing the research study but not in any way incumbent funds or research hearing none roll call yes and the motion carries 9133 mathematics curriculum study proposal for 4k through 12th grade do i hear a motion on 9133 diana and mike comments or questions on the motion again this is a research study group this evening okay please diana johnson yes david yes david smith yes doug yes craig workman yes yes and do does

087anybody have any objection to rolling together 31 that's right 35 36 and 34 35 and 36 together in a single motion no objections all right do i hear a motion on 35 30 34 35 and 36 so second by david second by doug comments or questions on the motion hearing none vocal go please yes yes david smith yes doug will yes yes yes and the motion carries next is 9137 which is our contract for a currency abatement officer do i hear a motion so move move by craig do i hear a second second second if i does comments or questions on the motion you and none yes david schrader yes david smith yes doug yes yes yes and the motion carriers next is 9138 school resource officer contracts do i hear a motion so move

088exactly all right section by mice comments or questions on the motion again these are in conjunction with the city okay hearing none rocovo please diana johnson yes david schroeder yes david smith yes doug will yes craig portman yes yes and the motion carries next is 9139 summer school staff it's their emotion right diana is there a second second comments or questions on the motion hearing none roll call though please diana johnson yes david yes davidson yes doug will yes craig yes all right next is 9140 do i hear a motion second by david seconded by mike again i would just note we are extremely humbled by mr benson's generosity to the district 145 000 to support our temple incredibly grateful any other comments or questions on the motion your nun won't all vote please diana

089johnson yes david yes david smith yes doug will yes craig yes yes all right esser funds i will preface on this before we look at motions so following our last meeting i had a few notes from you all things i heard was f the administration to beyond their initial tier one list their main recommendations what would be the up next which will be up next uh number two i heard interest in peeling back the amount put toward the curriculum in conjunction with that an interest in more on-the-ground near-term student impacts and lastly if we didn't do the ac since that was 1.6 million dollars what would we do instead or other things that would come to that so that's what i heard at the meeting we then had a discussion at fiscal in which quite

090a bit of that was frankly repeated we received from the administration a multi-tier list that did identify it could be things will be up next and while committee showed interest in those there was still a general sense of we're looking for some other alternatives we're looking for things that are going to have significant impact now so i suggested a path of putting together packages for us to look at and that is what you have in the resolution this evening three such packages the other thing that i have done is looked at 30 40 submitted approved faster plans from across the state and what struck me the most is we've been going into this i'll do something that the plan we need to prepare and submit needs to be substantially committing the funds the reality is

091i saw less than a majority of districts have submitted for we'll say 90 or more and of the others the pretty wide range for every jamesville at 85 percent i had a sheboygan at 20 review wisconsin rapids at 20 percent it was constant by the way about 7 million dollars right and then it kind of got people right in the middle east troy 50 tomah 4.9 million dollars in other words almost exactly the same amount as we have and they submitted 140 and those were all approved by the state so i guess i'm here to report to you that there is no state requirement that the plan we submit today fully commit our funds and frankly looks like we have to go to you know 80 we we do need to submit a plan um

092i'd like it to be more than racine which was three percent [Laughter] but it can be less than milwaukee which is referral full 500 million dollars okay so i like to suggest you have that in mind as we look at a motion and putting together those three packages package a is essentially all the top tier items that the administration recommended package b is much of the up next rule that they presented to us at fiscal on monday and you've seen those before they were essentially the previously identified items that didn't make their initial cut list and they basically took all the rest of that and split it into a tier two and a tier three and then you have the air conditioning so now is the point where to get this ball rolling we need

093a motion and i present i've presented the resolution in a way that you combine some packages as a way for us to start and then we can work the resolution from there that's my suggestion so where does the discussion come from once we get emotional then we can get going okay i move to accept resolution 9141 to include packages a b and c as laid out in the agenda okay there is second on that all right so that would include the motion folks includes all of those so if you look at the attached document that's 1.7 plus five forty plus another one point seven so that is right around four million dollars out of four point seven discussion question first yeah when does it have to be submitted to the state january is to submit

094as written with absolutely no long-term implications aside from the fact that we checked the box and the state approves it so no discussion tonight is actually required in order to change mike's direction in the next three days that's a question i'm not suggesting we don't have a discussion i'm just clarifying that if we just move forward with this all the boxes would be checked and we could continue using esser funds at our best discretion when they come up for use provided they meet a rough framework and are our guidelines so this submits an initial plan we are then required to update that plan on a six-month basis at which point that would be a logical time if one wanted to make changes based on an updated understanding of circumstances which is why i worded the

095resolution the way i reported it no comments just that question i think though the next steps in that yeah that were laid out yeah which is tony's assumption of those points that some things go into various different stages of action with the administration yes to and including hiring people yeah so some of the packages could happen very quickly some of them as quickly as some applied implementation good point thank you okay if we if we vote in a proof package a b and c as written and we say we have some adjustments is it possible to then remove things that we've already kind of approved i don't want to approve something and then later on say oh by the way that's not going to happen so i want to be cautious if that's what we're

096i'm am i interpreting your question all right my understanding from the very beginning diane is that this is it was required in order to check a box but that they would still leave us some discretion in moving things in and out of it as long as it still met the general framework of the expenditures and mike or tony or anybody else here can correct me on that if i if you want to rephrase that so the point you're saying is well it doesn't does not [Music] this vote does not commit funds there are subsequent votes required to commit funds to the exception however is it setting expectations in the minds of some as the things are going to happen correct yes it will yeah now we've tried i've tried my best to word one a

097to try and tail those expectations a little bit which is why it says with the understanding and not syndicated for each project program are preliminary estimates and subjects of change based on finalization and planning for each private program and any future re-prioritization that they afford may determine it's necessary but you're right once you put any analyst out there some folks can have some level of expectations and if you choose to change it you're going to have to explain to people why i just want to make sure we're all on the same page yeah doesn't mean you can't change it be conscious that people have had an understanding and along with that then uh submitting just package a for roughly all that 40 of the bonds is something that other districts have done in which case

098a friendly amendment to craig's uh motion would be just to do package a now because that's the one we feel the most certain about and the one that we really don't feel we're going to try to peel back and we know that the state or we believe that the state will accept it because it accounts for 40 of the funds and therefore we don't have to set false expectations because this document that document will get separated from the context of tony's statements and this one will be printed in the paper and tony's statements won't be and then everybody's going to wonder what happened to the air conditioning at sures so i i'm okay with either i'm okay with the abc and i'm also okay explaining ourselves if something falls off the list but if prudence

099is addicted if it's appropriate here then we just approve a that's the only thing that gets approved tonight as tony pointed out fiscal and all of us are going to have to approve it when the check gets cashed in you are sent out anyway when we award the contract so nothing is finalized tonight it will have to go through fiscal anyway so it's a matter of what expectations and how difficult you think it's going to be to peel it peel it back if we decide to take something off the list i'm okay with it as written by tony and i'm amended by craft or suggested that we approve by craig but i understand your concern well and i look at conversations that we've had in my short time here and especially today loud and clear

100attendance is an issue yet there's nothing here that addresses that achievement is an issue there's very little here that it that addresses that right now yes we have curriculum but it's three to five years before curriculum is up and running so is that are we okay with that um intervention is an enrichment we've got we're not pushing the ball as fast as i think the goals had said but there's nothing addressing that mental health there's nothing addressing that so while i understand that yeah we have 4.7 we've got more on our three packages than what we have allotted but we don't have those major items even listed so i'm just worried that we say yeah we're going to approve this but wait a second these are some big ticket items that we haven't yet discussed

101so i'm just i want to be really cautious to that i think it's a great question right i i hear what you're saying and i agree with it you know i do um i i would like to point out that to david's point um i actually do feel like package b does kind of move forward with some shovel ready um kind of uh actions that might speak to what you're concerned about um including you know putting sdl mental health curriculum support materials in place substitute teacher training program traditional care for professional professional development i think that's essential to kind of making sure that our our staff happens to be well positioned to address some of those needs i do notice in package a the community tutoring program that's there and i think that that's super

102helpful yeah i am and i also acknowledge that there's still uh funds available to kind of address some of those things so i realize that there's there's still room here for adjustments this is getting the concepts that have been discussed on paper now and it's not perfect but i think it's it's a step in the in the right direction to moving this voltage um yeah craig said that um there are there is 700 thousand dollars not on that incoming administration you know so maybe there are some quick ideas that could be identified somewhat ahead of time the planning of it you know that's just not a one-year deal i don't believe so look at if we're gonna do it more jumping to the air conditioning piece um i know there's been a lot of discussion

103debate where you go with it where do you not so i did some digging on the dpi site with sr and if you go there to activities and usage and then comparing usage it specifically states in there that air conditioning systems can be used and paid for through sr31s so i just i know it's like is that an appropriate thing so i just in case someone was like hey is that a good use or an appropriate use i feel more comfortable that yes it is yeah i had seen and i i was thankful to contact dpi and they were extremely helpful and clarifying that for me too other comments are questions on the motion by while i understand the reduction in the math of the science uh curriculum and i understand that that's not going

104to be immediate i think those are are things probably near the original scope versus the third less that is that is needed and to be put into motion for the district to move forward be prepared for the future science and social studies in particular has been kicked down the road for thousands of decades so kicking it down more just closed that even further off i have some discomfort over um the limited term advanced learner coordinator i don't like the idea of hiring additional staff on limit the term affect a very small portion of our student body and it's direct correlation to the estrogens it's doug and others have pointed out too i think staffing in general we are heavy on staffing in a lot of ways so it seems disjointed to me i agree there's

105a lot of stuff in there that seems to be stuff that we can get some more immediate traction on like some of that to me seeing in enrollment and seeing the only thing there marketing peace being there to me i think that needs to be more um say marketing without sales is just throwing money at nothing to me i actually like to see step wholeheartedly into chasing our enrollment and that is marketing to it and selling it once we have that person engaged can't rely on a bunch of fragmented staff members to try to do that we need something up there too but i don't think that as you all know i don't agree with the air conditioning although allowed by the dpi i don't think it fits at all the spirit of what we're

106trying to do with that fiscal responsibility with the budget scenario that we have and so forth that just seems it seems not fiscal being responsible but fiscally irresponsible this stage other comments or questions nothing else diana johnson yes david trainer yes david smith no doug will yes yes please note the item two in that which just gave our new superintendent 675 000 next level all right resolution 9142 purchases over twenty thousand dollars do i hear emotion at nine one fourteen so thank you bye doug section diana as was mentioned these were all reviewed in pretty extensive detail at the fiscal management meeting i would like to note that two of these items given our action just taken on all under that which is the very first two items that you see listed english development literacy

107materials and the english language learners materials so both of those were on that list this is our first action just happens there's an approval of elementary literacy yes here an axe commits esther dollars done spent well we committed the ester dollars in previous motion and now we're actually going to spend them but those are the only two things those the only two items on that list that is correct that fit that definition okay uh antonio i'm just going to make a blanket comment on all these uh expenditures as you know i own a company that supplies mechanical insulation to companies that install boilers hvac etc and from time to time you all award contracts to vendors who then purchase their services for me nami is one of them i didn't read through every single contract

108to look to see if i could potentially benefit or be on the bidders list so take that as a standing abstention from any vote that might involve a contractor that might hire my firm okay any other comments or questions on the motion hearing non-roll call vote please diana johnson yes david trader yes david smith yes doug will yes craig yes 20 or not yes mike yes next is 9143 the preliminary budget do i hear a motion by diana second if i might i did have a question which is in your presentation which ones you mentioned that this included one proposed position yes what was that position that was the additional full-time administrative assistant for special education just in there right now as the one that was given that the committee specifically did want one for

109that i'm going to but in hr in that committee we did not have it ready no we did not vote at all right you open to removing that from your motion position yes okay mike as a seconder yeah all right so that excludes that you can remove that from okay all right any further comments or questions on the amended resolution hearing none we'll call vote please diana jackson yes david trader yes david smith yes doug will yes craig wartman yes yes and the motion carries and our last item is 9144 the employee handbook revision for the leave donation addendum do i hear any comments or questions on the motion who is the who's the entity that ends up deciding whether the police is approved whatever the classification is so if it's a teacher making the

110request we use the teachers bank donation so that it would be a teacher and then a building administrator a principal so one teacher one building administrator and one central acquisition that's three votes as i said at the hr committee um these these are not um tend not to be great decisions they i mean when we get to the point of catastrophic illness and injury and we get to the point that people have exhausted all of their lead and have no other option available we the decision usually tends to be pretty easy because we've already started to feel the impact of that person being knocked for significant amounts of time but it would be the three i guess we never really set up like i'm going to go by gold because i i will say i'll

111simply donation issues i've dealt with they've been quite severe quite sad and like did it require a lot of perfection you know the right thing to okay any comments or questions on the motion hearing none we'll call vote please diana johnson yes david shirley yes david smith yes doug yes craig wharton obstine yes and the motion carries this brings us the second opportunity for the public to address the board there's no one presence in person if you're online and wish to speak please use the raise your hand feature and we'll recognize you and now you're not anyone all right none of that do i hear a motion to adjust by mike seconded by diana all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed we stand adjourned