001activity all right this being the appointed time and place and seeing a former president he'll go into all this meeting to order and get all big rise and join me in the pledge I pledge by the United States or America and to be a republic foreign thank you Lynn would you please take the role here Tina Johnson here David Smith here Mike Higgins here Lori Holland and Diana Johnson here thank you previewing the agenda do we need to make any changes to the order of items no all right thank you and this brings us to the first of two times on our agenda for public input I would just like to stress the following and if you address the board please give your name and address for the record also at the same time there
002is a log up there if you could write that down there for us as well in addition there's a topic line on that just put a couple three words what your topic is just helps us again capture it for record keeping purchases I'd ask you to keep your marks brief that means just a couple minutes each and depending on where the comments are go and how repetitive there are we may put a limit on how many overall speaking is there anyone like to address the board at this time please um hello I have a couple of panels posts and pass them down so I don't have quite enough everybody but um stand there um so good evening uh my name is Jim drenwater I am a resident of Watertown uh tonight I wanted to talk
003about a topic that is near and dear to my heart Mental Health children today aren't growing up in the same world that many of us did many of our students are struggling to navigate the spectrums gender and sexuality will basically increase focus and criticism in the community around them according to a 2018 study by head guard curtain Morgan suicide was the second leading cause of death among young people aged 10 to 24 in America while this fact is startling it would cause anyone to be concerned with health or Americans use the statistics show that some groups are more at risk of this than others studies from 2019 and 2020 founded lgbtq unit for more than four times as likely to attempt suicide their peers when the Trevor Project estimating that more than 1.8 million lgbts
004age 13 to 24 seriously considered suicide per year resulting in an estimated attempted suicide every 45 seconds uh if you were to continue down throughout the whole you would find that lgbtq youth who will also belong to a racial minority group or an even larger risk and are also disproportionately represented in reports and Foster Care housing and stability and food and security so with all of that in front of us you're probably wondering why I bring this out of school board meeting the Trevor Project identified many factors that contribute to all of these statistics these factors were minority stress rejection and a lack of social support or affirming spaces physical harm and bullying and discrimination all of these are things that these children can experience within our school system only 55 percent of lgbtq lgbtq
005reported their schools as being lgbtq affirming that number dropped the 37 percent when asked about their home life 36 reported that they were physically harmed or threatened in the last year and 52 percent who were enrolled in middle or High School reported being bullied in person or electronically so how can you help studies show that having at least one accepting adult can reduce the risk of suicide for an lgbtq youth by 40 percentage students of trusted adults in their schools routinely at higher levels of self-esteem and students with access to gender and sexualities alliances in their schools report lower rates of suicide and aggression students who report their pronouns being respected by its own Superior you can see their rates of suicide and Russian cut in half it's really simple letting kids be who they
006are and not fear about being accepted is good for them and we can help but the school year fast approaching is imperative that our teachers be allowed and encouraged to respect the pronouns in their students and that we do all that we can to help students feel welcomed and accepted this should include the creation of a gender and sexuality Alliance at the middle school here in Lauderdale creation of this group would help act as a home base for lgbtq students and when firmly established for our students a place where they have a caring and accepting adult in their life as well as a peer group in which they can feel safe thank you thank you sir my name is David Byrne I live a 23 Parkview Lane I'm 22 as I wrote down here thank
007you for the opportunity of being um but I wanted to ask how many supporters are here for the LGBT community research director thank you direct your comments to the boarding please all right thank you I'd like to thank the Lord for their past support for lgbtq issues and their present support and hopefully their future support I'm a clinical psychologist and I practice in Watertown for close to 20 years I now practice in Oconomowoc uh during that time I've worked with a wide variety of members of the lgbtq community but often in secret and the services I provide are private and confidential so some people make use of that the the problem with seeing me is that it costs money I can only see so many people pro bono and there's a structure to it people
008need insurance and and if they live in a family where the message is negative I don't see those students if their church is sending a negative message I typically don't see those students they also are subjected to political groups and politicians saying hateful things this takes a toll on on our youth and and often one of the things that's one thing for me to deal with uh low self-esteem and mental illness that that really to some extent is much easier than than dealing with self-hatred and self-rejection that's developed over time so it's it's important um as you stated for them to have somebody in the schools that they can turn to without fear without fear of being fired without fear of being found out this is an incredible thing that people have a little access
009to me but and they're in school five days a week and they have a relationship with this teacher this is critical critical to their mental health going forward and so I hope I hope to see a GSA in the middle school at some point I don't believe there's one there there's one in the high school um well thank you again for for your support for these students it has been valuable and it does trickle down to my office in the sense that um someone is not suicidal they take a different turn and I'm more worried about the these students who do not make it to my office or food for various reasons are afraid of uh approaching anyone in their school and keep it a secret that is corrosive over time GSA trusted adults from
010the school make an incredible difference much more I would say than the thank you thank you anyone else like to address the board at this time in the back please my name is to the street my question is why are we pushing so much sexuality in school what about reading writing and arithmetic kids are not graduating at a disgusting level we're not allowed to talk about that at school so why are we pushing sexuality so much you want us to call them by their their pronouns children cannot enter into a contract until they're 18. they're under their Guardians their parents you can't force somebody to do something we should just get back to base basic suicide wasn't such a huge thing where everybody started confusing everybody school is school this is a public school we
011go there to learn we get life skills and we go home that's it thank you thank you anyone else all right thank you very much there will be another opportunity near the end of our meeting we will now move on to announcements and recognition Communications so I I do have a recognition that is posted in our agenda um Emily if you come on up Emily Lesnar from Douglas um Douglas was recently awarded um a silver medal and this silver medal um comes from the RTI Institute and the DPI and is to recognize uh two years of work that Douglas has done um in in reading and reading supports and um they're saying that we're doing a great job at it and so I want to congratulate you and your staff for that and I know
012what's you know work that we've done uh throughout the district and your building has been the champion here some of what we're doing so I appreciate the attractions we also get to post that on our webpage you saw the wall Banner that they can hang somewhere in the building and I think it's always good when we can acknowledge what we are doing within academics and making a difference for students so congratulations any other announcements or Communications all right we have no items underneath strategic discussion this evening so we will move on to our report and the first up is the superintendent's report hello this is where I get to fight with the remote today you're over three Jared I'm over a lot more than that we ready all right first off I want to start
013with a bunch of celebrations one um you will see uh Jenny burway here in the crowd Jenny please stand up uh she is our new shirts principal so there's a face to a name uh she started in with us but right off the bat uh meeting with staff and being able to come to our our all staff committee um and is working on hiring candidates still so I appreciate you jumping in with both feet and I think we're going to be ready as ready as we can be at least for Friday so congratulations on multiple board Jenny also um a couple other celebrations here you see two different pictures the one on the left is a celebration at Maranatha that's happened for the last 22 years annually um you will see uh again Maranatha House
014housing um a new teacher ceremony just happens to be I'm I'm there in the picture I'm one of many speakers that day um that talk about a number of different topics but the larger part is this is a day where our businesses celebrate our new staff not just the public school staff but also the private school teachers um and our our um new service teachers at the universities and Tech colleges in town and really is a time for us to celebrate them um from the business standpoint welcoming them um like a large Welcome Wagon to the community each year businesses contribute hundreds of dollars to each individual bag of donated welcome gifts from their businesses it might be a free soda here or free that there or whatever it is um but I want to
015tell you that this community does an outstanding job welcoming staff new teachers every year and I just wanted to put that out there to recognize that thus a picture on the right is a new staff orientation picture for our new staff here this was held at the LMC every year we go through a new staff welcome we talk about paperwork we get a lot of our business stuff done but this was a family building activity where our new directors as well as some of our older directors lend them through a rock paper scissors game just to break up the day a little bit have a little fun but also get people to talk and and meet each other a little bit more as an activity so it's just a real fun activity I just wanted
016to highlight as part of that day also we had our welcome back ceremony here you'll see on the very left you see uh some staff members as well as a board member right there on the right um welcoming people into the into the welcome celebration also on the very far right uh picture you see a couple other board members there um and in the front you see uh two out of our three speakers Margaret I'm sorry I couldn't fit your picture in without making it really look like what are these pictures about but we had three um pre uh welcoming activity speakers um uh one was by Hurdle from our Chamber of Commerce she's on the left there on the right it was Tony Arnett board president did a wonderful speech about uh walls and
017um uh in relation to a poem by Robert Frost uh and then Margaret also shared about our connection with United Way and how we can be involved as a larger staff and large employment to United Way and what they do for all of us so I just wanted to share what what a wonderful day it was we had um multiple activities throughout the day we had many vendors come in I think it was how many vendors were there all together eight eight to ten something like that very close um but there were there were from uh Banks uh businesses uh Health places it was kind of a health and wellness Sphere for our staff uh a large part of the day was to talk about health and wellness matter of fact our main speaker there
018uh was they're talking about um how we can learn to do self calming and self-help habits um just in many sessions throughout the day took a real research-based approach from the research that was happening at the University of Madison Wisconsin uh how we can be healthier in our jobs and that that was not only for us as Educators but it was directly related to some data that they took on Educators and and some of the techniques that they were doing with Educators and how we can practice those techniques to help our Educators be better as they're going through the day and then finally just some important reminders we got first day of school for our RMS and whs students on September 1st uh September 6th for our elementary students uh that's because of our Ready
019set go days as well as the Labor Day holiday that's no school on September 5th and then also our committee meetings uh throughout September and our monthly board meetings any questions about this information right now yeah threw me off we had September okay any other questions oh yeah all right thank you next up is fiscal management hello thank you Tony the board met on the 23rd or the committee met on the 23rd all community members were present we also had present uh for president uh our director of Business Services Sarah Duncan director of innovation Jason bull supervisor of tech Dave lockstein Jared was there Bob Logan and Stacy Reno we had a closed session started 5 30 went to about 6 46 to discuss potential sale of property we had one purchase over twenty thousand
020dollars for the school's PLP um this is the content provider for all eCampus students through an AHS learner digital Learners and W H S Credit Recovery students the VHS Discovery Academy students as well as a handful of student services at Middle School um Mr Logan we answered some clarifying questions uh and we decided to go ahead and determine to be the service this was they looked embedded at it and this was the superior provider so see that uh purchasing authority of the policy 3310 was reviewed we had to remember we had some language that was changed on this um in the July meeting uh that big language was approved to move to full board uh tonight uh and it was updated in policy 3312 instead of 3310 so you see that uh the DNH Transportation
021contract the updated contract for special ed Transportation let's bring the Zen into the community with the proposed 4.3 cost increase this question about the contract being extended year over year degree the contract should move forward to the full board ads meeting tonight as well we discussed the communication specialist position um it was presented the recommendation for the for from the communications audit if you remember that the district completed the full-time communication special position was presented as being funded in the first year investor three uh bias for three dollars the committee would like to have a more complete plan for the position so it was recommended to move this circle board at its next meeting but with more information more than the funding plan um and no changes are made to the calendar uh and we
022had our monthly reports it was a question or two about some of the purchases um but otherwise nothing new there and then we adjourned at 7 29 PM next meeting will be September 30th all right thank you questions or comments on that report again several of those items are on resolutions for the season doing none then we will move on to HR great HR committee met Monday August 21st um the committee was all present we also had Margaret Brady and we also had Al Yeager there who was with Umi Insurance Services um we reviewed the consent agenda um with staff appointments resignations and determinations um there is a resolution tonight um listing all of those things going on um Margaret and her team have been busy trying to you know build all of the positions
023and things like that because we know that that has been that we addressed a little bit more in the Staffing update as far as kind of what's been going on there um we had a health and dental insurance plan performance update that's why L Yeager was there um he provided us information regarding our current plan performance with our courts benefits health insurance plan and Delta Dental Insurance plan um right now the plan is performing very favorably and we currently have um limit increases for the premium rates but calendar year 2024. um but then our cap will be ending and so we are looking as far as an increase above the current rate counts as a strong possibility for 2025 premiums so we had a set negotiation thing that we had going on and stuff like
024that and so 2024 is still you know in a very low rate as far as that goes but then that's going to be ending so 2025 we'd be looking at some possibilities there um attendance expectations of Staff um we've really were able to talk about that this has come up as a topic for us and things like that about employee attendance expectations um and we talked about evaluated as far as do we need a specifically Divine Divine attendance policy um and so Ms Brady's date of the central office and cabinet administrator teams will be discussing attendance expectations as it impacts the wsd goals for Math and literacy um and we wanted to encourage the administration to Foster strong the committee wanted to encourage the administration to foster a strong organizational culture that encourages excellent attendance
025of employees because we know how much that of vaccines that's the example for our students and how important it is to be in school to be able to learn in your student achievement um started a youth school year activities Margaret gave us a great calendar and invited us to be a part of the August 24th kickoff celebration um we spent some time talking about the Staffing update um Ms Brady informed the committee that we at that time had three remaining teacher vacancies for the 23-24 school year and extra efforts to secure teachers for those roles that they were it's been it hard to to be able to make that to come all that together she also reported that we were experiencing a short of a paraprofessional applicants for the current vacancies um and so Margaret
026was going to work with Dr Burke and Director of Business Services Sarah Duncan to explore possible incentives to attract applicants we also discussed the concept of building a Strategic Staffing plan that is Guided by the overall wusd goals um we also the committee also agreed to further to the discussion of the concept of the entire board membership not just looking at you know what is education and the Staffing shortages currently but what is that going to be you know projected to be so we've got some overall planning that needs to happen there committee agenda planning um our anticipated topics for September include consent agenda employee Wellness committee update possible procedural discussion related to negotiations and Staffing update and we discussed um an intention to work efficiently and effectively with agreed upon time limits recognizing that
027certain topics throughout the year may require more significant time and commitment we adjourned at 741 pm and our next meeting is Monday September 18th thank you comments or questions on the report there's a little disconnected on the attendance expectations and the impact on goals for Math and literacy opinion you can connect that back to those dots to me yeah we um I mean we've been noticing as far as some Trends as far as certain positions having a little bit more of an absence rate in which their support in the classroom things like that make a difference um in being able to be there to help students and things like that with their work so that's kind of how that's tight also a day that in as much as Jared and his team focused on student
028attendance last year we know that math and literacy are a top priority for the board where attendance didn't make the radar but maybe it's not the teachers it's not the curriculum it's not even the students it's getting the butts of the seats and so we can positively impact math and and literature or literacy excuse me by getting the butts and receipts we can do the same thing by making sure the teachers and the staff feel the same way so indirectly improving the outcomes not by focusing on the curriculum but by focusing on the delivery of it and the attitude surrounding it so much more of a cultural perspective and Jared I think did a good job last year with the students it's a matter of which portion of the staff might need a same encouragement
029and reminder that attendance is important when and that was without of course modifying the policy which also came up in policy is that as we looked at many things in policy it was decided that you know an increased focus by Jared and his administrative staff administrative direct report team is perhaps the better way to First approach things as opposed to revising policy uh might be a just an increased Focus that's my true Sense on that thanks Steven yeah exactly and any other questions or comments on that report all right thank you and services assistant sure I'll uh that Services uh was held on August 8th all committee members uh were present along with distinguished guests um this wasn't the first time that we tried to break it down into three uh distincts or uh different
030areas of the uh agenda but it was director's report presentation and discussion uh what you'll see in this document are the first four or five uh from directors update all the way down to title consolidation monitoring report we're all uh updates that Jenny gave uh which is what we've encouraged her to do they give a high level and sometimes in depth as necessary um things that she's been working on with her team uh things that you may find of interest in your review of these and I encourage you to email uh her and or I or ask questions after I give this update if you have any additional uh in-depth uh questions on those five or six topics and those we expect will change on a um I would say on a monthly basis but
031as needed depending on where Jenny and her team are focusing their efforts uh next uh was it says comments from the chair which was when I rolled out that workflow and once again that workflow is a 15 to 20 minutes from 15 to 30 minutes from Jenny on her giving a director's update and then getting a presentation or two um that we have well ahead of time so that we know what's going to be presented and we have an opportunity to ask questions of the presenter before they arrive uh that way it should help that to move forward and send some limited q a and then of course the discussion is where we'll leave hopefully the last hour of the meeting uh to get in depth on any one particular topic that we had pre-agreed
032was going to be on the agenda that way we could stay focused and we don't double back on something that wasn't on the agenda uh surprising either somebody in the room or more specifically surprising people who aren't in the room um so that was laid out in a uh a graphic um that's available somewhere Jenny I think okay so it's probably in the minutes for that uh then the three topics that we covered uh which were carryovers from the July meeting that was the take home Chromebook the Panorama update and I think the RMS course approval was new uh but let me just uh Circle back to the take home Chromebook that of course is already approved by fiscal and it really centered on um uh how it was going to be rolled out but
033also what uh we we didn't touch on specifically and that's how it's going to impact the curriculum mostly in the high school and that's going to be brought up again at the future ready uh agenda topic for December 23. um then the Panorama update uh that is going to result in a resolution and require another update to that services in Spring of 24 and then lastly is the RMS course approval which uh Jason wasn't present but he was able to give an update via email and those made it into these minutes um as to why that uh course uh approval that elective was added Jenny did a good job of summarizing that here in the minutes but if anybody has questions on that specifically there's going to be a resolution later tonight and Jason's here
034to answer that uh in detail if necessary um so the next meeting is in September and the one thing that we know is on the agenda was a revisit of the elb early elt Josh um that was switched last year and uh we just wanted an update on how that's uh the goals of that uh early elt have been realized uh what has gone well what has gone not according to plan and then anything else that might be on the recurring calendar um that has been discussed and more or less ratified by the committee and the next meeting is on September 12th so there's a couple resolutions coming up mainly the Panorama and the sixth grade elective and if there's any questions on either of those two topics we can ask them or we can
035nationality thank you comments or questions in that report thank you [Music] all right actually you should say policy because the politics wasn't that so all right okay you want that one uh we met uh the policy committee Matt uh material August Wednesday August 9th and um president was myself Tina Johnson David Trader along with uh Jared Burke Josh Kerr and AP uh Jennifer Pendleton and we had a discussion on civil policies um specifically uh we had a discussion about personal electronic devices and the dress code we moved those up in the agenda we'll cover that in just a minute well we did um we did discuss a little bit at length when it comes to uh the resolution that you see on the agenda tonight regarding Neola uh the intention behind Nola is that it
036is more or less an efficiency tool it doesn't necessarily take away any uh board uh control over approving policies or anything of that nature in fact it's it's um it's a better tool for us to be able to pull together uh basically other school districts policies as well and kind of tailor policy that would suit water tone fast and along with um legal review from Neola um it just does make a lot more sense when it comes to drugs to be able to um be efficient in our process that does mean that some processes might need to change in the future um but uh we would be recommending this committee will be recommending that for approval tonight the attorney's fees for processing current policy through the the current process the policy actually um seems to
037be pretty similar in the cost that it would be to cover Neola so it doesn't me we still need encourage and other legal expenses from time to time regarding policy but uh Neola would backstop um our attorneys when it comes to a legal matter that goes to court um so that you can expect a discussion later um then we had a discussion regarding retention uh of students through the eighth grade um I I was the one sponsoring this particular policy and the discussion uh mainly uh focused on the pre-retention part of the uh retention policy it's important that if we have a child that is in a situation of being retained potentially that we're doing everything we possibly can to have a interventions and measures to prevent that from happening so we will be looking
038for further language and flexibility for children doing you know um I'm sorry we'll be going through some of that language for the next meeting in October then we had a discussion about personal electronic devices uh this particular policy was uh sponsored by Lori Holland and at the time there was the the district is actually concurrently rolling out uh a one-to-one Chromebook program and the committee had decided that we might table some of this discussion uh for the October meeting as well as we get familiarized with um with how that's going to look as well as um you know how cell phones are being utilized in the classroom uh with Chromebooks being a one-to-one type of Aid this time around so we did talk with uh Mr Kerr and Ms Pendleton regarding um any thoughts they
039may have had uh to Aid in clarification on this matter the same thing with uh dress code policy this particular policy was sponsored by Tina Johnson and we also had the opportunity to have a discussion with um about what types of expectations might be for the dress code and to see if there's clarification needed to make sure that their the board is also on the same page with the administration in that matter so um that will also come back to the committee in October for further discussion and there was a records required for retention policy that happens to have some some language that we need to get in there at some point but we are going to table that until we have a third Direction where we're going with Eola and Ian um event that
040that we help us form that particular policy um extracurricular activities uh there's any particular policy was sponsored by Kina Johnson you know Johnson had them to share the differences and definitions between extracurricular co-curricular and the clubs that were being added to the policy and this will be up for the first read in August or meeting however um there will be further work to be had on this I don't see that in our first reading right now but that's um so the next steps will be work related to the finding of those activities to determine Equitable awareness the next meeting is Wednesday October 11th at 5 30. sorry thank you very much comments or questions on that report um I'm sorry that I didn't ask this prior I know I I was I was just kind
041of looking back through and I know our extracurricular so is it so I think we've kind of did we miss it for the first read for today in there okay so then then what do we do with that is it does it get added to next month's for first grade or how do we eat we can bring it forward for next month I think this is an important fiscal discussion it also needs to occur about that particular topic right yeah we were just looking at very much influence it but it could very much influence language the definitions you use depending on frankly what kind of money is available and we don't want to set ourselves up in a situation we're creating definitions that we can't fiscally support yeah I think part of the larger conversation
042is when it goes to First reading and we as a committee as a policy committee recognize that there needs to be a second part of the work you started with that which is our first part was definition but in order to talk more about you know kind of equitably how we support funding for different types of groups and everything it was better to start with definition and try to have a definition of them and then have some discussion around how do we equitably look at funding and and those kinds of things for the different groups that we're working on that part of the conversation is a fiscal issue I also assured because there was some conversation at the committee meeting that some of the policy committee members felt that there was a continued policy issue
043not a fiscal issue and I um alerted our board president that there may be some discussion between chairs around where that work goes when that work happens then we'll know better like are we done with this first grade or do we wanna so we don't have to first read and then first read and then the first read I could try to maybe give that the policy that Tina is referring to was strictly the one that you had heard worked on regarding definition which was just co-curricular extracurricular and club uh I wouldn't say there was no Financial nor obligation as it was mostly to Define which categories each one was in as they relate to each other namely because I still don't I'd have to go back to the policy to tell you which one chess
044was in and which one you know FFA was in and which one basketball is in because a lot of these things I've never heard of before but to your point Tony in TNI it goes to first read next month I don't think it slows anything down especially given that policy and fiscal still have to talk as Tony just alluded to that if there's going to be any money tied to it that's going to be a bigger conversation than just the definitions and the Rowdy is very limited even in the definition there is money everybody has an expectation that money is following those definitions and so even you can say that well the policies don't pacify that but but that's the way it's operationalized and we know the next question is going to come up is
045well now that my group qualifies how much am I getting got it right do they qualify and if they do how much money and is that for what for transportation for supplies for a coach you know all those levels of definitions that we're trying to start operationalizing a little bit through the business office so it needs to be a discussion of and what do we have available to support that because if we're about to broaden the definition Beyond significantly done where it is today and there's no additional money and you really have a conversation about you're taking money away from well in which case that begins so okay I did that I don't think you can talk about the definitions without talking about people's expectations about where the money flows that's a result but back
046to the agenda point because we're getting a little off the agenda um the reason that it's not listed here is I didn't give um when clear information as to list it because I was unsure where the work needed to go so I own that you know um that the reason it wasn't listed so then where do we I'd like to suggest that our policy in particular cares can work together to determine which committee obviously we don't we don't want to we don't want to go through two committees right in terms of doing it doesn't matter so between the two of you you can figure out which committee that should be that part of the discussion should go through then we can move forward and possibly still get that discussion to occur in September and bring
047us back into the first reading at the end of September Is it is it board level work or the administrative work that could happen and with a recommendation to to the board of committee so I think there's administrative input in terms of existing funding levels and there's board level input in terms of where where to reach to allocate resources I think I'd like to take this offline and then we'll bring it back I'd like to see the is this in the policy this is a modification co-curricular programming policy or education program yeah it's extracurricular activities or is actually intended to be a clarification so hopefully there is a good clarification this is yeah I'm looking at the executive policy Breakers no definition there so clarification I'd like to see that and then yeah it means
048it's just an appropriate that we come up with the right definitions and people have expectations about what those definitions are astute Pitfall that I didn't send right well we don't want a situation everybody says well now that I qualify where do I submit my budget and that was my understanding when I got you know when I brought it forth as a sponsor that is you know one of the things that I knew that there was you know work needing to be done in that so I just want to make sure that you know we're bringing it to first read and so just that it has a place somewhere so um we can further that work yeah because of the fact that there is not a policy Committee in September I'll talk with Craig and that
049but we you know this is something that it does touch fiscal which I really does create some physical Community as well so we can have we have that add to that agenda so we can bring it up again I want a little bit as policy before the city all right thank you thank you yeah just one one clarification I know I don't think there was ever a question of um to find out Financial impact but on this particular policy it was just a matter of work well that was um questioning that that was a question here and if it just so happens that there's a concurrence um first read that makes the most sense I guess it happens to my size all right thank you other comments or questions on the report okay planning did
050you want to say anything about playing okay [Laughter] again Tony is this one where we wanted to keep all four sub committees on the yeah all the time yeah Lynn if you just have all of them we didn't have it uh Evie planning participating yeah there it is okay all right this brings us to the consent agenda resolution nine two four two do I hear emotion motion second moved by Fred seconded by Craig the consent agenda includes our board meeting minutes our committee summaries under personal Staffing you have retirements resignation and hirings you have the approval of bills and you have the first and second reading of policies there are a handful of each both first reading and second reading comments or questions on the motion I would like to make a motion to amend
051it and pull out the first reading of the policy 5332 for dispensing or creatine there was no changes in their policy I think it is due for some changes talks about terms like sorry before we detect so as a point of order is there a second on that motion all right now conversation on the motion um to stick with well Craig you might have just said it but what we generally agree to Dave is that minor changes like changing District to wusd Etc are a necessary update to policies and stops nothing from policy from reviewing it at a later date so these weren't materially changed these were changes of course of an administrative action in which case I think it's acceptable to leave them in uh for today's first read but it's very appropriate for
052you to ask or suggest that the committee uh policy subcommittee review that for a more in-depth review just to keep the flow otherwise some of these things just get left behind and words don't ever get updated because they don't make the they don't make the agenda not denying that a major change isn't warranted just commenting that it's um sometimes simpler just to go with the flow in this and then add it to the work log of a policy committee but appreciate it I would agree we would not we would not lose anything by changing District to USD comments or questions on the motion to amend a roll call vote on the motion to amend Tony internet no Tina Johnson no David Trader no David Smith no okay no maintenance no Laurie Howard no is that
053again no Daniel Johnson no all right the motion 200 fails and again I think it's entire appropriate again with our bifurcated workflow on policy now now you know where do you make your major suggested major divisions all right any other comments or questions on the consent agenda resolution hearing none will cover please Arnett yes Tina Johnson yes David Schrader yes David Smith yes Frank Wortman yes my kittens yes Lori Holland yes but yet yes Diane Johnson yes and the motion carries all right next up are action items first resolution is 92.43 which is the New Orleans licensing agreement do I hear a motion on 92-43 so hello that was being inspired David Trader seconded by Tina okay all right comments or questions on the motion appreciate the work the policy committee has done on this
054look forward to uh this any other comments or questions all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed motion carries next is resolution 9244 communicators specialist do I hear a motion moved by Craig seconded by Fred again this was mentioned in the fiscal reports and you have the more fully developed the position description attached comments or questions on the motion again this creates the position but does not at this point name someone if you're like well yes Tina please um I mean first I personally I'm familiar with you know the proposal that came through and things like that and just as a point to put out there that's not to replace the line of communications that should already be occurring you know amongst ESB buildings parents you know all that kind of stuff um
055I just have a question as far as I think I understand as far as it was saying that it was using the AL funding um from the Esther dollars um and then a point of car vacation as far as like as far as the general operating budget um would we need to find additional funds for it and so if we're saying yes to this are we saying notice something else or we're saying yes to this are we saying no to Al or to what this is designating is it for the first year for this position I will assume it's this year if we're finding somebody right away right it's being funded to this mechanism yeah but when you look ahead to next year I.E the 24-25 school year then the funds will need to come
056from the operating budget so nothing additional required for this year beyond what is stated here okay yeah yeah so I think I understand yeah that part of it but I just didn't know as far as like General operating budget is there a space in there for that or you talked about this in the fiscal I know one of the things we said is that when he sent this to uh to Jared and said look we want this in the position in in this we need to have you can open the budget figure out the budget how this fits in with this as we move forward it's not a we want this in and take this out to replace to replace it it's here's this you decide this was an addition that needed to be had
057they agreed they liked the idea with this so now is uh how do we figure this out with the budget and that's where Jared and Sarah are going to sit down and have those conversations and then come back the board yeah just a little another point of clarification um this position and the EA outfits and certain Advanced fundamental position we were able to carve out funding this year through our Sr funding and it does create an issue for next year's budget we know uh what we're going to be getting from the state we also know um some particulars about this year's budget but even this year's budget isn't 100 penalized um once it is we will know um where this year's budget is but going forward every year we have to build a new budget
058and if this is uh this position in the other position effectively adds to a budget that we had is existing in order to stay budget neutral um if those ads are more than what the state is giving us for possible increase in funding we're going to have to make a cut somewhere else in the budget to make sure we continue to fund this position so we will know that better next year as we're moving forward from the decisions we make this year which will possibly affect also salary increases other things that go into next year's budget and when we build next year's budget we will have these two positions cognizant in the front of our mind how do we fund for these if this causes our budget to go over what was allowed from the
059the DPI and other mechanisms to bring funding in and so so you're saying yes means yeah we've got to be really cognizant of that and in order to make our budget work we don't know where um you know those those funding mechanisms are going to have to come from if the revenue wasn't there or enough okay so we will have to be aggressive on that and maybe even cutting supplies if we want to keep these positions going all right other comments or questions on the resolution throw a couple of please phone the internet yes Tina Johnson yes David Trader yes David Smith yes Craig Morgan yes my opinions yes Maureen Holland yes but yeah yes Diana Johnson yeah and the motion carries next up is resolution 9245 our contract with the DNH Enterprises for the
060busing do I hear a motion second move by David Schrader seconded by Dave Smith comments or questions on emotion again it was described in this plan um thank you um were we able to resolve the Sports busing issue that we've had last spring pardon me if this has already been addressed I know there was shortages like kids were leaving at noon for the games that were later and needed to be housed at other I know as part of the busy contract if that's all fit together or if this is the difference so um it's it's not part of this contract um but in short because it's transportation and I know that it ties a little bit to the agenda item um we are working very hard to finalize those Solutions with the other vendor that
061we use uh who does that I did also have a discussion with Mr pulseman today see if you could uh through his Staffing or do that I want to recognize that there's a nationwide shortage in bus drivers so if there's anybody out there who wants to learn how to drive bus we're going to try to work at that I know our companies are working hard to make sure they pay well um but we had it we had it covered within the company that we're using there have been some recent impacts to that um and that's in flux right now our backup is to go to other companies to see and that's again why I I talked a bit more today and see if he had any ability to help support that I would be talking
062to other companies to see if they have other abilities to help support that um and we will continue to try to do whatever we can to make sure that we have the blessings coverage in a timeline that's supported to educational purposes as well I'm not going to tell you that yes we have it 100 solved um but I'm hopeful that we're getting good there we're starting to see a little bit more um people being able to get hired and some of that big enough but not 100. thank you all right any other comments or questions on the motion it was made at committee level as well but this is a five-year contract I think it is and we keep reopening it I think we need to look at how we can write the contract so
063that it will legitimately rolls forward reopening it and getting five years you're opening it in five years every year and to go on administrative at the end of them get in line with the other contract all right any other comments or questions hearing non-roll call please don't internet yes Tina Johnson yes David Schrader yes David Smith yes Craig Morgan cheers thank Higgins yes yes Diana Johnson yes and the motion carries next is 92-46 the contract for the 2023-2024 truancy abatement officer comments or questions on the motion hearing none roll call both please yes Tina Johnson yes yes David Smith yes Craig Whitman yes yes Lori Holland yes Ferdinand yes Diana Johnson yes and the motion carries next we have 9247 which is the contract for the 2023-2024 school resource officers do I hear emotion so
064second implied Tina and seconded by Mike comments or a question respond the motion hearing none we'll call them please Tony Arnett yes Tina Johnson yes David Schrader yes David Smith yes Craig Morgan yes Mike Higgins yes Marie Holland yes yes Diana Johnson yes and the motion carries next is resolution 9248 this is the renewal of the school's p l p licensing that was described previously during our committee reports do I hear a motion removed by David Schrader wait a second second by Mike comments or questions on the motion hearing none roll call both please Tony Arnett yes Nina Johnson yes David Schrader yes David Smith yes Craig Wortman yes Mike Higgins yes Lori Collins yes Fred young yes Diana Johnson yes and the motion carries next is resolution 9249 purchase of the panorama software do
065I hear a motion moved by Tina second by Diana again covered in our community reports but are there any comments or questions please so just help me understand and connect the dots I mean we happen to have a survey first um what's it uh social emotional learning um and a cost of eighteen thousand from s or three dollars but the panoramic will also lays out five year five years there so are we agreeing to a five-year commitment by approving this particular agenda item or is this good question no it's a one-year commitment at this point uh the team that examined it um did not want to move forward with the longer quote because they wanted to uh see if that was something that was going to be a fit for us okay my next question
066is so if we're utilizing eighteen thousand dollars of taxpayer-funded money for a survey um how does this particular survey best serve mental health needs so this is specifically about Central learning is it not about mental health um it's the uh um a team of social emotional learning coaches through the district along with our student services team wanted us to have a way to track how the um social emotional learning lessons have been um showing growth in our students and so that's really what this is intended for is not intended as any sort of mental health screen not water um anything with mental questions so in a one-year commitment are we able to be able to take that data and track it or I mean it seems like we're we have a one-year or one year
067plot of data in the assumption would be that in subsequent years we would actually be able to utilize that data to track things as you had mentioned I don't I'm confused on how you're going to be able to attract data with one year's worth of surveys yeah good question the intent is that we would give it three times in this one year we might be a little behind on our first Administration um so that we can see growth within this year and determine if it's something that we want to be able to have to track over multiple years so because we're administering it more than once this school year we'd be able to track the data within the school year but you make a very good point that you want longitudinal tracking then as a
068team we'd have to discuss this is something that we would like so my understanding is that you're looking for a tool and you're trying to say for one year when a test drive this school and see if this tool gives us the kind of data that we need in order to be able to assess ourselves appropriately and so not it's not a one-year trial to see whether we're getting results in the program from our SEO program it's a one-year trial of this measurement tool to see if this tool will give us the data we need to measure up that's what I understood and the other piece to add to that that I can add one um that was brought up is that it has additional resources to support things in which the other programs did
069not so helping teachers to work smarter not harder um is just an added benefit for them so if this makes sense and can give them more than what they currently have um it'll be a great tool and then so uh I guess I guess my my concern is along the lines of social emotional learning I I I'm hoping that I was a little bit hoping for it when we utilize dollars and answer three um that we'd be able to have some immediate um needs met and when it comes to social emotional learning you know when it comes to a survey I I guess I failed to see how that is able to meet those immediate needs um at least I'm kind of confused by that um at the moment so I'm not sure I'm sure
070I feel like there's other ways to spend this money effectively um for social emotional learning I I don't know that I can support this particular ask thank you um so as Diana older two and her comments not only is there a survey there are interventions that are linked in that as well so if a classroom teacher gives a survey notices hey my whole class is low on Organization for example there would be lessons within the um within the portal to address those um you know if they notice across third grade there are you know seven students who need you know support on like self-management skills and potentially the counselor might be able to pull those seven students and then pull information from this portal on a lesson to help support them in those areas too
071so I should say that it has more than just this the survey in there there's also the um intervention tracking as well as different interventions within that to be used in the classroom so that's a good point Thank you guys the committee correct didn't acknowledge that and we can we can we could see that very clearly in the elementary level we were legitimately challenged on see how it's going to work in the outer levels so that's kind of part of what's going on here is the challenge for the administration to come back saying how are these interventions how are you going to use this data across all students not basically just particular ones and use it on yeah interventions that are needed um I mean I have I just it just seems like I got
072I don't have a lot of information I don't know what kind of questions are being asked I don't know how you know all that I I respect what you're saying um I guess I'm still unclear how those types of objectives can be met through other meetings I think that other surveys can probably fulfill some of those types of things and I just I don't know just it just seems like a lot to spend on something for one year okay um I and I don't know the details of the you know the the questions and things like that um I'm assuming you guys have vetted that out and it's like the best option there um I'm excited to see something like this um I'm not on the committee so I don't know the specifics I know
073you guys have you know I'm sure have been very diligent about your work in the in the committee and everything like that um I was excited to see something like this when I went to um this award state conference last January um I sat in on one of the sessions that talked about tools like this and how helpful they were I don't know I don't remember what exact tool it was um but how helpful that tool was not only do the students but to the staff and then you know can kind of maybe help you collect some data depending upon you know whatever it was so um I'm excited for us to be able to you know move forward and seeing something that would support the students and things like that all right other comments
074or questions on the motion hearing none roll call home please Tony Arnett yes Tina Johnson yes yes David Smith yes Craig Wortman no no Brett young yes and the motion carries our last resolution for the evening is 92.50 and this is the approval of an elective course or RMS in the sixth grade do I hear a motion second by David Schrader seconded by Dan and again covered at services and discussed there but comments or questions on the motion um just procedural question why um is this coming to the board so new course approvals always come to the board program so there's a brand new course yes but yeah all right and if I could ask Jason can you just paraphrase that email and let's say a minute regarding how the our the minutes changed on
075some classes and freed up some opportunities for additional electives because there's going to be other uh classes like that are that are going to be coming in front of us at some point I assume I'm not saying this year I'm just saying is that there was some changes done at uh Riverside that Jason could probably summarize just for everybody's background that caused the opportunity for this to or a lot of allowed the opportunity to cut me off at one minute no matter what you're doing you got it so 10 seconds so the um with the with the adoption of wit and wisdom our Ela curriculum we needed to maximize the amount of minutes in our core so we moved from a six period Day to a five period day math is a full-block Ela of
076the full block so two fifths of your day is math and Ela and so some other things kind of had to give a little bit and last year we accomplished that by having Skinny's 40-minute classes or 80 minute classes um and we decided we're given the awesome results of our Ela curriculum we moved Ela out of the stem environment and out of dual language and into the environment that the trained Fidelity teachers and wisdom were teaching at Ela content so in order to do that we had to reorganize some things around the STEM Academy and reorganizing things around the schedule as a whole and so one of the ways the stem teachers um with a Project Lead the Way course which was not offered in sixth grade prior to this year there was an opportunity
077to make use of their training and background the resources within the STEM Academy and interests that we had in the building for sure from our students to get into that pathway just a little bit earlier that's the one minute view from above okay comments or questions on the motion is this purely for the STEM Academy thank you okay any of the comments or questions on the motion meaning I mean is this good like referring back to the ed services do we need a description or something like that in there or something else as presented yeah I think that's sufficiently yeah all right anything else all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed motion carries this brings us to the second part of our agenda for public input if they're members in the audience
078who would like to address the board at this time if you want anyone online all right then we will move to a closed session do I hear a motion to go into post-session person reason stated in the agenda motion okay moved by Fred seconded by Diana comments or questions on the motion yes Peter Johnson yes David Schrader yes David Smith yes okay yes yes Diana Johnson yeah