001all right this being the appointed time replacing to see informed president to go ahead and call this meeting to border it'd all please rise and join me in the pledge of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible through the liberty and justice for all thank you can you would you please take the role like Higgins here Lori Helen here Diana Jackson here Tina Johnson here David Schrader here Dave Smith here Douglas Greg Wharton here next next we have preview the gender any items we need to rearrange removed nope all right then this brings us to public input this is one of two times the agenda for members of the public May address the board just ask the way to be recognized give your name
002and address and keep your marks brief and I'll start with here in the room is there anyone who'd like to address the board this time say none okay anyone online all right then we will move on to announcements and recognition communication and I'm gonna start with our high school student boards representative Andrew please introduce yourself and tell us what's going on hello score I'm Drew scheide um I'd like to thank you guys for having me here um to talk a bit about uh our school and the things that are going on um so this past week was obviously a big one for our school but homecoming week um it was a huge success we held a bunch of activities and events um the theme this year was superheroes the freshmen were the X-Men sophomores were
003Guardians of the Galaxy Juniors were the DC superheroes and the seniors were the Avengers um so the weeks start off with powder puff football which resulted in the seniors claiming the victory uh there was quote building throughout the week dress-up days including decades day country versus Country Club day and tacky tourist day um hallway decorating uh in the morning of Monday uh pep rally which is emceed by yours truly and Lily government where we welcome Dr Eric Rim our distinguished alumni and uh played games like heads or tails hula hoop relay jumping bag Grace and tug of war um we had the parade which hosted hundreds of attendees with quotes from Sports decorating and the homecoming Court um with our homecoming queen Emily Ryan and homecoming King Ben Gifford and then the dance uh where
004an estimated 700 students came to the dance this past Saturday from 8 to 11 and they all had a great time um I would like to give a shout out to uh the student council advisors and Leadership um this is felon Mrs Gibbons we're on top of everything this week they did amazing and our president Lily garberman led us through this week uh great and all the leadership really showed up um I'd also like to give a shout out to the custodial staff because on a bunch of high schoolers I've thrown things all over their school they're the ones that have to pick it up looking for the future uh we're looking at Fall Fest Colin elf it would be nice week and Teacher Appreciation Week and that is all I have thank you guys
005it's a great job thank you all right superintendent we have other items under announcements and Communications I do I have a big thank you uh to put out there Tomas Brothers Construction uh they recently donated a thousand dollars towards skillsusa at the check already and I greatly appreciate them and any business who would um donate something like that to our programming so I appreciate it okay thank you anything else just passes right nothing else all right then we will move on to strategic discussion and our first up is an update from Endeavor Charter High School please hi everybody I think everybody behind me knows these so I apologize I'm probably going to talk um I have a couple of things that I'm passing out to you first is our promotional brochure and then I'll come
006back around to where my business card I'm here tonight because we have been in existence we are in our ninth year and in that time I think this entire school board has turned over so I felt like it might be a good opportunity for a little bit of introduction a little bit of explanation and then I want to give you an opportunity to ask questions either right now or you do have my business cards so you'll be able to email me questions so I'll start out my name is Judy Miller and I am the Lead Teacher in endeavor um we are a teacher-led school we are the second High School in the Watertown Unified School District we are co-located within Watertown High School so many people don't realize that we are our own separate high
007school and so I wanted to give you the opportunity today to hear a little bit about what we do how we operate and give you a chance to ask some questions so as I said my name is Judy Miller and I am the Lead Teacher I was on the original design team for our school so I have been on board since we've dreamed this about 10 years ago and um I currently take on not only the role as Lead Teacher but also the role as language arts content specialist and I'm an advisor uh the rest of my team we have a part-time staff member Scott Meyer who is the math content specialist that works with us half the day Rob harms is our science content specialist he's also an advisor he also teaches one section
008of biology in high school and then the other full-time co-worker that I have is Beth Oswald and she is the social studies content specialist and she is also an advisor we are currently a school of 43 students in grades 9 through 12. we are a choice school so all of the students that are in our school have chosen to come to our school they choose to come to our school for a lot of different reasons um some are looking for a small school environment some students want to do our learning model some students are just looking for something different maybe they haven't had success in other environments and they'd like to try something different but like I said we are 43 students this year in grades 9-12 we have all ability levels we have all
009interests areas so some Charter Schools across the state focus on a particular area so if you were to go to cuddle Marine they have a health science charter school they have a global business charter school they have a Arts Charter School Endeavor is for anyone and everything so we do not have a particular theme or Focus that we follow we are open to students with any interest and like I said all ability levels so we have students that would be considered at risk we also have students that would be considered accelerated and everyone in between as far as ability levels um as I said we we opened in 2013 uh Endeavor was the brainchild of David Talley and Bob Logan and they approached a group of us to try to see if we could get
010this off the ground and lo and behold not only did we get it off the ground but we have maintained an enrollment of between 40 and 60 students every year and this is our ninth year um so like I said we are co-located we're right on the other side of the gym in the high school we are the second High School in the Watertown Unified School District with the third High School being the eCampus chargeable our delivery models our instructional model is personalized which means every student has a personalized learning plan it is also project-based learning project-based learning is different than doing projects project-based learning is using and driving questions and from the answer to that driving question learning the skills and knowledge that you need to meet State Standards so our students are still
011meeting the same state standards that they would if they went to any other high school in the state of Wisconsin the way they approach it is different it s student directed and student-led they make all their own decisions about what they study in the order that they study it they create all their own assignments they create their own projects and the role of teacher is different because the role of teacher is as coach and as advisor and as experts in our content areas but then we are also generalists so when people in the community ask me what I teach I say I teach what needs to be taught and so a student sits down next to me and they have a need and we work through that need and need and we figure it out
012together um we also have an emphasis on 21st century skills as part of our delivery model and so we do direct instruction Cooperative grouping and we spend time every day and every week with specific 21st century School focuses in mind we also focus on a community of student ownership so all of our students are either mentors or they are apprentices in our in our space um every student has leadership opportunities students are given voice and choice to take ownership of their learning but they're also given voice and choice to take ownership of our school so every time we do something new we get together we do feedback we create plans for the future how we want to do things differently next time and because we are a small school we are Nimble enough that we
013can make changes for the students in this space as we need to make those changes um the brochure you have in front of you is one example of student leadership this is completely designed by students and written by students to show the kinds of things that they think people in the community would want to know about their school we use local printers we use local graphic designers to help get this from idea to your hands of what have in front of you um it does list our mission and our values on the first inside page so you can see the kinds of things that we are emphasizing and the kinds of things that we work on with students on a regular basis so I have given you my business cards so that you can email
014me to a ask questions or the schedule a visit if you would like to come in and see how we do things differently we have student ambassadors who host guests and who host visitors we've hosted teachers from all over the state from different charter schools so we do have student ambassadors that are used to working with adults to teach them how we do things um that's the only reason you need an appointment because I need to make sure that they'll be a student ready for you when you come in are there any questions that I can answer for you right now board members questions Tina what happened did you teach in more the traditional High School prior to this I did you know what that was in my notes I think that jumped right over
015them um I taught in Waterson high school for 16 years as an English teacher and a reading teacher and one of the reasons that I switched models was because I was looking for the opportunity to be more creative and more Nimble in my instruction not that I don't absolutely love working with nine or ten other high school English teachers but consensus building can sometimes be a long process and sometimes it feels daunting and so I wanted to be able to offer something different to students where we could customize their instruction and customize what they were interested in and find maximum relevancy for them [Music] you're welcome did I miss anything I didn't you know I had no idea you were doing this so it's a good job nice to see you go ahead David um
016so at a high level what kind of for the school for the organization what kind of goals have you had in the last year or so and how are you doing out of schools are you talking perform ance what are you as an organization what are you you doing the make yourself a better school what kind of objectives do you have obstacles and how are you doing so for academic performance measures we use performance measures that are not the same as like a school report card because our population is so small so with the state of Wisconsin we have alternative performance measures that we have to report on those are in College and Career Readiness in Reading in math in our learning model which in creating projects and participating in projects um and we are
017we are consistently setting our goals to be the highest they could possibly be so we have goals of 95 to 100 percent of students getting a credit a full credit of English and Endeavor every year and we do not meet that goal every year but we don't believe in lowering that goal just so we can meet it we're really trying to make it so that every student succeeds at the highest level that they can every year um some of our more affectables are things like making sure that every student has a role in our school no matter what their ability no matter what their skills and we do not Rank and sort our students so that means that we do recognize honor roll but we don't have any sort of ability grouping we don't have
018any sort of um any sort of ranking and sorting anything that would judge a student over another student because we believe that all students have strengths and values to bring to our community and the way that we encourage that is by making sure that every student's students are celebrated so one of our goals is to make sure that every student has a community contribution to our community and that every student has leadership opportunities that are that are important to them is that do it for you okay besides 20 century skills every student has to participate every student in our Learning Community does everything so we all do community community service we all do communication we all do problem solving we all do so our 21st century skills we work on every single day so that's
019another goal every student will grow in their 21st centuries at school submits and authorizes report that highlights the driver's portable that Judy mentioned but they also every Public Charter School has a school report card and Endeavors no different than they have consistently exceeded State expectations and the school report card which I think is a good thing it's not something yet right they're done for but uh it's certainly a byproduct of again the effort was worked by the staff there in the case and families I just had at the end of this year a couple of things um at the end of this year the five-year Charter is up so a resolution will come in front of the board sometimes in February or so to renew that simply in agreement to continue forward with um the
020curriculum latitude that the school has and um you know reflect on the accountability that Judy had shared and so you'll determine whether or not you want to do that if there's no cost associated with it in terms of operations it's co-located as I mentioned one thing I would add as well is I think they're they've done a really good job over the years um highlighting the progress and the status of the school I think that's resulted in some quality half resulted in nearly a million dollars a grant money coming in that has impacted not just Endeavor but the entire student body under the roots at Watertown High School Makerspace has been built from purchases that the grant has made available accessible to all kids Project Lead the Way biomedical science curriculums has been developed fully
021Esports program has been seated with the support of endeavor Community Partnerships technology a lot of things that really if you're going to be a Charter One of the benefits and one of the purpose purpose is to um create a proof of concept that impacts the general population not just not just the entity that exists in the form of a charter so yes and the other thing that I mean that you kind of started touching on is the goal of a charter school is to be an innovation Zone to try things out to do things differently to to get ideas from and so one of the roles that one of the reasons we have student ambassadors is so that other teachers can call me in and learn what we're doing we've taught probably about five or
022six staff members over the past five years how to do project-based learning and they've implemented it in different ways in their own classrooms so we have the flexibility to be able to do things differently and see and show students and staff the potential of being able to do things different officially authorized author I'm a teacher so I'm used to calling out people with their hands in the air so I apologize Mr Arnett I'm not trying to take that um I guess did you did you Leo perhaps a typical structure of a typical student even though it's personalized and customized what would a typical day look like absolutely that's a great question because it feels a little fluffy and weird um most of the step most of our students well first you should know that students
023can earn credit through Endeavor Charter School by taking online courses they can do projects they can do seminars seminars are teacher directed or they can be student directed we've had students teach seminars with the advising of a teacher kind of supporting them or they can take up to two credits in the high school with our partnership with the high school so many of our students I won't say most but many of our students take on all of those different opportunities over the course of the school year in a trimester right now if you are a freshman you first hour are in a seminar called boot camp where we are teaching you how to be successful in an Endeavor teaching you project-based learning teaching you time management teaching you organization teaching you all the things you're
024going to need to learn to be able to be successful as an independent learner so if you're a freshman you're in you're in boot camp first hour until December the first trimester second hour is endeavor hour on Mondays we do Town Hall community building and goal setting Tuesdays we do Mentor partnership time where we work on communication skills Wednesdays we meet advisory groups Thursdays we do project presentations and Fridays we do team challenges and Reflections for the week so that would be second hour third hour then let's say I might take the Project Lead the lightweight class because that is an Endeavor course and so you could take principles of biomedical science with Annie Carpenter out in the high school the fourth hour maybe I would be in choir or band and then fifth hour
025would be my personalized learning hour so you might have now I also have a freshman who has boot camp and he has Endeavor hour and then third hour he works on Alex math fourth hour he is working on personalized learning where he is doing online grammar and he's working through reading a book project that he is doing and then fifth hour he's doing an independent project on the invention of the internet thank you also as a student would meet with me as your advisor once a week and we sit down and we go through everything you're working on and I use project Foundry we use project Foundry to manage all of that because as you might imagine I have 18 students of my advisory and they're all doing different things so the way that we
026manage all of that is through project Foundry and it lists all their projects and learning targets that they have for each of those projects so I can coach them through what are you getting done during today what are you getting done tomorrow but they also learn to do that in their own goal signing journals does that help you yep the board members so I have one question yes which is well I wasn't there in year zero when the charge was drawn up I have been here at all yes and you're the only one yes bad thing about being one of the few okay with nine years we've potentially have students who have gone beginning to end through Endeavor yes and then gone on to post-secondary experiences of one bright another and with nine years they
027could have potentially gone into a college in University for four years and gone all the way through it would be interesting to hear from some Endeavor alumni as to what their experience has been Beyond because that is a fundamental premise of this school is it is intended to be something different but yet still prepare people same way last year we had our biggest graduating class was 13 students and seven of them went on to college and six of them went into the workforce right this would just be interesting to hear like hear from some of them as to what their experiences have been like out there and I only raise it because it could also be an interesting project absolutely um I will say that it is one anecdotal example but we do have one's
028graduate one alumni who is now on our Board of governance so those of you that are not familiar we are under the umbrella of your governance but then we are state required to have our own board of governance and one of our alumni has has come back to be part of that board of governance because she believes in what we do um but we have not done a follow-up in a couple of years since before coven kind of took over a lot of things so we haven't followed up on those kinds of things yes now he's reached the point you could literally have people who might have gone to college and done these four-year and graduated and graduated from college right yeah especially yes right for sure all right thank you yes if I may
029I just want to share um just watching watching in Denver and watching the school over the last nine years I was around as well uh and uh just to watch it really from inception to become I mean arguably one of the strongest schools of its kind in the state I mean for the the staff added never to be presenting at the state level um they they have an influence and I know it's hard to see sometimes you know from the day to day but I mean that really is I mean one of the highest quality programs of a time in the state ready to keep celebration so I'm going to share this problem and it sounds strange for me to say this but I guess one of the Testaments to that is when I go
030to things for um my own professional development and I go to this summer we did a workshop at the sisa in Tomahawk and I went as a participant and I ended up kind of leading because I once people started asking questions I'm more than happy to share what we're doing in the success so I think we have in some ways helped put Watertown on the map a little bit in that we have this cool Innovative thing going on here so I wanted to make sure that you knew about it and I want you to feel welcome to like I said email me we can set up a time if you'd like to come and visit and talk to students um I would have brought students with me but kind of their time right now so
031they're a little reluctant to get up their time that's true thank you very much you're welcome all right our next agenda item is preliminary budget discussion Mr Williamson foreign tax levy of great detail and the budget and less details there's still a lot of new parts going on but um those are starting to come to an entire scope and I even have some updates on some of the assumptions that we're making for this year's budget if um slide right away but just uh for everyone who who isn't aware so right now we're in the part where of a budget where really I double check now um a lot of personnel costs of who we've hired and their benefit choices and things like that making sure that large projects that may be on the horizon if
032they can fit into the budget they can get moved into that start moving towards a conceptual phase and really the purpose of the finance committee on Wednesday night was to focus in on a tax strategy because before we meet again the budget gets published in the newspaper as a to to learn and went on the budget hearing that will occur at the end of October so we discussed that strategy so that we're on the same page about at least what's going to be put out there from a publication standpoint and then on the 21st over that looks like in October that Wednesday for the board meeting or finalize expenditures and revenues with the finance committee we'll finalize the tax levy itself and bring that forward then on that Monday what is that the 24th um
033as a recommendation for the full board I'll do the little you know doggie Pony show with the budget presentation things like that but uh you'll take a look and finalize that budget and move that forward away we go four months in the year uh so just from a comparison standpoint the actuals you see up there and then you can see the assumptions that I'm making some of them are quite frankly just for ease of understanding and differences between 21 and 22 and 22 and 23 but from a from the most important things up there right now is right now for the budget we're assuming a decrease in our enrollment at least in our residency um about 56 students uh we do know that our head count is down about is down about 53 students how
034that's going to shake out with resident versus non-resident and all those things we're still kind of going through that uh but we are down in head counts uh to about um 3 300 kids total when you see it was the FTE always comes out with a larger if I don't apply that is if you want uh one of the interesting parts of this year's um at least the effect that it can have on the mill rate is the property valuation increase we know that um what the state does we look at Market values when we start looking at Mill rates and milliping the dollar amount that is taxed for one thousand dollars of property value so when we look at Mill rates and how that's going to play out uh amongst our district we look
035at market and equalized values same thing Market being equalized that then gets spread out over assessed values okay but we what we are able to see um and report on is the equalized value so a pretty significant increase in market value of 17 and that will you know play with the mill rate as we'll get to in a second uh we put a pretty big emphasis on the trance of service this year yes a line item that allows us to uh Levy dollars for students who have moved into our district and receive additional educational needs um so Jenny has spent a lot of time a lot of fun time putting together what this dollar amount looks like and the amount of students who have um who we need to account for in that line item
036and that gets baked into the revenue limit before we left forever um so it's uh it's a a line that we want to take advantage of when it's allowable to us we know that our referendum is going into its final year at the 3.9 million now next year that of course will say 3.9 and 0. for the final amount uh let's see I do one of that just highlight briefly the private school voucher it's a pretty significant increase again I think we've seen a fairly large increase in the um special needs scholarship portion of that um where another school has another private school has jumped into that program and I think nearly doubling the amount of students that were in that and so that does increase um you know property tax line item there so
037we're putting in a little over 300 000 and it's always a nice surprise when we finally get that finalized by the state on the 15th what the number actually is uh at this point I've increased the regular uh private school voucher up five percent and then at nearly doubled especially needed scholarship a month so I hope that's a conservative number we've got to be finalizing in October let's see that way out so how this all shakes out is uh what we really talked about Wednesday nights with finances how to balance um you know what what we can do for taxpayers what we can do for the district in order to set it up for the future and flexibility and striking that balance was important for the committee last Wednesday and really how what ends up
038happening here is that our Revenue limits you'll notice is larger so the after the green lines you'll notice that the revenue limit that we are taxing is larger the awesome part is you want to look at the second Green Line the operational property tax levy combined with the building referendum debts that number is about the same but the amount of state aid help that we're getting which is up uh what is that 1.6 million that is what is offsetting more than the increase right so you can get a 750 000 increase in the overall Revenue limit however we're getting an additional 1.6 million in help which means the property taxes the overall amount that we're going to Levy is going that the property taxpayers are going to be responsible for is going to be a
039lot less why are we getting that that's because of the biennium budget uh the state level adding more to property tax relief um as well as our expenditures being an about budget or a little higher than they have been in previous years so we're a district that kind of counterintuitive the more we spend the more state aid we get um and so really those two aspects are what is playing into it but predominantly is the biennial budget at state level so you're going to see that the majority of our uh the I would say overwhelming majority of our um residents will see a property tax decrease in a mill rate that is going from 890 down to 731 as of right now there's still things that need to play out I would add this and
040then you know anyone from Finance can weigh in um we're very conscious of how property value increases our happening across each of the 11 municipalities in town and otherwise and are really trying to do um our best strategy in order to bring a tax equal if not less tax uh to as many residents as possible going into 2223. so they would want to add anything to that the main thing I want to add is to that point so there there's one big factor that's out of our control in there so we can set the overall Levy with that intent of trying to be at or lower but it comes down to a block by Block House by house basis and whatever the assessment that the city determined is so if you have two houses right
041next to each other and one of them went up this much and the other one only went up this much you know half as much as the other one when they go to spread out the tax bill this person is going to pay more we can't control that we can't control how that played out and we can we're trying to do our best to put out a levy that is should be for most taxpayers at or below what they're paying right now we can't guarantee that's where it's going to play out for everybody because we're playing we can only go at the average and an average exists because there are people above it they're people below it so you know that's exactly right and the lobby that we chose was looking at uh 11 municipalities
042right and the increase that at this moment that we know as the increase in property values and we took the lowest the highest one of those and set the levy at that so but that municipality as a whole should see a zero increase and all the other ones as municipality as a whole should see less all right yeah on average your house went up and mine when we went up a little bit yeah you're going to pay and I'm not yeah I I said sedation back often say whoever does the assessment support property but because as mentioned there are a number of taxing districts and the differences in valuation increase in those was widespread so again we're trying our best to do the right thing for everyone students and taxpayers and just aim it what
043we know and what we can control yeah yeah and just a reminder we can only control the School portion of the tax correct all right so um obviously it'll be October is my Christmas and so we'll get these variables in and we'll all be finalized in October this is just a reminder I show this often just so we understand it's become intuitive right now Watertown sorry Tyler could do on the next slide I did nothing okay um for those who haven't heard this before right now Watertown is in a situation where as membership begins to rise which we're not there yet but as membership rises again whenever it hits that floor Revenue will actually fall off for quite a while for a couple years at least okay which means taxes will go down as well
044that's the situation Watertown is in until that stabilizes and you kind of get off this um they call it exemptions we'll get off this drip of getting dollars while we are losing students um we might finalize this it'll be a different situation so usually when we talk about you know whether it's a fiscal cliff or whatever that looks like really it's when membership will start to rise and you start to need those dollars to take on additional students that's when we're going to be at probably our lowest Revenue points um before that rebuild happens so that's just your your friendly reminder Tyler next slide I think um just oh okay so we did get these are the assumptions I have in on the face expenditures I do want to say we while I budgeted flat
045open enrollmented now just because of the ease of doing that our open enrollment out from a student count is is down uh 13 students so I don't know how that shakes out 4K through 12 but open enrollment out is lower and open enrollment in is higher uh went from 71 FTE last year and right now we're around 94 FTE so a drop in open Roman out and an increase in open enrollment in how that will play out with residency so usually when you have a lot of open all those open enrollment out students still count as our residents so you have to kind of you know see how this will shake out um as far as how it plays on on the FTE but overall that funding Gap that closes up significantly because of this
046so that's about a three hundred thousand dollar swing that I did not account for in the current budget in part of why we put out these variables throughout October so the current budget if you see if you looked at it had a surplus right now about 280 000 that's really for me to play with to make sure that enrollments come in where I think they're going to be double checking um you know salaries and benefits just giving us some leeways variables come in but this is an additional swing uh that we had not accounted for yet so uh that's some good news hop off the press uh finally um there there is no fine the budget document itself is what gets published that's the literal literally the published document um we'll fine-tune it again like
047I said on expenditures and revenues but the taxing strategy is going to be what we said tonight until we get all the exact details in early in October let's say all in all pretty positive news any other questions board members comments or questions we didn't talk about it at fiscal though the private school voucher is going up but correct the the state has kept that and continues to increase that cap correct that is not necessarily a reflection that more students in our area are choosing private school over public school it is just how the state is handling yeah signaling to open up that funding yeah what what happens is as a reminder I think we're I forget if we're in year six or seven but it's it's basically they open up an additional one percent
048of your student body can be a part of the voucher program so if you hit that limit there's no more students that can be from Watertown in the in them so it could just be that now this year those students maybe who haven't qualified because of this cap now do qualify so the number becomes larger or it could be more students actually going into the program it could be you're not really privy to that but you're right it's capped and right now the law is it's up one percent each year until 10 and after the 10 mark it uh full grown there's no more caps so there's about three or four more years of caps in existence uh under current law also on that note but they're the um there has been a waiting list
049for Wisconsin parental Choice program every year in this District so well and we are not unique we have a higher concentration of private right schools membership then that's not necessarily a correct an increase in their enrollment it reflects an increase in the number that they have enrolled that are taking advantage of just about your program yes that's it okay and there's actually if you look at the numbers in a number of those schools they still are seeing declines just as much as we are because they're working off the same base population all those numbers are accessible the finances are real it is the finances do not equal student numbers any other comments or questions on that none all right thank you very much this brings us to our reports and we will start with the
050superintendent report okay and I go over here so I can see the screen um uh you can see that I'm pictured there with Steve board that was a Watertown TV Spotlight that the chamber did uh and it was a really good time to sit down he interviewed me not only about you know kind of where I came from everything but some of the things that we're doing in the school district so if you have a chance please watch uh give me some feedback too I always like to hear feedback from the movie critics out there about what happened so I would really appreciate it um and then I do want you to know that uh if you look at my calendar um over the last month um it's been meet and greet meet and greet
051meet and greet meat which has been fabulous um because the more I get to know the people in the community as well as our staff and others who are just saying hey uh you're new I'd like to say hi to you uh the better I get an idea for you know what our schools are to people in our district and that I can't thank these people enough and so I've met with uh this list of people up there some of them I'm on a second or third scheduled meeting for uh you can see that mayor Emily McFarland's up there another time soon we're going to be meeting to discuss all the kids in the area um and and or what their thoughts are for possible kids in the future so we could have some discussion
052about that as a board um you can see that former board member our Mark Putra I met him just by chance um as I was working at the high school putting together um what's the name thank you feeding America boxes uh and you know just got to meet him and said hey I'd like to you know talk to you a little bit about history uh and where the district has been from your uh standpoint as a former board member uh rotary was today I'm actually speaking to Rotary next week about the school district um and many others the retired Teachers Association from Jefferson County isn't up there but I got a chance to talk with them my main message was if you want to enter retirement we will gladly rehire you um and so you
053know a lot of that uh was was there and we were talking about you know just good uh things about students um and and you know um it was funny one of the things that was said was you know children are so different now uh and I said you know it's funny because I was just at a conference and they didn't say uh children are so different now they said childhood is so different now and I said that really reframed my mind yeah these are the same you know kids are our kids and have been but they're growing up in a whole different childhood than many of us grew up in and and that does have impacts and and it's really making me think about that too so um anyway there's a list of people
054that I've met there uh also um you know this town has come with a lot of opportunities and um I think the work for allowing me uh to take a chance in one of them uh I'm part of the leadership Watertown class of uh 20 uh um and this uh these pictures that you see here are the uh with a group of people that I was paired with on our first day um our first day was uh full of great activities to help does I think it was designed to help get us around town and meet people um so you can see that um uh how was that designed was for us to um this picture down here in the middle was hex Furniture um we we went there instead of crucial equipment but we
055were to try to find somebody uh in the chamber who's been in business over 100 years and kax just it was closer than on enough puso I know you guys had some people who out there um but it was it was great because you got to see uh some businesses that have been longstanding businesses in the community um we also uh took a picture uh up here um this was a picture of us at our afternoon activity our afternoon afternoon activity was a team building exercise uh where uh we um went to a local bed and breakfast here in town and basically they did a safe house mystery for us and there were Clues around the safe room we had to work together to try to solve the clues and see who the murderer was
056and the murderer could have been one of us uh it wasn't me I was um uh hyper Plum and I was just mainly a very big antagonist who uh ran a social media company uh and uh was just putting out the news as the facts okay and so that that was my identity uh you can see that we met mayor McFarland that was part of the Civic obligation of that day and some of the other things down here in the lower right is us talking with um people over at 7Up they were actually having a some kind of a celebration that they do on Tuesdays with their company and so uh they had a cookout so we got to meet them across the street uh and then at the sharp corner and we had bonus
057points if we could identify the two newest uh uh parks in the Watertown Park system at sharp corner is one of them can anybody I guess the other Karen Landing Aaron Landing no uh but and I have to I can't hear you I can't think of the name but it is It is Well towards the airport um kind of near uh Webster ensures neighborhood hiding between the two what's the name of that yeah that's right yeah a very beautiful apartment a great playground equipment uh so um thank you again for the opportunity because uh as a new leader to the school district uh uh anybody anybody who goes to this program they're going to learn a lot about our time uh and so I know there have been other members of our admin team and
058it's Brady um Mr Kirk they they've participated marquette's that's awesome yeah raise your hand if you have yeah see uh there's a number of us who've done this different activities each year but I'm gonna really enjoy this and getting to know people hey thank you uh next um some celebrations uh we had homecoming uh and so here's some just some pictures from homecoming and king and queen there our distinguished alumni Dr Rim uh also was there presented and had a luncheon prepared for by the students uh booster club did their tailgate and then of course the dress up days and the spirit that go along with it um also another celebration I I keep sharing uh activities with Avid um and um they really had a needs program I'm sorry I couldn't be there Jason
059but uh on the 20th uh Tuesday they had RMS Avid with their families and they participated in a signing ceremony that formally introduced them to Abbott and Adam classes um and I think it was very well attended um and then another celebration uh you know that we're putting a lot of time effort and energy into a professional learning communities and using that as a way to help us stay on track towards our goal for strategic planning um and and the reason I have this uh a little um graphic up here um this is a graphic uh the you know growing up to and through the crown is really from Kevin Williams who um he is a is a good speaker on PLC movement um but what it does is it it shows that you know
060if we have essential learning incomes that are high uh we set the bar High what we can do is we can grow them to and through the crown and and that is the aspect that Lincoln is taking right now um at their sub school um the other schools are all doing different things through PLC but we're all working towards the same thing whether it's a book study or reaffirming um you know their agenda setting or different places that they are they're all working towards that and so this is something that is uniting us as a school district a matter of fact just the other day I sent all a good thank you to each of the buildings thanking them for their work and and continuing their efforts in PLC and recognizing each of them and
061each of their buildings for what they're doing specifically in that building to move towards that as a district to get to our goals um and I just uh it part of my email message was also to send them out again our mission and value statement our priorities as a district and um where they can get to and look at our strategic plan again so really trying to focus staff towards our roles thank you um then another celebration uh eCampus International some of you who were at one of our meetings earlier whether it was planning or um or our ed services you might have heard um just us talking about a buzz we have 26 enrollments and growing from International uh and most of those students are high schoolers pursuing an American diploma we've got them
062from all over the place and I wouldn't be able to name them all in Portugal and I know is one of them where else David a number of different kinds of schools in Portugal Ukraine Poland they have hubs throughout Europe so kids are betting in different nations throughout Europe and um yeah I know that you know uh we're not necessarily quite hitting our numbers but um we are getting better at defining them and still trying to keep putting that out there is one of our our gold measures um important reminders uh you may have seen these things uh kind of things come to you as a board member in the mail please um try not to throw them out okay because they knew maybe look like a flyer or a junk mail but they do
063have really good information on them for you and I'm not here to suggest that I'm trying to sell wasb you already decided to be a member right I'm saying let's get the most out of it that we can because we are members and so there's a reminder for the fall region meeting Workshop that's on the 12th there um region 12 but it's coming up this Thursday in Middleton Cross Plains I know I'm going in at least one other if you want to go you still can we can still register you um also there's a connecting with lawmakers that came recently to you this is on November 10th through the 16th and locations vary but if you're interested in that and and you would like to connect with some of the legal people about meetings and
064other questions about how school boards run and other things that you have that you might think are a Hot Topic item they'll be there for you uh and then lastly I know it's ceremonial because you guys are members and I know it's kind of gimmicky but every year you get one of these I don't know if you've ever seen one but it's your membership certificate to wasb so um congratulations for being a member and please take as much Advantage as you can from it that's all I have any questions comment some questions superintendent all right thank you very much we'll move on to committee reports and again just remind those presenting full content you report is attached so you don't try to go through a global so fiscal management don't worry all of us are
065there Tony myself and Bill surek as well we start with the payment report not a lot of questions we wanted to touch base on the bearish report um it was not in there due to just the lack of information over 20 grand we did talk about vehicles and we're going to follow up with the committee on more information on who are you starting they have some Advanced and trending Transit bands on site the more information is needed on that you spent a lot of time then on the construction manager bids which you're going to see tonight as an action item uh the committee talked through that in great detail so be confident that we went through the proper process and finally heard already about the budget and Levy update not anything really additional to have
066there important meeting occurring on the 19th end of October and yeah comments or questions on the report thank you HR we had our meeting on September 19th we opened at five o'clock with negotiations we exchanged proposals um with the clerical support staff we entered into closed session um and reconvened to open session at 504 um and then it entered into negotiations again at 5 30 PM with the United language Educators and went into closed sessions um and then it re-opened reconvened an open session at 5 40. seven um with tentative agreements that are as resolutions tonight um also we reviewed the consent agenda for staff appointments resignations um which we have an item for tonight and then we did an education piece and some discussion regarding committee agenda planning um to kind of as far
067as like what comes up in a typical calendar year um and so we had some discussion around that Margaret was very helpful in providing us um guidance as far as the different things that we see there and our next meeting is October 17th thank you questions or comments on that report hearing none we'll move on to ed services uh yes ed services met with all members present uh we for the most part stuck to our agenda which was to discuss the yester dollars especially those near term and that had to do with the gifted and talented program and a consultant for that uh you'll see the summary of that nicely written up in the minutes uh Community tutoring looking at ways to enhance Community tutoring and the one asterisk on that we did ask the
068question and it was answered for those who were familiar with tutor me uh which we piloted last spring into the summer um that pilot is over and we're not renewing for anybody who remembers that discussion and what went into it and then lastly was the Strategic plan and we just had the opportunity to look at some past longitudinal data as the 2022 information wasn't yet available but we expect that to be added and similar to Tina's sentiments regarding uh into planning um we're still working through that ourselves on ESC and making sure that it ties in uh properly with what's going on at planning and the other committees so otherwise uh relatively succinct and we did take till 902 until Jared came in and gave the hook so uh that was it comments or questions
069in that report bring none I will go ahead and cover a planning committee on behalf of chairperson who's not here so that committee met on September 14th with all committee members presence Doug Tina Craig and Lori in addition Diana was there as well as the superintendent and the first item up was to talk about possibly engaging an organization called the Donovan group to assist with school Communications this is in response to our own strategic plan and its identified goal around communication and marketing as well as things that we simply all gathered as we went through in particular the superintendent process that interview and selection process we learned from what other people were doing in other districts very informative and at the conclusion of that discussion that can be recommended that Dr Brooke discussed how to
070finance their proposal and we'll assume that the committee will hear something forthcoming yep I talked with Mike um and we decided to make sure that um in following board policy we try to get a couple of other plans from other communication strategist groups I do have a lead on a couple that I got from our fall superintendent meeting so okay I'll be looking to them to send in a proposal and then we can look at the positives and negatives of those I brought the Donovan group just because that was the line behind me so okay thank you next item was to review the results of the latest survey constructed conducted by the studer group and again that was included in the committee materials and you can review it there and that is both that encompasses
071staff parents and a student so there is some interesting information in there I encourage you to consult that summary rather than going through it here in the meeting and then lastly under the topic of an update on strategic plan Dr Burke presented information about eCampus Charter enrollment part of which was discussed this evening in terms of the international components and that was the main Trust of that and I just want to make the sub note that those were very very preliminary rough numbers um enough the numbers are increasingly now and getting better and um Dr Natalia and I are working to uh sort those out um from a recommendation from planning to take a look at how many are you know new enrollments to the district how many were former Watertown students who decided to
072go to our eCampus how many are international and so on and we're going to try to do our best to export those out so you have a better picture of not just total enrollment but where those enrollments are coming from thank you committee members the Miss Thing on the Highlight uh just one thing uh on uh policy if I might add policy didn't meet this month however there is a meeting in October we already have a backlog and I say a backlog we have a list of policies to review if anybody here has any that you'd like to get added we'll put them on the list I can't say we're going to get to them October but I'd like to have a running total so if there's ones that you want to add please send
073me an email so that we're aware you know the committee members president when everything to what I said about planning all right okay any comments or questions on that report all right thank you then we will move on to the consent agenda which is resolution 9154 do I hear a motion on 9154 moved by Tina and seconded by Lori so the consent agenda includes our meeting minutes midi summaries Personnel Staffing that is both hiring and retirements and resignation the approval of bills and first and second readings of policies there are no first readings of policies but there are second readings of policies and you'll see these six that are listed there comments or questions on the motion hearing non-rokobo please yes Lori Holland yes Taylor Johnson yes David Schrader yes Dave Smith yes yes and
074the motion carries next is our resolution resolutions for this evening starting with resolution 9155 which is an agreement with the houstonsford school district do I have your emotion on 9155 second moved by Mike seconded right comments or questions on the motion this is for Cooperative Staffing agreement whereby we lend a little bit of time from one of our staff members to them specialized services please Mike Higgins yes Maury Helen yes Kayla Johnson yes David Schrader yes Dave Smith yes Craig Morgan yes yes and the motion carries next is resolution 9156 and this is our collective bargaining agreement for the 2022-2023 school year with our certified staff uh comments I'm sorry the motion please by Mike seconded by Diana Lori second I'm going to stay quiet today okay here's Gabe Grandma right I'm sure I heard
075you yeah I don't think I don't know that comments or questions on the motion hearing none will call both please my Kingman yes Laurie Holland yes Diana Johnson yes Tina Johnson yes David Trader yes Dave Smith yes Craig Wortman yes and the motion carries next is resolution 9157 which is our collective bargaining agreement with our clerical staff for the 2022-2023 school year do I hear emotional so move second by Craig sected by Mike comments or questions on the motion hearing non-roll Cobo please that's Lori Helen yes Diana Johnson yes Tina Johnson yes David Schroeder yes Dave Smith yes Craig Morton yes yes and the motion carries next is resolution 9158 which is our CPI adjustment for non-represented staff listed in the resolution do I hear a motion for me moved by Mike seconded by Lori
076comments or questions on the motion hearing none roll call vote please yes Lori Holland yes Diana Johnson yes Tina Johnson yes David Schroeder yes David Smith yes Craig Morton yes Tony Arnett yes and the motion carries next is resolution 9159 which is an agreement with TBS Telecom to allow them to place two cabinets on two of our facilities to enable laying of a fiber build out throughout the city do I hear a motion on 9159 second moved by Tina second by Craig so again this is just allowed to look at basically two by boxes on the corners of a couple of our properties we have the most convenient location they'll properly landscape them you won't notice it but it's gonna allow for the delivery of service to the city it's not here right now and
077we are getting paid for it um I just wanted to double check to make sure that I mean because the Douglas one happened to have a couple of locations indicated him was that um discuss with building um Building Maintenance um yes bill and I have talked and really is going to come down to a little bit where they need to access from what side better um but they gave us both locations because they just didn't want anybody to be surprised it will be one of the two locations we just don't know which one yet sure yeah essentially this takes the form of you granting utilities so the the resolution just says placement of cabinets where is there an agreement that we're agreeing to there is no uh posted agreement right now um we will if
078you agree that's essentially giving us the the time to work through making sure we write up the proper uh easement you know with our attorney and make sure it's all ready to go and we'll present it to them but the company needs to know are you intending to do this if not they have to try to move forward and look for other placements essentially when you say yes that means yes we're agreeing to it um but the final agreement will come when the signing of the contract happens but the contract amount is below what is required for board authorization right so I still thought it was important right the board weigh in on the topic so should it be Rewritten of allowing the administration to enter that contract it's approving the conceptual easement allowing the
079administration which is already covered by our policy any other comments or questions on the motion hearing manual Caldwell please Mike Higgins yes Lori Holland yes Diana Johnson yes Tina Johnson yes yes Dave Smith yes Craig Wortman yes Tony internet yes and the motion carriers next is resolution 9160 which is approving the selection of a construction manager for several AC projects do I hear a motion from approved by Mike do I hear a second second by Lori comments or questions on the motion again I would refer you to the fiscal management meeting materials which you could see all the various proposals that we received this one happens to qualify as lowest and best it's nice for those two things actually coincide right that's just there is no dollar outward play that'll come with a additional board
080approval that's correct in the future it says no up front action with this we were saying selecting them that is Purdue pro bono work for us to get because they're bidding out everything yeah yeah so the next course of action this is not money will not come to this project until we get to the pitting stage okay any other comments or questions on the motion hearing none walk over please my kidneys yes Diana Johnson yes Tina Johnson yes David Trader yes Dave Smith yes Craig Horton yes yes and the motion carries this brings us to the second part of our agenda for public comment if there's anyone in attendance you'd like to be recognized this time in person hello anyone online all right then I will entertain a motion to go into closed session for
081the reason stated in the agenda do I hear that motion by Mike the second by Tina how much are questions on the motion please Diana Johnson yes Tina Johnson yes David Trader yes Dave Smith yes yes and the motion carries we are in closed session all right [Music] the nation was not the top line and lots of Spotify all right video comments or questions on the motion yes and the motion carries uh and lastly it was remiss I skipped over Virginia so the numbers there's other things is to get here on a regular basis to see if there's things that you want raised for a future meeting that's necessarily the next meeting but a future meeting their topics like for the board full board discussion do we have anything for this evening again we'll do
082this every time now all right hearing none do I hear a motion to adjourn so moved second by Lori all those in favor signify by saying aye opposed did you share with them stand adjourned thank you wonderful thank you