001being the appointed informed presence i will go ahead and call this meeting to order get all please rise and join me i pledge states of allegiance and the new republic for which it stands [Music] thank you uh would you please call the role mike higgins here lori holland here diana johnson here tina johnson here david trader here david smith scott will here craig wartman here tony arnett here next preview the agenda we would like to make one change in the word items on the agenda and we'd like to bring forward under announcements and recognition the item for the wea member benefits foundation mental health challenge grants mr steve goldberg any objections should bring that forward okay then we're going to start right off with that i love starting a meeting where there's no objection are
002you rare uh yeah i'm steve goldberg from the wee member benefits foundation in madison and we've embarked on a pilot project to determine ways of attracting more private philanthropy to support school school-based mental health eventually in 421 school districts in wisconsin and the watertown unified school district has been selected as one of four pilot districts in this project so 417 districts did not get selected you did along with appleton racine and sun prairie and key reason was that we determined that this district really understands what it's doing when it comes to school-based mental health good track record multi-layered approach and uh you certainly understand the the immediate need for mental health support for your students it's a an unrestricted grant we're not telling you how to use it you're telling us how you're going to
003use it and we'll hear about that in just a minute from erin meyer but before i have her come up to join me um i also want you to know it's a challenge grant so we're challenging the community to raise the rest of the money and the amount of the money is thirty thousand dollars and we've also secured an additional five thousand dollars from one funder and twenty five hundred dollars more from another funder so uh that basically means that of the thirty thousand dollar challenge grant we've already helped you raise seventy five hundred that amount so that leaves 22-5 is that right okay help me out well you can raise more if you want that'd be fine we would not object um so before we actually take the photo and show off this gigantic
004check for thirty thousand dollars erin i wonder if you could tell the group how it's going to be used sure um so many of our efforts that will be supported by this generous donation from them is to carry out our universal supports in all of our buildings and continue to provide pd and support to our teachers and staff that are working with students with social emotional learning challenges or mental health needs we've started to put in place responsive classrooms restorative practices dialectical behavioral therapy trauma-sensitive schools and the funds are going to continue to help us establish what we're calling an sel coach in each of the buildings to support this work being done at every location that we have that's great so basically a train the trainer initiative to spread the social emotional learning skills
005and concept throughout all of your buildings which is great great so that's what you what the community would be supporting is doubling the thirty thousand dollars to sixty thousand and uh that would uh enable the staff to do even more um i want to mention a conversation i had with superintendent chug very early in this process we did not ask school districts to apply we went to them after identifying which ones we thought would be good prospects and one of the reasons we identified watertown is because we learned from kim melcher and others at the greater watertown community health foundation that they really value the relationship and the partnership that they have and that other resources in the mental health provider community in the greater watertown area have with your school district and that's essential
006to a successful approach to student mental health you can't possibly have a successful approach to student mental health just relying on school resources or just relying on community non-school resources both need to be at the table and cassandra also i'm sorry superintendent chug also helped me understand you can tell we got along really well most school district superintendents don't have a working knowledge of all the nuances and dynamics of the school-based mental health approach they rely on other staff members to understand those details well this superintendent did she's the first person i talked with and that gave me even more reason for picking um watertown as one of the four pallet districts a fourth or fifth reason kind of a footnote was since this is the birthplace of kindergarten in america and since this is
007a k-12 student initiative without watertown there'd be no cave in k-12 so we just thought it was poetic justice to include that so i wonder if superintendent chug if chairman tony if aaron and if kim melter from the greater watertown community health foundation could join me for the official photo of this wonderful check for thirty thousand dollars as a challenge grant to the watertown community to help the watertown school district fund school-based mental health mr chairman all of your employees pretend we like each other uh i'm going to stand right up here because we're going to move i got to get my paperwork and i just want to say thank you so much steve for making the trip out here we are so very grateful for the opportunity that this additional funding will provide we
008just found out today about this additional 7 500 that had been raised uh some fantastic news for us by fast commissioner district and we couldn't be more grateful for you reaching out to us and making us a part of this so thank you steve thanks for returning my call time i did think initially that the initial contact was a spam so i told him i didn't immediately return the call but now now we build a much better relationship thank you thank you all right we're going to move into our retiree recognitions [Music] assist back so i can't make a mistake [Laughter] all right all right all right retirees uh we are gonna read your description we do have some of the retirees aren't here tonight but we still will read their description because they also
009have put in many years of service here in the district uh so we will read that for our retirees who are here this evening we will read your description and president arnett will also read your resolution that will recognize your years of service so we're going to start with jill ash who isn't here with us this evening jill ash served our school community at douglas elementary as an instructional paraprofessional as an instructional para jill wore many hats at douglas supporting our youngest learners in the kindergarten classrooms leading reading and math groups in second grade working together with colleagues to provide an awesome recess experience for the douglas tigers mentoring new colleagues and jumping in to help with just about any need jill's commitment to supporting the students and teachers she worked with made an impact
010jill's sense of humor and fresh start to every day brought joy and lightheartedness to our douglas team and her cupcakes for every occasion and birthday are also going to be greatly missed our students and staff at douglas elementary miss mrs ash greatly we appreciate your years of service and commitment to making douglas a great school for every student and colleague from the very first day of kindergarten enjoy your retirement congratulations to jill ash harry coughlin is here this evening come on up terry right right here over here this is the hot spot this evening uh terry's showing you all how to do it uh terry coughlin has served watertown high school since 1998 in her role as an instructional support staff over the course of the last 24 years as a passionate educator during her
011time at watertown high school terry facilitated credit recovery to countless students supporting almost every subject area and helping students who struggled ultimately to earn their watertown high school diploma students who struggled to ultimately earn their high school diploma terry easily built relationships and could help even the most reluctant students see the value in their education when terry was involved with the gifted and talented program she organized and ran a very successful pioneer days event for fourth grade students at wusd for 10 years as fourth grade students learned about pioneers from the little house on the prairie book they were reading in class terry would team up with the whs us history students who would teach fourth graders about games arts crafts and village events knitting fire starting you name it that took place during the
012during the pioneer days terry also took on the role of ap coordinator a position that supported thousands of students receiving college credit through advanced placement courses during her time as ap coordinator the ap program at whs flourished to unprecedented levels resulting in watertown high school being recognized as an ap pacesetter school year time and time and again time and time again due to increasing participation and success on the ap exams ap teachers and students alike can attest the professionalism and the dedication terry put into her role terri will be dearly missed and we wish her all the best in the world the last ap box got sent today school board resolution whereas great falcon has served watertown unified school district for the past 24 years and whereas as an instructional paraprofessional she has demonstrated the
013highest level professional service in the best educational interests of the students entrusted to her now therefore be it resolved to the board of education of the watertown unified school district here by extending terry coughlin their sincere appreciation and best wishes on the occasion of her retirement wendy anglebreak amaleno that's right it's all alphabetical tonight so you know where you're falling riverside middle school was the place to be one of wendy's colleagues said for the past 12 years wendy and i were a t-a-m team together everyone achieves more wendy was the early riser and an rms always there well before students and staff arrived she liked to start her day prepared for anything and everything that might come her way and she did it all so well as the bookkeeper and athletic secretary wendy's job had
014many responsibilities regardless of the situation wendy always remained calm cool and collected she was meticulous everything was well thought out from soft-spoken conversations with students to full-blown emergencies wendy helped keep everyone in line and had patience for everyone and every obstacle a job well done wendy congratulations and you will be missed more resolution whereas wendy inglebreck has served the watertown unified school district for the past 26 years and whereas as an administrative assistant she demonstrated the highest level professional service in the best educational interests of the students entrusted to her now therefore be it resolved to the board of education the watertown unified school district hereby extend to wendy engelbrecht their sincere gratitude and best wishes on the occasion of the retirement gregory kelsey dr vitale must have written this because it has words in
015there like ubiquitous so you wish me luck as i as i go through this i practiced that one after 30 years as the network and i.t supervisor greg grukowski will be logging off from wusd and exploring new networks in the realm of the retired he came to wusd in 1992 which was which was amazingly the year before the world wide web launched into the public domain yes greg's networking career preceded ubiquitous public access to the internet through web browsers instead relying on [Laughter] that's first class nerd status when greg was hired the district had mere scores of computers and now as he prepares to step down wusd boasts over 3 500 devices an impressive 10 gbps network that puts the sum of human knowledge at the fingertips of our teachers and students greg takes great
016pride in the computer support services department and what they've been able to accomplish and much of that success is due to his amazing problem-solving skills and dedication to always trying to expand access and services on the network from instituting a local bbs in 1995 whatever that is i still tony said it i still don't know what it is with over 800 local users before social networking was cool to helping to build a wireless infrastructure that makes everything to do with technology possible greg's fingerprints are all over our future ready planning and his work will be felt for decades to come because of this foundation the past several years went much smoother for watertown than it did for countless districts across the state as covid reared its ugly head his strong problem-solving skills were invaluable and
017he will be sorely missed i am certain i speak for many when i say that we hope that greg and tammy enjoy this next stage in life and we sincerely thank him for his dedication and commitment to the staff and students of watertown these past 30 years award resolution whereas gregory gatkowski has served watertown unified school district for the past 30 years and whereas as a supervisor of information technology and networking he demonstrated the highest level professional service in the best educational interests of the students entrusted to him now therefore be resolved to the board of education in the watertown unified school district hereby extend to gregory gakowski their sincere appreciation and best wishes on the occasion of his retirement which i just add in the immortal words of general douglas proctor old programs never
018get delivered we didn't get to recognize kathy last year we're really glad she's back tonight for this recognition kathy has taught at concord sures lincoln lebanon the high school and webster her favorite moments were the great concerts holiday and veterans day programs webster idol might make the list they were enjoyed by so many school families she has presented at many music and technology conferences across the united states and internationally including presenting in switzerland and nova scotia she continues to speak at conferences during her retirement and she is really very well renowned in the field so we are so proud that she's out there representing watertown unified school district and has been throughout her years here she would like to thank the family for their support and encouragement and we would like to thank kathy for
019her many years of service and congratulate her on her retirement school board resolution whereas kathy hutchin has served watertown unified school district for the past 21 years and whereas as an educator she demonstrated the highest level professional service in the best educational interests of the students entrusted to her now therefore be resolved that the board of education and the watertown unified school district here by extend to caption their sincere appreciation and best wishes on the occasion of her retirement and terry munzel terry munzel has served watertown high school since 1991 in her role as a special education support staff over the course of the last 31 years as a passionate educator terri supported countless students with significant disabilities realized their potential at watertown high school terri easily built relationships with students and staff alike and
020she was known for doing whatever it takes to ensure her students found success whether it was playing games tutoring or having lunch with a student terry always found a way to make students smile and have fun while learning at the same time terry will also be forever loved for her colleagues and this is most important for her famous chocolate covered peanut butter clusters which she generously distributed around the holidays terry will be dearly missed and so will her peanut butter clusters we wish her all the best as she transitions to the world of retirement award resolution whereas terry munzel has served the watertown unified school district for the past 31 years and whereas as an instructional paraprofessional she demonstrated the highest level professional service in the best education interests of the students entrusted to her
021now therefore be resolved through the board of education and the watertown unified school district hereby extend terry munzel their sincere appreciation and best wishes on the occasion of her retirement nelson crystal nelson started her career working one year at st luke's hospital training students in healthy child development and running the infant center she worked two years at lincoln one year at douglas and 35 years at webster school the same room right there in the corner one of her favorite memories was spending hours creating hands-on reading spelling and writing lessons with mrs sweeney kerwin and then watching the children learn with smiles on their faces she would like to give a big shout out to all her volunteers over the years especially mr krieger she hopes that learning about the manners and joy of science continue
022to be a strong part of our students education crystal after all of these years of service we are going to miss you greatly and thank you so much for your service award resolution whereas krista nelson has served watertown unified school district for the past 38 years and whereas as an educator she demonstrated the highest level professional service in the best educational interests of the students entrusted to her now therefore be it resolved that the board of education and the watertown unified school district hereby extend to crystal nelson their sincere appreciation and best wishes on the occasion of her retirement 38 years we recognized crystal at the beginning of every school year as having the most service in our district yay crystal nelson retirement is much deserved for you lyndon neubert is not here with us
023today but i'll read her description linda has worked at douglas lincoln sher's concord and webster schools she feels very blessed that she was able to share webster school with six of her grandchildren she always enjoyed school announcements and shout outs on friday mornings linda is very kind and caring that she really is and she treats each student as if they were her own child she feels as though she has the very best job at the very best school [Applause] next we have jill oswald jill do you want to stay there do you want me to you're going to come up all right [Music] all right and here's tony is right here [Music] you did you made it the hard part is over jill started her speech career in watertown working part-time while also doing her
024student teaching two days a week she has spent most of her time working with the early childhood program helping the little ones to communicate she has worked at hall street school in the methodist church rms lincoln and the past 26 years at webster school her favorite memories are the many webster christmas programs she remembers how we would shuffle families in and out of the cafeteria so each grade level could perform she enjoyed helping the little ones sit on santa's lap for a picture she would like to thank the staff and families for all the help and support she has received being blind has led to many instances where she had needed some help and she would like to thank everyone for helping her to make her slp job a little bit easier the watertown unified
025school district is going to miss you a whole lot phil thank you for all of your years of service school board resolution whereas jill oswald has served the watertown unified school district for the past 31 years and whereas as a speech and language pathologist she has demonstrated the highest level professional service in the best education interests entrusted to her now therefore be it resolved the board of education and the watertown unified school district hereby extend to joe oswald their sincere appreciation and best wishes on the occasion of her retirement foreign lynn schultz is not here this evening the staff at riverside will miss win always the first one to arrive at work he goes about the business of taking care of the students staff and building with great pride and patience when when is a
026custodian at rms uh when you consider wind works daily with 713 year olds his patients becomes even more impressive whether it is an overnight call a gas leak a water main break or countless other opportunities to add act wind does so without complaint nothing seems to phase win except the idea of people making a big deal about his retirement we will miss you in hope your retirement is amazing and happy it is well deserved marilyn shoop is also not here with us this evening but we will read her description maryland committed 22 years of service to the wusd as a nutrition services employee before retiring in june of 2021. maryland joined our team in 1999 as a general assistant in cashier and eventually moved into a cook assisted position handling the ordering and shipping of
027produce to all five of our district elementary and seven private school sites in addition to preparing the salad bar and fresh produce for all of the daily meal lines at watertown high school maryland displayed a great work ethic and seldom missed a day of work she was always willing to assist others to ensure that meals to our students were provided in an efficient and timely manner she took great pride in the presentation of the produce that she prepared and was very intentional about only serving produce of the highest quality if it wasn't up to her standard it was not served thank you marilyn for always putting our students first and we also don't have deanie smith with us this evening deeney also is out at webster halls of webster uh deeney has worked as a
028special ed para at webster for 19 years deeney once said what a fascinating job working together with a team of people who truly care for the students by making their world and future better than the day before her favorite memories are always at the first day of school she loved the excitement from students and staff she feels blessed to have so many wonderful stories of friends from webster who became like family being from texas she said her she had her fair share of spankings from the principal in elementary school she says mr clark never could have made it in texas because his heart is way too kind deeney says my kids loved webster and the watertown school district just as much as i do i appreciate every person who touched their lives and there's so
029many of you thank you all and keep up the outstanding jobs each of you do you are all cherished as is deeney uh and we wish her well in her retirement all right we got three more this is always really bittersweet there's so much experience in this room this is this is this is a loss to the district this evening i hope you all know that reading these always uh always really reminds me of the wonderful veteran staff we have here and one of those individuals is uh timothy come on up mr souski before we start uh mr smith reminded me today that he was in my first class a freshman just the kind of reminder you wanted [Laughter] mr clark has arrived and now he doesn't know we were just talking about him so
030let's keep that on the down [Laughter] has served watertown high school since 1990. his contributions are endless and as a passionate educator in the classroom tim has taught government government and international relations to literally thousands of students over the course of his 32-year career even dave smith tim's storied career at watertown high school has also included coaching cheerleading jv golf and gymnastics he has also served as musical director and plans the annual staff golf outing he has also been a member of one of the most successful teams at the annual whs trivia night year after year did you guys win this time yes yeah even last year well yes yes and the year before that yeah on a personal level tim loves to spend time with his family including his wife pam who is here
031this evening and his two daughters samantha and michael he would always rather be outdoors and enjoys working on his lawn whenever there is a free moment he will be dearly missed and we wish him all of the best as he transitions into the world of retirement [Music] served the watertown unified school district for the past 32 years and whereas as an educator he demonstrated the highest level professional service and the best educational interests of the students entrusted to him now therefore be resolved for the board of education and the watertown unified school district hereby extends and to speak their sincere appreciation and best wishes on the occasion of his retirement okay she knew she was next she did the album come on up laurie wagner no process of listening yeah all right lori wagner began
032her teaching career in riverside in august of 1989 [Laughter] she has persevered through the many changes in technology at wusd have there been a few since 1989 just we began as an apple district then transitioned to pc and now google through it all she has dedicated herself to learning the new hardware and software to best serve her students she is always up for a new challenge including developing new classes many times over the year over the years as technology changes so does lori's content laurie has given her time in many ways to the students and staff of riverside she coached 6th grade girls basketball intramurals and was a student of council advisor for many years she co-founded rms cares an organization within rms and sponsored by the staff to assist students year round with school
033needs lori has been instrumental in promoting positive staff morale from organizing christmas gatherings snack days celebrating one day weddings new babies social outings end-of-the-year picnics and helping celebrate those who are retiring got a bridal shower on wednesday don't tell when there might be something coming through all of this lori has raised two amazing daughters and is now running grandma daycare for her three grandchildren lori is always willing to lend a hand or an ear to those who need help she has a positive outlook that is contagious we are extremely thankful for having been able to work alongside an amazing colleague and an amazing friend hope your retirement is as outstanding as you are school board resolution whereas lori wigner has served the watertown unified school district for the past 33 years and whereas as an
034educator she demonstrated the highest level professional service in the best educational interests of the students entrusted to her now therefore be resolved the board of education the watertown unified school district hereby extend to lori wagner their sincere appreciation and best wishes on the occasion of her retirement lana you know it's you donna is our last retiree of the unless did everything group my whole life no different donna started her teaching career in ashland wisconsin teaching regular in special education she taught split grades at concord elementary for 13 years covering grades two through five when concord school was closed she moved into webster she has always enjoyed the webster carnival even the year she made over 300 cotton candy sticks do you remember oh was i there did i eat the candy [Laughter] all right now
035i lost my place sorry that's quite all right that we should have highlighted that uh she worked with sue roth to plan many school-wide activities while leading our student council special teammates like crystal nelson kate rademacher megan down robin ratacay and joanne brownschweig made her work here in watertown such a pleasure donna feels lucky to have had great leadership examples such as sure put them all down brad clark i just included them [Laughter] brad clark andy bear and diane benner to work for during her years in watertown all three set high expectations but also allowed her freedom to make important decisions about her students and use the teaching style and creativity that kept teaching interesting and rewarding during a long career donna the halls of webster are going to miss you and so many wonderful
036people here this evening congratulations on your advice school board resolution whereas donald wilker has served watertown unified school district for the past 32 years and whereas as an educator she demonstrated the highest level of professional service in the best educational interests of the students entrusted to now there are four be resolved board of education and the watertown unified school district here by extend mcdonald for their sincere appreciation and best wishes on the occasion of the retirement [Music] this night every year is incredibly humbling uh tonight i think added up we're seeing more years experience than this country has been around and that is an amazing statement to make so thank you all very very much you try to keep them all right so do i hear motion on resolutions 9109 through nine one two three
037so move moved by david seconded by dave all those in favor signify by saying i i opposed the motion carries tyler's got the picture tyler has the picture donna [Music] okay next up is public input this is one of two times [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] one or two times the agenda which remembers the public may address the board if you were in person just raise your hand be recognized if you are online please use the raise your hand feature and we will call out your name before we turn your microphone on please just be give your name and address and be reached through comments does anyone like to be recognized please tracy finch west main street uh watertown wisconsin i want to ask what happened to policy 4133-5414 communicable diseases it used to be on the
038school's website but every way i try to search for the policy it's not visible anymore was the policy removed or is this in a different location a policy for communicable diseases and viruses is important because it drives for procedures and protocols allowing the school to protect the health and safety of students and staff without having a communicable diseases policy you're basically letting anyone do as they please by sending their kids off to school based on the information i see on the school's website at the at this moment and the only policy in place is the cold bid 19 or or have you been exposed to the virus the staff the student and staff member is not allowed to come to school so if you have something else like bronchitis chickenpox pink eyes strep throat etc
039parents are allowed to send their children to school because there is at this moment no policy for the communicable diseases to be found it's a disaster in the making basically add a policy for the communicable diseases and illness guideline this will include contagious viruses like covet and influenza there this will also have mitigation measures in case of sick infected students and staff go up with case having proved or even influenza meaning if cases go to a certain point those around affected will take proper protocols to each mitigation measures it's been one year since majority of parents wanted to get rid of the mass because there wasn't a single case within the school district but there was in the city and county last week was around 11 positive cova cases and left the week before that
040was around 20 cases why is this year so much more why is this year so much more than last year plainly as a number shows majority of families don't care about physical health but to have their children in school and the strain on classes being pulled this way and that way another thing is once you get this policy back into place absolutely no loopholes using may constantly use the words such as must or equivalent which referring to ex referring to exclude from students the school students suspected of having a communicable disease for example if someone was close to contact with someone who caught open there are tests to determine whether or not they are affected would you rather have a school where students who may have little to no symptoms spread to others and affect
041others no finally my last question is as a school district we we need to rethink the way mental health is addressed in schools just having support available for students and staff for mental health is not enough a student name a student may not want to go to help or feel embarrassment or feeling like a weak person seeking help if things go back to normal and a snowden looks fine they they are truly not those with mental health issues that have never dealt with will be buried underneath the surface and if some major event triggers it they will go through even harder times and not know how to deal with it in the future mental health need i believe mental health needs to be taught in the school curriculum from kindergarten through 12th grade so all
042students will know how to deal with mental health issues when it arises thank you anyone else here in person if i was anyone else thank you there will be another opportunity at the end of the meeting next up under announcements and recognition and communications we have our whf student board representative we do not know this this this individual is here taking notes for a class [Laughter] tyler we don't have our students online correct uh i don't believe so okay we have anything else under announcements and recognition or communication oh we do not disagree all right then the next item up is the first entertaining discussion and it is the discussion about esser funds so again a quick recap back in december the board set out broad funding goals regarding funds we then collected feedback from
043all corners of the community and coming back together in february we then found that the state had changed the game on so to speak in terms of the level reported necessary at the state level and so we had to recalibrate our process and bring forward a little bit faster the process we always intended to do which is more detailed planning about funding this board then kicked that off at the beginning of april where we set out a process that really had fallen components first at that meeting the board again reiterated their high level intent for the funding as well as offering specific ideas from board members handed off to the administration were tasked with creating a proposal for the board to review the key features that proposal were to be number one to present a
044list of options that exceeded the amount of money available so the board could make choices number two to shift more of the money toward the student success area than have been in our previous direction the administration worked on that brought back the proposal which we're going to see this evening you will see that it is in two halves one is the full list of options they presented to meet what the board asked them to do and then secondarily a subset of that that is their recommended choices from that list so i will hand it off again our goal here is to bring that back here in this meeting for us to review it with the intention of approving a plan at our dream meeting so it is not our intent necessary to act on it
045this evening the intent was we'll take approval in june material in advance all right um i know the board's had uh that isn't sure if that was uh i know the board has had uh some opportunity to do this at fiscal and in your board update i'm going to go through the first half pretty quickly because it's pretty familiar to you and i'll spend a little bit more time on the second half mr william said please feel free to uh add whatever detail you would like to as i go through this so you're going to need to get home uh we're going to go through this first part very quickly uh tyler so you are all aware of the elementary and secondary education act that allows us the opportunity or the elementary and secondary emergency
046education relief fund uh esser and that we've been awarded uh some funding uh to spend towards supporting uh those emergency financial assistance necessary uh due to the effects of coping 19. your clicker should work just a minute all right thank you uh this is always the smoothest part of the presentation uh cares dollars or sr1 was the first set of funding that we received those dollars have all been spent and those were primarily spent on online software hot spots desks barriers supplies to really get through that initial physical impact that covered 19 had on our environment as well as on our learning s are two dollars was the second round of funding that's 2.1 million dollars that we received and these were related to expenses and school facility repairs and projects to improve air quality
047and to identify long-term needs this funding some of these projects have already been completed critical hvac projects uh whs and webster and we also sent this on our rms literacy adoption as well as lexia renaissance mystery science and seesaw and covert related expenses including our health assistants building subs mental health which was that eap additional funding that uh is proposed is to continue our hvac work uh at rms and uh just continue with attract and retain and covered pte supplies and that will bring us to uh our total spending here with about 58 falling into the fiscal responsibility category 1.2 million and about 885 000 or 20 42 falling into that student success category and that brings us to sr3 which is the dollars that we really will be talking about this week uh the
048wusd has been uh allocated 4.7 million dollars 20 percent of those dollars must be allocated for learning loss as her three dollars may also be used for school facilities improvement and other covered 19 related expenses including maintenance of operations in that first category of student success so as tony noted uh we created many uh different uh possible items that we could use these dollars for all of which the administration felt would be effective and help us in terms of achieving student success some of these things you've already heard about like the math k-12 curriculum and some of these things may be newer as we worked through opportunities that we thought would really serve our students well as we look to support their learning moving forward some of these items offset funding that we would be
049spending anyway so for example example the replacement of the math k-12 curriculum adoption that's a process we would have gone through anyway it also falls under the sr3 in terms of supporting student learning and specifically accelerating any learning that we know is necessary in that math area as we continue through our curriculum adoption cycle additional pieces in student success you can see here our support for sites each of our sites receive survey feedback from parents and from students and these are some possible ways that they could utilize that funding support for sel and mental health support for staff and additional opportunities for example a k-8 pilot that was raised by the board so from those options uh the administration came up with 48 2 million 250 000 under student success that we would recommend uh
050so that math adoption a limited term advanced learner coordinator that would allow the advanced learner coordinator to work with the district over the course of two years during that time really evaluating our curriculum and curriculum support needs and determining a plan and pathway for the future and to support that curriculum support materials this is also our english learners curriculum support materials and then ela science and social studies curriculum we know we have the 9 12 ela curriculum that we will be looking at next school year so this would support that and we know after we look at math science and social studies is next on the docket so because we have until september of 2024 we anticipate needing to make some level of adoption in that time and these funds would help us support that
051so can you just scroll down just a little bit there thank you um so the total administrative recommendation is 1.97 million dollars the total that we proposed that is is in the entire list from which you could choose is 4.3 million uh and our team could have kept on going uh we have many needs and i can certainly continue that list after we make our recommendation if the board were to adopt that there would be 280 000 uh that you could pull from that other list or again certainly you could mix and match other items as you stop it so questions about student success i would just i would just say yeah these dollar amounts are not gospel some of them yes thank you lists that have been created like support materials for ell curriculum
052we have a very specific list and we know it's about 100 the math adoption kind of just based that off of the six to wave literacy adoption that we just had and expanded they'll decay through 12 and more or less fall apart that so as we think about items that we want to continue on with obviously understand will be a refining process in that dollar amount and it may come in less and then we're moving down the list or handling other items as they pop up for the next two two and a half years just board i'd like to suggest the following to help us move through this at this point in time just do questions to get a question about what something is or why it's there and then once they're done then we
053as a board talk about what we liked what we didn't like what we want to see how do you see the limited term of the advanced learner portion of that plan so we would anticipate hiring someone uh to come in and essentially do an audit of the programming that we have in place and then help us make recommendations for what that programming should look like in the future and really spend that two years uh doing that audit getting the support materials in place making sure that the plan is one that is sound and one that will take us into the future at that point it will really be uh incumbent upon the board uh and the new superintendent to make a decision on if this is a position that is necessary for the long term
054or if this uh position in doing that uh systems thinking and that structural support will be able to be supported by our existing staff for distributing the leadership consultant or do you see it as a staff member i see it as a staff member but potentially working for example with csr to help us to do an audit uh to help us to really evaluate and look at the program and programming that we have available but i see us hiring someone i anticipate us posting this position and perhaps someone internal would be interested in this and stepping in to take us through that process over the next two years with that audit that you're describing um sometimes that's done at the dpi level so i'm wondering how that would differ and secondly you just mentioned that
055it would possibly be someone from within the district we currently don't have anyone that is trained and gifted and talented so i guess i would wonder um who the best person for that job would be obviously not naming somebody but someone that would be qualified yeah and i don't have a staff member in mind uh so i'm not saying i have somebody you know up my sleeve that i would say this is going to be the person to lead us through this process i think we post the position we see who uh who has got an interest in this clearly a certification and or working towards a certification that's going to make that individual more qualified dpi can assist in an audit seasick and assist in an audit um there's a lot of options and
056opportunities uh i'm only posing that because if we're looking at a product you don't have to pay a dpi right to do this if we're looking to audit that yeah you know if that's the purpose of that there might be a different means if that was the goal okay uh i was just curious in the rationale i see that there was a the limited term math technology coach why also did we not consider that as a possibility um and over this particular one or can you fill me in on that yeah i can well first of all you know these were really hard choices to make we wanted to lead some opportunity for the board uh to make some decisions in terms of what they felt was the highest level of priority and in seeking
057out feedback we heard pretty consistently from the board but also from our other stakeholder groups that advanced learning was an area that we really wanted to target i think if you ask our elementary principals they feel pretty strongly that that math and technology coach would be a really strong addition uh as well so that is definitely something we had some conversations about uh craig is we tried to determine uh what areas to prioritize so really good question um okay so i'm just kind of trying to like understand this bar is like the ability so on slide 10. so slide 10 we've got you know addressing learning loss among students and that kind of thing and so under that we've got administering and using high quality assessments that are valid and reliable you know in that
058building and so what i'm wondering is tina i'm sorry i'm i'm on slide 10 but it does not matter what you're telling me are you looking at the side this listing curriculum and curriculum supports that it's that first bullet point that small print oh yeah you are looking at my tent but thank you i'm sorry you're referring to all this no that's okay um so when i see that and and i don't know if i'm looking at this the right way or not but when i see that i'm thinking of like okay so we have the star you know assessment and when we take a look at that i know that um you know let's say you know if whatever a student scores on that then there is also like the subset learning part of
059it says okay the student if i score 98 down there okay and then it says oh okay i'm ready for you know these next level of skills to be taught but maybe that's not what's being taught in my classroom let's say i'm in fifth grade and um i wish my favorite math skills are probably um and so i know in the past it's been a struggle as far as having staff professional development to understand that tool and to know what what is available but then also to take that piece that and implement it so that that child has you know that learning and so i know that that's you know one of the struggles and i'm sure it happens at you know whatever level it is um i just happen to have experience with that
060number or that that level there and so is pd a part of those kinds of things or is that kind of what like this is talking about or how how does that work i think well first of all i think there's definitely a role for the advanced learner coordinator in terms of interpreting especially somebody that would be at the 98 or 99 percentile about what is that next set of skills and how is it that you are going to work with the individual or individuals in your classroom that are really needing that next set of skill development so that would certainly be very appropriate um what you're seeing here is really the description of how the esser dollars could be spent so this is some of the language that we're sharing about how it could
061be spent could we do some additional pd around star i think so absolutely uh that's not necessarily an item we specifically pulled out as a recommendation that we would make but that would be something that i think our instructional coaches could help with and certainly an advanced learning coordinator could help with uh principles did you want to share any other insights on that three or four of them are at the 92nd percentile or higher that should happen enough but it should lead to things for that start of that process if your question uh is also sort of as we adopt these curriculums will that be part of the pd and part of the development i think that that is definitely the case so if that is your question tina that is definitely the case um
062each of these will involve pd as we adopt them and how we're going to assess and evaluate them as we move forward okay thank you other questions from board members at this point can we go through make sure well i would have i would just talk about the math the both of the curriculums the math and the science we have 900 and 750 000 but those are estimates so correct i mean could that be 700 and 550 so when would we know what goals i actually are so that would determine what other options yes absolutely uh so we would know more now as you know we're gonna begin that math uh curriculum study going into next year they should have something identified at midway through the year uh and then we will be doing a
063pilot in that second part of that year and that's about what we would have uh some pretty good idea of what the spend would be on those pieces so then at that point do we have to reclassify the state with maybe we've made some shifts in our plan because does that trigger a classification and we can do that as often as we need to right now we're just putting things into the categories that we anticipate doing the spending in um and once we have that done you know we're not going to just you know oh it's in our essar plan now we have a 900 000 curriculum that's still going to be brought to the boards for approval and as we need to make adjustments we're certainly going to be bringing those adjustments to the
064board throughout the process as well so in approving this plan you are not approving the spend on anything that is all going to come to the board separately and be adopted and adapted and changed as as is necessary and appropriate good question thank you lord can you go back up to slide eight because i think we're kind of breezing past that as there's decisions there as well correct yes there are decisions the dollars in slides seven six on up have basically been committed and spent but these are new proposals correct these are um the rms gym air conditioning and the air quality and rms which is uh cleaning up that tech head space are both highly appropriate for that sr2 but again those are the things that we would bring to you for approval they're
065not um in the context of that discussion for today so we don't need uh that approval on those particular items but those would all come through fiscal for uh further discussion so all we have to prove today is they're all we're all we're working towards improving today is three we're not really talking about one and two that's correct we're working towards what is the document we're going to submit to the state at the end of june for the spending of the s p which is any other questions before i go into the next bucket as uh tony has raised it yeah it just says science and social studies that would be the following year so now you would be bumping up pretty tight to uh september of 24 deadline spend hours so maybe midway through
066the 2324 spring of 24 we might get reported this a hard number on the science of social studies ready to act relatively quick it only comes to it's a hundred thousand dollars [Laughter] which is fiscal responsibility and here we've got 43 of the funds and that's just over uh 2 million dollars as you can see um uh here is again the comprehensive list that we're bringing to you of uh what it is that we came forward with here so the hvac which is the sures air conditioning with douglas air conditioning and the webster cafeteria air conditioning and then the capital projects slash maintenance needs robotic floor cleaners douglas early learning model and the community wi-fi and really that's a poor scrubber just overall it's not like high robots mike is a big advocate for the
067uh robotic scrubbers even though it did not make the list he is [Music] uh so the administrative recommendation is the douglas air conditioning and the shur's air conditioning these are high cost items um but we also know that uh these now are probably a year old and you're probably not talking two again maybe you bit everything out it comes in around that but it is it is we do know that when the buildings initially went to wrap around them they were equipped uh so that they could make the transition into air conditioning those of you that were in the community uh when uh superintendent kaiser was here the intention was to go to a phase two of that uh referendum and part of the intentionality there was to do the air conditioning at that time
068that did not come to fruition because we had the recession and we also wound up with declining enrollments so the picture really changed uh we did go to a phase two referendum but it was a much smaller dollar amount uh and in that referendum as you may recall we did do air conditioning at lincoln these are items that really we would need to likely go to referendum for um if they were not something that we were going to cover in the esser funding which is why we think the need is high uh we also think that the need is high because so many of our other uh surrounding districts do have air conditioning at this level and we know that there's a great deal of discomfort for our students and for our staff uh during
069these days when they are teaching uh in the beginning of august when staff are here working and then uh throughout august and all uh september as well as now towards the end of the school year uh so we are proposing just those two uh obviously they are big dollar amounts so they come up to that 1.7 million um our total proposal is 2.2 million after that um will be another 273 uh that the board could discuss i would just again highlight here if the board were to decide that this is where they wanted to distribute those dollars uh this just goes into that dpi level document we would still be bringing all the costing forward and you would still ultimately be voting on if you were going to actually move forward with that air conditioning
070or not so you're not making a commitment to air conditioning at this point but it would facilitate us beginning the process getting the bids any questions on that diana with douglas insurers if they are air conditioned are we all now air conditioned do we have any other schools remaining because leap does remain on air conditioned um it doesn't reach the same levels of heat that we see at uh shers and at douglas but we would have some options out of leave as well to look more like window air conditioners or something like that we also have the webster cafeteria that remains unair conditioned and the rms gym that remains on the air conditioned the rms jim is in that sr2 proposal so that would be covered and the wn the webster cafeteria is also listed
071in these recommendations but he did not use that as the highest level so you hit on my follow-up question would be would window air conditions help to make sure that all student learning environments are then yeah um and i think we could do that at a much much cheaper cost uh if we were going to make that transition at least absolutely other questions so i'm taking a look okay air conditioning i get i get it i've been at douglas when you're with fourth and fifth graders and it's hot and it's sweaty and it's smelling um you know and all those kinds of things and so i'm just kind of like trying to you know like process through like it's obviously a very large price tag um do we know like i know lincoln has lincoln
072is all air conditioned and things like that do we know how many days in a typical year the air conditioning goes on like we have tried to get that number mike did you want to speak a little bit i know air went on so even a day like today that it's comfortable outside lincoln air kick down whether you had it off completely and it would become uncomfortable i don't know so we've had a psi which is performance services uh they came out last year and they gave an estimate for us how many times it would turn on throughout the year they used 55 degrees outside and like sun as their barometer except with that as a barometer it would kick out 81 times during the school year however how many those times are absolutely necessary
073how many of those times is a major difference that thank god we had air conditioning on a 55 and sunny day i'm sure that you'll be a different story at douglas with windows or kidnapped but we don't have a good number of how many how many classrooms in a school in a year are really effective with like this was a miserable bank can i hear there's a difference between kicking on and it being like oh boy this was really hard to learn i mean life isn't life is an air conditioner we all get we all have faith that are does are there plans over the summer for the use of these buildings douglas insurers going forward we don't use uh douglas insurers right now for summer school because they are not air conditioned uh when
074we did have uh colbin we did utilize sures uh we spread out uh in as many buildings as possible so we did utilize uh sures at that point we have rented out our spaces in the past uh so we uh at the ymca uh rent out uh sure school and they may well do so again uh and there are other activities that may take place there over the summer so yes those places are used over the summer would they be used more if they were air conditioned likely yes especially because they're larger spaces but all of our sites get used in a variety of times over the summer and over the course of the year right so michael i don't know if this is going to be for mike or or cassandra has anybody done
075any studies on what kind of damage is being done by not having air conditioning the sweating pipes the you know sweating force things like that it's got and we do know that we get dampness uh especially at douglas this year we have damn messengers we know we have had students and staff slip and fall with that humidity that is collecting uh and there's absolutely no doubt that it's creating creating some level of damage from the simple dampness that's in the air and the impact that that has on all of our systems uh including our technology so you mentioned about use during the summer if the schools aren't used would the air conditioner be running or would the whole school be shut down or is it going to run well you're going to have some staff
076in the custodial staff maintenance staff obviously getting the schools ready for the summer i'm not going to put it on 66. whistle it's not going to happen 666 as you're working at 2pm over the summer with probably you know a pre-7 a.m slight run-up to get the building ready not during peak hours i mean we can manage that however we want to manage it higher other questions on this group and then the final bucket is enrollment world uh and here we put 10 of [Music] the total amount which is 450 000 um here we have network infrastructure a comprehensive marketing campaign that we know we've had a lot of discussion around with uh ecampus um an overall investment in the ecampus program and additional learning uh that occurs there and some examples of what that
077looks like in terms of in terms of devices the administration recommended priority here is the network infrastructure uh dr vitale do you want to speak to that at all uh well it's a topic that's come up on a couple of occasions um the january educational services committee meeting we did a run-through of our current hardware the network hardware that supports wireless communications for example uh it is um end of life it's uh roughly 10 to 11 years old and so i brought this to the board a couple of years ago and have since been patching things together so it's really time to address that need i know the esser survey results from students i believe that mike conducted a while ago suggested too that there's some connectivity issues here in this building that could be
078addressed with the wireless controller upgrades and then the uh the network hardware the consolidation of our servers is going to allow us to more safely secure our data at resting and transmission and guard against uh cyber security threats and those kind of things we have a lot of servers here older servers that we're consolidating part of this it's the second part of that point so it serves everybody so every student every faculty member every building in the district is supported by these upgrades uh this is the only item that we prioritized in this area um with the thinking that it was very necessary and also for thinking that this is something that we are going to need to invest in uh regardless so again this is an offsetting um items this is a proposal tonight
079so we did not that you have to say it's necessary or not that that doesn't matter right now but we feel like this is a priority enough that regardless of the funding source it is a resolution tonight to get done this summer and then it falls uh conveniently also under bills that's three dollars and uh supports that enrollment for by spending this hundred thousand dollars how are we going to grow in our world well we felt that part of what we've been really working on in that enrollment growth as an emphasis on campus and expanding our ability uh to really uh have the technology and support necessary to run as effective in the campus program as possible so we saw this investment as really supporting campus in addition to the support of the district as
080well could it fall under a different category like this for responsibility yes i think it could but that's why we put it here under under enrollment growth we certainly think that you know there's needs in the ecampus digital learning market and we know that we're still our digital learning investment and we know we're still investigating what that marketing campaign might look like um which is why we really prioritize to only the network infrastructure at this point any other questions on this in the 400 000 in the ecampus and digital alerting investment not the recommendation of the board or of the admin or priority is there a driving it's 300 000 of that something or kind of a long list of stuff there i've got to get it scoped john i think it's a combination of
081things that we've discussed at various points in the past i mean when we started this conversation around strategic planning and ensuring that there's a our human resources infrastructure is in place to support an influx of students coming to us so we wouldn't have a bottleneck with enrollments if it were to transpire or launch this marketing campaign or get you know several dozen students for their window uh the other piece dave is just this this notion of the marketing campaign comprehensive marketing campaign i think that would consume many of those dollars if the board were to move forward with that they're going to uh sort of a holding pattern at the moment um at the last educational services committee meeting we discussed this idea of a market research study to get a better gauge of the
082students that are you know presumably available to us as potential online enrollments and then the competitive landscape that's changed considerably since the campus was launched as a formal charter school that the board authorized in 2020 so i reached out to the applied population laboratory uh they're taking more you know projection work they did give me some leads and some research entities that could perhaps help gather some better information about the market but that remains to be seen so we had questions on this group at this time yes okay i'm sorry i don't know if my question is in this category or not um maybe not specific to enrollment growth but let's say um i know we have a certain percentage of um dollars allocated to oh what is it student success and a certain percentage
083allocated to the other bucket um if can we change those percentages do you have that ability okay so if we found something like in one bucket where there was leftover you know or something like that we found something in the student services bucket that was a higher priority we could we could change those things around okay great thanks that is the end of my part is a presentation i asked one quick question [Music] am i hearing correctly that we don't really have a plan to set forth at this time it's kind of down the road yet students would be coming to us via ecampus starting that thought process in july in august so we're missing the window of opportunity for this year am i correct and really we'd be looking more toward the following school
084year i think that's pretty accurate we met with the marketing committee i have been sort of working on this over the last several months uh and just haven't felt confident in the match at this point and uh that the market was really there and that the investment really matched what it is we felt we could do so i would say that the market research is the next step and really you're probably projecting out to next year good question then we can transition our board discussion to talk about the numerics of what you have heard what you like what you might have concerns about what other ideas you may have initially from a high level just in the charge that we gave the administration and staff i think they did a very good job of following
085what we asked for we wanted more ideas than we had money for and that's exactly what they've done so for cassandra and those who you've worked on this with i appreciate you sticking to that charge and putting together a uh what is it our goals are exceed our grasp whatever that phrase is so we know we can't get it all so this is a good start on what we can attempt to get so uh thanks to address next that's for general comments general or specific um air conditioning as someone who's taught in an unair conditioned room for 10 years when those temperatures go up and your room is at 90 degrees one day you've got to remember the longitudinal timing of that it's going to stay there for multiple days unless you have the windows
086open at night and it's 50 degrees at night where it gives that time to cool down so imagine for a moment a third grader coming in to a 78 degree room at 7 30 in the morning they then have recess gym class the school building gets to be 95 and now they gotta learn i know that as a teacher i have asked board members to come fully dressed in your business attire that you typically would and sit through eight hours of that i'm not even saying go to play recess and do whatever i'm saying just sit through it it's hard and then you do that five days in a row and then you go home maybe to a house that doesn't have air conditioning so although it looks like a big chunk of change i
087think it's very very much worth it um just for the learners because that is their safe space and we ask a lot of the teachers of what they need to do i think we need to give teachers and students the ability to do what they can to make the best for those kids i would just like to jump on your bandwagon i i love every one of my kids wholeheartedly right and i would not want to be in a room for eight hours with any one of them at 90 degrees during the summer so i can understand where you're coming from right i i often hear the argument that we didn't have air conditioning when i was a kid well back when we were in grade school we had chalkboards we had marker boards we
088didn't have projectors that are mounted on ceilings that get extremely hot we don't we didn't have smart boards that also get hot and overheat and cut out in the middle of class disrupting our class time we don't have we we have staff that wants to be able to get in their classroom at the beginning of the year and to be productive they don't have a very long period of time to get that done and it's usually a hot time of the school year you know it's trying to set up their classrooms there are safety concerns when it comes to um water and condensation which i'm concerned about we don't need our staff getting hurt we don't need mold issues we don't need kids getting hurt i find some of the um concerns that people have
089brought forward very valid so yeah i i kind of i i do support the use of air conditioning these buildings motherboard comments on any aspect i would like to see something um i would maybe even under enrollments um helping with the douglas 4k and the early learning upgrades um that's keith we're going to be bringing that would be an enrollments topic i think different that's where they start so i think that needs to be looked into a little bit more i don't know how much we is that a solid what was it 150 or i don't know and they gave us a wide range of numbers to get that 4k area right that says bathrooms that's furnishing so there's a range of about 120 all the way to three 325 and so you could do
090as much or as little in those spaces to make those better you talked about having that the back hallway of double stream we have early learners double dooring that off so it's kind of like their area with bathrooms in the rooms and there's less waste of time that's happening kids down the hall so i would like to see that a bit more priority i think that student success and enrollment is just enough maybe we don't change it now it's something on guard i'm saying that that would be like a first item no i think extra money or right now no because i do think we need to do the the networking that i i know that needs to be done i'm just adding that in that i don't see that as a priority and i
091i don't know what everybody's thinking i feel like that's a little bit of a priority um and my only other concern do you want us to just keep going or do we want to be talking about topic okay um i know we didn't really separate the 20 learning loss and when the esser funds if you even just look at western pharmacists for speaking the academic social emotional needs um and the impacts of the low-income special needs english language and i know we are trying to do a lot of curriculum and i think that that is obviously huge we have to be on top of that it's a little shocked that we are like doing the full overhaul almost um i think that's going to take a lot of work it's going to take a little
092bit longer than then we may i think there's a lot of things we should be doing i don't have specifics but we haven't really had a chance to talk much um but you know i mean even the social studies and science if we're talking two years two years kids not they're not affecting their learning laws if that is what this is about um there's nothing in here for social emotional needs there's not um not smoking for special needs so i'm just i know it's hard we can't do it all i can get that i know there's a lot we would like to do i just got to be a little bit more by now and we're pretty far into this and we basically have three items the curriculum the network and okay you know um
093i guess i'm taking a look at the sr3 for the student services as far as the administration recommendations um i i love that we're looking at curriculum because i you know like i know the ela curriculum for you know riverside was overdue you know things like that so i appreciate that you know we're gonna be you know good stewards of funding and we have this window and things like that um two things number one um i don't know exactly like what grades you know all of those cover um but i guess when i see all of this i'm grateful for it and i'm glad that we're assessing it but i think we also need to take a look at what is our ability to implement all of this um because if we're looking at i'm
094thinking of like elementary teachers that probably teach all four of the subjects and if i'm looking at like oh my gosh i have all new you know reading curriculum and math and social studies and science what really is our ability to be successful at implementing the curriculum i mean it's one thing to have it but is it going to do you know what we wanted to do that kind of thing i guess i would really that was just one thing that i wanted to bring up um the second thing that i wanted to bring up is that i really appreciate um the responsiveness to our concerns as far as for the advanced learners and the needs that they have that are being met i really do appreciate you know you guys listening to that and
095incorporating this and things like that so thank you and i would i would just speak to the backup we've talked a lot about exactly what you're talking about in terms of um you know math if we do make a full map adoption then we change for example everyday math which is something that we've been practicing for the past eight years longer but that will be a really heavy lift and that also transitioning science and social studies in the following years is going to be a really big challenge at the elementary we also have pushed off the science and the social studies uh for many years it was a part of our literacy plan uh we'd hope to be looking at it now because we know that there's overlap between that science and social studies and
096the implementation of that ela curriculum we absolutely hear that we share some of your concerns we also think there's some urgency in in addressing that need because it's been unaddressed for uh for a while it always gets pushed back as we're focusing on literacy and then math and then you come back around the literacy and you come back around to math uh and that's really why we kept that in there thinking if the very least needs to look at and it's not necessarily the same level of an adoption that you're going to see in literacy and math it's more about supplemental materials than about a whole way of doing something so i don't know if any of the principals wanted to speak to that but i would just say we hear and appreciate that and
097i hear someone saying that that's enough but upset so i will i will stop but uh we do here and appreciate that and we do think that it's a slightly different adoption okay i um you know if you consider curriculum something that you would typically plan for and put in a budget it awfully it awfully looks like we have one bucket of nearly four million dollars especially when we're talking about uh infrastructure improvements from that's in the enrollment growth bucket but that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with enrollment growth it would make sense to me if we're going to talk about enrollment growth to have marketed dollars be used in enrollment girls i am concerned that we are allocating nearly two million dollars to curriculum over that actually when you figure other us or
098dollars right and fast forward down into the future year seven through 10 20 20 um to 2034. now we have a situation where we could potentially be requesting a referendum just to replace curriculum i'm concerned about that i i don't know if that's responsible because it would all be coming yes and i think that when we put forth curriculum i'm not saying that it's not needed but i'm i'm i'm concerned that it sends the wrong message i think that um those are things to plan and usually the pilot process takes some time our kids needed the use of these dollars and they could have been used all last year they needed these dollars yesterday and we're talking potentially another delay in that process by which we can focus on learning acceleration if we're using curriculum
099dollars this money for curriculum i uh i i guess i'm really concerned about that i lost my train of thought air conditioning some some temporary advanced learning i don't disagree that teaching and learning on those days that when it's nasty is horrible but those are not the majority of the days of the minority of the things you see is we're talking about spending over 40 percent of our dollars on air conditioning set it up saying the last referendum that was thought to be the next it feels like a referendum it doesn't feel like yes sir i understand we can they can qualify for that it doesn't it doesn't uh the six areas of concentration from the dpi are i've got to put air conditioning units into that of repairing and responding to covet addressing long-term
100school closures addressing after school and summer school learning education technology outreach and service delivery through special populations mental health service and support i'm not i'm not i'm not feeling ac but yeah i don't want to say that it's not something we should consider it just doesn't feel like it belongs as though we were talking about spending a hundred thousand dollars on it talking about spending two million dollars on it and now that just put it in that didn't maintain it that didn't operate it that didn't it we're also stepping into additional costs in the district keep it going doesn't doesn't feel like yesterday i i agree with the technology portion and i'll come back later i think that it doesn't feel like it's really in the right bucket but i believe that it is needed
101in this i appreciate the thought around the advanced learner i really really struggled with it being a temporary um something that kind of is tina and jason were dialoguing with it earlier they came out of it to me and tina is really appreciative of the advanced advanced learner i'm much more of a person that wants to say what about the 80 of the kids that are just good students and that we need to continue to engage and raise that rigor of them um versus that one percent or the 20 that we seem to be concentrating on in our recent history um talk about the star assessment well we do a little bit of pd about that but it seems like it's like well we kind of understand what to do with it and we can
102realize that well i've identified tina in my class she needs something more but then we just kind of identify it we don't follow through with what is that rigor for that student at every student at every level so it feels to me like we need something to take and and actually implement that we have learning we want we want to accelerate learning that's with rigor and engagement of that kid that's saying that tin needs something different than mike than i do and we need to have that individualized program that's there we seem to be struggling i think we know that we're train around it but i don't feel that we deploy it at the end of that and i don't know that just putting a temporary person there moves that needle i mean we had
103staff whenever it was four or five years ago around advanced learning we had dedicated staff haven't seen successes there in either like i think the problem when i struggle and i think what you're trying to say is this is kobit related right this is the opera and i know it's an opportunity it's a great opportunity of money but it's based off of colvis what has coven done to impact our kids we could all go on and on and on and we don't have one quick fix for that but air conditioning was an issue whether we had covered in that and it's hard because i would love to use this opportunity put it towards erika she seems like great opportunity but there is a struggle doesn't mean we don't want air conditioning for these kids but
104air conditioning was a problem before covet curriculum you said it's a regular budgeted this is something we should be doing i feel like this is okay so we're going to use it for esser the network to me this is officially responsible this doesn't hit the six items and i'm not saying we shouldn't be fiscally responsible i'm not saying that but we're missing a lot and i'm disappointed that we're this far in and we really don't even have anything in effect for maybe what two years by ten curriculum is piloted researched and i would hope it would take some time if you don't spend two million dollars quickly on just some quick withdrawal you know what i'm saying i do i understand exactly and and there's no doubt if you're spending it in those curriculum buckets
105you are pushing some of those pieces out uh we tried to sort of balance uh thinking about you know anticipating our physical blip and thinking about some of the things that uh we could uh take out of some of that spending um and still would address the really strong learning needs of our kids um so that was part of the thinking there but i i certainly understand what you're saying um and you know there's certainly put in the classrooms more quickly yeah i think i think what i was trying to say lori is that i'm i'm okay spending dollars that are fiscally wise on things that we know wholeheartedly we need to look at math curriculum we need to probably spend some dollars there i am wholeheartedly good with that right i'm good with even
106saying we needed to replace the cooler here we had a cooler it's not working we need to replace it i'm not good with saying and i'm and i'm looking for and not seeing them here's an innovative thing that's going to really move the needle on the impact that covet had on the on just our test scores and our performance in general not being where we wanted to it's going to substantially move that impact i'm looking for that and not seeing that and i'm seeing things that are stretches of a wish list of things that are great like ac of saying it would be great but it's not it's a level removed from where i want to be right i i do i i'm actually with you 100 percent on on a lot of the student
107success piece i think that there's uh there's definitely um i i do think that it needs to be more diversified so we're spreading off that you know those dollars over the course of many different areas within our district that can be um influential and make a difference um under the student success or where i'm lost is the the uh the part about the air conditioning i've evolved a little bit on this but i do feel that the the spirit of esser funds was also for the federal government federal tax dollars being used used to help ease the strain on our local tax base in a time of need and um these referendums have failed in the past when it comes to air conditioning in our in our buildings and here's a chance to finish the
108job that the taxpayers have decided to invest a significant amount of money in these buildings i feel that going forward that it is the right fiscal decision because it's not going to be any less expensive to put air conditioning in these buildings it's going to be more expensive going forward in the future i don't see a need to kick the can down the road i i see that you know the plans the intentions are always there and another referendum in that particular area might fail but because our tax base is strained they want to see us utilize this money appropriately and air conditioning is probably an inevitability at some point here's an opportunity to help out our local tax base with that obligation on those really hot days learning loss does occur and so as
109i look at esther funds and i'm late coming to the party i don't have all the same background that many of you do um but i looked at this as a proposal in terms of learning loss and how do we advance learning for kids in general and while the air conditioning does not directly address covid i looked at it as a broader scale to say okay it's hitting a large population of kids on a lot of different levels so i appreciate and understand where you all are coming from i just took it from a different lens right wrong or in between i was one of the first to say just like you did david this is what it said esther was from the get-go this is where it should be falling into that but was
110there a little more wiggle room that came down the plate as time went on it wasn't held as tightly that kind of opened up if i wasn't mistaken a little bit so i kind of went with a broader scope the same coming with the curriculum adoptions at first i went why in the world are we spending so much on curriculum and then okay how old is some of this when does it need to come through the cycle um some of it comes to an implementation piece and again if it can address all different levels like they didn't have the special needs it didn't have that but a lot of the newer curriculums do have the scaffolding where it's got the lower level the higher level how do you meet those things so it's making that
111that much easier for teachers i do agree with you tina that trying to do that wham bam thank you man in one shot for the elementary teachers especially that oh my gosh this is going to be hard but then i trusted the elementary administrators wouldn't have put that onto the cycle if they didn't feel so i'm trusting the elementary administrators wouldn't have put their teachers through that and wouldn't have said hey i think our teachers can handle this if they couldn't have done that so as a little bit reluctant as i am to say oh wow we have all these curriculum things in the next two to three years how much i'll just talk math for example i don't know if there will really be k through 12 all needing math textbooks at the same
112time same thing is that really realistic i'm a little disappointed in that the studies haven't really is there preliminary studies and stuff done don't know i don't have but i'm new so i don't know if that just hasn't been there yet again coming late to the party is kind of hard um but i am trusting him at one point but i'm also questioning myself i want to make sure everybody's heard well i hear you know about you know leading things off the table you know we could believe 1.6 million 2 million air conditioning but i didn't hear any proposals or any ideas of what can we add that would make up too much your homework so you want us to spend online and would you pick any of the other items that are in that
113list rather than the air conditioning and the curriculum i hear you know we shouldn't do this or [Laughter] in june allocate of the forms they've given a guideline and their guideline was hey think about 90 but we don't have to submit a plan that covers a hundred percent we can leave funds on that we feel there's areas that need attention but we're not sure what that looks like yet we can leave ourselves call it contingency call it you know whatever you want i'd also like to add that but we will have a change in we have a new superintendent coming on board i think it's important that that new person has some leeway be able to work with the administration and and put their some belt back a little bit put a little bit of
114their stamp on it right and not feel like they come in with their hands tied that everything's already absolutely set like so i think there's some argument here for leaving ourselves some room and not allocating all 4.7 leave some on the table for us to continue to mull over this summer and what to do with that and in that regard there are two things that i'd like to suggest one of which directly hits on the point of lori brought up which is one of the dpi's items they have in their high level categories it's after school and summer school i would like to see us do far more with summer school than we're doing right now i'd like to see us exploring after school programs whether they be mentoring programs or whether they be tutoring
115programs or mix of both i don't know whether it also represents perhaps looking at something like expanding the reading core concept you know going to be federally funded but reading core concept of how do you bring in volunteers into the schools to work one-on-one i mean if that doesn't get too the learning laws [Music] i mean that is you know there it is right each of those each of those kinds of things to me are very targeted very term and we don't have to reinvent the wheel there are districts across this country who already have been and continue to experiment with new programs and initiatives in these areas and we can borrow from the best of them and again i'll go back to summer school we're already into it for this year but like frankly
116for next year can you just say that pretty much all of our students wouldn't benefit from some sort of academic program during the summer all of them i think we have opportunities to spend some time and i don't know what these know what these things are going to cost i don't think it's in the realm of buying textbooks k-12 but you know there's some expenses necessary and again to be left to that we don't allocate everything and part of the intention of that is to do that and you could look at shifting some dollars away from curriculum to that in addition to possibly shifting some of the other options that were left in so that's two central thoughts the contingency contingency idea don't don't allocate it all number two let's start working on mentoring slash
117tutoring slash after school slash next year summer school and the one other thing i'll add to that is how do we as a district become more effective in engaging parents both in terms of as communication with them but as really as full partners in this and that's that's not unique to watertown and every school district in america that's the same issue how do we do a better job of giving providing them with opportunities that can truly impact their child's education again there's lots of pilots and initiatives going on out there look into what's going on and figure it out but i i honestly i do honestly believe that if we were to hit those two things mentoring tutoring after school summer school and frontal engagement we would see some pretty substantial gains in a pretty
118short order amount of time about the two years plus three years of implementation it would be useful so there's a couple of seconds um everybody said a lot i was just going to say i i like a lot of where your train is one of my challenges a little bit is i i get the after school summer school but i feel for the majority of our kids we don't need more hours with them being largely effective i recognize that as part of what i was just suggesting for example with the mentoring tutoring can take place in the school day it's a matter of and essentially enrolling the community to join in and be there in the classroom to help that's so that's why i throw out that idea of how to expand that reading core
119type idea and get people into the room where they can be eating with students and working with students on a one-to-one basis i would like to think so i don't i don't again i don't know how long it's gonna take right i think that's and that's kind of where i'm at i would like to see a little bit more that we can give and be focusing on even next school year you know i would have liked to sing it this summer already but we're past that vote so that's where i'm and you know what if the curriculum comes to 2.5 you know then do we have the money left though you know i i don't want to be sitting on the edge of waiting and then we're like oh no we've got this much we've
120got to spend six months because that's not efficient so i guess what i've heard from you all is i think there's still some open debate in the air conditioning i get that i very clearly understand that i heard a number of you speak to a level of discomfort about just how much you're putting into the curriculum bucket for a number of reasons because you'd like to see it somewhere else because you're concerned about too much at once there's a number of different reasons in there those are two main themes that i heard from folks and in addition to and how do we do more here and now as compared to 254 i think that's what i heard from you if i summarize that correctly then may i suggest a course of action we can get
121feedback to the administration that we'd like them to reassess the prioritization around the curriculum and see if some of that can go back and leave more in a we'll call the contingency bucket right now to be allocated in the near term so not not a year from now but give us some time okay us as a district some time to look at some of those other options i don't think i necessarily have a suggestion to make in terms of the air conditioning i think we're just going to decide whether we want to do that well i think the way to answer that is if we didn't spend 2 million just went in a hurry because we've only they've only given priority of whatever it is already is it possible trying to honor the thoughts of
122everyone yet still kind of go down that road is it possible to put window air conditioners into those classrooms that don't have it the doors are closed so it's a minor cost comparatively but it's still solves the problem on the ten percent or twenty percent of the days in question so does that that's some of the challenges it is like that's we've asked the administration because the air conditioning idea has been around now for seven eight months of discussion if we've asked some of that if like what's the other versus full-blown air conditioning across the entire building what are some other ways to mediate that correct after speaking with dpi it sounded like there were some limitations on the types of systems that you could use for faster three dollars i couldn't mistake it but
123something there was i would offer that it's a very different question we're going to put window ac in a building with 20 plus rooms that's compared to say lebanon that has three classrooms and your common space areas are the way different scale in those larger buildings than they are and again so both its effectiveness is reduced and it's not won't be assembled so it's really nice and putting them in the windows i mean it is an option but you hear it here it's it and it's it becomes a throw and the last part it becomes throw away at some point if you want to do it what you put into all the wiring for that and they're like that's really expensive so my question is with filing with the state and maybe mike michael couldn't
124answer this we talk about contingency fund is there can you have that i mean or what yeah yeah yes i mean there was a district that tried to put in their esther plan from one dollar and they denied that so we have what is a realistic plan and 4.7 million while there's a lot of needs isn't it easy to spend quick that's why they give three years because it's not an easy thing to spend that lump as quickly as the ideas pop up that it takes the planning to be able to do it so there's a reason for the three i would say that the plan that's put forth and there while we gave administrative recommendations under student success there's 2e not allocated anything under fiscal responsibility there's 270 not allocated to everything and the
125rolling brokers 300 not allocated anything and so there is whenever that adds up to some data 800 so 20 not allocated so that we can submit i would suggest a potentially another working meeting or whatever you want to call it to try to figure some of those stuff out i'm not there yet and i i feel like this plan needs to be somewhat cemented because that we have so many stakeholder input and including surveys that went out and we see what happens when we disregard surveys i'm not on board with that i think we need to have a clear plan and the idea behind reviewing it in three months six months wherever that time is we know how busy we'll be leading up to january you know it's the busiest time of year you have
126to have something that's a little bit more set and we're gonna have to get get on it if we're gonna get there yeah i think clearly i don't i don't think everybody's on the same page today right i agree with this offer for another meeting but [Music] what needs to happen between now and then of course to make that time most productive try the homework from amongst us and our homework the rest of the administration and make sure that if we're going to take that course of action what's going to make it so we walk out of that meeting with the highest likelihood i i would say a little bit of both right i think we should have a plan a plan b what looks better what can we also do we actually pull a
127little bit from one and a little you know obviously the air conditioning is contentious i mean when i stand on it i definitely understand where dave campbell is so i mean that that's that's fill that box that if it's not there let's have a plan for it what does that look like i think that's what needs to be able next other thoughts i think for myself um i i appreciate that the administration came with these recommendations because you guys have like i'm sure 80 000 things that you know and to try to whittle these down to the most impactful um i'm on board as far as like the curriculum and needing the curriculum but i just really want to make sure that you know it's not just a top level thing like that okay it's
128you know all the way through you know because we want to be good stewards of not only the money but the time that is spent you know regarding you know putting it into that kind of thing um i think maybe what i'm hearing as far as like the um the air conditioning i guess i thought that had crossed my mind if we say yes to air conditioning what are we saying no to you know to to maybe you know maybe that kind of covers a few different areas you know if we say yes to air conditioning we're saying no to this um and i don't know if there's a way to to see i don't know exactly how you figure out how many days you know you know that kind of thing because i know
129that that changes from here to here um so i'm not necessarily saying a complete no to air conditioning but maybe if we had a scale my proposal together maybe there's more people that are on the same page to me whatever what this all day long but we need to put something in place now and this is it's the administration did a great job mr williamson did a great job i'm just thinking i mean most of the people on this board were on this board when we realized that the current understanding of how we had to enter esser three uh subscription to the state had changed on us and we went through a process a process that we all agreed to a process that we all followed and to just i want to say to second
130guess the outcome on a process that we authored is without having a better process in place i don't think we're going to end up there by the end of june in which case i'd rather stick with our original plan stick with the process that we authored we can question how we authored it we can question how we came to the conclusion that that's the process that we should have been following if we don't like the results of the process it's our responsibility as the board to establish better processes not to change the results of the process that we encourage that the staff the community the surveys the teachers all follow so given that this is a flexible plan given that we are one month away from having to submit it i have no issue reevaluated
131i don't think it's appropriate to reevaluate it under the gun and then renege on the pretenses by which we set off on this agenda to begin with so we heard loud and clear that people wanted air conditioning we heard it in emails we probably heard that we needed some fiscal responsibility surrounding this curriculum timing i agree and bandwidth are still of concerns but that doesn't mean that because of those concerns we should restart the entire process this is the process that we agreed to this is the outcome of that process i'm comfortable moving forward with it especially given that we get other bites at the apple and we have 20 contingency in our funding right i push back a little bit in the sense that um you know i i did go through the esser
132funding proposal i did find that a lot of those areas that were identified in this proposal seem appropriate i i just think it's i think that if it was less weighted towards curriculum that opens a door there's a lot of other beneficial things that are in this plant so i'm not i'm not necessarily saying blow it all up but i'm saying we can we can work within it within the process to make make it as effectual for our students as possible so this is just a discussion we're not making to move forward just just double checking that says frankly i think the like most likely outcome is one of two things either it's pretty close to what we want we might make a few little tweaks but we're okay with it or it's the no
133slowly we're not with one in which case i frankly think i've heard from most of the board that you're more leaning toward the it's mostly there we might say it's a little further away than some big pieces right but i think i've heard a majority it's close and maybe if we could find room for one or two other things then unfortunately yeah hi as well i appreciate the energy and effort that everyone has put forward in this while i too got maybe something here something there who am i to make that decision i'm going based on that information brought forward by the group um so i would wholeheartedly support where that is right here if anything i would encourage the working list tony i mean right now there's five bullets under each major category of
134things that we might want to add but tonight i heard a lot of other good ideas that aren't on the list or peripheral to the list that coming up somewhere in the education service center that we can have a working list whether it's on mike's desk or anybody else where these things can be added to it so that we have a functioning list that we can always revert back to and maybe dust off but i don't know the best way to achieve that but there's a lot of good ideas brought up it's just that as you just pointed out diana it's not going to be something that we're going to change between now and the end of june when it has to be submitted just not enough time to stick to our process i think
135one way of looking at this is over the next three years we're trying to sit here today and to me i'm looking at this thing over the next three years we're hoping that some of the stuff with faster is going to offset something that's that we would do anyway and there may be some things that we're going to do anyway that would be on the ester list so we're trying to sit here in an asset for the scope for the next three years of all of the special projects discretionary work the bandwidth if you have to accomplish that i'm trying to put a scope around all of that and say yep this is what the big rocks that we're going to be trying to be moved for the next three years here they all lie
136because we can't come we don't have the bandwidth to come to canvas and this so latching on to what david said perhaps a next course of action would be again take portion of the time from the fiscal meeting to develop the here's the things that would be that we think would be next up on the list based on available funding and or changes that happen you know something comes in less than we'll expect right here here's our next step is that i think i appreciate that because i think what i'm worried is this is just it's going to take long and we're not going to come back to a lot you know it's very easy and i would like to see some that we can be creative with some ways to get something going next
137yeah and that could include including this other items that were identified by the administration but not included in their recommendations would be these are again also reliable please be next up craig please i i open to i like the idea so we should definitely have a meeting but i want to be considerate so the fact that this has to get submitted yep and then yeah that's why i'm suggesting that structure because it's not changing the core of what we're essentially fantastically saying here is proceed on the basic assumption of what is presented here it has not been approved by the court yet this requires the final vote you can go ahead and safely proceed with with the preparation work there because we're mainly going to focus on is the dollars left over and or when
138things come under budget what would we allocate toward and that would not affect again what we would initially be putting in at the end of the system that's why i was suggesting that exactly i just want to give us enough time to yeah yeah exactly i would do into this into the portal to the site yep put that off of the board as the june attachment yeah and you're in essence in essence then you can say at that point and before the next [Laughter] okay construction manager for air do you want us to reach out to curriculum vendors and see are these things connected to evidence-based instructional strategies are there any those details or are we back just to clarify what what i am hearing is that for the june fiscal mike will do the
139preliminary entries and bring that and then you will also be working directly from this powerpoint uh to pull whatever it is you think would be supplemental adds to your priorities that we didn't capture and potentially uh you know move some other pieces around but that is the core of what we're looking at and we are [Music] a second set of priorities correct oh i mean to me i'd like to see your list well i'd like to see if there's any new ideas as we've discussed here that pop in but likewise we have your a priorities to me there's got to be a b priorities and obviously what's left of nfc i like lori's idea that what priorities can impact our students immediately yep i think if you have any more i don't know what they
140are we would be happy yeah we can definitely do that tony's suggestions laura's suggestions the other things we've heard uh it was we tried to really choose those big clever big impact pieces and leave those smaller pieces to be sort of moved around so given that feedback we would be happy to go back and take another kick at the cap i think that's not a great analogy but go back and bring you some additional information for fiscal we would be very happy to provide that symptoms all right our next item up what we are going to be doing at this juncture the meeting is we're going to hear from search firm that we have hired an assistance from this process they're going to report to us the summative of the feedback that they collected from
141all corners about the strengths of the district challenges you face and thoughts about what we should look for in the next superintendent thank you can't go ahead and introduce yourself not everyone at the board great of course hi i'm pat newdecker i work for hazard young and latia doing superintendent searches for districts obviously for school boards i've spoken with many of you in either group or individual setting so i look forward to working with you more i'm really excited to bring you your profile this evening and i'll tell you a little bit about how that was put together i was the former superintendent in oconomowoc i retired in 2013. so while i know a little bit about the watertown area was my responsibility to really learn from you and your constituents in order to write
142this report so that's what we're presenting the full report for you know this is recorded for the public sake is in your packet obviously but i'll go through the presentation with you thank you thank you um our process if you are not familiar with the four phases relies heavily on engagement and engagement is reaching out into your community as well as your district to get the information that really will help the board make the best decision in this process simultaneously we've been recruiting candidates for you we will help with the selection and if necessary help with the transition process the engaged phase included planning with the board conducting your survey doing interviews focus groups and finally presenting the leadership profile the leadership profile is for your use it becomes a planning tool for you it
143also is a screening tool for us as we talk to all the candidates who have applied this gives us a picture of who you are and what you're looking for so during the month of may we conducted listening sessions by zoom and individual board member phone interviews and currently your online survey was running and when all those things were completed you had a total of 424 contacts that informed this report in the survey group the largest stakeholder group responding were parents of students attending school as you might um predict the second group was staff and the third group was your students this chart or this graph chart also shows you the number of interviews we connect that we conducted as well as the participants on the online survey not all groups were represented in both
144categories but that shows you 28 personal in interviews or group interviews 396 survey participants for a total of 424 contacts and from that we focused in three areas the strengths of your district the challenges of your district and the most desired characteristics of a superintendent so obviously you should be very proud of these things watertown we heard is a great place to live there's a lot of pride in your community a lot of people feel good about living here having been brought up here perhaps and also bringing up their children we heard from every single group and every constituent about the dedicated hard-working caring staff of the watertown school district so congratulations to all of you your board and your community really really do send praises for your work and your dedication people are also
145very proud of the numerous opportunities that exist for your students that's in every area from athletics to academics to the arts and across all grade levels from 4k all the way up through your high school and everything in between your charter schools your focus schools i forget which ones are charter which ones are independent focused but your project-based learning your environmental focus your ecampus all the things that we heard about that we learned about that are really viewed as great strengths for your students a strong focus on stem opportunities was also highlighted people spoke very highly about the number of offerings the age at which a lot of your opportunities begin and of course you can't but recognize those pictures when you click on your website and see those kids doing great things and robotics
146and all kinds of things and we heard wonderful accolades for a very strong business office and not that other departments aren't strong but for an incoming superintendent the knowledge that the financial house is not only in good order but has somebody that will really be supportive and helpful is very very positive and will help with the recruitment so i felt it was important to list it as a strength and not to overlook other people but we did hear that your financial house um i would say fairly is in order but certainly you're very attentive pay a lot of attention to it okay next please when you compare this to your survey these are the top rated district strengths as tabulated on your district survey this is also available in your packet and will also be
147available i assume on your district website after you accept it this evening and your top five strengths from that survey were about technology school safety great teachers administrators and support staff well-maintained facilities in your technology infrastructure that was commented to be sufficient to support the technology you're trying to use in your classrooms 58 of respondents rated your overall the overall quality of education in watertown is a four or five on a five point scale with five being the highest next piece challenges the question about what are your challenges struggles difficulties what exists in watertown and um i i should mention that in all three categories the strengths the challenges and also the attributes for your new superintendent we have a lot of data but we report out themes across everything that we've heard so we
148wouldn't necessarily write something that we just heard one time because it appeared to be profound or something we look for themes across all the groups and i would say um in almost all if not every group we heard that increasing academic performance for students was first and foremost here and there was a great sense of urgency perhaps a comment to help you understand that would be that that is based on your wisconsin state report card in your test scores but quite frankly without perhaps a graduate profile or a bigger picture of what a graduate should be should know and be able to do coming out of watertown people will rely on on your test scores because that's what shows so i think increasing performance perhaps deciding on a graduate profile and reporting out were things
149that some groups did offer as suggestions we mentioned the strength in your business office but obviously with declining enrollment with your referendum funding that will fall off in the near future and challenges that all school districts combined with the funding formula in wisconsin are experiencing will require fiscal forecasting and management so continuation of hands on the wheel that you've done as a board with the strength of your business department uh people also mention board development and again not a criticism or a concern but you are not alone in having new board members on boards boards that frankly have not hired superintendents even if you've been on the board for several years and it goes without saying that a new superintendent coming in will need to work with the board and work on governance and also
150your policies and procedures of how you're going to work together and partnering with the community groups for the future of watertown came through loud and clear and it was beyond the typical partnerships that school districts normally have i think there was also a call and an interest for the school district to be a voice and a player in what happens in the future of watertown groups that are whether it's your boards your county boards et cetera your hospital i believe partnership group etc that are really looking at the next chapter and the next phase where water of watertown was seen as a challenge a positive one that the school district could join in we heard things like watertown as a community has perhaps not grown however maybe your census has grown but your school population
151has not grown so with that in mind i think this partnership and looking at the future of your greater community was also important these are some of the specific comments that we heard and i think they do support and they align with the survey characteristics which will appear next obviously a strong leader but specifically a strong instructional leader i think cassandra and i know and understand that you have to wear all the hats and you certainly have to know the financial side of the house and the operations but you have to know instruction and what it takes to move those levers and i believe your next superintendent will need to focus first and foremost on being an instructional leader somebody who is courageous with the backbone and can stand up at a time when schools
152and communities and students have many issues pressing on them someone who's visionary and skilled at knowing what's possible but also in how to get there a change agent a team developer someone who has the ability to set clear expectations and follow through and expect accountability with accountability somebody who shows dedication towards your school and community and will do that by being a highly visible leader who's willing to invest the time and energy necessary to develop relationships in your district and outside someone who is skilled in closing achievement gaps and someone who is skilled in board relations and policy governance again i think there's a belief system and dispositions that come with these positions it appeared and we heard that you are definitely looking for someone who has that belief but also has the skill set
153to do it and make things happen next please um and then from your survey your desired characteristics the top five or somebody and this is all groups all your um you had six five or six i believe uh individual groups this is your aggregate total foster your positive professional climate of trust and respect being visible in the district and actively engaged in the community recruiting employing and retaining effective personnel through the district in schools providing transparent communication and establishing a culture of high expectations for students and personnel there's also a there are two graphs if you will in the survey data that shows how each individual group responded to two key questions or question areas and they appear on a line graph by colored circles so very quickly you will be able to see if
154those circles are close to each other and they're tight there's congruence across those groups they all pretty much agree the same thing if those groups are spread out then they have different opinions and in your survey as in many school districts we've done this year there seems to be congruence in what you're looking for in a superintendent that's good news from from all the different uh groups surveyed there seem to be more consensus of what's needed but there seem to be more variance in their impression of your school district and sometimes that's a matter of communication it's a matter of what your public knows what your external knowledge versus your internals there's a lot of factors it isn't necessarily a negative but here again those survey that survey data if you will um it's kind
155of a roadblock for you as a board and your superintendent as you begin your next chapter that's in the report as well thank you uh questions or comments i do have a quick timeline to show right after this if you want to put this up just for your in the public's sake obviously we're were mike ritchie the partner i'm working with on this search we've screened all of your applicants we've talked to all of them individually and in your closed session this evening we'll be presenting all of those candidates to you and i believe we'll be talking or helping support you in moving forward with your first round interviews or depending on the number that you choose to interview will probably remain confidential in wisconsin you might recall that if you are looking at five
156or fewer candidates for a position like this those names are public so we recommend looking at six if we find six highly qualified that you like that allows you to keep that slate confidential for your first round select your finalists at which time those names become public i always like to mention that because we really pride ourselves on on community engagement with staff and your stakeholders and everything and then we get to this part of the process that's very very very confidential so i just want to make sure people understand why and then we'll be moving quickly uh to help you with finalists public forums if you're interested in having that in supporting you um to cross the finish line july 1st with hopefully a new hire so questions the board members questions on what
157you're heard again i'll say for myself it's not i look at it is we hired them as an objective third party it's not for me to say they didn't hear that they reported to us what they heard so if you have questions about to give a better understanding of what they told you that i think that's very appropriate that i for one i'm not going to say but you didn't hear that that obviously wrong and we are really careful about looking for themes because you know when you do just an open invitation you know you have two people speaking loudly about something that might not necessarily represent a larger group so we're pretty cautious how we present that does not for one moment say that that is representative of the population at large it's just
158the people who chose to participate okay yes i mentioned in one of the slides that said 58 rate the overall quality as a four or five what is good bad you have any so it's a hair above average in my opinion i mean when you look at it so 58 of all of your folks that took the survey which were highly your parents and your students um you know you're just a hair above 55th 50 50 saying this is a great school district oh we asked the same question thank you and doug i was on the same line and not that it's really relevant for the our superintendent's search but you conducted how many of these in the state of wisconsin this year us um probably since january but we're probably about ten yeah let's
159say 12 months yeah eight or ten oh well probably 15 somewhere in the over 12 so how are we doing uh how does that question not compare it in water that's been thank you that's why anything else outstanding from your observations that says this is where we're doing better this is where we have some clear opportunities to work on and i know it's not scientific right it doesn't have anything to do with the superintendent search it just has to be well there's a little bit of a hunch and i do have you know having been very close to this work a little intuition i think you have and i shared with a couple board members um an impression of people who are extremely caring nurturing hard working all of those things but your measures don't
160really show the progress that you should be seeing for what i think i learned and heard and meeting people who care about kids work hard you know would give above and beyond for for the students in your district this across the board but if if standardized test scores are going to be your indicator um it's you're not you're not getting there other questions about the profile it's the input for all the such board members interview process you have your own individual perspectives now you have an independent third parties collected perspectives from many coordinates i just appreciated the easy to reformat things like that so thank you very much you will follow it and clear it good communication on it thank you and and not to tip your hand but you really drew some very top-notch
161candidates i'm really excited to see you i'll just say next i don't know what next we'll do but i'm here for you and i'm really excited to walk you through the slate and the application should be proud people do want to come here thank you thanks our last item under strategic discussion is our safety evaluations any questions on safety drill evaluations we know we just have to present those to the board we did our run drill in may and it went very well overall but any questions on the evaluations yeah i did just have a couple of questions so block me through maybe a little bit as far as like okay so i don't i don't know exact specific dates but rms had you know a gas leak a while back and things like that
162and so ideally we would have or the safety plan that you know would have been followed and things like that and i was not there um but it seemed like it was a bit chaotic and the plan wasn't really followed perhaps the way you know as smoothly as perhaps a drill would have gone and things like that and so that's fair yes um but with that it did just feedback that i heard about it you know was kind of chaotic people didn't quite understand what was going on and things like that and so is there from that type of a process is there like an after-action review that you do with all of the partners i mean the community partners or whatever else you work with and then from that that information goes where or
163how how is that that applies that hopefully there will never be a next time but how does that affect drills and things like that uh so yes all of those things uh there are a lot of things in the timing of this particular incident rms uh that made things especially challenging as people were arriving uh it was very difficult to get communication out because we didn't know what the situation was um and we didn't know if we would be evacuating or not so it was definitely a high pressure situation that we were executing in a very quick way and in addition to that traffic system that people needed to get to the scene were struggling to take the scene so what do we do after an incident like that we need so i met first
164of all right away with the rms team it would process how can we get communications out more quickly in this sort of a situation in this particular incident i was in route that stuck in round uh my assistant who would typically set up a follow-up communication uh in lieu of me was out of the office and all of the staff at rms were actively engaged in uh responding to the situation and communicating to students uh and families right away so our biggest struggle i think is the communication piece we then met with the fire department the police department um woman missing city jason me uh and processed as well with them in terms of what went well what didn't go well we all agreed that you know the actual execution the whole event was over
165and i think like 38 minutes um so it actually went quite well uh however because of the timing um the communication was the most challenging piece and we worked on how we can communicate out more quickly with the understanding that our first priority is responding uh to and making sure that the students are safe uh our second priority is communication so we uh and you and we didn't have accurate information to share with people uh so we needed to find out what the accurate information was and get it communicated out but the first thing we need to do is make sure the students are safe so yes we process all those events okay i'm guessing that you do and so then my follow-up question as far as um so i believe then with this um
166then there was a safety drill at whs i don't know if my information is accurate or not but it sounded like it was a drill that normally they would have gone to maranatha um no that is not part of this drill okay that's a different drill that's a full evacuation drill this was a run drill where we are [Music] leaving the site but not uh doing a full evacuation where we would meet at an alternative location uh instead we were there the threat was emergent and we were needed to see the vicinity and so the students were directed to do that which they did and then we had uh police and staff uh at all the different sites um ready for those students to come to them and talk about what they would do in
167the case of a railroad a recent evacuation draw no no we are going to do evacuation drills in sprint all right i'm sorry fall okay all right okay thank you absolutely all right maybe just uh a touch of feedback um it's weird you know parents reach out to us and um one of the things that was concerning was that sometimes kids uh dismiss part of the discussion part of the script that's being read um for the safety drill and yet the hope was that it sent out to uh parents after the event uh perhaps maybe sending that script out prior to and i'm not sure if it has been done but so that parents can actually read through that script and discuss that with their children to try to help set them at ease because
168i know that some of those kids would read through that or listen briefly through that script and not have an understanding that they're supposed to go to the nearest exit not go all the way across the screen school if they're in a different classroom so i mean those are things to like and i would just uh respond a little bit to that dragon saying that we do actually not share a lot of that information and we try to provide really general information to families uh in the thinking that we would like our procedures um to stay within the schools whenever possible in the event that we had an event we are trying to keep our responses processes and procedures uh as confidential as possible with the understanding that i mean when you're engaging an entire
169school in a drill there's only so much confidentiality you can achieve but we do try not to provide a lot of additional detail i hear what you're saying i think those conversations with families are really powerful and important and so we try to weigh those two pieces in terms of maintaining some level of confidentiality around our drill process and sharing with parents that we are doing this and encouraging them to talk to the kids go ahead i'd push back a little bit though too because i think it's as in it's as valuable for those kids to understand what they need to do they need to feel safe as a result of the the process and who can actually help them more than their parents i appreciate that quick and i'll definitely take it back to
170our safety team to discuss further we do plan these uh in coordination with our safety team so thank you any other comments on that all right reports superintendent's report pull that up from each other all right uh what you see here on this first slide is our benson memorial speaker uh dr tilipia williams uh with some of our culinary students who prepared lunch for her uh was a our community event with dr williams was not very well attended but our students really really enjoyed the opportunity to interact with her and i'll talk a little bit more about that um all right and i mean there is just this is just amazing news i mean i don't know if you all know this if you saw it on the uh in the newspaper if you saw
171it in my uh superintendent updates but our academic decathlon team is first first first to the nation first in the nation first in the nation uh this is no one else is first in the nation it is first and you know i just think it is such an incredible point of pride and it just speaks to the incredible diversity of opportunity that we provide here in the watertown unified school district if you want to be a culinary you want to be in cte you want to be an academic decathlon the opportunities are here for you and they are incredibly uh outstanding rigorous relevant all of those things um some of the students are getting the neck braces i know right i know this this kid over here is really on the bus i think with
17210 or 15 uh medals there around his neck uh please tell everybody you know you know when i see that 58 it uh breaks my heart a little bit on four and five uh there are great things happening in this district and we need to make sure people know it uh 88 of our schools exceed or significantly exceed expectations uh there's a lot of great things happening here and we're going to tell our story um rms inducted our national junior junior honor society students so we are happy uh to celebrate these people as they begin their paths to greatness uh dr timothy williams is an absolutely nationally known speaker host of nova wonders inspiring author stem and steam advocate she spoke with all of our high school students and really really really engaged them and
173hopefully uh changed her life showed somebody that a career perhaps in stem that they weren't weren't considering is possible for anybody and it was just really really inspirational uh she told and i know it's taking longer than i should but she told the story that she was pulled aside uh by her ap calc teacher and her ap health teacher said to her you should really go on a major event and as a result of that conversation she went on to major in math but what she found out at their reunion was that ap calc teacher told that to every single kid in the class right yeah we make a difference teachers make a and make a difference for these kids and when we believe in them the possibilities are endless elementary schools they just have
174everything going on right now they got carnivals they got field days they got donuts with grown-ups they got everything in between showcases just all sorts of fantastic things happening in our elementary schools choir concerts uh everything is going on if you have the opportunity to go out and see some of those things i really encourage you to do that uh enrolling camp invention this is another really outstanding opportunity offered over the summer here at watertown uh if you have a son daughter niece nephew grandchild this is a project-based learning um stem opportunity over the summer which gets rave reviews every single year uh congratulations to trusted smail and judy miller they were named home for heroes teacher of the year award winners both exceptional teachers here in our school district that were recognized by their
175colleagues and students for being leaders in their schools and in their fields congratulations to owen harris and carter hess for being cole scholarship winners this is a very rigorous award to win and fantastic news for these two very deserving students and our prom yay prom prom was amazing uh back to the proms that we have seen uh previously the students really look forward to that junior court and senior court uh to make up for the years in which we potentially missed that here are those junior and senior courts represented we had career exploration day at rms another fantastic opportunity uh we partnered with the chamber we brought in business community to meet with every single seventh grader i know tina johnson was there uh and then we also sent their students out into the community
176to see the diversity of opportunity available for them on exceptional day uh and a whole lot of really brave chamber of commerce members who came in there and instructed these seventh graders uh without ben and i and they gave fantastic little prizes as well may is the month to celebrate everyone administrative assistants principals assistant principals and our staff so i hope you took advantage of that in a second and six to say thank you to the staff member here in the wusd uh you did provide all of our staff with creamers uh cheese and sausage trays which was as it always is very popular um and very much appreciated many other activities that took place in our buildings during that week as well there's so many more things that are happening today but that's a
177highlight that's all that's that's what i got and uh thank you so much thank you any questions all right fiscal uh all of our committee members were there both those are carried over from the last and new community members so welcome to all about uh we also have tony uh myself i'll be there as well the payment reports uh we want you to specifically discuss the exceptions that are found in the purchasing policy and when it's appropriate to be getting formal quotes versus those exceptions found and has always responded to email questions that were sent prior the parent's report is some things are noted uh outliers and why there were some albuquerques report as well as some areas that are tight in the budget or running ahead of previous reviews just discuss why that would
178be and then i still expect the overall budget to land around that 3.5 million surplus again that surplus is there to help offset future deficits so i'd like to stick to that as close as possible i just went through the budget timeline with you for particularly new uh committee members and in in june we'll be presenting a preliminary budget to all of you in addition to essay and other things uh we're gonna uh we talked about we brought back a topic which was the soft water efficient rms you'll see it as an action item tonight i'll discuss that in depth about what level of replacement to bring forward so i'm going to be replacing with uh board approval for our hot water software as well as to replace the galvanized steel pipes and valves that
179are found in rms we also have a special chromebook purchase coming tonight again this is very similar to last month's chromebook purchase where we continue to identify those 2015 and 2016 chromebooks that are no longer some updates and making sure they get replaced um this year and so these particular ones will be in a specialized student's hands the wireless controllers of the data center talked about that tonight already plan oh yeah and student building fees we'll discuss them here as well that was brought forward for discussion um but we'll take feedback from this main meeting that further in june and really solidify really the real prices which haven't been touched in a few years so our next meeting is june 22nd you can all be there open open forum so not including the items that
180are on resolution later which you can ask questions at that time are there any other questions all right thank you hr yeah so um hr met we had uh peter johnson that was the beginning gasset to the committee we did go through the consent agenda which is part of the resolution for today for staff appointments resignations and terminations we also review the support staff notices of continuing employment for 2022-23 also a resolution on tonight's board agenda and we've discussed the summer school contracts that we had a smaller number this month but still on the agenda for as a resolution for tonight's meeting we did go into closed session for the purposes of discussing both an individual retirement proposal and educator compensation no decisions were made while we were in closed session we reconvened to open
181and then adjourned we do have our next meeting date which is monday june 20th and i also would have extended any board member is always welcome to attend the hr committee meeting that's right or you can have a cheat for one that we that would all right comments and questions in that report those items that are later on okay thank you ed services um so we had our edit services uh meeting on uh may 10th there was three items on the agenda they were the ready set go presentation which was going to be a resolution later on tonight uh we can talk about it more then there was also a discussion by aaron for the high school ela adoption uh that was going to be a resolution but due to time we pushed that into
182june so uh we can talk about that more in the month of june and then lastly was the teaching and learning report by jenny uh which is as it is written in the uh posting uh not too much to report there jenny unless you want to be to hit on a highlight uh for the most part business as usual and uh all members uh were present that needed to be including the new ones uh greg and diana and lori i guess they're all new um and then uh i'll comment the meeting minutes need to be adjusted as it missed craig and put tony there um so those will need to be adjusted when we get to approving the minutes so uh that was it dave if there's anything else perfect all right comment some questions
183on that report okay planning uh we had three items on our agenda uh we reviewed the wusd scorecard and the progress measures with the committee uh we were going to bring that to uh tonight's board meeting but as you noticed tonight's board week is rather full so that will be coming back in june for some additional discussion and updates uh doug will updated the committee that uh word president tony arnett is working on a facilitator for an upcoming retreat and the committee discussed district communications and trying to determine next steps about how we can invest in this area to create a point person for communications to help us tell our story and i'll just add a comment that i believe i have secured a facilitator for our retreat and i will be circulating dates to
184you for the tail end of june other questions or comments on the report all right thank you that brings us to the consent agenda resolution 9124 the consent agenda includes meeting minutes and committee summaries under staffing that includes retirements resignations and appointments includes the approval of bills as well as the first and second reading of policies please note there are no policies included in this month's consent agenda and we will incorporate by reference the previous mention of the correction needs to take place for the ad services committee meeting summary do i hear a motion on resolution nine one two four so by mike is there a second second executed by david comments or questions on the motion tina i've not seen that there's approval of many bills you don't normally put content under that oh
185okay all right sorry i didn't know if i was missing something just the fiscal would have yes just call agenda any other comments or questions on the motion hearing none roll paul vote please talk mike laurie holland yes diana johnson yes tina johnson david trader yes david smith yes yes great morton yes yes and the motion carries next is our other resolutions for this evening starting with resident for additional summer school staff appointments do i hear a motion on 9125 by tina segment by dave comments or questions on the motion bring none roll volvo please mike higgins yes lori holland yes i am johnson yes tina johnson yes david traitor yes david spence yes doug will yes great yes yes and the motion carries next is resolution 9126 which is our notice of continuing employment
186for support staff for the 2022-2023 school year do i hear a motion moved by tina seconded by laurie comments or questions on the motion hearing none roll call book please mike higgins yes lori holland yes i am johnson peter johnson yes david trader yes david smack yes of will yes craig morgan yes yes and the motion carries next is resolution nine two seven nine one two seven the revised calendar incorporating ready set go is there a motion on 9127 second by mike and second by craig all right comments or questions on the motion yes um that was one of the resolutions that came out at esc there was still a bit of discussion both at esc so i wanted to brief the board just high level on what ready set go is where it came
187from and where it's going originally was created at the beginning of 2020 to introduce families to virtual there were several beneficial aspects which were seen by the staff and it was decided to run it again for 2021 where three instructional days for elementary were uh replaced with uh in-person interviews with students and parents um it was well attended it was well received and for all practical purposes of the principals and the teachers thought that it was worth continuing into 2022. um major differences coming into 2022 is that it is now two instructional days but by and large is still remains relatively the same with elementary school students not attending traditional school on the first and the second thursday and friday before labor day in lieu of that they would be participating in 45-minute meetings roughly
188with their teacher and their parents from everything from getting acclimated to their surroundings having an assessment so they could be put in a faster into guided reading groups which is uh accelerated versus what would normally happen and so the the major thing that this board has to concern itself with is are two instructional days uh worth the two days of one-on-one time we are above the dpi uh minimum requirement and that's even after subtracting off three snow days which may not occur and compared to rms and whs uh in a very healthy position uh as far as instructional days or instructional hours so the big question for us is is the does the cost of those two days worth the benefit and do we accelerate uh quickly enough to get those two days and all
189those students who attend those two days faster down the path than if we did it in a traditional fashion there are potential options that uh cassandra has discussed with the elementary principles those discussions those options are not going to be brought forth tonight it's more of a matter of if if we want to follow what we've done the past two years if we understand that it's worked for the families for the teachers or the principals then is it something that we want to continue so if i missed anything on that cassandra or elementary principles i guess we'll take that under advisement if there was something i missed other than that um those are my comments on the subject mr president thank you i will add my own that after we did this last fall i
190expressed opposition continuing to continue to do this i think those instructional days are valuable we have very few advanced things and i think every single one counts and at that time i said let's find a different way of achieving the objectives that come out of these conferences that don't take away instructors and i still remain of that same perspective this is the time where we get to comment yeah okay my commentary to that is we had this comment or this conversation during committee um while i agree that we don't want to lose that time um i think that 45 minutes for some is too much i think that 45 minutes for other families is adam quit um and more than appropriate it takes one step backwards i guess for you talking about time being lost
191but what's gained in those ready set goal conferences you can't get anywhere else you that 45 minutes of time i asked if it could be shaved maybe to 30 minutes my question was at the helper elementary levels is that really necessary for 45 if they've already been there can we kind of look at something a little different there but for first-time families for new kids to the building for things like that that time is invaluable um i did ready set go type conferences with my middle schoolers and i know that it didn't really work great at the middle school those that little bit of time jump started so many other things that you couldn't get otherwise so it's all in the implementation for sure um i'm not saying that i don't know what's been done
192within the individual buildings i know there's great potential that's there so does it maybe need to be looked i know they shaved off instead of three days one to two um i don't know what can be done to try to keep something like that for them the other piece to that was it's an entire day how many families can really be reached in those mid-afternoon to nighttime hours um i think i figured out there's only like four or five families per teacher so there needed to be a little bit of conversation and things that occurred in that but i think that there is great value if it's implemented right the only other note was that it is right after remember three after yeah before you form them yeah right before like so that may or
193may not affect parent schedules to be able to come back and i i concur and obviously that was a discussion point and i think that the principals would agree that uh high attendance is key to high efficacy and if this drops to traditional parent-teacher attendance then it's going to lose most of the punch and certainly not something that's going to test well uh in the future that doesn't mean it's going to pass tonight it's just that i agree if people aren't showing up then it's not going to be something you're going to continue because there's certainly no efficacy to it it's more of a matter of what's going to happen this year and is it going to be as well attended because the newness has worn off that is a concern and coupled with tony's
194concern it could be a push as far as the vote in the next in five minutes from now because of just an uncertainty as to how much bang we're going to get for the buck um i think it's a fantastic idea i think we take a look as far as like the positive parent feedback it's like 86 80 something like that's really high i think i don't know i mean i don't know what you usually give her um as far as um you know percentages and things like that and then even as far as the value is concerned it sounds like to me that um you know the value that we're providing in that short amount of time um and i get it's you know there's a convenience piece for families but i think if
195we have that communication piece that it's far enough out in advance i think that um these conferences not only are the parents saying that they were of value the teachers are saying that they are of value and they're the ones that you know would be in those day-to-day interactions i'm strongly in favor of these as long as they are effective you know what then we evaluate it you know if they if this school year if it's like oh man you know drop down 30 or whatever then then you know maybe it's not as effective and it's not applicable anymore um but i can tell you those relationships i'm guessing that this is where this is coming from is that those relationships that are formed and you know the parents have that teacher one-on-one when do
196you ever get one-on-one teacher time and i think it also hits on you know the parents are always saying you know if they want you know more communication you've got that and you've got that relationship that i think can help our kids like with those social emotional learning you know pieces or if they're struggling or if there's you know different concerns and things like that i think it's important for that relationship to start things out and then that child can go to that room oh yeah i've been here you know and those kinds of things so i assigned it i'm very much in favor of this so there's that one comment which is the survey that was done was presented in absence of any comparison of god there was no it was presented as if
197it was cost for me and i would just lightly suggest that it's a survey question would you exchange two in-person instruction days for a 45-minute meeting with your teacher would have come up with a different answer out of that sort of it would it would have looked different i'm not saying it still might have shown positive right but it would have been it would have been it could have been i mean i understand that i guess everybody likes things that are free right right i mean i i get that but i think the i mean i agree diana's point as far as you know the value that comes out of that and understanding that child and that family and everything like that affects their learning and so i guess that's that's how i look at
198the last thing i'll say to my again to verify my position it's not the outcomes it's the way to do it we're using instructional days to do it and i've already get a number of those outcomes through all terms [Music] uh last year shortly after it happened that kind of got pushed to the end of the interview so i think that value asking the question value versus instruction date is an important question to have answered versus is this good yes it's good is it better than instruction days we'll need to have the question answered what we did talk about as well and i think there's another point there is that as anna says this is intended to jumpstart the school so where the teacher generally had a week before they really got engaged in the
199learning the idea this is jump starting so now that should happen in two three days you should be jump starting in the school instead now you've made up that with it so we want to see that that's the expectation that's there and i think also for the future really thinking about this ahead of time and looking at the timing and having it around labor day and so forth we felt not good about having the night hours uh other hours that are available [Music] if this resolution fails does it revert back to the old schedule which is three days or is that yeah so this we approve a school calendar for next year okay that calls for those two days to be in class instructional days this resolution is making an exception to that previously approved
200calendar is taking those two instructional days off the calendar and replacing them with this happy element one additional comment i'd like to make for the elementary teachers if this does pass tonight if my suggestion would be to videotape some of them like different lessons or different ask for permission to videotape to bring something to the board so that way they can see the value of what's there what does it look like how does that work um or do a mock session here with a family a student something like that to see what is there so that way board members can see the value of what that would be again i think that 45 minutes gets to be too long for 100 of them so i would also look to see how that can be scaled
201to differentiating like we differentiate for our students and other things we would differentiate all right anyone else here nothing else roll combo please mike kagan yes right now i am john yes yes david trader yes david smith yes doug will yes great workman yes no and the motion carries next is resolution 9128 the purchase of wireless controllers and the data center upgrade do i have your motion on 9128 so move like craig is there a second second so it was previously mentioned in both the esser discussion and briefly in the fiscal report this is a proposed replacement of [Music] not available much of the infrastructure as mentioned in the actual description is out of date this does not commit us to using best dollars for this so this is making a purchase the board decides
202to use your balance to cover that purchase then we're changing which pocket we're taking the money out of right that's a second subsequent decision wrapped up in our meaning next month this is just we want to make the purchase and again it is through rate which is a heavily subsidized especially described not a discount it's a subsidy federal subsidy to school districts for the purchase of this type of equipment they did shave roughly 90 dollars off the price so almost in half questions or comments on the motion hearing none roll call vote please yes corey holland yes i am johnson yes gina johnson yes david trader yes david smith yes doug will yes ray hartman yes tony arnold yes and the motion carries next is resolution 9129 for soft water at the riverside middle school
203do i hear a motion by david second by mike and as previously mentioned we have had an equipment failure we need to replace it what came about as a part of that was also looking beyond simply replacing the soft water but replacing the piping that it goes through and that is the recommendation that came out of the committee heights and the water softener there was a third option that was to extend it to cold water as well that is not included in this at this time this is just the hot water softening and the pipes associated with that there were multiple philosophy quotes for this comments or questions on the motion what's the what's the dollar amount over there so david okay with the friendly amendment for not to exceed those flanks right uh yes
204i was just mostly interested which of the vendors was being awarded job but i'll take yeah i'm i'm okay with that okay might be okay with that as a second all right and i'm gonna i my company supplies pipe insulation to some of these people and sometimes to that one so i'm gonna stain just all right any other comments or questions on the motion oh um yes yes and the motion carries and our last resolution is 9130 this is the purchase of home books to support our special education program do i hear a motion move by tina seconded by mike again as was previously mentioned we are retiring some chromebooks that are long out of support and we need to move forward with this purchase at this time in order to through the inventory we
205were delaying further we don't know when exactly done now the right price and also get some comments or questions on the motion hearing man well pogba please mike higgins yes lori holland yes johnson yes david trader yes david smith yes yes greg yes yes and the motion carries that is the end of our resolutions and brings us to our closed session for this evening which is a matter of personnel and there's the presentation of superintendent from our search firms diana yes um uh [Music] that tray so grab it grab it while the gift is good you know it feels good you