12/16/2024 Regular Board Meeting

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002any adjustments changes additions subtractions or movements no okay great uh now is the time for our first opportunity for public comment um when I'm not sure if you have three minutes queued up but we're going to stick to that format that we used last month uh also sticking to that similar format the cards are available for you to fill out uh so you don't have to spend your time at the podium writing down your name if you're at the podium however we would appreciate if you'd fill out those cards and drop them in the basket next to Melissa um and then still before you uh address the board we'd still like to have your name and address if possible so with that I will open up for our first public comment Okay Tyler anybody online

003get that okay was that a no no okay oh there is one with hand raised yes okay uh David uh online uh the podium or the floor is yours there we go can you hear me yes thank you all right thank you my name is David burn I live in Watertown and I've had children in our school district for the past 20 years I think that you saw at the Riverside meeting the power of moms for Liberty social media reach a few weeks ago hundreds of people came to shout and clap for a problem that really existed only in their imagination this is the moms for Liberty template that I am worried about that is to create a lie and saturate social media to promote it and the result was hundreds of people showing up

004at Riverside you may recall a few months ago that somebody shouted in one of our meetings that you're going to need a bigger room well this this was the plan all along is to manufacture a saturate social media with it and draw hundreds of hundreds of people to bullying you into doing what they want you know I am you please do not become an activist board moms for Liberty has already damaged our district and I plead do not let the damage spread thank you very much thank you okay any additional public comment yep feel free um Stacy is STO um Main Street here in Watertown I hadn't planned on this being the comment section I was going to speak on but I would just like to say I would like to remind everybody at the

005meeting at Riverside Middle School who was the one screaming vile things to one another and wishing death upon people certainly wasn't moms for Liberty thank you okay anyone else okay this closes the first public comment session there will be another one at the end uh next on the agenda is the uh water high school student board represented Addison shrer I feel like it's family although we're not related so within the last couple of months at Waterton High School we've had many different events held and sports have been very big this year so we had homecoming at the beginning of October October our theme this year was TV shows we had our typical events the Powderpuff game window painting float building pepper Alle of pray in the Friday Night Football game and then we wrap the

006week up with the dance also a new thing we're doing this year during elts is the high school is holding pep rallies where they announc flight feather Award winners a flight feather is written for a student or teacher who has been seen doing something kind oring the names of all the flight feather recipients are read on each pep rally and then students and teachers are randomly chosen to win prizes over 300 flight feathers have been given out so far this year the tennis team went to state in October the swim team also went to State and received 20 20th in November um the winter sports recently started including gymnastics basketball wrestling invite this past weekend in place first in Hip Hop third in pick and for Palms the gymnastics team had their first competition this

007season at oon and Sammy Knight placed on vault beam and floor and allaround and bellaa mo mo also play some FL uh the gymnastics team is also hosting their golin invite this weekend on the 21st at 10: a.m. also students at whs had a very successful try one that ended right before Thanksgiving break many students made it on high honor rooll and honor rooll the boys basketball team had their conference opener game which they went into double O overtime coach Hayes is one game away from his 100th game win basketball team also plays tomorrow the 17th at 7:15 at whhs which we're hoping to give Mr H's chance at his 100th win and wrestling has a huge day turn tournament in west Dallas this weekend thank you okay next up uh bise trip proposal Alicia

008Schultz hi I'm Alissa Schultz I'm the egg teacher and FFA adviser at the high school um I am proposing our bise trip this year um or this meeting for June 1st through the June 11th of 2027 uh we are partnering with Mayville at FFA and Sun Prairie FFA for this uh we are also working with EF Tours company um they are a tour company that hosts and promotes um Educational Tours throughout the entire country um and then Mayville is also bringing two chaperons that travel to bise regularly every year so they're traveling with us and helping us out with that um so I hope you consider this um I'm going to talk about so why we want to go the cost to go uh the itinerary and some of the um fundraising things we have

009planned um so first our [Music] itinerary so the first day will'll depart and we'll leave from Chicago we're going to take the plane to bise city where we'll land and then we are going to the Kyo region for days two and three um we're going to be visiting the rainforest uh participating in different activities like walking the trails learning the soil building process in the rainforest and then we're going to get to zipline through the rainforest as well and then day three we'll be visiting the NGO and learning about their work in conservation and Community Development uh and that's day two and three days four and five will be in pun Gorda uh we'll be day four we'll be doing the sustainable Farm where we'll be discover how agriculture practices uh the climate smart farming

010practices do activities is like planting seeds harvesting fruits making tortillas and chocolate from scratch and then eating them and then we'll also be learning how to weave baskets and do Mayan dances as well and day five will'll be in the port of Honduras doing um on the Marine reserve uh we'll be doing snorkeling learning about the climate change um and helping at the ranger station and learning about underwater um animals and things like that um day six we'll be looking at how to support biodiversity during a reforestation project which helps stabilize river banks decrease erosion and improve water quality on day seven we'll be taking a day trip to the island of tobaco Kai here we'll visit the nearby Marine research Field Station snorkel the Barrier Reef um and then participate in Beach cleanup and

011hear more about how plastic is um impacting the pollution there and then day eight we'll be traveling from bise City to Kyo region to start group aranged activities um this is where our two regular bise uh Travelers are helping us to work on service projects and helping in the community there and helping with the needs that they have and then they're also planning some additional tours um as well for us and then day 11 will be traveling back home um and then prices and fundraisers um if we have students register before the 20th or enroll before the 20th of this month I know it's really short time but they will get a $300 discount for this so that it would bring their cost to $5,151 um but with EF Tours they set up a uh

012um a monthly payment plan so it brings the cost down for um spreads it out so it's not all at one time um and then they also have a global protection travel protection plan that they can also um opt in for and that just helps with reimbursement of cost um working with EF Tours they carry the insurance also which helps with um some of that travel insurance with refunds and stuff like that um so then chaperon um maville is bringing about 26 students is the plan and then four chaperon from maville um Sun Prairie East oh Mayville is bringing 20 Sun Prairie East will be bringing six and one chaperone and then Watertown the plan is to bring um six students and then one chaperon myself so we would have 32 students total and six

013chaperon total with us on this trip um I really want you to consider approving this um traveling to um abroad and going to international travel is really good for the students to do um I did it when I was younger um in college and in high school um and it just this trip will help to broaden their agriculture impact um and learn more about it in the different cultural processes in um other countries besides America and how it is different um it also helps to show kids about the different careers that they can have we don't have the Marine careers here that they do in bise so getting students to see those different career opportunities um would be very special for them so I hope that you guys consider this trip that we can go

014on this trip thank you part of that discussion if you have any questions I encourage you to ask say we can't discuss it later but she's got okay oh Lor wants to go I don't I don't remember yeah is it the June June 11 yeah is that going to that usually teachers will accommodate they'll try to work around the students I'm assuming that's already beened yeah Gru senior J yep yeah and we're targeting the would be ninth and 10th graders now but more so the ninth graders so that it's not affecting them walking across the stage um and I know it is a once- in a lifetime trip too and I know walking across the stage is a once in a to but whatever their preference is okay anything else awesome thank you thank you

015okay next up Jared you have some uh recognitions I do a lot of gifts for us um to talk about um first uh spuncast uh with a donation to skills USA for $2,000 uh sewer ninjas out of Butler Wisconsin uh donation towards skills USA $1,000 JWR in Johnson Creek $200 donation towards skills USA collector's heating and air conditioning out of Watertown $100 towards skills USA Baker rman uh out Watertown $1,000 towards skills USA CN muffler shop $500 donation towards skills USA uh crew heating and air conditioning 250 50 donation towards skills USA chapter 2 Inc out of Lake Mills $1,000 donation towards skills USA metaltech international out of Watertown $1,000 donation towards skills USA and thermotech out of Watertown $1,000 donation towards skills USA so I want to say thank you again to all of

016our businesses uh who support us through the years and I really appreciate their donations right send those around for thank you area businesses okay next up strategic discussion state report cards we'll kick it over to Jason thank you very much uh we always start with gratitude so I want to thank the members of the board for your support of our student driven and data informed V uh you are very much appreciated uh tonight Chris and I will share a look at state report card data in a different format and we'll do so in a manner reflects our commitment to being effective and efficient and our data storytelling we plan to share uh some resources and some of the data for 6 to8 minutes and then questions for two three minutes I want you to know

017that your questions relative to the data and any feedback about the format is valuable and valued so look forward to that there are some changes in the report C I just want to highlight um and the first is that the cut scores were updated this year which impacts our our state report card and they were updated based on new standards uh being assessed in the forward assessment uh we are still learning what that means uh there was literature that was pushed out by DPI and I want to quote some of these first they talk about the adjusted cut scores resulted in higher proficiency rates compared to previous years and then later in the same paragraph they talk about the alignment of the assessment in effect lowers the achievement score so those two things uh are

018different they also talk in a summary that schools and districts can expect to see achievement scores that are greater than or equal to the 2223 score though not as high as would be the case with no scale adjustment but I think DPI is still learning with this the scale and adjustments are really mean to them as well a reminder that there we really the report card really reflects up to three years of data so it's not just last year's data and that we also see some updated terms and uh we have new terms of developing approaching meeting and ADV dancing appear in the achievement priority area and so with that turn it over to Chris mooy and makes me say this and she Rock so here's Chris walk through this template thank you all right

019so um if you are looking at the document there there in the first Corner um we have the report card data which I'm going to talk about first so each year the state gives each district a report card that help the districts identify areas of strength and opportunities for improvement in their District wanted to share a report card and also provide a summary of what the report card tells us about our district and what our next steps are based on the data um in the quick guide there is uh or the report card there is an scanning school report cards which we're not going to go through but it was just me trying to summarize some of the things that I don't think everyone understands about the report cards a couple of the key points

020that I want to mention to you one of them Jason just mentioned is that it is the 2324 report card but the data is for the last 3 years and it's more heavily weighted on the 2324 but the 2223 and the 2122 data affects achievement growth Target group and our sism scores in those areas um another important piece if the repart card is there there are four areas as I just mentioned them and the waiting for each of these is 0 to 100 when they do that and the um how much each of the four areas counts changes depending on every district and every school in our district and that is based on what percent of your students are economically disadvantaged so if you look at our five elementary schools each have different weights for

021the how much the achievement um affects their report card and how much the growth does based on what percent of the students in their business building are economically disadvantaged so it's when you're looking at them if you were to be comparing they're not comparing the same numbers weighted the same way um so I Linked In the 2324 district report card I also have a link so that you could click on um each separate building you could also then click on previous years in there and you could look at other districts along the state for reference if you wanted to um the report card tells you a lot about one test that is taken on One Day by students in grades 3 through 11 in our district but they do not tell you about many of

022the other things happening in our schools the DPI recommends having a supplemental report card that shares the other happenings and so I asked each of the building administrators to share things beyond the report card that happened in their building during the 23 24 school year they each created a one-page report on last year for you to look at and those are all Linked In in the building Reflections for 2324 again not going to read those but wanted to provide that information to you guys to look at okay the next piece that I have is I have the historical trends for the district report cards so I put in the last four years of report cards and then each of our scores in the four areas um our district was scored as meeting expectations for the

02323 24 school year and each of those three previous years that we have the data for um that I put my notable Trends off to the side I'm sure you would notice um different things and the first one we have there is the achievement um the achievement counts in the last year years somewhere between like 16 and 18% of our report card it's the lowest weighted portion of our report card um at the district level and for that their U achievement is combined math and English they separate them all out in there and they have been increasing in both Ela and math for the last three years um a large part of that increase is that the RMS has been going up the um 2223 school year they saw a significant um increase in the

024ELA proficiency and then last year they saw it in math as well um the growth scores for our district the second portion that is the largest weighted portion of our report card at somewhere between like 30 and 33% depending on the years um those scores are declining in both Ela and math and a students growth is going to measure how they did on the um forward test let's say in third grade and then how they um scored in fourth grade it Compares someone that scored the same FSM in third grade how much they grew did they grow High typical or low compared to other students that had the same score similar to them in the previous year that growth score is different also kind of looks at the students individual thing um demographics so if

025it's a student with disabilities it will compare them to other students with disabil ities and their growth with students similar to them so that score has been going down so definitely an opportunity for our district to address something that we can see is not going in the right direction for us the next portion is probably the most confusing part of our report card it's the target group score that has also been declining um each of our buildings in our district identify the lowest 25% of students scores from the previous year and then those students are then put in our Target group for ELA or our Target group for math St students are going to be in the Target group for both areas and then within there it looks at that the students in the tar

026gr their achievement their grow their attendence as well so it's kind of like a report card within the report card so our Target group area those students that um struggled the most on the assessments they have had a declining score in that area for our district the achievement for that group has been going up just like the achievements schoolers districtwide but their growth and their attendance or chronic aism has been going down for us the last portion of the report card is the on track score um this has also been declined very small amount like half a percent each year but it is still going in the wrong direction so we need to recognize that um it is going down in the attendance area The Chronic absenteeism and we have a slightly lower graduation rate

027those are the two areas that are going up the eighth grade math scores which is in there and the third grade English are both going up so again that achievement part it keeps going in each of the places that they look at it up um not huge amounts but in the right direction for sure and then the other two parts the growth and attendance are going in the wrong direction um if you flip to the next page for me Tyler if we look at that um one of the things that the district um when I've been presenting the board has asked about is some cohort data to be looking at and so what I tried to provide um the cohart data I included the percentage of students that tested proficient on the state mandated spring

028tests um this is the data that you're seeing is for our current senior class I've included um their test scores from starting from third grade they are the Blue Line our district and then showing you them in comparison to the state levels um the state level I think is important to look at because if we have a increase of 10% we want to see if the state had an increase of 10% or 20% % or 5% when we looked at that so that is why I have both there so both of those there Ela is on the top math is on the bottom um we saw obviously several things that have happened over the last few years that can kind of be recognized in there we can see where Co happened where we had that

029large dip there but um historically the transition from fifth to sixth grade we do see a dip and their sixth grade year was before Co and we saw that um and then they kind of work their way back up through middle school but they had the um difficult task of being in middle school at not the best time um but I do think that it's important to recognize that the last year of data in the last couple years those scores have been going in the right direction and in last year's data they increased more than the state so they both ended it above the state levels for those values in there um so those are kind of the key points in there and then Jason was going to kind of wrap up with how we

030are using the data than and so on the far right there you'll see some things that we've been doing with the data I won't read that to you but I think it's important to note that the data has been looked at analyzed and really developed action plans at the classroom level at the building level and the district um folks are working really hard to understand the data and then map out next steps um most recently we've looked at uh growth data at uh principal or admin meeting last week really at the student level so looking at students that had high growth low growth and typical growth and we'll continue to look at that growth area as an opportunity for us to to think about and take action around questions regarding the state report card please

031or members BR how much have the can you see any change in these scores especially with the cohort data um that aligns with the implementation of our new curriculums um so I would say 2019 I just looked at this um for Leanne she asked me for this last week um specifically for Wht wisdm so I'm going to speak number-wise about the ELA but then I can also talk about the math but that's pretty recent so in 2019 in sixth seventh and eth grade every grade level for ELA they were 12% below the state um score in all three grade levels building wide the 2020 they didn't get to test which is why I'm using that 2029 year 2021 they started the piloting and the implementing last year was year three and they were all some

032were at um the state level somewhere a little bit above the worst they had though was 5% below so to decrease that Gap within three years of implementing that is great and then they were really really really hoping that they'd be above for all of the areas I think it was was eighth grade um group was above and then the sixth and seventh graders were still below the St but definitely closing the glass um math was huge last year but last year was the first year and a lot of times you don't see that in the first year but we definitely saw huge Improvement there as well I can't quote you the numbers but I can tell you that it was double digits Below in some of the grade levels to single digits and I

033think that the eighth grade math was like at the state level but can't perent if they weren't the sixth and the seventh are not there yet but definitely the right dire for both of those as well I think it's really important to note that the number of factors that lead to that right it's a new resource but there's high levels of professional development going on there are professionals digging into what that means and changing their practice and there's uh certainly looking at data constantly so you know it's the the depth of what bringing a new resource really means anyone else uh um on the right hand column all the data would be used data has impacted the development of the Strategic plan um how how so that's great um when we think about uh just

034the goals for example we have goals uh aligned with math and and literacy that are exactly to the report card so third grade ELA shows up twice on our report card one for just all third grade students but also for a priority area staying for eighth grade math and then it's not part of the actual report card rating but our school to next I like to call it school to Career School to college that data is tracked on our report cards and there are two goal areas around that specific piece um and the strategies that we've outlined really will impact that thanks C so talk about a couple of the comps about chronic absenteeism are we tracking that at a cohort level the things interesting is are we seeing um I know that we've done

035efforts at the elementaries to improve you know attendance do we see that a cohort is you know chronically absent throughout or is it there certain like they hit middle school and they stop dropping off at high school and they start dropping off we found more that like um younger grades and kindergarten I don't think the parents see attendance as a priority area um our student services team right now has built a goal this year about kindergarten attendance and working on reducing The Chronic absenteeism there um and then I haven't seen the cohort Trend but then in high school and specifically once they get the driver's license it becomes a bigger problem so ninth grade doesn't have the issue that the 10th grade and the 11th grade 12th grade gets slightly better for whatever reason I

036think maybe some of them are in the with apprenti ships I can't give answers to it but it's like 10th 11th and kindergarten is where I see the highest and it's not it's every year you know when I look at my uh grade level I'm sure there's cohorts that are worse but I haven't seen it as a common friend he well we're learning I am certainly learning that every school is very unique right and the the target group area and the priority areas are on track to graduation areas are really looking different by building those are the important conversations that we're having with building leaders and they're digging into that their building level um great presentation great questions from the board or lack of questions I think get there at the right level uh my

037question is is okay what's next we've had data meetings before you've been in possession of this information since I'll say October November um do we have a a data meeting scheduled Jared does the board have an appetite for a data meeting does uh Chris and Jason have something to present akin to questions that were already somewhat asked which were okay what does this mean to us what has the state told us that this should mean to us uh does it change anything in any one of the buildings uh what are the high level takeaways it's not so much questioning the numbers it's questioning the is understanding the initiatives that the that the data might cause us to take and I I leave that as an open-ended question kind of rhetorical only because we haven't discussed

038discussed it at a board at a full board lately about having more data meetings we're aware of them I think we've gotten use out of them in the past although we we I'll say started slow only from a standpoint we didn't know exactly what they were supposed to deliver um and and now you you sort of got a couple behind us so um unless the board makes a specific request of me or Jared uh I think we'd probably just leave it to Chris and Jason to say hey we got a story to tell when do you want to meet um now we get it on their agenda and force them to tell us a story but I don't I don't I'd rather them have juicy information to rivet us with than to force stuff out

039in front of us that might be a little bit uh premature so Diana just remember from planning we had decided we weren't doing a ton of data meetings that they were going to be Snippets just like this okay and that it can kind of if we need something more yes we can definitely schedule on planning is the place where it goes through but we had say we were getting away from the overall meetings to do that um so unless there's a different directive we do have a meeting coming in January so if it's something that the board has appetite for planning meeting coming in January yes yeah okay so we can good point to bring it up and discuss it there so if that's something you know reach out and we can go further but

040this was very high level just a reminder we have a tenative schedule of these you know 10 minut okay and the next one is scheduled for February uh to bring to the full board and that would be focused on AGR bless and so there you know certainly we can do more but that's the next uh planed one okay great thanks for the reminder obviously I forgot it's okay we're good okay anything else okay great thank you both next topic I think is Sarah and well expulsion data is that Sarah or Jared that's why you were so quiet tonight right oh got it okay well we okay I guess that presentation's done no um actually um we we were asked to present data um on um last couple years of expulsion uh and so there's some

041data there for you um you know the overall um discussion point is um the question was how effective have we been uh in uh when we um look at an expulsion and maybe have conditions of reinstatement and had students come back how successful was that and we're we're here to tell you that the data does not look really good um and that's why we're doing a lot of efforts and trying to focus as much as we can on the front end of that behavior um you guys know that uh Sarah uh and her team uh of student services professionals as well as the uh um building principles are really um changing U behavior and and kind of how we react to Behavior Uh as well as um looking at the data and what we call

042for in the data sets Chris Malloy is working really hard with our building principles to one make sure that we're identifying uh what we call Behavior within our our student uh information system which just Skyward um and when we call it something like an assault does that mean assault like you know Sam if you're a building principal I'm a building principal and Craig's a building principal do we all call assault the same thing or when you write it down or your teachers right uh when they when they put in a disciplinary note um they call it assault they mean the same thing right and so we're we're making sure we're trying to get our data um cleaner and better uh and our interventions around Behavior Uh better um and hopefully we have fewer and fewer

043of these expulsions because really we got to be way Upstream we can't just look at expulsions and then if we had them come back on a reinstatement did they follow through on those conditions to either a be reinstated or once they were reinstated um how did that go and you can see in the data there's at least one student who uh reoffended and had to be reexposed you know and so um we we know that once we get into that level of intervention it's probably going to be pretty dismal I don't see uh Jenny Bor here tonight uh I'm still cheering at Services uh we had an expulsion uh close session last week um this document was um prepared prior prior to that uh for uh generally the edification and awareness of the full board

044um if there are additional questions not so much about this but just the process in general um uh contracts or uh plans for uh you know getting back on track Etc um I think it'd probably be best to bring that up through ed services I don't think it's an outstanding action item at this point or outstanding topic uh we can certainly get it on that list if we end up with some significant questions around a direction and questions that you guys may have I'm not trying to stifle discussion tonight I just ed services hasn't looked at it and it's probably the first thing to go through ed services if we wanted to dig deeper or come up with any recommendations or changes um so I I mention that but otherwise anybody else welcome to comment

045uh on this information and Sarah thanks for putting it together right I guess the um the biggest part of the conversation I hope to have would be uh how all the measures at the building level as far as dealing with uh consequences and student discipline are impacting the the overall uh likelihood of a of a suspension or or trying to prevent the need for a suspension uh I'm sorry an expulsion you're right um so those are the conversations I think um okay I'm hoping to if if I mean that question along with a a Litany of others if you want to email to me and then to and copy Jenny and and start rallying around a potential uh you know 20 or 30 minute topic presentation at at Services uh to try to uh ask

046a bunch of those open questions if there are open ones um I'd appreciate that so if you come up with that one I'm not saying we'll make it on the January uh agenda but we could certainly get on something in the next two to three months uh to to try to understand this entire process a little bit better uh now that this information is available to us it helps us direct further questions as to okay if we don't like what we see then what should we do differently in the future and that's both for the board as well as for the administration and staff and the kids if they don't like what they see uh what they be doing differently um so I appreciate any uh suggestions you have on that subject Diana do you

047have anything okay anyone else Sam I'll be right back oh gotta okay gotta step out okay um we're going to continue then and uh administrator update that's you Jared right uh so the rounding update rounding update yes yep uh and so um last year we started implementing rounding rounding again taken from the healthc care field um instead of going out and about the patients and asking how the hospital is doing for you we go out and about our staff um and our students and do some rounding I'm not here to share uh student rounding information today but I am here to share the share the staff information we got uh when we were out uh as a District administration uh in the buildings to hear specifically uh what people had to say good bad or

048indifferent we just tell everybody um there's about four questions that we ask um and then the last question is always uh is there anything else you need us to know you know that can help us get better or or whatever we need to do uh and so um this year's rounding sessions uh we didn't hear a lot of the same things that we heard last year matter of fact um if if I can kind of go through some of these with you uh the whhs staff um was really appreciative of the current Staffing support uh and especially coming from the St student services department as well as the new coach and Dean position um that were put in place this year I want to remind you guys that's a Oney year only money for the

049coach and Dean I don't know how we're going to continue those into next year especially I'm looking at having to cut a half a million dollars into next year's budget um it will be very difficult to retain those positions but they said that it's been night and day difference uh this year in the Building compared to last year and so uh something that um we need to think about as we're trying to put our plan together for next year um RMS staff uh was their main theme was that they were appreciative of the behavior and discipline plan the new uh plan that's out uh and the outcomes of that plan over the last year um RMS staff are appreciative of the building leadership and um the hard work that uh their co-workers the the teachers

050as well as the admin uh Team have done to really start making a a good change in culture and a great uh cultur focus on learning you saw that with the um data that uh the attainment data that you saw in the report card which is going up really at a great Pace at the middle school level um some information uh from Lincoln Lincoln had some uh tough start to the year with a special ad um but special team members and the collaboration that they did to focus on some specific um situations has really helped uh and and now they feel like they are really uh jelling as a team over there and things are going well uh Douglas um has a several first year teachers and they are super appreciative of the hiring process

051um the the mentoring uh and and all the work that um they're doing at the building level uh for that um and uh you know going into uh the rest of the year uh they feel like it was uh that start which led to a s a super smooth uh start um will lead to lots of support for the rest of the year um all folks there have done great work on the front um and they are especially um and uh El especially so English Learners especially uh is wonderful and uh supportive um and that Emily is doing a wonderful uh job at leading the building as well RMS uh opportunity to continue to engage PA professionals and celebrate the hard work uh these folks do every day um Lincoln uh love the opportunity to

052continue to provide professional development for staff um especially the special ed staff there and Douglas um and other schools have noted that uh Transportation uh still is a concern that negatively impacts learning um and we we do still have um issues trying to get buses especially for our extracurriculars and co-curriculars um to to get the the students to and from in a in a more timely manner we have kids leaving Maybe an hour hour and a half earlier than they normally would have to um and that's a transportation issue that uh Sarah Duncan and I have been continuously trying to work at and I will say that there's not really great Solutions because every school district is or at least most school districts are having some issues with transportation services still just finding drivers but

053all in all I'll say this I uh you we just had a really good rounding report people um were especially appreciative of of having a strategic plan in place um having time to develop those building goals and um seeing how it reaches into uh what they do every day and then um that has put us on a really great path so our next rounding are going to be between March 5th and 13th I believe um we'll be back out in the buildings again to do our second rounding for the year we do two a year um and we'll see what kind of feedback we get at that point in time any questions um did you did you happen to hear any conversation or concerns brought up all sub bill rates or yeah so posi or

054negative right uh our sub fill rates uh we didn't hear the feedback like we heard last year where it was really really terrible um matter of fact um some of the report that you may have saw in HR um the you some of the absenteeism rate has dropped quite a bit among the staff um you know not only are we trying to have a attendance U matters kind of slogans and everything for the students and having and those kind of things but um our our leadership has also talked to staff about you know we need to model that behavior about being here as much as you can and so attendance rates have been better which means the pull on Subs have been a little less um but I think you know that along with some

055of the recruitment stuff that um the board did along with the HR team and the administration last year really helped out so we I'm not see that it's not an issue we just didn't hear it as much um which means it's alleviated a little I would say if you asked any of the building principles they'd still tell you on the daily it's still difficult to move people around and in right okay next item superintendent report you're up again I need a water no five minutes five minutes five minutes I know I got 10 slides or better so you have a clicker or You Gonna Roll through please start the Clocky there is a five minute yeah go I'm waiting I only need four no I'm just kidding uh so um the first one was uh

056a stuff the bus event you're going to hear more about that uh here the youth apprenticeship uh they again broke records uh we have more than 100 students um 112 years history uh you saw I's office uh give more money and also uh promote the program but again we're doing a really great job with that next uh here Lincoln stem uh did a a food drive they had or excuse me 855 items that went to local food pantry the fire department helped load up and the kids got to help load it up on the firet truck and had a good time um another celebration is the stuff the bus event uh that we had um we worked with the city of Watertown parks and rock Department um also uh dman transportation company uh did a

057great job in donating the bus and making sure that those things I got uh to and fro uh from from everybody and a lot of monetary donations do you remember Lyn how much was given approximately yeah um $452 $452 and a r full of stuff and if you're at the end of the day today you want to go take a look at that we got a hallway and a whole office full of stuff um that is getting sorted later this week and out to the building so they can get out to uh students for the holiday break next slide please I just want to remind you that uh registration is still open for the convention we have seven people uh signed up and going from uh the uh District to from the board and five

058other staff members attending uh and it's in Milwaukee on January 22nd through the 24th trivia night coming up college game day is the theme uh please get your teams ready for the athletic booster club uh Saturday February 1st 2025 um the information is there for you to click on and uh be it's a good time had by many um also another opportunity for those of you who are interested in being active uh we have open seats available uh for our board uh there are three open seats with the possibility of a fourth with a recent resignation from the board um and uh all board required forms must be in by 5 o'l Tuesday January 7th I'm going to remind um board members that if your seat is up for election um yes uh you can

059sign a form of uh non non- candidacy if you do not wish to rerun but if you do wish to run um and you you do know that please let Lynn know ahead of time because she does have to keep the office open until uh if if she hasn't heard from you okay so and you know over the holiday break we have some differences in hours which is on our next slide I believe so if you can go to the next oh wait who I forgot we have a hiring campaign going on we are looking for a lot of pair of professionals right now and substitute teachers um Margaret asked me to make sure that I sh shared something if you know of anybody talk to Sarah Miller U or you can point this slide

060out to them and and push them towards HR um next um ESC will be open from 8 to 3 during our holiday break the dates there are on the left under the check mark on the right are other committees uh and non-school dates have any questions let me know is that less than five minutes good okay any questions awesome um fiscal management report I think uh Fred you may not be queued up for it uh but Mike was uh out of town for both the fiscal meeting um as well as he's out on another conference tonight so he's an excused absence um so if Fred you want to fire up the fiscal management if not uh Sarah's here uh between the two of you I'm sure you can handle we did three uh three topics

061that we talked about the first was the extracurricular activities uh they're building a plan of work on looking at the fiscal aspect of their extracurriculars we have policy review put up the lineup for the different extracurriculars so Margaret and Sarah are going to be working on that and they'll be bringing that back to fiscal uh referendum planning discussion we went through Sarah provided us the um fiveyear Financial forecast some of the assumptions that built into the planning process and this committee talked about that uh we will have two items up um for vote on tonight um um and and uh just a note that we discussed in the fiscal that um the 7 million that we're asking for the recurring operational is uh conservative number um we still have to be uh thoughtful about the

062reductions and overall spending on that it's not lavish um and then the last thing we talked about was a 10-year Capital man maintenance plan uh this was to be in compliance with fund 46 requirements uh the plan outlines what the district could address some of the maintenance needs in upcoming years again um the P work will likely impact this um but in the plan that you see that tonight is not actual representative the budgets amounts for those years so uh we had three action items the operational ballot language that's on tonight 10e Capital maintenance plan which is on tonight and uh there were no other bills um the month of bills will forward to the board me so uh and we finished up at 623 thank you very much Fred any questions for Fred or

063on the minutes okay great um next up is Ed Services I chaired that meeting on December 3rd all uh committee members were present plus distinguished guests uh we moved around the agenda a little bit to get an update from uh Jonathan Pickman and an Vali from the Middle School uh there are six new courses that were presented and those are resolutions uh for tonight um we then uh switched over to the director's report we got an update on the science up uh science uh curriculum update which has been ongoing um Elementary early or literacy update uh which also had some ACT 20 uh I don't say implications but act 20 was involved in that and then uh some um I'll call it exciting news Jason Whitaker agreed to take over summer school and um as

064part of that uh we know that that Runway is always surprisingly shorter than what you think it might be but when you're trying to line up uh enrollment you're trying to line up uh teachers uh Margaret uh you tend to run out of time very quickly on that and uh one of the action items as uh listed here in the meeting minutes was I suggested uh that uh Jason pull together uh interested parties in the next try to have three meetings in the next two months and uh for that I was hoping anybody on the board who was interested in being part of that kind of like when we do a curriculum review if there is any input you wanted to give Jason on how you wanted to help direct how summer school has run

065I'd encourage you to get a hold of him directly because he's going to be running those meetings it will be probably a posted meeting but I'm not sure uh just depending on who's all there uh and who he gets in the room but uh it will be something that he will take on directly outside of ed services but uh we've had a lot of energy on that subject in the past individually and so if you want to continue to put forth a little energy on that topic over the next two months Jason would be more than happy to have you there while he tries to get his feet underneath them so uh I mention that um let's see we had the student engagement uh survey results presented by Jason and Chris and then uh lastly

066was the full whs final course book proposal um which is also an agenda item uh for uh resolution this evening and um that was about it we adjourned I wouldn't call it promptly but we did adjourn and the next meeting is on January 14 have a question yeah so the summer school whatever board M are you looking for someone specifically should we talk about that now and get someone on there rather than have it open-ended and then no one that's uh forward we can certainly talk about that now if it I if you're interested raise your hand I mean um that that's kind of the way I wanted to run it Jason and and Sarah uden Haven I'm sure have a lot of good ideas they can pull from the teachers they can pull from

067uh Jamie they can pull from Best Practices because they've all Run summer schools Jason ran it at his former District Sarah was involved at her former District so I think that there's a lot of good ideas out there it's a question of does it align with wherever there were I don't want to call them gaps but uh differences and expectations between the board and what they've seen as best practices and I don't have I'm I'm not one of the people with a lot of energy on that subject in which case I'm not going to throw throw my hat in the ring to meet with Jason three times if if I can make a suggestion um if and it doesn't look like anybody's um wanting to throw their hat in the ring that's fine if you

068have information just give it to Jenny borest like if you have suggestions about what to think about what and then if they're confused about that they can always come back to ed services and say hey we heard this from board members we just want some clarification I think that would be a smooth process too see how Jenny's over summer school um and over Jason on that part of discussion so send anything her way and carbon copy and I've enjoyed Diana in the past when there's been curriculum review between all the professionals and all the experience I I have enjoyed the fact that there's been a board member present if if they've opted to be present because that keeps us plugged in from an ed services perspective and uh it allows there to be a little

069bit more consistency you did a great job of explaining the math curriculum that you were intimately involved with when it came up for review and so it's nice to have one of us there but not the subject matter experts and we also don't technically speak for the entire board when we're there but we are the best mouthpiece that we have absent of all nine of us being in the room for every meeting so uh I I leave it to each of you to do what Jared said or to ask Jenny if you can be part of it well thanks for that clarification because I was just going to say I appreciate when there's a board member so at least you have someone to go to right um I'm happy to throw you know someone take

070it if no one else is going to take it I'll take it just because I want someone there I see a motion Fred you got it di was that a motion oh Fred I thought he was pointing at you got it okay well uh yeah Jason and Jenny will get a hold of both you and see what they can figure out as far as putting some time in just to understand what we're trying to get out of it and uh yeah just keep us advised if Jason doesn't I mean I'm sure Jason will but at uh d you're on ed services so that might be a topic to present and we are really key on getting this done in January and February because Margaret's got to be up in front of it by March so

071we we don't want to have a mismatch in expectations of Staffing and curriculum um and if any kid is going to be said hey you know this is how you're performing you're welcome to do the athletic stuff but you also have to take a catchup course you you know so if that's going to be the hammer we're going to drop but that we're going to find out about that in the next two months and if it's possible so appreciate it okay um any other questions about ed services awesome uh next up uh Human Resources Margaret can you uh uh summarize that one for us please I put you into the spot yeah put spot so we have the consent agenda which is on tonight's cons consent agenda that we had a discussion about and uh

072just a note of Interest the admin contract for 2527 and extensions for 26 27 for those people on two years right now are included in the consent agenda uh the purpose in all of those contracts being put for at the same time is to align everyone among the administrative contract group into set time period right now we're alternating we spent a little bit of time uh talking about that and the reasons for that are to um set us up nicely for some upcoming proposed changes that will be brought to HR in over the next few months um we talked about the employee Wellness committee uh by a little update about the work that that is a volunteer Grassroots committee that has been um working on its own to develop some Communications and some activities to

073promote um employee wellness and wellbeing in our buildings we went through some of the challenges that have been offered there um they're doing a really nice job and then I mean we had followup meeting the next night and they're still doing a really fantastic job we talked about some concerns that have been brought forward with the support staff salary program that we implemented on July 1st we'll be having some followups discussions with the Consultants who develop that program um over the next couple months and and that is likely to be another topic on a a future agenda uh we also went over the substitute Staffing status report where we reported out the absences as well as the fill rates for various positions including the elementary secondary teachers um instructional and special Paras like J Jared

074had mentioned earlier we did see some improved statistics from from a comparison from last year but not precisely perfect so we'll continue to work on the Recruitment and Retention of of substitute staff to um you know counsil our regular staff our future meeting topics for next month include yes a consent agenda we'll also be talking with the consultant for both teacher and Sport staff salary programs and also going over a regularly scheduled exit and turnover report that was just kind molding into our annual reporting and we ended our meeting at uh amazingly 6:15 p.m. and um we next meet on January 20th at 5:30 p.m. okay thank you Margaret and that leaves us to planning was not our month to meet last month so we are up for January Jason and I are working on

075the agenda as we speak um we are still looking to get the superintendent evaluation on the calendar Lynn do we have everyone um in as far as availability I know that was sent out last week have we heard from all a couple two more so we're still waiting um if we can get those in tonight please until we hear from everyone we need to have everyone present um so if we can get that taken care of that would be great so that way we can get it scheduled right so yeah I I didn't have a lengthy discussion on email protocol um I I don't know how many people check it daily but I think weekly would be adequate uh at least responding to Open dates in January or February but we've missed opportunities for a

076couple of additional superintendent review meetings and now it's pushing out to well past the time where we even have an opportunity to have a meaningful conversation with Jared about his 20 25 goals uh and that's largely because we can't get responses not necessarily because we can't line up dates but because we're not scheduling until we hear from everybody so I'd appreciate that when you uh your your wusd email if you're not checking it daily um at least a couple times a week would be appreciate and then responding to those requests when you have the opportunity not to scold just an observation otherwise we have to start scheduling meetings without everybody there and that can lead to problems as well so and like we said last time whenever that was these superintendent meetings um will be

077prescheduled in the future um when that comes around I don't know but that way the dates will be on the calendar very far in advance and then the disadvantages you have to schedule around that then but that's just going to be the best solution we have because we know everybody's schedule is very busy okay any other questions for Diana regarding planning okay policy cig December was uh our scheduled month the meet um but per administrative Rec um request uh we were we were being though all that December was going to be a shorten month from November and we decided that we would uh meet in January and try to cover more ground as much as possible and that meeting will be on January 13th yeah six o'clock thank you again to the committee for giving

078this time I mean I know that it immediately like a day and a half later got sucked up with a expulsion hearing but um for at least a day and a half of time we felt like brether one night so okay um anything else or policy okay that brings us to our consent agenda uh resolution 9356 we have uh minutes from the board meeting multiple board meetings committee summaries personal Staffing approval Bills first reading of policies and uh no first reads tonight but several reads uh do here a motion motion second Diana discussion okay hearing none roll call ly Craig Wharton yes Lorie hen yes yes Diana Johnson yes Sam oil yes David Shader yes Dan bolman yes and the motion carries next up resolution 9357 uh the authorization of the School District budget to

079exceeded Revenue limit by $7 million for recurring purposes do I hear a motion motion BR second second Craig uh discussion I think we received an email clarifying what this motion means and I think it might be worthwhile to just state that out loud because the way that it's phrased the clip is a little bit we have his little fit Miss leaving I thank Sam that's why I asked the question thank you uh Sarah so I appreciate you I think you did a perfect job of explaining it uh that came out sometime this afternoon I don't know if everybody had a chance to read it but uh the way that the recommended action is worded it's a permission to exceed but that even precedes the approval of the going to referendum so if you can explain

080the the I'll say the statutory nature of this resolution would it be appreciated absolutely so it is required by Statute that the board approves the increase to the revenue limit in the year of 2526 and going forward not because we get to do that yet but just because if the referendum were to pass and it's allowed under law to do it so that's step one and then step two is the second resolution which outlines the process um which is also in statute and then approves the ballot language as well were there any questions on that uh from Sarah's update from earlier today Sam thanks for bringing it up okay no additional discussion uh roll call vote on uh 9357 Craig W yes Lorie Holland yes Fred Yan yes Diana Johnson yes Sam AO yes David

081Trader yes Dan bolner yes okay next up resolution 9358 um the recommended action is uh well I'll say it's providing a referendum election on the question of the approval of a resolution authorizing the School District budget to exceed revenue limit by 7 million doll for recurring uh purposes the statutory language is uh well let me take a motion first moved Craig second second Dan great um as Sarah explained and I'll I guess I'll just par re restate what you did there was a lot of language in this actual resolution uh the recommended action and as soon as I started seeing whereas is Nows and therefores and be it resolves I knew that Sarah probably didn't write it and that and that it was required by law before we uh pass a a resolution to uh

082put a item on the ballot um and so that was what I inferred but again Sarah did a good job of clarifying that today and we do have the draft ballot language can you pull that up Lynn um just so that everybody in the audience as well as online can see it Tyler have your control on the screen here appreciate that so that question uh with our vote tonight will be we'll read as follows shall the Watertown Unified School District Jefferson and Dodge counties Wisconsin be authorized to exceed the revenue limit specified in section 12191 one Wisconsin statutes by $7 million beginning with the 2025 2026 school year for recurring purposes consisting of operational instructional and maintenance expenses um this differs from the November resolution only in one word and that we inserted instructional uh

083Sarah did a good job of bringing several other pieces of draft uh uh referendums for fiscal to review uh two weeks ago and uh the takeaway from that the shorter the better um Sam and I even agreed to vote down one of them again uh because it was too long and it wasn't even [Laughter] ours yeah we we could see it where their taxpayers weren't going to approve that one either um so this is the language that we're being asked to approve as well as the rest of the language in the uh resolution which has already gotten a first and a second uh discussion questions awesome uh Lynn call the rooll Craig yes Lorie Hol yes Fred y yep Diana Johnson yes Sam oil yes David Sher yes Dan uh Dan bolner yes and the

084motion passes thank you all okay uh next is resolution 9359 RMS course of studies uh course editions and Updates this was referred to us by the ed Service committee from uh Pickman and uh Bali um details of all this uh are the six they're all here as well as were're discussed uh generally at length with two great presentations from those two instructors uh do I have a motion motion bred second second Sam uh discussion questions r c Craig Wartman yes Mar Holland yes frad y yes Diana Johnson yes Sam oo yes David Shader yes Dan bolner yes and the carries next is 93 was it 60 just roller B past it 9360 whhs course of studies um do I have your motion spread second Diana uh this is the full course book I don't think

085there's any changes since last month when we uh added when uh Jesse Domer added some items and then there was a German and a Spanish I think we tweaked and maybe some clarifications on L points or uh other AP uh but this is the whole book it's an entirety um I will say Jared that ed services wasn't a 100% sure if this was something that we needed to approve because we approved the coursework but we approved the book so not to say that we needed to take it out uh Craig and I had a discussion on it um I shouldn't say a discussion just some emails and debating uh we're fine with it being here it's here already we've already get a first and a second just for mostly a protocol uh is this something

086we want to do on a regular basis and and I I I'm for one and pushing that we do this on a regular basis for two reasons uh one um and it's not always the popular reason we do it because everybody else does but I've never been in a district where the board hasn't had a final say over the core study booklet um I know you have a say over the additions and subtractions but um you see only the additions and subtractions year-over-year and if you don't really see the whole uh course booklet or what that those additions and subtractions amount to for the continuation you never really have control over the curriculum right I'd love to be able to go back to our community and say our board has reviewed this in full and

087they do every year and this is why we're teaching these things that's an important step for you um and and I know it's not a big review that has to happen every year but if you do it every year you don't have a big thing to do each year so I'm also not recommending that it becomes automatic either I want it there for a reason because it's control over the curriculum that you have thank you yep any additional questions or comments um well given that I guess I would guess I would have preferred to have a larger in depth discussion about um the course course book at least here we still can yeah I mean this is the discussion time but uh I'm not opposed to it uh um obviously just like the additions we

088try to run those through at Services first uh and and I'm not saying that a old uh a book or or a class that's been running for 20 years would have hit our radar screen but I'm more than happy to delve in now if you had some comments questions or or review on this um I guess maybe I misunderstood the email you sent me as far as the hoping to understand more about it I didn't really well I guess I guess I I I I didn't understand the um the why yeah the why behind it and then given the why behind it U I'm not prepared to um approve that tonight okay got it uh going forward for ed services how should we do it differently well if if we're going to review the course

089book we should have a discussion about U those U those courses and you know uh if there's particular courses that haven't uh haven't had a uh review in some period of time we should probably have those discussions then I mean if if that's what the way it's going to be that on an annual basis the expectation is that the board approves a coursebook because they have some sort of um control over the curriculum uh by Statute then we should be having those larger UCT discussions okay okay how I've done this in the past is when I was a director of curriculum instruction um I always uh asked the board um you know sometime in about September you know gave that course booklet asked them to review it said do you have any questions about what

090we've been teaching or has anybody shared some concerns with you over any courses please bring those ideas concerns to our next meeting we talked about those along the way the high school principal or the Middle School principal uh would have uh talked with staff and talked about any additions subtractions to the course book that they think need to based on student interest and um what's changing in education um anything coming down from uh the state as to requirements and or changes to standards right and then we had a big discussion in October uh we um put those through to November um through the channels and then in this time of year we finalized the booklet so that we could go out for course selection to the students just after the start of the Year those

091are the things that I've talked with uh U Jenny Bor about you know is things I would like to see because uh if you get into a place where you're only doing the updates you lose track of the total you know total curriculum and what well I think that's that's Craig's point it's just that we've not routinely in in my three some years on ed services we we don't bring up the course book we bring up the changes yes and that's just a matter of uh talking to Jenny and making sure that we put some calendar space available whether it be in September or October Josh or whenever you guys start coming up with recommendations and gives us enough Runway to you know for any teacher or or building to bring up course changes in

092November and December like we've done this year I'm not opposed it's a good idea Craig uh and J are just I'll say a gap that we never knew that we weren't doing and just another refinement uh you guys know we're all about intentionality and making sure that we have plans that we work through our plans this is another change I suggested and you know I hope that we start adopting okay Di well in in November I believe it was we did have a brief not as in depth is what you're referring to but a brief conversation about right but we talked about what hasn't been run in a while we talked about the flowchart so we started a conversation not as in depth as what you're getting at but you know and not say not

093even thorough there were some highlights that Josh brought up because you knew there was gaps but it it never was it a okay I've reviewed the whole thing beginning to end no but he did talk about that they were reviewing that to look at courses that haven't been run in a while and cleaning it up and so I just want to State on behalf of our high school staff that efforts have been done maybe not the way we're discussing here but it's not like they haven't done anything with it you know that's why we have the list of updates I think correct me if I'm wrong um but there's also I like how they have it highlighted you know even in the update piece so yes beyond the updates but they did a deeper dive

094this year I think than what's been done in the past okay but I think what you're saying is we need to take a little bit closer look yeah and U perhaps maybe um along lines of far as I'm aware um like the the particular course of human growth and development there's going to be um a regular there's supposed to be a regular review of that particular um Curriculum by the board St statutorily and as far as I can tell I'm not sure if that a conversation that's been had so got it there there are a number of things you guys know that I've said um we uh continue to um have to address right and put some protocols in place this is a positive step forward in in the the course description um you know

095looking at cours work and having some control all the way to the board level over that I'm not saying that you know we have to stop this today and we can't go forward we've been going forward for you know W with less oversight for a number of years the oversight this year has increased to the level that you I've asked that um it come to the full board's attention full book um next year we'll have a couple of other things in place and we'll just keep getting better we can't do everything at once you know it's continually improving okay so who's taking the who's going to remind Jenny is that me Lyn or you to get this on Ed service next well I think putting it on the ed services calendar that's I'm saying yeah

096is is Paramount but Jenny and Jen and Jenny knows that and I'm on I'm here so I've been listening so okay awesome yeah okay uh Craig I understand your point um any additional discussion comment on this I I I agree with Craig for what for what it's worth as a brief comment yeah okay thank you um roll call vote Craig Wardman no Lorie Holland yes Fred Yan yes Diana Johnson yes Sam oil no David Shader yes Dan volner yes okay and the motion carries all uh Sam and Craig I appreciate your descent um and we'll uh work to get better okay next was the uh Biz trip uh presented to us earlier this evening uh student trip in 20127 uh do I hear a motion no second BR Diana great uh discussion uh I don't

097think she's gone yeah she's gone I was just going to ask which particular NGO they're going to be visiting because there's quite a number of them in Bel but U yeah um that's something that I would feel like I would want to know before I was comfortable uh you know voting yes yes or yay on this okay and I don't have that answer I I didn't see it as part of the material a to what it's also not listed in the supplementary materials I just got to print it out but I can definitely find out and report back to sure okay any additional discussion okay roll call please Craig Wartman yes Lorie Holland yes Fred y yes Diana Johnson yes Sam o no David Shader yes Dan bman yes great last uh resolution is 9362

098the 10-year maintenance plan do I hear a motion motion second Diana and this was reviewed at fiscal um anybody want to talk about it or ask questions about it understood as a document this is a if I'm correct this is a kind of a rough outline of a projection of what we might want to do this is not set in stone it's not exact numbers anything like that I you and I talk about yeah perfect no I'm glad you mentioned it s um it needed to be said just so that nobody thinks we approving this exct yeah this several million dollar spend but it's good to know um not only if you just had an extra dollar what you would spend it on but the the Deferred maintenance that's out in front of us so

099that we're not caught off guard with what's out there to be done so it's I'm glad that we have this document out there although it's not uh this is required right to have a plan uh that was what was stated uh Sarah we have to have a plan of this approved for which fund 46 thank you okay um any additional discussion comment question I just want to say thank you for all the work that Kevin you and Sarah put into this uh plan having this plan on record really is a good communication tool because if we can't meet the budgetary needs at least it keeps track of what we were looking to do and if it doesn't get done right we have now a list of deferred maintenance over the years that we we can

100share out with the public um and so it's not just saying we've deferred maintenance for the last 10 years you know it's saying here's what we deferred in maintenance that was on our plan and so it's really going to propel us forward and I know it takes a lot of work but I just want to say thank you because this is a really a big step in the right direction for our school district to have something on paper that we can be uh transparent about and say this is what we're looking to do so I appreciate that question just this is a little bit out of my I in the 10 this but this isn't necessarily in a like priority alert order there's colors there colors that's okay so obviously those colors can change I'm

101assuming if all of a sudden heat goes out or you know something then you just have to readjust the priorities yep that's the way I understood it but I think I might have asked the same question yeah like the Lights On David Shir good and it was it wasn't that it wasn't that we didn't have uh ten your Capital maintenance plan they just this is approval of right up thanks okay any additional discussion okay uh roll call vot then Craig Wartman yes Lorie Holland yes Brad y yes Diana Johnson yes Sam yes David ster yes Dan bman yes awesome motion carries uh this concludes the bulk of the work that we had out in front of us this evening uh and brings us to our second opportunity for public comment same rules as the first

102uh we're setting aside 15 minutes please keep your comments to three minutes um and fill out the card and uh state your name when you arrive at the podium my public comments J St the Main Street um I know that we've had a lot of major uh issues to address uh last year and this year and we've made a lot of progress um given the armed robbery that happened two blocks away from the middle school on Friday during school hours and what happened in Madison today I think it's time to take a real look at school safety security and possibly even teachers with the ability to carry on grounds I am aware that last year a presentation was given to the board to the superintendent by Elite lock and key at a extremely discounted rate

103about updating security measures at the school I don't think this is something we can just keep pushing off or not want to talk about because it's taboo and it's going to cause conflict and people have opinions Because by the time we get around to doing it it may be too late I think crime has been up in in our our town I mean that's every town uh we've got some real serious issues there was an armed robbery at the speedway granted one in the morning two months ago that's close to Lincoln School so we need to really address safety and not just be like oh we we have this plan within the school we got we got to do something a little more and I think it's getting to the point where we are a

104country that permits um the bearing of arms our Second Amendment right and I think teachers should be able to have the ability to to exercise that right um and that's all I have to say thank you thank you oh great I live 1118 I'm a retired teacher um as far as teachers uh being able to carry I would strongly oppose that um even uh policemen who have to practice on a regular basis at a range at a controlled situation do not always hit that the Target that they're aimed at when you're a teacher that is not your main Force that's not what you're doing you're not going to arrange every five every how many other weeks or however it is to practice so it's not something you do on a regular basis when you're in

105a in an active shooter basis you're in a very emotional situation and the kids are very emotional that is not a time that you're want a teacher trying to shoot someone what happens if that teacher misses as a policeman might miss that teacher now has to live with the fact that they have hit a have hit a student or maybe another staff member that's not something you want your teachers doing I'm not opposed to safety obviously but that is one particular aspect that I would be desperately opposed to I would never want to be a teacher that carries and then has to live with the fact that I am his student in emotional situation thank you anyone else please okay I'm G to close public comment Dan you're not going to let you spring up

106just yet I could see you there I can see it um I did have uh turns out there was just four other things and they're relatively uh small or just statements uh one as you all know we do have a vacan uh on the board I receive formal notification at 3 p.m. on Friday afternoon that Tina Johnson has resigned uh we will uh start moving through that process immediately there's several uh both uh our own policies as well as State uh laws regarding that as far as when it has to be filled what the timelines are and what happens if it's not filled Etc but given that was relatively recent I.E just the not even one full business working day uh just uh be it known that uh Jared and myself and I'll probably pull

107in Craig a little bit too from policy uh to make sure that we're uh doing everything we can to uh do that as exp expeditiously and accurately as possible um next up um I just received I'm the I'm the delegate to wasby um so I will be going to the delegate convention which is I think the Wednesday before our next board meeting that being said uh Jared do you have a copy of this packet I think okay and I'm the only one that that got it but I got it on Friday so uh last year uh at the board meeting I was able to brief you all on some of the content some of the items that were being proposed for changes to their uh policy book I didn't have an opportunity to review that

108and couldn't get it on the agenda anyway I think that Lynn and Jared and I agreed before this meeting that we will make copies of these documents and get them out to all of you so that you can see what wasby is agreeing to recommend for their policy book as well as the recommendations from from certain districts that they are declining to put into the book uh that actually tends to be more instructive than what they are adding is what they're not not taking up The Challenge on uh if you have comments on that I would encourage you just to feed them back to uh Jared and I as the Delegate for Watertown I need to speak or vote on behalf of all of us but we're also not getting into a Walkin Quorum and

109we're not going to have another meeting to discuss these items I'm only one voice of whatever number of I think though we have an opportunity with policy coming up on the 13th we maybe just put a a discussion on the first end of that um and uh and if there's anything we can ra put it in there yeah and most of you will be there uh prior to that meeting there's a number of uh chair yeah department heads right who are going to be there well we're going to meet on the 13th or prior for the chair's meeting right and then after that so okay it you know it might be a good place for people uh we can get these out ahead of time and if you have a respon resp that you would

110like collectively for David to have um at least the the committee could give him some guidance okay yep that's fine I'm more than happy to vote whatever our quote unquote majority op opts to raise my hand on at the delegate convention um number three uh I was a late ad again this year to the aesa conference last year I did it willingly because I'd never been to Anaheim before this time uh I found out five days before I was supposed to go that they expected me in Orlando um I went it was 70 degrees it wasn't bad uh two years ago I think or last year I think I explained to all you guys that I spent a lot of my time going to AI uh AI is still huge uh all the CES the

111uh uh Association of support agen education support agencies AA uh for the nation um I'd say 25 30% of those things were on how AI is impacting education both on how to write lesson plans and how kids are using it to solve less plans um so I don't want to say it's a gap here at Watertown but uh it it could be if we don't get in front of it and I'm not sure I I was texting Jared during the conference saying okay who's got this he threw Jason under the bus uh I suggested I suggested an AI Club um Melissa I'm looking at you yeah yeah yeah thank you um is a uh so an AI Club just to let you know that it's still a a big push from the AAS and then

112the other thing I went to were several things followed up from our Last Retreat which was board development and how a better boardsmy to be good and lastly uh the last item here is a gift for our secretary clerk uh Lynn it's coming at you girl Merry Christmas from the board so we appreciate all your help uh I I don't know what everybody I mean you're here too many hours uh and and definitely undercompensated so that's our uh Merry Christmas thank you you you're welcome thank you so much that was really nice yeah I I didn't know if you saw me putting in that room I was trying to hide a bik the thought you were leing your something good I put it in my wife's office now you got get another one great okay

113uh nothing else for the greater good okay Merry Christmas adjourned we need a motion in a second and a roll call okay roll call my do we have to roll call no no you can do voice voice acclamation everybody in favor of a journey I've never adjourned a meeting for I understand that