001This is diamond place. We got a quorum present. Stand for the pledge, please. I pledge to the United States of America and to the republic for it stands nation. Then can you call the role? Charity Chandler here. Tammy Porier. Mike Higgins here. Diana Johnson here. Sam Owen here. Carl Schwarzy. Dan Boltner here. Craig Wartman here. Tammy's here. Okay. Now, this is the time where we preview the agenda. Um, any any changes, Lynn? No, I don't have any. Okay. Then we will uh start with board reorganization. Uh we'll start with the election of board president. Do I have any nominations for board president or any nominations? [Music] I nominations I nominate Mike Higgins. Okay. Is there a second? I'll second. Are there any other nominations? Any any other nominations? Okay, nominations are closed. Will you please
002uh send the ballots? Uh two um nominations, one for Craig Wartman, one for Mike Higgins. Ballots are coming around. join the meeting. While uh while Lynn is gathering the votes and tallying them, I do want you to be aware that there are uh some possible storm warnings for tonight. It looks like it's alleviated a little bit in our area, but if there is an emergency, we will be going down this hallway, down the back stairways into the basement in case of a tornado warning. Just wanted to let everybody know that. and congratulations to Craig Wartman, board president. Come on up. You can start running the rest of the meeting. Great. I have just a couple of notes for you when you get here, though. Okay. All right. Thank you for your confidence. I am definitely
003humbled um and honored. Um, and I think uh good things are going to happen moving forward. So, I appreciate that. Um, let's open the nominations for vice president. Do we hear is there nomination for vice president? I nominate Sam O'Neal, vice president. I second that. Any other nominations for vice president? I'll do mine. Second nominations for Mike first and seconded. All right. Any other nominations for vice president? Hearing none. Congratulations, Sam. Vice President, congratulations. Tina, join the meeting. I know I'll open the nominations for board clerk. Do I hear any nominations? I nominate Tammy. Is there a second? I'll second it. All right. Any other nominations? I'll nominate Diana Johnson. No second. Okay. So, we have uh nominations for Tammy and Diana for board clerk. Was there any other nominations? Hearing none. She's now closed.
004Congratulations, Tammy. I know. Open the nominations for uh board treasurer. Do I hear a nomination for board treasurer? I nominate Kyle Schwarzy. Is there a second? Second. First by Tammy, second by Sam. Nominate Mike. Nomination for Mike. Is there a second? Second. Secure. Seconds for nomination for Mike. Any other nominations for board treasurer? Nominations are now closed. was a nice deal. Didn't get much of it. 5 minutes outside. Congratulations to Carl for the new for the board treasurer seat. Now it's the time where we make a board appointment for the deputy clerk. traditionally that has been um win the superintendent's assistant. Do I hear a motion? Second. Second. All right. It has been moved and seconded by Dan to appoint Lyn Linskins as the deputy clerk. Roll call vote. Charity Chandler, yes. Tammy Four, yes.
005Mike Higgins, yes. Diana Johnson, yes. Sam Owen, yes. Dan Boltner, yes. Craig Wharton, yes. letter um under this particular uh board reorganization uh pertains to board committee assignments and representatives. It has been customary for this board uh for the board president to uh receive uh the emails from board members indicating their priority um for the committee assignments. Uh so I would ask uh board members to send me uh the top four desired committee assignments as well as if they would desire to chair uh any committee seat then right I just asked can you send an email on that also? I I will just absolutely I would send that out. Uh the intention then would be to have that information uh if we can try to have that information in by Wednesday because there is a
006uh we we tenatively had scheduled hopefully more than tenatively scheduled a u committee chair's appointment that would be coming up next Monday to have a discussion about uh expected norms going forward for those particular meetings. Um, all right. Which brings us to uh the appointment of the CISA 2 delegate. I guess I would ask, is there any interest in stepping up to be the CISA 2 delegate? And because it's been a while and I believe that our previous DISA delegate is no longer with us, can you brush us all up on what it means to be a CISA 2 delegate? So, usually I believe the the meetings occur in Whitewater um probably monthly. uh the CISA 2 delegate can be nominated to be to represent our particular region at CISA 2 and uh that may
007require a little bit more of a time commitment but the meetings may be quarterly if not so um I'll volunteer for that if uh no one else is interested play interest from Sam was there any interest for All right. Well, thank you, Sam, for stepping up for that. There's um there's also the WASBY delegate at the WASBY state convention. Was there any interest in uh serving in that particular role as WASBY delegate where uh you would go before uh the W well during the convention they'll have a de delegate session by which you'll weigh in and represent our school district on particular issues. Yeah. And so every year they do uh they gather resolutions from all the member boards uh and uh pull those together and then as the delegate assembly um you get to
008go represent this board um and vote on those resolutions uh for WSB. There's a little bit of a training that happens and then you go and um you hear them out and then take a position for the board on that vote. Happens one day uh in January after that was David last year, right? It was. It was matter of fact, he did last two years. Okay. So, uh we can keep that open. We'll bring it back next month for um consideration. If if it's something that's of interest to you, please feel free to email. That brings us to uh the f one first of two opportunities for public comment. I would ask the public to um if as they step up, please indicate your name and address for the record. There's also a sheet that
009we would like you to sign so that we have that for our records as well. Please keep your comments um uh civil in nature and um please do not direct your comments at any one particular board member or any particular one one particular staff member. Um uh I appreciate your uh cooperation on that. You'll have three three minutes for public comment. Go ahead. I'm a fourth grader at Leap Elementary and I would like you to stop using weed killer on all school grounds. Last year we planted a large pumpkin patch behind our playground. Our school has a produce cart where people can leave donations in exchange for things we have grown at school. Because of the weed killer use on our school grounds, an entire pumpkin patch was killed out and we weren't able to
010make any money from the pumpkin patch. This spring will we will be getting bees at least. Did you know that dandelions are one of the first food sources for bees? The use of weed killer on school property makes it hard for bees to naturally find their own food in early spring. We also have chickens and goats at our school. These animals both graze on the grass and the use of chemicals can be harmful to them. The weed killer is also harmful to children. The one of and one of our favorite things to do at leap is to be outside in nature. We have multiple outdoor classrooms and large grass covered play play areas. Lastly, weed killer is very expensive. Between June 2024 and November 2024, the Watertown School District spent over $7,000 on weed killer.
011And this doesn't include the cost of staff or equipment used to spread the weed killer. I created a petition and it turns out I'm not the only one who believes that weed killer should not be used on school grounds. Over the last 3 weeks, I collected 591 signatures from other people who agree with me. Please stop using weed killer on school grounds. Thank you. Anybody any other anybody online? I I I'll go. I'm Stacius Studio um here in Watertown. I won't give my address for some things that's happened in the last month. Um I would like to welcome all the board members. Um happy to have you guys here. I want to remind you guys that you were elected. It was a mandate from the community. What the community has been voicing for the last
012two years is transparency. Girls spaces to be safe. Um the draft C vote went through. Not real sure what's going on with the soft launch that administration gave to the district um employees. We need to clean up the curriculum. The political agendas, the indoctrination need to go. Um, we're a public school system. Academic curriculum, not that hard. Fiscal responsibility. I think, uh, that was another outcry from the community. No idea where money goes. That's why the referendum didn't pass. We've been going to strategy meetings, coming to board meetings, speaking to you guys, and you just don't seem to hear us, which is another reason why the referendum didn't pass. Um, I know I've put in a number of records requests, administration is irresponsible and unresponsive unless I put their feet to the fire. I'm hoping
013that that can be resolved now that we have a new board. I'm hoping also with the new appointment that um the board will listen to what the community has been crying out instead of resorting to a hat pole where the appointed member pulled at the bottom the last two elections. Um lastly, it's my first time back since the last appointment. I want to thank you for actually letting me speak and and not taking my papers away from me and my constitutional uh rights being stomped on like the last president did. The community took notice and that's how we got where we are today with you board members. Um thank you for listening and I look forward to working with you next year. Thank you. Good evening ma members of the board, parents and community members.
014Can you can you identify yourself for the record? My name is Cadence Leoo. Um I live at N9680 Pleasant Heights Circle um in Watertown and I am a student at RMS. I'm here tonight because something very important to me and many other students is being taken away. Because the referendum did not pass, our district is being forced to make painful budget cuts. One of those cuts is laying off teachers like my music teacher, Miss Greer. And I don't just think that it's not fair to her and to us. Miss Greer is more than a music teacher. She's someone who makes every student feel seen and valued. She teaches us how to express ourselves, to be confident, and how to work together. Her classroom is one of the few places in school where students of all
015backgrounds come together and create something meaningful. She doesn't just teach music, she builds a community. I understand that money is tight. I understand that tough decisions have to be made. But when we cut teachers like Miss Greer, we are cutting opportunities for students to grow together. Please remember that behind every budget line is a person, a classroom, and a future. I'm asking you on behalf of my classmates to fight for our teachers, to fight for Miss Greer and to find a way to keep the heart of our schools alive. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? Nothing online. No additional comment. Okay, public comment is now closed, which brings us to uh announcements and recognition and communications. We happen to have uh do we have our student representative, Edison? All right. Hi. So, over since last
016time I've been here, WHS has had many more accomplishments and events. So, our juniors had the opportunity to apply for direct admit to be admitted into most of the UW schools. Prom is being held May 3rd for the students. Postprom is also being held at the Elk Lodge uh for students 11 through two where students have the opportunity to win prizes and play games. This is an exciting time for seniors especially to get prizes that are for college. Along with their last event before graduation, WHS held the Children's Day Fair April 12th. Teacher Appreciation Week is coming up May 5th through 9th. The WHS forensics team competed at the state competition at WMadison. Freshman and sophomores took the preac. April 9th. 12 students attended HOSA state competition in the Wisconsin Devils. The Wartown High School
017visual arts classic team participated in the state VAC competition at Edgewood College on April 11th. Warttown brought home six medals, gold medals, four silver medals, and one bronze medal. Show choir performed at elementary schools in the middle school and performed for the community to see. FCCLA members competed at state and two students, Paige Walter and Nadia Smith, qualified for nationals in Florida this summer. and spring sports have officially started having their games and practices. Thank you. Thank you, Addison. And we have board member recognition. Um, we would just want to read the resolution or do we introduce introduce? Okay. Well, the two new Yes. Uh, welcome to the board. Tammy Fornier and Carl Schwarzy just recently got elected to the board on April 1. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. We also have to recognize uh with
018with uh uh two outgoing board members uh Lori Holland and David Trader. Um, Ry Holland, if you'd come forward background over here's got your resolution. Congratulations. Thank you. You bet. Thank you. Am I good? Did you want to say anything or? Um, no. Thank you for the opportunity. Um, I don't think I really knew what I was getting into even though I had been to many board meetings before I was on the board. Um, I feel like there's a lot of work that still needs to be done. I'm proud of the work that we did do and uh, keep up the good work. I'll be around. Thanks a lot. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Lori. Thank you. Congratulations. So, resolution 9380. Uh, whereas Lori Holland has served as a member of the board of education
019of the Watertown Unified D School District for the last three years. And whereas she has served with distinction and dedication while representing and promoting the best educational interests of the youth of the Watertown Unified School District. and whereas she has also served as a board clerk as well as on a number of special committees of the board of education. Therefore, be it resolved that the board of education of the Watertown Unified School District does hereby express its appreciation and gratitude to Lorie Holland for her unselfish public service and for the significant contributions she has made to the Watertown Unified School District and public education. Do I hear a motion? Second. It has been moved and seconded by Sam. Uh mo moved by charity and seconded by Sam. Uh all those in favor I. Any opposed?
020All right. Uh David Shrader here. I haven't seen him. Okay. We'll make sure he gets his little gift there. All right. Whereas David Trader has served as a member of the board of education of the Watertown Unified School District for the past four years. And whereas he has served with the distinction and dedication while representing and promoting the best educational interests of the youth of the Watertown Unified School District. and whereas he has also served as board vice president and board president as well as a number of special committees of the board of education. Therefore, be it resolved that the board of education of the Watertown Unified School District does hereby express its appreciation and gratitude to David Schrader for his unselfish public service and for the significant contributions he has made to the Waterton
021Unified School District and public education. this uh resolution 9281. Do I hear a motion? I move. It has been mo moved by Dan and seconded by charity. All those in favor? Any opposed? The motion has been carried. We have some generous donations. Yes, I have a number of donations here. Uh you can also see them in the public content for the board meeting. Um and uh we usually go through these um and thank uh those donors for um giving uh to many programs. Uh this um happens to be uh Skills USA uh for $1,000 anonymous donation. Uh Cusal Equipment $1,250 to Skills USA. Glory Global Solutions, $1,500 to Skills USA. Jerry Heep Excavating, $500 to Skills USA. Yeah, go ahead. Pass it around. Uh, Components Plus LLC, $500. Skills USA. RTOR Heating and Air Conditioning,
022$1,000 to Skills USA. Phips Motors, $250, uh, to Skills USA. Integrity Wire EDM Incorporated, $400 to Skills USA. State Bank of Breezeville, excuse me, Reeseville, $1,000 to Skills USA. And Johnsonville for $1,000 Skills USA. Like again, uh thank all of those donors uh to help uh especially this for Skills USA. Um it's really appreciated. Thank you. Next is um up for uh our strategic discussion. The Watertown the Greater Watertown Community Health Foundation update. Well, good evening. Thank you for the time. There's a new face that I know and I'm new. My name is Ben Weim. I'm the president CEO of the Greater Watertown Health Foundation. I started full-time with the foundation at the end of 2024. Prior to that, I was a Jefferson County administrator for about 11 and a half years. I'm also a
023retired Army officer time on active duty in the National Guard as well. My colleague Tina Crave is here. You many of you probably still know her uh know her when she's the founding CEO of the foundation. She has now moved into a new role called the chief transformation officer for us and we'll talk through why that initiative kind of took place going forward. And so I want to thank you for this opportunity as you look at this upcoming term and what that transition might be. We too are in transition at the foundation as we look to the future. Not only what we have done, but what we're trying to build towards the future. And our goal tonight is just open that conversation with you all and look at maybe potential opportunities for alignment in the
024future going forward. So part of the conversation was really to talk about the history briefly about the foundation. Some know who we are and some don't know quite who we are. So the foundation really started in 2015 uh when the hospital sold to an entity called Lifepoint and during that process a joint venture board was developed. So LifePoint owned 80% of the hospital and the foundation owned 20% of the hospital. The foundation still owns 20% of the hospital to this day. And then a few years ago, LifePoint turned the ownership over to an entity called Cyan Health, which was just kind of a spin-off of their organization going forward. We're one of 18 community hospitals that that help happen to. So that really created the endowment that we use and manage on a day-to-day basis
025to really look at the investments within the various communities. Our two county service area. Our primary is Jefferson and Dodge County and our direct service area is basically a far north to Juno down in the city of Jefferson and envision those school districts are involved there going forward. Besides the endowment, we also have various uh real estate holdings. So we own senior housing complexes that are close to in a joint venture environment next to the hospital. Um many of you are aware of the collective that is the old Bethesda Luther home campus. So we have the collective proper which is the main corporate headquarters where the new YMCA is building addition onto. We have approximately nine businesses nonprofit and for-profit that lease from us besides our entity being there. Um as well um also part
026of that is we have some uh property that we do lease out with community partners for needs of the community. uh specifically the cornerstone of Grace and what that looks like. And then finally, the big part of our uh real estate holdings is the remaining property that's vacant that is now becoming a new housing development. Partially on that property too was last year with support of Jefferson County in the state we opened a youth crisis stabilization facility, the third of its kind in the state. Ultimately, our goal and our foundation elements is how do we create thriving communities and strong families? And tonight we hope we can talk through briefly those opportunities as we look. So we have three primary core focus areas that we focus in on. Um and sometimes we get asked how
027did you get to those points and a lot of this how do we again goes back to those principles of thriving communities and strong families. So we look at community involvement. So as we talked Tina has new role. The board looked at different ways based on community feedback of the needs of the various communities and the engagement that could take place in partnership. That included community involvement, looking at strategic plans, comprehensive plans of partners, and ultimately looking at data. What do those outcomes look like? These are ongoing efforts. An example right now is we're working through what's called a community health assessment with the three medical systems in the twocount region and the two counties as we look to the needs of the future from a health standpoint. We are also planning a youth summit
028on November 7th and we look for opportunities to engage the youth in that process going forward and how they can be part of that leadership process for change along specifically as it relates to youth mental health. We do this for various functions uh direct funding to common use uh grants for everything from projects programs seed funding for certain positions with various entities planning processes etc. We do a lot of work on facilitation and collaboration bringing folks to the table have those conversations and finally how we look at policy for the future at various levels. Our three uh focus areas ultimately become this it's housing. So as I mentioned uh we do we're into development right now. So the Rock River Ridge will have 188 housing units when it is done including single family twins and
029a multif family component. Our first 12 single family homes went on the market about just eight weeks ago and they are gone which show us the kind of demand that we're having this summer we begin our next phase of infrastructure construction but if you go out there today you got four houses with sticks out of the ground uh two additional foundations poured and the multif family will begin this summer going forward. Not only are we directly engaged in that development we also look at utilization of financing instruments to make housing happen. So in partnership with the Dodge County Housing Authority, we provide some gap financing specifically for a project up in Juno County across from Dodgeund schools. And this upcoming summer, we'll begin a process for additional housing through gap financing for LOL. In the
030Jefferson County region, we were part founding partners what was called the live local development fund which has multiple partners nonprofit for-profit and local government to develop a revolving loan fund for gap financing of housing that is now up to $9.5 million with various partners and the first projects will roll out this summer going forward. We continue to look at efforts related to housing both from an affordability and product standpoint, but in general, this region is close to 3,500 units short of housing needs based on current demand needs. That feeds into our efforts related to community and economic development. So, we serve in things such as thrive economic development. Just last week, we went to the Madwalk Summit with Biz Times talking about the promotion of workforce development and those opportunities within this region. And that
031ties to you all as you educate our future workforce and for the future. Early childhood education is also a key area that we looked at and there's many subcategories to that. One area is how do we look at child care entities as themselves in the last two years with various uh capital investments in planning about 532 child care slots have been developed in the twocount region. Now they're slots doesn't mean they're fully staffed slots and obviously I think many of you are aware of some of the crisis for staffing just like many other positions for child care. We also have engaged with Mass and College with the development of education program specifically geared towards early childhood education. There's been about 26 uh folks have gone through that program. Um and finally we've tried and work
032look at options such as employer sponsor care to see if that could be a way to help with what child care looks like. But key component also in early childhood care education is really focus on preparation for kindergarten. what does that look like? Specifically from a development standpoint and academic um areas looking ahead to the future. Uh so we focus on things like opportunities for literacy. Uh we're I have about 70% of the families eligible use the Dolly Parton program that we sponsor. That means you got 70% of our families are going to book every month for their to read with their kiddos and looking at that opportunity moving forward. You'll see throughout the areas we have a program called talk replay in partnership with many including the library here in Watertown along with many
033other partners. The whole idea is engaging in that learning process both with families and community to move forward and really get at literacy issues going forward along with other um academic outcomes going forward. One of our key metrics the board identified is the third grade reading score. Um, and that's an outcome we're looking at for our communities because there's so much direct information related to third grade reading scores and what does that outcome look like for folks coming out for workforce of the future. And finally, our last major thing is all uh is related to mental health and that's where Latina's role is coming into now as transformation officer. We're partnering with our community partners in including the two counties the uh medical providers and what are those gaps of need and really that a
034continuity of care but also youth mental health One thing that really struck us is as we looked at youth mental health is really uh 2012 and 2012 is I think as you there's this book called the anxious generations. Um and if you would like a copy we happen to have a few here tonight but it's really a conversation piece of what took place with smartphones interactions in school social isolation and things along that nature. All 50 states are in a process of looking at um bills related to that in some fashion. uh state of Wisconsin has one going forward right now that's passed to the assembly and gone through Senate committee uh related to what it looks like for uh a version of full free school letting the local authorities have that ability to what
035does that look like but this was based on really what does the data look like for depression and anxiety in our youth so an example is about 42% of our uh young ladies uh have depression in 2012 that number was uh closer to 15% for boys it's now about 21%. In 2012, that number uh was actually higher about 26%. So the goal of those conversations in that book is really to have that conversation of how do we as community look at the issues going on with our youth and it it crosses both lines. So I think you can find folks uh who are engaged with this. I know uh Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty as an example are hosting a session coming up for school boards and this is a conversation piece with their
036guest speaker um who was part of the ancient generation uh to folks on the other side of the aisle. So it's an opportunity to look at what is best for everybody because that's a community effort going forward. It's also conversation of play-based activities and I think that's a lot of it um going out in the backyard getting engaged with events and socialization as we look forward. I think the other key thing is after 2012, you look at math scores, reading scores and science scores, there's a pretty dramatic drop off and not was not just in this region. This was globally of what that looked like. Again, some direct and indirect correlations with everything that took place since 2012 and some other subsequent events since that case going forward. So ultimately our goal as we look
037at mental health and youth mental health is really how do uh how do we stop it at a pyramid, right? the highest point is that youth crisis stabilization facility that we talked about. Our goals with partners is how do you stop it at that early level? Um we don't have enough providers uh to take care of it. Plus you look at the outcomes that it looks like. So an example state of Wisconsin the average number of mental health providers per resident is 420. In Dayne County that number is 220. Jefferson County that number is roughly 850 residents per mental health provider. and then Dodge County is about 870. Now, the numbers have gotten a little bit better since that data was produced, but still still shows you that deficit and quite frankly, we can't necessarily
038spend our way out of that process going forward. So, our goal in these conversations is how do we uh work with schools, other providers to look at how do we look at the continuity and be more preventive what that looks like. So, there's a lot more we're going to have a conversation on. I know you have a full agenda tonight with some significant decisions ahead of you, but we really want to just talk through some of those opportunities that we could see alignment with the transition of this board transition that we're doing as an entity for the foundation and look at ways if there's strategic uh investments that we could make together that make sense with the vision that you are heading in going ahead to the future. So, we we appreciate the opportunity to
039talk. Uh we welcome any one-on- ones meetings you may have that if you want to come see us at the foundation or someplace else for a cup of coffee and kind of talk through what we're going to uh we're going through. So, as part of the anxious generation, we'll also give the impact report. So, when you talk through the three things we talked about tonight, you're going to see data related to mental health issues we working on, child care, housing, and the investment at the foundation. So, you can kind of see what where those dollars are being invested. So, Greg, I appreciate the opportunity to talk to the whole board tonight and look forward to future conversations with you all. Yeah. Um, if you could save me a copy of that book, I'd appreciate it.
040We have a copy for everyone who would like one. Where's the money coming from? Which part? Well, with all the grants that you're handing out, where are you getting the money from? So the endowment um we invest it like everyone else um and we look at the marketplace and we have impact investing might it might be below um market rate then we also hit market rate and the dividends interested off of that is how we make it. We have a metrics from a business standpoint that makes sure that we keep to what the original endowment was the cost of dollars today so it always grows so we can make sure that investment that was endowed continues for the community going. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? All right. Well, thank you. I just want to
041share one thing that uh Ben kind of glossed over, but something I think that has been very important to the board over the last couple of years is um they have uh funded many grants to us to be able to do board development. Uh and that's how we've been able to get the money to do some professional development. We've been getting together and talking and looking through those things. That's one of their main missions to help support other leaders in the community. Uh and I, you know, just say I appreciate uh them helping us out with that fast. All right. Well, thank you. Uh also up for strategic discussion tonight is um the Neola policy 6320. This was uh specific to purchasing authority. uh this comes by way of recommendation of the committee. This was
042a somewhat of a split uh decision within the comm community within the within the policy committee and as well as um the individuals who were in attendance of that committee and u the committee felt that was the best practice to bring it forward to the board for further discussion. uh specifically uh traditionally the purchasing authority uh had been at a threshold of $20,000 and um this particular the committee felt that it should be uh reduced to $15,000 uh given given the uh the nature of the failed referendum and uh that more oversight would be uh preferred over less oversight when it comes to district uh discretionary spending. Uh so those thresholds uh you'll see indicated in the policy of well looks like it's been updated $15,000. Uh there is a there is a spot under
043competitive bids that was indicated as $250,000 for uh the competitive bid process for single items, materials or equipment. That previous dollar amount threshold as I understand it via the policies current policies that you have uh attached there was $50,000. Uh so that is about a 400% increase. Uh I that that has yet to have a discussion behind that. Uh also instructional textbooks, resources, books, tapes, workbooks, educational kits, periodicals, computer equipment, software, professional development, audio, visual materials, miscellaneous and operational supplies of less than 20,000. Um I believe that should also be 15. Uh then under trend provisions contracts can be awarded by the superintendent or designate without board approval for any single item or group of identical items of costing less than $15,000 not $40,000. And then the debarred contractors that I believe um that was
044existing language uh for any contractor subcontractor with a value of ex in excess of $25,000. Uh did anybody maybe maybe I'll turn it over to superintendent if he happens to have any uh other comments to add. Just by the way a history especially for our our newer members. Um the last time uh before our recent policy committee meeting um this was brought up was brought up in November at the policy committee meeting. Um and uh our business office uh did recommend uh in many of those areas to go to $40,000. Uh and the and the reason that was is because of inflationary expenditures and that that hasn't really been touched in a long time. U and I know that um Mr. Wartman uh brought up uh the idea of going from $20,000 where it was
045um instead of going to 40 uh going to 15 uh was exactly what he stated, which is um the the failed referendum and maybe some community feedback about more oversight. Uh and so that's where that is the $250,000 that you see um in that in that section. Uh, where am I? I got to scroll down to it. If somebody finds it faster than Competitive Bids, second paragraph. Thank you. Um, the reason our business office uh went to that amount was because that's the federal guidelines have changed to that amount. And so, um, trying to follow those federal guidelines or or get closer to those federal guidelines than we were. Um, that's why they would put that there. um as well as uh down below uh where you still see 40,000 uh there um under this
046a similar uh topic as letter A I think let me get to there general yeah under general provisions uh is that right? Yep. um that as well. Uh the the business office was looking to go to that that same $40,000 uh threshold that they had put prior. Uh the committee since then has talked about uh going to a $15,000 threshold. Um when we last uh discussed it, um just recognizing, you know, what that $15,000 threshold is. Um, I don't I didn't do the math right away, but I know back in November when we did the math on $40,000, it was 0.003% of uh the total budget. Uh, which would be the authority that you would give at $40,000 to um the district administration to be able to do um day-to-day contracts and those kinds of
047things. Any discussion? I have a couple questions. So, uh, charity at the last meeting had mentioned any data in regards to how many approvals have came to the board historically to see if it was actually necessary to increase the limit to $40,000. I was wondering if you have that data available. Okay. So, purchases from $20,000 and up 48 and purchases between 15 and 20,000 there was 35. So, it would be an additional 35. Sarah, do you have an estimate about how much time goes into each of those just approximately? Um, it does take some time. It depends on what it is because it depends where it's coming from, but it's really gathering the information from whoever is trying to make the purchase and then having them put presentation material together and then working it through
048the fiscal. Um, it does slow the process down obviously, which is not always bad, but sometimes, especially when we're trying to plan projects for the summer, it does definitely slow things down a little bit. Okay. Okay. And then I was wondering if the $250,000 that you had mentioned if that's the federal guidelines for the ceiling, like are they saying that that's the ceiling that you can set it to? It's the purchasing threshold to start competitive bidding. So it doesn't mean that we would not get bids for something that was lower than that. We definitely would. I mean, we always do. It's just for the official competitive sealed bid process. That's the federal threshold for that. So, we were just tying it to that. The 10,000 that's in there is the federal micro purchase guideline that
049was just moved. It was 3500 and now it's 10,000. Okay. All right. Thank you. Go ahead, Carl. You're lucky I wasn't on that committee because it'd be much less than that. That's all I got to say. Okay. D. So, just a few things because we have some new members also. the overall budget staff um salaries is what like 80% right not quite seven I'm just big numbers what we're talking about here is 20 15 20% of the the overall budgetary conversations correct the back and forth monetary spending etc and you had said it's like 300s of a percent of our overall budget or was it 3,000 to kind of jump, right? I mean, whether it's 15 or um I just I'm wondering and and I know that financially we have a responsibility. I know that
050our last referendum was extended three, four, five extra years, you know. So, I I know from being on the board, this is now my fourth year going in, that there has been um fiscal responsibility in terms of spending and things that way. I'm wondering what impact lowering it to 15,000 while costs have gone up. I look at my budget at home to feed my family to um just house you whether it be clothing, whether it be electricity, whatever. Costs have gone up. If someone was was to say to me right now, Diana, your um overall money goes down on top of it. You know, that's an even greater impact. We're already putting stress on the teachers. We're already cutting positions. We're already, you know, there's so many things that are there. I guess I'm wondering
051what impact this would overall have on operations in general. Sam. Yeah. No, I just wanted to ask for one clarification. So, you wanted to correct me if I'm wrong. The proposal was to change every instance of $40,000 to 15. Was it also to change the instance of $250,000 back to 50? Um, that part of the conversation may have been a little bit more ambiguous, but but I mean I I in the spirit of keeping it consistent with uh the alignment process, yeah, that would be the intention to go back down to 50. Gotcha. Gotcha. And uh I think I'm echoing your question earlier, Tammy, but if we were to drop it back down to 50, that wouldn't be being out of compliance with the law. it would still be within compliance with what the law
052is looking for. What they don't want in the federal law is for you to go higher than that before you start doing competitive bidding. Is that what the spirit of the federal law is? That's right. Yeah, that's right. Okay. Thanks, guys. I appreciate it. That was all I just wanted that clarification. Thank you. So, can I just Yeah, go ahead. Sorry, I missed. I thought D asked a question as it was a statement and I was kind of looking for the answer to that question. uh if we had a rough idea of what that would do. Yeah. So, it it's definitely going to slow things down. Um and and that that that I believe may be the intent, right? Um there are going to be approximately 30 uh to 40 more p purchases a year
053that will have to come through the fiscal committee from the fiscal committee to the board or through a resolution process. Uh, and so that tends to delay any work on that for at least 6 weeks. And and a follow-up question to that, yeah, I I sat on fiscal, so I I have kind of an idea, but maybe for the newer board members, uh, whether Jared or Sarah, what kind of purchases are we talking about when we're talking that $20,000 purchase or, you know, what what what would get slowed down? It's a lot of um software purchases. um some buildings and grounds things on some basement floor where we were like maybe remodeling the stage at one of the buildings um some furniture purchases a projector at the high school things apty things like that and
054some of these things do work through committee in a different way um I see names on here that I know they've gone through care yeah compass care timber doodle certain things that have gone through exervices at different points but yeah it's a lot software is what it looks like and then some um buildings and grounds, some curriculum. It's a it's a variety of things. And when we talk buildings and grounds, when we slow things down in the summertime, uh working with a lot of different contractors that do a lot of school work, if they get slowed down in any way, shape, or form from end of May to middle of August, it delays a lot uh in school. It affects the kids in school. It affects the teachers in school. So, I guess that's where
055I'm looking at. If we slow a process down, when we're trying to get a project done in a three-month window and we want to slow that project down, now that project goes into November, say, uh, what does that do to the learning environment for the kids? Well, there would be a disruption at that point. I mean, we try to schedule things when students aren't in the buildings as much as possible. And it's also always tricky in the summer because you're crossing the fiscal years. So we're usually trying to fit it into one or the other and so the timing is is important in the charity. Did you have anything? I think I was just looking at one of the things that was mentioned in policy was, you know, if we are to align, you know,
056want to align with prior policy, do we then go back to the 20,000 50,000 to align with what was there before? And that was one of the questions that was thrown out there for discussion. And I guess given that we have full board here, I'm curious as to what folks thoughts would be on that initial point. I'm I'm okay with the way it was. 20,000 was fine with me. Um I'm not sure I agree with the 40,000, but I don't think we need to drop to 15. I I can I can follow Dan wholeheartedly. Maybe even raising it. I I I lean towards, but at at worst I' I'd follow Dan for sure on that one. Is there any way we can do a trial run and see how long it's taking us and and
057uh reconsider it later? Have a sunset clause, something like that? Uh in which respect? Well, if we were to change it to 40,000 that a few months down the road we could take a look at it again and reconsider. Hold on a sec. Um Jimmy, uh I guess I I wouldn't support that personally. I think it should have I'd be comfortable with the 20,000 the initial limits. I I don't it's not a deal I'm going to a hill I'm going to die on and make it to 15,000. But I think $40,000 is a bit excessive. I I based on what I've seen here, the district's been very good at bringing proposals in a timely fashion to make sure that projects are done during the summer based on the meetings that I've seen. So I I
058guess are are we concerned that that's we're going to folly on that? We're with it staying at $20,000 the district's not going to be able to keep up with the scheduling. I'm just wondering or like is there and and as far as things that happen I was reading policies and my understanding is that if it's a crisis situation you have the authority correct Jared to make any purchases even it's outside of the spending limit if it's something that is seriously going to affect the learning environment based on the policies that I've read that that clause is already in there to ensure that learning is not interrupted by the board needing to weigh in on purchases. So my understanding is it's not necessary purchases that are required by this policy. Correct. Right. So you know in
059a just for those of you who are new in a crisis situation or emergency type situation like that um what I do is I contact board leadership which is president vice president and say here's the need. This is what I'm looking to do and here's why I have to act. Um and just having that heads up and and discussion point uh with with your um elected leaders of the board uh to make sure that that process goes forward. So there's not even zero oversight at that point. There's still oversight by the board in that in that conversation or discussion. Okay. But you don't need to wait the No, I don't. Yep. So, sorry, did Oh, I'm good. Go ahead. Did you Yeah, to build off of your point, uh, and kind of to piggyback off
060of what Dan said, but in a different direction, I think it would almost be better if we're considering the short amount of time that we have during the summer and renovation projects that happen during the summer. I would almost propose that for now we keep it at 20,000 and then we revisit it at the end of summer and then we can talk about do we lower it to 15, do we bump it up a little bit? We can have that discussion at the end of summer after some of that tight if some of those tightest moments are passed us. Okay. Thank you. Um my take on it is uh uh raising it to 40,000 is is quite an audacious ask after um after the referendum. And uh I was one of those individuals that was
061pretty adamant that that we were doing the right thing by asking for the referendum and the public disagreed with me and and they still put me into office. Um that also means that uh personally when I look a staff member in the eye that has that we have decided to let go and that could be as many as 60 to 80 staff members. I have to honestly look at them and say we've done everything that we possibly can within our control to to watch our spending. That's the way I that's the way I see it. Um I I heard the comment mentioned that this is about 15 to 20% of the budget. Well, guess what? What was the referendum? 10 to 15% of the of the budget. 10. Let that sink in. If we can
062if we can save a little bit by by being uh a little bit more astute when it comes to discretionary spending that can make a big impact on keeping valuable resources in their classroom. Slow things down. Is it going to slow things down or is it going to force us to plan ahead a little better? I don't know. Maybe maybe you can be the decision maker on that. Again, $20,000. I don't know if that's the hill for me to die on either. Um if if the board finds the pleasure in keeping it at uh 20,000, I'll I'll go I'm indifferent to that. Um but I I would recommend that we leave that table in as well. uh the the table on um the current policy of 3310. And I would also call particular attention to
063um those particular uh guidelines there where uh purchases between $5 and $5,000. They are always going to be approved by a supervisor or administrator and that there is going to be some sort of informal price comparison. I think that there's a justification for actually looking at the uh the requisition form itself and saying uh as a board you know um are we asking the particular questions and I I realize this might be assumptive. Are we asking the question what price comparisons have you done in order to justify this purchase? I think that's important. the other one uh 5,000 to 5,0001 to $20,000 a superintendent or designate to obtain three quotes per per board policy. Uh also from 20,01 to 50,000 that is a board of education approval where there's three quotes per bird per board
064policy and anything over 50,000 is also a board of education approval um competitive bids per board policy. Um, any further discussion? Go ahead, Carl. Trust but verified. All right. So, I hear a general a general um uh I don't know agreement that 20,000 is perhaps where we should leave it. Can I make a motion to that effect? You you can. Okay. Um then I would motion that we move the policy forward in the process with the uh amendments or alterations where necessary altering 40,000 to 20,000 15,000 to 20,000 and 250,000 to 50,000 and that we revisit that at the end of the summer once school commences. So your motion so that I can clarify is is basically the current board policy 3310 chart. You want the Yeah. Mhm. I would like to bring the new
065Nola policy in line with the uh original Watertown Unified School District policy. And yes, also to uh add the table in there as well to preserve the table. Okay. Do you think that that needs to go back to committee or do we think we have a good enough direction to move that? You can pass it to first rate. If you're right here, if everybody's in if everybody's in agreement, there was a a motion to move uh along the lines of 3310 to first read. Is there a second? Second. It has been moved and seconded by Mike. Was there any further discussion? I have a question. So, what are we doing? We had 6320, but now I know we took the table from 3310. We changed the numbers, but what did you just say now with
0663310? So, go ahead. Say my understanding is this that we're going to bring it in alignment with uh 3310 uh but we're going to use the verbiage uh in the new Neola policy. Okay. Um the only thing that we're bringing over is the the table as well as the old um numbers. We're not going to look to change any of the numbers uh that was previously discussed in November and or at the last policy committee meeting. Okay. I just want because a lot of the verbiage is already from 33 time in this mola policy. That's just where I was confused. I know we had talked just about bringing the table over. I Yeah, that is correct. Okay. Any other questions on that? Did you have a second? We did have a second. We had Mike.
067Okay. Yes. Um, any any further discussion? Take roll call. Roll call vote, please. Charity Chandler, yes. Tammy Forier, yes. Mike Higgins, yes. Diana Johnson, yes. Sam Owen, yes. Carl Schwarzy, yes. Dan Boltner, yes. Craig Wharton, yes. And the motion carries. Can we make a note too um for board leadership uh Sarah and um Lynn, you and I to make sure that we put that on the fiscal agenda since we don't have a fiscal chair right now for um probably October. That way we get the all the September bills through the summer done and we put it on for the October fiscal committee for review. Thank you for indulging that. All right. All right. So, that brings us to our reports. That's That's you going. All right. Okay. Tell me when we're ready. And I got
068to turn this guy on here. You're good. Okay. Um just a nice little picture of some staff sitting outside of Douglas on their uh common planning time uh that we had a while back. Um, and uh, it's always nice when we have good weather, especially in the spring getting outside. I know the kids en enjoy it, too. So, um, they were just taking some time out there working together. Uh, also uh, for celebrations, we had the River School uh, middle school academic bowl team uh, competed uh, with four other schools in the area on the language arts, math, social studies, science, and current events. Uh, had several winners uh, from first to third place. uh and the current events team uh placed third. Uh those are most of your uh academic bowl uh people there.
069Uh Riverside Middle School also inducted uh 25 outstanding students in the National Junior Honor Society on Monday uh April 7th. Uh and those students were recognized for demonstrating excellence in their area of scholarship, leadership, service, and character uh character ed and citizenship. Um again, uh pictured there are our Riverside Middle School inductees. uh FCCLA uh the family career and uh community leaders of America uh members uh competed uh and and won various events. Um and they did a great job uh at the state uh leadership conference uh on the 9th of April. That's them uh posting a picture at the conference. Um but we had multiple winners. FCCLA does a great job uh with that family and uh career and community leaders. Um we also another celebration uh we had uh some students uh who
070um in our advanced learning part department uh had awards night uh recently. Um a number of those students uh participated in the Newberry uh challenge uh and that's a Newberry reading program where they uh challenged themselves by choice uh picking up a number of books that they're going to read um and getting to their goal. Um some of them participated in southern lakes anthology uh and u were presented with different awards. Um and these students were also awarded with uh achievement uh from the advance uh advanced learning department itself whether it was uh through word masters academic bowl. You can see them all up there. Uh but Miss uh Bergans, Miss Pochop and Miss Jensen do a great job working with those students uh throughout different areas. uh youth apprenticeship. Uh this is out news
071today. Okay, this is brand new news and congratulations to our youth apprenticeships. We had 136 apprenticeships registered this year. 136 uh well over 120 different businesses. Uh and because of this, we're going to get $65,684 back to help fund those CTE programs. That money goes right back into those classrooms and it's div divided up by the number of youth that come out of each CTE pathway. U opportunities RMS sixth grade uh uh tech ed survey class um did a lot of fun things uh and taught kids how to measure within a sixeenth of an inch. um they started to learn how to use some of our our tools in the wood shop. Uh and that's always an exciting time for them uh as they have to pass some safety uh skills to to be able
072to go do that. Uh and then how to sand and finish their woodworking project. So again, they really enjoy that time uh and and working on that. Uh and then um some other opportunities. Uh summer school registration is open. Uh it opened on April 7th. Uh we have today uh up to today uh earlier today when we did this 746 students enrolled. Uh the deadline is coming up on May 2nd to register. So if there's any other students out there who would like to participate, I want to remind people that's open to all the students in our community. So if there are some private school students or other people that want to sign up, uh we can look to enroll them as well. The annual Children's Day community fair organized by WSD was held Saturday,
073April 12th uh at WHS. The community fair is designed to connect young families. Uh and we want to thank all those who attend and a special thanks to Jen Harris uh Jacqueline Ro and Sarah Henhovven for coordinating that event this year. Wartown High School uh spring plant sale is coming up uh May 2nd through May 3rd. The sale is located in the WHS greenhouse. Bunch of dates for you to memorize um or um rely on Lynn to help you with I certainly do. Uh but we have a couple of different meetings that are in there that are outside of sequence. May 7th and May 8th are special board meetings. Just wanted to bring those to your attention. Any questions? Um, now we have the board of uh board of canvasers report. Uh, Greg, do you
074want number or read or just kind of an oversight? Just an oversight would probably be fine. So, uh, uh, we met as the board of canvasers, uh, Dan, Lauria, and myself. Um I will say that Dan taught his his calculator a lesson that night uh and very very stoutly. So um but we we did we do have new members uh that are currently here um out of that uh for three-year terms on on all of them. Uh so that' be Carl uh Tammy and and Craig for three years. So congratulations. Uh and we all signed um the referendum. kind of goes down if you want to read the notes, but uh exactly where the votes fell in the referendum depending on where in the township uh or which township you were in. Um and it
075ended with uh 4926 yes and 6635 no. All right. Thank you. So that brings us to the fiscal management report. You're still on the hot seat there, Mike. Thank you so much. I really appreciate that. Uh, and as I'm pulling that one up because I didn't have that one up. Uh, give me one second. But we did meet uh on April 23rd. Uh, so myself, Craig, and and Sam are present. Uh, we had other board members there as well. Was kind of good. Uh, you'll see some stuff coming up on the agenda. some nutritional services uh surveys that that did kind of come up and discussed that's going to be used for just kind of trying to to see where parents feel how parents feel uh their food is in the district. Um we have
076a co-op agreement that's something that comes up uh every year. Uh same thing this year. Bunch of schools get together, use their buying power to keep costs down, which is kind of good. Uh we did have a couple of purchases over 20,000. You'll see them come up a little bit later. um sealed co- bids. Uh Kevin kind of talked about some of those. Uh and then Johnson Controls contract renewal. We were going to do an operational referendum debrief. However, uh we did kind of run out of time. We're going to be talking about that next month. That kind of concludes, you'll see some stuff coming up, like I said, later on in the agenda. Did anybody have any questions for the fiscal? Hearing none. Uh, where we at? The human resources report. Is that also
077you? So, we we met as the HR committee as well. Uh, Dan, Diana, Charity, and myself. Uh, we had others present in there, um, including other other board members. Um, you'll see the consent agenda. there was some staff appointments and resignations uh that are coming up. Um the collective bargaining process is going to be beginning uh now. Uh so that's that's a good thing. We can kind of start moving forward there as well. Uh we did go into close session uh for for a little bit and then we came back out and talked about the certified staff contract renewals. Um and then we have some future meeting planning as well in there. Any questions for the human resources committee? I am not on the next one which happens to be the ED services report. Uh
078I can read it if you want me to. I was there. Okay. Go ahead, Sam. Yeah. Uh so just going to kind of go over the broad strokes of the minutes here. Uh we started out well David Shrader was there as the chair. Lori Holland, myself, and Diana. Uh, and we had a few other people, although I can't recall at the moment. You were there, Craig. Uh, then, uh, we started out with an update on the multilingual family night. We just talked about that briefly and how that's, uh, how that was, uh, going to be coming up. Uh, I believe that was the same day. Yeah, it was coming up in the evening. Then we went on to talk about the WUSD science uh, curriculum plan. Uh, we discussed some of the details of that.
079You asked a few questions about making sure that everything is brought into alignment, that we're using data to support our decisions and that uh students aren't being, you know, kind of uh taken out of that sense of continuity between the middle school and the high school. Uh next up, we talked about the summer school policy. Uh we talked with Mr. Whitaker from the middle school and we talked about how he worked with Fred Jan to develop the policy uh in cooperation with mola guidance. Um, and we discussed kind of the ins and outs of that summer summer school policy. Then we discussed uh the act 20 requirement policy 5411 third grade promotion and retention of atrisisk students. Uh that's going to be coming up and we're going to have more discussion about that later. So
080I think that we can leave it for then. Uh the action items were to add future agenda items for WHS science, new course proposals, core sequence changes, etc. Um that are going to be coming in October and November of this year. uh new curriculum adoption to be brought before the board in spring, next spring uh 2026. Uh forwarding the summer school policy and the third grade promotion retention at risk students to uh the policy committee where we which we discussed later on. Uh and then we had some future agenda items on there but I think uh that's for the future. So yeah, any questions for related services? And that is interesting that I have that pulled up. Hold on a second. Um, okay. So the policy review committee met on Wednesday, April 9th. Uh I
081was present present Charity and Lori were also present. David Trader was not also in attendance. Diana and Sam uh we discussed a number of different uh policies regarding the summer or interimm uh session for uh for summer school. uh we did make a couple of verbiage changes to that as a recommendation to the the board which you'll see in the first read tonight. The same thing with the promotion and retention policies. Um we had really good discussion on uh on that as well. Um there was a discussion uh about uh update to the verbiage and the pro uh weapons prohibited policy. I think that will be coming back to the policy. Uh then there [Music] is you know some just general uh minor adjustments to the controlled substances and alcohol policy. uh we're going to
082ask the HR committee to offer professional development around uh communication trusted communication flow as well as the process and in reference to policy 40 4112. Uh we had the discussion about the $40,000 threshold that the fiscal uh that the fiscal committee uh chose not to put on the agenda and we had that discussion here tonight made which worked out. uh the uh and we I will be working with uh uh Jared to prioritize apply uh policy work for the next policy committee chair. We were adjourned at 8:07. Any any questions for the policy review committee? Hearing none planning. Um, it was not our month to meet, but a few things just to make note of. Many of these were referenced already tonight. First of which is the meeting of the chairs that is scheduled for
083Monday, May 5th. Um, originally we were scheduled at 5:30. We had talked about this at our last meeting. Um, but because of policy meeting that night, we will move that to 4:30. Um there was discussion of what if people can't be there, what do we do? Should we push it back? And it has been difficult to find dates that work. So if we don't have it scheduled this day, it might be a month, it might be two months, it might be three months. So um the committee had basically decided we'll keep it at 4:30. Whomever can make it wonderful. It is designed to help. We've never done this before um in terms of onboarding and we're going to have some new shares. So, better than just try a light fire. Um, if you can't be
084there, it is recorded. So, we all know that if you don't attend a meeting, we're responsible for it whether we're there or not. You know, just watch the recording. It's the best we have at this point in time. Um, that we can do. I don't want to say short notice, but because of that turnover, um, this will be a set date moving forward. It will go just like the set committee dates, etc., etc., It will be in the future at the 5:30 time slot in years to come. It's just because we're working to finish up the Niola book by the given date. Um we're being flexible with this. So thanks in advance everybody for your flexibility in that. Thank you. Um secondly, planning committee meeting meets Wednesday, May 7th. Please note there's a 5:00 p.m.
085start time, not 5:30. Typically we meet at 5:30. We did move that ahead. We meet every other month. So, trying to hold that two hours because we have the superintendent check-in at 7 o'clock sharp that night. And Tim Fisher is going to be leading us through that check-in. I did reach out to Tim week and a half, two weeks ago to make sure that Carl and Tammy are now on part of or your emails are parted and accessible to do that. Um, he said that he would be sending those out. I don't typically get confirmation. So, if you have not received something, um, it would be from Frontline is the name of the organization that puts that out there. Please reach out to me. Let me know. Um, I don't know if he's done that
086yet. Being that the check-in, he said he was going to do it within the week. That would have been sometime last week. Um, with the check-in coming up in a week, we just want to make sure that you have accessibility um, before the meeting and he'll walk us how to get into it at the meeting. He sent it on the 23rd. I wasn't aware when it was, but it was an option to register. Perfect. So, um, yeah, Carl, if you just 23rdish then and if you have trouble getting in, um, let you can reach directly out to him. Okay. He can walk you through it step by step. Um, oh, wait. When I'm Can I get that information from you just in case because it wasn't on the what information? His contact. His to contact
087him. Um, it comes from Lynon. I can send that to you guys. Okay. No, not at all. Sorry, I thought you meant front. Oh, no. That's okay. And then lastly, um there was a subcommittee report in there, which is a subcommittee of planning, and that was for the referendum that happened, oh gosh, back on March 21st, right after our last board meeting. Um just key informations, the information is accurate other than I don't know, do we make the change? Okay. As accurate then as reported. Thank you. Any questions for the planning committee? Hearing none. That brings us to our consent agenda which is polic resolution 9382 which uh is intended to approve the minutes committee summaries personnel and staffing uh report the uh approval of bills the first and second read of policies. Do I
088hear a motion? I move. You're going to have discussion as well after I Well, after your second. Second. There's a a motion by Dan and a second by Mike to approve the consent agenda. Any discussion? Yeah, just one thing. Correct. 6320 is still in there with purchasing. It still has the old numbers in there. I understand it's first reading. I understand all that. But just making So, uh yeah, we have Thank you for that. Any [Music] other any other questions on the resolution for the first read? Yeah, your first reads are included in Okay, so I have a question for 5411 third grade promotion and retention for at risk students. If you look on the second page and you look at uh point C under based on the comprehensive evaluation of factors above um the
089district will currently pass a child even though they recommend retention if the parents refuse to retain that child. Is that my understanding of this policy? Um it's on page two. Y uh under it's point C where it says promotion. Correct. Uh so the district will currently pass a child even though they recommend to retain to retain that child back if the parents request the district to pass them even though they're not proficient or ready. Um so if we were ever in a situation where we were uh recommending retention, we'd be working very closely with the family to work through that process. Um we have not come across a situation where the district was recommending that the family was opposed to it. There is an appeals process currently in place as it relates to retention where
090um if the parents do not agree with our recommendation either to retain or to pass along then they appeal that to the superintendent and then the superintendent makes the final decision for that. And so as the current policy stands, if they disagree with the decision of the school, they appeal to the superintendent in writing. Um, and then the superintendent makes their final decision. Oh, which is fine. But this policy doesn't indicate that it would go to an appeal process. It indicates that if the school recommends to hold that child back a year and the parents don't agree that they'll be promoted. So, do we need to adjust that wording to say that it would then fall to an appeals process or is this standard practice in the district that we just allow them to move
091forward? I'm just wondering. No, it's standard practice to do as Miss Bor says, which is to have an appeals process. Is that going to be specified in an administrative guideline or is that so that's likely to Okay. I mean, is that something maybe we should adjust in the language here or remove dep I don't know what the best approach would be. It's a good question. It's it's up for first read. So, um the we can make a note of it for the policy for the policy committee. They can have a further discussion on that particular point if they'd like. Okay. And then the same policy, if you go down to the bottom of page two, um, under E, it says that after a child has failed two years, you will still pass them. Even what,
092you know, we've helped them the best that we could. They failed two years, we're still moving them on. My question is, how does that work out with future years? Are we also using that as a baseline and allowing them to pass along uh grade after grade because they have failed two times in our district or is this only for third to fourth grade? It's interesting because this policy is almost like brand new based on act 20. So you asked really great question. Um and it will have to work in concert with um our other promotion retention policies. We have retention policies just generally and also as it relates to fourth and eighth grade as well. So they will have to work in concert together. Um generally speaking um like research on retention is not uh
093generally positive for students to eventually graduate from high school. And so I think what E is sort of getting after is that if we've already retained a student twice, um the odds of them graduating high school would be very very low. And so I I think that that's probably what is getting what they're getting after in this one. But I agree with you, there are other retention policies that we have to work in concert with this one. This one is specific to act 20, which was just released within the last. So act 20, the statute that was created requires E to be applied to this policy. Is that my understanding? It's by law. We have to pass them even though they're not competent. No. Good question. Okay. Act 20 requires that we have a policy.
094This is the policy that was uh um from the DPI and then also from Eola. They worked to create and develop this policy based on the law. Um so Each point in here is not specifically based on act 20, but it's based on the fact that we need to have a policy um from act 20. Okay. It's the model policy that DPI in conjunction with other state leaders as well as um Neola um and and attorneys have put together. Okay. So, we didn't do any I don't think any changing in that looks like we selected the dates, right? The dates. Yeah. Okay. And we haven't done a whole lot of we did a couple of minor edits because it was during the first read process. Comes to the board for this full discussion like we're
095having now. It's going to go back to policy this upcoming month of May. And then we're going to have more discussion at policy. Then it's going to come back to the board after that. And then we're going to vote on whether or not we're going to put this into the policy book. So if that's something that you would like us to discuss at policy, I don't whoever is going to be on policy. Um that's definitely something that we can take note of and we can and we can bring it up. So as they said these are great questions. Okay. So it's not necessarily a policy of the district. This is just what was in the model sort of sample policy that was given to us that's combination of state DPI recommendations and nola recommendations. Nola
096being the group that produces this model policy. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions as it pertains to the consent agenda which is uh the first and second reads as well. Hearing none. Roll call vote please. Charity Chandler. Yes. Tammy Fornier. Yes. Mike Higgins. Yes. Diana Johnson. Yes. Sam Owen. Yes. Carl Schwaresy. Yes. Dan Boltner. Yes. Craig Wartman. Yes. And the motion carries. Uh, up next we have our action items. Resolution 9383. How much of this do I need to read out? It's cumbersome, huh? Yeah, it's cumbersome. Sorry. It's I'll read it. I'll read it out. Be it resolved that the Watertown Unified School Board uh the Watertown Unified School District's Board of Education approve the board of canvasers report of the spring election April 1st, 2025 as follows. Statement of the board can of canvasers.
097We the underside members of the board of canvasers of the Watertown Unified School District certify that the enexed and within tabular statement is true and correct as compiled by us from the original returns made to the school district clerk by several towns, villages, and elect on election districts in said school district of the election held on Monday, April 7th. 2025. The numbers of the votes given for the spring election candidate of candidates for school board are as follows. Tammy Deforier 5,211 votes. Carl E. Shoresy 4,819. David Schrader 4,185. Charity Chandler 3,822 Craig Wartman 4,917 Steve Good 3,1 52 signed by Mike Higgins, Lorie Holland, and Dan Boltner. Witnessed by Alin Lkins. Certificate of de determination of persons elected. We do determine and certify that the following name following named persons having received the greater n
098greatest number of votes for the respective office for which each was a candidate are declared to be elected to the Watertown Unified School District Board of Education. Tammy Deforier uh 5,211 3-year term. Craig Wartman, 4,917, three-year term. Carl Schwarzy, 4,819, three-year term. Witness our hands at the office of the school district clerk, 111 Dodge Street, Watertown, Wisconsin, on this 7th day of April, 2025. Signed by Mike Higgins, Lorie Holland, Dan Bolner. Witnessed by Lynn Linskins. Great. Now you know why I didn't want to represent Dan. Do I hear a motion? Second. Roll call vote, please. Charity Chandler, yes. Tammy Cornier, yes. Mike Higgins, yes. Diana Johnson, yes. Sam Owen, yes. Carl Schwaresy, yes. Dan Boltner, yes. Craig Wartman, yes. And the motion carries. Resolution 9384, the operational referendum certificate of board of canvasers. All right.
099Be it resolved that the water water unified school district board of education approved the operational referendum board of canvasers report of the spring election April 1st, 2025 as follows. We the undersigned residents and electors of the Watertown Unified School District, Jefferson and Dodge counties, Wisconsin, the district, do hereby certify that one, a referendum election was held on the district well held in the district on April 1st, 2025 on the question of whether the school district budget should exceed the revenue limit by $7 million beginning with the 2025 2020 26 school year for reoccurring purposes consisting of operational, instructional, and maintenance expenses to no later than 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday. On the Tuesday after the election, the undersign met as a board of cannabis reserves to examine the original returns certified to the to the district
100clerk of the district. Three. The following is a true statement of the votes cast on the referendum election question compiled from the original returns certified to the district clerk. Town of Climman 24 yes 38 no. Town of EMTT 219 yes. 409 no. Town of Lebanon 220 yes 344 no. Town of Lebanon, four, yes. Three, no. Town of Shields, 97, yes. 168, no. Town of Concord, 140, yes. 267, no. Town of Farmington, three, yes. 4, no. Town of Exonia, 157, yes. 298, no. Town of Milford, 24, yes. 51, no. Town of Watertown 299. Yes. 504. No. City of Watertown District 1. Wards 1 and two. 572. Yes. 605. No. City of Watertown District 2. Wards 56 and 7. 419. Yes. 514. No. City of Watertown District 3. Wards 16 and 17. 498. Yes. 483. No. City
101of Watertown Districts 4. Wards 14 and 15. 259. Yes. 276. No. City of Watertown Districts 5. Wards 9 89 and 10. 500. Yes. 598. No. City of Watertown Districts 6. Wards three and four. 356. Yes. 541. No. City of Watertown District 7. Wards 11, 12, and 13. 296. Yes. 410. No. City of Watertown District 8. Wards 20, 21, and 22. 451. Yes. 665. No. City of Watertown Districts District 9 WS 18 and 19. 388. Yes. 457. No. Totals 4,926 yes 6,635 no witness our hands at the office of the school district clerk 111 Dodge Street Watertown Wisconsin on this 7th day of April 2025 signed by Mike Kiggins Lorie Holland and Dan Wolner witnessed by Lyn Linds do I hear a motion and I look great because moved by Sam and seconded by Mike. Roll
102call vote, please. Charity Chandler, yes. Tammy Fornier, yes. Mike Higgins, yes. Diana Johnson, yes. Sam Owen, yes. Carl Schwarzy, yes. Dan Boltner, yes. Craig Wharton, yes. And the motion carries. Resolution 9385, the 2025 2026 certified staff contracts. Um, you can see the resolution there. Be it resolved that the following certified staff be issued contracts for the 2025 2026 school year. Do I hear a motion? Second. Give it to Dan. All right. It is uh moved by Mike and seconded by Dan to approve the certified um contracts. Roll call vote, please. Charity Chandler, yes. Tammy Fornier, yes. Mike Higgins, yes. Diana Johnson, Sam Owen, yes. Carl Schwarzy, yes. Dan Boltner, yes. Carl, uh I'm sorry, Craig Wartman, abstain. And the motion carries. Resolution 9386, the 2025 summer school staffing. Uh, be it resolved that the following
103staff be employed by the Watertown Unified School District for the 2025 summer school program. You can see the certified teachers there. Do I hear a motion? Second. Moved by Mike, seconded by Dan. Roll call vote, please. Charity Chandler, yes. Tammy Fornier, yes. Mike Higgins, yes. Diana Johnson, yes. Sam Owen, yes. Carl Schwarzy, yes. Dan Boltner, yes. Craig Wartman, yes. And the motion carries. Resolution 9387, the 2025 2026 staffing plan. Uh, be it resolved that the Watertown Unified School District Board of Education approves the 2025 to 2026 staffing plan as recommended by the human resources committee on April 21st, 2025. Do I hear a motion? Second. The motion was uh moved by Mike and seconded by Dan. Roll call vote, please. Charity Chandler, yes. Tammy Forner, yes. Mike Higgins, yes. Diana Johnson, yes. Sam Oweni, yes.
104Carl Schwarzy, yes. Dan Boltner, yes. Craig Wartman, yes. And the motion carries. Resolution 9388, the consent agenda modification. Be it resolved that the Watertown Unified School District Board of Education approves the modification of information reported on the monthly consent agenda to include only certified staff and administrator hires as discussed at the March 10th, 2025 board HR committee meeting. Do I hear a motion? Second. It has been moved by Mike and seconded by Dan. Any discussion? Can you refresh us uh just briefly on why we're making that change? Um so really, yeah, no problem. Uh so really the way the way things go right now um coming up with non-certified staff uh bringing it forward was always done just as a a transparency. Here you go from administration. It wasn't uh it was never a needed
105thing. Uh so we just moved to kind of go with certified staff only. Uh because that's that's truly what we were looking for. Right. And am I missing anything with that Jared? I mean I made it pretty simplified. I didn't go deep. state law says that um you have to act on any certified contracts. That's any certified teacher and or administrator. You do not have to act on support staff. Now, you you do have budgetary oversight of those, right? Um and in the past, uh the board has elected to have those come to them for information only. Um but in general have approved them along with the consent agenda. So the change would be then that we no longer have that information presented to us as a board in the format of a consent agenda,
106right? That that is approved at the board. You'll still have that information. Most likely it'll go through HR. Okay. Gotcha. Gotcha. Thanks. Any other discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote, please. Charity Chandler, yes. Tammy Corner, yes. Mike Higgins, yes. Diana Johnson, yes. Sam Owen, no. Carl Schwaresy, no. Dan Boltner, yes. Craig Wartman, no. And the motion carries. Resolution 9389, the Wisconsin uh school nutrition purchasing cooperative agreement be resolved that the Watertown Unified School District enter into the 2025 2025 uh6 Wisconsin school nutrition purchasing cooperative agreement. Do I hear a motion? Second. It was moved by Mike and seconded by Dan. Any discussion, Sam? Uh yeah, I had asked at the previous meeting where we discussed bringing in the uh WIS MP um agreement. I had asked about the requirement to be involved in CISA in
107order to be part of this program. Do you guys have any updates on that? I know this was relatively recently but yeah it was it was you don't have to be a member of the physical agent or a school district can and in this case it's possible school district that is the fiscal agent so doesn't have any affiliation with this thank you any other discussion hearing none roll call vote please Charity Chandler yes Tammy Borner yes Mike Higgins yes Diana Johnson Sam Owen, yes. Carl Schwarzy, yes. Dan Boltner, yes. Craig Wartman, yes. And the motion carries. Resolution 9390, renewal of Johnson Controls Fire Protection Services. This was discussed in uh fiscal uh do I hear a motion? Second. Motion was moved by It was moved by Mike and seconded by Sam. Any discussion? Hearing none.
108Roll call vote, please. Charity Chandler, yes. Tammy Fornier, yes. Mike Higgins, yes. Diana Johnson, yes. Sam Owen, yes. Carl Schwarzy, yes. Dan Wolner, yes. Craig Wharton, yes. And the motion carries. Resolution 9391 seal coat projects. Uh, be it resolved the Watertown Unified School District enter into the 2020. Hold on a second. Be it resolved that the Watertown Unified School District accept the bid from parking lot maintenance LLC for sealed coding projects around the district as recommended by the fiscal committee April 23rd, 2025. Do I hear a motion? So move. Second. The motion was moved by Sam and seconded by Mike. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote, please. Charity Chandler, yes. Tammy Fornier, yes. Mike, Dan, Diana Johnson, yes. Sam Owen, yes. Carl Schwarzy, yes. Dan Boltner, yes. Craig Wharton, yes. And the motion carries.
109Resolution 9392, the replacement of freezer and refrigerator at Riverside for nutrition services department. Be it resolved that the Watertown Unified School District purchase a replacement freezer and refrigerator for the kitchen at Riverside Middle School from Belter LLC not to exceed $65,564.75 per the recommendation of the fiscal committee April 23rd, 2025. Do I hear a motion? Second. Has been moved by Mike and seconded by Dan. Is there any discussion? Roll call vote, please. Charity Chandler, yes. Hammy Fornier, yes. Mike Higgins, yes. Diana Johnson, yes. Sam Owen, yes. Carl Schwaresy, abstain. Dan Boltner, yes. Craig Wortman, yes. And the motion carries. Resolution 9393, elevator door operator replacement. Be it resolved that the Watertown Unified School District approve the proposal from Otis Elevator Company to replace the existing elevator operator at Watertown High School not to exceed $31,224
110per the fiscal committee April 23rd, 2025. Do I hear a motion? Second. Moved by Mike, seconded by Sam. Any discussion? Roll call vote, please. Charity Chandler, yes. Tammy Fornier, yes. Mike Higgins, yes. Diana Johnson, yes. Damn, yes. Carl Schwarzy, yes. Dan Boltner, yes. Craig Wartman, yes. And the motion carries. This brings us to number nine in our on our agenda. A future agenda planning um future agenda items. Any discussion? Yeah. Um I wanted to ask if we could get on to a future agenda uh discussion about how the recordings of board meetings are posted. I know we currently have them on a YouTube channel, but they're I don't know if they're unlisted or they're private, but typically people have to reach out and specifically ask for them. Uh I know that a number of other
111uh whether it's city or the city administration or other board districts, they will just have that up for people to access on YouTube. Uh just publicly accessible for people. I'd like to see a discussion about potentially changing the way that we have that information. Okay. Any other future agenda items? No, I just add that I agree with Sam that we should discuss. We will discuss it further. Um I have a future agenda item uh that we will be seeking to have a board retreat within the next two months. Uh so that it would be a full board meeting or not a it'll be a notice of public gathering I guess it would be. Um comment on that. Go ahead Diana. We are planning that is already in as an agenda topic at the next meeting
112to hopefully having June as a retreat kind of a thing. Um we're going to be moving to call them workshops as a learning piece but the get to know me not waiting until October. So that as is as an agenda item looking forward, June may not happen, but at least putting it out there as a starting point of discussion. We'll see if we can bump that up a little earlier. Well, it's already May, so the next two months that fits into your we don't need until May. So we have to secure people. Sorry. Thank you. Things. So yeah, thank you. Appreciate it. I have an additional item for the future. Again, coming from planning, I've mentioned this to Jared in the past, just putting in the forefront is one thing trying to get as a
113yearly event is having um the board's attorney or an attorney come to a um last year they did it at the full board meeting and just talked about some of the key points for meetings. Um I don't know if that's something that'll come here. That'll be a discussion through planning, but also would be coming to a full board. So just kind of be aware would that be a planning committee that is a topic of the agenda but it would then it wouldn't because planning committee is a excl you know it's a smaller group when we've done it in the past it's been at the full board level it's been like a 10-minute presentation 15 minute presentation so I don't know we'll see from what the discussion comes to be okay uh and one more thing
114I'm sorry I'll let you write down go ahead go ahead Um, also because we do have a board appointment coming up next month, I think that on the policy uh committee agenda, it probably be a good idea for us to review and discuss uh the uh the appointment proceeds kind of like we did last time um and to kind of look that over. Okay. Um, I will make a note of that for the future policy committee chair to take um call attention to. All right. I have another one. Um to have a discussion in close session um regarding the early consideration for renewal or non-renewal of uh district administration. that different than December. Is that what we're saying? That would be earlier than December. Correct. Craig, if we were to take action, I noticed that
115we heard from many people on the board that listening to the community is really important. We heard from the young lady today regarding Lebanon and the spring. So is if I don't know if that's something that would be fiscal because there's a finance component involved to it or where that would potentially fall. Okay. But would like to entertain that conversation. Was there a was there a time that there was a discussion regarding Lebanon? That was I think it was more than just Lebanon that was a discussion, right? The discussion was um herbicides in general. Was it herbicides or was it um or was there was there a greater discussion? Right. We kill herbicides. It's herbicides. Okay. Lebanon herbicides. So, um we can certainly look to put that on a fiscal committee coming up. Herbicides, pesticides,
116uh you know, applications, discussion, and all that kind of stuff. All right. Any other future agenda topics? It's quite a bit more than more than normal. Um and and by no means is this a um exhaustive list. It's, you know, I do anticipate that there's probably going to be more concerns that other board members bring forward and um please bring them to Jared and and I and we can uh find uh the right home for those particular discussions. Thank you for that. The uh this brings us to our second opportunity for public input. We have anybody? Uh, good morning. Good afternoon, school board members. My name is Jesse Domer. I'm a techn teacher the high school skills USA adviser and CTE team leader for the high school. Didn't want to bring these up uh early
117because I didn't want them to be contentious. I just got a couple policies that were up for first and second read today for clarifications. Before I get started, I want to give a shout out to the people in the air condition lobby out back. Much cooler out there than it is in here. Thanks for hanging out with me. Um, okay. So, first reads 7540-06 if you're looking at it. Uh, regards to districtisssued staff email accounts. Uh, for all I know, this has been in there for 20 years and I have not been following this policy myself, but it talks about how no staff shall send or forward mass emails even if it is for the WUSD business. Um, as I said, I've been breaking this policy for 20 years. if it is an old uh
118rule. Some of the examples that I use this is Skills USA uh membership high school, middle school, coaches, uh parents has over 200 emails that we send on a regular basis communicating to our membership. That would I assume be a mass email even though it does not define the size of a mass email. Um I know we're talking about we have whatever the new app is that would take care of Skills USA someday. the industry partnership team. I have 150 industry members on an email list that I've been communicating with for 20 years. Some of you are on that list um of updates of our teched program of the engineering manufacturing. Um how would that look? And then you know other examples like careerfare booth participants and building bridges teams. I know it says that
119we can go to our administration for approval but literally it'd be every week asking for permission to send an email from my program. So it's a question. What do we define as a mass email and is that legit? Second policy up for first read tonight. 2340. WSD sponsored trips. You're not timing me. You probably should have. 2340. They're laughing because they know me. Um WSD sponsored trips. Two things in here. We use the term um in the first part of the first paragraph here professional staff members in regards to who can supervise students on a field trip which is defined as any one student out of school property. Um we use the word staff member a lot certified staff member a lot. I don't know that we use the word professional staff member. What is
120that? Um who is a professional staff member as an example? Skills USA relies on a lot of folks and we have a lot of community members that are paid coaches. I'm not talking volunteers. I'm talking actual paid coaches. Um they are in all intents of purposes staff members um for for many many cases. Are they allowed not allowed to supervise kids on a field trip? Am I the only one as a teacher that can can we define professional staff member? Again, maybe that's been in place for 20 years. I'm asking what professional staff member is. And then towards the middle of that policy 2340 um talking about preempting into overnight trips and who qualifies for overnight trips. We for some reason exempt WIAA athletic teams from having to follow the overnight trip policy. Seems a
121little strange. I would love for the CTSOs to be exempted if we're allowing exemptions. And then my last one was up for a second read tonight. I'm not actually asking about this one. 4162 uh controlled substance and alcohol policy for employees that transport students. 300% agree with that policy. Kind of surprised and maybe it exists, so ignore my ignorance. There's a million policies out there. I've not read them all, but this one came up for second read, so I'm reading it. Um, this talks about employees. It does not talk about nonmployees. So again going to Skills USA as HR knows we have many volunteers that have gone through the formal back check uh background check process or legal volunteers in our program uh that sustain all the different groups we have. They're going on field
122trips with us. Technically they can go through the uh driving policy to drive personal vehicles which we've relied on for 20 years. Um, are they exempt from getting a drug test if they get into an accident as a parent chaperone of kids in their minivan? Maybe there's already a policy for that. If there's not, I would encourage one. Again, thank you guys for everything you do for our um, school district and kids. I'm Sedra Fremont, 122 North Water Street. Um, I just wanted to talk about um going like moving forward with a lot of the policies, I'm sorry, positions being cut and possibly programs being cut because that's our reality. Um, one thing that is kind of hard for me to wrap my mind around is like tonight we had Cadence come and speak and
123did a really lovely job um about one of our colleagues that is facing non-renewal. Um, and the struggle I have with that is just the lack of knowing who is up for non-renewal and who is going to be renewed and how that's communicated out and just the feeling of being left in the dark. I'm on our building team leadership, you know, or or like and to not know that my colleague is up for non-renewal. Um, and not having a chance to have a voice at a table is really hard. And that's why like I put myself on that leadership team. I like put myself out there in order to be a part of hard decisions and to be a voice at the table and representation. And I think about when we were talking about like
124closing Lebanon, right? and we put that out there for the public and parents could come and they could fight for Lebanon and teachers could come and fight and we're potentially losing a colleague and I barely had a chance to know and a chance to fight for her and is that right for us to not have more representation we happen to have someone that was able to be astute and un like know where to find information nowhere to find documentation there's all these students who don't have parents that go digging that don't have a connected network that lets them know who is up for non-renewal in order to be here and have a voice. She is not just one student. She's going to be the voice of a bunch of students and I am not just
125one teacher. So, how can it be that on Monday we found this out? Not even Monday. It was Wednesday. Wednesday I found that out about my colleague in my building and I know that there are other positions that either are not being rehired like it's just being cut and that has such an impact on our lives and I just I struggle and I think if you can just take that into consideration I don't know what the process can be or if there is room for a different way of doing business but this is a huge struggle. And I feel like there are teachers here and we're trying to be united and trying to support one another, but we're kind of in the dark and it's really eating away at our morale and it's hard. Um,
126and I would just like us to be a part of the conversation and not be kept in the dark to the last minute. Thank you. you enjoying the uh that concludes uh our public comment for the evening. That brings us to uh item number 11 of our agenda which is uh the contemplated close session. Uh but before we do do that uh do I hear a motion to take a fivem minute recess? So one second that all right is moved by Sam and seconded by Tammy for a fivem minute recess. All those in favor signify signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. During the recess, if you would stop by Lin Linskin, see if she needs a signature from you. She needs a signature from any of you. All officers. Oh, folks, if uh
127you'd like to carry on a conversation, you're welcome to uh hang out in the front lobby uh if you'd like of the ESC, right? Y not necessarily this one, but the bar lobby. And uh but we've anticipate entering into a close session. I need a motion to come from out of I think a motion. No. No. No. You sc us back in. All right. Close session. You may make a motion to go into close session. So, it's been moved. I moved my seconded by Sam to enter into close session. Uh, roll call vote, please. Charity Chandler, yes. Tammy Corner, yes. Mike Higgins, yes. Diana Johnson, Sam Owen, yes. Carl Shoresy, yes. Dan Boltner, yes. Craig Wartman, yes. And the motion carries. Right. We are we have re reconvened to open session. Uh we have one
128final resolution on the agenda for this evening and that's resolution 93 94. Uh that resolution reads, "Be it resolved that the Watertown Unified School District School Board Board of Education approve the final notices of non-renewal of the two individual teacher contracts as discussed in close session. Do I hear a motion?" Second. It was moved moved by Mike and seconded by Sam uh that uh uh that we um move forward with this resolution. Um roll call vote, please. Charity Chandler, yes. Tammy Fornier, yes. Mike Higgins, yes. Diana Johnson, yes. Sam O'Neal, yes. Carl Swarie, yes. Dan Bolner. Yes. Craig Wharton. Yes. And the motion carries. Do I hear a motion to adjurnn? Second. It was moved by Mike and seconded by Sam to adjurnn. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carried. Fear.