001Mrs. Fox, can you hear me? >> I can. Can you hear me? >> Yes, I can. Thank you. Good evening. I am calling to order the regular board meeting of Tuesday, February 3rd. Mrs. Shopee, can we get a roll call, please? >> Yes. Carol Fox, >> here. >> Tom Henkins is not available to be here this evening. Amy Levy, >> here. Megan Miller, >> present. Brian Nichols >> here. >> Joanne Ru here. and Tia Johnson >> here. >> All members are present except Tom Henkins. >> Thank you, Mrs. Schul. I am requesting approval, a motion for approval of the agenda with the removal of items 6 A, 6B, 6 C and this is on advice from legal to have these removed to in order to ensure compliance with notice procedures. these um everyone has been
002notified of this and this will come back at the uh next meeting and I would like to request that we switch the orders of 10B and C for consideration of uh guest time. >> Board President Johnson, can we also remove item 8D as it didn't pass out of committee? That's coming back. >> Thank you for bringing that to my attention. Yes. and removal of 8D. >> Second. >> So moved. >> Uh, okay. I >> Okay. Motion by Brian Nichols, seconded by Megan Miller. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Tonight we have the honor of having COD Elementary interim principal Ursula Ethridge here tonight to introduce students to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Mrs. Ethridge. Thank you. So I have Tir. If you could come
003stand up here. Tier is a fifth grader with a lot of great humor. Trir likes to draw, to play video games, to talk about sports, and most importantly, he likes to style his outfits. I have Aaliyah. That's okay. He said not today, but yeah. Aaliyah is a fifth grader at Todd Elementary School who plays the clarinet in band class. Aaliyah likes watching movies, playing with her dog, Sky, and Aaliyah has a sister here at Todd named Ava. Ava. [snorts] Ava is a kindergartener who likes kitties. She has a cat named Queenie and she has a pink guitar. Aurelio. [sighs] Aurelio is a fifth grader who likes music more than people. He likes Sakura trees from Japan. He likes playing Minecraft with friends. He has two brothers, four sisters, and one of his sisters is here
004with him, Kylie. Kylie is a fifth grader also who loves McDonald's, eating chicken patties, and the K-pop band Stray Kids. Savannah. Savannah is a fifth grader at Todd who likes to swim and spend time with her family and friends. Savannah likes traveling with her dad. She's traveled with her dad to Oklahoma, Tennessee, Florida, Indiana, Georgia, and Wisconsin Dells. So, these are our kiddos who are going to lead us in the pledge. Please rise. Come on up. Come on up. Come on up directly. Two two start. >> I pledge alce to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [applause] >> Thank you so much, Mrs. Ethridge. We really enjoy that. And I really enjoy it when
005we can hear the students voices over our own. So, nice job, Todd students. We appreciate all of that. Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. We sincerely appreciate your continued interest in and support of the school district of Deote. Since our last regular board meeting, we had the opportunity to meet with representatives from open literacy and skyrocket education on Thursday, January 29th. For those who may be interested, a recording of that meeting is available on the school district of Boy's YouTube channel. We are grateful to Sarah Scott Frank, founder and CEO of Open Literacy, and Michael Sanbert, founder and CEO of Skyrocket Education, for taking the time to share more about their organizations and the services they provide. I would also like to thank Dr. Anderson for taking immediate action to review and
006update our immigration officer compliance protocol. Again, I encourage all staff and families to re review these procedures related to interactions with immigration enforcement on school and district property. Thank you, Dr. Anderson, for your responsiveness and continued leadership. This week, we recognize school counselor appreciation week. This special observance highlights the tremendous impact our school counselors have through their leadership, advocacy, and collaboration in helping students navigate challenges on their path to educational success. While we hate to brag, we think the school district of Lloyd has some of the best counselors around. Please join us in applauding their outstanding work and honoring their invaluable contributions to our district throughout this week. That concludes my report. Thank you. And tonight we have upcoming events and announcements. Did somebody get that? Uh, Vice President Nichols. >> Thank you, Board President
007Johnson. Good evening. These are the announcements for Tuesday, February the 3. As Board President Johnson just uh announced, this week is National School Counselors Week. So, join us in thanking our counselors for all they do for our students. And I think we should give them a round of applause. If any are in the building, whether they're not, hopefully they'll hear it. [applause] The Blit League of Women Voters and the NAACP NAACP are hosting two candidate forums in the city council chambers. One for the school board on February the 16th and one for the city council on February 26th. Both will begin at 6 pm. The Boyd Education Association, BEA, and Boyd Secretarial Union, BSU, will also host a boy schoolboard candidate forum on Tuesday, February 24th at Home Suites located at 2750 Cranston Road starting
008at 4:30. The BMS theater production of Family Fe Friendly Feud will be on Friday, February the 13th at 700 p.m. at BM Bo Memorial High School auditorium. Our f future board meeting dates include Monday, February the 16th, policy and human resources committee at 4 pm at the Kolac Education Center. Tuesday, February the 16th, business operations and finance committee at 5:00 PM, followed by the regular board meeting at 6 p.m. Check out our website at boiteschools.net for continued news and events. This concludes the announcements for tonight. Thank you. >> Thank you, Vice President Nichols. Next, we have recognitions. Our first recognition tonight is of Greg Wallandall for induction induction into the arts hall of fame. Dr. Anderson. >> Yes. And this is actually I get a real pleasure for this because earlier in my career I
009was actually a uh I was in drama. So not only was I an actor but I also got to produce uh plays with the students and that was a lot of fun. And so I know how much work goes into this. So it's our honor tonight to recognize Greg Wlandal, our drama teacher at Bo Memorial High School for years. He was recently inducted into the United Arts Alliance Rock County Arts Hall of Fame on January 13, 2026. Mr. Wendall has been involved in many organizational projects over the years, including director for the Jainsville Performing Art C Center's outdoor Shakespeare production, which is hosted on the Rock County Historical Society grounds for over the five years. The district is proud of Greg's accomplishments and for his induction into the arts hall of fame, and we want
010to give him our heartfelt congratulations. >> [applause] [applause] >> Thank you so much. I really appreciate that. Um it's been a long 23 years, but it's been a short 23 years. Um and one thing I just want to it's it's such a special thing to me. Uh just because um you know, in the history of Boy Memorial High School, um since it's been built, uh we've only had three directors, three theater directors at the high school. and that was Betty Reinholds who the the little theater is named after and Lauren Sass and then myself and now all three of us have been inducted into this hall of fame and so that's pretty cool. So thank you so much. I appreciate your recognition. [applause] Um and it was so great. It was so great to have
011um Miss Pel and Lundine, Mr. Lundine come to the ceremony. It was it meant a lot to me. Thank you so much. All right. [snorts] [applause] I have I have to ask are do you have another 23 or 33 years in you? >> I got it. >> Um Oh, [clears throat] so um no, [laughter] especially like this year because I'm also in a show at the same time. Um I should not make that mistake again. Um yeah, uh boy, just a little quick plug. Uh um Boyd Civic Theater is having um a uh their their winter play is right going on right now and we're in the middle of the two weekends and I'm I'm acting. I'm the lead in that show. Uh while I'm also directing the musical, so uh this has been kind
012of an insane year. Um that said, uh when I got the contract for um Boy Memorial High School, funny story, I um Lauren Sass said to me, he goes, "Betty Reinhold's taught here for 26 years. I taught here for 26 years, so you just got a 26-year contract. So I think I'm done in 3 years." Just kidding. else stick around a longer but not 23 more. Thank you. >> Thank you. [applause] >> Don't be so sure I'm on year 47. So tonight we'd also like to uh honor and recognize several students for their artwork. Now I'm an individual who loves to appreciate art even though I have no artistic ability. I can't draw a stick man with a ruler. So I always appreciate the artistic ability in others. So tonight the students being recognized have
013won a prestigious scholastic art award. This is a statewide competition. The top 10% of contestants get honorable mention while the top 5% are known as silver key winners and they have their artwork shown at the Milwaukee Museum of Art. are Bite Bloit Memorial High School. Honorable mention individuals are Zenise Perkins, Lydia Cooler Aspa, Ash Coleman, Jennifer Martinez Guiles, Shaun Levy, and Liliana Mia Compost, who got two awards. I apologize for uh butchering the names, but the recognition award stays the same. So, if we could give those a round of applause. [applause] >> And if the students are here tonight, we have certificates for you. >> We're not done yet, >> okay? >> Because we also had some silver key um winners whose art is going to be displayed at the Milwaukee Museum of Art and
014they were Adriana Ruez, Isaac George Plamer, and Josh Wolfford. So, another round of applause for all those. Thank you. [applause] You can come up and take it. >> You can stand up. >> Closeups. [snorts] >> Cut it off. Hallelujah. Another round of applause for all the recipients tonight. [applause] >> [applause] >> Dr. Anderson, could you remind us when our um students arts going to be on display at the Milwaukee Museum of Art? Do we know? >> I don't have that information. >> Is the 7th. >> The seventh of >> Oh, perfect. All right. Thank you. Go check it. >> They have a recognition on the seveny So, recognition starts on the 7th and then continues. Thank you. >> Thank you. Um, next we have public comment. Mrs. Schop, I know there's at least one public
015comment. >> Yes, I have one in the room and one email. >> Okay. And the one in the room gave me some pamphlets I will pass to the board members. Um, and the first one in the room before that person begins, I'll read the norms. Members of the public are welcome to attend all open meetings of the board of education. Individuals attending board meetings are expected to conduct themselves in a respectful and courteous manner that models appropriate behavior for our students. Individuals wishing to comment are expected to comply with the norms found on the back of your comment cards and in board policy 187 public participation at board meetings. We ask that each of you contribute to maintaining a respectful and orderly meeting and prevent discussing confidential matters in a public forum by following these
016norms for public comments during meetings. Thank you for your participation and courtesy. Mrs. show. >> Our first person is Bill. >> Todd Timber will set the bar pretty high. So, as a Gaston bandit, I'll try to uh protect the west side. Um, and I also had Mrs. R and Mr. Sask as teachers. So, it's And she was a guest speaker at our 20-year reunion. So, the statute of limitations have run out. So, I can go from there. I'm Bill Johnson, a proud lifelong bloider and a Purple Knight. I worked for the city of Boyd. Now I work for Community Action part-time. I'm here to ask each board member to support the offering made by the Hendricks Family Foundation. The tutoring component is being offered to increase third grade reading skills and the staff leadership training
017pieces offered to help the school succeed. Our kids need this. The problems our district faces are no different than what districts across the country face. things like difficulties recruiting or retaining staff, budget problems, student behavior, and academic achievement. But our district seems to be suffering more than others in the state. I brought each of you a packet that you can look at, and it takes information from the website. I've heard of Wisconsin is the worst state in the country when it comes to educating African-American students. Here in our district, in the category of meeting expectations and advanced English language arts scores, white students had a total of 20%, Hispanic Latino only 11.8, and African-Americans only 5.3. That means only one out of every five African third graders are meeting ELA grade level expectations. This is
018terrible thing for the school district and I have to admit it needs to change and the board needs to see that it changes. Based on this information from the data, the board should waste no time getting Hendrick's offer and the planning started. Look at the data I've given to each you and ask me, tell the community, tell our parents, how can we wait? How can we turn down the gift of this pilot program? We have so many great kids in this school district. I know they would rather learn than misbehave. Please do write by them. Accept a helping hand when it comes extended to you. And thank you for your opportunity to speak for my opportunity. And if you can't read, you won't succeed. >> Thank you, Bill. Mrs. Schae, >> who's next? The next
019one is an email that I have. Sorry. I had it open but then I had to reboot my computer. So, okay. This email is from K. Dear school board members, I am writing as a lifetime bloider and former SDB employee to encourage you to accept the very generous 2.5 million gift offered to enhance literacy among our students. This is an incredible opportunity which could have a lasting impact and be a potential prototype program to improve reading outcomes for all students. This decision could strengthen our schools for many years to come. Literacy is the very foundation of opportunity. This gift could give us a sound way to lift all students in our district where other attempts have only resulted in a continual abysmal performance on statewide reading results. I respectfully, highly encourage the board to unite
020behind this extraordinary opportunity. Turning down such a gift would risk denying our students the opportunity to reach their full potential. Please vote yes on accepting this gift and put our kids first by showing them you really care about this community's commitment towards striving for educational excellence. To do less is totally unacceptable. Thank you for your service as a school board member. Here's an incredible opportunity to say yes to a gift that will indeed keep on giving. Sincerely, Kay. >> Thank you. Was was that it for the online ones? Okay, thank you. Next up, we have superintendent report. Dr. Anderson. >> Well, the first thing I'd like to remind everyone is that tomorrow we are being honored with Dr. Jill Utterly, our state superintendent, is visiting our high school in the afternoon to look at our
021CTE programs. So, I know that Miss Pel has worked hard with her staff to uh have basically a downtothem minute agenda. They are very precise on exactly how this will go. But we're being honored with that tomorrow. So that will take place tomorrow afternoon. This month we are meeting with all of the principles to on staffing for the 2627 school year. So at the beginning of March, we should be able to give a plan for the staffing that we believe uh we need for the 2627 school year. That fits right in with our work on making budget projections because usually staff salary and fringe benefits takes about about 80% of a normal school's budget. So this is really one of the largest budget pieces. Uh so we'll be working on that and we are ready
022to give a a presentation to the board at the beginning of March to keep them a breast of where we are with what we think we need for staffing. um how we think that will fit in the budget and then how we're going to go about trying to recruit to make sure that we have staff in all of our positions at the beginning of the 26 27th school year. Uh tomorrow morning I will also be at the Greater Boote civics affairs committee for a I think it's going to be they want me to I'm not really a presenter but I'm sure that I'll be the question and answer person for the school district of so that'll be tomorrow morning. Other than that, um, I put it all in my board bulletin and have a nice
023night. If there's anybody questions, I'll be happy to answer. >> Thank you, Dr. Anderson. Next, we have business operations and finance comm. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, board member Levy, do you have a question? >> I do. Thank you so much. Actually, [clears throat] two. What time is Dr. Hunterly's visit and are board members invited? if we're available. >> I think it's 1:30 >> and I know that the it's scripted, so I'm not going to say you're certainly not invited. I'm certainly that you would be welcome to attend, but I will tell you that they have it scripted to the minute about what classes she's going to be in in the interactions that they're looking forward. But board members are certainly welcome to be with me as I introduce and to greet her and to um
024watch her interactions with our staff and students. >> Awesome. Thank you so much. >> Next we have business operations and finance committee report. Vice Chair Nichols. >> Thank you. Yes. Uh we had a uh a a large meeting tonight because it uh it it lasted a little longer than normal, but we had a a lot of discussion on various and sunundry things. Um we talked uh Mrs. U Elwood went over the monthly financials with us, which you will see later tonight. We moved those forward. Uh we discussed budget transfer the month month end um which was an interesting um uh for me it was interesting because we've never seen that before. So um athletic director Grass made a presentation on athletic improvements and fundraising uh for the athletic fields in the Barkin Arena. Um, and
025we talked uh and that was uh that was pretty much it on the business ops and finance. So, I will move along if if it's okay to the policy committee, please. And we had a short meeting tonight. We moved that from yesterday evening to tie it into tonight's meetings and uh we move the exhibit A HR recommendations to the full board uh for later this evening. And that concludes the policy and human resources committee meeting. Thank you. >> Thank you. Our next item is state education convention report. This year, four board members, Carol Fox, Tom Hankkins, Amy Levy, and myself attended and I wanted to give um everyone who attended an opportunity to give feedback or share any insights. Mrs. Levy or Mrs. Fox, do either of you have anything you'd like to share? I
026would briefly. It's okay. Um, first congratulations and thank you to Wasby Wazda and WBO for another great state education convention. Um just some of the sessions that I went to that really stood out and I was ex particularly appreciative of um empowering school communities, stakeholder driven strategic planning, um student discipline, legally compliant expulsions, right sizing district facilities for declining enrollment. Um I was also fortunate enough to attend the WASBY breakfast and the WASDA lunchon um which anyone who's not familiar honors the superintendent of the year which this year was Dr. Tmaine Clarity. So there's the Bo connection there. Um that celebration particularly reminded me of the power of education as a student and as a practitioner. Um it was absolutely beautiful. The tribute he gave to his mother. Um it was amazing. Um also I
027was proud to serve as a WASBY delegate. Um so thank you to the board for that honor. Uh we were efficient and effective. We came together as a statewide delegation to decide on WAB's position on a wide range of relevant issues concerning our 421 districts across the state. Um, I'm confident that our efforts will help guide Chris Kulo and David Martin um, as they continue their important work in advocacy and government relations on behalf of our districts. So, thank you to the school district for the opportunity to serve as a delegate and to attend the state education convention. Um, it was it was great. Oh, one final thing. Um, anyone can download the app and if some of the sessions that I mentioned or you want to scroll through in other ones, a lot of
028them have their presentations uploaded. So, you can click on those, you can view the presentations, most of them have the presenters information and it's been my experience in the past that if you have questions, if you reach out to them with questions, they've been very responsive. So, to anyone who's listening who's interested in more information, that's a great tool. >> Thank you, Mrs. Levy. Mrs. Fox. >> Uh, thanks. I hope you can hear me. Okay. Okay. Um, yeah, it was a wonderful convention. Um, and, uh, they do a wonderful job. So, I I echo um, what Amy said. Um, and I want to thank everybody for the opportunity to attend. Um, it was very exciting to be there with other board members and hear the work being done around the state to improve student outcomes.
029Um, and as a new board member, it was fun for me to meet and talk with people who've been doing this work for for many, many years. And I talked to some who've been serving on their boards for like 25 to 30 years. So, for me, in three months, it made me feel like the new kid on the blocks, which is kind of nice to be the youngster again. Um, I started at the Tuesday pre-conference with a presentation on coherent governance and followed that governance thread through the rest of the conference sessions that I attended. I was very interested in this work um and many school districts are using it and I hope at some point we might explore that in the future. Um Sun Prairie, Verona, DeForest and Oaklair all presented um the model
030on Tuesday and I talked with some other representatives from other districts like Lacrosse and Appleton who were also involved in the work and I went to the bookstore and I bought the book. So um uh during the presentation about the coherent governance, one of the things that really resonated with me was is these board members are now spending the bulk of their time talking about student achievement and student outcomes, which I thought was a wonderful idea. Um they also use what they call progress monitoring reports as an evaluation tool for their superintendent, which I also thought might be a tool for um that we might want to explore and employ. Um so um there were some other functional pieces to the model that struck me as as useful. Um um all of these boards for
031example um with conjunction with an administration of course develop a yearly calendar in the spring for the following year establishing their priorities and they put deadlines and community outreach events and other kinds of events on the calendar so that it's a flexible tool of course but it's laid out um so that everybody can see. Um they also um either have no committees or fewer committees. Um and they do a whole lot more with workshop style um uh board meetings. And um I I think that might be something that we might want to explore as well. Um, another district used what they call screencasts, which was pre-recorded videos for board presentations, which I thought was um, so that the you can view the presentations ahead of time and you spend the board meeting discussing the issues
032and and going deeper into um, what needed to be discussed. I thought that was a good idea. And then also board members were assigned as liaison to their buildings. So each board member had one, two, maybe three depending on the size of the district buildings that they were sort of the link to during a year. They rotated it out every year. Um, and they attended events were available for questions for the staff and and I thought um that was might be a really interesting thing to explore as well. So I'm hoping at some point that we can move forward with you know studying this or some other things and and uh you know work on improving um ourselves as well. You know we are wanting the the schools to improve and the district to improve.
033So um we need to set ourselves up as a model um of working for um improvement for ourselves. So again I thank you for allowing me to attend the conference. It was um no surprise. I get excited about things that I learn and so I want to pursue them. So, thank you very much and I'm sorry I can't be there today. I'm a little under the weather. So, I'll be there next time. Thank you. >> No problem. We're sorry to hear you're not feeling better, Carol, but thank you for um staying home. We appreciate you um being with us virtually. Um [sighs] this year's uh state education convention theme was collaborate, innovate, and elevate. This theme highlights the effort that districts across the state take to work together, develop new partnerships, explore creative pathways, and
034elevate the futures of the amazing students we we serve. The first first workshop I attended was called Beyond the Score. Equipping equipping school boards to use data for informed decisionmaking. This session provided thorough training in accessing and using information from the DPI annual district report cards. And they also had training to use wise dash to get uh more specific um comparison data and to be able to uh dig deeper into information at building levels and compare different districts throughout the state. I also attended the student discipline legally compliant expulsions where they discussed um some alternatives to expulsions that a district may consider as well as other things. Uh Dr. Anderson and I are working on an agenda for a student behavior discipline board meeting this spring. We're looking um for a March meeting. We'll uh
035have Mrs. Schul get a timeline for us to find out when we can all get together. I also attended the state of school finance. Um something discussed um quite a bit during that I heard throughout this convention was the term some certain and some sufficient and these are legal budgetary terms that found define how money is allocated and um the sum certain sum summ certain is a fixed exact predetermined amount of money versus um sufficient which is an open-ended authorization to spend whatever amount is necessary for a specific purpose. The reason this was um significant in this year's um discussions is how the state covers special ed funding. So, school districts have students that are identified as special needs and we have to educate them and we have to educate them whatever they cost. However,
036the state budget has a set amount of money and that money is allocated to the districts um proportionately. So although there is a state legal um amount that they're supposed to um pay which I think and Dr. Anderson please help me um because I didn't wasn't quite certain and I didn't reflect on my all of my notes. I think they had set it for 45% to cover special ed this year, but by the time they get through that and distribute the some certain money, it's actually going to be closer to 35%. >> That is correct. In other words, if they would have provided the sufficient amount of money, they would have lived up to their promise that they had made to the basically to the state. However, when they put it in a fixed amount
037of money, once all of the bills came in and they divided it up, it went back to basically just slightly more than we have had in the past. So, it makes it difficult for school districts to budget and um we obviously want to provide the best education we can for all of our students um regardless of the costs, but um those are some of the constraints we have to work with. So, I thank the district for covering the um board um registration to be able to go to the Wisconsin state convention in 2026. And again, I encourage board members to attend conventions. You you really do learn a lot. And the conversations between board members from other uh districts is also very enlightening. Our next item tonight is item we're at item 7A. A special
038board meeting date selection. The purpose of this is the board of education will need to determine a date for a special board meeting to interview the finalist for the assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction position. Likewise, a board member has requested one more special meeting item regarding the Hendricks Family Foundation offer. And um I would like to ask uh Dr. Anderson if he thinks maybe we could combine these into one night or one meeting or um something. Dr. Anderson. >> Well, I know how hard it is to get everyone together. I think that the interview portion of that meeting you should look at uh two hours. It might be you can do that maybe a little bit less but at least a minimum of an hour and a half. How long you would like to
039have for the discussion on the uh proposal by the Hendrickson Foundation. If you're looking at like an hour and you wanted to go to two and a half to three hours and you wanted to start at depending um five or six then I think you could do them in both in one night. It depends on how much time you think you might spend on the Hendrickson proposal. I like I said I think the interviews an hour and a half tours at the most. >> Okay. Do you have a recommended um date that you are looking at for the interviews? >> I mean, I would like to do it as soon as possible. I will make myself available for um basically any night or Saturday if that's what your choice is that you would do it.
040I know your schedules are all busy, so I don't know uh what date might work, but I will but I know that the sooner that we can do this, the sooner we I mean, if we could have a recommendation ready for the next board meeting, that would be um that would be great in my estimation. >> Thank you, board member Miller. >> Thank you so much. Um I have a uh question and a comment about the first item that you mentioned about the selection for interviews. Um my question first and then if is it okay if I ask question if I ask question then follow up. Okay. I just don't want to overstep my time here. Okay. Um I was hoping um board President Johnson if it would be okay for Dr. Anderson just uh
041for trans the purposes of transparency just to kind of walk the board and the public through like what the what is this interview? What is the purpose of it? And you know what is your vision for how this will play out because I've just received a lot of questions from people. So just that's part one. >> Yes. Since what I'm looking at, one of the things that I had recommended to the board early on is that when Miss Mortekch um submitted a letter of resignation that we change the title of her position uh from director of teaching and learning to assistant superintendent in charge of curriculum instruction. And the reason for that is one of the things that I believe uh would be important for the district going forward is to be able to have
042a viable internal candidate to look at for the superintendency. Um I think if there was someone invested in the community, someone who has a track record of being here, um that might help with longevity. I know that individual would have to earn that position, but at least we could have a viable internal candidate. So, we took the internal candidates that had applied. There were four of them. We interviewed those on Friday. Two candidates uh rose to the top, both being very good candidates, uh Emily Pel and Leah Mallet. Um so, what my then recommendation was is that in most cases, I would make this decision and bring a recommendation to the board. If we are looking for a director, I would make that bring it to the board because I'm your direct hire and the
043rest of them uh work and report to me. However, in this case, what we're looking at is someone who could potentially be a superintendent. And I think it's very important that if the individual selected is going to, you know, um put forth the time to basically learn how to be a superintendent, uh and it's going to take because they're going to have to do their normal job, uh plus it'll be a fair amount of mentoring. I wanted the board since they will eventually hire the next superintendent that they would have uh input into which of these two candidates so that candidate going into the position would know that at least um for the current board as it sits they would have the support of the board members who who voted on that um to recognize
044that this candidate would could be a viable candidate uh for the superintendency in the future. Thank you so much. Um my comment on this is I was fortunate to um be able to participate on Friday. We have absolutely exceptional educators in this district, which is not a surprise to anybody. It was a wonderful experience and I'm so grateful for everybody who uh put their hat in the ring. Um I don't know if I said that expression right but um a couple of concerns I have about us moving forward with the second interview with the board um include that one I think um just reflecting back on some concerns I've heard from community members um as well as some history here init um this might strike some people as either engaging in I guess like showing
045that we're not interested in pursuing a good faith search for the permanent superintendent. Um, two, I think just like with the and and I I guess like you're everything up to this point I think is is fantastic. I love that whoever is selected for this role will have um the opportunity to to receive the mentorship that you're offering and I'm excited for for this role. Um, I'm concerned also about sending mixed signals. So like typically and I and I don't know how other school districts do this like this might be a thing at other districts but my experience on this board has been that we have our one employee and the board does not participate in hiring anybody outside of just you know our role on you know employee exhibit A type stuff right um
046but but we're not really here to oversee anybody besides our seated superintendent. Um and then to that point Dr. Anderson, I have like full faith and confidence in your leadership and in your judgment and I would um be likely to support whoever you put forward for this role because we have hired you to be our interim superintendent. So, personally, I'm not seeing a need um at this point for the board to be involved. And so, I just I have like as you can see just to sort of summarize a variety of kind of concerns with us even moving forward as a board to conduct these interviews. Um, but I definitely do appreciate, you know, the desire for us to do so. Um, like I, you know, I feel like it's logical, but I just think
047there's a bigger picture here. There are implications both for the candidate that we select and and the future, uh, potential superintendent as well as just trust building with our community. >> Thank you, Miss Miller. Dr. Anderson reached out to me after the first round of interviews and requested for the board to do a second round of interviews. This was not um the original plan to do a second round of interviews. Um, and I understand his um, desire to have this come to the to the board to do an interview to give all board members give feedback on who ultimately it will be his recommendation, but because not all board members were there and um, as he eventually transitions out of the district, he he knows Whoever is selected for this position um hopefully will be
048with the district a long time either as the curriculum instruction um executive director assistant superintendent or if they do get moved on to the position of superintendent a search will be done and that has been discussed and shared with the community. So, if community members are concerned with that, they're free to contact us and and let us know, but a search will be done. This is not um skirting that opportunity. And ultimately, um I'm sure there probably are concerns from community members. >> [laughter] >> There are concerns from community members on everything we do and we appreciate that and we enjoy hearing from them, but we need to make a decision. This board did approve changing that position and um as a board and our collective commitments. We have we agree to support that and
049I fully support Dr. Anderson in this and which is why we have it on tonight's agenda. Mrs. Levy, >> thank you. Just a couple things I just want to make sure that we're thinking through. Um the first, since the board has one employee, um I would like to know if there are any potential legal implications with the entire board interviewing a candidate that is not our employee. So, if we could get feedback and not tonight, but from legal on that, that would be really helpful. And then here is my concern. Um, it seems like we have two great candidates and if either of the if we didn't participate in board interviews and either of them came on employee wrecks, I would have no reason. So this is how I treat employee wrecks. If it's coming
050from our administration, I trust the professionals that we hired. And unless I have specific information or experience to be opposed to that, then then I want to support what the recommendation is with that as context. Here's my concern. I wouldn't have a problem supporting either candidate. But if the board gets pulled in on interviews, let's say interviews, I'm going to have a preference. And if and if so that just makes it complicated and I don't I don't know if the juice is worth the squeeze and I don't want to give anyone false hope for lack of a better term that because we gave you a nod for this position that you may have an edge or an advantage when we go to fill the full-time superintendent. I just don't know that that's the case because
051we haven't looked at the pool. >> Dr. Anderson >> first I'm but I will check with legal but I am 100% certain that there is no issue with you doing the interviews. You have to remember what I am looking at in this position is training a potential next superintendent for the school district of bite to so to mentor that individual so that they would be prepared um when I leave. It doesn't mean that you're hiring that this person would be the next superintendent. It simply means that this person is going to be trained so that they would be able to take over that position. Um, when I leave and when you look at your process, I fully expect that this individual is going to compete in whatever hiring process the board comes up with. What
052I do not want to do is I do not want to make a selection, go through uh a great deal of time in training someone with the hopes of being a superintendent and then having it at the end. Well, we didn't have enough input. That was really Dr. Anderson's decision. Um we may have made a different decision because this person's going to put in a great deal of work. Now, they are still going to have to rise to be the best candidate in the pool that you have. But I think it's important that the candidate that is that I will prepare to be the potential super that could be the potential superintendent for this district knows that they would have the support of at least the majority of the current board. >> And may I
053just do one followup? Is that okay? >> I would, and this is just me, one of seven. I would be much more comfortable if the vision is you training this person to be a superintendent in the future. I don't think it's fair and just one of seven to put the expectation that I'm training you to be the next superintendent of the school district of Boe. And again, just because we vote to approve someone for this position does not mean that that that vote is transferable to be the superintendent of the school district of Bo. And I just that just seems like that's very murky in this conversation which makes me uncomfortable. >> Thank you. And the uh Mrs. Levy, thank you. The intention is not that this is a given that this person will be
054the next superintendent. Just as I had mentioned earlier, there will be a search the and if this person decides they would like to apply for the superintendent position when it becomes open, then we will that person has the opportunity to apply just as everyone else. Megan Miller, you've got your hand up. >> I do. Thank you. Just a brief followup first. Um and I just want to iterate this too, Dr. Anderson. Um, I realize that I raised some questions that are critical of the process. I do really want to make sure to thank you. I think any amount of mentorship that you are willing to to give to um like really anybody in the district builds our capacity and will absolutely be a good thing no matter what. So, I just wanted to like make
055sure to honor that and and appreciate that. Um, it's it's definitely important. And then just a follow-up thing, we don't it's not really even on this. I don't want to go off the agenda, but if if we could just get a board President Johnson an update at some point about what the timeline's going to be for how we're handling the search um future agendas just because typically searches are done, you know, on a different timeline. So, I just I just again in the spirit of transparency with the community, people who are interested in the issue, um I'm sure you've got a plan for that. If you could just kind of keep us posted, I think that would be really helpful. Thank you again. >> Thank you, Mrs. Chop. tomorrow. Can you contact or will you
056contact um all seven board members to um try to firm up a date when we can all be available? Um and I know Dr. Anderson said as soon as possible, but I think right now realistically it might be early next week might be what we're looking at. Does that work for you, Dr. Anderson? Okay. Thank you. And just for clarity, are you still looking at a meeting to hold both like a discussion on the Hendrickson proposal and interviews? I'm just I just want to be so when Michelle and I talk, I know what we're looking at. >> Yeah. So, I did I like I had mentioned a board member had requested that we have one more um board discussion on the Hendricks Family Foundation offer. Are there any board members that are opposed to having
057this in one meeting? Mrs. Levy, >> a question. It is what we're being asked to do to sit in and participate in the um interview. Are we going to debrief afterwards? Are we going to have time to discuss and then move like shift gears? Okay. So I would think an interview of this magnitude is a minimum of an hour. So that's two hours. To debrief, I would say that's at least an hour. And then I'm not sure how long we're budgeting for the the Hendrickx Family Foundation presentation. I hope that that is open to the public and the public is welcome and there can be some Q&A not just with board members but community members as well. So I'm thinking that's at least an hour, hour and a half. So 4 and a half hours
058is what we're looking at if we combine these. And I'm not saying that's right or wrong. I just want us to understand what the time commitment we're agreeing to. And so I would be a fan of separating those. >> Thank you. The interviews actually did not go that long. Surprisingly. Yeah. So um I think I think you're being very generous in how much time you think >> for an assistant superintendent position. >> Yeah. They >> That's kind of disappointing. Okay. >> Um, Mrs. Fox. >> Um, yeah, I I was the one that I'm looking for more of a of sort of a workshop discussion meeting with the board about the foundation um proposal just so we can, you know, really sit down and discuss it together. Um, we certainly can have some community input if
059we choose. Um, but you know, we need to sit down and sort of talk it over. And yes, of course, it needs to be an open meeting, but you know, it it it's worthy of discussion. Um, I did make another suggestion about the interview, and I don't know if anybody's following up on that at at all. I did I'm I'm hearing from several board members that they would trust um Dr. Anderson's choice and um you know I could I could go that way too. I mean um yeah if we're concerned about conflict about moving forward um maybe we just decide that we want to trust his choice. But I too vote for two meetings if we're going to do interviews because I I think that they may go um longer this time around for one.
060>> Okay. Thank you, Dr. Anderson. What are your thoughts? >> Well, obviously if I think that you're going to be there for four to five hours for a meeting, I would say divide it into two. So in that if you're looking at the amount of time I certainly think that u there's only a certain amount of effectiveness. So once I think you get past three hours I think any time after that is ineffective. So uh if you think that you're going to be longer than that I think two. As I said if I was just looking at hiring a director I would have no issue with making a recommendation to the board. Period. But I do not look at this position as the director. I look at this as a viable candidate for superintendent which
061the board's responsibility will be to hire. That's why I wanted the boards to do the final um interview of the two candidates and to make a selection so that individual know going into being trained that they had the support of the majority of the board. So that is the difference. It's not if I didn't think that this would be that we were training this person to be a viable candidate to for your next superintendent because I truly believe you need to have someone that's invested in this community. I think that's going to be an important point then I would but like I said I truly believe in a way what you're taking a look at is two potential individuals that could be uh an internal candidate for the next superintendency and I think that if
062you choose that one it shows that person's a little bit that you have faith in them that they would be a viable candidate. Thank you, Dr. Anderson. Mrs. Show, tomorrow, would you send out a doodle poll or uh call the board members to find out if there are two dates that we can all seven get together on? Thank you. Next, we are at the consent agenda. Typically, there is no separate discussion on of the item items unless a board member so requests in which event the item or items will be removed from the general order of business and considered in their normal sequence on the agenda. Item D has already been removed from the consent agenda. Are there any board members that would like any of the other items removed? >> Is there a motion
063on the consent agenda? >> So moved. >> Second. Motion by Brian Nichols, seconded by Amy Levy. Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor? >> I. >> Any oppose? Motion carries unanimously. >> Next up, we have employment recommendations exhibit A. Are there any open session questions on exhibit A? Are there any close session questions on exhibit A? >> Hearing none. Is there a motion to approve exhibit A? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion by Brian Nichols, seconded by Megan Miller. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Our next item tonight is executive session. A motion may be made and a vote taken to convene the board of education into close session pursuant to section 19.85 parent one parent F of the Wisconsin state statutes for the purpose
064of reviewing the expulsion orders of the independent hearing officer pursuant to section 120.13 parent 1 parent E 4H of the Wisconsin state statutes. The board of education shall upon review approve, reverse or modify the orders and pursuant to section 19.85 parent one parent E of the Wisconsin state statutes relative to the purchase sale of properties of property negotiating public son funds. Is there a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion by Brian Nichols, seconded by Amy Levy, Mrs. Shop >> Joanne Rue I >> Brian Nichols >> I >> Megan Miller >> I >> Amy Levy >> I Carol Fox >> I >> and Tia Johnson >> I >> Motion carried unanimously. >> Thank you. The board of education may reconvene to public session in order to take any action if necessary on items discussed
065in close session. Thank you.