001Miss Mrs. Schul is Mr. Henkins on Good evening. [clears throat] I am calling to order the regular board meeting of Tuesday, December 16th. Mrs. Shop, when you're ready, can we get a roll call? Yes. Amy Levy. Tom Henkins. Joan Rue >> here. Carol Fox >> here. Brian Nichols >> here. >> And Tia Johnson >> here. All members are present except Amy Levy and Tom Henkins who I believe will be joining us shortly >> and Megan Miller. >> I'm sorry, Megan Miller. And Megan Miller is also not available. >> Okay, thank you. We do have four board members present either virtually or in person. So, we do have a quorum and we'll continue. May I get an approval of tonight's agenda with the removal of item 9G as those minutes were not attached in time. >>
002So move. >> Second. >> Motion by Carol Fox, seconded by Brian Nichols. Any discussion hearing and seeing none, all in favor? I >> I >> Any oppose? Motion carries unanimously. Tonight we have the honor of having Dr. Ryan Stangle, the Fuszen Middle School principal, here to introduce stu students from Fuszen Middle School to lead us in tonight's pledge. Dr. Stangle. Well, thank you, Board President Johnson. And with me here, we have uh Melissa T and Brooklyn Fitzgerald. They are seventh grade students at Fuszen Middle School. Uh they are both student leaders. They are both on the National Junior Honor Society and they are both high honor role students. So, they are going to be leading us in the pledge of allegiance. Take it away, girls. >> 32. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of
003the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. [applause] Thank you so much. Next on the agenda is the president's report. Good evening and thank you for being here tonight. We sincerely appreciate your continued interest in and support of the school district of boy. Last Wednesday, the Civics Academy welcomed our interim superintendent, Dr. Wayne Anderson, as its monthly presenter. Dr. Anderson shared his professional journey into school administration, offered early observations of the district, and discussed his thoughts on moving the school district of Blo forward. We extend our gratitude the to the boy public library and the civics academy for their ongoing commitment to engaging our community in thoughtful productive conversations about the district. Looking ahead, the civics academy
004will host a session on January 21st titled using the SDB tool to understand the finance and performance of the district. We encourage community members to attend and learn more about this publicly available resource and how it can be used to better understand district data. Board members Fox Henkins Levy and I recently had the pleasure of serving as culinary guest judges for the hospitality and culinary program at the BAC Academy, the Bach Academy at Boy Memorial High School. The Bach Academy stands for business, arts, communication, and hospitality. And they provide students with authentic hands-on learning experiences. As part of their final assessment, students independently planned, prepared, and presented an impressive array of dishes. The menu took us on a global journey featuring Asian, Italian, and soul food selections along with a variety of desserts. The experience
005was elevated further by live music performances from the orchestra students Sophia, Herbert, Samantha, and Arthur. The student head chefs and presenters included Kamani who presented the soul food dish, Giani, who presented the Italian selection, Andrea who prepared the Asian plate, and Giovanni who served as host. Additional participating chefs included Eric, Braden, Bella, Jared, Tyon, Aliv, Alivia, Heidi, Demi, Ali, Caleb, Idel, Jeremiah, Zachariah, Ryland, Janessa, Rapoleon, and Kaden. We thank all of the students for their professionalism, creativity, and gracious hospitality. Our deep appreciation also goes out to Mr. Finnberg, professional educator at Bo Memorial and Mr. Michaels, the career academy coach for their leadership and dedication to student success. The NAACP education committee is sharing their holiday spirit. They prepared a total of 300 lunch bags that are being distributed equally among the six elementary schools.
006This kind gesture of generosity is a true representation of this season. As we approach the winter break, we wish each of you a peaceful, loving, and restful holiday season. This concludes the president's report. Thank you. Next, we have upcoming events and announcements. Mrs. Rue will be reading those for Mr. Henkins. >> Good evening. These are the announcements for Tuesday, December 16th. December is always a busy time of year, and this year proves to be no different. The high school winter choir and orchestra is being held this coming Thursday at 7:00 p.m. at the high school. The office of alumni services is accepting nominations for the alumni hall of fame award. The nominee must be a graduate of Bite Memorial High School. To be considered for the 2026 Hall of Fame Award, nominations must be received
007no later than midnight on February 2nd, 2026 using the nomination form. For more information, go to bloitschools.net. Then to the alumni page and select alumni hall of fame. If you are considering running for school board in the spring 2026 election, there will be three seats open. Two seats will be for three years and one seat will be for the remaining two years of Juan Romero's term. Forms are available at Kolak Education as well as on the board's website. If you have questions, please reach out to the board clerk Tom Henkins or to Michelle Schop at 608361-4180. Our future board meeting dates include Monday, January 5th, 2026, policy and HR committee meeting beginning at 4 o'clock at the Kolak Education Center. The board is considering moving its business operation and finance committee from Tuesday, January 6th
008to Monday, January 5th, as well as the regular board meeting during tonight's meeting. Please watch the discussion and vote. The board will also consider moving its other January meetings this evening. Students will be on winter break with no school from December 22nd, 2025 through January 2nd, 2026. Classes will resume on Monday, January 5th, 2026. The Kolak Education Center will be closed to the public during the winter break December 22nd through January 2nd and will reopen for regular business on Monday, January 5th, 2026. The school district of Deote and Board of Education want to wish our student our staff, students, families, and community a very safe and happy holiday season. >> Thank you, Mrs. R. Next we have recognition. Tonight we have recognition of the Blit Learning Academy and Food Pantry. Dr. Betsy Schroeder, the BLA
009principal, Blo Learning Academy principal, and staff involved in the food pantry are being recognized for their efforts in supporting their students, families, and the community. And Mrs. Sch, can we um show the um >> Yes, please. Thank you. and um Dr. Schroeder, if you would like to come to the podium with your guests and share some of your um experience and work that you guys are doing for the students community. >> I am going to turn this over to Sue Bailey and her GED option to students because if it weren't for them, we would not be able to provide this opportunity to our families at Cunningham uh for the last three years in partnership with Second Harvest. So take it away, Mrs. Bailey. >> Okay, so um this is our third year of having our
010school market in BLA and um if it wasn't for my students volunteering. These are just three of the many students I've had. And the first year the students I had um were grads and they helped set up the whole market, came up with a system. And then last year our 2025 grads worked every week delivering food. They kept the system going. They help every like when I tell you how much they do, it is a lot of work. And these are three of my current graduating class of 2026. Um, so we I place orders through Second Harvest. The orders come on Monday. I can't do that by myself. The orders are delivered. We have pallets of food that are delivered. And my students, whether it's hot, cold, they are out there with me unwrapping the
011pallets, bringing everything in, stocking the shelves, putting the frozen away, putting the cold away. Um, and we finish it on Tuesday. And then Wednesday, we pack orders for all our BLA families. And they have they have it down like they know. We go deliver them. Um it is quite an amazing process. These students are totally dedicated and I will let one of them speak or two of them speak in a minute. Um, I just wanted to say in Thanksgiving time, we had packed up 32 full Thanksgiving meals in including turkeys, mashed potatoes, all the the stuffing, dressing, cornbread muffins, cranberry, you name it. We had pumpkin pie filling. Um, and we made a lot of families very happy at Thanksgiving. So I will let Do you want to come up first and have some or
012you guys can just all come up. >> These are my students are amazing and you'll see that. So >> hello my name is Adriana. I am a member of GTO and I love our food pantry. I think it brings our community together and gives us a sense of responsibility. I really enjoy it and I've I I love it and I think what we do for our community is amazing. So, I'm very thankful for Miss Bailey and this opportunity for us to do this and I'm very glad to be here tonight and speaking. So, thank you very much. I'd just like to say I'm thankful for the opportunity Miss Bailey has given me to feed BLA families while they're attending our school and even after they attend our school. It brings me comfort to know that
013they're fed and they have food on their plates at the end of the day. Um, hi guys. My name is Alejandro. I'm pretty nervous, but um, I'm just thankful for this opportunity to be here right now and to have such great people around me and to do such great things for families and help families in need. >> And I want to thank you for recognizing us because, you know, it made us feel really good to have somebody recognize us for the work that we do. Do you have any questions for us about what we do? Are there any questions? >> I just want to say thank you, Miss Bailey and Dr. Schroeder and all of the wonderful students. This it's sounds like it's a lot of work, but that you guys have taken it on
014um very professionally and methodically figuring out what needs to be done and that it's getting done. And again, what a great representation of this holiday season, you know, sharing and giving. That's that's what it's all about. Thank you so much for everything you do. >> And I just want to say they really make it their own. Like when I say they work hard and make it their own, they keep it organized and rotated and just like a little store. So, thank you guys. [applause] Next we have public comment. Mrs. Sch, are there any public comments tonight? >> I have a few that are here in the room. >> Okay. 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
015a 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 norms for public comments during board meetings. Thank you for your participation and courtesy. Mrs. Schop, so the first person I have is Lisa and she has Brent and Jen yielding her time yielding their time to her. Sorry. >> I I I think if [clears throat] you push the button. >> Yep. There you go. >> Okay. Good evening. Uh thank you for allowing me a few moments to speak with you
016tonight. I'm the executive director of the Hendricks Family Foundation and I'm joined tonight by Jen Trop, my colleague at the foundation and Brent Fox, the CEO of Hendricks Holding and a member of the foundation board. We're here tonight on behalf of the Hendricks Family Foundation because we believe deeply in the potential of Bloit's children. We know you do, too. So, we want to partner with you in a focused effort to improve third grade literacy. We're here offering to support a three-year pilot with funding conditioned on meaningful annual progress that focuses on improving outcomes at one elementary school. The pilot would include three primary components. Highintensity tutoring, leadership and culture coaching, and defined staff incentives for meeting schoolwide goals. The estimated investment value for the pilot is $2.5 million. The foundation is offering to contract to
017provide highintensity tutoring slots for 60 elementary students at the selected school. The vendor Open Literacy has a proven track record of effective intervention and experience working with schools. The tutoring would be delivered virtually which allows for consistency and access to certified a certified team of interventionists. The foundation would contract to provide intensive coaching and culture work focused on principal and instructional leadership embedded in three specific areas. Classroom management, content instruction, and rigorous academics. Skyrocket Education led by founder Michael Sanbert has supported schools across the country in building the instructional and cultural practices necessary for rapid improvement. The work is demanding, but it's transformative. To honor the required commitment and effort, as well as the necessary interest and openness to change, the foundation will include resources for structured staff bonuses tied to defined, measurable schoolwide outcomes.
018Because we're committed to results, not just activities, it's important that we be transparent about what it would take for this pilot to be successful. These conditions are based on evidence of what works for school turnarounds. The unanimous approval of the board of education, subject, of course, to due diligence and deliberation, without explicit buyin, this cannot work. buyin and engagement from the superintendent and the instructional leaders in the district. A commitment to collaboratively evaluate the effectiveness of interventions, including allowing access to data. Constructive engagement with all key stakeholders. An agreement to re not to reallocate resources away from the selected school unless agreed to by all stakeholders. Commitments from the selected elementary team, including the following. A vision for change from the principal to grade level teams. A willingness to change adult practices, not just student
019behaviors, including adult learning, summer training, ongoing PD, teacher coaching, and real time feedback, consistent systems to address behavior and instructional routines based on the skyrocket model. Transparent use of data to drive improvement, strong, predictable schoolwide culture, collaborative team structures, transparent leadership and persistence. We have packets with all of this information as well as additional relevant details for Dr. Anderson and a copy for all of the board members. We respect there will be many details to assess and discuss. We'll leave the packets with Miss Shopee in order to encourage community dialogue and facilitate facilitate transparency. We also plan to provide a copy of the materials to the Blo Daily News. For the pilot to launch effectively in 2627, approval and selection of the pilot school will need to be in place by March, allowing time for
020planning and spring preparation. We love this city. We believe every child deserves a chance to soar. There's a Tibetan proverb, a child without education is like a bird without wings. We have to teach our kids to read and to do math. We have to give them We have to give them wings as the adults in the room. That's our charge. The foundation intends to continue to support the Lincoln Academy. It's working for lots of children and that is our northstar. And yet there are thousands of children who walk through these doors every day. So what do we do? What do you do if doing nothing is not an option? I can't count the thousands of conversations I have had that have centered on that question. What can we do? It's the question at meeting after
021meeting. It's the question in the meeting after the meeting. It comes up when I host people in my home for dinner. [sighs] We spend so much time, intellect, and heartache asking that question. What are we going to do? And thus our offer for some of you it might be an olive branch. What could we accomplish if we took a risk and tried something together? We are proposing a one school solution, not a district-wide roadmap. Though if we were successful, it could provide strategies to leverage in other schools. We know meaningful change is challenging and no single approach will solve every issue, but we believe this gives us a real opportunity for progress. and more of the same is simply not a promising recipe. I want to finish with a thank you. Our thanks to the
022board and every staff member in this district. If we've learned anything unequivocally in the past several years is that education is hard. It's hard. Thank you for showing up and doing the hard work on behalf of our children and our community. We respect the deliberate deliberation and decision-making journey ahead and stand ready to engage in deeper conversations as you consider this opportunity. Have a great night and a blessed holiday. >> Thank you, Lisa, Mrs. Schul. Next, I have uh Greg Greg Good evening. As a resident of the school district and and a former employee of the district, um I stand before you. The students in our schools, their parents, the guardians, and the community rely on you, the board of education, to make the school district the best that it can be. The students are
023doing their part. The teachers and staff are going above and beyond working with the students. But it seems that the majority of the board is not only failing our students, but seems to be intentionally dragging the district down. The majority of the board is not focused on student needs, it seems, but on a faction of the community's desires. In the last several years, the school district has had to cut more than 25% of its budget, directly impacting the ability to provide the quality education our students and community deserve. It is not possible to do more with so much less money. On May 6th, the board voted 6 to zero to move approval of moving forward with prep preparing for the April 2026 referendum. On July 1st, you approved the consultant firm for the referendum, but
024the community has heard almost nothing since then. Yet on November 4th, during the board president's report, it was stated, quote, "The board of education and district administration are carefully reviewing feedback along with financial analysis as we consider whether to propose a future referendum." unquote. And a little later again, quote, if the board directs the administration to develop a referendum proposal, and the sentence goes on, the board has approved going to referendum. It has spent funds going to referendum. You all know that additional funding for the district is absolutely necessary to meet not only the current needs of the district but also for the successful future of our students and the community of Blo as a whole. You have already made the decision to go to referendum. It is way past the time for all board
025members to get to work to pass the referendum in April. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Sch. And the last one I have is Susan. I'm speaking for myself. It's still on, right? Okay. Um, [clears throat] last year the League of Women Voters Bo supported the school district referendum which only failed by 141 votes. You have some really tough issues to deal with. State aid was cut this year. Property tax payers are concerned about their increased tax bills for 2026. What we've been paying is actually very low. Yet, people demand a quality education but don't want to pay for it. Um, this tax increase is not really going to help the shortfall in school funding at all. Many of us are very concerned. We need to invest in our children and support our public school education.
026A good school district is important for a strong community. What are your plans for getting ahead on these issues? We're uncertain where the school board now stands and look forward to hearing the discussion tonight about the referendum. I hope it includes a plan to communicate to the taxpayers the answer to why has the property tax for education increase incurred because a lot of people don't understand it and how will you school board members reach out to the community to explain your plans. Um it's already been mentioned that uh school board president stated that board and administration are carefully reviewing feedback uh for the listening surveys and want to know I hope that the uh discussion tonight includes what the summary of those was were summaries. Um, Superintendent Anderson is leading the discussion tonight and um,
027I look forward to hearing the result about the reviews and the hope is that you will move forward with a referendum process. And I also hope and expect that more members of the school board will actually attend the community sessions where they tried to get voters to vote for the um referendum because um we need to have people the school board people there also to both explain the need for it and encourage voters to support it. Last year, few of the board members actually attended the sessions. That spoke volumes and the referendum did not pass. Not necessarily a cause, but it was correlation. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Schaeer. Are there any more public comments? >> No, I don't have any more. >> Thank you. Next on tonight's agenda, we have the student board
028report. Hello. Sorry. Hello everyone and thank you Miss Johnson. Um so what I have for the last month is that today was um a day that the Rotary Club named the students of the week. This includes Sebastian [snorts] Bayona and myself. Um Tuesday is a choir concert at 7 or not Tuesday, sorry, Thursday. Sorry. Sorry. Friday is the last day before winter break. Um, and we're all very, very excited about that. This past Saturday was supposed to be the Denim and Diamonds dance, but it was cancelled due to low ticket sales. But last week was a spirit week, and we also had a pep assembly. Um, that was that went shorter than we all expected. Uh students went through course selection about two weeks ago. Uh they spent about a week doing it. Um and
029thoroughly went over it especially with the freshmen. And NHS is running a toy drive for the Willow Women's Center in Blue as well as Head Start. We sent out um a email to the women's center and head start to ask them if there were any um families that needed gifts for their kids this Christmas. Um, and we got a list for each family and we had um teachers and some students sponsor um each family for each child. Um, luckily we had um we had a sponsor for each child. Um, multiple people sponsored a whole family. Um, and we ended up getting a lot of gifts for each child. Um, and with children who didn't have as much gifts brought in from their donors, um, Mr. Rondo went and purchased them some gifts for them. Um,
030and I believe he's delivering them tonight to the women's center. Um, senior superlatives were sent out, uh, like the form to ask seniors about it, um, as well as the senior quotes. >> Thank you so much. Next, we have the superintendence report. Well, you'll notice my voice isn't exactly too up today, so I'm going to try to be a little briefer. Um, I've been trying to continue to get into the the buildings on a daily basis and also meet with residents from the community to get their impressions of the school. So, right now, I should be somewhere between 50 and 60 individuals I've been able to talk with. One of the things that we are also working on for the next school year is I know that the we have options at our high school
031level for students that may not adjust well to the what we'll call the normal academic scene and BLA uh offers great options for that. Our middle schools have options. Aldrich has one. We're looking at bringing that to frozen for next year. Um but we don't have any options for the elementary school. So Jeff Stenerus is going to be working with the elementary principles uh to start uh the discussions on coming up with an elementary alternative school that we could operate for the next year for those students that may not be adjusting well to our current school. We've been working a lot in the referendum. I'll go into more than details on that in a few minutes. Um, but we've also tried to streamline our hiring process because one of the things that we've noticed is
032that uh we have lost some applicants uh because of our turnaround time. So, we're trying to make some changes so that we can have that uh move in a quicker, smoother, more efficient manner um so that we can hopefully fill some of the vacant positions we have. I guess I'll leave it at that for now. Thank you, Dr. Anderson. I am sorry you are not feeling better and we'll try to get out of here early for you tonight. [laughter] [gasps and sighs] Next up, we've got the change in the January board meeting dates. Dr. Anderson, this is yours again. Do you want me to just read this? >> Yeah, that'd be good. >> The purpose of this item is to move the January meeting dates so that the interim superintendent may attend all typical board
033or regular board and committee meetings. Dr. Anderson will be on a board approved vacation from January 6th through the 21st. With time-sensitive issues such as the spring referendum question coming up, Dr. Anderson would be available for all meetings in January to answer questions, assist with gathering information, and submitting a board approved referendum question should one be approved by the board members on or before January 6 to the Rock County Clerk by the deadline of January 27th. So, I believe the proposed dates are moving the Tuesday, January 6th meeting up one day to January 5th and moving the Tuesday, January 20th meeting to the following Monday, January 26th. Is there a motion or discussion? Joanne >> um should we talk about the committee meetings that are on the same date usually so that we can finalize
034all the dates at the same time all the meetings at the same time? >> Sure. On the agenda, um the recommended action is move approval of moving the January business operation and finance committee and regular board meetings from Tuesday, January 6th to Monday, January 5th, following the policy and HR committee meeting and moving the teaching, learning, equity, and pupil services committee and regular board meetings from Tuesday, January 20th to Monday, January 26th. Any other questions? I move approval of that motion. >> I second it. >> Motion by Carol Fox, seconded by Joanne Rue. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I [clears throat] >> I. >> Any oppose? Motion carries unanimously. Our next item tonight is referendum and doc um Dr. Anderson, this also is your item, but I would like to because this
035is on the agenda, I would just like to make a point that per state statute um all um school district re uh referendas are or referend referenda are approved through the process of a resolution. So re reviewing feedback about a referendum is not a vote nor statement of a commitment to go to referendum but rather to look into it. A referendum is approved at the board with a state required resolution. Wisconsin state statutes are found in chapters 5 through through 12 that govern the election of a referendum and the state statutes requiring approval through resolution are u 67.05 05 parent 6A parent A parent 2 for the debt or bond issuance of a referenda and the state statute 121.99 91 parent 3 for referenda to exceed revenue limits. Obviously this board has not approved any
036resolutions for a an April referendum and that is that's where we are now. Dr. Anderson. >> This is when I really wish I had my voice back. So when I was hired and they talked about a referendum, they asked about that. [gasps] And what I said is, "Why don't you give me at least one month to determine whether or not a referendum is even possible?" So what I did is I started working with the building principles to come up with what their building needs were. Each of the uh each of the building principles in the departments submitted me a list of what they thought their personnel needs were for this school year and uh anticipated for next school year. [gasps] When I added all those up, it came to just a little less than 10
037million, which is what I thought it might be was actually 9.7. But in taking a look at our budget, 7.5 million of those positions were already in our budget. They had just been unfilled and there was only 2.2 million in new positions. [gasps] So I thought, well, that doesn't make sense to try to go to a referendum for 2.2 two million especially when I haven't went through the budget uh taking it apart in determining how much leeway there might be in our budget. [gasps] I don't know the other needs of the district. So it's hard to advocate for what the other needs are um in the time in which I've been here. So it's actually my recommendation to the board that they do not go to referendum in April, but we start with an ad
038hoc committee that can look at all the needs of the district. uh starting um right away in January uh to make a report back to the board in June basically saying and detailing what we think the needs are on the district, what those would cost and basically um what I'll call is the committee's um feeling of support from the community. In the many conversations I've had with people, I think there are quite a few uh uh leaders in the community that would like to sit in on that and provide input to the board. So, I think a referendum is necessary, but I don't want to go to referendum and ask people for money unless I know what the needs of the district are and can articulate them. Because when we do go to referendum, I
039think it's very important that we don't ask for a pot of money, but that we ask for specific items so we can lay out in detail what the dollars for the referendum would be used for if passed and also to be able to lay out to the public if a referendum did not pass, what we would have to make for adjustments uh to have a balanced budget. So, I think a referendum is important. I do not think I have the information at this time to be able to make a recommendation for April. So, I would recommend not going in April, but using this time to study so we can make a comprehensive recommendation to possibly hold a referendum in November. >> Thank you, Dr. Anderson. Do any board members have any questions or comments at
040this time? I don't have my thing up here. Um I my personal belief is that that would be a wise decision to not um go to an April referendum. I don't think we're prepared for that and I think that's been a problem in the past. I think, you know, we've been rushing from referendum to referendum and have not had the time. Um, and I'm speaking partly as the former ad hoc chairperson of the the finance committee. Um, we haven't had the time to delve into some of the deep issues that we really need to to dive into to really make a case for a good referendum. And I I I think, you know, we definitely will have a case, but I think we really need the time um and the manpower, the people to be
041involved in making those kinds of decisions. Um I did send a a an item to um both Mrs. Rue and doc Dr. Anderson about the fact that I think we need a a bunch of committees. Um that wouldn't necessarily be related to the referendum, but we need we need a group of people to study our academic achievement. We need a group of people to study our attendance. We need a group of people to to uh and I've lost my third one. What's the third one? A discipline. We need to continue that discipline committee and get that that going so that we can really study the issues for the district whether we go to referendum or not. we need to be studying those issues and coming up with plans and some things that we need to
042work on. Um, and that can funnel in to any kind of referendum work that that we're doing um to help come up with plans for what we need to be doing in the future. Um, you know, any committee will also need to be looking at facilities and how we use those. That stuff takes time and the time between now and April is just too short to really make those kinds of quality um have those kinds of quality discussions so that you can make quality decisions. Thank you. Anyone else? Um Mr. Henkins and Mr. Nichols, I I don't know if you have any comments. Mr. Nichols. >> Well, I I [clears throat] usually have a comment. Uh but uh seriously, I I concur with I certainly concur with Dr. Anderson. He's he's the expert. He's been
043he's been doing this for more years than than uh I I you know, I my whole career. So, I think he's the one we need to follow. I I agree with Mrs. Fox that we we need to put together some some committees to look to get dig deeper into some of these challenges that we do have. And I think, you know, I think that that will build success and bring us to the point where we can, you know, uh go to a referendum with with a lot of a lot of firepower. So, my thanks to everybody Okay, if there is no further discussion, then we can move on as this was a discussion item with no recommended action at this time. That brings us to the consent agenda. Typically, there is no separate discussion on
044the items unless a board member. So write 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. Are there any board members that would like any of the consent agenda items removed? Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> So moved. >> Second. Motion to approve the consent agenda by Carol Fox, seconded by Brian Nichols. Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor? >> I >> Any oppose. Motion carries unanimously. Our next item is employment recommendations exhibit A. Are there any open session questions for exhibit A? Are there any close session questions for exhibit A? Is there a motion to approve exhibit A? I move approval. >> Second. >> Motion by Carol Fox, seconded by Brian Nichols. Any
045discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I. >> Any oppose? Motion carries unanimously. Our last item 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 85 parent one parent E of the Wisconsin state statutes relative to the st to the sale of property/negotiating public funds and section 19.85 parent one parent C of the Wisconsin state statutes relative to consideration performance evaluation of any public employee and section 19.85 85 parent one parent G relative to conferring with legal counsel regarding strategy with respect to potential litigation. Is there a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion by Brian Nichols, seconded by Carol Fox. We are going into close session tonight for the consideration of conferring with legal counsel regarding strategy
046for potential statewide litigation. Century 21 sale of real property update, property deed designations, Century 21 realtor contract, and the monthly interim superintendent evaluation. Is there any discussion before we take a roll call? Mrs. Shopee, just getting to the vote. Sorry. Too many buttons to click. Okay. Joan Rue. >> I Brian Nichols. >> I >> Tom Henkins. 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 in close session. Thank you and have a wonderful holiday season. >> [snorts] >> Done. Great. Good thing I have turn out. these days.