Regular Board Meeting - 10/7/2025 (6:00 p.m.)

001Good evening. It is 6 o'clock. I am calling to order the regular board meeting of Tuesday, October 7th. Mrs. Schop, may we please get a roll call, please? Yes. Amy Levy here. Tom Henkins. >> I'm sorry. I I know I still here. >> Okay. >> I don't know where you're at. >> Um Brian Nichols >> here. >> Megan Miller present. Carol Fox here. and Joanne Rue. All members are present except Joanne Rue. Thank you, Mrs. Shop. Can I get an approval of the agenda, but I am requesting to remove item 7 C, consideration of personnel compensation. >> So moved. >> Oh, may I offer an amendment? I checked as late as 10 o'clock last night and I did not see the minutes attached. Um, so if we could remove those so we can have time

002to review them. >> The uh all three sets. Okay, Mr. Nichols, are you in agreement with that? >> Yes. >> Second. >> Thank you. We have a motion by Brian Nichols and a second by Amy Levy to approve the agenda with the removal of 7 C, 6F, 6G, and 6H. All in favor? >> I. >> Any oppose? Motion carries unanimously. Tonight we have the privilege of having principal Ryan Stingle with us tonight to introduce a student from Fuszen Middle School who will uh lead us in tonight's pledge. And I also have the pleasure of introducing Principal Stangle, not just as Mr. Stangle, but now he is a doctor. Dr. Stingle, take it away. >> Well, thank you so much. I'm very happy to be here to do the pledge. And we have two eighth grade

003students with us, uh, Jana Miller and Madison Selin. And we also have uh Jana's little sister Quinn helping us out. So, if you guys speak close and into that, >> do you need us to lift you up? Are you sure? >> Don't put your hands under. >> Okay. >> Speak with your mouth really close. >> I pledge algiance 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. And thank you board president for the recognition. I appreciate it. >> Received his doctorate from Edgewoods in Madison and we are very proud to have him on our staff. Tonight we have the honor of swearing in and um Mrs. Carol Fox as the new school board member. And we

004have Mrs. Henderson here to swear her in. >> Good evening everyone. Good evening, uh, Miss Fox. It's good to see you again. So, we're going to take our official oath. Could you raise your right hand, please? I, and then state your name. >> I, Carol Fox >> have, and repeat after me, please. Have been appointed to the office of the school board member. >> Has been appointed to the office of schoolboard member, >> but have not yet entered into the duties >> thereof. Thereof. swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States. >> I swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States >> and the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin >> constitution of the state of Wisconsin >> and will faithfully discharge >> faithfully discharge >> the duties >>

005of said office >> said office >> to the best of my ability. >> So help me God. Thank you, Mrs. Henderson. We appreciate you staying with us tonight and taking care of that for us. And congratulations, Mrs. Fox, and welcome to the team. Our next item is the board president report. Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight and for your continued interest and support of the school district of boy. I am pleased to share that Carol Fox was appointed to the school board of education last night. Mrs. Fox brings with her a distinguished career in education, a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and years of dedicated volunteer service to our district, often wearing many hats along the way. Please join me in congratulating Mrs. Fox and expressing our deep appreciation for her ongoing

006commitment to our students, staff, and community. Again, thank you, Mrs. Fox, and congratulations. On September 17th, the board held its annual budget hearing during which Director of Finance Stephanie Elwood presented a balanced budget for the 2526 school year. Like many other districts across the state, we continue to face challenges related to declining enrollment. As a result, we will need to make adjustments and reductions that align with enrollment while ensuring the least possible impact on student learning and achievement. The district remains committed to thoughtful student centered decisionmaking as we move forward. On September 23rd, board members Levy Rue and I attended the WSB regional meeting. We participated in a valuable workshop on student attendance and received updates on the recent changes in the state budget. These sessions help ensure that our board remains informed and engaged

007in state level education initiatives that impact our district. Board members also continue to visit schools throughout the district. I recently had the pleasure of visiting several of our buildings and was especially impressed by the positive energy and progress at Merrill Elementary School and Frozen Middle Middle School. The building climates, expectations, and culture are clearly improving under the leadership of Principal Mallister and Principal Stangle, and we are proud of the progress being made in such a short time period. A special congratulations to our Purple Knights football team for their outstanding homecoming victory with an impressive final score of 427. Thank you to all of the players, families, coaches, and staff who continue to model excellence, teamwork, and school pride both on and off the field. Looking ahead, the Hadley Group will survey will be presented at

008our October 21st regular board meeting. This report will provide insight into the community's thoughts on an April referendum. While we recognize there is always room for growth, I can confidently say there are many positive things happening throughout the school district of Blo. Together we are making progress and continuing to build momentum for our students and our community. As always, be kind to others and be kind to yourself. That concludes my president's report. Thank you. Upcoming events and announcements are do we have those tonight? No. Okay. Next up, public comment. Mrs. Sh, do we have public comment tonight? >> Yes, I have about four or five in the room and then I have three emails. >> Okay, let's do the uh ones in person first, please. Do you want to go through your little >> I'm

009just writing down how many we have. >> 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 discuss 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 at your convenience. First we have Alyssa. Got it. Okay. Um, hi everybody. As stated, uh, my name is Alyssa Roar. I

010currently work as one of the school nurses in the district and have been, uh, working here since 2017. Um, so I came before a time when Michelle was in her position and um, I have several concerns about the potential of eliminating her job. Um, so again, I'm here to provide support for our department and her position. Um, but I am concerned with the lack of time provided um, for me to appropriately prepare my thoughts for this meeting and it's rather disheartening. Um plainly there is absolutely no way uh the director of school health position can be accomplished through any other means uh such as a lead nurse position manager title um etc. Respectfully this would impact student safety and impact the overall success of our students and our department as a whole. Overall, the director

011of school health position ensures that protocols are followed, policies are updated, and safety is maintained. This affects not only our students, but also our staff. There is no way for me to possibly explain all that she does in a matter of minutes, and her job simply cannot be replicated. I am concerned about the amount of time that's available, like I said, for me to properly defend her and her necessity. um to those that are not medical professionals. Um on a day-to-day basis, um Michelle runs several critical reports that are necessary for our department to complete our job duties in a timely manner, which is absolutely necessary, especially at the beginning of the year for um school nurses to create emergency care plans and provide these to our staff and um other teachers. Um, in addition,

012she serves as a resource for everyone within our department and is often working hand by hand with us. She does not simply sit here in the building at KEK. She's busy doing reports and um serving as a resource to us while working with us side by side. Um, so I just wanted to point that out that we need her. Um, also kind of lastly amongst other concerns, um, I have too is like summer school for our staff. Um, it's very hard to get our department to work over summer. It's not a requirement for us and I do enjoy my time off. Um, but you know, she's done a really great job and an important job of getting our department together to do that. And oftent times we have one singular nurse. So, if she's not

013here and and that nurse either doesn't offer up or isn't going to be here, there will be nobody to take care of our children um and plan for all of those things are that are to come for the next school year. So, um acuity is only getting higher. Um there are more and more student needs. It's not the same that it was 25 years ago. Um we cannot get rid of this position. It would be extremely detrimental for the school district of Boe and I would hate to see what would happen if she's gone. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Roar. Mrs. Sch. Next, I have Emily. >> Mr. Henkins, I think your microphone is on. >> If you don't mind muting that, please. wondering about you know >> Mr. Henkins. >> No. Should

014I start? >> Michelle, do you know if there's a way to mute his >> feed? But he votes. because they have to video from the boat. Yes. And the government said that they were like a man. >> Okay. >> I think maybe the government. >> Thank you. They went down by the open. Are they proame down there? >> Can we recess and just shut anything? I just don't want him to share anything of a personal nature. And >> someone muted you. Press star six to unmute. >> Thank you. >> For we we we're still hearing it. But uh >> could we recess for five and shut off the audio? >> Never mind. Thanks. >> Thank you, Mr. Bird. >> Emily, please go ahead. >> Okay. Uh hi, I'm Emily. Uh I was a school nurse

015back in from 2017 to 2023. Um and I also was department chair um under Michelle. So I just wanted to speak on behalf of the thoughts of getting rid of the director of school health position. So first thing I want to ask is just and the majority of people are going to say no to the question. There may be a slight few that may say yes. Um but do any of you know how to read a medical order for a G tube feeding? Uh do you know what strider sounds like or the difference or how it differs from wheezing or could you complete an assessment to rule out appendicitis? I'm pretty sure most of us in the room who do not have a degree in nursing or you know something would be able to do

016that. So these are only a few examples of what nurses do every day. So eliminating the director of school health position would not just be a budget decision. It would create disorganization risk and potential harm to students. a pupil service administrator without a nursing background um could not safely or effectively oversee a department that provides medical care. Uh the dire director of school health is not a desk job. It's a leadership position grounded in clinical expertise and responsible for ensuring compliance with medical laws, standards, and documentation, overseeing emergency care, delegation of medical procedures, training and supervising health staff across the district, maintaining health protocols, infection control, and immunization compliance, coordinating care for medically fragile students, serving as a liaison with the local health departments, physicians, and agencies, and providing critical in district CPR, AED, first

017aid training at no additional cost. Without this role, who will support and train new nurses? Because I'll tell you what, most people around here aren't going to know how to train a nurse to do their job in the district. Um, who's going to handle medical crisis when no one else knows what to do? Um, who will interpret medical records or orders, coordinate health plans, or ensure that legally mandated services under IDA and section 504 are carried out correctly? Uh if this position disappears, nurses will have no leadership, no clinical oversight, and no one to turn to for guidance or support. That's not ei joined the district in 2017 as a school nurse, I experienced firsthand what happens when the director position was eliminated. It was chaos. Everyone tried to fill the gap, the pupil services

018department, administrative staff, but none had the medical expertise required to run the health program. Nurses were left without direction. Compliance suffered and student safety was compromised. The current director is also certified CPR instructor who provides districtwide CPR and first aid training free of charge. If this position is cut, the district will be forced to outsource that training, adding unnecessary costs while reducing the availability of life-saving instruction for staff and coaches. The district cannot afford to repeat past mistakes. Getting rid of the director school or director of school health or reducing it to an administrative function would be catastrophic. Who will coordinate the vaccine clinics parents rely on? Who will ensure CPR, diabetes care, tube feedings, and medication administration are done safely and correctly? This is not not about titles. It's about safety, compliance, and the

019well-being of our children. A district that truly val truly values its students must prioritize having qualified director of school health to lead, guide, and protect them. >> Thank you, Emily. [Applause] >> And just as a reminder, there is a threeminut time limit and >> the timing starts when you start talking. Um, other if you want time yielded, you can, as I mentioned before, you can have time yielded from a colleague or somebody that's here in the audience. Mrs. Shopee, who's next? Next, we have Michelle. I'm Michelle Babilius. I um have probably served the district for the last 10 years. I want to speak tonight about the proposal to eliminate my position. This role is not just another staff position. It directly supports student safety, compliance, and the daily well-being of students and staff. Without it,

020workloads will increase, gaps in care will grow, and the quality of service our community depends on will be compromised. I also oversee Medicaid billing services, which are a vital source of funding for the district. With the expansion now approved, my role was essential in creating the required individualized health plans that requires a nurse to build and for nurses to follow in order for us to bill for those services. Um, eliminating this position would jeopardize all of that progress. I also coordinate critical systems from running monthly customized health reports that staff rely on. This helps update chronic health conditions, medical updates that parents are submitting on a regular daily basis for all their students in all of the district. Um, preparing and leading for district-wide mer drills. This is something that the school nurse cannot do

021alone. They need another partner so that we can work together to see what is going on in any of the buildings and also to identify trends that are happening from building to building which helps me when I train these staff then know what we need to focus on during those trainings. If this was outsourced, this is not something that they would be able to gain insight from because they're not in our buildings. They're not doing these drills. They don't know what is going on in our buildings like I do. Um, in addition, I work year round this summer. Again, months are which are some of my most busiest months of the school year. I stringently look through policies and procedures. I compare them with state statues, what changes have been made. Also with the school

022nurse consultant to see what guidance she is providing, what changes are happening. This is something that our school nurses do not have the time, nor do are they working during this time to find those out. I also work closely with our medical adviser during the summertimes so that we can get everything in place so that when nurses come back and they have to already hit the ground running, they don't have something else added to their plates because it's just not something they are able to do manage at that time. And I wanted to stress one other factor. I'm the only bilingual nurse in the school district. That means when families come to urgent health needs and if they need someone that they can call and discuss their complex medical needs, that's not something that a

023translator is able to do. They do not have the knowledge or medical background to gain that information or to know when a family might not be expressing or might be confused about a question that's being asked and how they can change or rearrange that question so that they can be understood. Health services are essential, not optional. Cutting this role while leaving others untouched sends a message that student health and safety is not valued by our district. I urge you to carefully weigh not only the short-term savings, but also the long-term risk to compliance, to safety, staff morale, and public trust. >> Thank you for your time and for considering. >> Thank you. [Applause] >> Next, I have Tom with Bob yielding his time. Thank you. Good evening. What happened over the last 24 hours demands

024a clear response and I want to address two issues tonight. the legality and transparency of yesterday's policy and HR committee meeting and the proposal to eliminate the health director position. These matters strike at the heart of board integrity and the district's ability to meet student needs. Yesterday's committee agenda listed a vague item under compensation. What actually took place was a discussion, a presentation, followed by a motion, and a vote to recommend to the board tonight, 24 hours later, to eliminate this position. The fact that it unfolded last night with the intention of finishing it off tonight is unseammly. Wisconsin's open meetings law is clear. Every agenda must describe the subject with reasonable specificity so the public understands what you're going to talk about. Compensation does not meet the standard. The public had no idea what

025was talked about last what was going to be. In fact, I asked teachers, "What do you think this means?" And they thought it was about them getting another raise. No one knew what that was about. I'd like to remind you I shared your chief legal counsel once and I know how these agendas are made and how those conversations go. Yesterday's presentation supposed supposedly cited comparables from other districts, but no documents were uploaded publicly. That is unacceptable. If data is used to justify a staffing decision, it should be posted in advance. I would love to know which districts were cherrypicked. This district continues to have a problem refusing to understand its uniqueness. The policy and HR committee has in my opinion repeated issues of this nature. These actions have gone uncontested legally, but they have been

026brought to public light. The pattern continues. This board cannot build and maintain trust when committee processes are used in ways to sidestep the law, proper notice, transparency, and accountability. Now, what has really driven me here tonight is not just the illegality of what happened last night. And yes, to my dear debate partner in the community, it was illegal. But the absence of basic human decency, the individual who holds this position, the only one, had no idea this was happening. This is not how you treat someone who has given years of service to this district. And this is exactly one of the main reasons why in this district, it's a revolving door. Because actions like what happened last night serve as a bellweather for others. If it can happen to her, it can happen to me.

027And I'm packing my bags. Since 2019, this position, 2019, six years, has brought in over $9 million in Medicaid reimbursement, revenue that otherwise wouldn't have existed. And let me tell you that has been a struggle for 25 years to get Medicaid reimbursement done correctly. In 6 years, her salary alone has been paid for 75 times over. Plus, you don't get that kind of result by tacking an addendum onto someone and telling them to run an elementary school, too. You have to get the medical expertise and the dedicated time to manage Medicaid alone. And I you've already heard just a a small smidge of what that position requires. It's not like Medicaid hasn't been in the news lately. And the ability to navigate that and the regulations and the changes is only going to get more

028difficult. You need that money. Without the expertise and focus, those dollars disappear. And there have been periods of time in this district where those dollars have disappeared. Frankly, this all feels like red meat to the base. Please stop catering to persistent negative voices that will never reward you with a yes referendum vote. The job here is not to do the bidding of Isa boy in public or in backroom deals. It is to do your job as board members judiciously and look at the big picture. If you eliminate this position, it's a story as old as time in this district. You will outsource. You will pay more addendums to other staff. And that 30 or 40,000 in savings of salary you thought might be eight or 10. You're going to die on this hill. Those pushing

029to cut this position should understand what it entails. How many of you have taken the opportunity to shadow her for a day or even a few hours? Eliminating this position is not fiscal responsibility in light of budget cuts. It is fiscal malpractice. 9 million. What other job in this district pays for itself 75, much less one time over? School nursing today is nothing like it was 25 years ago. You heard it. The complexity has increased. Mental health, ailments, things that we deal with weren't even around a generation ago. Was anybody thinking about a pandemic 25 years ago? And let's face it, there's a gatekeeping system in this community where other schools illegally say, "We can't help you with those needs." They come here. The uniqueness, it is my understanding that this item is not being

030moved forward this evening, but I am here because I know it will come around again. When it does, I hope you will approach it with transparency and humanity and fiscal responsibility that this community deserves. The board will have a choice. One of the main goals of this building besides promoting academic achievement is to nurture and treat your people well. You as a board and a central office are to be servant leaders at all times. I implore you to keep that at the forefront. And remember that dignity in decision-making matters and your staff is your lifeline. And I will say again, the people out there that are being catered to too often, you could burn this building down and they will still not support your referendum. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. JOHNSON. MRS. SHOW, that's it

031for comments in the room. I just have the emails now. Go ahead when you're ready. This email is from Mitchi or Mei. Please reconsider eliminating the nurse director's position. Working under the nurse director has only brought confidence, knowledge, and the desire to further educate myself in the medical field. This would most definitely be a big impact in the department and the boy school district in itself. Nurse direct director keeps the department in compliance with all the back-end work, reports, training, policies, procedures, tracking of illnesses, CPR training, training staff for field trips, and educating staff when needed. She implements that policies and procedures are being followed by staff. She coordinates with Sila Smile for our students who can't afford dental care. This is a big help for our students who are having urgent dental needs. seal

032a smile can help out those students and families in a timely manner. The health staff turnover recently has been high, so having a nurse director makes staff feel secure knowing the medical knowledge and background she holds with with BSD. The health office staff has no time to do backend work as all the buildings are very busy with students all day. The students health conditions are on the rise. The amount of medications are on the rise. The students school health needs are overwhelming for one or two staff members who are in the building which then causes stress, anxiety and turnovers. It could be too much to handle at times that we do need to reach out to the nurse director to come help in that building. The nurse director keeps tries to be available to her

033staff at all times. Nurses are very busy with their own buildings and emergencies and IEPs. There are times that they cannot help you at the moment when you need them. That is when the nurse director is called to help guide staff. Even nurses reach out to her at times for guidance. Who will train new staff members? Nurses are so busy and already overwhelmed. They are already expressed that to other staff members. This is this will only lead to more workload for your current staff who are already struggling to keep up are are very overwhelmed which is also causing staff to have medical conditions themselves from the overload. Your health staff is keeping it together by a thread and that just shows how committed they are to the BSD as they are trying to survive in

034this economy that does not nearly meet pay at other facilities. But that just shows how much of an impact the nurse director has on staff for pulling through. Staff can only hope that that increase can happen sooner than later. Who will oversee the department? Will they have a medical background? Who will hold staff accountable? Who will keep the medical policy changes and initiate them into place? Who will step in when staff calls off? Who will direct staff when a nurse is not available? Who will run reports to make sure students could go on field trips? Who will be in charge of organizing communication with Cala Smile? Who will organize immunization? >> The time is up. >> It was 5 seconds before she started. >> You have five more seconds. >> Is is it is it

035about done or >> um it had about four more lines in the text. I mean in the email. >> Go ahead. >> Finish or go on >> quickly, please. >> Okay. Um, who will organize the immunization clinics free to our families? Who will run monthly medical PL days? Who will run the day-to-day background work that goes unnoticed? Who will show appreciation and support to the health staff? I urge you to reconsider if this position is eliminated. That could possibly have also have an effect on current staff members as to the uncertainty of guidance, leadership, and support which could arise more problems than solutions. Thank you for your time. The next email is from Karen. Dear board, dear members of the board, I am writing to formally object to the action taken by the policy and

036human resources committee on October 6th to eliminate the director of school health position and the scheduled board action to finalize that elimination on October 7th. The committee's posted agenda listed a vague item titled consideration of personnel compensation. However, the meeting included a motion and vote to eliminate the director of school health position through economic layoff. This constitutes a clear violation of o Wisconsin's open meetings law under Wisconsin statute 19.84 parent 2 public notice must set forth the time date and place and subject matter of the meeting in such form as is reasonably likely to apprise members of the public and the news media thereof. The Wisconsin Supreme Court reaffirmed in state x uh reel Buzzwell versus Toma school district 2007 Wisconsin 71 that vague or generic agenda language is unlawful when it prevents the public

037from anticipating the true subject of discussion or action. Describing this item as personnel compensation when the real action was the elimination of a director level position is neither transparent nor lawful. the public and potentially the affected employee were denied fair notice of a significant decision. Furthermore, the identical vague language has been carried forward to the regular board of education agenda for October 7th under item 7c, human resources employment recommendations. This repeats the same violation compounding the issue. The open meeting law exists to ensure the public's business is conducted openly and honestly. What occurred here was not an oversight. It was a deliberate attempt to conceal a controversial action pursuant to Wisconsin state statute 19.97 pair three. Actions taken at a meeting held in violation of proper notice requires uh may be declared void. I urge

038the board to withdraw this item from consideration until it can be properly noticed and discussed in full public view. Transparency and accountability are essential to public trust, especially regarding personnel decisions that affectly directly affect the health and well-being of students and staff. I am also ready to express deep concern regarding the proposed elimination of the position. Beyond the serious questions surrounding the legality of the process, the community deserves to understand why this position and those who have held it have repeatedly been targeted by a very small group of individuals. In recent years, there's been a sustained and coordinated effort on local public platforms to misrepresent the role and work on this position through anonymous claims and misleading statements. It is categorically false to suggest that the current director is not pres present in schools buildings

039daily. The reality is that this position carries on an extreme and demanding workload. Director of school health develops and maintains complex medical care plans for students with significant health needs. Participates in IEP meetings to ensure students receive legally required health related supports. coordinates districtwide nursing coverage and staffing and increasingly difficult task given today's shortages overseas licensed nursing staff and specialized training and frequently fills in for registered nurses while managing daily triage at complex the time is up for this [Music] The last one I have is from Jodie. Please reconsider the position of school health. I have worked in the district for six years and Michelle is great mentor. We are short staff so she will always step in and fill in what at whatever school is short. She always updates us weekly on illnesses in

040Rock County weekly. She is also in charge of knowing when our CPR is due and conducts our mer drills so we all stay on point for student safety. We have new staff that will still seek her input on a daily basis. We all reach out to her daily for input. We have more health conditions than we have ever had and she makes sure that everyone is trained and follows proper procedures. She is a very busy person who always makes time for our questions and concerns. We get new things happening in the buildings weekly and she is always there to assist or walk us through any situation. She goes out of her way to help with all kinds all of our kids vaccinations. She has reached out and hosted free free vaccine clinics to help our

041community numerous times so kids have a chance to not be in the 10-day suspension due to being behind on vaccines. She runs our reports weekly so we see who the who needs emergency medical dental forms so kids can attend field trips. Who is going to take on all of the extra duties that she does behind the scenes that no one sees but us? Who will we reach out to if we are sick? Will the next person in charge have any medical background? This could be a scary situation if there's an emergency and our new director won't have any medical knowledge. I think for the safety of our staff and our children, she needs to stay. Please take this into consideration for the safety of our whole district. I know with everything with every building being

042short staffed, I do not see anyone having time to update our weekly reports or do any of the background work. I urge you to reconsider and shadow her for a week to see all of the things she does on the daily before making this decision. I really think your opinion would change. I appreciate you taking the time to read this. And that's the last one I have. >> Thank you. Next up tonight, we have the superintendence report. Dr. Garrison. >> So, um, every once in a while, I'll I'll put my superintendent report all online so everybody can actually see it. Um, one of the things that I try to do is try to make my opportunities, um, both, um, impactful, um, as well as well as informative as, as pertains to what's happening here in

043the district. And so, I do need a little bit of crowd participation today. Hey, I'm going to do a little bit something different here. Um, our Balo Memorial soccer team is in the midst of a very, very special season. Um, they are they at the current time their record is 11 wins, one loss, and two ties, and they're ranked number seven in the state of Wisconsin. Um, that's a very high ranking for over 260 teams. Um, that is that is pretty impressive. And so, um, the chant that I want to do, cuz I know that they're not here today, but I want to see if we can try to participate in this for for for teammanship. All right. Um, I'm going to say one, two, three, and all all you have to say back is

044go Knights. All right. Real simple. Real simple. So, one, two, three, then we're going to say go Knights. All right. Um, not yet, though. And so, um, I want to give a shout out to, um, Coach um, Denu for everything that he does for the school district of Boyd. He not only coaches the team, but he's also a great hype man. I'm not sure if you all have attended any of our homecoming activities. Um he does a wonderful job and keeping our um our students hype and really just just doing the things that a lot a lot of our teachers do on just naturally. But I want to give a big shout out to him for not only coaching our team but being a great um colleague to our students. I'm sorry, colleague to the

045staff but also a great mentor for our students. Uh Banks um again is ranked um sixth I'm sorry our team is ranked seventh in the state which is again again pretty pretty pretty impressive. His son Banks the new is ranked sixth in the state in scoring with 21 goals and that's also something to be u very very proud of. The soccer team will play against Elhorn um in two weeks in the Southern Links Championship. Um there's a very strong chance depending on where we're seated that these two playoff teams will be held two playoff games will be held right here in Bo. Okay. So, if we can come out, that'd be great to um support our highly ranked soccer team this year. So, on three. Y'all remember what y gotta do? >> All right. Go

046Nights. Right. So, on three. One, two, three. >> Go. >> I appreciate it. No, I didn't hear everybody. We're going to try that one more time. Um just one more time. Uh one, two, three. >> Go Nights. >> I appreciate it. Um >> they're just playing right now. >> They're still playing right now. Yep. Yep. They're playing against Wilmont right now, too. And so that record may change before the end of the night to 12 wins and one loss in two ties. I also like to give um just a shout out to our assessment team. Uh of course our teacher and learning team, everybody who works with assessments in the school district of Voy. Fall is a very busy month for us. Uh we are grateful to have all the staff across the central office

047and schools for supporting our strategic assessment systems. This year we u will be implementing a year-long cadence for early reading foundations assessments through Ames web which is the state selected screener to be used for the compliance with act 20 testing. Now I know that's a lot of jargon for a lot of people. The bottom line is we have tests that we have to take and we have to do those um yearly and this this specific test is a year-long opportunity for us. Um this year we will be able to use our baseline data with updated cut scores. each site is working through assessments under the guidance and and coordination of literacy coaches um to ensure that the process is provided best insights to where our students are um reading. So in a nutshell um our

048students take the test from the test there's a score and then the score gives us information on how we're going to work with students and so that's a very important space that we have to occupy here in the school district. uh we will be completing the testing in the next two weeks and we'll be able to report um out the number of students that passed screener according to their grade level expectations. Additionally, we have our fall map and literacy um opportunities. Now, being from teaching and learning, this is something that we talk about all the time. Fall I believe the MAP test is um probably one of our most authentic tests because it really gives us a good snapshot kind of where our kids are and where we want them to be. And so the

049fall map tests are um something that we will continuous continuously look at along with the students that are taking the MAP benchmarks for um highly rated from our highly rated math materials. And so once the test and wings are completed, we will be able to collect the data and then of course the schools will be able to reflect on that data and how we can best serve kids moving forward. Um just a real quick snapshot to the board, we do have our October 28th um budget adoption conversation. Um I know Mrs. Johnson gave a shout out to um Mr. Stingle. He was here earlier today. That's also what I wanted to do. Um nice big shout out to Mr. Stingle for completing his doctorate degree. And then of course I want to give another shout

050out to um someone who departed the the um school district of boy working in our contracted services space. U Brent Williams. Uh Brent was a Brent is just a wonderful person that I've had a chance to work with over many years here in the school district of boy. I know the public may not know all of our, you know, TC networks folks, but since I do, you know, of course work here in the KC, I get to see them on a daily basis and doing it coming in and out doing all kinds of stuff with it when it as it pertains to um technology. And Brent has been such a wonderful addition to the team. He's been um to the team here at for working for um of course um working for our It's kind

051of hard for me because one of the things that you grow relationships, right? you grow relationships with people that work for the district and you also relationship with contracted services and so to me everyone that works with the school district of boy are very important to me and so Brent you know I know he's gone but I want to give him a quick shout out for all the work that he's done here in the school district of boy over the many years that concludes my report and thank you for your time >> thank you Dr. Garrison. Next we have Chair Nichols with the policy and HR committee report. >> Thank you board president Johnson. Um we uh we met yesterday at the Kolac Center and we moved forward the HR exhibit A discussed and moved

052forward that to the full board as well as a an FT edi FTE edition of a half FTE and both of those are on the tonight's agenda for uh discussion and approval. Shall I continue on with the next one? >> Business ops and finance. >> Is that okay? Board member Henkins, board chair Henkins, you want me to do it or you want to do it? >> Go ahead, wingman. >> Okay. Okay. So, the uh business ops and finance committee meeting uh uh was this evening at 5:00 and we uh uh we Mrs. Elwood gave us the update on the monthly financials. Not a whole lot to go in in August. It's a very slow month as she pointed out. We then discussed the properties uh that are for sale with uh Mike Marquette from Century

05321. Had a good review of that. And uh we had also had good discussion about the McNeel property. there's a there's a community member that's trying to do something to potentially use that utilize that that space and that would be uh that would be advant advantageous to the district. Uh we also had a contracted service purchase approval that uh comes out of fund uh 50. So um we moved that to the full board uh for approval and then we've got a a discussion that got shortcut. So, we're going to talk about that in the board uh board meeting later on this evening. That concludes the business ops finance committee report. >> Thank you. Our next agenda item is board travel, the state education convention 2026 and the fall legislative conference. This is for board members

054to have the opportunity to attend different conventions and work on their um professional board development. And this year the state education convention again in Milwaukee and board members have been invited to attend this uh annual convention. this year's guest speaker. There are guest speakers, workshops, roundts, roundt discussions, networking opportunities, and exhibitor booths. The convention is in Milwaukee from January 21st to the 23rd, and we need to submit a headcount and get hotel rooms uh reserved if board members are interested. So, at this time, I would like to know how many board members are interested. Um, >> I just need to I I am interested, but I want to clarify. Um, January or January 22nd is Quinn's birthday. So, I will probably not need a hotel room because I'll probably just come home so I can

055spend her birthday with So, you know, like mark me as a yes, but let me Is it okay? Just don't get a hotel situation going for me yet. Figure it out. Thank you so much. >> Okay. Are there any other board members interested in attending? >> Yes, but I won't be available. >> I I I know I I know that, Mrs. Fox. >> Yeah, I guess. Yeah, sure. >> Okay. >> I I would learn a lot, I'm sure. It's it is a wonderful opportunity and if something happens and you can't make it, we we can um um unregister you. Um Mr. Henkins, >> yes, I am. I've uh actually I've been a little bit lax in attending these things. So, yes, I would. >> Okay. >> I'll put on my calendar. Thank you. >> Okay.

056And Mrs. Levy? Yes. To both, please. >> Thank you. So, one, two, three, four, five um will be um attending or at least get us registered and if anyone can't make it and of those five, one will not need hotel accommodations. >> Certainly. Sorry. Is this the kind of um is this one of those things where like it costs less if you register like by the day or is it just like a one okay >> just curious if like >> sometimes they give us a price break if you just register for one day. I mean it's definitely less than the full rate if you register for just one day. >> Okay. >> Um >> so yeah >> and I'm just I'm just asking because know sometimes as things get closed like things come up for

057people or whatever. So I mean that when would you need to know by um just so that we can be like responsible um WASBY conference participants? >> So registration opens on November 1st, >> right? And we definitely need to know um well since you're the one saying you don't need a hotel, you're not quite as critical as the others, but we definitely would want to register every anybody that wants a hotel room on that morning ASAP because once you're registered then they send us a link for the hotels and they don't until we do that which is why we're doing it now >> so that we can register as soon as it opens. >> Okay. for President Johnson. May I just add um when we're talking about the legislative conference, the deadline for registration and

058to receive a refund is Halloween. So just a Yeah, I was going to discuss that one next. So, >> okay. So, five for attending, four for hotel accommodations, and the second item is the fall legislative conference in Stevens Point. Right now, we have one board member um that has um indicated she is interested in attending. Are there any other board members interested in attending the fall legislative conference? >> That is Saturday, November 8th. We've got um Mrs. Levy. Anybody else? [Applause] Yes. Saturday, November 8th. How? >> Okay. >> Sorry. >> Yes. I'm interested. >> Thank you. So, Mrs. Chop, that will be Joanne Rue, Amy Levy, Tom Henkins. Can I get a motion for approval of five board members to attend the 2026 Wisconsin Education Convention January 21st to 23rd 20 26 in Milwaukee? >>

059So moved. >> I'll second. >> Motion by Megan Miller, seconded by Brian Nichols. Any discussion? >> Hearing none. All in favor? I >> I >> Any oppose? Motion carries unanimously. The second motion. I will entertain a motion to approve three board members to attend the fall legislative conference in Stevens Point on November 8th, 2025. >> So moved. Oh, second. >> So moved and second and twice. >> Motion by Brian Nichols, seconded by Megan Miller. Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor? >> I. >> Any oppose? Motion carries unanimously. [Applause] Our next item tonight is our third Friday count information. The purpose of this item is to provide information on the district's third Friday report submitted to the department of public instruction. The attached report is also kept on file. Please note that this is our

060membership count. Secondly, our indistrict headcount for the 2526 year is 4,762. in 2425. Our headcount was 4,954 during the third Friday count. Dr. Garrison. >> Yes. So, the report um that you just u was able to share is very straightforward. I wanted to make sure that the public knew that our third Friday count um is being conducted. There's a few things that um happens in third Friday count. One, these numbers help give the give it helps our it helps our conversation with the state because the state looks at our numbers and they say, "Well, here's here's a here's a portion for for the students that you have to serve." Um, but there's a lot of other factors that goes into third Friday and how we look at third Friday count. There's a three-year rolling average

061that comes with this conversation that I wasn't going to necessarily get into tonight because there's a lot of other information that comes with this. Um please note that as we look at our budget um naturally um we have to kind of set estimates for um our third Friday account numbers and so as we set estimates we typically here in the school district of boyoy try to underestimate what we is it oh underestimate yeah we underestimate um our numbers because again it kind of fluctuates especially here in our in our area u one of the things that we've done real good over the past three years is this underestimation space. Um, and it kind of helps us kind of, you know, target our overall numbers that we believe we will have. There's a few things that

062still needs to happen. We still got to get our charter school figures. Um, and that information won't come until next week. We still also have to get our private school voucher um, information. That also won't come until next week. And so, as we look at our overall numbers, please note that this month is when we capture that. So, let's make the argument. But why is it called third Friday count when we're really still in October looking at numbers, right? And I always try to make things in a pocket so that everyone can understand it. Um these numbers are how can I say they fluctuate across all districts. And so if everybody was finished on the third Friday and then naturally it takes the state time to get all this information back, it gives us a

063really about a month to capture all of the numbers to say here's where we are. Okay. And it does take about that amount that amount that amount of time for us to get to that point as it pertains to our third Friday count numbers. Um I do have Mrs. Elwood here just kind of help me with some thoughts and just in case I missed anything. But overall um our third Friday counts helps with um where we are as a school district and as as we plan for our um budget moving into the 2526 school year but also in the 2627 school year. So, uh, Mrs. Elwood, >> so I just wanted to add that this number is what goes into the calculation for the revenue limit. Now, the revenue limit is the amount of money

064we get between state taxes and our equalization aid. So, like Dr. Garrison said, we don't have all the figures yet because we are still waiting for the counts to come in from the um, independent charter schools. Um, so we will have those numbers next week and we'll continue to work on uh refining the October budget for presentation on October 28th. >> Thank you. Do any board members have any questions or comments? >> Miss Miller? >> Yeah. Um, thank you so much. I saw there was a memo that was sent to us I think like last week um that was talking about like just the relationship between like the membership and the enrollment. Um I know that can be like kind of difficult to parse apart. Would you mind just kind of speaking to that and

065explaining it for folks and for the board as well? >> So um the head count that we take on the third Friday account is a count of um heads people actual kids and seats. But it also includes open enrollment in and open enrollment out counts as well. So open enrollment out counts are kids that are our kids. They live in the school district of blo area but they attend a public school outside of the district. So Turner, Jainsville, Edertton, you know, other school districts. The open enrollment in children are the children that are living outside of our boundaries that are coming into us. We do have um a lot less kids that are coming in than are going out. We have about um about 100 kids coming in, a little over 100 kids coming in

066and around 900 kids going out of the district. Um so the state takes those numbers, but then they also weigh certain groups of kids. So 5-year-old kindergarten or I'm sorry, not 5-year-old, four-year-old kindergarten is weighted only at 60% and our preschool special education students are weighted at 50%. Um so and um the count for the summer school kids is also included in there based on minutes and then only at 40% of the total. So all those calculations are taken into effect and that becomes part of our membership count. >> Thank you so much. >> Just a little quick note too from last year to this year um from a just a snapshot from open enrollment out um so that's the students who are leaving us. Last year we had 917 students leaving our school district.

067This year we had 901 as an example. Um the same thing with open enrollment in last year we had 110 students coming into our school district and this year we had 103 students coming into our school district. So a difference of seven students. So again all these calculations and again thank you Mrs. um Elwood for um assisting me in this conversation. All these calculations again goes into our membership and what the state will give us in funding. >> Thank you Mr. Henkins. >> Yeah. Um there was a article in the Daily News today and it it cited all the high schools and districts around us and ours wasn't in there and they had their numbers. I'm just why wondering why they had their numbers and we don't I don't know if you saw the article,

068but it was Clinton uh Turner. >> I wasn't contacted for numbers and I don't I'm not sure if >> did they public as soon as we hit submit? We did submit our figures on Friday last week. >> Okay. >> So, >> I was just wondering why they were theirs were public and ours are not yet. >> But, Mr. Gary, sorry. Okay. Thank you. >> Um, I did want to comment though that the entire state of Wisconsin um I was at a conference last week and most of the districts I talked to are experiencing decreasing enrollment. It's not a unique to situation. Again, >> that was the gist of the article actually. >> Thank you. Mrs. Fox. >> Um, I just want to make sure I understand it clearly. Um, these numbers do not yet include

069charter school students. Is that correct? >> That is >> or private school. >> That is correct. not including >> okay so we still have a ways to go um because I was looking at what they calculated the membership on and it looks quite low but if it doesn't include those numbers it might make a difference I'm a little concerned about the actual figure of the number of students that we have sitting in our seats um because that is significantly lower than what we had last year I believe is that correct >> 190 by 192 students. Okay. Okay. Thanks. Thank you. Any other board member questions or comments? Thank you, Miss Elwood. Thank you, Dr. Garrison. Our next item tonight is the COLAC restructuring report and update. And the purpose of this item is to review

070central office changes and other staffing changes. Dr. Garrison. >> So, um, specifically to the, um, Kolak conversation. And one of the things that I've said over the many many conversations is that the entire school district has of course had to go through some reductions over the past 3 years due to you know our budgetary constraints and the Kolac Education Center has often times been put separately in this conversation as a different space and really we serve K12. the collac space serves all buildings. And so I just want to make sure I note that in this conversation today because again a lot of times the KC is put in a separate space as if if at times um is separate from the rest of the district. Um but we we are and I say we cuz

071I work over here at the Kolak Center. Um we we are a part of the school district and we service all buildings in the in in our district K12. So although um our elementary service a K5 conversation and our middle school service a 6A conversation, our high school service a 912 conversation, COLAC service says a K12 space. And so I just want to make sure I noted that before I kind of jump into this report. This information has been shared, you know, throughout a lot of our conversations over this budget conversation as it pertains to um kind of where we are here as as an organization. If you take a look at what's what's on your documents, um one of the things is the Colak Education Center reductions. And if you look at from one

072year um to the next um you can see there's been considerable considerable reductions here in our organization. Um, and this is in the organizational chart. And if I take a snapshot of this chart, let's just say three years ago, it'll look different even from that. And so, every year, the Kolak building has taken numerous different cuts across the district. Um, and I'm sorry, we've taken numerous cuts here in the building of the Kolak Education Center um to offset the cuts that could potentially be somewhere else. Um that has always been, you know, something that most central offices will get that conversation when we start thinking about restructuring and cuts. People typically say, "Well, you need to start at the top or you need to start the Kolak Educational Center." And I understand that space because

073that's not a new space in in any district. We've done those reductions um to the best level that we can possibly do them. um along with, and I say this very kindly, along with still meeting all of the requirements of state reporting. Um it's a herculean effort. I think we all know that. If any one of you in the public or you know, if of course here at the board level knows this, if you walk into KAC Educational Center, you may see six people, five people in the space. we this you know this whole you know building has been reduced um quite quite much over the years and so I wanted to start with the organizational chart because again I'm not going to go through each of the spaces um board President Johnson just FYI

074um but I'm sorry board I said board President Johnson board I'm not going to go through each of the spaces and the reductions but you can see them um of course directly online oh I'm sorry to interrupt Dr. Garrison, would it be possible to show that on the screen so folks in the crowd who might not have the attachment in front of them? >> One second. >> Pardon me. Sorry for the interruption. >> No, you're fine. You're fine. Okay, here. I got to find which tab I had. Sorry. Give me a second. Here we go. All right. Sorry about that. That's all good. So, um, what you see here is again, I'm not sure if I'm not sure why it's not moving. So, I'm not sure why it's not moving on my side right now.

075Give me a second. I might need to refresh my screen. Well, that's a little unfortunate there. One, two, three. Y I almost I almost caught y'all. I almost caught y'all there. I apologize for the delay here. I'm not sure why um my um screen is not allowing me to scroll up and down right now. >> It's okay. I apologize for interrupting. I just thought it'd be good for people to have kind of a visual, but it's not that big of a deal. Sorry. >> No problem. Um once if I was to reset my computer, maybe that'll do it, but I don't want to go through that part right now. But um again, what you see here at the top of this screen is the current current educational um space that we have. And at the

076bottom there, I know it's cut off, you will see the difference between one year and the next. And again, my apologies for screen. Um >> I did. >> Correct. That's what I'm doing right now. Yeah. I'm not sure why. >> Correct. >> I'm trying it, but it's not it's not doing it for me. But um Mors, sorry. >> Thank Thank you. Um is are Let's not get hung up on the technology and um we we've got business we need to move on to. >> Um is there anything else to this report that you want to add? >> No, I mean the rest of the report is shared online for everybody. board members have any uh questions or comments at this time? >> So, I did notice that um in the comparison of the 24 versus

077the 25 organizational chart um the contracted services had been removed. So, I'm a little bit concerned about um our um presentation that we that we do need to be consistent year year to year and what we are including because our contracted services has has not gone away, >> but they're not a part of >> contracted services are not >> Dr. Garrison, they were part of the 2024 organizational chart. Mhm. >> So if they're part of the 24 organizational chart and they didn't go away over that year, then they should be part of the 25 organizational chart. Just I'm just saying we need to be consistent with what we're presenting. Likewise, this um report is a uh COLAC restructuring report update, and I appreciate you including all of the positions that we're looking at districtwide. However,

078I am a little concerned because this report, if I'm doing my counting correctly, we are looking at a reduction of three COLAC staff members, the chief of communication and marketing, which was 2024, the district steam director, which was January of 25, and the district director of instructional leadership and equity, which I believe was June or July of 25. Um, of all of the other positions listed in this report, we're looking at five district location or districtwide positions and 22 building specific uh positions, not COLAC. So, this is I I guess my point I'm trying to make is we are looking at a potential budget deficit again and we need to look at restructuring um what what we're doing and yes, we do need to look at districtwide, but the specific request from the board was

079the to align with the ad hoc committee recommendation of reducing the restructuring Collac to rightsize it for our district. And since there are no other questions, okay, um are there any other questions or comments by board members? >> Miss Levy, I mean, sorry, uh Miss Miller, >> that's okay. No, thank you so much. Well, I actually so um comment was just I was just going to you know thank um our all of our staff for being so resilient I guess under all of the the cuts that have been made. Um and I to your point I guess I just wanted to I guess I'm just a little confused after hearing your comments. So I'm just going to offer a clarifying maybe question or statement. when I read this attachment the this first one here I

080guess I read this as like the first three pages being the district overall and then so how there's like the fourth page there that's strictly COLA. So, I guess like in my read of this, and I actually, and I apologize for not remembering this, I I guess I don't remember the board asking for a specific report on this, but um I'm reading this as here's like the district impact overall, and then there's that separate fourth page that just delineates the COLAC piece. So like I was reading that as like this is how that amount which it looks like it total $614,822 falls into that larger context of the total cut from those first three pages total which looks like $4,96 or yeah so I can't read right now $4,961,38244. So I guess for me like

081I guess I was able to discern that like from what was attached. Um and my my only question to Dr. Garrison and his team, if that's okay, is just I guess I'm curious as we're going into approving this budget for this year and anticipating challenges for next year, what are our highest priorities that have been the most difficult um I guess like tasks or responsibilities um to fill or to compensate for since there have been so many cuts and and I would love to hear not just about KAC but the district as a whole. That's not something that has to happen tonight, but as we are approaching quickly our budget approval, I just think that would be a really helpful um kind of I don't know if it's like a report or a presentation just

082so that we can be very um mindful about how we move into next year's budget. >> Thank you, Mrs. Fox. Um I just want to comment sort of u from my perspective and from from what I remember from the ad hoc um perspective. Um the the concept was more restructuring um and looking at what really are our needs for the district in and what what we need our central office to be providing. we've cut a lot of positions um and we've cut a lot of things that maybe we think we need. Um so the whole idea was how do we how do we reook at what we need and how we can con can structure it. Um I don't think we need to make any more cuts. I think you know the actual dollar amount

083I think I think we're there maybe beyond there. Um, but when when you talk about things like, well, the well the chief of marketing and communications, I mean, how important was that? What are we missing? How can we cover that in a different way if we're looking at restructuring? Um, so it it's it's not so much that that we need to cut anymore. We need to look at how we can get the best service provided to our district out of the central office. Thank you, Mr. Mrs. Fox. Mr. Henkins. >> Yes. I'd like to just uh remind as we talk about this, we have done it for the last year and a half that I've been on the board. Um there's attrition and there is uh you know, you look at some of the COLAC

084or executive team that have left voluntarily or just went to another job, blah blah blah. and we haven't filled those because that but so to me those aren't cuts. Um and I agree with Carol that restructuring is probably the mode we should be in. And I mean uh attrition happens but I think we have to be very delicate on how we fill the holes like you called the Swiss cheese thing. We can't just plug people into or not plug people back into the holes that are left because people resigned or retired or whatever. You know what I mean? So, I agree. We should have a strategy about all that. Thank you. >> Thank Thank you, Mr. Henkins. Our next agenda item is compensation for nonbea and nonbsu employee groups. The purpose of this is to

085discuss salary compensation and possibly take action. Dr. Garrison. So, the school district of Bo um has um of course went into our negotiated spaces and of course from the BEA's perspective last week, I'm sorry, two weeks ago I think it was, forgive if I'm not the right time frame there, we did approve the 2.95 U% um salary increase for the BA membership and now we're moving into the conversations as it pertains to all other employees. Um and so um what you have before you is a motion to approve the 2.95% increase for um nonBSU employee groups. Um that that would include um all non all non-emp employee groups that are not associated with the BEA. Um this 2.95% increase is um cost of living with a 081% um increase to the scale. And I know

086people a lot of people may not understand what what we're talking about, but naturally there's a scale that we look at that determines our overall cost, I'm sorry, overall um compensation model here in the school district. And so that's what we're asking the board to um approve tonight. >> Thank you, Dr. Garrison. Any questions or comments? Is there a motion to approve advancing returning employees, those employed during the 2425 school year who are in employee groups not represented by the BEA or the BSU and excluding daily and permanent substitutes one row down on their group's corresponding compensation matrix which equates to an approximate one 2.13% increased salary and an additional 81% to each cell for a total increase of 2.9%. New staff starting in the 2526 school year will receive will only receive a 081%

087increase on the scale. >> Um I'd like to make that motion just to clarify the total increase of 2.95%. >> Thank you. >> Motion by Megan Miller. Is there a second? >> Second by Brian Nichols. Any discussion, Miss Levy? >> Thank you. No formal discussion. Just wanted to point out to the public that these funds are coming from OPED. >> Thank you, Mrs. Levy. Any other discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I. >> Any oppose? Motion carries unanimously. Our next item tonight is compensation for BSU employees. Dr. Garrison, did you want to add anything to this discussion? >> Um, Miss um standard to the rest of the discussion. So, no, ma'am. >> Okay. I will entertain a motion to move approval of advancing returning employees represented by the BL secretaries union secretarial union those

088employed during the 2425 school year one row down on their group's compensation matrix which equates to an approximate 2.13% s increase in salary and an additional 81% to each cell for a total increase of 2.9%. New staff starting in 2526 school year will receive um 081 increase on the scale. >> So moved also just with the 2.95%. Sorry. >> Second. >> Yeah, that's I read that it's it's motion by Megan Miller, seconded by Amy Levy. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I I >> I. Motion carries unanimously. Our next item is the compensation for daily and permanent substitutes. Dr. Garrison. >> Yes. This one is just a little bit different because our daily our substitutes are very important to our school district, especially when we think consider our permanent substitutes. Um we of

089course naturally in the school district do have people who are going to be out for various reasons. Um naturally finding coverage for those um said employees is also very hard. Um naturally when we I say naturally a lot but when you really think about um what our substitutes do for us, they're not just substitutes. They really are um I like to call them colleagues of ours who really step in and assist us throughout the year um in various spaces. I know Mrs. Fox has joined the team and she of course was an administrator and you know how hard it is to find subs at times and so um across the district we do appreciate our substitutes and for what they do. Some of our subs are covering classes for months and then of course they

090stop and they cover another class for days and um a lot of things do happen in the school district and so this is another opportunity for us to u try to compensate our substitutes at a cost of living increase for this year. Any discussion or questions? Hearing none, I will entertain a motion for approval of increasing daily and permanent substitute salary compensation 2.9% without exception. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion by Amy Levy, seconded by Brian Nichols. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I >> I >> Any oppose? Motion carries unanimously. Next on the agenda is our consent agenda. We have already removed items F, G, and H. Typically, there is no separate discussion of the items unless a board member so requests in which event the item or items will be removed

091from the general order of business and considered in their normal sequence sequence on the agenda. Are there any items any board members would like pulled? >> Item E, please. >> E. Any other items? >> Um D >> D. We need to That didn't get discussed at the >> Thank you. >> Any other items? Okay, Mrs. Schop, I have us removing items D and E. Is there a motion for approval of the remaining two items? The August 25 monthly financials and the contracted services purchases approval. >> So move. >> I'll second. >> Second. >> Motion by Amy Levy, seconded by Tom Henkins. Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Motion carries unanimously. The first item up is the community services proposal for 2526. Mrs. Elwood, >> thank you. Just one

092second while I bring up the presentation. >> And while she does that, um, our community service fund is fund 80 and it's a fund that we will have to approve for our um, I like to call it big budget um, conversation at the end of the month here on October 28th. Thank you, Mrs. um, Elwood. >> May I ask a procedural question? Certainly. Thank you. Um, did I hear you correctly? You said that this wasn't discussed at the committee. >> Um, yes. One of the board members had to exit. So, we no longer had a quorum. So, we immediately went to adjournment. >> Okay. So, just want to clarify. Does this need to pass through committee before it comes to the full board? we she needed to give the presentation and I am comfortable with

093her giving the presentation and the board making that decision tonight whether or not to approve this. If there is any objection if any board members have objections to us doing that, please voice your opinion now. >> No, I don't have any objections. I'm just wondering if we need to to wave a portion of that policy because the way our cadence goes is it goes through committee and then if it's approved through committee comes to the full board. >> Thank you. Mrs. Ley, do you um happen to know the policy number off hand? >> No, ma'am. >> Okay, thank you. Uh, Mrs. L, would you please proceed and I'll see if I can find that policy number. Thank you. So, I'm going to just briefly go through some of the items that I have in the

094um presentation because the core of our presentation is asking for approval to add additional items for community service, which is our ad fund. Um just a this slide is just an overview of the board policy. Um in the nutshell the um addition of additional item or the adding of additional items to fund 80 needs to be approved by the board before we um add those dollars into fund 80. Um this slide has some links in it to the DPI's guidance on such matters. Um the DPI does request that you go through a decision tree basically in the nutshell for an item to be considered for community service. We have to open up the um activity to um students that don't necessarily attend school district of bo but live in the school district of boy tax

095area. So for example students that are homeschooled or students that attend private school or attend the charter school. Um, ineligible costs would be if we were excluding those students. So, say for example, if we wanted to move an expense for say an athletic item that we only held during the school day and we only opened it up to our students, we would not be able to put that cost into fund 80. Yes. On the on the note of uh people living in the district, if we had an event and we invited Blackhawk or URO or Boy College, would that qualify yet or not? >> It would qualify, but we would also need to have make sure that we're also inviting the students or the >> the um the people that live in our district. >>

096So, only the people that live in our district could attend an event. No, it can be opened up to um multiple places or multiple communities, but the main part of it being a community event is it's our community because our taxpayers are being asked to pay for the event. >> I I understand that. I was just wondering where that line is drawn. I know. Yeah. So, because I know we know, not to belabor the point, but there are many of our citizens that go to U Rockhawk Black College. And those students at boy college live here. So I just I was just asking for an explanation. >> Yeah. And if the people are living in our district and paying taxes to the community of of bo then >> does a boy college student qualify? I

097don't know what I don't know the rules on that. >> Yes. Their residences inside the city of inside our yep our tax um entity. Um this is the board policy in detail. Um and again the guiding principles um and this slide is breaking out the costs for fund 80. So in the previous years fund 80 has been used for a variety of things. Um in 1920 there was actually an afterchool program that was um costed to fund 80. um it was only done for that one school year, but I'm guessing that was because in 2020 we had COVID and um I'm not sure why it wasn't brought back, but it was only that one year. Um in 2022, the Blender Cafe was added that was a partnership with the library um and that ran for

098three years. The Even Start program was added two years ago. that is our um birth to three program and um their parents um and it's a program to help bridge that gap between birth to three and bringing the kids into the school district and that is >> Dr. Garrison did you want to make a comment? >> It's that's not necessarily 100% there but let me just correct you a little bit. Even start is a historical program that's been a part of our state tradition for many years. um a lot of the uh participants in the evenar program um earn their GED that some of the parents do and part of an ESL. Thank you u Mrs. Mortech and with that a lot of the um child care is also taken care of by um our

099staff and so while their parents are getting GED support we are supporting their students and so the Even Star program is a very successful program that we've had for many years here in our school district. We've also tried to expand our program, not tried. We've expanded our program to offering GED in the afternoons now. Um, correct me if I'm wrong, Mrs. Mortech. No, we haven't done that yet. I said afternoons, evenings, not yet either. Okay. Well, um, that has been a conversation that we've been having, um, as it pertains to expanding our GD program. Right now is is in the mornings. Thank you. And if anybody had questions about why there was so much cost in 232 24 um going into 24-25, there was a movement of the program from one building um >> brother

100Dton Brotherton >> into Cunningham and when they moved into Cunningham they needed to do some changes to the building and upgrades to the building in order to accommodate the Even Start program. >> Correct. >> So it wasn't like there was a reduction in the program between those two years. Um the other item on this list is the tax levy, the revenues that have gone into fund 80. Um I just want to point out that I this is my first year really looking at fund 80. So I have a little bit of context about why there was tax levies so high um and not enough expenses in those funds. But um in 1920 the levy was related directly to doing the afterchool programs. But I'm guessing because of COVID there wasn't enough expenditures to um use

101up that levy. So there is currently a fund balance of 757,000 sitting in fund 80 for community use. Did anybody have any questions? >> Yeah. Um a lot of us are wondering why we have such a balance. You know, I know we request these dollars and if we're not using them, then why can't we use them? before we ask for more. >> So when we levy for tax dollars in fund 80, those dollars are earmarked and can only be spent on board approved um activities in fund 80 for community service. So we can't take those funds and move them back in a general fund for any use. They can only be used for community service use. >> Oh. Oh, I agree with that. But to go through these the the decision tree to get to

102those dollars and they're already in, you know, they were did they not get used for what they wanted to be used for or just what happened? >> So looking at the previous year's um expenses and the way that the um levies happened, that would be my best guess. But like I said, I was not here in those years, so I'm not 100% sure. Like I said in 1920, I can probably guarantee you that it was levied, but then you know because of co they didn't spend those dollars. Now what happened in 22 23 and 23 24 I'm not 100% sure what happened there. Last year we did plan on spending the dollars on um the SRO's moving into fund 80 which um after review we moved that that expense or we kept that expense I'm

103sorry in fund 10. >> Okay. But explain to me like you tried to explain to me which I kind of went over my head about why we should have a a balance in there. It helps uh the mill rate blah blah blah. >> Yep. So one of the tools that school district officials use to balance the mill rate is the tax levy in fund 80. So for example, if your tax levy in fund 10 goes down from $10 million down to a million dollars the next year, some school districts will levy part of the dollars in fund 80 to help that mill rate. so that your mill rate doesn't go from $4 down to $2 or and that you know those kinds of situations >> and explain again I know Mr. Katie did to us

104about the mill rate and how you know how that all works and I know it's a big complicated thing but >> it's not >> okay. All right. Thank you. Sorry. >> No, you're fine. Thank you. >> Any other board questions or comments? >> Yes, there is. This was just the history. So the next slide is the proposal what we're asking for to be put into fund 80. So there are dollars to spend in fund 80. So the levy in fund 80 um is up for discussion still for the next budget. Um however we are looking to add um community use to fund 80. Community use of the pool, the gyms, the weight rooms, fields, um community things such as the community health fair that happened um the um and the summer engagement activities. And there

105are, I think, a couple other activities that are coming up also that um community has been involved with or invited to as well. >> Did you have anything else you wanted to add to that, Dr. Garrison? >> So, this this slide in particular gives us a snapshot of what I believe was asked at the um previous meeting that we had um the public hearing conversation. And so we wanted to go back and add some numbers to this specific slot as it pertains to what we are um asking for to be added to the community service proposal. All other things are standard to what we've already had. So that's no changes there. And these two things are the main things that we want to add to the community service fund fund 180. Thank you so much

106Mrs. Elwood for the very fast overview of fund 180. >> Thank you. And to follow up with um Mrs. Levy's uh question about um moving this to the full board, we I have not found such a policy. I think that is just a practice either through Robert's rules or that we have done and it does not appear that this was for um action at this time. The there's no motion on this. It was action at the We're asking for actioning action at the previous meeting. >> Okay. The What is the uh proposed motion for this item? >> Give me one second. I got back go back to the other meeting. Give me one second. >> We're asking for um approval of the additional items into fund 80 that I have on this slide. Correct. That's

107not a recommended action. We did put two be determined because naturally you guys could say we want to do one over the other. Um but we would like to approve uh move approval of the um even start programming into fund 80 as well as the additional proposed usage for 2526 $150,000 for the community use of our district resources. >> So moved. Second >> motion by Megan Miller, second by Amy Levy, and Mrs. Shop. When you have a chance, would you please read the motion back? So, I'm not sure I have it totally correct. I have move approval of the continuation of even start programming and the add and the additional items that were presented um in fund 80. >> Yes. Um so pretty much I can give you a shorter version if you like but

108that is correct. >> Well that's the motion on the table right now. Yes ma'am. So, um, but I want to make certain that, um, we understand that that motion represents what's on this current slide we're looking at. >> That's correct. So, it looks like there's a total of six different items that we would be approving for fund 80 funding for the 2526 budget. Do any board members have questions or comments? Mrs. Levy, >> thank you. Um I thought and and I could be wrong so please correct me immediately. Um with public library I know that the blender cafe is closing down for a period of time and if I am remembering correctly the way they presented is it would like be a re a reimagining when it opens back up. So I just want to

109confirm that that like that partnership is remaining intact moving forward or is there some ambiguity around that? I would have to double back on that that question, Mrs. Levy. Um, as it pertains to the Blender Cafe, I do know that there's going to be some changes to the Blender Cafe. Um, but we still have the partnership to to work with them in this space. So, I do understand what you're saying, but I don't have that full answer to that specific question. >> So, just want clarity. Approval of this means that it could move forward, but if something change it, something may not. So kind of like a do not exceed. Is that am I understanding this correctly? >> So if we didn't use the money for blend in a cafe, we can't put that into

110a meal rate per se. Um so that is correct. If we didn't use the let's say $50,000 for the blender cafe, then we would not we can't add that to a portion of the meal rate. >> Thank you. >> There's a motion and a second. Any other discussion hearing? None. All in favor? >> I. >> Any oppose? Motion carries unanimously. Thank you, Mrs. Elwood and Dr. Garrison. Our next item is the addition of a 0.5 FT. Mrs. Levy, >> thank you. Um, one hopefully brief question. Uh, as I'm reading the information, it looks like Converse will help me make sure I'm understanding this correctly. Converse has currently a 0.5 academic interventionalist, but other elementaryaries have a full-time. Okay. So, I guess my question is, was there an attempt made to bring that.5 up to a

111full-time instead of having 2.5s? Um because I know we always have an eye on the budget because that way we're paying benefits for two people instead of one. The need is definitely there and um to be honest with you I don't know exactly where we reduced the 0.5 from our budget and so this is an attempt to make sure that those students continue to receive the um services that are much needed. So to take a 0.5 from an existing, it's only going to take away from another location rather than fulfill this one building. >> Okay? So it's not one person working in one building as h part-time. It's a split. >> This is going to be one person who is going to fill the full FTE. We just need to make sure that we budget

112for the one person to be at Converse as a full FTE versus a 0.5. Okay. My initial question was does Converse currently have a.5 FTE and other elementary schools has a a full FTE. >> All other elementaryaries have a full FTE >> and Commerce currently has a 0.5. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. So my question is, was there an attempt to get that 0.5 to a full? So one person instead of being there part-time being there full-time because then we're just paying one set of benefits. That is the goal is to have one person to fill the the full FTE. So basically rather than hiring um Mrs. Levy for a part-time position.5, we're going to ask Mrs. Levy, uh, can you please work all eight hours or 7.5 hours of the day and we'll make

113you into a full-time position. So, it's going to be one person, one FTE, not two splits. >> Thank you, >> Mrs. Fox. Um my concern is that uh we have lost 192 students and we really haven't looked at our uh class sizes, our enrollments, um our sections, uh where our students are. And I would think that before we add any kind of FTE, we need to be looking at what is happening with that because um with that loss of that many students, it's got to be affecting class size. It's got to be affecting many different things. Um so there might be another way to cover that with a position that's somewhere else that we don't need anymore because we've lost 192 students. It does require special licensing. So the only way that we could make

114that happen as you're describing would be if we split um two schools. We're still increasing a 0.5 position. Um we could look at decreasing a position someplace else that would cover that funding. I I just um when I look at the enrollments and we've lost 192 students and we're looking at budget cuts to to turn around and say we need to add a 0.5 position without looking at those things first um I think is misguided giving the fact that we um are having such a budget problem. I'm not saying we don't need it. I'm saying we need to look at some other things first. >> Understood. Thank you, >> Mr. Nichols. I'm sorry. >> Uh, Mrs. Almondus, do not I recall that um when we discussed this yesterday, it was there's it's covered by grant

115funding. Correct. >> This position would be grant funded, so it would not impact our budget, >> right? Yeah, I thought that was pretty important information. >> It's a title one position. Thank you, Mrs. Moritech. Miss Levy, right? Why do I keep calling you Miss Levy tonight, Miss Miller? >> I'll take it as a compliment. It's all good. No, thank you so much. Um I just I think um Miss Fox raised some really important points and I'm just I was just wondering um if it would be okay to allow administration to speak to like what data supports the the request if possible. >> Sure. Um Miss Morte, can you come to the mic? when we're thinking about um academic interventionists, they do more than just, you know, I think sometimes people just think, oh, we got

116another body to do another job, but the reality is our our students do have various needs. Um due to testing, uh we have to do more um with our students and our academic interventionists do help us in that space whether it be in reading and or in math. Now, additionally, when you're thinking about the um academic interventionist position, um of course, we have new testing now and that testing will give us a score for a student. Score for a student gives us then a snapshot of what needs to happen. And so, um our academic interventionists do help us in providing those those extra layers of supports that sometimes our teachers necessarily can't always attend to. So, if I didn't share anything extra, Mrs. Morte, you can take it away from here. >> Sure. Um, in

117the spirit of title funds, um, interventionists have been utilized for years. I honestly can't recall why Converse went from a 1.0 to a.5. I do know that she had a.5 person that that's all she wanted to work at that time. It was a retiree that had come back. Um, Converse does have one of our larger populations. Um, and as we know, right, growing needs. Um and she actually has a growing EL population as well um in that school. Um and you know as we go through um our MLSS system multi-system levels of support I honestly see um them not having less of a need and you know and why they would remain 0.5 and and the others are um 1.0. Um, and so, uh, I just quick pulled up the title fund sheet. Um, and

118it does look like Converse, uh, based on the, um, they give us an estimate of the allocations, but then that's not approved until, you know, DPI's timeline, unfortunately, is not on a school cycle budget, which makes things extra tricky. Um, but just based on the estimates, it looks like there should be enough um, just allocated to Converse to support that 0.5 position. Um, we'll have to go back and rework the numbers with um, Brook Walker. Um, I I did not have a chance to do that yet. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> Is there a motion for approval of the addition of a 0.5 FTE? >> So moved. Second. >> Any other discussion? Be motion by Brian Nichols, seconded by Amy Levy. All in favor? >> I. >> Any oppose. Motion carries unanimously.

119Our next item on is the HR committee report, employment recommendations, exhibit A. Are there any open session questions? Um, I do have one and it's the um date for the interim principal at Robinson. I think that there might be a typo there. Dr. Wilson came came on prior to that. So, if you could double check those dates for us real quick. >> I will double check them. Um, this is like as as precise a snapshot as we can give, but payroll usually goes over it with goes over it with a fine tooth comb. So, we will make whatever adjustments are necessary. >> Thank Thank you. I believe um Dr. Wilson, if I remember correctly, began on September 3rd. >> There was an overlap though where they transitioned um the interim transitioned out while the new

120principal came in. >> Okay, got it. >> So, I do believe that that may be the additional days you may be looking at, but I will double check it. Okay. Well, then that would make sense because then it would only be well um I got two or three days overlap. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? Open session. Are there any close session questions? Hearing none, I will entertain approval of exhibit A. >> So move second. >> Motion by Brian Nichols, seconded by Amy Levy. All in favor? I >> I >> Any oppose? Motion carries unanimously. >> Our next item is executive session. Typically, the board meets in close session per state statutes listed below to discuss items in this section of the agenda. The public is excused from this portion of

121the discussion. A motion may be made and a vote taken to convene the board of education into close session pursuant to section 19.85 85 par one parn B of the Wisconsin state statutes relative to reconsidering relative to considering dismissal demotion licensing discipline or any public employee or person licensed by a board or commission or the investigation of charges against such person or considering the grant or denial of tenure for a university faculty member and the taking of formal actions on such matter. Provided that the faculty member or the other public employee or person licensed is given actual notice of any evidentiary hearing which may be held prior to final action being taken and of any meeting at which the final action may be taken. The notice shall contain a statement that the person has the

122right to demand that evidentiary hearing or meeting be held in open session and pursuant to section 19.85 85 PAR 1 PAN E of the Wisconsin state statutes relative to property and negotiating public funds and section 19.85 PAR 1 PNG of the Wisconsin state statutes for conferring with legal counsel regarding soil contamination. The board will be going into close session to discuss the legal update and advice regarding pending DNR soil contamination suit and considering consideration of personnel concerns and consultation with legal. Is there a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion by Brian Nichols, seconded by Tom Henkins. Mrs. Schop, can we get a roll call? >> Yes. Yes. Amy Levy. >> I >> Tom Hankens. >> I >> Brian Nichols. >> Tom, turn your microphone off. >> Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. >> Megan

123Miller. >> I Carol Fox. I Ed Tia Johnsonet >> I >> motion carried unanimously. >> Before you adjurn I have one quick question. >> Okay. The board of education may reconvene to public session in order to take any action if necessary on items discussed in close session. Dr. Garrison, >> I just like to give a shout out to the board. I know this is board appreciation week. Um and so just in case you all forgot, I had a my goal was to of course if if I didn't know Mrs. Rule was not going to be with us tonight. My apologies for that. And I was going to take a picture, of course, with the new board with Mrs. Fox being here. And so, uh, we can still do that. And then we can probably take

124another picture with Mrs. um, Ru in that space. Uh, we don't want to superimpose her, though. Um, but, um, if the board can stick around just for a real quick, um, photo, um, shoot, um, that'll be greatly appreciated. And I did not forget about you all's, um, gift, so just want to thank you. Don't worry about that. Board members, please don't forget to log out of your open session um Google Meets. That's me. Sorry. You know what I mean? I wouldn't expect [Applause] Mr. show. Just give me a heads up whenever you're ready. >> Your head was up. >> She went like this. >> Hey. Oh, >> it's getting late. >> Yeah. Nothing to be sorry about yet. It's >> a heads up. >> Okay. Uh the board of education has reconvened into public session

125to take action on the close uh executive session discussions. Is there a motion to accept the resignation of Dr. Garrison pursuant to the terms of the resignation agreement? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion by Brian Nichols, seconded by Tom Henkins. Any discussion? >> Can we have a roll call vote, please? >> Absolutely. Mrs. Schul, may we have a roll call vote when you are ready? >> Yes. The motion is to accept the resignation of Dr. Garrison pursuant to the terms of the resignation agreement. Motion by Brian Nichols, seconded by Tom Henkins. Carol Fox. I Megan Miller. >> Somebody needs to shut off their mic. Sorry. >> Nay. >> Brian Nichols. >> Hi. Tom Henkins >> I. >> Amy Levy. >> Nay. >> And Tia Johnson. >> I. Motion carried 4 to2. Next, I will

126accept a motion to wave policy 225 to wave the completion of the annual evaluation of the superintendent because it is unnecessary due to his resignation. >> So moved. >> Second. We have a motion to wave policy 225 to wave the completion of the annual evaluation of the superintendent because it is unnecessary due to his resignation. Motion made by Brian Nichols, seconded by Tom Henkins. Any discussion hearing? None. May we also have a roll call vote on this when you are ready. Mrs. Hope Brian and then Tom Amy Levy I >> Tom Henkins >> I >> Brian Nichols >> I >> Megan Miller >> I >> Carol Fox I and Tia Johnson I >> motion carried unanimously. Finally, I will read the joint joint statement. The school district of boy board of education and Dr. Sup

127and and superintendent Dr. Willie Garrison II have released the following statement today. The school district of boy board of education has accepted the resignation of Dr. of Superintendent Dr. Willie E. Garrison II effective December 31st, 2025. It has been an honor to serve as superintendent of the school district of boy said Dr. Garrison. I am proud of what we have accomplished together over the past three years particularly the achievements of our students. It has. I also want to thank our outstanding staff, families, and community members for their support of our schools. With mutual respect, the board and I have agreed to my departure at the end of the year. Board of Education President Tia Johnson said, "We thank docu Dr. Garrison for his time with the district and wish him well as he takes this

128next step in his future career opportunities. The board of education will begin the process of identifying the district's next superintendent in the coming weeks and will ensure a smooth transition. Thank you. Is there a motion to adjurnn? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion by Amy Levy, seconded by Brian Nichols. Any discussion? A reminder to fill out your um pulse checks. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. We are adjourned at 9:56. [Music]