001May 11th, uh, 2020 BASD schoolboard meeting to order. Uh, first item of business. I'd like to just take a minute to recognize that this is National, uh, Police Week and thank our partners at Racing County Sheriff's Office and the City of Burlington Police Department for their continued partnership. We value that. Uh, next up then would be the pledge. So, if you could stand, please. I pledge allegiance 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. >> All right. Thank you. Next up then would be roll call. Aaron, >> Ben, >> I'm here. >> Andrea here. Paul >> here. >> Taylor here. >> Marlo here. Kate Roseanne >> here. >> And just to mention, Kate is out
002of town on a business trip, so that is why she is absent this evening. Next up is citizen comments. Um, we are going to be making a little bit of a change to how we do public comments. Uh, district citizens wishing to address the board must complete a public comment form located at the back of the room and submit it to the board clerk. This applies to all comments, both general and agenda specific topics. At the start of the meeting, individuals may comment on items not listed on the agenda due to open meetings law. Board members cannot respond to or discuss non-aggenda items. Each agenda item is presented. Those who submit a form may speak on that specific item after the board presentation or discussion. Each speaker is allotted up to three minutes and must
003state their name and address for the record. And all comments will be recorded by the board clerk. Do we have any public comments? Does not look like it. All right. Uh, next up then would be reports. Uh, first item is board member reports on workshops or meetings attended. Does anybody have anything? >> I guess so. >> Rosanne. >> Okay. On April 17th and 18th was the W. >> Rosanne, just a reminder to use your microphone. >> Okay. >> I got a teacher's voice. I thought they could hear me in the next next building. Okay. H WSB, excuse me, had their meeting on the 17th and 18th, but if you remember back then the weather was horrible. So, they predicted for the Madison area heavy heavy hail and they thought it was going to be big.
004So, we decided to do it online, which also wasn't very handy to do, bad weather. But, we uh we covered many things. Uh there are 15 of our directors. We were all there. I represent us in unit in area 13. So we usually talk about we were talked a lot about the new member um meeting that we had. So we talked about ideas of what we could do. Uh we also always talk about education and we believe in the power of public education as the cornerstone of democracy and we always make sure we discuss that or talk at least mention it. Uh we talked about COSPA which is this federal um meetings that we go to. um we don't go to the NBA anymore because they they aren't as good. So the cos and I
005think most of the state goes to that now. Our next meeting uh let's see practical discussion on how new members will be presented. So we did quite a bit that was quite a bit of time. We found out Saturday that the hail on Friday night was the size of baseballs. So our cars would have been pretty damaged if we had gone. So I'm glad we stayed home. The next meeting, goodness, excuse me, the next meeting will be June 2nd and that's when I was chosen to help pick out the things for the convention. So, I'm excited about that. I did that last year also. And then I also meet on the 12th and 13th of June when we have our regular meeting and get into some some other things, general business and legislative news. So,
006that's good. But, I do want to take a minute to show you the magazine. All of us get this. And please read the article about the Burlington guy, Scott Stouty. I don't know if some of you know him, but anyway, it's a very interesting article about baseball and how he has gone overseas and really made some wonderful connections with people from other countries. It was interesting to me to read that they don't have you can't go to the store and pick up a baseball or a glove or anything like that because baseball isn't as important over there. But I served a year in South America on a world peace program. And this is how we have world peace, through understanding and meeting people from other countries and letting them know how wonderful Americans are. So
007I really think he's uh this is a great article. Make sure you read it. And the man who wrote it is R.J. Larson. And R.J. Larson uh graduated from Burlington High School. He went through Burlington District and he's one of the big wigs now up at Madison. and I had him in second grade. So, he went to Winkler at the time. So, that was always fun. So, please read that. And then I just wanted to talk a little bit about the new member gathering, which was great. Thank you, Ben and Andrea, for coming. And uh I did the first half of the program and uh Ben did the second half and we covered a lot of items and I had four phone calls from people who had been here and they said we can't believe
008you packed so much into that short of time. But if you ever have any questions, please contact me. Other people have. So don't hesitate to do that or to call WSB at Madison because we're all here to help anybody be a better uh schoolboard member. And I think that's about it. But remember as I said the students have to come first number one. So as a board member always. Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. >> I have something real quick as well. >> All right. Sure. Oh. >> Um May 6th I attended the wellness and human growth and development committee meeting. Um basically it was to go over some of our current policies and to update our human growth and development um policy itself. Um there was students, parents, um I think some people from the
009Burlington Hospital and then teachers and then um Tyler was there and also board members. Um from that there was a lot of good input from the students especially. I was kind of surprised at how well they spoke up about how they felt their classes were going and what areas that we could improve. Um, one of them was that they brought up was sharing of like kids food. Like how they kind of just all dig their hands in and all share one big bowl. Well, that's not necessarily good if all those little kids aren't uh washing their hands because that's one big germ factory. So, um, some of the high school students talked about how we could maybe make that better with individual bags or or you know, stuff like that. Um, also one thing that
010came about was one of the teachers um, we've been talking about changing some policies and one of the teachers had some really good input that we may not have thought about uh, during that period. So my message would be that if you have something about a policy that you'd like to talk about, please show up and talk about it because it may actually help us make a better decision on how to make those policies better. >> And just a little background on that too, both the committees that um Paul is referencing is the wellness committee and the human growth and development. So both of those if you as a school district adopt them from the state of Wisconsin you have to form a committee once every three years and it has to be composed of
011community members, parents, students and to relook at what uh we teach and then you utilize their input to make decisions moving forward for that next three-year cycle for human growth and development and wellness. So, that's what took place because we were up for our three-year adoption and then it will come to the board for presentation on the adjustments that are going to be made or uh are being suggested to be made from the committee and then the board will then approve those adjustments. Okay. So, Paul was on that committee um for the school board. Thank you for doing that. uh question, how are the uh citizen or citizen reps or parent reps chosen for that committee? >> Um it tends to be parents that we know show up to uh meetings uh and have the
012ability to do so during the day. So when we've held other committees in the past, we kind of lean on that group of parents that we know are are going to be people that will show up and and participate. >> Okay. Mhm. >> Uh, anyone else for board member reports on workshops or meetings attended? Okay. Uh, next up then is superintendence report. Jill. >> Okay. So, uh, going to go over a few things that happened in the last couple of weeks and it's um, crazy to think that school is almost over. We have two weeks left of school. That is nuts, right? That we're that close to being finished, which is really exciting. The end of the school year is really packed with awesome activities and so many graduations and recognitions and celebrations. It's it's
013a really fun time of the school year and thank you to those that have already come and participated in some of those um celebrations. Andrea came and spoke at the senior recognition night and handed out some scholarships. And I know Roseanne, you had planned on coming um and then needed to be able to step away for a different uh engagement. You needed to attend. >> Yeah. um but really appreciate um your desire to step up and participate as well. Um first thing that I want to show you is video >> that wants to start before I even uh let it. So as you know we are partnering with a company called Signal Fire and they're working on multiple marketing videos for the school district and this is one of those videos. This one is highlighting
014what's happening at the high school at Burlington High School. Nearly a thousand students in grades 9 through 12 are gaining the skills, confidence, and experiences they need to achieve their goals. I have taken many different types of classes while at BHS. Everything from shop classes like woods to dual credit classes like my American Sign Language. They have done a great job with giving me introductions into a variety of topics that I could choose for my future. I feel like BHS wants what is best for each student, no matter what the choice. >> Staff at this school don't just teach me academics. They have also taught me how to work towards a goal bigger than myself. >> We allow students to figure out what their life goals are. We give them real world experiences. We give
015them the pathways and the tools to do it successfully and safely. Besides academics, teachers have helped me figure out what I need to do in high school to be furthering my education. They have helped me work through some issues so that I am able to be successful. When students graduate from BHS, I hope they look back and realize that our staff gave them the ability to dream and the tools to make that dream a reality. BHS is a place where we inspire good humans and capable minds together. join our community today. >> Yeah. Pretty good, huh? >> Yeah. >> So, all of the voices within there are either students, parents, or staff from the high school. So, it's really authentic. We asked them to say what they felt like saying. So, that that's pretty cool,
016too, to just infuse uh some authenticity when it comes to their voices as well. And then moving forward, we um recently had the senior um recognition celebration at the high school where we honored the class of 2026 and their for their achievements, hard work, and future plans. Thank you to all the students, family, staff, and community partner partners along with our culinary students, and local businesses for helping make the evening a meaningful celebration. Just for everyone's knowledge, there was over $730,000 worth of scholarships given out to our senior class. So, pretty awesome um accomplishment and and kudos to everyone that supports our students. Additionally, what happened that night and thanks to Taylor Wishaw and Robin Boss for their support on this students enlisting in the military were rec were recognized with a Wisconsin state flag.
017Um, that was a US flag flown over our state capital and a certificate and a personal letter from board President Taylor Wishaw in recognition for their service. The recipients were Lillian Dempkkey, she's going to West Point in the Army, Adrienne Martinez in the Army, Nicholas Wrigle in the Army, Kayla Tanking Air Force, and Isaac Miller in the Air Force. Um, something that was really neat that night was that when Lillian Dempkkey was recognized for West Point, there was an officer that came and gave me the chills because he really was speaking on behalf of the president of the United States. And uh, I think he said only 26 students in the entire US get chosen every year. And Lillian will have a full ride, a scholarship to West um, Point. and he said three of
018the four astronauts that recently just went um around the moon all graduated from West Point University. So for Lillian to be coming from BHS is pretty cool. Um and and to have him there was a real honor. So really cool opportunity for our students. She also received a standing ovation um after receiving the award. So really cool. Um the evening also highlighted career pathways. This is this was the first year that the high school added this in as another um so really uh wanting to highlight all of the pathways that we have going on at the high school specifically when it comes to the welding diploma, CNA certification, EMT training, and all of our youth apprentice students. It was really showcasing how um all of our students are really being prepared for their futures beyond
019graduation. I mean, when you see that, look at the list of students. It's hard to even see all of the the names, right? But that is all the the students that are in some sort of program in high school getting certifications so that they are prepared for careers and beyond. So really cool and a great addition to that celebration evening. Additionally, in the last month, uh BHS National Honor Society students were uh recently visited Rine Art Museum. The trip allowed students to experience diverse artistic styles and connect contemporary pop culture with traditional art forms bringing classroom learning to life through some real world exploration. Additionally, we had the hour of AI. This is a partnership that is new for us this year with Microsoft. Microsoft came and assisted with Burlington, not just the high school
020but also at the middle school and at the elementary levels to provide students with innovative learning opportunities to connect to AI and emerging technology. In April, students participated in the hour of AI with Angie Thur, our secondary librarian, where they explored coding, problem solving, and real world technology applications through interactive activities using Minecraft and Lego. These hands-on experiences have really helped our students build important skills for future careers while encouraging creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking. So, really awesome for Microsoft to come and support that. And additionally, you'll notice in the donations, we just received a $60,000 grant from U. Microsoft in order to support us with our movement towards AI. Also, um, with forensics, congratulations to our BHS forensics team on competing at stage. We're proud to share that they represented BHS incredibly well. Competing
021at this level is a huge accomplishment and we couldn't be more proud of their effort and their professionalism. Congratulations to all the students and the awesome experience that they were able to receive. Also, HOSA, it's our health career pathway uh club organization, had an amazing time at the state leadership conference that was held at the Kalihari Convention Center. Students competed in events as such as Una Matage. I had to try to get the annunciation for that. Don't ask me what it is. An unimatage tournament and engaged in subjects tests and they also explored healthcare careers throughout breakout sessions. Finalists were Adeline Day, Brandon Piccolo, and Liam Piccolo. And then also special recognition to Brandon Piccolo who was awarded a $500 HOSA scholarship. And then also to Ryan Demoon who placed fifth in anatomy and physiology
022and third in microbiology at the state level. So congratulations. And he's only a sophomore. Thank you for sharing that. So that is pretty awesome and they're really proud and they are looking forward to the possibility of being able to go to another conference held this summer in Indianapolis and again that's a new club that started last year last year and has really taken off. So really cool opportunity for students. Additionally our share club students uh from the high school visit America's Black Holocaust Museum. Through exploring the exhibit, students learned about important parts of history that they may not have previously been familiar with. The experience was powerful, eye-opening, and incredibly impactful. We are proud of our students for taking the time to learn, reflect, and grow from opportunities like this. Additionally, when it comes to
023all of our spring sports, we have a total of 238 students participating in spring sports. um and they will go I'm just going to kind of uh go through all of the sports. These are the varsity um team pictures. So, we have 40 varsity students in track for boys and girls. Again, this is just the varsity teams, 14 students in on varsity softball, 15 on varsity baseball, 18 on varsity soccer. We have uh boys golf. 10 students are involved in that at the varsity level. And then we also have tennis. and there's 11 boys uh in the varsity team there. So, uh good luck to everyone as they continue through the spring sports. Um and and hope the weather continues to kind of stay calm, okay? Because it started out not so well there for
024a bit, right? Uh so hopefully it it calms down here for the rest of the season. Additionally, there is one school that we're highlighting that is K8. As you know, this one this month we are highlighting Winkler. Winkler participated in Earth Day by helping clean up the school grounds and participating in a creative trash to treasure activity. Students worked together to care for the environment while turning everyday recyclable materials into imaginative creations. They also had their spring concert for students in third and fourth grade. That took place at Waller. Uh we do have all of Winkler concerts at Waller Elementary School because of the parking and also the stage. So, the gym at Winkler is too small. So, just um for your knowledge on on the why, we shift it to a different building, but
025the students did a great job showcasing all of their hard work and musical talents in in front of all their families and staff. Additionally, we had testing season here, spring testing came to a close. We have to uh as required by the state of Wisconsin uh public schools are required to have all of their students test in Ames web for 5K through 2 grade forward exam in third grade through 8ighth grade preCT and 9th and 10th grade and the ACT and grade 11. We also have to provide the access test to all of our EL English learner students across the district. And we also have the DM dynamic learning maps for very few special education students that um have to participate in that. Then we also engage in some district data that is just internal
026data for the school district using I Ready FastBridge and also progress monitoring. So that is all wrapping up here in the spring. And I just love that little girl on the left there. Um go fourth grade. Pretty cute. Additionally, some field trips are underway across the whole school district, but our fourth grade students across the district go to Old World, Wisconsin. And then also our second and third graders at uh Winkler went out to the Milwaukee County Zoo. And then when it comes to some of our Project Lead the Way curriculum, as you know, we infused Project Lead the Way from 5K all the way through 12th grade due to all of the generous grants from our dog Glass Manufacturing Company here in town. Our first grade students explored a creative design challenge through our
027project lead the way curriculum by brainstorming and testing different ways to make umbrellas function more like trees. And then in second grade with the project lead the way curriculum students put their creativity to work designing and building unique birdhouses. The project gave students an opportunity to use their imagination while while creating colorful homes for bo birds to enjoy this spring season. Some really unique ideas there. We also held the special needs resource fair. This year was the biggest turnout yet with BSD families and staff showing incredible support. We welcomed 98 different agencies and approximately 275 people attended, including families, educators, community members, and about 50 BASD students. Nearly 30 local businesses donated prizes, food, and gift cards, and 17 sponsors helped make the event possible. The energy is a collaboration throughout the evening highlighted the
028strength of the BSD community and also in partnership with the neighboring school districts. Burlington Kiwanis Art Show took place. Special thank you to Kiwanis for hosting the annual student art show banquet at the Cotton Exchange. Awards were presented to 28 BSD students totaling nearly $1,000 in gifts. Congratulations to our talented artists and thank you to the Kiwanis and Jeff Osmalik for their continued support for the K12 visual arts program. And last but not least, tomorrow is when everyone should eat at Culver's at some point during the day to support our desire to continue to gather funds for the daycare project that we are looking to be able to start here within the school district. So, if you are looking for some food at some point tomorrow, please go over to Culver's and they are open
029from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. And then also, if you have interest in donating additionally to the project, you can also click on that QR code and donate additional dollars towards the daycare project. A minimum of 50% of all proceeds made tomorrow will go to the daycare project. And that's the end of my superintendent report. >> Okay. Thank you, Jill. Uh, next up then is consent agenda items. This includes the April 13th board meeting minutes, April 27th board reorganization meeting minutes, bank statement and bills, appointments, resignations, retirements, and donations. And just to point out a couple things, uh, beginning cash on hand for the month was 1 million65,84025. Ending cash on hand is 973,9079. And then uh as Jill kind of alluded to, total estimated donations this previous month was $72,873.87. Very, very generous this
030month. And again, couple shout outs. Special thank you to Microsoft, Green Bay Packers, Miller Motors, Experience Burlington, Thrivant Shoreline Group, Countryside Pub, uh, Superior Carbide, and of course, Burlington Kowanas. So, with that, do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda items as presented? >> So moved. >> All right. Moved by Han. >> Seconded by Coburn. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion passes. Thank you. Next up then is items for discussion slashinformation. First item is the QuickMart mobile update and this is where Jill will update the board on a sponsorship agreement between BASD and QuickMart Mobile. >> Yep. So in the back of the room there on that um whiteboard you'll see one of the signs that will be at the mobile gas station. So, the company that owns the gas
031station across from Lavel on the way out towards Winkler uh is a wanted to reach out and support the school district and shared that they would give two cents back to the Burlington area school district for every gallon pumped for the next year starting on June 1st. So, um they are a new company uh and new ownership I should say uh for the facility and just wanted to be able to give back to the schools. So, uh, starting June 1, make sure you sometimes go and fill up over at that, uh, mobile mart and, uh, know that two cents will come back to BASD. Any questions about that? >> Okay, cool. >> All right. >> Yeah, very generous, too. >> We're a year and then maybe beyond that. >> Yeah, that's cool. >> Okay, next
032up is the 496 building update. Uh 496 building is also known as the gateway building over along Highway 142. So if Jill could please update the board on the progress of what's happening there. >> Yep. As you know, we are uh working to do a renovation project over there. The first thing that we're really going to work through is the desire to build uh an on-site clinic. As you know, we shifted to from fully funded to self-funded for our health insurance for our staff and our conso consultant suggested that we build a clinic larger than what we need in order for us to support and be able to partner with other businesses as well, which then just brings down costs for everyone. So, uh, I will be talking to the finance committee, uh, next week
033in regard to us then coming back to the full board in June for approval for that, um, portion of the building to be able to start. So, uh, for us to be able to begin the remodel project for the health clinics portion of it specifically. And then as you know, we are working to raise dollars from businesses for fitness/wrestling space and the daycare um portion of the building to also come online. Uh and looking for all of that to come through as donations from businesses within the community. Again, not something that would be going to capital referendum at all. Um all taken care of in different means. So, just an update on that. wanting you to know that uh not to be surprised when it comes to the board for approval to be able to
034start the the section that relates to the on-site clinic. Okay. Any questions or comments on that topic? Hearing none. Okay. Next up, we have quite the list for items for action. So, we'll try to do a marathon of all those. So first item is graduation requirement policy 5460. This would be for second reading. This is to increase the graduation requirements from 23 credits to 24 beginning with the class of 2030 and discontinue credit for ACP and the and driven beginning in fall of 2026. So with that uh Mr. Coberneck if you'd like to take over. So the main points uh to look at as we have for changes is that the students would go from 23 credits but that's the class of 2029 and then 24 credits would start at the class of 2030. Um
035also the elective credits needed would go from 7 to 7 and a half. Um that's through the class of 2029 and then eight and a half credits starting with the class of 2030. Um, seven I guess was always a typo and it should have always been seven and a half otherwise the credits add up to 22 and a half not 2. Um, so that important to update that um, just on the number basis alone. And then um, also removing a student graduating prior to 2028 must also have participated in curriculum related to financial literacy in order to earn a diploma. Um, this wasn't necessary in the policy because financial literacy is now required by state law and noted within credit credit requirements. Also, uh, verbiage for the Wisconsin Act 60, a state law mandating students
036must complete half credit of financial literacy to graduate. Um, that was removed as explained above. Um, so the 0.5 credit is listed in the required credits and does not need this additional verbiage. Um, also, well, I guess that's your um, thank you. Does anybody have any additional um, questions, comments, any administrative comments on this policy change? Uh the only other addition is there was a slight conversation uh about PE and potentially giving extracurriculars the ability to take an extracurricular for PE credit. Administratively, that is not a recommendation we would suggest moving towards. It seemed also to be fairly silent from the board perspective. So just know that is not something we wrote into the policy at all. The only adjustments to the policy that we are looking for as recommendations to the board are the
037ones that Paul listed out. So this would be an adjustment starting with the current eighth graders. So as they go into high school, they would be required to take 24 credits to graduate from high school instead of 23. So the current freshman through seniors would still be under a 23 credit diploma, but all students moving forward would no longer be able to get credit for ACP or driven. So even the students that are at the high school right now, I might have ACP credit on my transcript my freshman and sophomore year for example, but uh if this is approved then going into um junior and senior year, they would not be able to gain any more ACP or driven credit. Okay? So it's making that adjustment. And remember the why for this is because ACP
038is mandated by the state and we're infusing it more so into all of our courses across the school. So we don't feel like that should be a a standalone credit anymore. They were getting 0.25 every year. And then additionally, we have lots of clubs at the high school that um could also potentially one might argue could also have credit tied to them also. So it doesn't make sense to allow any club to have credit. So that's why the credit would be removed from driven. So just reminders on that and making sure you understand uh what impacts which groups of kids. >> And just to clarify, ACP stands for academic career planning for those who are not familiar with the acronym. Okay. Um as per our new change for public comment, I'm going to ask, are
039there any members of the audience that wish to make a public comment on this before the board votes? Seeing none. Okay. I'm looking for a motion to approve the amended changes to BASD policy 5460 graduation requirements from 23 credits to 24 credits beginning with the class of 2030 and to no longer allow credit for ECP, which again stands for academic career planning and driven starting in the fall of 2026. Do I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Motion by Coburn. Is there a second? >> Seconded by Brown. All right. And uh this will be a roll call vote. So we'll start uh with Ben. Ben, how do you wish to vote? >> Uh yes. >> Vote yes. Andrea, >> yes. >> Paul, >> yes. >> I vote yes. Marlo, >> yes. >> Kate is
040absent. Roseanne, >> yes. >> Okay, motion passes. Next up is technology update. This is the printer contract approval. Uh, Director Wagner will present options for the proposed printer release for the 2026 2027 school year, which is going to focus on cost savings and improve privacy and compliance as the rationale. Director Wagner, >> Thank you, sir. >> Uh, for for you board members that don't know me, my name is Dave Wagner. Um, director of technology, uh, going on my 24th year with the district, so I appreciate your time. I'll make this uh, short and sweet. Uh so four years ago, Ruth, our business manager, >> maybe hold on to it because I'm not sure. >> Uh four years ago, uh Ruth, our business manager, did the lease. I wasn't involved with that. So the lease now
041has come up, uh with her retirement in December. I kind of took it upon myself to run with this project. So um a little bit of history of printing in a district. What we currently do right now is we mainly have copiers in each of the main offices. Obviously, the high school is a lot bigger. So they're centralized in in social studies and math and stuff like that. And then throughout the other buildings here and there, we have these old 4250s HPs that are probably 15 to 20 years old, well beyond end of life for these things. Uh we have problems at times with them printing the correct jobs and stuff like that. So we decided uh we've been talking about it for a little bit to get a better uh grasp of how we
042do manage print services here and how we can manage it. Right now we really can't manage it at all. But when someone prints a job, they just print it. It sits there. If they don't pick it up for 15, 20 minutes, other people can read it. We don't know who prints or if they didn't want to print it, then you're just throwing it in the waste paper basket. So, what we're going to do is move toward managed print services. And many businesses and districts do this. Uh it's a item called paper cut if you've ever heard of it. So basically what happens now is everybody will have one printer to print to on their computer versus many staff who go between different buildings have like 10 printers and you have to pick which one you
043want to print to. Uh so one printer it prints to a managed print queue on a server that we built and then your job isn't released until you go up to the copier to have it released. So that really provides um number one confidentiality and number two if you don't want the job to print then you just go when you the way they will do it is they can either use the key fob or they use a four-digit code walk up to the copier um then you you'll scan in your jobs you can delete them or print them and I think it's it's it's kind of a neat thing to do and it's much better it generates really good reports so you can see who's printing what how much color is being printed and then
044you can address it if you think it's getting out of hand or if we can fine-tune it to where we don't need to print as much as we've been doing. Right now, we have no management of it at all. It just you print it just prints it out on a machine or when like if you print and then you get sidetracked and it's confidentiality and you don't want to see somebody to read it, well, it's sitting there for everybody to read right now. So, um that's really the main gist of it. And then with the tracking, you can do uh cost reduction as well because you can manage it. And then right now for color printers too, we they're old and they're scattered throughout this district. So what's going to be with these new copers
045is the main office and the athletic office at the high school have it'll be black and white and copy. So what you if you need to print copy, you'll just hit print. You'll go to the copier in the main office that has the printing capability to print color and you'll release your job. And right now we've had numerous issues with these older ones. The system has worked for 10 years, but now we need to upgrade the system and they break down, they don't print, they're smudgy, they're stuff like that. So, it will also help with the printing of the color as well. So, um been on this project for a while. Um I did four different bids um and asked the companies to come in. I met with all of them and and gave them
046what we needed and then uh we got the quotes back. And then obviously there's a cost uh per paper for color. They're pretty similar. and then black and white. And um in a nutshell, that's how we do printing here. And it'll I think it'll save the district money in the long run because we can manage our printing so much better than what we do right now because there's times where I'll go to a printer and you have a stack of papers like that or there a stack of papers are in the trash can and like, well, that's just wasted money that we're not doing. So, >> and when you went to bid, Dave, did you uh have all four companies uh bid off of the same request? >> Same document. Yeah. Y >> Okay. So,
047um our recommendation or my recommendation for the district would be go with the bid too. Um and and they all kind of have the same service. They all do the same kind of pitch. You know, they're here within 3 to four hours main. A lot of them are. Um, the toners are included with the contract, but obviously they make up for that for the black and white cost and the color cost to recoup their cost. But a lot of times it'll be 20% they'll get down to. They read them remotely and they'll send you the toners, but when you're at 20%, they'll ship them to the district so you have them there when they're ready to go and there's really minimal downtime. So >> this will be an adjustment across the district too as we
048have also classroom printers and those will be going away also just as for everyone to know to try to cut down on costs and be more efficient and ensure that we are um doing everything we can to reduce uh unnecessary paper waste. >> Yeah. And we'll collect them over the summer and stuff like that and then the company will come and pick them all up over time. And I know sometimes change is hard, but in the end I think it'll staff will adjust and uh I know Amy's been in a district that had it and surprised we didn't. Um but many businesses um have it as well as school districts for obvious reasons. So >> So the bid he's referring to uh that would be the one that we recommend is for TS uh came
049in quite a bit lower than the other three bids. So this is a 48month lease. um with this company. So just looking for approval for us to go with a forward TS uh company within the bids. >> Um do you still have the print room at the district office or is >> Yes, it's called the duplicating center. >> Is that being replaced? >> We do. We um we are going to keep that. It was decided that we're going to keep that. Uh that is for the uh the much larger volume jobs should go there. Um but yes, we are keeping that. So then the copers that are in the individual buildings don't have to be as high volume generators because we still have the duplicating center downstairs. >> Will those get replaced too Dave by
050the >> So all printers across the whole district will get replaced with the forward TS company if the board approves that one. >> Fresh start. >> Okay. >> I got a question. Um so centralized system sounds great. Is there any redundancy if that one centralized system goes down? >> Yeah, we back that up. So we what we did is you can either have paper cut you can either the cloud hosted or we did on premise hosted. It's cheaper for us to do on premise hosted. So we built a server and it's going to house that software and then we back that those servers all of them get backed up nightly. So if it does crash for whatever reason like that it'll be backed up and we can restore them now within minutes. >> So there
051shouldn't be any jobs lost or you know anything like that. So yep. >> Thanks >> Mr. Brown. When are we going to have to replace those servers? >> Well, we just built uh actually um two years ago I think we did a scale project. So the way servers now are they're not physical boxes anymore. >> They're a lot of they call hypercon convergence or they're VM they're virtual servers. So on a stack of three uh servers that we have right now probably house about 20 servers. So it's kind of a virtual thing. So they really that server will never have to get theoretically replaced with a virtual box. We can upgrade it from I think it's Windows 2022. We'll upgrade the software on it. But the only time we'd ever have to replace our core
052servers, not like our camera servers are separate. That's a separate they're actually physical boxes. But the rest of majority of our servers are all virtual. So once that um the core of this has to get replaced, I probably won't be here. Um, but it it'll be years down the road and then that would be a bigger project, but it's it's a good system right now. So, if we want to spin up a new server, we can do it within five minutes or 10 minutes. It's just all virtual. >> So, it's it's a neat it's everybody kind of does it now, but it's a neat it's a neat way to go. We used to have racks of servers, three of them tall. Well, now you have maybe a half of one that can do it all.
053So, >> and we do more um cloud hosting like our Skyward both student and the cumulative business is all hosted by a cloud service. So, it's becoming less and less a little bit but okay that won't be a problem. Okay. Anybody else? All right. Uh anything we can do of course to become more efficient and save money at the same time is always great. So, trees >> with that. >> Say again. >> I said save the trees. >> Yes. Yes. And save trees. That's always a good thing, too. Um, with that then, um, are there any public comment on this topic? Of course. No. Um, then with that, we're looking for a motion to approve the 48th 48month agreement with forward TS for BASD printers and copers starting July 1st, 2026. Do I have a
054motion? >> So moved. >> Motion by Han. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Seconded by Brewer. All right. And this is a roll call vote. Uh Ben, how do you wish to vote? >> Yes. >> Okay. Andrea, >> yes. >> Paul, >> yes. >> I vote yes. Marlo, >> yes. >> Uh Kate is absent. Rosanne, >> yes. >> All right. Excellent. Motion carries unanimously. Next up is the registr Thank you, sir. >> Thank you, Dave. >> Next up is registration and food service fees. as Superintendent Oshelager will present recommended adjustments to registration and food service fees. >> So, um I have you have a sheet with you. There's uh like a green section with stars on it. Um in relation to fees, my suggestion and recommendation for the 2627 school year is to
055keep the registration fees as is. Um you'll see that the high school is at $75, middle school 60, elementary is 55, and then uh half day 4K is at 30, and then Whis charter school is at 60 like Carter. So I recommend we stay with those same fee structures moving into the next school year. But then additionally the other section looking for uh board approval on is that food service met with Tyler in relation to uh what the increases for food will be with airmark. Airark is the uh company that we work with um and they had shared that there is an increase a 4% increase for food. So that you'll see the daily rate in the first column is for this school year and the proposed increase is based on that 4% increase in
056the second column and then additionally an increase with milk um due to a 5% increase there. So just looking for um approval to keep the fee registration fees the same and for the allowance for the food service to increase by that four and 5%. Okay, any questions or comments? I think this is good by keeping the registration fees um stagnant at least for this year. >> Mhm. >> All right. Any public comments on the topic? I see none. And with that, we are looking for a motion to approve the 2026 2027 registration to stay the same, registration fees to stay the same, and to accept the increase to food service fees as presented. Do I have a motion? >> So move. >> Motion by Puffer. Is there a second? >> Seconded by Coburn. All right.
057This is a roll call vote. Uh Ben, how do you wish to vote? >> Yes. >> All right. Andrea, >> yes. >> Paul, >> yes. >> I vote yes. Marlo, >> yes. Rosanne. >> Yes. >> And Kate, of course, is absent. >> All right. Uh, next up then is the 2027 2028 calendar approval. This is where Superintendent Oshelager will present the recommended 2027 2028 school calendar. >> Yep. Uh, just so everyone's aware, we are wanting to try to stay in a cycle where we always have a calendar two years out. So, of course, parents already have access to this coming fall's school calendar, but this is the year after that, right? So, this is the 2627 school calendar. Just a couple things to remind you about um that are things that we're holding um as
058as kind of expectations as we set our calendars. One is that uh public schools cannot start before September 1 uh unless you have a waiver. Uh usually the waiver relates to capital improvement projects, things like that. Carter, when we were building Carter, we had a waiver once to start school earlier and end earlier. Um so otherwise, public schools really have to start after September 1. Um our student contact days is 167 days. Uh total staff work days is 178. spring breaks. All of the area superintendents within the Southern Lakes conference all agree to keep the uh spring break always the last week in March, the last full week in March instead of chasing Easter so that those of us that have shared staff and families across each other's school districts have a shared spring break.
059Uh there is no school on Martin Luther King Day. And then also we would be maintaining our late start Wednesdays uh due to the reduction of 11 teacher work days from the failure of the operational referendum a few years ago. So this maintains all of those components um and keeps things pretty status quo um across the school district in the last couple years of our school calendar. Additionally, I do have a conversation with all of our private schools, uh, all three of them that we need to meet with to try to ensure they align their school calendar as best as we can to our school calendar because, as you know, we pay for the transportation for all private schools. So, the better we can get them to align to our calendar, the more cost-effective it
060is for us when it comes to transportation costs. Have you met? >> So just looking for >> um I have met with them already for the 2627 school calendar but not this one. No. >> Okay. Any additional questions or comments? >> Um I just have a question for the when this calendar if this calendar is approved tonight. Um, do you send this out to parents via parent square like you know promoting that the calendar has been updated? >> Uh, yeah. We'll put it in our my district newsletter and then it'll end up on the website right away. Yep. >> Okay. All right. Any public comment on this topic? I see none. With that then looking for a motion to approve the 2027 2028 family calendar as presented. Do I have a motion? >> So moved.
061>> Motion by Brown. Is there a second? I'll second. >> Thank you. >> Seconded by Brewer. Uh, Mr. Puffer, how do you wish to vote? >> Yes. >> Okay. Andrea, >> yes. >> Paul, >> yes. >> I vote yes. Marlo, >> yes. >> Kate is absent. Roseanne, >> yes. >> Okay. Excellent. Motion passes. Uh, next up then is Excel leadership agreement. Uh, Superintendent Oshelager will present a recommendation to approve the Excel leadership leadership agreement. Thank you. Yeah, as you know, we work with Stuart Education for our strategic plan. We've been working with them now for three years. We're rounding out the end of our three-year contract with them uh in exploration of who to work with moving forward. I do have the desire to continue having some leadership development for our team in relation to
062strategic planning. Uh there is a woman that I would prefer to work with um that because she is local. Her name is Joanne Sternkey. She is a former superintendent. She did work for Stuart Education herself. She's also worked for Baldridge. It's another company that does strategic planning. Um, but she is local. She used to be the superintendent in Pwwaukee. So, it is a uh almost half the cost to work with her versus Stutter um just because of her proximity to BASD. So, um, here is a in front of you is a two-year contract at $33,760 per year um for us to work with them to assist our team with strategic planning. Year one to me will be heavy um focus with all of our directors and myself really firming up what um our goals and
063and where there are opportunities for systems and process improvement in order to continue to um streamline our work. So, just looking forward to working with her and she does have a teammate on her team as well. His name is Brian. Um, and we would be working with the two of them. I know that we would still plan on working with Stutter for all of our surveys because we would be going on to year four of our trend data. So, we would want to continue using stutter surveys. I have a um information out to them. They're working on getting me what the quote would be to only work with them for the surveys. So once I have that, I'll kind of bring that back to you guys. But for now, looking for us to shift to
064working with Excel leadership for the next two years when it comes to strategic planning. >> Okay. Any questions or comments? >> Yeah, I did not. >> I got logged in. No, >> this is a reminder to log in if you don't see it in executive content for this board. >> It was an ID10 error. Come on. >> Okay. All right. Uh, any public comment on the topic? I see none. With that, looking for the motion to approve the Excel leadership as our I'm sorry, Excel leadership as our strategic planning consultant for the 2026, 2027, and 2027 2028 school years as presented. Do I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Motion by Brown. Is there a second? >> Seconded by Han. Excellent. And Ben, how do you wish to vote? >> Vote yes. >> All
065right. Andrea, >> yes. >> Paul, >> yes. >> I vote yes. Marlo, >> yes. Kate is absent. Roseanne, >> yes. All >> right, motion passes unanimously. Congratulations. Next up then is the uh discussion on the annual board meeting. Um need to see if anybody can get their calendars out. Um proposed date for the annual meeting is August 24th, which is of course a Monday. Um 6 PM at the district office. Does that date work? I know that date works for Kate. Asked her earlier. Um, I believe that would work for me. I need to see if everybody else has that ability. >> Yep. >> Tyler, it works for you. That'd be really important. >> Yeah, I think so. I should be okay. >> Andre >> is good. Paul's good. >> Works for me. >> Ben's
066good. >> I'm okay. >> Good. >> Mr. Brown, >> I'll have to see if I can make it work. >> Well, thank you. I appreciate that. All right. It looks like that uh date works. We'll do it here at the district office uh Monday, August 24th, 2026 at 6 p.m. So, any public comment on that? Does not appear. So with that, then we're looking for a motion to approve the date of the 2026 BASD annual meeting as on Monday, August 24th, 2026 at 6 p.m. to take place here at the district office. Do I have a motion? >> So move. >> Motion by Puffer. Is there a second? >> Second by Coburn. Ben, how do you wish to vote? >> Yes. >> Andrea, >> yes. >> Paul, >> yes. >> I vote yes. Marlo, >>
067yes. >> Kate is absent. Roseanne, >> yes. >> Excellent. Motion carries unanimously. Next up then is the water softener replacement uh at BHS. Director Warren will present the recommendation to replace the water softener system at BHS due to age and operational concerns. As of right now, we've received two as of right now. As of time of the correspondence, we received two bids and are awaiting a third. Do we still in that scenario? >> Yeah, I should have that bid tomorrow. We're working with the contractor tomorrow to get that third vote. >> Excellent. Yeah, I should have one more. >> Turn that over to you, sir. >> Yep. The um the water softener at the high school was installed in 99 when the when the building was originally built. Um so I'm looking to res that
068unit with a new like version. Uh this will come out of the 2627 capital budget. Um this is a just a quick picture of the current system in room 108 at the high school. Supply soft water to the entire building. Um, and I checked with the city today just to kind of see where we're at for hardness level within Burlington. And it kind of depends on the the day, but um, for the most part, we're at about 32 grains per gallon. So, if you look at this scale here, soft water is from 0 to 3.5. Uh, moderate is 3.5 to 7, and we're all all the way up at 32. So, we're very hard as far as uh, water hardness goes. And what that means is it'll scale things up. The dishwashers, the the equipment,
069the water softeners, all that kind of stuff will get a lot of lime scale on them and it will reduce the life expectancy of equipment. So, uh we have had it shut down for about two months um because of repair issues. We can't find parts for that that system anymore. So, it scaled up the dishwashers quite a bit at the high school. It'll also gum up airators, um, urinals, flush valves, sinks. It just re w reeks havoc with a lot of stuff. Water or water fountains. Um, they'll get scaled up. They won't come out correctly. And when you see the water pattern coming out of a sink that's all wacky or weird, that's because of scale from the hardness of the water. So, I'm just looking for approval for the replacement project. Right now, I
070have two quotes that you guys have. I'm looking for a third. Um, and I I wish to uh at least get approval not to exceed $31,000. >> Okay. Um, is the the water hardness is that pretty common throughout the entire city or is that just Yeah, it is really. >> Yeah, I talked to Brian Loyce today. It's pretty common throughout Burlington. Depends on the source and how much they pump. Um, but yeah, it's pretty common throughout the whole city. >> Okay. Was this one of like the high need replace items when MC history came through? >> Well, yes and no. It's it was on the reveal platform as far as a need to replace, but then once it went down and it's not working, then it went a little higher on my list. So, yes,
071>> it's also going to replace this floor drain right here. It's in the same water room. It's it's extended up, so it's not actually a low point in the room. So that cost will also replace take up this concrete and replace the floor drain. And McKinstry had originally given um their quotes for the system and I think it was close to $40,000. Um so we're we're under what that uh price tag is or they expected the price tag to be. >> Excellent. Uh any additional comments, questions or concerns? >> I'm sorry. So, when we did the asset um >> hanging. >> Yes. When did Mckenry say that this needed to be replaced? >> I'm not quite sure. I'd have to look back on the system and get back to you on that. Um but once
072it did fail, I figured it should rise up. Yeah. >> Yeah. Nope. I understand. >> I do have uh I've been working on putting my budget together for for this cycle. um costs on things are coming in higher than I expected and some of the estimate costs from Mckin Street are higher. Um so I'm kind of trying to create my budget on those those numbers. So but with it failing it it needs to be bumped up. >> Yep. >> Okay. All right. Uh any public comment? I see none. All right. Uh with that then we're looking for a motion to approve the water software replacement project at a not to exceed cost of $31,000. >> Okay. Motion by Brown. Second. >> Seconded by Cobberneck. Ben, how do you wish to vote? >> Yes. >> Andrea?
073>> Yes. >> Paul? >> Yes. >> I vote yes. Marlo, >> yes. >> Kate is absent. Roseanne, >> yes. >> All right. Excellent. Motion passes. And next up is fire panel replacement at BHS. Director Warren will present the recommendation to replace the BHS fire panel which has been discontinued since 2014. So to avoid costly fire watches and emergency upgrades, this is definitely needed. So over to you. >> Again, this is uh this was installed when the building was built in 99. Um and the fire panel, if you guys don't know, it'll it'll announce and and basically evacuate the building. If a pull station is pulled for a fire, if there is smoke sensed in the building, it it helps to evacuate the building. It sets off the horns and strobes. So, this upgrade will bring
074us up to current codes, too. Even though we're not doing the entire system, we're just doing the panel upgrade. It'll bring us up to the current codes. So, we have the voice capability. On the new systems, you can pick up a handset, talk to the building, and normally they have like canned responses. So, in this building, when a fire alarm is is set off, it'll speak to you and tell you what's going on instead of just having the horns and strobes go off. So, this upgrade will will get us up to that new code and then we could always upgrade the system later. It kind of futureproofs any any new codes or anything we do moving forward. It also replaces nine of the knack panels. Um, the knack panel is a it's a uh notification
075application appliance circuit. So that is a booster. So there's nine knack panels in the building and each of these knack panels kind of covers a zone. So they activate the horns and strobes in those zones. So we had an issue when we did the servery upgrade or the servery project. One of these knack panels actually went down and we had to go on eBay and get the parts for the knack panel in order to replace it. So along with the the fire panel, I want to go with the replacement and knack panels >> with up to-date and stuff. >> Correct. Yep. Up to date will be able to do the speaker systems and the current code instead of just the horn strobes like we have now. >> So we don't have to go to eBay.
076>> Yes. >> Yeah, that'd be great. Um >> it's a good thing eBay exists. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> I mean, thank God it still exists, right? >> Yeah. Yeah. Um, just to recap on the the the voice over that is is I'm sorry, just to recap, is that on the panel or is that going to blur out uh verbiage throughout like the hallways like >> in the future if we replace the horn strobes, we can get speaker strobes which will then announce or tell you information. This is just the head end or the panel to be able to do that down the road. We would have to add new wiring and replace all the annunciation devices in order to upgrade to voice. >> Okay. >> But it is the next step if we do that.
077>> Okay. All right. Um >> and Jess, you want to explain why there's only one quote? >> Oh, I'm sorry. Yes. Um we work with um Johnson Controls and they're basically we have a simplex system and it's proprietary to one vendor. I can't go out to other vendors. They can't do the programming. They can't do any service for us because it's proprietary to this company. So, I can't go out to other other vendors for pricing. >> Okay. Any questions or comments from the board? All right. Any public comment? I see none. All right. Looking for a motion then to approve the replacement of the BHS fire panel quoted from Johnson Controls with a price not to exceed $37,667.80. Is there a motion? >> So moved. >> Motion by Han. Is there a second? >> Seconded
078by Puffer. Thank you. Uh Ben, how do you vote? >> Yes. >> Okay. Andrea, >> yes. >> Paul, >> yes. >> I vote yes. Marlo, >> yes. >> Kate is absent. Rosanne, >> yes. >> Right. Perfect. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you everybody. >> Thank you sir. >> Thank you uh to you and Dave both for your work. Appreciate it very much. Very lucky to have you. Uh next up is policy reading second readings for board approval. So policy committee chair Mr. Coburn will present the second readings. >> All right. So these first four um they were reviewed as our monthly review but there wasn't any changes. Um that's policy 3122.02 02 which is non-discrimination based on genetic information of the employee policy 3124 there was no changes that's employee contract um the next one is
079policy 3132 which is vacancies and the last one being 3210 which is staff ethics um the next three um were reviewed and they had changes uh as well policy 3131 which is reduction in staff it is just technical corrections. Uh policy 7510, use of district facilities. Basically, it requires a group or anyone requesting use of BASD facilities to be an approved requester and must also use the online registration system to make that request. >> And just for everyone's knowledge, this one was brought forward by uh our own staff, director um Becky Seal. I asked for us to make an adjustment to the policy so that it reads with in alignment with what we actually do. >> And then um the last one being policy 0167.3 which is public comment at board meetings. Um you've already
080kind of seen some of the changes that we've made even though it technically wasn't finished yet. Um >> just going to do it. So, the changes to the policy reflect uh our desire to make sure the community is heard. Uh these changes allow public comment at the beginning of the meeting on non-aggenda items as well as adding to the policy that community members are welcome to make comment on items for discussion and items for action. Um just allowing for a lot more input if people feel the need to do so. Then the next section is our Neil recommended ones that we reviewed. Um the big one here is uh 0100 which is definitions. Um we added the school support organizations um which is a topic of several policy administrative guideline revisions. Um, also we changed
081the policy to include gaming devices because a lot of them are able to communicate with each other through the gaming device. Um, also it goes with some of the changes that the government has made to act 42. Next one is orientation which is 0142.7. Um, it's just outlines the importance of preparing each board member so that we can serve effectively. um and make sound decisions. Also, it includes removing spec specific items that were covered at board meetings and adding YOLO recommendations of review of board responsibilities and committees as well as any technology related to board members roles. Uh and then we added the BASD board reference guide which was created this year and added that to the list as well because that covers a lot of topics that um not only policies but other items
082that allow us to do our job effectively. Um next one is board member behavior communications and code of conduct. Uh the revisions are including that communicating that individual board members other than the board president do not have the authority to act on complaints or investigations. Um so it's important because it establishes a clear chain of command and also ensures that complaints are handled through the proper channels. Uh this maintains consistency and fairness in the process. Um, additionally, the removal of a policy reference that we do not have was removed. Um, next. >> So, this one is just a good reminder and important. So, this is referring to anytime you get a complaint from anyone in the community and they say they want it investigated to make sure you let Taylor and I know and then
083we will assist with ensuring that we go through the investigation and get back to the person in regard to their complaint. So, it's more so not all board members should be engaging in in taking care of those complaints. It should go to the board president. Okay. So, just a good reminder if anyone has a complaint about the system and wants us to investigate, please uh make sure you let me know and let uh Taylor know. >> The next one is a board superintendent relationship which is 1210. Um the revisions focus on including the superintendent's authority to delegate duties to staff members um who are then accountable to the superintendent for their performance. And then also we hold the superintendent accountable for overall administration of the district. Um policy 1230.01 development of administration guidelines. Um, there
084was verbiage added to the policy that gives the superintendent the ability to consult with appropriate district leadership and stakeholder during the development of the guidelines when it's appropriate. 1240 evaluation of the superintendent. Um, the policy revision includes new options to allow the board to make decisions regarding the superintendent's contract renewal, determine their salary, and assess progress towards district district strategic goals. Next one is policy 2131.01 reading instructional goals and kindergarten assessment. Um so this includes new interventions that were required by uh act 20 for each qualifying student. The district administrator must create, provide and monitor a personal reading plan with interventions, share it with parents and notify them of progress after 10 weeks. So this was required by law um based on information provided by the state statute and the DPI policy 2261.01 01 parent
085and family engagement in title one programs. The revision provided to clarify the district between the policy and the parent and family engagement policy, but it's include it's important to to note that policy means plan in this case. um it's just kind of worded kind of differently, but think of a policy whenever they talk about it is the plan that is created to um serve these programs. Uh federal law also requires that the district conduct an annual evaluation of the content and effectiveness of the parent and family engagement policy slash plan. The board policy uses the term plan to assist in letting people know exactly what's going on. Uh, also the >> Go ahead. >> Are you still on that one? >> Yeah. >> Okay, go. >> Uh, the policy revisions are recommended by NEOA. >>
086Just so everyone is aware, since we're on title one, so title one relates to free and reduced uh, lunch status of students. So, our buildings uh, get we have a certain percentage of students that are free and reduced across the school district. And if we have a high enough percentage, then you become a title one school. So we get additional dollars from the federal government to assist with title funding. So three of our schools uh are all title schools. So it's Dyer, Waller, and Winkler uh are title funded schools. So they help assist with um funding our reading specialists mainly. So a lot of our reading specialists are completely funded through our dollars that we get from the federal government in relation to title funds. So just so you know what title one is. Okay.
087>> The next one is policy 4120 which is employment of support staff. Um verbiage was changed to add some clarity. Also the policy reflects changes that the superintendent approves support staff employment. Uh it's common for the superintendent to approve support staff and then the board approves certified staff and those with contracts. Policy 5112 is entrance age. Um policy revision includes clarif clarification of days school days and includes a new section on age verification and its adoption is recommended although the verification is not really verification. Yeah, that's that is interesting verification. Uh historically, I even thought we had to have a birth certificate uh for us to accept an age, but we can uh use verb just someone verbally telling us how old their child is can count as verification for their age. That's what the
088policy says. >> Or if another district has their >> information, we can accept that as well. Um, >> so >> go ahead. >> Would athletics be governed separately? I assume by the WIA question. >> We would have to look into that one, but right now I think it goes by basically grade level. Well, yeah, I would I would assume WIA would probably trump everything >> would step in if there was Yeah, usually if we're having an age verification, it's happening with the four or five year olds >> with a mustache. >> Policy 5135 student identification numbers and cards. This is a new policy. Um, it mandates that if students are issued an identification card, the student also receives a unique identification number distinct from their social security number, which keeps the privacy in order. Uh,
089the ID cards provide a critical resource for student well-being by including required contact information for suicide prevention and crisis support services on the cards. Also, items in the news policy are required by law to be followed but not to have in the policy. Next one is personal communication devices. Um, this is kind of like cell phones and different wearable watches. I mean, it's pretty much covers everything now. Um, the policy reision is a result of the Wisconsin Act 42. This requires the school board to adopt by July 1st, 2026 uh a policy that prohibits students from using their wireless communication devices during instructional time. Um each school board must define such a device as any portable wireless device capable of voice messaging or data communication. This includes cell phones, tablets, laptops, gaming devices, uh also
090smartwatches. Um policy must allow exceptions for emergencies, health management, and individualized education programs um or for teacher approved educational uses. Finally, the policy acknowledges that Wisconsin statute allows statute 120.12 um 29E allows school boards to adopt policies more restrictive. And I believe in our policy we aren't allowing teachers either to have educational uses with cell phones and stuff like that. >> Yep. So let I opened up the policy and just to clarify a few things with this so that you just know what the rules will be. Okay. So we did select opt option A once you get into the policy and it says students in preK through 8th grade can possess their PCDs, personal communication devices. on school property after school during after school activities um or as school-related functions, but then they must be
091powered off completely, not just placed on vibrate or silent mode and stored out of sight during the entire school day. So 4K through 8th grade, the only time the students can use them is after school um before school and after school at after school activities, but never during the day, not during lunch. um no time during the school day for uh pre-K through 8. When it comes to 9 through 12, same thing except 9 through 12 can use it at lunch. Okay? So, they'll be able to use it at lunch and then before school and after school, but never during um the day outside of that. Okay? Um we did want to uh cross out educational purposes towards the end but it is state statute that we cannot cross that section out. >> So as
092a policy committee we were trying to but you have to leave that section in. >> Okay. The next one is 5411 which is third grade promotion and retention at risk students. Uh this relates to act 20 and the revision includes a appeal process and timelines for appealing the decision to the superintendent. Policy 5514 which is use of personal transportation devices. Oh okay. Um, this was previously titled bicycles, but since we have to make everything more difficult to understand what it's covering, uh, we changed the name to personal transportation devices. But it also covers scooters, skateboards, and hoverboards and whether they're manual or motorized. Um, this established clear guidelines for the use on school property, focusing on safety and liability and the privilege of operation. Crucially, the policy uh disclaims board responsibility for damage, theft or
093accidents and the full risk and liability shifts to the students and their parents. >> Any questions on that one? Um, next one is students use and parking of motor vehicles. Uh, the revisions include students only being permitted to bring vehicles they own and have express permission to operate onto district property. Uh unauthorized vehicles are a violation may call the police and students may not enter a vehicle without consent of the either the student or the owner and school officials can search vehicles on district property in accordance with policy. The next one is purchasing which is 6320. The key policy revisions include reorganization of content as well as clarification of single vendor bids, requiring at least two price quotations on purchases more than $25,000 for a single item unless we are unable to do so because
094we are locked into a single vendor. >> We just saw tonight. >> All right. >> So that covers all of them. Any questions? >> Good job policy committee. Whenever we get all the no neola revisions, it's a lot of policies to go through. >> Andrew had the first taste of that. >> It was beautiful. >> Yes. Yes, it was. Um, thank you to you both for and Joe for uh that evening. So, it was long, but it was was worth it. Um, okay. Any any public comments? No. Okay. Looking for a motion then to approve the second reading of the policy changes as presented. Do I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Moved by Cobberneck, seconded by >> Andrea. Brewer, >> yes. I'll second. >> Very good. Thank you. Uh Ben, how do you
095wish to vote? >> Yes. >> Andrea? >> Yes. >> Okay. Very good. Paul, >> yes. >> I vote yes. Marlo, >> yes. >> Kate is absent. And Roseanne, >> yes. >> All right, perfect. All right, that concludes items for action this evening. So that's wonderful. Next up then is schoolboard committee updates. First up, we'll start with personnel. Mr. Brown. >> Wow. Um so the personnel committee >> I'm sorry. Got to keep you on your toes. >> Um first time chairing this committee. Um the personnel committee met on uh May 6th to go through resignations um and retirements that we approved in the consent agenda items earlier in the board meeting. >> Okay. >> Um >> yeah. So there you go. >> All right. Uh teaching and learning. Andrea, >> no updates. We didn't meet this
096month. >> Okay. Policy Paul. So, the big long list we just went through was covered um on May 7th and then we did our regular seven policies that we do to keep the district up to date and the 16 that were just uh talked about. >> All right, perfect. Uh finance, >> no updates. We do have a meeting scheduled for the 19th of May. >> Perfect. Uh bill in the grounds. Roseanne, >> nothing yet. >> Okay. Uh board government. Okay. Sorry. uh board governance, communications, and legislative. Um Kate, of course, is the chair of that, but she is gone, but I have some notes from her. Uh she just wanted to recap the board reorganization meeting. Uh the board held its April 27th uh reorganization meeting and workshop where Jill and Aaron presented the new
097board member guide book, which is very well done. So, thank you both for your work there. Be a great guide as uh future boards. Um take take a seat. Uh the guidebook was recognized as exceptionally well comprehensive and helpful for onboarding new members. The S SWSA meeting uh at the April 14th SWA meeting members participated in virtual workshop identifying topics. Wisconsin le leg legislators should be better should better understand. SWSA staff will review input and develop a plan to share this information with incumbent and newly elected legislators. I think that's really good. And then of course, newly announced today, which I'm sure most of you are hopefully aware of, uh the state um the governor and the um legislature were able to agree to uh the state budget surplus agreement. So that's good news hopefully
098for us. Uh just to recap, 50% some certain special education reimbursement. There's $300 million in there. 300 million in property tax relief through general school aids. 50 million in property tax relief for Wisconsin technical system. Eliminates income tax on cash on tips, cash tips, and overtime income, $850 million in individual tax rebates, which is $300 single and $600 joint. Upcoming legislative actions, uh the joint finance committee meeting will uh meet on May 12th to review this. Uh and hopefully the assembly and the senate will take action on May 13th. And then shortly after that, hopefully the governor, if not the same day, we'll sign that. Be great. And then of course, we will monitor what means for BASD as soon as we know more. Do we have any potential idea? >> I think it's better
099to kind of wait to see what it actually entails. Okay. >> Yep. >> Well, hopefully it's good. We'll see. It could just mean that we're going to get the dollars that they told us we were going to get in July last year because remember when special education aid some certain is confusing because it's actually not certain and some sufficient means it is certain. So it's like words that seem backwards. So some sufficient for special education was given to private schools. So that's guaranteed for private schools and it was some certain which means it's not guaranteed for public schools. So they were trending under what they said they were going to do. So this to me is just probably getting us to the number they said they were going to give us back in July. >>
100Okay. is my is what I'm guessing is going to happen. >> Okay. >> We'll see. We'll see. >> Yeah. Oh, hopefully there's some development. >> More dollars is good dollars. >> Not complaining. Just wanting everybody to know when you hear like so much more money for special ed, it probably isn't. It's probably just getting us to what we were supposed to get um all year. >> Okay. Thank you. All right. Next up is new meeting. I'm sorry, next meeting dates. uh SWSA monthly meeting is May 14th. That's uh 7:30 a.m. That's virtual. Of course, any board member may attend that and Aaron sends that invite out or she can resend that out if you'd like to attend. Uh finance committee, as Ben mentioned, Tuesday is May 19th at 5:30. We'll be here in this room
101at district office. Policy committee is Thursday, May 21st at 5:30. Again, here at district office. personnel is Wednesday, June 3rd at 1 p.m. That's virtual. Our next monthly board meeting is June 8th at 6:30 here in this room at district office. And then we have a finance workshop on Monday, June 15th at 6 p.m. also here at district office. All right. And then we also have another item for discussion um which is going to be an offer to purchase Lion Center. So, do you have anything to add to that before we go and close session? >> Yep. So, it's just important to give a little background in regard to this. So, as you know, when we failed the operational referendum two referendums ago, um, part of that was to reduce our buildings down and we
102closed Lions Elementary and redistricted. Ever since then, Lions has been sitting vacant. From our perspective, it is a 26,000 ft² building sitting on 7 acres um in the town of Lions and it is for sale, but we do not have a broker because we have been wanting to as a board and school district to try to sell it without a broker to save us on fee costs. Okay. So, we have had a couple people interested and just last week were given an offer to purchase. So, um, my suggestion is for us to move into close session in order for us to talk about the terms of the contract and offer and, um, any negotiation strategies the board would like to utilize. >> Okay. All right. With that, then I will move that we convene into
103close session for Wisconsin statute 19.851E 851E regarding deliber deliberation or negotiation negot I can't speak or negotiating the purchase of public properties the investing of public funds or conducting other specified public business whether competitive or bargaining reasons required a close session specifically to discuss the terms of the offer to purchase the Lion Center and to take action if appropriate regarding responding to the offer of purchase. Is there a second? >> Seconded by Brown. All those in favor say I. >> I. We are in close session. Thank you everybody. And then I did ask uh yeah, I think Tyler should stay and also