001All right. The time now being 6:30 p.m., I'm going to bring our August 25th, 2025 annual meeting to order. So, if we could stand up and recite the pledge, please 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. Um, next up on the agenda is election of a chairperson. So with that, I am looking for any nominations for chairperson. I'll nominate Taylor Wishaw as chairperson. Okay. Second. All right. Is there anyone else? Okay. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. Thank you. Next up is review of the ground rules. Um these are referenced in Wisconsin statutes 6.02. 02 0305 10 and 120.08 08 section 3 elector eligibility. Any district resident aged
00218 years or older may vote. Speaker protocol sign in before the meeting. You have three minutes. Only qualified electors and property owners may address the assembly. Challenges. Challenged voters must affirm eligibility under oath or affirmation to participate. Vote counting. Tellers appointed by the clerk which would be Mr. Coberneck report sectional tallies. Clerk totals affirmative and negative votes. Chairman announces the final results. Procedures. Robert's rules of order. Govern debate and motions. Legal counsel. District attorneys. I'm sorry. Our district's legal counsel is available for consultation before, during, and after the meeting. Voting methods. We can either do hand voice standing votes for procedural motions. Paper ballots are required though for original motions to approve a formal tax levy. Um, okay. Next up then is superintendent report. So we'll turn it over to Jill to talk about the
003district's mission, values, vision, and strategic plan. Yep. So normally uh his historically I at least in the last two years would be the superintendent. During the superintendent report, I would go over a lot of highlights from the 2425 school year, but I'm going to refrain from doing that since every board meeting I go over what has been the highlights in the last month. Right. So, I feel like you've gotten a lot of what has already been the highlights for 2425. So, I'm going to um not do that this evening and focus more on our mission, vision, values, and our strategic plan um for the superintendent report for today. Now, bear with me because what my screen is showing is not what is up there on the screen. Um so, okay. So, the first thing um
004that I wanted to review is in relation to our mission, vision, and values. And as you know, the vision statement and the mission and the three core values is something that has been in the district for a long time. The compassionate uh committed and comprehensive are all things that we have had longstanding um for years in the school district. Our vision statement also we were able to really craft and put into place when we developed our strategic plan starting in 2024 through 2029. So our fiveyear strategic plan. So that's been in place as well. The one that I want to focus u most of our attention on is in relation for our vision or our mission statement. So our mission statement um is kind of more so coming to light based on all of the
005be a good human uh focus that we're been doing. and also with the BBLC. So the building Burlington Leadership Council and that encompasses Shear Lynch, Arda, Nestle's, Miller Motors, uh Reeseman's, the city, the town, um everybody together and really uh Mayor John Schultz really coined the term uh be a good human as something that we really need to focus on and that we want to focus on as a community here in Burlington. it really aligns to our strategic plan because of the desire within our community pillar for everyone to have more of a shared responsibility. So if you as you recall that that being part of our community pillar um it's really great to see such a backing behind this from everyone in our community. So we thought the best way to coin the mission
006statement for the system would be to have something in relation to what the city, the town and all the large businesses are also wanting to rally behind in order to support the school district and mentoring of of our youth. So inspiring good humans and capable minds together was what was developed and came up with for the mission statement. So that is something that is newer. um and something you probably have not seen before, but just wanted to kind of go over that with you. And then um the next slide, now it's going to jump around for me. Um the next slide here is the vision statement. Um, and the vision statement is one that has again been in place for for a substantial time. And it really focuses on us wanting to ensure that every
007student is confident and career ready. Um, and that every staff member feels valued, heard, and inspired. That we focus on the achievement and character with students. And that the community shares in that responsibility. and that at the end of the day students really are going to become human beings that positively impact the world. Um so that has been our uh vision statement and then when it comes to our core values the first one being compassionate like everything that we do we really focus on ensuring that we lead with compassion so that everyone can thrive. So that's whether it be students, parents, staff, community members that we're we really pause and think are we leading first with compassion um in in everything that we do. Then the second one is in relation to um committed. So
008we are committed to um growth, responsibility and student success first and foremost. And then the last one is being comprehensive. And the comprehensive piece is one where we really focus on ensuring that we are making a super robust system that is ca for K12 students. Right? So we don't just think about the traditional setting, but we're also thinking about how do we meet the needs of all students. That's where the programming comes into play. So that's where we think about the pack house um project win F FRC Wisco as an option. Right? really thinking about how do we make sure that we're um being more comprehensive for all students. This would also play into that desire to move into a birthto three daycare so that over time that is another comprehensive approach to serve the
009community. So always leading with our decisions from a comprehensive place. So again hitting on our mission, vision and core values um for the system. Then I'd like to just kind of review the strategic plan that uh the board set in place starting in 2024. And that was in relation to these four pillars. So students, staff, finance, and community. And as you recall, we had lots of focus groups come into play with this, parents, students, staff, community members um in order to come up with our strategic plan. And with that the uh we developed five comm community student goals sorry these are the student goals that we have in place for 2029. So one is in relation to English language arts and improving the overall proficient advanced scores there um for grades three through eight. And
010then the second one is improving math for an exam for grades through eight. The third one is in relation to improving our ACT composite score at the high school. The fourth is uh ensuring that all students are aligned to a career path by the time they graduate from high school with a goal of 90% of students aligning. And then the last is to elevate student experience from the 30th to the 90th percentile which is nationally normed using a stutter survey as we use stutter for our strategic plan. So those are the five goals by 2029. I wanted to show you what our goals are for just the 2526 school year. So and and I just bolded um the change in uh point value if you will when it the data component for those five. So
011the first one is to increase from a 60.7 to a 64.7 on the forward exam for grades 3 through 8 when it comes to ELA. Um, and if you notice, this already surpasses what our 2029 goal was. The state did make adjustments. Remember, this was from last year. They adjusted the forward exam um and and lowered what the proficiency score had to be. Now, people had questioned that they changed the assessment. They did not change the assessment. The rigor is still the same as it was before. It's just when you look at the NAPE scores across the nation, Wisconsin was second or third from the top in ELA or math in regard to expectations on what cut score you had to receive in order to be considered proficient or advanced. Remember this, we kind of
012went over this before. So, what Wisconsin did was just lowered that cut score of what proficiency and in advance has to be. Didn't change the test. rigor still is difficult but to be more in alignment with what other states are expecting. Okay. So if for for example Illinois expects a 560 is proficient. We were expecting a 580 to be proficient. Okay. So they're saying hey why are we saying proficiency is 580 but Illinois is saying proficiency is a 560 when most states were in that 560 range. didn't change the assessment, just brought the cut scores down to align with other states a little bit more. Okay, so that's why you'll see that we already surpassed that um goal. Then in number two there is to go from a 58% to a 64% in grades 3
013through 8 for math when it comes to the for exam. Same thing there. And then goal three is to improve from a 24 20.4 to a 20.6 six on the ACT composite. Again, really working to get to that 21 as by year 2029. And then in order to get to the 90% of seniors uh reaching their career path goals, we wanted to start Amy and her team at the high school are really focusing on starting with the underclassmen and ensuring that if we can get 80% underassmen this year aligned to a career path, then the goal would be by the time students become seniors, they would understand and be aligned to a career path. Does that make sense? So they're working on that from starting with the underclassmen. And then the last goal is to
014elevate our student experience again on that sutor survey. So last fall we were a 3.76 and we want to get to a 3.86 this fall with that survey. So hopefully we hit that. But these are our goals for the 25 26 square when it comes to the student pillar. Then when it comes to the staff goals, um these are I apologize the screen is not lining up with what my computer is doing. Okay, so these are the three staff goals um for 2029. So, our 5-year goal was to increase from a 82% to a 90% retention rate for all staff and then to elevate staff satisfaction as well um staff satisfaction from a the 25th percentile to the 80th percentile. Um and then you guys as a board wanted to add the third uh goal
015there for staff was to ensure highest possible quality staff for our students. So again, we kind of we really use our evaluative system in order to ensure that we're doing that and that we're really holding um firm to ensuring that we only hire and continue to retain quality staff. So appreciate that you guys care about that one. So as we think about the 25 26 goals for staff, the first one is to increase then from 83.9% to 85.4%. Again, this is trending towards getting those goals for 2029. And then elevator stata satisfaction from a 3.92 to a 4.02. So, we had a good jump from two years ago to last year. So, hopefully we have another good jump um with our employee engagement survey again. All three of the surveys are taken in October. Okay.
016So, we'll be able to see that data then for students, staff, and parents. And then uh that third one again is with our evaluative tools that we use to ensure high highest uh quality staff that we can for our students. And then when it comes to our finance goal, we have two goals. The first is to establish a 20% um general fund balance by the year 2029. Um, and if you remember, the reason for 20 is because that way hopefully we would not have to short-term borrow throughout the school year for any of our um, payments for um, staff salaries, things like that. And then the second one uh, is in relation to being able to have all BSD schools or departments uh, assess and monitor our budgets so that we always are aligned to
017the strategic plan. Right? So, how are we ensuring that all of our dollars are really geared toward accomplishing this strategic plan? So, when I think about that for the 2526 school year, we want to try to establish by the end of this school year an 18% general fund balance. And then we also are working towards that alignment of resource allocation for all of our um departments and um schools. So Ruth and I and Bridget have been spending time talking with other school districts about how they go about doing this. It's been pretty interesting to see how um districts go about aligning their their dollars. But ultimately at the end of the day, I'd love to be to a point where we know that Waller should cost us $2.5 million. So if we're above that, like
018why is that right? And if we're below that, why is that? Um so that we uh can see the smoke signals in in regard to where are we maybe under spending or overspending to make sure that we bring those back into alignment. And then the last one is our community goals. So the community goals, we have four of them. The first one is to elevate parent perception from the 30th to the 70th percentile. Again, this is in alignment to that stutter survey that will be taken in October. Um, it it'll take a second here to catch up. Um, then establish a minimum of 20 innovative community and business partnerships by the year 2029. We are well on our way for this, especially with the development of the BBLC, the Building Burlington Leadership Council. And then
019the third one is to increase our community and family engagement to share responsibility. That's where we really feel like the be a good human is going to come into play. And then the last one is the student headcount and increasing our headcount by 7% um in by 2029. So our goals for the 2526 school year is to elevate our parent perception from a 4.04 to a 4.09, 09 establish another four innovative partnerships develop and implement one strategy to uh engage the community and families and then increase our overall headcount by 0.4. So we actually decreased our headcount last year. So, we didn't want to be too ambitious with this one. Um, and really wanted to increase by um and and try to be in the positive in the green when it comes to our headcount
020and go in the positive direction. So, our goal is to increase by that point. 04 this school year. So, those are our strategic plan goals for 2526. I did put in front of you a document that I thought would be helpful in relation to what is our mission, vision, values, and then our strategic plan for 2429, right? So that you always know where we're trying to go um and how we're moving forward. Some of you have asked me for something like this in the past, so just wanted to provide that for you this evening. Um, and then last but not least, just when it comes to those community goals, I really wanted to circle back to the be a good human campaign. So, um, with the be a good human campaign, as you know, it
021stemmed from the BBLC, right? And initially the BBLC was like, K12, you need to do this, you need to do that. We we're having a hard time with our employee employer employees coming in. Um, they want to be on their phones. They're not looking us in the eye. they're coming into work late. Like this is on UK K12 and you need to fix this, right? And I said, "Hold on a minute." Like this needs to be some shared responsibility here. This it takes a village to raise a child and it's not just our responsibility to h create strong employees, right? So the community worked together, which was really cool to see actually. And it was the city, the town, and then those large businesses I had mentioned that came up with these five uh traits
022or these skills that they really feel are important and they really want to coin as the things that they believe in as being really important in the community. Mayor John Schultz came up with that phrase. I think it's important to simply be a good human. So that's where the phrase had um came from is that BBLC group and that really the goal is to get as many businesses as possible to want to support this campaign which means that they too will will see the value in the importance of being prepared, being respectful, being logical, being involved, and being resilient. What was also neat was Dave KTZ. he was uh he helps with softball leagues in in town and he said he's already used this with those groups there because of how um people are approaching
023him, the adults are approaching him in that kind of a system. So they have appreciated it because it simply is giving common language across the community, right, of what are we really trying to work on? um and in a bit of a polarized um time frame right now politically even. It doesn't matter what side anybody's on, right? We need to treat each other with respect. It's okay to disagree, but we we can be respectful in the process of that. So, um it was really neat to see the the town community, um businesses and the the city really come together on this in support of the school districts and wanting to really elevate this within our systems because I shared if they really want us to hold students more accountable. So say if we're attendance and
024being on time like we need support from the community on that because otherwise families will say well just BASD wants us. No the whole community expects students to be prepared and on time. This isn't just a BASD thing. This is a Burlington community expectation. So that's where the be a good human really came from um and will be rolled out here uh across the community. myself, Karina Walters, and MT Bole just talked at the city council last week about it. Um, it's been talked about at the Rotary already. Um, and it's and in the businesses are um supporting it for sure. So, just wanting uh to just circle back to that because you'll continue to hear more and more about this um and hopefully see it really spark and take off within the community. MT
025even said that we're seeing county as as a whole. Ralph Maliki has said, can this be a countywide thing? Um, so that's interesting to me too, that there is a desire to focus on these traits um and kind of get back to basics, if you will, of how we treat each other. Teachers will have these in all of their classrooms across the school district. And then we also have t-shirts for them, too, that have the logo that's on the right and then our logos on the back. um for all staff. You'll notice that it's not the school colors because the colors that are being used here is the city's colors. So that it's um kind of owned by the community and not owned by BASD, if that makes sense. And that's the conclusion of the
026superintendent report. Any questions? Okay. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Jill. Uh, next up is the approval of the 2024 annual meeting minutes. So, I'm looking for a motion to approve last year's annual meeting minutes as presented. So moved. Second. All right. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. All right. Next up, we have the treasurer's report, which director Shenning will be presenting the 2024 2025 financial report in Treasurer Turk's absence. Okay, good evening. Um, so the treasures report um is in the booklet on page six and the treasures report focuses on the year that we just finished. Um so nice Jill and I are tag teaming on the slide uh advancement here. So um so for the balance sheet portion um we have assets which are things that we either currently own or
027have a right to own in the near future. So, it includes cash um in our bank account, but for example, um we don't receive our final tax payment from the 2425 school year until August after the school year's ended. Um so, we have a right to receive it at June 30th, but we haven't yet. So, total assets as of June 30th, 2025 are 13,875,13. Um then the other side of this of the balance sheet um the first section is liabilities. So items that we owe to other uh vendors or parties at the end of June 30th. So that total is 5,993,765. Um then the difference between the assets and the liabilities is uh fund balance. So fund balance is not cash. Cash is a part of it. Um but that ending balance is 7,881,248. Um
028then the next part of the uh treasures report is the income statement. Um again we're looking at the 2425 column. So revenues for the year were 44,631,949. Total expenditures were $44,147,443 because the revenues were slightly higher. This year we will increase our fund balance. So another way to think of fund balance is the accumulation every year of the difference between revenues and expenditures. So you see that the ending balance here is the 7.8 million that is the same number that was on the balance sheet side. Okay, any questions? Otherwise, that does conclude the treasures report. Excellent. Okay, thank you Ruth. Uh, next up is the presentation of the 2025 2026 budget. And again, we'll just kick it back over to Ruth. And again, just as a reminder, final approval of this of this budget is
029scheduled for October. Correct. Thank you. So now the budget uh portion will focus on the current year, the 2526 school year. Uh pages seven and eight in your booklet. Um so all schools in Wisconsin have to follow what's called fund accounting. Um so there's um different funds that we have to each one has like its own separate set of books that we keep and each one is uh identified with a certain purpose. So the general rule is you can't cross funds with revenues and expenditures. So for example, fund 50 is our uh food service fund where we account for breakfast and lunch sales. If there's any extra uh revenues or fund balance in there, we cannot use that for our fund 10 budget for instructional purposes. It has to stay in food service. Okay. Um
030so we'll just go through each of these briefly. Uh the first two are fund 10, the general fund, and fund 27, special education. We will talk about these together because that's pretty much what you think of when you think of a school. It's the instruction, the buildings, the transportation, all of that. Um so for 2526, that combined total is 53,268,548. Um then from this uh big pie chart here, the two main components uh of our revenue limit are the state general aid and our local property tax levy. So that makes up about 81%. Um if we kind of keep going around, there is some state per pupil aid that is outside of the revenue limit as another 4% and the special ed aid is 5%. So about 90% of that is of our revenues are
031determined by state statute. Okay. Um we only get about 3% from federal federal aid and then there's everything else is um like student fees, athletic fees, interest, earnings, building use, that type of thing. Okay. Um on the expenditure side then still combined talking about general fund and special education fund that total is 51,684,431. As you can imagine the biggest portion here is our salary and benefits about 69%. Um 15% is tuition. So that includes open enrollments out, but it also includes um the private school vouchers as well as courses um where students get credit for uh both high school and college. So it could be either taught here, they're at a tech school or at a college. Uh we have another 5% is transportation, pupil transportation. 2% is material and supplies. Uh both classroom and
032custodial or operating. And then we have the 9% is all other um could be utilities, building maintenance, liability insurance, technology, all those types of things. Okay. Um we have uh some smaller funds here. We'll just kind of talk about quickly on uh this next slide. Fund 21 is special revenue. That accounts for monies that are either uh donated or raised for a a particular purpose. It includes like the student club accounts. Um but it also um can include things like the ARDog grant for project lead the way. So where it crosses years, it's a a monies that are received one year but could be spent in future years as well. So that one kind of crosses years is where we account for that. Uh food service is just what it sounds like. The um breakfast
033and lunch sales. We do participate in the federal lunch and breakfast program. So we do get about twothirds of the revenue from uh the federal government this year anyway. Um and that fund it is self-sufficient does not rely on any transfers from general funds from no local taxpayer dollars. Fund 80 is community service. So that includes our community ed program. So those are the educational and recreational programs outside of the school day uh available to all ages. I mean depending on what class it is. Um but we're also will be we'll be slowly expanding this fund um to include some community services. Um for example, we are being asked this year to help um pay for a portion of our school resource officer. Um so that we will put in here because that's really a
034um service to the community. Um so that's an example of um how we might expand that one. Um, as far as capital projects, we currently only have one. It's called uh fund 46, a long-term capital improvement fund. It was established in June of 2022. It does have a five-year waiting period before we can spend it. So, the earliest would be the 2728 school year. And the idea of this fund is that we um put in monies every a little bit every year over that five-year period to build up a uh balance to help fund a a larger uh building improvement project like when you might not be able to fund all in one year, but you can build up um to help fund that in a future year. That fund currently has about $110,000 in
035it. So, not as much as we hoped because of uh how our uh finances have been, but we'll keep at it. Okay, next please. Um and then we have two debt service funds. There are two types. One, uh fund 38 has is nonreferendum debt, so it has not gone to through an election process. We currently only have one loan remaining there for the Gateway Technical College uh one of those buildings um with a current balance of 295,000 and the final payment is due in the spring of 2029. Then the other one we have is our fund 39 referendum approved debt. So that was from the 2018 referendum where we built Kcher and did all the uh building improvements, safety, security improvements at each of the buildings. Okay. We only have one loan there for 18
036million 750,000. That final payment is due in 2034. Um that is five years sooner than the original because the last uh let's see five years we've been uh levying extra to prepay some of that debt. Um so that saved us over $6 million in interest cost plus we were able to shorten that loan final payment. Next one. It's lagging I swear. Okay. Sorry, I'm pushing the button. It's It's just lagging. And if I do it again, it'll skip twice. I get it. Um, so now we'll turn toward the actual uh tax uh levy and then we'll start with the mill rate. So this is on page nine in your booklet. So the mill rate is what's used to determine your individual tax bill. It's uh applied to each $,000 of property value. So for um
0372526 um what we know right now is it's projected to be like $6.85. So on a $100,000 home that would be $685 and then just do the math in increments of 100 from there. Um it does include the operating referendum. So, if you're looking at the color um for 2526, the teal portion is the operating referendum is replacing the purple what we've been doing extra for prepaying the debt. So, we're just replacing it, but kind of you can see that trend line is has been going down, but now it's been steady for those last couple years. So, that's kind of been that goal is to keep that mill rate steady. Um, so up 8 cents from 24.25, but still lower than it was two years ago. Okay. Uh, so then if we look at the
038actual tax levy um that you'll be asked to be voting on shortly here tonight, the proposed levy is 26,283,541. Um that's an increase of 1.18%. Um it does include uh assuming we're living to the maximum. Again it includes the operating referendum replacing debt defeas and so no more pre paying the debt. Um one little comment. Um if you following the state bianial budget um the state for this year and next school year did not give us any property tax relief through the general state aid. Um so this will be slightly different in October but we're not going to know what that is until October. So um we will do our best to keep it as close to this as we can but this is what we know right now. Okay. Um so this levy we
039believe supports the mission vision values as well as the strategic plan that uh Dr. Joe talked about earlier. So any questions? Okay. So that does conclude the budget presentation. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you, Ruth. Uh, okay. Next up is we're going to go into the budget hearing portion of the meeting. So, anyone wishing to have public comment on the budget, you'll have three minutes. Doesn't look like we have anybody. Uh, okay. Uh, next up then we will go to resolutions and voting. So, first item up is resolution A, which is the adoption of the tax levy. Uh, clerk Paul Cobberneck is to read the resolution and then we will vote by paper ballot. Those who are eligible to vote will vote by paper ballot. Be it hereby resolved by the electors of the Burlington Area
040School District that the sum of 26,283,541 be raised by direct tax on the property of the district for general school purposes of the ensuing year. Okay. And everybody who is eligible to vote has a yellow ballot in front of them, please vote now. Okay, next up is resolution B, which is board member salaries. So, we will have board member Noah Strumm to read the resolution, which is actually going to propose a $3,000 a year salary for each board member, which will be paid out over the course of 12 months. Our current policy and actually has been the policy for many many years is policy 0144.1 board members serve without pay. Um Jill Nora did some digging from a statewide context. Only 20 districts remain unpaid while the majority compensate their board members. I thought this
041was an appropriate time to bring this up um given the amount of time and investment that members of this board make to this district and this community. Um we settled on the $3,000 number because that was about average across the state and we felt that was appropriate given the size of our school district. So now we'll go on to voting. So please vote how you wish. I'm sorry. No one needs to read the resolution. I apologize. Um, be it hereby resolved by the electors of Burlington Area School District that the salary of BASD school board members be set at $3,000 for the 25 202526 school year. Okay. Now, please vote. Thank you. Okay. Next up is resolution C, which is reimbursement of board members expenses. Uh board member Kate Johnson is to read the resolution
042which is reimbursing expenses for approved professional development. Kate, be it hereby resolved by the electors of the Burlington Area School District that the members of the board of education be reimbursed for expenses incurred in the performance of the board member duties or in the performance of functions authorized by the board and duly vouchered. Okay, please vote. Did we comment on any of these or not? Do we make any comment on this or do we just vote? I'm I think we're just going to vote. So, uh, okay. Resolution D, 2026 annual meeting date. Uh, Vice President Marlo Brown is to read the resolution to set the date, time, and location for the 2026 annual meeting. Uh the date I would like to propose is tenatively propose is August 24th, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. of course here
043at the district office. Does anyone have any objections to the proposed date? Okay. Uh Mr. Vice President, please read the resolution. Be it hereby resolved by the electors of the Burlington Area School District that the members of the board of education be authorized to set the date the date, time, and location of the 2026 annual meeting being August 24th, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. here at the district office. Okay. Uh please vote yes or no if you agree with the proposed date. Okay. Um, next up is motion to adjurnn. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? I'm sorry. Thank you. Yes. I'm very sorry. Uh, the clerk will go ahead and collect the ballots and Nora and the clerk will tally the votes up and then I will read the results. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Go
044ahead. I would. Okay. So, for resolution A, there was nine votes and all votes were yes. For resolution B, there was nine votes, eight for yes, one no. For resolution C, nine votes, all were yes. And resolution D, nine votes, all were yes. Okay. Thank you very much. Okay. Now I'll call for a motion to adjourn the annual meeting. So moved. Okay. Is there a second? Second. Okay. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. All right. Thank you for coming to this portion of uh this meeting. But we're going to go ahead and jump right into our next special board meeting. So, I'm going to go ahead and call uh the meeting to order at 7:16 p.m. And I'm going to do the roll call. Kate, are you here? Yes. Rosanne, here. Paul, yes.
045Taylor, I'm here. Uh Marlo, here. Noah, here. And Peter is absent. Okay. Next up is items for action, which we'll be doing roll call votes for both of these. Uh first item is uh Burlington High School the ASSE international exchange student enrollment request. So would that be Amy or Jill? Yeah, I'll just um take this one. So, we had a request for an international student to join the high school from Labia. Uh, and they are already placed with the family and are just eager to be able to start within the school district from the ASSE international student exchange program. So, just looking for a motion to approve the acceptance of an additional student exchange student from Latvia. I have a question on that. First of all, have we had people from the ASSE before, students
046before? Yes. So Amy just had shared this is a program that we've utilized before. Good question, Rosanne. Mhm. Okay. Does anyone have any other comments um or questions? Okay, then I'm looking for a motion to approve. So moved. There second. Okay, we'll do roll call vote. Kate I Rosanne I Paul I I vote yes. Marlo I Noah I right and Mr. Turk is absent. All right. Next up is um an update to the schoolboard policy that we actually just voted on. Um 0144.01 which is compensation. Jill has an update to the policy. Um, I will just make a little side comment here. Since the voting public or those in attendance that voted voted to approve board member compensation at the annual meeting just a few minutes ago, um, this policy will be updated to reflect
047that change, which it already is. Um, do you want to make a comment before I go to my next portion? Uh, the only adjustment that you'll see when you look at this policy is within the first sentence there. It says as approved by the electors at the annual meeting, board members shall serve without pay is what it used to say and seeing as the vote was 8 yes 1 no to change that. Um do feel it is important to change board policy to align with what we're doing. Therefore that sentence should read as approved by the electors at the annual meeting board members shall serve with pay. So it is just simply changing from without to with. Okay. Um, okay. So, I'm actually going to look for a motion to suspend the rules and request
048a first and second reading of the policy tonight pursuant to our policy 0131.1 bylaws and policies, which bylaws and policies may be suspended by a majority vote of those present in voting. Put simply, if the board votes to suspend the rules this evening, we'll be able to adopt the amended policy as presented. So, I will look for a motion. So, we're going to have two votes. The first vote is uh motion to suspend the rules to approve this for first and second reading tonight. Do I have a motion? So moved. Okay. Is there a second? Second. All right. We'll do a roll call vote. Um Kate, how do you vote? I. Okay. Roseanne, yes. Okay. Yes. Well, call. Thanks. I vote yes. Marlo, I. Noah, I. And Mr. Turk is absent. Okay. Next up, we
049will do a vote for the first and second reading and to approve the policy tonight as amended. Um, Kate, how do you vote? We need a motion first. I'm sorry. Thank you. What is wrong with me tonight? Um, looking for a motion first, please. So moved. Second. All right, Kate, how do you vote? Yes. Okay, Rosanne, yes. Paul, yes. I vote yes. Marlo, yes. Noah, I. Okay. And Mr. Turk is absent. All right. Future meeting dates. Personnel committee meets September 3rd at 1 p.m. which is close session. Schoolboard meeting, our annual I'm sorry, our next monthly meeting is September 8th at 6:30. The SWSA membership meeting is September 9th at 7:30 a.m. That's virtual. Of course, that's open to anybody who wishes to attend on the board. Nora will send out the link for folks.
050Um, finance committee meeting is September 15th at 5:30 p.m. and then board governance and communications is September 16th at 5:15 p.m. Okay, with that look for a motion to adjourn. So moved. Thank you. Second. All right. All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. We are adjourned. Thank you so much. All right. Um, since the motion