001tonight on such a gorgeous night outside. So, we're going to go ahead and start the meeting at 6:31 p.m. Uh, if you could join me in the pledge of allegiance, please. 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. Uh, next up will be roll call. Norah Kate here. Rosanne here. Paul here. Taylor here. Marlo here. Peter here. Noah here. Thank you. Okay, everybody is here. Uh, next up is citizen comments. Citizen comments are three minutes to address the board. Is there any citizen comments tonight? Okay. All right. Next up is reports. First one is board member reports on workshops or meetings attended. Does anybody have anything? Okay. Uh next
002up is superintendent report. [Music] This is probably going to be the shortest one of the year. It's perfect. Which is perfect, but it kind of means that school the school year is not going on as much. So there's not quite as much going on per building. Um, but there's still some awesome things happening this summer. Should be queuing up here. Okay, so um our second annual camp invention in Burlington was a hit. We had 38 campers this year who experienced the world of STEM in a full week um at Carter. From building claw machines to launching penguins, kids had a fantastic week. Um, not real penguins, everybody, just so you know. In community education department, they is off to an amazing start this summer. They've seen a really strong participation across a wide variety of
003classes and camps with several new classes becoming some favorites. popular new classes. Two of them, the most successful classes being quilting for beginners, an intro intro to fishing camp. I believe that's with Trent Ton, right Becky? Trent Tan's doing the intro to fishing camp. I'm sure he does a fabulous job with that. And for the first time, we also offered the healthy kids on the run series. It's a program that combines fitness and fun for younger children. Additionally, oop, additionally, the music theater classes led by Paula Line have been incredibly popular this summer with waiting lists for all the sessions. Students spend the week learning music, acting, and choreography. And each session concludes with a Friday performance for family and friends. The summer wreck program is for ages 5 through 12 and is thriving with
004record enrollment numbers. This summer has been filled with hot days, high energy, and an amazing team of 20 staff members who keep things running really smoothly. Thanks to Becky Sagal. In addition to supervising the summer rec children, the staff is also responsible for instructing soccer, volleyball, baseball, basketball, dance, arts and crafts, and archery. Additionally, um we had our summer school fiveweek summer school program that served over 250 students through 4K through 12th grade, offering a range of engaging and appropriate learning activities. Students in 4K through 8th grade participated in in activities focused on ELA and math, blending academic support with hands-on learning. High school students were uh taking uh access to credit recovery classes for and then also four credit courses of physical education, health, and consumer economics which allows them to open up their
005schedule and stay on track or get ahead at BHS. Overall, the 25 program has been successful and has really supported the academic growth and provided a positive summer experience for all the students that have been involved. And then just with a couple of our um departments, our buildings and grounds over the past several weeks have really been hard working really hard preparing our buildings for the upcoming school year, even through stretches of 94 degree heat and heavy humidity. And remember, none of our buildings have air conditioning except Carter. So that can be pretty hot. Despite the conditions, they have stayed really focused and take a lot of pride in getting things done right. Waller and Cooper Monasuri summer cleaning has been complete. Winkler and BHS construction projects are underway. And just as a reminder of
006what those construction projects are at Winkler, we're converting a couple of closets into learning spaces as we need a few more spots for reading specialists, math specialists, things like that to go. So, we're take um overhauling some of the closet space there. And at BHS, we are taking the um the entire uh reception area that's out at Lions since we have closed that building and we're repurposing the materials from the office over to BHS's main office so that BHS looks updated just like the rest of our buildings do. So when you go into the main office at BHS coming this fall, it will look like the rest of our buildings main offices do. the wood behind you, we still have extras from Carter's uh building product and that wood will be used over at the
007high school as well um behind uh the secretar's desk. So all the materials pretty much are being um repurposed throughout the district but we'll give a facelift to the high school and then um additionally after that they're also underway with dire and BHS cleanings. So that's what our buildings and grounds has been working on. uh health services. You've also um noticed or will notice in our donations that we did get a large donation when it comes to Narcan for the school district. Our health services team has been working hard advancing student safety and improving efficiency as they're developing a Narcan training program and related policies while coordinating with buildings and grounds to install the donated Narcan boxes. Um, they've also submitted all the required state reports and finalized their year-end uh report for the board
008which you'll hear about in August. Uh, they're also integrating health forms into parent square which is our new communication system in order to streamline processes for families and for staff. Um, and you'll notice again in the donations, the Narcan boxes, there is 17 boxes that look like that that have been donated to this school district from a gentleman named George Moore I um who is uh passionate about this as he has had a family member overdose um in his in in the past and really is passionate about providing these to school districts. And then also uh Rine County donated 200 Narcan boxes for us to be able to use as well. So those will be installed across the district. And then when it comes to teaching and learning, um teaching and learning has been working
009hard on preparing for the upcoming school year. Here's a few big um ticket items they've been doing. organizing and or or during curriculum materials, preparing for inservice and upcoming professional development, developing walkthrough look fors and upcoming teaching and learning team resources. Also talking with private schools about title funding FYI, that's kind of on a hold right now from the federal level. So we're not sure uh if title funding will come through or not. Um that is something that has been paused at the federal level. Um then and then also preparing for the upcoming curriculum review cycles. Additionally, multiple teams of teachers have come together this summer to strengthen curricular goals for the upcoming school year. K through five teachers um have come together for implementation of amplify CKLA. K through four science and social studies
010teachers have come together to align science and social studies to the ELA concepts with CKLA. Project Lead the Way trainers have been planning and prepping for the training for our new staff come this August so that they also are trained. We've been working on train the trainers so that it saves us money in the school district by having our own people trained. And then reading specialists have also been working on strengthening tier two supports and developing additional plans for keys for literacy this fall. I'm talking so loud I'm not taking a sec or talking so quick I'm losing my uh I need to take a little breath in between. And then last but not uh last but not least is parent square update. So this is our um new website. If you haven't noticed that
011there's been a change to the website um for BASD. Um it is a new look. This was important for us to do as we were starting to fall out of ADA compliance on our website. This runs through Parent Square, which is also the communication tool that we'll be using with all of our families and staff come this um fall. You will notice maybe when you go to some of the other pages once you get in deeper that they look like they could use a little work. That's because they can. We just merged everything over. We had to do that first and now we'll continue to make all the pages um look as good as this does. Um so just an FYI on that adjustment. And that's it for the superintendent report. Okay, thank you, Jill.
012Uh, next up is consent agenda items. This includes the June 9th board meeting minutes, bank statement of bills, appointments, resignations, retirements, terminations, donations, and second reading of policy updates. Uh, before I request a motion, I just want to also highlight a couple donation items. $3,939 through the BASD Foundation has come into the district. So, we thank them and the donors for that. And then $1,570 towards programs up at BHS. So, again, we appreciate everybody that contributes to the district in one form or another. Um, so with that, I'm looking for a motion. One sec. One other thing, just a just a quick call out. Um, we met as a personnel committee last week already to go over all the appointments and retirements and all of that, but just wanted to um share that we did
013add one since our personnel committee meeting. We got an acceptance for the grant writer. So, her name is Laura Rash. Um, she has nine years experience in grant writing and just wanted to get that on the board agenda now so that we don't delay it another month. Um, again, the grant writer is something that will come from fund 80 and is uh going to be an awesome addition to our school district. I'm excited. As I've shared with you before, the grant writer in Elhorn um has been there only a year and a half and has secured $8 million, 5 million of that for the community, 3 million for the school district. So really hoping for some large grants and and some support for the school district and for the community because again she will be
014writing grants for Burlington, the city, the town um as well as the school district. So just wanting to point that out that that's been an ad since the personnel committee meeting. Excellent. Okay, with Do I need to Yes. do an amendment? Yeah, it wasn't part of the Okay. All right. So then I'll uh I'm looking for a motion then to approve the consent agenda items as presented with the amended addition of the grant writer. So moved. Okay. Is there a second? Second. All right. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. All right. That passes. Next up is items for discussion and information only. First up is Director Sulic for the activities and athletics department's 2024 2025 recap. You can slide that over this way. Sulick like towards Noah. Mhm. So you can stand. Mhm.
015Now they can see you there. Good evening. Uh, thanks for having me present tonight. Yeah, mic's not on. Sorry. Thanks for having me on. Um, Eric Sulik, uh, serve as activities and athletic director at Burlington High School. This is, uh, now it's officially my first year in this role. Um, and, uh, I've been asked to present a report on our activities and athletic department at Burlington High School. Uh there was a number of things I wanted to highlight. However, between 26 athletic programs, 36 clubs and activities that we offer at Burlington High School, we could probably be about 11:30. So, I did my best to condense everything. Um I also want to recognize uh several that have come in support and we're here for uh dinner tonight. Uh Joe Bush, who serves as our girls
016soccer coach, head coach, first year head coach. Scott Stouty, boys baseball coach. Uh Ken Saglia, our boys and girls tennis coach. Penny Yankee, a longtime educator uh involved in the arts and specifically the musical for a number of years. Steve Brezowitz, basketball coach, involved in a lot of other activities as well. Uh Becky Seagel uh who serves as uh assistant athletic director and I'd remiss to say uh thank although she's not here tonight, uh Trisha Skyles who also works in our athletic department as well. So thank you very much. Um going over the mission statement of our athletic programs, our activity programs. Uh department's connect uh committed to fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and engaging school culture through student- centered programs to promote leadership, creativity, hard work, teamwork, and school spirit. We try to strive to
017empower every student to explore their passions, build meaningful connections, grow as a responsible, active members of our school and community. I've got several pictures uh scattered throughout the presentation. And I did want to make uh note of this. Um one thing that I try to convey to a lot of our programs and they instinctively do it already is the importance for them to get out into the community and be active members getting their students in front of younger impressionable kids whether it's at the middle school, whether it's at the elementary school. Um Chad Woodmer and his football team this fall um connected with Waller School as well as Carter Middle School and basically did a field day where uh our our players in the football program got to serve as mentors, played games. Uh just
018an awesome awesome experience for all those involved. They did it both at Waller School and at Carter Middle School this past fall. Uh agenda I want to hit on our activities and athletics. A lot of times they differentiate between both of them because they are considerably different as far as lengths of seasons when they meet. You have a program like FFA which is literally a year- round program to uh a program such as like the academic bowl team which is just a finite uh part portion of the school year. Going to hit on uh Burlington athletics and some highlights. Highlight the three goals um that we set forth this year and then a couple things to look ahead to next year. Um we as as as we go through uh pictures, some of them have
019captions, some of them don't, but uh we celebrated 50 years of our of our WBAD radio station. Just had an event this past weekend. Um we offer, as I mentioned before, 36 different uh clubs and arts. Uh I won't list them all off. Uh we have quite a few. Uh some have grown over the years. Um some have been added on recently. The the most recent one was our HOSA uh group. It's our uh healthc care occupational safety uh association. Um it had great numbers this year. They just competed in a state competition and then a regional competition uh in in Nashville um and has really kind of taken hold of of an area, a field, an area uh that is definitely in need of of personnel and that's healthc care. Uh this past spring
020we had our annual spring musical. It was Shrek the musical. Saw it a couple of times. It was wonderful. Nice job, Penny. And your crew did an outstanding job. Some incredibly talented kids. Uh one thing I I noticed in the nights that I had went or the one afternoon, one evening I went is how many kids that were dual and triple and in some cases four different roles within that and the in and out and the coordination. And I'm going to be perfectly honest. I I went to some rehearsals early in January and I don't have much of a theater background, but looking at where they were at to where they get these kids to go in the in the beginning of March is amazing. It truly is amazing to see the coordinating, you know,
021and you see some of these students that were middle school students of yours and then, you know, kind of captivating a certain talent and that's really what our activities, clubs, and athletics do. They give kids an opportunity to to find a passion, to find something that they're really really interested in that motivates them to get through those hard days in school and something to look forward to to connect with others after school. As I mentioned before, HOSA um at the end of June, Liam and Ryan and Brandon and Cody Nelson traveled to to Nashville. Uh HOSA clubs are are not uncommon in the state of Wisconsin. This is the first year that we went and had an overwhelming response. Scott Kelly, Allison Hammerstead lead that group. Uh these future healthcare leaders competed and attended workshops.
022They connected with others who shared their passion for the medical field. Uh then also our FBLA, our future business leaders of America competed in a state convention in Green Bay. I think I believe that was back in April. Yeah. End of March, beginning of April. Three students uh are now I think they left for California a week ago or so. uh competing at the national convention out in Anaheim, California. Moving on to athletics, uh we have 26 different uh athletics. Uh some are co-ed, some are separate. Uh ranging, as you can see, kind of in chronological order when they start. Uh starting with football, all the way through uh boys golf. Uh we compete in the Southern Lakes Conference for about almost all of our our sports. Gymnastics is a little bit different. Uh, boys
023volleyball is just a little bit different. Not every every school in our conference support those sports. So, uh, but for the most part, uh, we we compete in the Southern Lakes Conference, which we have for about the last 15 or so years. We had a period of time where we're in the Southeast Conference. Um, adding, uh, co-ops, which I'll talk about a little bit later. Uh, boys lacrosse, we've had, uh, a student that was competing over in Elhorn. I was a student at Burlington High School. Uh now we're moving that into a varsity uh varsity competition, varsity team. Uh Elorn will still be the host school. Um it's upon that that family and that student to get that student over there. But after we signed on with this co-op opportunity, there's a couple other that
024have shown interest um in joining that team. Uh there was some interest from some uh parents regarding hockey. Uh hockey is not something that we we can't support. We don't have a rink. But at the same time there were there were some kids and in one situation um you know it was a kind of a school choice thing because we were able to secure hockey a student's now going to be a student at Burlington High School. So we have a co-op opportunity with Brookfield Central and there's quite a few schools in that co-op and then also one with uh Mosquo. Some of the highlights from our athletic seasons this year our boys uh won their conference conference meet. I believe they've won seven out of the last nine conference championships in the Southern Lakes Conference.
025Uh we had I I believe I have to look back on my notes, five conference champions, four of which uh moved on to uh state competition, which we'll highlight in here a little bit. We had a couple wrestlers uh get 100 wins. Patrick Scruns was one, Kate Boyd was another. Uh Hall of Fame, not just because he's here, but I thought it was worth mentioning. It's a pretty um outstanding accomplished. Coach Strowy, longtime baseball coach at Burlington High School, 2016 state champion, right? Uh was inducted in the Wisconsin Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame and uh kind of working alongside Scott for as many years as I have. Um dynamic character as far as a really good person, excellent baseball coach, and uh couldn't been more deserving of of that honor. Uh state qualifiers in
026our athletics. Uh our our dance team uh qualified and placed sixth overall. Uh our bowling team uh also uh went went to state uh which was in Nina Wisconsin. State qualifiers in wrestling as I mentioned before Evan Gil, Landon Jacobs, Patrick Scruns, and Kate Boyd. And then in track and field, uh Kate, getting back to wrestling, Kate Boyd was a a fourth place finisher in a very very competitive weight bracket. Uh Emma Tenhagen and Jenna Weiss were state qualifiers in track and field. It was ENMA's second time qualifying and Jenna's third time. Uh Jenna finished fifth in the pool Walt and Emma Tanahhagen took fourth in high jump. Other state qualifiers, our number one doubles team, Porter Tit and Mitchell Crabtree. And then on our boys side, Trey Smith's a student at East Troy. We
027co-op with boys swimming. uh he was a state qualifier and a place winner in the 200 meter. As I mentioned earlier, I wanted to talk about some of the goals that we set out at the beginning of this school year. Quite honestly, being new to this, being new to the the job of being athletic director, um I kind of pulled these out of things that I felt pretty that were pretty important. And and number one was participation. If you don't have the kids, it's hard to run the program. And I feel as though and a lot of data would support it, the more offerings, the more things can kids can get excited about after school is going to promote a better culture within your school building during the day. So that was one of the
028goals and set a pretty ambitious percentage at 10% to increase participation co-curriculars by about 10%. Um and then to increase our cumitive grade point average, obviously there they're all students, student athletes in some cases, students that are uh you know involved in a number of activities wanted to look at our overall grade point average and see if we could bump it up a tenth of a point. And then finally seemed as though it was uh in some of the discussions I had with with coaches and adviserss uh this past summer um seemed to be a little bit of an area of growth between um understanding of between leadership and advisers and coaches. I've told coaches anytime I I've worked with them, you you don't work for me, we work together on things. Uh come up
029with solutions. Um you know, making sure that you know things are done the right way all the time. But at the same time, I I'm a firm believer in working together. And uh you know it's been an awesome experience uh working with some awesome school district members. Uh overall participation did increase by 7%. Um out of our 800 I'm sorry out of our 986 students at Burlington High School. Now that Burlington that number includes uh Fox River uh FRC uh Wisco everything um into that. So uh that that number is out of out of 986 633 of them are participating in something after school. Uh many of them are competing or doing multiple things. Um and that's up from 57% um in 2024. Uh we did a longitudinal look at our participation rates over the
030last four years at Burlington High School. Our second goal was an academic goal. We fell a little bit short of that. However, we didn't go down necessarily significantly. The reason why I put up the 2.27 um are not involved co-curricular activities. I I I can remember um many many times being told by administrators that I worked for about the importance of getting kids involved after school because they do a better job with time management often and often it pushes the academic piece uh forward in a positive direction. Uh I firmly believe the more kids that we can get involved with something after school uh better students that they are and data would would go to prove that we had 26 southern lakes scholar athletes. We had 29 NIA should be three A's a scholar athletes.
031Our reineary scholar athletes of the year were Grace Debink and Micah Dobner. And our WIA scholar athletes were Kate Boyd and Jenna Weiss. In the bottom lefthand corner, uh we have an annual award that's given uh from our Burlington Coaches Association, uh called the Demon Award. It's a it's an award that goes towards our talented and gifted uh student athletes, but also do very very well in the classroom. And winners and recipients of that this year were Kate Boyd, Katie Brezawitz, and Ella Caldway. The last piece, culture. Um I I'm a a big believer in culture. It's it's cultures. It's got to be alive all the time. You can't just talk about it. Can't have it as a mission statement. You got to live it out all the time. So, trying to be intentional with
032that, trying to work towards those things. So, uh can't say I necessarily got to every program with the preseason meeting, but we certainly had postseason meetings. Um just an opportunity for me to to meet with the coaches and the rest of their staff. And then at the end of the season, we talk about things that went really really well, things that were areas of improvement, and some things that they want to do. I want to know what page they're on, whether it's an an advisory role, whether it's in a club, or whether it's a sports team. Uh, attention, attentional, availability, and visibility. And what I mean by that is making sure that I'm I'm available uh when I can be. Sometimes it's very easy to get buried in the office in emails and phone calls
033and things like that, but trying to get out to a practice or watch a recital or just check in with uh you know a an a member uh club club advisor or a sport that may not be as visible as other ones. And then finally, uh trying to seek feedback. Um I'm in a growth mindset. Uh year one, uh hopefully year two goes continues to go well, but I'm always looking at ways to improve. So you can't just do that by relying on yourself. You got to reach out, reach out for help sometimes um and take some advice and then also uh get advice from others as well. So I've try to develop a network uh with other activities and athletic uh directors that are in our conference. Uh put the picture at the bottom.
034The senior athletic awards night is something it's an annual event where we recognize as long as you participated in one sport, we try to recognize them all. Took a little bit different approach this year. We held it outside. It had more of a picnic effect to it. Uh but it was a great way to send off uh our seniors. Looking ahead to next year, uh as I mentioned before, uh we're looking to add boys and girls hockey and boys lacrosse. Uh we were just just found this out on Friday. We were awarded a grant to start a girls flag football team uh through the NFL and the Green Bay Packers. I guess you got to be careful for what you apply for and they might pick you. Um but it's pretty exciting. and girls flag
035football has become in some states a national sport. It's going to be in the Olympics in 2028 and I thought this was just again another opportunity for somebody that you know might be looking for something different. Um a friend of mine that that I that I coached with a few years ago, they had done it will be one of 40 schools in the state doing it. Year one we're probably going to keep it as more of an inner mural activity. Uh we're going to connect it into our powderpuff game which a lot of a number of students from the student body had come to me about asking about trying to get this going uh as far as a powderpuff game. Well, so let's take it a step further. We'll actually make it into a league.
036So super excited about that opportunity. Uh we've got some student generated interest about adding two more clubs, a space club um and a robotics club. The robotics club I met with a couple of students earlier last year. We've got some more ideas. Uh trying to look ahead at at doing something again getting more kids involved after school and dynam bunch of different different ways. So anyway, um that's all I got. Appreciate you listening to me tonight. If you have any questions, please let me know. But that's all I got. E Eric, I have a quick question. Um what was the cause of the increased participation? You went up 7%. That's impressive. you know, it it quite honestly when I when we looked at those numbers, um you wouldn't think that would have been the case
037because what's different between this year and last year? There was particip, you know, there was a fee involved in it. Um I think it could be a lot of different things. I I think our our a number of our sport coaches and I I think throughout we we do a good job of selling what we can up at the high school. I I always come away from that January open house of how many different things our our kids can get involved in. I don't necessarily have an answer for that, but it's it's a good trend. We'd like to see it. Um, you won't get a 100% of your student body involved in something after school, but the closer you can get to it, I think the better off you are. Did you have a comment,
038Joe? Well, I was just thinking there's a couple coaches and and people in the audience. Is there any thoughts on from you guys on what that might be is the why? Becky, you'll have to come to the mic though. Use it. Come up and use the mic. Well, we added fall cheer, a real girls wrestling program, HOSA, Educators Rising, and our data in Skyward is now very, very accurate for the first time ever. And so that might have all played a little bit into it, too. say great coaches and great coaches. I think HOSA Becky, didn't we have like about 35 or so? Is that almost 60 in HOSA? That's what Emmy just said. That's good. Um, what's our annual membership cost for WIAA? There isn't. I That's a great question. There there there is
039a fee to it. I'd have to look it up. Um it's more of an agreement. Um I'd have to look that up. I don't know off the top of my head. Ruth, you happen to know off the top of your head or that's a no. Well, my head I want to say 3,000. 3,000. Okay. Marlo asked me this question and I was like so we're all doing this. Yeah. It was it was a two-part kind of question. Um just questioning ultimately I'm questioning what our membership gets us for WIAA. Um especially when it comes to funding or dollars for our individual sports teams. You know a lot if our sports teams are having or our clubs are having to do a lot of self fundraising. Um what does the association membership get us? The association
040is our leading governing body. Basically, what what they do for you when a tournament series happens, they assign the officials for your event. Uh they they they make those they address uh the season regulations that have to be followed in order to be compliant with insurance. Um far as the communication, they keep everybody in alignment on what they should be doing. And I know the WIA often gets criticized for some of the the decisions they make, but I think any organization runs like that, too. Um, the conversations that I've had with the WI as far as their support in me in this first year have been unbelievable. When I have reached out to the WIA about questions, and I have plenty of them. I I would I I've taken the belief that there's never a
041stupid question. Their support's been great. They've been a leader as far as um trying to keep programs ethical, which is a big part of it. I think our WIA and in comparison to some other states, not too far away, uh puts a a huge emphasis on that. Um I think in some ways the WIA probably needs to get a little bit more current, but some of the things that they have in place as far as transferring rules and things like that, I think are fair fair to a community like Burlington as well. So, um, they do a lot. I don't know if that answers your question 100%, but as far as when when we end go into the tournament series, they handle a lot of the logistics, the scheduling, they handle the the officials, they
042pay for the officials. Um, and then, but we're we're still on the hook for quite a bit of it on our own, too. Um, the coordination throughout the season is important, and we take the line share of that responsibility. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay. Thank you, sir. And thank you to everyone that came tonight. And uh congratulations again to Mr. Stouty. [Applause] Okay. Next up is the Lions Elementary School sales discussion. So, we'll turn that over to Jill. Yep. So, uh just wanted to circle back and bring this to the full board. I had a conversation with Peter Turk about this seeing as this is his background with law. So, um did look at the couple options that we had in regard to going with a broker or we can also just try to
043sell it on our own. um because we've had quite a quite a few people reach out to us asking about um the building saying they're interested in it um asking inquiring right feel like we could uh try to sell Lion Center Elementary School um without going to a broker this initial round. So just wanted to circle back to you because the last time we talked we were talking about potentially going in RFP process to pick a broker. Um just just reflected on that. Um Ruth did a great job pulling up some research on what what we can do and when talking to Peter it was um and then connecting with Taylor just feel like it's a good idea for us to attempt it on our own first can save us uh quite a bit of
044cost uh if we if we attempt that. So again want to just bring that to your guy your attention. So, this is kind of a good moment to say if you know of anyone that is wanting to buy Lion's uh school in the 7 acres that it sits on, um you are welcome to tell them to reach out to me and um provide us more so with a bid, if you will, of how much they would uh give us for purchase. Um, I do think in talking with Peter about this as well, uh, we do have the appraisal, but more so, um, not outwardly vocalizing that as much as seeing what offers we get coming in is kind of where we're going to sit on that. So, just an FYI in that. And then something
045that was just kind of like really cool to find out and had no idea about and had to do some back channel research on, we were given some land back in 2010. Um, someone donated land to the school district and it's out by Lions and I was talking to Ruth. I'm like, Ruth, I got this email and this person is saying, "Hey, we want to purchase the land that was donated to your to the school district." I'm like, "I don't even know where this is." Right? So, we're researching where they live and all that through tax bill and then um and then uh couldn't couldn't figure out where the land was and it was like is it on this side of the river that side? Ruth kind of thought there was something and then she's
046like call Peter Smith. So, I called Peter Smith. Totally remembered like the whole Yep. did it legal. So, yes, there's some property also that is not connected to Lion School that is out there, a small parcel um that I also would uh encourage the school district to sell because it's not something that we'd be able to do anything with. Um it looks more like a 1acre lot kind of a situation. So, um just think we should be entertaining the sale of that land as well. So, just wanting you to be aware of that. Any questions? Vacation spot. Yeah. Location spans. A vacation? No. Location spot. Like where is it? Yeah. Where is the 1acre parcel out there? Oh jeez. It's like south of Lions on Mill Street. Um, it's like a it looks like a
04715 foot space between two buildings that goes back or two houses that kind of goes back a little bit so that it has like a driveway access and then it's like behind a house by a river. I can send it to you via email and circle it on the map for you so that you know exactly where I'm talking. Um, but it's not connected to the Lion School property. Okay. I should have thought about like projecting that. That would have been smart. That's right. You said it's on Mil Street. Yep. It's on Mil Street. It's along the river. It is on the river. Both sides of the river. Oh. Oh, even better. Yeah. Do you want to buy a Taylor? Let's talk price. Anybody? Anybody vacation spots? We're going We're going for a million. Anyone
048for a million? Million dollars. Well, I think the uh seven acres in the Lion's property sounds like a good spot for the Marlo Brown Nature Preserve that he wants to put in. So, yeah. Million dollars, Marlo. Yeah. Okay. Partnership with Turks. Yeah. Um Okay. Anything else on that subject? Questions, comments, concerns? Okay. If you could send over the plot for um or while Chris is um talking about act 12, I'll pull it up and then we can circle back to it. Does that sound good to you? That' be great. I can point it out. Okay. Next item up again for items and discussion or information is the act 12 reporting requirements by director wines. Thank you. Thanks for coming. [Music] Okay, thank you. I'm Chris Wines, director of people services, Burlington Area School District. wanted
049to give a short introduction to act 12. This is a new reporting requirement that's coming from DPI. Uh we found out about this shortly ago. Um act 12 uh was brought about in 2023. Um it is a shared revenue and local government fiscal relief bill. Um there were significant changes around local government finance and property taxes um looking to aid communities. Now about 3/4 of the way down, they added in a piece a reporting requirement for high schools in the state um to document incidents that take place on school grounds. So that's what we're going to be talking about here today. Uh so to start um act 12 for us is uh we are going to be reporting out on criminal charges and violations um that occur on high school grounds during school hours on
050buses that are connected to the high school or during afterchool events that are sponsored by the school. So during those periods of time and have has to meet all of those criteria um those would be incidents that we would report out on. Um, so what they're asking us to do is to collect that information throughout the year to collaborate with the police department so that we're keeping track of uh citations and charges um that occur that meet the the criteria that I gave before reportable incidents that they're looking for and and the way that the the law was written. Um, some of these would account for charges and some of them would be for citations. Some of them are for charges that go to the district attorney. Some of them would be for municipal ordinance
051violations. So, it's not consistent um and at times not clear. Um but we did consult with our legal counsel um as to what that means and what we should be doing moving forward. Uh we feel confident in the process that we're starting. Um, and we've also met with uh the Burlington PD to talk through that and and have uh a plan as to how we're going to move forward. So, um the pieces for everyone here to know about is that by July 31st on a yearly annual basis, we need to report to the school board and DPI um charges and citations that were issued on school grounds during school hours. Um what DPI's responsibility is then is to make sure that that data is being reported um in a way that meets the DOJ criteria
052for how they're looking for information to be reported out. Um the next step there is that they will include that information on school report cards. That information won't be used to um grade our school as far as how we're performing. It's just information that will be present on the school report card. So, we found out about this in May and the reporting requirement was July 31st. I've met with the police department. They're compiling that information for me right now. Uh, we will get that information and Connie Dismitt and myself will input that report to the state by the 31st. We'll provide a copy of that for the board to review as well. Um, and if there's any comments in the future about that, feel free um to ask and we can have a further conversation
053on that question. Are you also consulting with the county since we do have a school that is within the township and that is under county jurisdiction? I am not. Um, is there a contact that I should be reaching out to? Well, the for act 12, it's only a 912. It's only 91. Okay. Yep. So, Winkler clear we don't need to worry about. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Um this would encompass both F FRC and then Wisco as well uh because they do have um high school students that are part of their programs. Um so that information will be collected as well. So I've I've kind of gone through of what I've done so far. Um we'll make sure that that report is filed by the 31st at the end of the month. Um what
054we're going to do though is create a system that during the school year that we'll be collecting information um be have be meeting quarterly with our SRO and the police chief to go over that information and then as a school we're going to look at that data and respond accordingly. Um and and by that I mean we'll have a conversation administratively as to if we're seeing numbers increase in certain areas, what kind of interventions or or remedies we have um for those situations in the future if we're starting to see trends. Um is there any questions on act 12? Are we go mute? Okay. Are we are we being um are we being build for the city's time in in researching and putting together this data for us? No, that wasn't part of the conversation.
055Um what the the chief had relayed to me was this was a simple data mine for them and he was just waiting for their person to come back in office. Okay. And um they'll have that information for us on Wednesday and we'll make sure that the report goes out. Awesome. But I can ask that question as well. So prior to this year, would we had would we have had any reportables under this system? So we had a conversation uh about midy year and started collecting information as to citations provided on school grounds. Um, prior to that, we weren't collecting that information unless it was in a referral, but ultimately, um, the police department issues that citation and then the charges, um, resulting from that, um, are at the discretion of either the city or the
056district attorney. Um, so we aren't always privy to whether charges were filed um, or how that case is moving through. So, um, as far as citations, there's a few of, um, there's a few of the areas that are reportable for citations, but not all of them are. So, it's we're collecting information, but not all of our information is going to apply to this report. It's probably going to be something where we're always going to have to uh, seek the principles or the police department's support for data mining it. uh Dan Hayes uh our SRO um does collect information, has that information um just wasn't able to um provide that at this time. Uh he's out of the office so uh but in the future we'll have a system ready and make sure that we're able
057to report on that on a quarterly basis if needed. Is that something you could bring back for August? Yep. That's what that's what the plan would be once we get it from them. Right. Okay. Yep. We can provide numbers in August. Anything else on act 12? And again, just to recap, this is only for things that happen on school grounds during school day. This is not some incident happens out in the township and correct. Okay. Right. Correct. Um and and they're pretty specific about those pieces. After school events on transportation that's related to the school has to be a 912 or student who's attending 912 um in those grades. So, okay. Have they said anything about what they're going to do with the data? All that that we understand is that they're going to place
058that information on school report cards and that it has to meet the uniform reporting procedures that DOJ has lined lined out. So, pass that. Um when when you look through the entire bill, um there there's a lot ahead of of what this is. This this looks like an addin at the bottom. There's a few other there's there was four other points that were smaller um that don't seem as connected to what the overall bill was put in place for. So, this being one of them, but um it's information that we can we can provide and won't be a burden to either the police department or to the district. Okay. Any questions or additional comments? Okay. Thank you, sir. Thanks. No problem. We'll uh look forward to that data next month, but if you have it
059earlier, it'll be interesting to see it. Definitely. Well, I I will forward the report to Jill as soon as we have the information compiled and she can share that and we can move from there. Perfect. Before we shift into the items for action, can I uh share screen quick just to show them that Lion's property? You bet. Okay. So, here's Lion's property here. Okay. It's this um property right here. So, here's a access point here. And then it's this property here and that's where Peter did say it went through the proper channels with the deed no or with the um paperwork and nor called uh lines today and they confirmed also and are working on getting getting us the deed for that. So that's the other property there. learn something every day, right? I wouldn't
060have said anything. I would just use it. All right. Um, okay. Thank you for that. Next up is items for action. First item, which again will be director wines, is the pupil services total restraint and seclusion report. [Music] Okay. Okay. On a yearly basis, uh the school district is required to report out to the the school board as to our total number of seclusions and restraints that occur um during the school year. Um from there, we provide a report to the state on that as well. Um and that is that is just our yearly requirement. So, I'm going to walk through and share some of that information. Um, the first piece here is the Wisconsin law that um talks about both our requirements for reporting, but also how we need to engage and approach situations
061that become escalated in the school setting. 2425 school year. Uh we these are these are the numbers by school. Um the way that we have to break that down for the state is we look at total number of students involved and then we look at total number of students with disabilities that were involved and we break it down in that way. Um you can see as far as seclusion goes and what seclusion means is that a student is in a space where um the door is closed and um they are not allowed to leave that space. And we had 37 incidents where that occurred this past school year. As far as physical restraint goes, um that would be when um adults have to physically restrain a child due to unsafe behavior. Um and we had
06260 incidents of that this school year. I'm going to talk a little bit more about what that means and and some of the why behind our numbers. Uh but what I will tell you is we have worked we have worked hard to decrease those numbers from last school year and the year before. And I'll go into um some of the ways that we we worked at that. Um one of the first pieces is excuse me after an incident that requires either seclusion and restraint, there's um specific protocol that we follow in our buildings. All of our staff and our administration are trained as to what the next steps are after an incident occurs. And so one of the first pieces is a is a debrief. And we want that team who is involved in that
063situation to debrief. Um we try to have one of our coaches. We have three coaches um in the district as far as people who are trained in our Mant approach which is our non-violent crisis intervention. Um from there we have to complete a report. Um that report details that incident. It details timelines of how long that incident occurred, at what points during that incident a restraint or seclusion um occurred and who was involved and how that ended. That report also uh specifies uh our reporting requirements below. Um and what that looks like then is that we have to verbally uh report out to parents um within that day. Uh it's a report then to administration. uh copy of that goes to myself and then a paper copy goes to the parents and there's timelines as
064to when we have to do those pieces. Um, and I'll say that we we held to timelines um this school year and we're 100% in compliance. Staff training um within the district uh we utilize Mance um which is a system uh that research has shown um takes the student into account as far as safety and communication throughout an incident. Um it also trains our staff in deescalation as to when you start to see signs uh that a student is escalating and uh becoming uh disregulated. Um what are the next steps from there? How do we approach a child? Um a lot of this comes down to relationships and how well we know that student and and that helps us to read that situation and be able to respond appropriately. As I stated, we have three
065trainers in the district um that help to um certify staff uh who haven't been certified previously. And then for staff who have been trained, they have to be yearly reertified. And so each year uh the the staff members that um have that training background um need to participate in an a 90-minute training um that includes both uh book and a physical um presentation, but they also then have to be able to show that they're able to um follow through on the moves that they've learned and what a proper restraint looks like. Making sure that they're keeping the student and themselves and their peers um safe throughout the process. Our action steps for next year is to continue to decrease the numbers that I reported today. Um we decreased incidents of physical restraint by 16 and
066incidents of seclusion by 57. Um, I'll say that we had uh quite a bit of conversation around this um this school year um prior to it starting and really emphasized on what the law states and how to keep children safe when they're disregulated. Um and and that resulted in a decrease in those numbers that um I I feel that our teams felt good about at the end of the school year. Um the next step is we are going to be working with the state consultant. Um, so we received a grant um to increase skills around deescalation and implementation of the behavior plans that we create. Uh, so that grant is $10,000. It brings a coach into our district for um 10 sessions and then also provides um training and uh money for any materials that
067we might need for um for the purpose of deescalation and to work with students who are disregulated. One of the main stays in our elementary, middle, and high school is our positive behavior supports. Um, this is a framework that we implement and we work on on a yearly basis. Um, with our culture and climate team, um, what they're really trying to do is create a space um, for students where we're teaching what our expectations are in school and then we're we're reinforcing what we see. Um, and what we're going to do is add more positive as to when we see what what um when we see students doing the right thing, we want to reinforce that. We want to make sure that they're understanding what we're talking about, like what we're actually reinforcing there when
068they're doing the right thing. Um, we also have systems that uh focus on redirection and uh specific protocols as to how many redirects and how many times that we're following up with the student um to make sure that um they're following through on expectations, keeping themselves safe and their their classmates safe as well. The other piece that we wanted to work on was we added a third trainer this year so that we can increase the coaching conversations. um we feel that those are extremely beneficial for all that are involved. And so when we're pulling together after an incident, we want to debrief with that team, but we also want to have a very frank conversation about what took place and if we felt that anything could change if that same incident were to occur. And
069I think that's one of the pieces that we've seen growth with is the the conversations, the coaching that occurs. Um and that's where we're seeing growth happen. Uh any questions? Okay. Okay. I appreciate the time. Thank you. No, thank you. All right. Uh this is an item for action again. So I am going to look for a motion to approve the pupil services uh total restraint and seclusion report as presented. So moved. Is there a second? Second. Okay. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Next up is the sponsorship guide presentation. No. Uh more so just the going back over the conversation about the proposal. So um Eric, if you want to come up to the mic just to look at it. We if you recall the last time that we talked
070um he kind of went through a presentation in regard to where the signs would go. There's no presentation like that this time because we felt like that kind of was covered last time. Uh more so did come up with a final for the cost. We thought high-profile area sponsorship signs would be $1,000 uh a year for that location and $500 for low profofile area. Um and then an additional $300 printing fee for each of the signs also just for the first year. Just for the Yep. for the initial sign. And then um once uh that goes through, then it would just be that $1,000 um the following year. We also have it only as a two-year agreement so that um this is kind of something newer so that we can make adjustments in two years
071if we want to. So just had Eric come up just in case you have any questions. Otherwise, we're just looking for approval to move forward with these um advertisement sponsorship signs. What were the uh I'm sorry. What were the dimensions of say the thousand sign, the $500 sign? The the dimensions are the same. Oh, I don't know if the mic on again. The dimensions are the same. Uh 4x8 sign. Uh really the the the big difference between the low and pro prop. If I look at areas of the high school campus, although these signs could go anywhere, um areas that are going to get a lot of traffic. So when we looked at the high school campus specifically, an area that gets a ton of traffic is simply the parking lot. I estimate anywhere from
07215 to 18 maybe $20,000 20,000 cars autos go through there every day. So on the back side of our fence, our grandstand, it's like a perfect area to put those because those get eyes not just in the fall and spring, but in the winter, you pull in the parking lot, you see it. The lower profile ones would be more more like probably on the baseball and softball diamonds along the fence. Um just areas that aren't going to they're still going to get visibility, but you're not going to get as much visibility. Um inside um you know, Don Dalton Stadium, those might be also high, you know, especially around the concession stand and whatnot. But um you know we arrived at those numbers after having some conversations uh with with some what would you feel most
073comfortable with and uh you kind of figure it out someplace in between. Uh the $300 includes the sign as well as the hardware that that would take. Obviously we have to supply the the power but once the signs are up you know they're they they kind of take care of themselves. So okay. Um who's going to decide where the signs go? myself, Amy, Leavonian, and other Jill kind of look at where they're going to go. Are these only going to be outdoor? Right now, they're just outdoor. Um, down the road, that could be a potential possibility. You know, probably not a 4x8 sign, probably something different. Um, you know, that's that's it's been discussed. We hadn't put anything in place yet for being indoors, but you could potentially do something uh indoors as well. Would
074we need to uh make an adjustment to policy? Policies? I don't believe so. Um from my understanding, no. This is just we thought we should add it to our sponsorship guide um and just have it as a page in there and that the page would look very similar to what we added in here. Okay. Um, in terms of uh layout and design, just to recap since maybe some people aren't paying attention to this now since it was in the newspaper. Um, in terms of uh uniformity and look and appeal, um, I'm sure this will be handled by the decision makers of that these will be done in good taste. Correct. And um, Yep. Absolutely. And we still feel like there needs to be the Burlington colors on there. Um, so black and orange perimeter at
075minimum. And Kate actually had a good idea to have, you know, is the inside a solid color? Um, is it always white, but all the logos have to be black? Um, you know, we could uh talk with the businesses and see, you know, from your opinion, you felt like being in marketing that all businesses do have a logo just in black and white. Um so we could uh approach try to approach it that way um so that it really has a really um clean look to it but really are trying to look into that. Now will it all be black and white? You know I don't know but know that um don't hold us to that but what we we care also about it looking really sophisticated and professional. So, um, when Eric and Amy
076and I and Becky talked about it, um, with Jess, too, it was we really want to make sure that it looks really nice, too. Um, did you get any push back in terms when researching and coming up with the price points? Did you get any any did you sense any push back from folks that you talked to that probably have been doing this? Obviously, Bowmont Field has been doing this for a long time and signs look great. Um, just curious if you had any push back push back from like, oh, $1,000 is a lot or, you know, I won't do a,000 to you. I'll do 750, right? Like I'm just curious. Not not necessarily. I mean, um, I think it was going to be in an agreeable range of things. Um, I guess, you know,
077what value do you do you have on that? you know, it was uh some of the conversations I had um with with in fact one person in the community when they talked about um you know, the Lynch sign, he took the spin of they may not sell one car from that, but what it does, it gets everybody that is looking to be an auto tech at Burlington High School. They give Lynch a consideration of being employed there, right? And they hold a value to that, you know. So I it's not necessarily just from the angle of I'm going to go there for my next insurance claim or get insurance. It's it's sort of that building that relationship with the business community and our current community which employs many of the parents of the kids that
078go to the our school district. So, right to me that it's a it's a win-winwin and um at the end of the day, you know, looking, you know, we have problems. We got to come up with creative solutions and this is just one of them. Um I I would say when we look at price points, I looked at some of the other districts that do this. We're definitely on the lower end, but at the same time, it was an apples and oranges comparison. You know, I looked at what Kettle Marine was doing and and some of you know, it's it's not a fair comparison. However, when I did find one, I think it was Stoen Stoen or Fort Atinson that do something similar, they were within the same ballpark. Now, they were doing signs kind
079of everywhere. They were doing them inside, outside. Again, tastefully done, not overdone. You notice it's there, but it doesn't take away from anything that that you see. Um, so just I guess one last followup, and I'm sure there's others I want to talk. Um, so let's say if you know the the Stro family wants to just donate and have a sign, can can folks do that or Brown family, Turk family, whatever. They're obviously not a business, but they just want to contribute and can we do that? Do we have um something set up to where the sign will still look tasteful and not necessarily out of place? If if if families want to do that, I don't know if you probably I gather that from your expressions, you didn't think about that, which is fine,
080but I'm just curious because it was brought up to me today as a question, so I figured I'd ask. I wouldn't have any problem with it, but at the same time, I'd want to talk to to everybody else. I think just having a tasteful text and Yeah. you know. Mhm. Okay. Yeah, I thought we did discuss that um with the presentation. I thought it was going to be based on businesses. I could have swore that's what I don't remember that. You have a recollection of it? I don't recall discussing families. No, I don't either. Okay. Is this only for the high school? The signs are only going to be in the high school. Are these going to be put in other schools? They it would open the door of the being in other schools. my
081vision as the high school right now, but it would cover if somebody wanted to put a sign like Carter's campus or Dyer's campus or something like that. Um, those areas I haven't looked at as much. My focus was more mostly on the high school, but that would be a possibility. So, if you did that at Carter, where would you put that outside? Like, what would that look like? Well, we have a whole fence uh fences here around this soccer field. Um, I could imagine it there. I could see some stuff uh potentially in the gym. Again, we'd have to be really thoughtful on where we want to put those. Um and again, just being super tasteful about it. But we're that's why we coined the phrase highprofile versus low profile. So then if someone approaches
082us about a space, we can think about what's the foot traffic on that. Is that considered high profile or low profile? And kind of go from there. Would we do eight by like Eric said, eight uh 4 by eight signs inside? Probably not. you know what I mean? So, um this is definitely focused on first just trying to start on especially the fences and things like that of the high school and then kind of go from there. But we didn't want to pigeon hole ourselves to um only one location. Um I don't know that I like the idea of it being open to anyone outside of just businesses. I mean, at that point, why why not just why couldn't individual families or whatnot just if they wanted to just donate to the district? I don't
083know if necessarily putting a sign up for them for a year or two for two years is I mean, sure. Well, like I said, there was a question that was asked today, and I just wanted to kind of get the the thoughts on it. Um, it doesn't have to be an avenue they go down, but um I mean then again, I mean, if a person's donating, you know, $1,000 a year um at what, a two to three year commitment, right? Two year two year two commitment. So, okay. of $2,000. That's, you know, I think that they should, you know, get some type of recognition other than a mention at a meeting or, you know, whatever. But a mention at a meeting is still serving a purpose and people are still donating though. So, I mean,
084sure, this specific Sorry. And the businesses that are donating large amounts of money Sure. aren't getting those signs, but they're getting recognition at a board meeting. So, right. And and if we're going to if we're not going to nitpick that way, then I would say that we definitely need some kind of a policy in place so we're just not handing out signage to any and everybody. Sure. Well, if that's the case, then obviously I think the goal tonight is just to pass or deny the sponsorship guide request. we can just do this. Um, and then we could potentially request that they come back if they want to go down that avenue of um, you know, family signage, things like that, right? Um, but I agree that there should needs to be something probably amended or
085added into policy specifically to um, address something like that. Set guidelines. Correct. um policy-wise just seems a little strange that we're not adding something like this to policy, but maybe that's just you don't think it's strange. No, be I don't because I it's already in our like it's just part of the sponsorship guide where we have all the other pricing. Um R shaking her head, too. Like that's like the normal spot. Not to this level. No. Okay. Okay. But these signs would go up for people specifically requesting to have one put up. It's not like we would just put one up because somebody donated like a couple, right? Yeah. It's specifically geared for this. I guess that's what I'm getting at. I'm not saying that this should be a an open season of anybody that
086wants to do it. They want, you know, but um Peter, did you have a comment? Well, I mean, you see other organizations where they put plaques up for people who donate, right? You see that all over. We have that in the the district already, right? we have bricks or you know there's sometimes plaques in theaters. I don't see the distinction here. If you wanted you know if you want to make a donation of thousand bucks you you know and you really want to have a sign what's difference between a person or a business a person's not selling something per se right they're just it's just more of a recognition as opposed to a business trying to generate some you know revenue from the advertisement factor. So sure um I think it I don't see the
087distinction though. Um, I think the bigger issue is I think we have this already covered in our policy is let's take an example. If I'm a cigarette company, yeah, I can't have a sign and we already have that covered, you know. So, we have to be thoughtful about what companies we're in allow to to advertise, right? And pick pick your poison. We can all come up with examples of companies that probably wouldn't be appropriate for advertising in the school district. Um, good point that uh Mr. Coven brought up and it's on the same topic is you know what about some of the breweries in town if they wanted to does that does that cross that fine line but then again if you have let's say you know John's main event or Bubba's Brickyard if they
088want to do it I mean are we worried about I mean it's a brewery is different but I mean they're still serving right I mean do we have a problem with that with with entities like that I mean because if you're going to say no because they serve alcohol well then that's pretty much majority of the restaurants in our community and that means we're not going to capitalize on that potential revenue. So, what do you think? This is a board action. So, this is what is the board think first before I can Well, I mean, does is there something to Peter's point that that would prevent us or that would be viewed as as not tasteful or let's say America's Gunsmith, right? they wanted to sponsor. I mean, some people may not be in favor
089of that and others are, but I'm just curious. That's all. It's a really good question, Taylor, and I think it's definitely something to discuss. I know in some of the campuses that I had looked just kind of on Google images and whatnot, there had just like they they had advertising to an establishment, but there was no reference. It wasn't like it was mugs kind of clashing together. it was just that was their logo, right? Um the reality is too and I and I understand, you know, there's plenty of people that go to those places that don't drink like it's they go there to socialize. You know, when I think of uh Low Daily, I I don't think of just the beer there. I mean, it's great and everything, but I think of, you know, the
090the community that builds there. And I think I think that that I think the the logo would have to to to reflect that. I think um you know when it comes to gunsmith's things I I kind of feel the same way. It's it's not you know it's it's a company that sells a product that's legal. Um I realize for some that that might but it you know could be on anything too. So could I jump in? I just looked our policy up. We have 9 9700.01 01. And we specifically say in there, this is uh related to general advertising on school grounds. And we say no in the policy it reads no advertisement shall promote or contain references to alcohol, tobacco, drugs, drug paraphernalia, weapons or lewd, vulgar, obscene, pornographic or illegal materials or activities,
091gambling, violence, hatred, sexual conduct or sexually explicit material. X or R-rated movies or gambling aids. So those are kind of your, you know, guidelines. Perfect. So I think it's kind of like with um when you with the Burlington Brawl and uh who uh Bubba's Brickyard wanted to donate or uh sponsor and it was like yeah they can talk about Bubba's brick here but there can't be any um you know beerstein's you know clashing together in the image. So right um what Sulick said and then is definitely aligned to our policy. I think if the runaway wanted uh a sign and there's just no alcohol noted in the sign, I think that that would be inclusive for that company. Right. Okay. So, but if it's in the name like say America's Gunsmiths, I mean, does that
092violate our policy? I mean, their logo doesn't I think so. I think that's weapons. I don't know. I don't know how you would say how you could get around that one. Sure. But they're a business and they're legit. I I think a brewery is borderline. I mean to me that they're ser it's alcohol, right? I mean I don't think we wouldn't necessarily promote that among our kids. Not that and I love runaway and I love low daily but well I mean to your point though this community they do other things there that don't include that. So that's the fine line. It's it I mean the the policy says promote or contain references to. So then I think you have to interpret that as administrators then it's your call to say okay here's the policy if
093they're advertising they're promoting so right yeah I probably signal I mean if I that's my decision that probably say it's too too close think about 18-year-olds I'm not sure we want you know promote drinking right well that's a decision for you two to cross our decision tonight is whether we want to move forward with this um I think it's Great. I think this is something that's long overdue. I appreciate the work that you too have have put into this. Um, and as a proactive note, I think all the folks that are going to contribute to this now that we're going to hopefully do this. So, um, does anybody have any questions, additional comments or concerns before we vote on this? I have a comment. Uh, I realize we need the money and I will be
094outvoted 100, you know, follow to me about doing the signs, but I'd much rather see wonderful signs on the schools telling what's going on in the school and good things, good learning things that are going on, putting signs like that up. I'd much rather see that than advertising, but I understand we need the money. Okay. Anyone else? All right. Um I just wanted to say thanks for all the work you've done on this because we have asked a lot of questions and Oh really clarification wanted so it it hasn't you know fallen on deaf ears for sure. No I I get it. I I think it's it's a process and everything like that and I think of it through the lens of where I'm at and then you got to think you you have to
095look at through the lens of the community which I completely understand and respect too. just to the discussion on the you know the establishments like you know something I've thought about but at the same time I wouldn't I didn't realize it was an actual you know in the policy already. So right um I guess then once you kind of get a layout of like what the sign potential will look like can you send that over to the board? Yeah. Yeah. It's real I mean it's real simple. It's just black on the edge black and orange on the border. That's what it looks like all the way around. All right. Okay. With that, um I'm looking Was that a better choice than just having our logo in one of the corners? Yeah, because uh we kind
096of played around with that and it's like logo on logo um and just felt like the when we looked at other um if you just Googled googled uh advertisements on like fence lines and stuff, it really catches your eye when there's a border around each of the um of the boards that were hanging up. So, we felt like that looked better to have that. Okay. All right. Uh, I'm looking for a motion then to approve the sponsorship guide as presented. So moved. Okay. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. Was there any abstensions? Okay. All right. That was passed. [Laughter] All right, that was passed unanimously. So, thank you everybody for that. Um, next up is postemployment benefits. So, we'll turn this over to Jill again.
097So, yeah, this is just really quick. We've already gone over this discussion, so I won't say too much about it, but as you know, we've made adjustments to our postemployment benefits for all staff and just looking for approval for the changes that would occur starting July 1, 2026. Um, and these adjustments are going to be a cost savings to the school district of 12 to$16 million over a span of 30 years. And then also we do still um see this as a um retention strategy for our staff. So just looking for approval for those adjustments to the professional support and administrative um proposals. Right. Were there any last minute questions or comments on this item? Hearing none. Uh looking for a motion then to approve the posted employment benefits as presented. So moved. Second. Second.
098All right. All those in favor say I. Opposed. Right. Motion carries. Next up is extracurricular pay schedule for 2025 2026. Again, we'll kick it back over to Jill. Yep. So, just wanting to um go over what used to be called schedule B within the employee handbook. This is all of the stipens that are given to staff for things that are outside the workday um for the most part. So that's all of our coaching staff, musical directors, FFA advisor, things like that. And just wanting to make an adjustment there as I have been in the district for 20 years myself and this is something that has never been adjusted in the 20 years that we have I have been here. So um did work with a team of staff 16 um staff members that are on
099the district cabinet and developed the adjustments to this. Um Eric did a nice job Eric Sulick of looking at the conference the SLC and pulling data from that. Bridget Seagley also had a lot of research from across the state um and we looked at that. So we had a lot of comparable data to help us pull that together. Um in the district cabinet I do want to give kudos to them. It was a arduous uh couple of meetings and they did a great job trying to be really mindful about how to place everyone in in regard to this and then also the admin administrative team looked at it too just to make sure that it made sense there as well. So um we feel confident with the proposal and would like um looking for a
100motion for approval on that so that we can start this with the fall coaches here in the start of the 2526 school year. Okay. Uh, so this would come up, you said once a year. What month are you looking at this done by? Yeah, I'm thinking it would be in the summer months, uh, June, June, July, uh, probably or June or July all the time that we would circle back to this. My fear is, um, I do think it's important to come back every year so that it doesn't become something that becomes stagnant and it's 20 years from now again that it's looked at. So, um, also I, uh, we were really mindful of not having any clubs or activities on the list that we don't currently have. So, as Eric had shared, there's some
101new clubs coming up. So, um, I think it's important every year to re-review because maybe there's some new activities that just need to be adjusted and added to the schedule in that in that regard also. So, it would come up in the summer, June or July every year. Okay. Um, last thing before we look for the motion. Um, looking at the attachment, there is an item that's still listed on here that the board did not approve. That would be the beyond season uh, stipen pay. Just want to make sure that when we approve this that this is the amended version that does not include that. Well, when we so the board there was no board approval of this because this is the first time it's coming to the board for approval. So, um when we
102were talking about it, there seemed to be some dis disagreement on that. Some board members were supportive of the idea and some weren't. So, I just wanted to ensure that I included that. The part Taylor's talking about was the idea of providing an additional stipend to coaches uh after their extended typical typical season. Sometimes um say a football season can be extended three four weeks longer than a a season where you don't make it to state. Um, and that is a lot more of our staff's time uh into those uh weeks that were not um necessarily taken care of with the initial coaching stipen. So, the thought was that we'd give a $250 stipen per week beyond the season to the head coach and then one $150 stipen per week to one varsity assistant coach
103that extends beyond their typical season. And again, there seemed like somewhere some people thought that was a good idea and some didn't. So, I just wanted to put that on there as that one item that um probably still needs to be discussed. Does would anyone like to discuss that item? Would anyone like to keep that item? Would anyone like to remove that item? I thought we had a a good discussion at the last board meeting. I think we all weighed in. I mean, I'd like to see it removed. Um, not that I'm against paying coaches, but I just think it's unnecessary incentive potentially for coaches. Okay. And that should be built, I think, baked into the cost that or the uh the fee that the coaches get, you know, circum sports have beyond season. It's
104kind of built in. Okay. No one I spoke in favor of it before. I I think that it's a good idea to one incentivize success and then also fairly compensate uh coaches for that extra time. But um I mean we've we had a good discussion about it and Okay, Marlo. Um yeah, probably had a change of heart. I'm however the vote goes, I'm good. Not how it works. That was a very um Yeah, I my Yeah, I don't know. I I don't know how to answer that question. I'll come back to you. Um I'm also going to be a no on uh keeping that in the the plan. Um, and again, we had a really good discussion about it, but um, I agree with um, Peter's comments. So, Paul, I think during the discussion, I
105can't remember what I waffled back and forth on this. Um, but after talking to some of the coaches tonight and what they've had to do extra for end of season stuff, I think we should leave it in. Yeah. Okay. That's that's kind of where I am just and and that's kind of I've had questions about the WIA to begin with, but then hearing what some of the coaches are having to do, you know, personally out of their fundraising piece, you know, which that fundraising those fundraising dollars are not going to cover anything for them, but you've got coaches that are as well as teachers and other administrators coming out of pocket for things. So, yeah. So, we're going to put you in the yes column then. Yes. Okay. Uh Roseanne, no. I'm in favor of
106paying them. I think they've earned it. It's beyond their regular school year and they're putting a lot of extra time in. Okay. Kate, um I appreciate the discussion that we had during our last um board workshop and also talking with the coaches and um club directors this evening. I really do think that if they do extend their season, there is more time that's involved. um a higher level often of preparation that's involved. It's also time additional time away from their families that may or may not have been anticipated. So I am in favor of keeping it. Okay. All right. We will keep that in as written. Um so then I will look for a motion then to approve the extracurricular pay schedule for 2025 2026. Do I have a motion? So moved. Okay. Is there
107a second? Second. Okay. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. All right. Motion passes. All right. Next up is schoolboard committee update. Committee updates. Uh we'll start off with teaching and learning. We didn't meet. No. Okay. Um, I guess any future updates you can provide in terms of like what what the plan is going to be for the committee like outlook. Well, we talked about, you know, the new school year starting and some of the new things that are going to be offered and we're going to wait till the teachers get back and the powers that be in the but it's been good. Every meeting has been wonderful. So, just anticipate good things coming. Yeah, it's most beneficial for that one to meet during the school year. Um, so the whole committee agreed to
108kind of go on hiatus over the summer, but then start back up once the school year starts. Okay, sounds great. Uh, finance, Mr. Turk. Yeah, we have a met we have a meeting coming up on the 28th, and I want to thank Ruth, Jill, and finance team members for accommodating my work schedule to move that meeting a week later. So, thank you. Okay. All right. Uh, board govern board governance, communications, and legislative liaison. Kate, we had our first meeting on June 17th and at that meeting we discussed primarily um becoming members of the Southern Wisconsin School Alliance. In fact um Jill, myself and Taylor and Marlo will be attending a monthly meeting virtually. Um the first one that we will be attending is tomorrow. Um and then we actually have our regular monthly meeting tomorrow
109night as well. So, more to come in the next um board meeting as far as updates, but we are leaning toward becoming members of that um alliance. And basically that alliance really um puts a lot of effort and energy into explaining what is happening at the state legislative level and breaking it down for school boards. um making it digestible for not only the schoolboard members but also assisting with um talking points and how to engage with the community regarding what's happening at the state level. So we thought it was very valuable to be members of this. I sorry I probably shouldn't have a question but I do. Can other board members listen in on that meeting that you have tomorrow or is that specifically tied to you guys? I don't see any reason why we
110couldn't have other board members listen in if they wanted to. It is a virtual meeting and it's from 7:30 to 9. Yeah. Is there a cost to belong to that? Yes, there there is a cost um 3000 $3,700 for the year. We um have already signed up for that. So, it's a monthly meeting from 7:30 to 9:00 and um it's always virtual and it is always about what's happening at the legislative level like Kate said. So, they'll talk about what bills are at the assembly, um what's going on, what to pay attention to, um they'll do templates like Kate said in order to write to your legislators so so that um the board could use those. Uh and it's really only for this southeastern corner of the state. uh and I attended one of the
111meetings in May for us to see if it was worthwhile of going and it was an interesting dynamic of board members, superintendents on the call. That's that is who was on the call. Um and just listening to a really well-run meeting uh and and talking through a lot of what's happening at the state level and what to be paying attention to. Okay. Um I think that yeah with that can you send that out to the full board if they would like to attend? Oh okay. Okay. Um general link I'm sure. Yeah there is. So it is one fee for the whole um district to go. So there's no no additional fee for extra board members to go. Um it just initially when we were talking at the committee level we thought okay this committee that's
112what this committee is in charge of doing. So the three members on that this committee, Marlo, Taylor, and Kate are all committing to trying to go every single month and not missing any of those. But if you want to jump on and listen to those two that it it's doesn't hurt us to have more board members in the no on the legislative side. Okay. Anything else, Kate? Nope. That's all. Uh policy Paul. So we'll be meeting at the end of this month. Um, we kind of met early last month. That's why there's not there's kind of a gap. So, July 24th at 5:30 p.m. we'll be discussing the next set of policies. Okay. Uh, personnel Noah. Yes. So, we met uh in virtually in close session this past Wednesday to discuss appointments, resignations, retirements, and
113terminations. Um, and I know Jill mentioned this earlier um, in the consent agenda items, but I just want to say how excited I am um, to welcome Laura Rash as the grant writer to the district. I think that she'll be a huge asset and really bring a lot of um, value to to our district. Excellent. Thank you, sir. Uh, and last but not least, Mr. Brown, really uh, building the grounds. Yep. So, we do not have a meeting scheduled um as of yet, but um last month we had uh Mckenstry in doing a uh presentation um to help um the district with better assessing our facilities um urgent needs versus um or more important things versus the less important things just to give us some focus and um a better understanding and foresight um into
114our facilities and future. future projects. Um, as far as meeting again, I don't remember if um how long it's going to take Mckenry to get through that initial setup for us, but I guess we probably would not be meeting until we had that preliminary report if anything. Um, so so does that identify cost savings potentially? That more like you said, pressing detail? I think it's a little bit it's a little bit of both because it it'll better help us direct uh project planning. I mean as opposed I mean yeah our basketball court at BHS may need to be resurfaced but if we can extend the life of that or put that off for something more pressing like a boiler issue or whatever then that gives us that line of sight as opposed to just a
115spreadsheet and you know temperature check and you know wind gauge. So, right. Um, but yeah, so there would be there would be some some uh information and cost savings and that kind of thing. Okay. And from what I remember, Mckenry said it would take at least three months for them to uh get all the data in there. Okay. So, they've started already. They have started. Yep. Awesome. Okay. Next up is future meeting dates. Again, board governance is July 15th at 5. tomorrow at 5:15 p.m. Policy is July 24th, 5:30. Finances, July 28th at 5:30. Personnel committee, again, that's close session, that's August 6th at 1 p.m. Our next annual I'm sorry, our next monthly schoolboard meeting is August 11th at 6:30 p.m. here. And again, just as a reminder, annual the annual schoolboard meeting is
116August 25th at 6:30 p.m. And then we'll also be here. Um, okay. Okay. So, with that, um, I will entertain a motion then to take us into close session for Wisconsin statute 19.851c for the purpose of conducting the superintendent's informal review. So moved. Second. All right. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. We are now going into close session. Thank you.