February 4, 2026 FPS School Board Meeting

001Good evening everyone and welcome to the Franklin Board of Education meeting for Wednesday, February 24, excuse me, 4th, 2026. Um, the meeting has been properly posted. Can we have a roll call, please? >> Yes. Mrs. Wakowski here. >> Mrs. Yank here. >> Mrs. Larson here. >> Dr. Khan here. >> Mrs. Saferski here. >> Mr. Sprag here. >> And I'm here. Thank you. Can we stand for 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. >> I'm looking for a motion to approve the agenda. >> So move. >> Second. >> Motion was made by Mrs. Wakowski seconded by Dr. Khan. All in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries. Thank you. >> Franklin High

002School presentation first, please. >> Sure. Um, as the liazison for the Franklin High School, I'd like to invite Mr. Vololo and his team up. We're excited to have them here tonight. Um, as we often hear, it's really important for our students to feel engaged um, and part of something um, to keep them connected with school. And so they are here tonight to talk about their connections with freshmen and how they're making those freshman transitions a little bit stronger and um you know more we'll say more effective. So welcome and thank you all for being here. >> Right. So we've shared a few times over the years different ways to talk about college career readiness and on this slide is our latest way to marry that with our profile of graduate work where having those things

003presented side by side where the college and career indicators are the same ones we've talked about in terms of coherence metrics the college career writing scorecard and then on the right hand side you see um the graphic we landed on around the profile of a graduate work. So not, you know, having this out everywhere yet in the high school building, that sort of thing. But, um, you know, sharing this, you know, as often as we can with different stakeholder groups and everything else to remind us of what the heart of our work is. So everything on that left again is familiar to us, right? The ACT, the AP scores, the workbased learning experiences, etc. And then marrying that with the life readiness of the profile of a graduate on the right, which permeates all the

004things that we do. So what we're going to talk about today is really our freshman transition and we bear a little bit of a part of that and we'll hear from some actual real life peer mentors who are joining us today. Uh advisory which has been all hands aspect of Franklin High School for the last eight years. It's been in Franklin for I think at least 10 at this point. Uh but all hands is in we're all adviserss. Every staff member you see here is an adviser of students. I'll see my students graduate this upcoming June. Um and one of my advises is here. former adise, not current mentor, but always an adiseee and uh talking about mentorship. We believe in mentorship in different ways. You'll hear us talk about those things. So, that's really

005the crux of what we're talking about today. >> Yeah. And what you'll see here is quite of a development that's been over the last couple years. So, we really realize the transition to the high school is a really big one and the skills in order for students to be successful need to be taught at that freshman level. It's a really critical time for us to be able to do that. So, even last year, we then learned what other schools are doing to support their freshmen and why that's so important. And then we also brought a team of teachers, primarily ones who teach freshmen. We brought counselors, uh, admin, and then also some of our staff that help with the fresh freshman transition program that happens over the summer, um, in order to develop the learning

006targets for what we really see as what they need to feel success at the high school. So, you'll see the learning targets there that we focus on. So with those learning targets, we um look at data each week and track how are freshmen doing. Uh the data that we look at is connected to those college career readiness indicators and the profile of a graduate. And in reviewing where we were at at the end of quarter 1, there was a lot to celebrate. So with a team of teachers and uh some mentors, we came up with a fun celebration. and um all the advisories came together in the Saber Center to be able to share some of their really awesome data that they had and getting freshmen excited about data was like quite a task but

007it was really fun. There was a lot of joy had as we looked at their uh average GPA and their lack of tardies and some of their engagement survey results that showed that they really care about their own learning and they appreciate the positive relationships they're able to have. And then we ended that rounded it out with their freshman first day video which is always a fun experience to see with them. >> Perfect. And as you know we really do believe in mentorship at the high school like Mike alluded to. Um we believe in it as an evidence-based practice. We have programs such as check and connect which we brought to all of you two years ago as part of our board update. Continue to have that. But then like Mike alluded to with our

008advisory model adults in our building act as mentors when they do their weekly advisory meeting with their grade level students each Wednesday. And in that time we focus on a student's journey through high school which can include a lot. What you see up here um in what we've described in different opportunities is are the college and career readiness indicators. We talk about those with students of all grade levels. The conversation is entirely different when you have nth graders in front of you. It's talking about what opportunities are possible so that they can leave Franklin High School college and career ready. It also is something that's a little bit more specific with the juniors I work with on Wednesday. They've checked some of these boxes already and now they're making choices for how they want to

009end their high school career while also balancing that with what might come next. What's their post high school plan? Um, these conversations center on these data points that you see here, just to be more specific, participation or achievement in an AP class, a work-based learning experience, and then our counselors provide opportunities for students to learn more about those with the help of their adviser in that model. But we also know that we have great students. So, the adults act as those mentors, but we also have students who act as those mentors. We have peer mentors and they are juniors and seniors who participate in some training with one of our school counselors, Miss Cluck, and then serve in that role either both of those years or for one of those years as they end their

010high school journey with a freshman advisory. And that's Sue who's with us tonight. So, we're excited to have Rama, Paige, and my former adisey, George, share a little bit about their story as peer mentors and their lived experience as they were advises in ninth and tth grade. So, without further ado, the three of them. >> Good evening. My name is Rama Mahan and I'm a senior at Franklin High School. I've been a peer mentor for two years and the transition to high school is pretty hard. You know, you have a new building, um, new teachers and you go from the oldest to the youngest in the school. So, it's definitely hard. I think being a peer mentor gave me like the motivation to want to help the younger freshman and I know that I'm a

011source that they can come to whenever they need anything. I feel like they come to me because I understand them more in other ways that teachers may not. >> Good evening. I'm Paige Walker, another senior at Franklin High School. I remember both of my um peer mentors when I was a freshman. They were super independent and very kind. We participated in a lot of small group discussion each week, which inspired me to become a peer mentor. I've been a peer mentor for two years now. I chose to be a peer mentor because I love helping the young freshmen engage and become stronger students as they go through Franklin High School. It's not easy, but sharing some experience and teaching them independence and how to be successful as a student at Franklin High School is crucial.

012So, I'm honored to be a part of the peer mentor experience and it's super refreshing and exciting to engage in advisory discussion each week. >> Um, my name is George. I'm a junior and I chose to become a peer mentor because I thought that the ones that I had when I was a freshman were really like helpful. They understood like things a little different than teachers did just because they were like also students. And then um sorry and then wait >> sorry. Um, oh yeah, and I just like how like I saw familiar faces like cuz I came from a different school. I came from St. Alphonses. So like the first week of school, I didn't really know many people, but like if I saw them in the hall or anything or any of my

013like other like people in my advisory, it was just nice to see someone that I knew. And the peer mentors that I had would always say hi to me in the hall and stuff and just be really kind. So that's what like I kind of wanted to do like this year and especially in like the freshman transition days I did over the summer too. I wanted to just like be like a familiar face that freshman could see throughout the year and like if they ever need to talk to someone like come say hi to me or whatever and I always just make sure if I see them to like say hi to them in the whole and just be a familiar face to them. So before we get to any questions, comments you might have

014uh one of these peer mentors also asks the current freshman some of what they thought mentor does. So Rama, thank you for doing that. So that's this video is gathered is hearing from actual real life freshman about what mentors and they >> enjoy having peer mentors because they push everyone to be the best they can every day. They are respectful and So, I think having peer mentors is definitely a good thing. It's I feel like they're a lot of fun. They bring uh they uh they're really uh nice. They help a lot, especially like when people don't really understand what they're doing. Uh they bring food, but like yeah, >> I think prementors are pretty helpful because they're like they like stay in the class and help us if we need help in that way.

015classes get too busy or too rowdy and they're always like doing something special for us like bringing treats or something or helping us off. >> I think peer mentors are helpful because they're really kind and they provide a lot of support for students. >> I think having a peer mentor is very helpful. They are fun to be around and they help a lot. >> Um I like having a peer mentor because it's a different person from the teacher and you can go to them and not just a teacher and you have more resources. >> I think I should and I do really like them because I could ask them a lot of questions and I mean I feel like they're like close. I can be friends with them. >> Having a peer mentor has been

016very beneficial to me and it's allowed me to pass all my classes with good grades and whatnot. And then also having them there if I ever have like any questions or whatnot that I need answered really uh helpful. >> I think your mentors because they help us find our classes. >> Yeah. my classes and they're like really funny sometimes they'll make jokes that make it any questions for any of us >> I'm just curious what are the most typical questions you tend to get asked as a peer mentor >> or have there been any particularly difficult ones Well, I often get asked, "What are you bringing us next week to eat?" >> My big question. >> Um, I once had a student ask me what she could do to get into Harvard. And I sat

017there and I was like, "This is so weird, but so exciting to see a student want to go to Harvard this young, and she can't even drive yet." So, >> um, I would say my most like often asked question is just like if I could help them. I have a couple students that typically like tutor, so they just usually if they need help, they just know to come ask me. >> Um, so how do you connect with the students? I mean, do they have to seek you out or do you like give little talks in front of the classes or h how do you connect with with the students? Um, so in the beginning of the year, they all just kind of looked at us, you know, acted like they didn't really care about us.

018One thing that we did though was we made them comfortable. So, you know, we kind of let loose a little and we were a little chaotic sometimes with them. But that's what got them to really want to talk to us. Um, we did. I mean, at least for me, I always went and I had to talk to them first, but now they come and they talk to me because they know I'm not here to judge and I truly care about what they have to say. I think our counselor who has helped start the peer mentor program, Mrs. Clark, has done a fantastic job of giving us advice and spending so much time on training sessions, even starting as early in the summer to help us be more connected with the freshman class. And at first,

019it's awkward. We don't, this is brand new faces for all of us. Even for us, you know, we don't really know how to speak to kids that are almost our age as well. But it's exciting. We get to have conversations and connect with them in very small groups. So, it's not so awkward and almost very like planned. We just kind of go into it with a fresh perspective and get to know them on a personal level as well. Um, I would say that I got to know them through like we usually split off into small groups to talk about things, which just like makes them a little more comfortable to talk about like their grades and just how they're doing in school and stuff compared to talking to a teacher cuz that could be a

020little intimidating. And we usually like rotate the groups. So, we got to know all the students pretty quick and now they're like pretty comfortable and know who they can come to if they have like certain questions about certain things. >> And I'll just add that like they're embedded in the home advisories for those freshmen. So they're with them every time they're in home base and freshman have a little bit more home base than the, you know, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. >> So you have your own group that you kind of know. You have assigned group. You're not just floating around. Anybody can ask you anything. But and um so you kind of keep them for the year and then next year you get a new new badge, fresh faces, questions. >> The only which I

021have I think it's a very good initiative and step because especially as one of the students mentioned is that when you're the most oldest in the middle school and all of you're coming to a high school where you are the most youngest sometimes there's a sense of intimidation that hey I'm you know I'm now you know so I think what you guys are doing as a welcoming you know environment just making them feel at home and ease is very important step because that relieves a lot of anxiety and also makes them part have a feel of it part of a family. Thank you for doing that. Thank you guys. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you everyone. Appreciate it. >> She had her hair done. >> That's what I do on my Wednesday. Yes.

022>> Thank you. All right, we'll move on to Friends of Franklin. >> Thank you for having us. >> Thank you. You too. Sister Aman, please. >> Sorry. from the Franklin the last few years and thank you. Okay. Um hopefully it's working now and you can hear me. >> I can hear you better now. Um, so Stephanie has been a partner of Franklin for the last several years going back four years and I um want to talk about her partnership and her work building the district family engagement liaison program being an advocate for students with disabilities and their families and I didn't quite know how to explain it all. So, I wrote a letter and um hopefully you'll uh give me a little time here to um read my letter to the board about Stephanie um

023and her recognition. So, uh dear members of the school board, I'm writing to recommend Stephanie Adrian for recognition as a friend of Franklin for her partnership and engagement with the Franklin Public Schools over the past four years. Throughout this time, Stephanie has played a vital role in supporting the district's efforts to strengthen family engagement and build meaningful partnerships between schools and families. Stephanie works for CISA1 um through the Wisconsin statewide parent educator initiative which we call Wispy. So um wanted to explain that part. Um in her role uh she serves as a liaison between families and school districts in the CISA1 region and the goal is creating better partnerships. Uh and this is really important work um because it's strong partnerships between schools and families are good for kids. So Stephanie um as I mentioned

024initially Stephanie partnered with Franklin Public Schools four years ago in hosting and organizing listening sessions with families and district staff. She helped facilitate the sessions and help to build trust and respect among families and school district staff. These listening sessions helped identify growth opportunities for improving programming and building partnerships with families in Franklin. Stephanie's partnership through the listening sessions validated parents' perspectives and allowed them to feel heard while also allowing district staff the opportunity to identify next steps to improve the student and family experience in Franklin. Stephanie has also been instrumental in supporting the development of the district family engagement liaison program in Franklin. And this program involves selecting and training parent representatives to serve as liaison and advocates for parents of children with special needs in the community. The district family engagement liaison meet

025with parents when there are questions. Uh they lead family engagement events and attend open houses and meet and greet opportunities at the schools. Stephanie provides the training and guidance for this program and her insight and dedication have helped shape a program that centers families as valued partners in student success. Stephanie has also been a strong advocate for students with disabilities and their families and she provides a very fair and honest perspective and her efforts have amplified family voices, promoted understanding and supported equitable access to resources and opportunities for students across the district. She consistently brings a thoughtful, inclusive perspective to this work and has been a steady and reliable supporter of the district's goals. Stephanie's continued support of Franklin Public Schools reflects her belief in the importance of family engagement and inclusive practices. She has

026been a true partner and I've enjoyed working closely with her during my time in Franklin. Her contributions have had a lasting impact on our district and the families we serve and she's truly deserving of this recognition. So, I want to Thank the school board for recognizing Stephanie Adrihan as a friend of Franklin. >> It has been wonderful to be part of the Franklin School District. I feel like I've seen a lot of you at different events. It's also really exciting to work with a district that takes the information from families and actually puts it into practice. We don't always do that. Some districts have listening sessions and the data goes in a folder. Um, but I'm seeing you guys all take steps to really implement it and I appreciate it and your families appreciate it

027which is interacting with your definely >> and I'll just add that Stephanie um interacts with a lot of families of children with special needs and a lot of district staff across the region. and um she offers a fair and honest perspective on um on what's going on in school districts and um she she shares the feedback openly and honestly um and will tell us what what we need to hear um but she is an advocate for Franklin and speaks highly of the work we're doing. I also want to say I also work with Stephanie on a project. I'm involved with disabilities association and we are also partnering with her on a parent project this year. So she's easy to work with and just lots of brings a lot of uh skills and very easy to

028collaborate. >> So it's good to see you. My kids also had her mo as a principal. >> They're all grown up now. >> I love it. >> Then I love >> you have this chair for the night. Thank you. >> They were little. >> All right. Thank you. Um, we'll move on to community comment. Um, there's no cards out there, but I did see somebody pick one up. Does anybody care to comment? >> Yes, >> please. >> You have to come up to the mic. >> Please. Sorry. Please come up to the microphone and and say your name um and address. Hi, I'm Peggy Lemahu and I'm a resident of Franklin, a grandmother with two grandchildren in Franklin schools and I'm here to inquire about um the walk out today for um and against ICE

029and my my point for being here today is wondering what is the school district school board done to inform parents, teachers, students, etc. about the safety features around what could potentially happen if ICE comes into any of our surrounding schools. I think we need to be prepared. It's not if they're coming, it's just when they're going to come. And we need to have educated all of those different levels of people who are involved or could be impacted. And so I would like to know from the school board whether you have put together any guidelines or had any communication with each one of those groups noted. clarify the rules. We can't comment. >> Yeah, we we can't we we can't comment. Um I don't know if administration has has talked about >> it's not on the

030agenda. >> It's on the agenda. We can't talk about it. >> Okay. >> We'd be we'd be happy we'd be happy to we'd be happy to get back to you with that information and we'd be happy to and we'd be happy to put that information out. You're asking a question. Yeah, that would be great if you would get back to me because I think there is a concern amongst parents and students as to ICE and their actions and their behaviors and how should we be prepared and what we and what should we do if they do enter any or try to enter into facilities. We just need to know what is your thinking and what kind of parameters you've put in place and there's actually been conversations with the different um groups that are going

031to be impacted. So, I'd be happy for you to get back to me. That would be great. >> Yeah, please. >> Yeah, I've got my card. I'll put it in the basket. >> Yeah, it's got everything on there. Thank you. >> Anybody else? >> All right. I'm looking for a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> Some moved. >> Second. >> Motion was made by Mrs. Superski, seconded by Mrs. Yank. All in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries. Thank you. Uh, schoolboard calendar regular board of education meeting Wednesday, February 18th, 2026 at the ECC at 6. School board workshop on March 4th, 2026 at the ECC at 6. Key communicators meeting Wednesday, March 11th, 2026 at the CIRC building behind us at 5:00 pm. and a board of education meeting Wednesday, March 18th at the

032ECC at 6 o'clock. District administrator update. Dr. B, please. >> All right. Good evening. Um, thank you to the high school for being here to present this evening. I know many of them took off already and they've had a busy day. Uh, but appreciate hearing the updates. Um, they were rather humble about the work they've done to really transition our ninth grade students, but they put a lot of effort behind that this year when they talk about the event that took place at the end of first quarter as a celebration in the Saber Center. there was a lot of energy and excitement. So, uh, really neat programming and we're seeing more of that going on between fifth and sixth grade as they're really working on honing in on transitions and continuing conversations like especially in

033those pivotal years where students are moving buildings uh, coming together different and learning starting to look different. So, thank you to Mike and his team for that. And Cordell's with us tonight, too, to give us an update on athletics and activities shortly. So, it's a very high school oriented evening of learning tonight. On that same note, uh little shout out to our varsity bowling team as they're going to advance to state this coming weekend. Um and so that takes place at Dale's Weston Lanes in Weston, Wisconsin, uh starting Friday and and through the weekend. So if you're looking for an event to spectate at, I think you can take some spectators at the bowling alleys, but it's a little bit smaller than our usual venues. Uh another exciting moment for us as a district, and

034you're going to hear more about the wellness clinic from Miss Lancor, Mr. Cromy this evening. Uh we have Clary, Yvon, and Erica with us. Our staff through Proactive MD and the FPS um wellness clinic, but we opened up appointment options this week. We open up the doors officially next week for appointments. Obvious obviously, we've had virtual visits and things like that going on the last few months. Uh but we're really excited for this pivotal moment uh to take place. So you'll hear a little bit more about that shortly. Uh Saber Center has a couple upcoming performances. So, for Valentine's, we have the FHS Jazz Cabaret taking place at 6 PM. Um, and then our high school teen edition of the Broadway musical Chicago is taking place near the end of March, March 19th through 22nd.

035Uh, so if you're interested in seeing one of those shows, reach out to Tracy Stewart and I'm sure you have tickets. Uh, another exciting moment for the high school the this week is that we, if you've driven through the high school lot and looked at some of the work taking place, the dugouts um, and the press box for the baseball diamond are being erected, put together, and we're working with CD Smith and Eggertton on those projects. They were able to bring in our construction to students. So, they got some different uh, experiences through that work. So, it was nice, especially having our own build of a house taking place also. we could pull the students off that site for a day, uh, do some different learning and masonry and things um, on site and also

036have some ownership to that project. So, it was exciting. And also this week, our high school students, about 29, were able to go to, I think it was in Greenfield or Greenale, but the um, hands-on healthcare careers expo. So there was 35 different demo de demonstrations at this expo for students to explore different areas in the healthc care fields, learn a little bit about pathways and options that are out there. So a lot of excitement going on in the district and really high school focused uh with some of those updates this evening. Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh board liaison reports. Does anybody have any reports please? So I I'm the leazison for Southwood Glenn school elementary school and I did a had a tour and a visit with the principal last Friday and he

037coming from the Milwaukee public school district. It was definitely very helpful and new to him to have a mentorship program where um the instruction coaches you know at our in our district which he find very helpful. Um also in his first 100 days he has been trying to find what is important for the students, staff and the families and by being very visible ex for example being in pickup lanes in classrooms and the top three goals um uh which he set for himself was uh increasing the literacy achievement uh working with the special needs families and also behavioral working with uh uh social econom emotional learning to the students with special needs to address their concerns as such. um touring the school definitely was again always refreshing to see the young learners engaged in and

038because of the geography of Southwood Glenn it's it's surrounded by most of the older homes is no no new developments the concern against which was brought up was the decreasing enrollment uh and how what how are we going to address that as a district because there are no new homes being constructed there and then uh Most of the families have kids already grown up have left and sometime most of them are empty nesters. So that was a concern of how we will continue to have good amount of teachers and continue to have you know students because if there are no new families moving into the homes or the new construction which is not available there how are you going to sustain that which I felt was a very uh concerning um question which you brought

039up very reasonable question which you brought up so of course we don't have answers to that but hopefully you know there'll be some new families moving into some new homes or some turnarounds, you know, and hopefully we'll get more students. Uh, which is always refreshing to see new faces in the district. That's my update from the South Glenn. Thank you. Anybody else? >> I need a leazison on visit to the high school. Um, I'm not going to conversation, but you already heard our presentation. So, >> thank you. Uh, anybody else or school and community engagement reports? Angie, please. >> Um, I forgot the first one I wanted to mention, but I did want to mentioned that I'm up to my ears in dance. So, the high school dance team is returning to state this weekend

040in lacrosse. 23 time state champion going back to hopefully defend their position. So, that will be exciting. And then I was invited um back to a school that I read with last year as part of the read aloud program. was national read aloud day and um so Mrs. Robin would invite, she's a friend, invited me to come back and read my book to the first graders at Robinwood today. And it was just, it's always fun. Um, you forget how much young children love to be to be read, too. So, it was nice. >> Thank you, >> Mary. >> Um, I went to the ribbon cutting for the for the clinic. That was fun. Giant scissors. And, um, I went to its mad house, which I did not know what to expect. And I tell you,

041I it was great. I'm not just saying that. I I it really exceeded my expectations as far as you could hear every word that those kids said, their their I don't know, body lang not body language, but just um it was it was very engaging on multiple levels. It was very enjoyable. >> I would second that. I was going to say I went to the Mad House, too. I took my husband and my aunt and they really enjoyed it. My husband for days afterwards kept saying, "Wow, those kids were really talented. We know who's going to be in drama club." So, >> it was very impressive to find out those were middle school students. >> That was a really, >> it was a very good show. Um, and I happened to be at the Saber

042Center this weekend for the Forte um show um of Shrek, sorry, Shrek Jr. And um just reading through the list of I mean, it's not all Franklin kids, but um a lot of our Franklin students were were in that show as well. And then as always, I'm I'm always just kind of amused to hear the community, you know, people who have never been in the Saber Center before. I didn't even know this was here. This is such a great facility. So, it's just another like Franklin Pride kind of moment. >> Thank you. Anyone else? >> All right, we'll move on to reports, presentations, other board business, athletics, and activities report. Mr. Smith, please. Good evening everyone. >> Welcome. >> Um, I thought I would add some color uh a little bit to my presentation uh

043for you tonight uh just with some photos uh and video from from last year uh along with the report itself. Uh so uh just as I always do, I'd love to uh run through some of this. Obviously, I know you've read it already a lot of it, so I won't uh belabor any of it, but I'll hit on a couple of them and obviously feel free to uh to ask questions. Uh happy to elaborate on anything. Um and I will get to this. I won't that's I'm giving it away already. I'm giving away the the surprise flag football Lambo. But uh again, thank you all. Uh I I'd first like to say that um all of you um and some in attendance as well uh it takes it truly does take a village. I realize

044that every day more and more uh how much it takes to to make all this happen. So thank you all for your time. Um and I'm happy and excited to uh to continue the work. Uh the first thing I would like to talk about is just the the number of programs we have. Uh right now it's it's hovering right at 60. And I say hovering because a a a theme of ours up at the high school is that kids always have an idea, they have a thought, they have a club, they have a a something they want to do. Um so right now we have 31 uh athletic programs right around 29 uh clubs that are pretty high functioning, a couple that are in the works that they that they want to start. So, um

045I think for us the the constant the constant battle challenge and fun part is scaling at the right pace, doing doing the most amount of stuff, but doing it in a way that all the kids can do the things, but they're not spread too thin and so advisors aren't spread too thin. Uh and so kids are dedicated to what they're doing. That's that's one of the things we're working really hard on. But uh as you can also see from uh a competitive success standpoint, I think one thing we talk about often is uh I say it at our sports meetings a lot because I have to go through a lot of the compliance and the uh grades and attendance and and those things. Uh but sometimes what's what gets lost in that is is kids

046still want to compete, coaches still want to compete, I still want to compete as as as a leader. Uh but we push our kids and we talk about a lot doing both. you you can do good in class and you can win and you can go to work and you can do the club on the side. Uh we're careful obviously not to burn kids out but also teach them the capacity that they have. Um and I think that's really important for our kids. Uh as as I outlined in this report, uh the specialization and and the mindset of just doing one thing really good is something we try to push back against and make sure they know uh our kids can do whatever they want to do. Uh so you can see from this competitive

047standpoint, you all touched on all the state champions uh championships that I was going to touch on for this year. Uh we had a couple from last year. Uh both cheer and dance brought home uh state championships. That was Cheers's first time. Uh dance continued continued their run. Uh and we had a bunch of state qualifiers as well uh from last year. So, uh, again, I think that the, uh, the constant balance of being competitive while also understanding that sport is a vehicle is a, is a constant that we're trying to reinforce. Uh, winning's great, but it's not everything. Uh, I also I ran through here a couple of our tremendous examples of some of our clubs that I talk about. Uh, a lot of these clubs, they just started in the last year or

048two or three since I've been here. And I think that's a tremendous thing to point out because the amount of work that advisers and kids are doing to advance these clubs and make sure they're doing all the things they need to do. Uh not only from a compliance standpoint, but just from a idea standpoint, you know, starting a club seems really easy to to to anybody, but when you get down to the nitty-gritty of recruiting kids and creating a pipeline and having senior leadership, the the kids you saw up here today, that is a great embodiment of who we're working with every day. So, uh, I I'm always hesitant when kids bring club ideas to me. It's great. We love it. Me and Mr. Volo will sit down and talk about anything. Uh, but again,

049we want to make sure that kids are not pulled in a in a million different directions. But we have some tremendous examples of both competitive clubs that that do really well and they compete. We have some that are just advocacy clubs that that just want to get together and learn. We have another one, Letters of Love. They literally get together once a month and write letters to sick kids in in the hospital. Like, that's all they do. That's all the club is. It's once a month. And um I think that gamut and that range gives all our kids an opportunity and a space to find something that that they can ultimately do whether that is competition or it's not and that's okay. Um one of the stats that we always pay attention to uh is

050how our programming is affecting GPA and attendance and just overall quality of life for our kids. Uh and you continue to see that uh GPA rises, attendance uh rises when you're doing more things. And I think that's the that's the constant battle is balancing what's too much, what's the right amount. Uh I I know I I I speak on this a lot, but I think it's really important for uh our families to understand that. I think it's important for our kids to to reinforce that with them. It's important for me as a leader to always be cognizant of how these things are affecting our kids both in and out of the classroom. Uh because that does get lost sometimes uh in the space of of clubs or sports is what is the impact in the

051classroom? how is this making them better? Uh we we talk about college and career readiness all the time. Uh there's nothing more college and career ready than showing up to class and getting good grades and even if you're not getting good grades, putting the work in to try. Uh I think that's a huge piece of this as well. Uh I spoke to you all last year and I told you I'd have a a new data and and I try to roll out some of that this year. Uh me and Mark Grunky uh really got in into the data. If you ever talk to Mark, he loves data. So, we could go a million different ways with data, but I thought it'd be good uh to break down just kind of from a male student athlete

052perspective, female uh how many sports kids are playing. Uh again, as I illustrate throughout this that um one of our biggest challenges in athletics right now is uh and not just with athletics, but it's it's any co-curricular is is is teaching kids that they can do more than one thing. Um you don't have to dedicate your life to one thing. If you want to, that's great and and you should do that. But kids have such a capacity that they don't always realize. And reinforcing that, uh you see on here we have we have one four sport athlete. Uh LA Anderson, she'd probably played eight sports if we let her and she'd excel at all of them. Um but you can also see the number of three sport athletes we have and the number of two

053sport. Uh back when I was in high school and many of you, being a three sport athlete was just kind of like what you did. Uh now that's it's not the same anymore. Uh so in instead of looking at that as a negative necessarily as coaches we always have to sit down and think about okay what does this mean? What does this data tell us if that's the way the the external forces are pushing up against us right now? How do we make our programs more special? How do we make them uh places that people want to come to that they want to do that they don't want to go to the club practice where they're just paying to go? Uh the standards matter, the conduct matter, the grades matter. Uh, and I think our

054kids in speaking to them and and having our, uh, leadership council conversations, uh, those are the things that make high school sports and clubs just really special is that all those things really do matter. Um, not that they don't matter in the club world, uh, but they are not always at the top of the list, right? Uh, one important thing that we started doing last year, uh, that has been super informative for me and for coaches, uh, me and coaches sit down at the beginning, middle, and end of every season just talking about, uh, generally for me it's never about wins and losses. Uh, you got sometimes you got to let coaches just just talk and wins and losses come up. Uh, but you always try to steer the conversation back to the health of

055the program. The health of the program is never about winning and losing. Uh, winning and losing is sometimes a barometer to success, but also we've I say this all the time, we've had teams that go to state and they all hate each other. We've had teams that are 0 and whatever and they love the sport. They love being around each other. They love the coach. Uh, and that's always been a telltale for me of the experience is not about winning and losing. So, um, we started doing surveys for both, uh, families and parents and our kids last year. Uh, and I think it's been super helpful for me and for coaches just in learning and understanding the the the vibe, the perspective, the emotion, uh, the feeling, uh, from all those different stakeholders. And, uh,

056while you you you I tell coaches all the time, just take it with a grain of salt. Listen, look inward. That's kind of what we always talk about as coaches, just look inward. What can I take out of this? What what what can I change? What can I uh, modify? But I think that is one of the ways we've been able to uh hopefully improve all of our programs, increase participation, uh little things like communication, the bus schedule, uh having late practice, having Easter practice, having uh over the break practice. Uh little things that a lot of folks don't think about are things that we've been able to receive and hear from from these surveys that ultimately they could be quick little fixes for myself or for any program that uh has really helped steer

057our program forward. um in whichever way um I think when you talk about uh cut and non-cut sports um obviously with new facilities coming the the restriction on facility space uh will be not as as bad as it was before um but I think we still talk about how do we scale properly if we're going to do intram murals if we're going to have space for you know extra uh activities how do we make sure we're doing them and have proper supervision and guidance and all those things because uh another thing we talk about a lot as coaches is the balance of do you keep 18 kids that nine of them play or do you keep 10 kids knowing nine of them will play. Um and every sport has a different version of that. So

058you're always thinking of how to be creative, how to engage kids, but also um you don't want to put anybody kids, families, parents, anybody in a situation where um you're on the team but I don't see a path for you to play. So figuring all that out um is a constant battle, but it's it's been a good one and it's one that we can now plan a little bit more around um how many coaches you have on a team, how how much staff do you have, who is the head coach. Uh some of our programs like bowling is a perfect example. Uh I can't speak to bowling 10 years ago, but from what coach spot and that that program has told me, bowling has every year it's taken off. It's been something different. Um it's

059a unique sport where they don't play on a field in the behind the school, you know, they're going somewhere else. So um every sport has its unique nuance and has its unique uh perspective and way that they're going about building program. Bowling has increased in numbers every year. Uh we have most of our sports are increasing each year. some I don't think you can fit any more kids on the track team or the football team, but uh most of our sports are seeing uh constant improvement um in their participation. Um I think the middle school, the important part of the middle school to to bring up is just that the middle school when I look at it just from an enrollment standpoint, it would be a division two high school if it were a high

060school. And what that means for uh high school athletics or even some of our our our clubs um is that you have such an overwhelming amount of enthusiasm at the middle school and talking with uh Brian Kervich over there and and him acting right now as kind of the the AD over there. Um there is a demand for even more sports. There's a demand for more levels of sport. There's a demand for uh more club opportunities. and knowing firsthand uh the middle school um that that's it's it's a whole different perspective of learning and teaching and coaching, but the middle school and at the high school level. So, uh again, you always go back to can we get people to supervise these, to coach these, to be around these. Uh but I think that's something

061we'll continue to work on is just creating a better pipeline between middle school to high school. Uh so that that uh experience isn't so different. uh because right now, you know, there's sports we have at the high school that they don't have at the middle school and that sometimes people are wondering, well, where's the, you know, whatever, fill in the blank. Uh but that's something we'll continue to uh to work on. But um as you can see in the numbers wise, uh engagement, enthusiasm at the middle school is at an all-time high and I only see it probably increasing from here. So, um, one of the I I I laid this out and I know this is very long-winded, but I just wanted to touch on, um, as many of you know, the the growth

062of of, uh, sports and clubs outside of our school, not our school programming, clubs, AA select, whatever that may be. Um that that has put an immense amount of pressure I think uh from a staffing perspective from a uh from the kids standpoint of just looking out in the world and seeing how things go today uh versus how they used to be. Um that's probably our biggest external challenge right now is just how do we meld the two together? Uh because we at a at a high school level, we're never going to tell kids don't don't play club, don't do this, don't do that. We're going to push them to do everything. uh that may not be happening on the other side. You know, high school is not always seen as as the highest level

063of competition and that's just not true. Uh so for coaches and for our kids and for me, it's always trying to figure out what is the balance of working with clubs and working with outside groups, understanding that their their model is a little bit different. Um it is more financially driven than ours. Um ours is a little more character driven, uh standard driven, and those are two different offerings for people. And I think that's an awesome opportunity for us. Um, again to hit on why grades are important and why the conduct matters and how you act in the lunchroom absolutely matters. Uh, which at the club level it's just a little bit different. But I think that is our uh biggest challenge right now. But I also think that we are are answering that challenge

064um by just presenting uh data and and anecdotal evidence of of burnout and all those things that we try to avoid uh at the high school level. Um, I wanted to talk a little bit about uh initiating a new activity and and I'll I already gave away the flag football uh video I have, but um we've had, like I said, a ton of uh opportunity and want to start a new thing, whatever that thing is. Our biggest example last year was flag football. Uh uh girls flag football is one of the fastest rising sports across the nation. It's the fastest in Wisconsin right now, right next to girls wrestling. Uh pickle ball somewhere right there as well. But um last year we had uh it came to us from the Green Bay Packers. Uh they

065are kind of overseeing the statewide initiative around girls flag football. Um and my initial thought was okay the the Packers are doing the flag football thing. Okay. Um but then I started to do more research. I reached out talked to the Packers myself. Um they were giving out $5,000 stipens to any school that was going to start a program and that would help with jerseys, with stipens for coaches, for whatever you wanted to use it for. Um, and that piqued my interest because I know that Powderpuff at our school is a is a really fun. You've never been to Powderpuff, come to Powderpuff this homecoming. Um, but I knew the appetite was there. I I just really didn't know um who wants to come one time in the fall to play Powderpuff and who wants

066to be on a flag football team with practices and structures and plays and and all the things. Um, and we had an overwhelming uh engagement in that. We had 52 kids come to the uh initial uh just info meeting. We have another one next week for this upcoming year and we already have 75 girls that are interested. Um and last year uh coach Kobe and coach Curtis took that on and it was awesome. It it was it was a culmination of uh all that hesitancy and worry you have around starting a whole new thing. Uh because there is a lot of that in my position because you want it to be a good experience. You don't want to just do something because people are doing it. Uh and flag football turned out to be awesome.

067We hosted uh three kind of roundrobin tournaments at the high school. The girls had their own conference they played in. They played Port and Mosquo and um consistently there ended up being about 30 girls uh that played on the team. They got to play at the Don Hudson Center then one tournament up in Green Bay. Um and then I'll show you later a couple of them got to play at Lambeau at a halftime of a game. So uh I think that's the the work that we do. sometimes the the end is hard to see and when you can when you can see things like that it it it piqus your interest in your brain to say the work is all it's all going to lead to something eventually and that was a really cool opportunity.

068So we'll continue to do that. I think we continue to push uh to figure out even more specifically how do we get more of our uh our young women involved in sport um and getting them uh you know working out whether it's in the weight room or just with their sport um because I think that's a tremendous opportunity and I think again the appetite and the engagement is there and I'm I'm really excited to keep that going. Um, I also want to touch on just our uh kind of a new process we had for working with coaches uh in their development and growth. Uh, couple years ago we got together. It was me and about 8 to 10 coaches. And we worked uh with a with an AD friend of mine who has opened his

069own uh consulting business uh for he's about a 35 year AD. He's kind of like on on the other side um and he's kind of getting ready to retire, but he's wants to give back uh so much. So, he worked with us and our coaches to kind of come up with an evaluation tool from a coaches standpoint um that wasn't just checking a box of like did you do the things this season. It was more of how did your season go? What were the challenges? Uh what are the things you're thinking about 12 months from now? What are the things that are important for the athletic director to know? What are the things that are important for your kids and your families? And and some of that self-reflection I talked about and looking inward kind

070of started with that evaluation process. And for me, it's less of uh with any coach, uh are you coming back next year or not? It's more of what are you thinking about? You know, where's your brain at? How are you personally? How are you doing coaching wise? How are you doing mentally? Um how are the kids doing? What are the what are the challenges? Because I'm not at practice every single day. I I wish I could be, but um I rely on coaches to give me the temperature and the pulse of their teams to understand and know um how are things going. Uh, and that's a really important question that uh, coaches have told me in the last couple years that's not a question they get probably enough. It's just how are you doing? Um,

071and that question will usually lead to like a 20-minute answer and it's always a good answer. Um, so if you ever see one of our coaches, our adviserss around, just ask them how they're doing and they'll appreciate that question. Uh, but I'm really proud of that work because it really was all the coaches and me coming together um, and knocking that out. Um the last piece I wanted to touch on specifically was just our um signing days. And I have another signing day photo in here as well. But uh we just had a signing day today. We had five kids signed to go to college. Uh we had three football players, a golfer um and a lacrosse player. Uh so even our signing days are starting to see more uh diversity and club uh or

072club and sport diversity in terms of what they're doing and why they're going to college. Uh lacrosse scholarships weren't even a thing 15 years ago and now they're becoming more and more prevalent. Uh and even so back to flag football, I was just on a uh a webinar the other day statewide with state of Wisconsin. Um there were several colleges on there that uh college girls flag football coaches now are also happening and they are actually scouting and coming out to high schools to give out uh maybe not full riot scholarships but money to play uh flag football in college. So, um I think those signing days are are not only great for our kids. They love them and they they love the, you know, the agilation and just the moment, but uh I think

073for families, they love it more than anything. Uh because it is it is a culmination of a lot of work, uh to get to a uh not only a four-year high school career, but but getting to play college and just what comes with that. Um so, that's a special opportunity. And and today we had five. We've had uh 12 total this year. Um, and I think we had 24 last year. Um, and I think the next iteration of those is going to start to be um, outside of sport, but even within our clubs, what are what are you going off to do? You know, it doesn't have to be about what sport you're going to play it. What trade are you going into? You know, are you going into the armed services? Whatever you're doing,

074uh, let's celebrate it. So, um, any way that I can, uh, start to, uh, celebrate our kids more, to open their eyes, to get to push their capacity to to help them, um, I would do. Um, and with that, I wanted to, uh, I'll show you just a couple of things from last year I thought were really cool. And this is by no means everything from last year, but it was just uh, a good amount of of things. And I think a a good mixture of all the stuff we have going on up at the high school. So this is mock trial at state. Um they actually had uh three people place. It's a I won't explain the entire governance of mock trial but uh having this many people go having that many people place

075was really an awesome opportunity for them. Um they brought on a couple years ago an adjunct professor from Marquette Law. So that has been eye opening for all those kids of just um how they can be how they can get to where he is at some point in in in the way of mock trial. U this is our ski team. Uh if you've never been over to Crystal Ridge or the Rock over in that area and watched our kids ski, I was this was uh last I think December. Uh but if you've never got a chance to do that, downhill skiing is is a incredible thing to watch. Uh it's scary and it's all exhilarating all at the same time. So if you ever get a chance uh to go check them out, uh this

076is our band who this was from earlier this year. They were out there competing in the rain and came away with a couple trophies. But um our band kids, if you if you're familiar with the band, they rain 90 degrees, 100 degrees, like they're out there doing the thing. Um and it and it's really fun to see them compete. Uh this is cheer from last year. Again, this was the first time, I think, ever, if not in a really long time, that they had uh placed at their state competition, let alone won an entire division. So, um that was huge for them. And that's another program that we're still trying to uh they're growing every day. and we're trying to scale them in the right way and get them uh get them doing the thing.

077Uh this is bowling state from last year. This is one of our kids that that placed individually statewide. Um and bowling is one of those sports and I know we're in the NIL area era, but uh he actually got a cash prize for for state. Uh which was I I think it's just 300 bucks, but still 300 bucks for me back in the day. That would have been a lot of money. So um it was awesome to see him >> uh place there. Our women's empowerment club, this is a group that started uh just last year. uh they now consistently have 80 to 90 uh participants in this club. Um this was Miss Marcy that came uh one of the days. Um she was uh a a naval officer. She had an incredible story of

078just like you know fighting fighting the men through her battles and and getting all the way up to the top and um that's why she came to the club and loved the idea of it. Um and she came and she asked me like she had like secret service clearance or something. I'm like, "Miss Marcy, you just walk in and we got you. Like, you don't it's all good, you know." Uh, but you could tell she was just super diligent and just hearing her story, >> she had just the passion just burning like still to this day, uh, last year. So, that was just, it was really an awesome thing to see. Um, golf won conference. I think that was their 11th straight. This year would have been 12. Brandon Johnson always makes uh me reminder

079of that. U, but the girl in the middle, Emily, actually, uh, she was one of our signes today at college. So again, uh this stuff all comes full circle and that's why it's really fun. Uh this this swim was a really special example for me of uh that's a two first year coaches there. Uh coach Travis has been around for a little bit, but coach Anukica was a first year coach and um she's 23 years old. She's not from Wisconsin. She had just we kind of found each other through whatever which way. Um and she she built a strong enough bond with the kids and they they ended up placing at state. Um, and you can see there they got coach Travis and coach Anukica some flowers and um, that team culture had been one

080place and we got it to another and it happened all within a year. Um, so that again it was just a special opportunity for me to showcase some of our our kids and our coaches and and we had a conference summit last year. Um, and this was really fun. Uh this is actually Paige who was just here uh presenting a little bit ago. But um these kids only see each other from other schools when they're competing and usually they're not happy to see each other. It's generally like I want to you know tackle that person, I want to hit that person, whatever. Uh each school brought five kids. So we had there was 50 kids in a room. Um and they were all just working through different activities. We could they each one each we

081met each school as an ad. You went around you kind of met the kids from other schools. Um, and again, it was a tremendous opportunity for our kids to to understand and learn that uh there is some diplomacy with sport. You don't have to always hate each other. You're not much different from one another. Um, so that was a really fun experience as well. Um, this was Gabby Mars's signing day last year. And again, this is just one of the signing days we did, but uh, Gabby's was super awesome just because she had so many people there. Um, it it was it was a huge deal. She had all the balloons. There was way more balloons than this, I promise. Um but we only get so many in the picture. But uh it was just

082awesome. And again, this is just an a classic example of how much pride there is around uh any particular kid. But this was a really really awesome one. Uh and then the grand finale uh was our girls playing some flag football at Lambo Field. So I thought I'd just I'll let this run just for a minute. >> Girls flag football teams. Each school has their coach alongside their QB and two wide receivers. Representing Franklin is QB Lily McQuiry, wide receivers Kaylee Mueller and Kaylee Anderson. >> And representing Greenfield High School's quarterback Eddie Anna Valz and her two wide receivers Rita Abdaziz and Ashlin Doppson. >> Okay, ladies, let's do this. Each QB will have two throws. Franklin, you're first. Let's go, ladies. Cheer Lambo. HERE WE GO. LAMBO. This was at halftime of the Bengals

083game, >> so this was not game when no ONE'S THERE. >> NICE. THAT'S A CATCH RIGHT AT THE 50. HERE WE GO, GREENFIELD. >> THEY GOT IT AT THE 50. HOW FAR CAN YOU GO? >> OH, ALMOST. >> Here we go. One more. Let's go a little further. >> LAST ONE. BOB'S AWAY. NICE. >> HERE WE GO. We got to get IT OVER THE 50 GREEN FIELD. HERE WE GO. LOCKS IT UP. >> THAT'S A CATCH. GIVE IT UP TO BOTH TEAMS. LAMBO. >> I won't show you, but we won. >> We won handily. Um, again, our I I will just give one more. Our uh our first time we went up to the Don Hudson Center. It was our first competition. We had no idea what this was going to be. We had no

084idea what flag football would look like for our girls. Uh there was like 20 teams there. uh we ended up winning the skills challenge and we took second in the actual competition which again no idea where this was going but it started from one place and it got to another and again I think the uh consist consistent thing for me and for all of us uh in athletics and activities is just the idea that we have to keep scaling and growing and and doing things to to uh make sure our kids are doing what they want to do and it's stuff they're interested in. Uh but we got to do it at the at the right pace. So, we do it in a quality fashion and not just uh for a numbers fashion. So, um

085with that, I'll take any questions or anything. Thank you, >> Cordell. Before they ask questions, I'm wondering if you've calculated the mileage you've put on your own vehicle this year because I hear that you're out all over the state at all these events, and I think that's quite impressive. So, yeah, >> thank you for being so present, but honestly, you probably should calculate your mileage because it would >> quite entertaining for some of us. Yeah, we'll see. Uh, dance is in lacrosse and then basketball is in Minnesota this week. So, we'll uh >> we'll put some more on there. >> Straight shot. >> Yeah, it all kind of runs it's in the same neighborhood of the state. So, and other states. So, >> anybody have any questions? >> I guess >> can you just maybe

086explain talk about scaling and quality and what does that mean to me as >> Yeah. Um, I think a lot of times when uh whether it's uh kids bringing it to us or it's even families or parents in the community saying that we should be doing this and I'll use Forest Park as an example. Um, Forest Park's growing. Uh, our school uh whether growing or not, we have the kids and we have more kids that want to do stuff. Um, that could be sports or clubs or whatever it is. uh if you if you do too much too fast, you end up doing it somewhat haphazardly and sloppily. And uh something like flag football for example, um when you have that amount amount of kids that want to want to do something, you have to

087then figure out what does the coaching look like, what does transportation look like, who are we playing? And when that starts to happen over the course of one sport or two sports or three clubs or five clubs, um that's where you have to really start to I think when I talk about scaling, you have to do that at the right pace where you have the proper stuff to do that. Uh whether that be financially, whether that be uh logistically, whether that be just straight up coaches and people and uh human bodies around to to actually watch the thing happen. uh because again we we could uh off any idea or thought we could start something new probably every single day at the high school and I just want to make sure that if we're doing

088something new uh for one it's not bumping into something else that's really similar what you know we see that a lot with clubs where you want to start uh I want to start the red club well I want to start the purple club well there's already a color club so just we're going to keep one color club um and that's just an example of um not doing too much stuff too fast because when you do that things get sloppy the experience is bad. Uh, I'll give you a perfect example. JV2 soccer. A couple years ago, we had not had JV2 soccer in a while. It was my first year here. Uh, and I remember the coach walking in uh, and telling me, "Hey, I got 80 kids for two teams. We need a third team."

089And when I first heard that, I'm like, "Okay, we can't just add a team the day of tryyouts, but uh, we also have 40 kids now that are potentially getting cut. Uh so the the thought for that season was let's try a JV2 and see if it it works. And it ended up we had 20 more kids that got to play and got a full schedule and we figured it out. Uh we did that with girls basketball this year where we had a JV2 team for the first time uh in a while. So I think the idea is that you we never want to say no, but you want to do it in a way that's not sloppy and there's organization and that kids, coaches, families feel comfortable with whatever that offering is going to

090be. Well, you mentioned outside forces and seems like the whole flag football was an outside force that you without that outside force. How would that have played out? >> Um, >> play football played out or >> I mean it was the Packers who brought that >> and that was sounds like it was their statewide initiative and >> Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. Uh, it was their initiative but at the end of the day um their stake in it was uh financial. They didn't provide coaches. They didn't provide uh any field space. They didn't that's all on us to figure out. So while u more so when I talk about external forces, I'm thinking of things that are not trying to contribute to the high school uh space, which uh flag football their whole initiative is how

091do we get more girls playing in high school? Like that's their direct initiative. Uh so for me, it's more discussing and talking about uh those external forces that don't necessarily want to see our kids compete on our teams. because I want to see them compete outside of our teams and not for our teams. >> Thank you, >> please. >> Um, yeah, thanks for your constant presence at events. It's noted by many and appreciated by many. Um, and I also appreciate that as you're scaling things up, you're trying to recruit more coaches. I forget the phrase you use, but who are actually within the high school. I think that's awesome. >> Any thought towards having a trainer at middle school events? >> Yeah. Um we're really lucky um trainers and I again that's where I think

092the the middle school is like a small high school um because we're lucky that we have two three four trainers that can kind of spread out for all the different events that we have. Um getting trainers at any athletic events whether it's middle school or even at an elementary level um that's something we can absolutely talk to uh MS MSH about who provides our trainers. But um I will say they are they're stretched thin often just with um all because they do us and they do some of the colleges that are in the local area as well. So there's even times where um we get a a a licensed athletic trainer, but it's somebody we're not familiar with. Uh John Huard is our primary who's there every day with us, but um he's pulled to

093do stuff some days and uh especially depending on the time of the year. It's absolutely uh something I can look into and if it's uh something that's needed at more events, we can absolutely ask them about it. No, I I definitely want to commend you on the at least part of the high school because we as a district, you know, and as a state and as a country, we are trying to take the kids off the smartphones and the devices and be engaged in a positive manner in which they can be productive. It's not about winning or losing but being engaged in physical activity. And I think the high school is known for providing this healthy good platform which is very important not only for the winning or losing but the experience and giving them

094ability and outlet to be stay out the devices because it's a it's a it's a big pandemic where the kids are just addicted to the devices and thank you for your effort what you're doing is that I think it's contributing and helping the district and the a lot uh to keep them healthy and a positive interactions. Thank you. I was just going to ask a question. You talk a lot about the cut and non-cut sports and wanting to keep kids involved and certainly we have facility restrictions right now with the new construction when we have more space. Do you think that there would be more of like an intramural level of athletics and is that something that would be able to fit in what is planned and with staffing and things like that or would

095that be something that has to maybe take more or what are your what are your thoughts? No, I I I I think for some sports there's definitely engagement and participation that's there for that. I think the important part the first and most important part of adding a new sport is uh for one the the coaches, advisers, leaders, whoever's the adult in the room. Um when I did intramurals in high school, which was um we were allowed to as athletes play like after our our sport was done. Um you had 200 kids in a gym, you know, it wasn't like it was just 20 kids playing five on five. there was five courts going and there's games on every court. U so that takes supervision and that's at 8:00 at night potentially after everything's wrapped up.

096So while I think I would absolutely be open to it, finding a person who's willing to be there at 8:00 at night um for supervision uh financially we always talk about the safety aspect and having trainers at events like that. Um it's all stuff that we can talk about uh doing and it's definitely something I think we can do. Uh it just requires again finding the right people who want to be there and can be there. >> Thanks. >> Mary, please. >> Two quick questions. Um the discrepancy between the students involved in zero activities GPA versus students involved in three is staggering. H how do you get the word out to students, parents that hey this this can benefit you in a number of ways? Um not the least of which is a impressive increase

097in GPA. >> Um, I think it's it it's it's tough because you do we reinforce that all the time with a lot of our our preseason sport meetings that we have three times a year uh in our fall, winter, and spring. Um, that's a message that we're constantly getting out there. Uh, sometimes the hard part is that uh the folks that are not doing anything uh catching them at something at an event like that, they're not there. Uh, so really the challenge for us is if you've been up to the high school, you probably see me walking around asking kids what sport they're playing. And a lot of them, the ones that I know aren't playing anything, um, that I know what gained from it. Uh, a lot of the the other external forces that

098we talk about, one of them today is work. And that's one that I didn't really ever face when I was in high school. And it's not one that a lot of our coaches understand or or can necessarily um have the perspective. A lot of our kids are constantly saying, "If I'm not playing a sport, it's because I'm working to get ready for college or to go to trade school." Um and that's again, that's not something we can change, but it's something we can talk to kids about. Um and understanding the time commitment and and their capacity and their ability to do multiple things. Uh but I think the message to our our student athletes um and our kids that are involved in clubs, they know that message and they're the ones that are reaping the

099benefiting from it. Uh the ones that are are doing uh zero activities at the school. Um there's a there's a unique conversation that has to happen around why you're not doing it. And once you dive into that, sometimes you get you get an answer and it's not something you can really refute. When a kid says, you know, I I don't have, you know, two parents to pay for college. I got to I got to make some money and get myself ready for college. I kind of look at them like I get it, but how can we help? So, um yeah. >> And then how's the um classes where you're teaching kids how to be umpires and referees and stuff? Just two minutes on our >> Yeah. No, it's going I was just talking to uh

100coach Dro today. Um he's more excited than ever about that class. I mean, there's more kids. I I think from an enrollment standpoint, I think there that class is increasing every year. Um I I've seen anecdotally the guests he has starting to come in now are are actual licensed statewide officials that are coming to talk to the class. Um, we recently we had a sports meeting uh or freshman preview night I should say and a a mom came up to me and said uh how do I get in the officiating class because my daughter wants to be an official and I was I don't think I ever heard an eighth grader that wanted to be an official but it was exciting and it was telling to me when we have such an official shortage uh

101how important that class is and there's only now uh last year I believe there's about 55 schools that had that class and I think it's now at a roughly 70 75 somewhere in there so I think people are seeing the value in it. I think it's starting to happen more, but I think it's also one of those things that people are hesitant about because it's it's it's scary at first to think about teaching kids to be officials, but it's also we don't have to think about the state championship. We can think about the, you know, the 2M softball game that just needs somebody calling balls and strikes, and that's where it starts. So, um, I think the class is awesome. I think it's going really well. Drobot is pumped about it and I think it

102will only help uh also down the line with making sure we have enough officials to run these events because right now that is again one of our challenges is just getting officials. >> Thank you. Um I just appreciate the you touching on the investment and staff leadership. You know it's really talk a lot about the breadth of all the programming but but the depth is really getting there too. And I think that's you talked about that too. I think that's important. So we that's appreciated. So, thank you very much. >> Anybody else? All right. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. >> All right. Resolution authorizing the issuance and sale of 15,930,000 general obligation refunding bonds series 2026A. Andy, please. >> So, we'll have Erin Bushberger from Ellers come up. He'll be presenting um on

103their behalf tonight. Um, first thing to note, um, the 15,930,000 will move to 15,785,000 based on the very positive sale we had today. Um, as was noted in the email where the day sale report was sent, um, we had 14 biders, which is incredibly high. Uh, probably 50% higher than most of the bonds that go out for sale um, get biders on. Um, our actual interest saved increased by about 216,000 from the anticipated. So, it's over a million dollars. Net present value is up about 29,000 to $783,500 or so. Um, and I think one of the most important things prior to actually selling our bond um we had our bond rated by Moody's and again received the AA1 um rating. So, two bonds in a row. Um so, pretty awesome. And then I'll let Aaron

104fill in with any details I missed and then uh really direct questions can go to him as well. >> Sure. Yeah. Good evening. Uh thanks so much for having uh me here. Um Andy kind of stole all my thunder, which is good. But uh no, really excited about the bond results uh we had this morning. Um as Andy mentioned, we had 14 biders. As kind of a general rule of thumb, we like to see at least three. Uh and so we're really in the market at the right time. Um and and got those 14 bids. The low bidder was Loop Capital Markets out of New York. Um included in that sale day report is a bid tabulation that shows all the different 14 biders. Um you uh experience nationwide interest. So we had biders from

105from all over the country which we really like to see and really is indicative of where uh the municipal bond market is right now. So as Andy mentioned um a little bit higher uh savings than what we are originally projecting. We've seen some continued decrease in interest rates uh which really uh turned out well. So, uh, as I mentioned, the bid tabulation is in your packet. The, um, there's some financial schedules included in there as well. Uh, and then finally, just the rating report, um, from Moody's is included as well. And I, uh, will mention, uh, that again, Andy did a really nice job representing the district. Uh, we go through a rating call that typically lasts anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour. Uh, they have a lot of questions. Um and Andy did

106a nice job of sharing uh kind of everything positive you have going on in the district and and that was really reflected in that double A1 rating. So again that rating is the second highest rating uh that you can have. So uh overall really good news and so you have the resolution in front of you for approval. Um but I'd be more than willing to answer any questions you might have. >> Now what was the the tick the true interest cost? >> The true interest cost was uh 2.63%. 63%. >> And so back in January, we were assuming 2.86. Yep. >> All right. >> so it's really the interest that drove that, not the premium and the other kind of meeting that went around that. >> Yes. Right. >> That's what drove the >> Yes.

107Yep. The premium um as Andy initially mentioned was pretty close to what we were uh expecting. >> Thank you. Can you restate the dollar value that we're going to be? >> 15,785,000 even and then everything else would stay the same. >> I move to approve the resolution authorizing the issuance and sale of 15,785,000 general obligation refunding bonds to 2026. >> Second. >> All right. Motion was made by Dr. Beer, seconded by Mrs. Superski. Any further discussion? All in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> Health clinic and garner update. Uh, Miss Lancour, Mr. Crommy, please >> and welcome. Do you want me to take your >> Yes, please. >> Okay. Uh, good evening everybody. Um, so um, as mentioned, we're doing kind of an update on the FPS

108Wellness Clinic, um, as well as Garner. And I want to start with the clinic and the kind of way I want to kick it off is our wonderful, wonderful team that is going to be working at the clinic is with us this evening. Um, so I'm going to have them introduce themselves and just talk a little bit about how things have been going to get everything up and running. Um, what they're excited for moving forward into next week when we officially open and anything else they want to share. So Dr. Erica, please take it away. >> My name is Erica. Part of my title comes from a doctor of nursing practice and nurse practitioner. almost 10 years now. Do I need to? >> Yeah, go ahead. >> Okay, good. Okay. Um, my RN career was

109all at the Milwaukee VA. >> Um, okay, perfect. So um so I have a mix of um inpatient experience and uh it was in graduate school in nurse practitioner school that I really fell in love with primary care with wellness with prevention with joining with people in their everyday lives their everyday journey of health and well-being chronic disease management. Um so I really look forward to getting back to just really helping people with their everyday lives. I'm Claire. Um I'm the nurse at the clinic. Um I'm just going to say that so far um since the phones opened. Um I think we're getting a good response. We have a lot of appointments that are popping up mostly through the portal. Um I've only received a few calls so far. Um but everybody's utilizing the portal

110pretty well. One thing though, I think I'm getting questions on how they can use the portal on scheduling some appointments. So, I don't know if maybe an extra email going out, maybe just with directions on how to utilize it a little bit easier for them. Um, that might be helpful. Um, but other than that, it seems like we got we we're a strong strong opening for us right now. >> Hi. Uh, I'm Yvon. I'm the patient advocate over at the clinic. My background is social work. Um, so I'm yeah, really looking forward to working with all of the employees, their families, answering any questions they have on their benefits, any way that we can help them in their healthcare journey. Um, I know we had a great turnout, it seemed, for that open house and

111the ribbon cutting afterwards. I I think we had over 150 people come through, so that was really great. Um, I know I've been making my way around the different schools, too, just to pop in and introduce myself, the services. So, we'll have that continue as well, just to answer those questions that people are having. I know Claire and I are at the clinic daily, so we're always open for people to pop in or call or email or whatever the case is just to answer those questions. >> So I just does anybody have any questions for this team? I just wanted to make sure that the board had an opportunity to uh meet them. And I will say I have worked with all of them just kind of in the implementation stages and they are all

112wonderful and I'm really excited that our staff are so lucky to work with such great people and get care from them. So >> just a quick So you're employed by the district then or you employed No, >> no, they're they're employed through Proactive MD. >> Okay. >> Just to add some clarity and this is really more for our employees and less for you. We pay Proactive MD. They manage the entire process including Wi-Fi. So, they're managing all the employees, they're managing the Wi-Fi, we pay the bill, we see aggregate data, how many people are coming, times they're coming, what kinds of things we're looking at. But again, for our employees, we pay proactive. They handle all that, all of those components. >> And what a testament to your commitment to your staff, to your employees

113that you're doing this for them. I think it's a huge compliment, a huge uh recruitment and retention tool and um it just really speaks highly of them. >> No question. Thank you for staying late and introducing yourselves. I look forward to >> and the hours are set by pro who says the hour >> that's in conjunction with us. So pretty pretty all I would say almost every component is in conjunction with us and through communications and determining what is going to work best and certainly those will also be reviewed at some point um in the future right if we're finding that we have tons and tons of time here um we would work with proactive MD and Erica and the staff to determine like should we adjust is it even possible to adjust I mean

114if someone wants midnight hours we're probably not doing midnight hours right but Um if hours need to be adjusted, we'll certainly take a look at that. Um but medications, um that comes in conjunction really with our health plan. It's not Laura and I sitting down and handpicking. They're taking a look at our health plan and what are people using? Where are we going to see um some real bang for the buck in terms of getting employees in or making employees healthier and then working with Proactive MD to see can we even source that um and is it worth sourcing? Right? There are some medications like it's not worth us sourcing because if we miss and someone doesn't use it, it's a pretty expensive medication to have on hand that does expire. So, um those are

115considerations as well. Um but ours and and uh medications and things like that, lab draws and things we're going to have that all comes as part of our health plan and really in conjunction with both of us communicating and determining where we're going to ultimately land. >> Did you have a question? >> Yes. kind of dvtailing off what you said. Um, in my head I know we cannot be all things to all people. We shouldn't try. We can't. But in my heart, I'm just wondering in as you market, as you talk about the program, as a fellow social worker, I'm always thinking, you know, if a teacher comes to to school and is stressed because they're caregiving for a relative or because they're dealing with a, you know, an addiction issue with a family member

116or, you know, just something that's outside the scope of of typical health care. Do they know that they can seek services, resources, supports, information at your office? Is that is that a true fact or am I just saying we can't be all things to all people? >> We'll get them pointed in the right direction. >> Okay. So, they know that that you are a place where they could come with things that are not necessarily fitting in the I have a sore throat or, you know, something like that. The answer is yes and no to that. So has that been communicated to them? Absolutely. And that's really Ivon's one of Ivon's major roles is taking these outsource things and how am I going to help steer you to health? Not it could be a healthcare issue

117or it could be all the things you mentioned. So yes, employees absolutely no. The no part of that is if I don't need it, it's shoved to the back of the brain until I do, right? And then do I remember that this option exists? So it's part of our job is to continue to communicate. Um, one of the things about clinics and school districts are really workplace environments is they are very grassroots, right? And someone's going to go and they're going to have a great experience and they're going to say, "I did X, Y, and Z there." And they're going to pass that on and that becomes a more really ingrained memory for an individual who might have that in the future because I know that Moxon went or Jess Mo went and they had

118a great experience and we're friends and so that's awesome. I can use that. Right. right now it's I it's an idea and so it gets tucked away back here. So it's really our job to continually communicate. Um and while Laura and I have ideas, Proactive has tons of ideas, right? They do this like they have teams of people that do that. Um and so some of those will be funneling down to us and how do we continue to just be in front of people. Uh but really how do we help empower people that have positive experiences to have positive experiences? And if someone doesn't have a great experience, how do we empower them to tell us so that we can improve that to make sure it is a great experience for the next time? >>

119Thank you. M please. >> I have two questions. One question is that as a provider, the nur practitioner, are you also planning to go to the schools to introduce yourself to the staff that hey I'm here I'm here to serve you and uh that's my first question. Second question is that this proactive MD also has a after hours for example if you are playing the role of a primary care you know are there if they have any concerns or questions anything like that of course other than calling 911 is there does proactive MD also offers a after hour service where you're covered by someone for example hey I have any knows so a someone who is picking up the phone after hours and answering their questions and navigating them what to do as such Um

120so we do offer like urgent care afterhour services now already and that'll continue. So staff has access to that already for virtual visits um for behavioral health and also urgent care. So that'll still be a service utilized and we it is a part of proactive MD. So it's you know we're able to connect with you know what happened see the outcome and always follow up afterwards. Does that answer that? >> And then yes, I I and as a provider, I planning to go to different schools, not only the social work, but as a provider, too. >> Yeah. So, we've had some meet and greets already. Um the ribbon cutting was one. We started to meet people there, started to meet staff. Um the clinic is open to all employees and as well as any family

121members that are on the health plan. So, that's primarily our um our target audience is um district employees. Anybody else? We'll move on to the Garner. >> Thank you. Thank you all for Thank you all for saying >> um and one thing I will just add about that virtual care in particular is that we implemented the proactive MD um system in September. We rolled that out at kind of our big back to school meeting to let staff know that, you know, all employees now have access to this 247 care um kind of as the clinic gets up and running and open. Um and it's mentioned in the report, but we've had like at the time that this report was created, we had 34 individual visits. Um and last year, you know, with our previous online

122provider, we had about 40 visits for a year. So from September to January um you know we've we've had a lot of really great engagement which I think is good because it means that people are getting comfortable with the organization they're getting comfortable with the platforms logging in creating accounts. Um and the other nice part is that all ties back so that you know our clinic providers can view hey I saw you s had an urgent care appointment two weeks ago just want to follow up and make sure that you're feeling better the antibiotic worked the way that it was supposed to. So um that's been a really great thing to see. Okay. So, the second portion um was just a update related to our partner Garner Health, which as a reminder is an addition

123to our health plan, not necessarily specifically built into it. Um so, we provided some data just on our one-year um experience and kind of the uh you know, how it was all running. So, happy to answer any questions that you might have. Is is that pretty typical of um of other places they use this product >> in terms of the sign up rate? >> Yes. >> Yeah, we're actually um much higher than a lot of organizations that Garner partners with. I believe I can actually tell. So for our first year um we were at around 83% and the traditional or like Garner's kind of standard that they have was 63%. So we've had really really great engagement from our staff at least creating those accounts and kind of engaging with the app. in terms of

124the deferred um cost or the total savings on that third page of the report. I'm just curious whether the savings per relationship figure is based on na national um averages or where that number comes from. >> Do you have a better idea for that one, Andy? >> Yep. So, that comes actually more from regional cost. Okay. >> So, they're taking a look at >> really where the vast majority of our services are taking place and using that as a cost. Um, again, I think we talked about this um at in the budget time and I know we certainly talked about it last year. We're really looking at cost avoidance, >> right? >> Yeah. So, um, not really true savings, but instead of paying $100 for this, we're paying 75. Um, and so we we still

125are encouraging employees to get all of the things that you need, we're trying to help provide the pathway that is un that is not known in healthcare, right? probably maybe there's a second one, but it certainly is the only area I can think of off the top of my head where you don't know the cost of what you're getting. Right? You can buy you can search on the internet for anything else and find the cost and then just go buy go buy it. Healthcare is the only one where you can't find it and actually know the true cost of what you're actually paying for it. Um, and so our job and really what what we're trying to get across is here's the path. If you follow the path, this helps provide you with great health

126care and it helps provide us with a more cost-effective um uh way to do that. And and um part of the reason and u when we talked in the budget about adding a 10% health care cost is $660,000 or whatever is we need to start putting real dollars to that because that $660,000 I'd rather do something else with not like me like personally picking a project but we have other things in the district to say let's spend the $660,000 there versus spending it just on rising healthcare. And so part of having a clinic, right, is helping to navigate that and providing great health care in a more cost-effective manner. Um and so um part of our job again is to help steer that. >> So then um what percent of all of our relationships are

127kind of Garner driven? I mean this looks like really high numbers here in terms of participation. So every medical event now is has the Garner flavor to it that we're >> like it looks like it's >> 80% of our >> we we have obviously have a very lot because you can see Garner there but certainly not everybody is following that path. There are some people that are choosing to stay with their practitioner and their practitioner is not under the Garner model or covered by the Garner model and that's entirely their choice. Like that's an option they make. But for those people that do choose a Garner or follow the Garner path, up to 80% of your um deductible is reimburseable. And so medications and lab tests and just seeing that, you know, that doctor visit,

128that's all part of that reimburseable expense. So, um, we are getting some traction on it and we're seeing some cost avoidance, um, by following that method, but 100% I don't know if we'll ever get 100%. >> But is it higher than 50%. >> We have never done we we don't have a full cost analysis of every medical event that's happened and whether we're following Garner or not. We This is specifically from Garner. number of people that have signed up, number of people that have searched a physician, number of people that have actually seen a physician and received reimbursement. When >> you see that 83% signed up and then it talks about 70% of that 83%, right, have actually received a reimbursement. So, like Andy said, we're not taking the numbers and breaking it down through

129all those ways, but we know that 70% of the people that signed up for an account have gotten at least one reimbursement. So, they have engaged with a doctor. What we don't look at is was that a specialist you went to for uh you know out of office or out you know in-n-out surgery but we don't know like you maybe still went to your general doctor that you prefer for other things right but we know that 83% signed up for account 70% got at least one reimbursement >> so the chart has um what's 483 other is that right maybe that's not right other it does show other but now that I look at it looks it's the same as to I don't know if that's an error or what >> at the bottom of this.

130Yeah, I can't pull through right now. >> Is that an So imagine every other potential medical issue >> falls into the other category, right? There's some very targeted things >> that >> because some people are going and seeing multiple events, right? So if you go to the doctor and you get your annual physical, that's a CPT code. But then I tell them my knee is sore, I now have a second CPT code. So even though I only have one visit, I now have two events. So the CPT codes are CPT codes will not equal number of visits. CPT codes will at best equal number of visits. I would almost assuredly always say they'll exceed that because people are going in and saying, "My shoulder hurts. I'm runny nose, it starts, but I'm here for my

131physical. And so those are getting recorded all the time. Um, in truth be told, like more and more CPT codes are getting added because they can bill for that, right? It's a many of our uh um systems are really fee for service. So the more fees I can get, >> the more dollars I can bring in, right? Part of um us working with Proactive MD is that doesn't live off that model. Like we don't we don't pay more for more visits. We don't pay more for less visits. We're paying for high quality care. So we're that physician and Erica's job is to really work through with every employee like what are all the things going and that visit doesn't she's going to record all the CPT codes but doesn't cost anymore. So tell everything that's

132happening to you, right? But you go to your normal primary care and you start talking about all these things, they're just dotting them down and then when they go to punch in the code, all those things are getting processed through insurance and then build and not necessarily separate visits, but they're all being build in some capacity. >> It appears to me that that through this that Garner has been generally a positive for for Franklin Public Schools. just said, >> "Yeah, I we hear anecdotally way more positive experiences and negative and there are a handful. I couldn't get in to see a doctor and whatever have you." >> So, very similar to what we talked about Mary with the clinic like >> please come to Laura and I tell us if there's an issue we're happy

133to help work it through. We don't we're not calling the doctors and saying why aren't you coming in? That goes to our consultant and then they have to route you know do their job. That's what we're paying them to do. U we want to know those things as well because I don't think anything is foolproof but we've we hear a lot more positive anecdotes in relation to Garner and um its use or how it's funneling through or reimbursements than we do of any hiccups it has. >> And roughly what is the cost at district? >> Um Garner um oh gosh um the vast majority of our cost actually is the reimbursement of the HR. I I would have to look up our per employee per month cost on that. I don't have that number off

134the top of my head. I can't even ballpark it for you. >> Not even six figures. >> Can't no can't ballark it for you. >> You can get back to us. >> Yeah. >> All right. Appreciate it. Thank you. >> Thank you. Anybody else questions, comments? >> And this will get folded into then another more comprehensive health insurance report that comes back to the board. >> Um we will certainly probably be bringing something back for health. Um, we will be moving our healthcare consultant. I think we talked about this in um, January. So, um, Laura, Gabby, and I finished, um, those meetings last week, and we will, um, let our consultant know. I hope they're not watching today. They'll find out tomorrow. But, uh, >> we will be moving on with our healthcare consultant. So,

135um, it's going to take them some time to do a full dive of our healthcare plan. Like, they're going to have to start that whole process over. Um, and with a July 1 renewal, like that changes the time frame on what we can pull the trigger on and what we can't pull the trigger on. Um, but in in um throughout the course of the interviews with our three groups, like we feel very positive about our ability to um provide some systemic change really in our highest cost claimants and how we can not necessarily reduce their cost. Once you're in the high cost like you have to solve that problem, but how do we help maybe prevent getting you there or how do we find it earlier so that it's not as cost effective and then

136obviously better or not as costly but better for the employee as well, right? If I catch something at stage one versus stage four, way better. If I catch it even before it becomes a stage, even better than that, right? So, >> thank you. Anyone else? All right. Thank you. Um we will move on to uh student travel world language. Mr. Bolo and Miss Alano, please. >> Hello. >> I trust you all have had a chance to review the uh plan. Any questions? Obviously Amy's here and happy to chat through um the proposed trip over spring break right to Peru. >> Mrs. Alton, you led the trip the previous trip that we approved for? >> No, I did not. >> Will this be your first trip with Franklin? >> Yeah, with Franklin. Yes. Not my first

137trip ever. >> You other trips? >> I've led this exact itinerary with my previous school. >> Looks exciting. >> It's fantastic. I was going to say away >> it this particular trip provides a lot of opportunity for students to interact with you know people who live in Peru and uh it so it's really neat. >> Is this a new travel company? I don't recognize it. >> It's not new for me but it might be new for Franklin. Um I've traveled with Interact. I've actually exclusively traveled with Interact when I've led trips previously. Um I know a lot of my colleagues prefer Interact um because they have these home stays where students can stay with another student and then um from dinner to breakfast instead of staying in hotels the entire time they stay with local

138host fam host families for a few days. Um, so we really I know my previous school and I have friends at Brookfield East, we all use this um, travel company for that reason and they're they're based in Wisconsin in Green Bay. >> I actually went on one of their trips when I was in high school. >> So you have travel. >> Um, I just a couple justformational kind of things. It lists in here the travel dates like like proposed, but they could be different based on like airline tickets and things like that. Is it possible that kids would have to miss more? I think like right now they'd be missing two days of school. Is it possible that it could be adjusted they'd have to miss more school? >> Yeah, it is possible, but the

139the dates here are like they won't go they'll they won't go more than two days before or two days after. So, I don't Yeah, there is a little bit and the trip is long. It's an 11-day trip. Um, a lot of that is I mean like there's a lot of travel involved, right? Travel time, but >> yeah, there is a little bit of that. In general, we've we're hoping we can get the dates we asked for. >> And then the only other question I had um just in terms of um I think you have in here something about the State Department levels of security and whatever else. Is there any other than buying the trip insurance, is there any um protection if the state department were to all of a sudden say travel is not

140advised at all in Peru for like getting money back at all or is that only to >> Yeah, there is there is um protection about from for that the company like will either provide an alternative or some sort of refund um if that happens. I don't um I don't know that it's happened. I mean, it's never happened with me, but yes, that's if it goes to like a level four, like a do not travel. Yeah. >> I move to recommend the approval of the world language trip to Peru during March of 2027 school. >> Second. >> Right. Motion was made by Dr. Beer, seconded by Mrs. Seperski. Any further discussion? All in favor? >> I motion carries. Thank you. >> And we all want to come with you. Gracias. >> Thanks for being here for

141so long tonight. >> All right. Uh, final approval of new policy manual effective July 1st, 2026. This is first, please. >> Yay. Um, >> we are here tonight to >> So exciting. >> Um, to officially approve all of these policies, which I've brought back for show and tell again. It's a lot of policies. Um, I wanted to just take a minute and say thanks to the committee. Um, Linda and Angie and our Neiola partners as well as our district partners. We, you know, we spent a lot of time together going over these policies and really have spent just yeah, a lot of time and thought went into this process and I just think it's really going to put us in a really great position as a district to have new comprehensive policies that are constantly

142updated and things like that. So, I just want to thank everybody for that um for that work that was put in. and then we are here tonight to approve them. If there's any other questions, we can talk about them more, but we have already preliminarily approved them at all of our previous meetings. So, >> thoughts and >> I just want to say that, you know, we had 112 policies before. Now, we have 359 policies. >> That's not counting how much paper. And um I know people think we're in a better spot. I'm not sure we're in a Um because it's there's a lot of stuff added that um we took on state rules, we took on federal rules and rolled them into here and I think we pride ourselves in being a local school board.

143I think we may have I'm not sure our community wanted us to just roll that all in on top on top of this but um here's where we are. So, I just feel like we I'm not 100% certain this is the way I would have gone, but I know what's in them. I reviewed them and uh we'll just carry on from here. I have my concerns. >> I think I would just respond to those concerns that the reason that we have different state and federal um you know, requirements, we are following the state, the reason our policies are updated and you're seeing more things there have been more both state and federal policies and procedures and things that we have to do. We don't have a choice in it. Like the law is the law

144regardless of where we are. And I would also say that we do still have a lot of Franklin flavor in these policies. They were, you know, we took a a template, but we did stick with a lot of our Franklin things and we do still have some Franklin flavor and they can be adjusted if we as a school board or if the community feels that there's something that's not working for us. Certainly, it's possible to, you know, review them and discuss them further and make adjustments in the future. >> Is there please? >> Because I think about our community and parents have options. There's private schools, there's homeschooling, and maybe that's part of why these options are there because they see all these heavy oversight, federal, state stuff. And sometimes, you know, the people we're

145trying to serve, maybe they want something else. And that's we have to be also aware that we're trying to compete for students here. And just be aware of the environment that we are operating. Parents do have voice controls. I I'm I when we approve this policy manual, I'll be happy that uh we will be operating in an environment that's compliant with state and local uh and federal law that won't place either the district or our students at any risk. That's really the purpose of this to protect the district, protect the board, and most importantly to protect our students from rules that exist whether we were choose to ignore them or pretend they don't exist or not. So with that, I move to replace the current polic manual, the new policy manual containing the policies in

146the board at a adoption draft effective July 1st, 2026. >> I'll second that. It looks like Mary has another question. >> Is there a mechanism for now? I know it used to be this one hasn't been reviewed since this year. Is so is there a mechanism to continue reviewing them? >> The policy committee, the policy committee will will go on. >> Okay. So, there is a protocol for not obviously thousands at once, but you know, there's a way should just g gently review them. >> Yes. >> Yeah. As part of of our ongoing relationship with Niola, um Richard explained to us that they do the heavy lifting of combing through any changes in state and local and federal policy um and bringing updates to all of the communities that they serve twice per year in

147a compendium of recommendations. >> So, it's very diligent. >> It is very diligent. >> Thank you. All right. Motion was made by Dr. Beer, seconded by Mrs. Saperski. Any further discussion? All in favor? >> I >> opposed. Motion carries. Thank you. Uh, treasurer's report is available in the board docs library. >> Can I just ask one question? >> Yes. >> So, we how are we doing with health insurance? Do we know? I I know we can't tell based on the credit report, but I would want to know. Are we >> Yep. Right now we're trending at about 104.5% of premium. So >> what was that? >> 104.5% of premium. So we're down from 111% two months ago. Um so that's good. Um again the vast majority of our expenses well on a ratio are coming

148from high cost claimments. Um so some of our um approaches with our healthcare consultant will be like how do we help prevent that? Not prevent is the wrong word. How do we help catch that earlier? How do we help provide screenings that can provide that information? So, that'll be one of the strategies we'll be potentially looking at. >> Sounds like you're seeing if we're going to overspend again. >> Yeah. Yeah, probably are. >> And how what are our plans to address that? >> Um, at this point, I'm not sure how we curb health care costs in the middle of the pioneer. Well, obviously we'll have to cover other areas in the budget or >> um at this point it's looking at fund balance to cover that. Yes. >> Fund balance. >> Correct. That's the importance

149of having a healthcare savings account. I mean that's part of our being self-funded. We have to start building that health fund balance. Um, so I know like last year when we talked about um modifying our health plan, like one of the suggestions you brought up was actually using our health fund balance to counteract some of those premium increases or changes. And so um thankfully we didn't do that because then we'd be looking at that hole as well. So, u part of our job is to find a health plan and then set our premium structure to where we're actually providing some savings year in and year out to a point where we feel comfortable with. Um that's usually somewhere around 30-ish%. Um where we can absorb a year or two poor years in a row. So

150the typical healthcare like um health plan runs on one really bad year, one really good year and three so years and five years. You can have those back toback, right? You could have two really good years back to back out of 10 or two really bad years back to back out of 10. But uh strategically thinking it's about one good, one bad, three just regular operating years in fi in a fiveear span. >> Thank you. Uh future agenda items, uh friends of Franklin, uh Robinwood Elementary School presentation. Academic excellence scholarship recipient approvals, technical excellence scholarship recipient approvals, uh, state convention reports, um, student fees, Countrydale Elementary School presentation, summer fall 2025, early college credit and start college now request approvals, student travel, music, um, boards, uh, board clerk's report, election notice, Notice of ballot positions,

151technology report, and 4K wraparound care. Uh, I'm looking for a motion >> to adjourn the meeting. Second. >> A motion was made by Mrs. Yank, seconded by Mrs. Woodowski. All in favor? >> I opposed. >> Motion carries. We are adjourned at 7:55. Thank you.