001Good evening everyone. We'll get started. Can I have a roll call please? Sure. Uh Mr. Sprag, Mrs. Wikowski, and Mrs. Larson are all excused. I am here. Mrs. Serski here. Dr. Khan here. Mrs. Y here. So, four out of seven of us are here. We have a quorum. Great. Please stand for the pledge. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. There were no um comments in the community comment basket earlier. Does anybody come in late and not fill that out? Anyone for community comment? Okay. And we'll move on then to um I need a motion to approve the agenda. So moved. Second. Motion was made by Mrs. Yank, seconded by Dr. Beer. All in favor?
002I opposed. Motion passes. We'll move on then to friends of Franklin. Dr. Mo. Thank you. So I'm going to kick us off. We have um our friends here from Mathnasium. Um, I'm going to ask that Jordan and Jordan from Mathnesium, Adam and Jenna come up in just a second. Um, if you have a middle school student, which maybe I see some middle school age students out there, um, for the second year in a row, Mathnasium partnered with us to do a middle school math night. So, if you were able to attend, um, as was I, it was very impressive. If you know middle schoolers, it's hard to get them super duper engaged after school with math, but Mathnasium successfully did that in partnership with us from pettyboats to um I can't think I was I'm
003going to say the wrong name of the game that I played. I think it was 21 different ways to do when you add up the numbers on the card. Is that right? Is that not the right number? 21. It's 24 but 24 I knew that wasn't quite right, but you have to do mental math. So, um, it was very impressive. So, Jenna, Adam, and our magnesium Jordan, if you want to come up. Those mics should be on. You want to talk? I would just like to take a moment to recognize Jordan. uh from Matt Nasium of Franklin who for the past two years has helped us bring Matt night at Boris Park to life. This event brought over uh family members and and students together to play math games after school voluntarily. And believe it
004or not, to talk with parents about homework strategies that they could use with their child without a single mention of, "Well, that's how we did it when I was a kid." This year and last year marked the first time since our building opened that we had this kind of shared uh academic family experience, and it feels good to get everyone back involved. We're lucky to have partners like Jordan and Mathnasium to help us create an engaging experiences for kids and to talk about numbers that are worth showing up for. Thank you, Jordan. Thank you. [Applause] Photo ops. All right. All right. Ready? I'm just going to take a bunch. Thank you. We will move on to our health department presentation. We have Megan Con here from the health department to talk to us about our
005poster winners. Is it working? No. How about now? Yes. All right. All right. Uh, good evening everyone. My name is Megan Conway. I am the coalition coordinator for Valition Franklin. Um, and with the Franklin Health Department. Wrong. It's not working. Is that better? Is it me? Oh, there you go. It's fine. Okay. All right. Uh Megan Conway, coalition coordinator for Valition Franklin with the Franklin Health Department. Um and excited to announce this is our 29th year of the tobacco prevention poster contest. So every year health department goes into our seventh grade class at Forest Park Middle School and we give them a health education presentation on vaping and tobacco prevention. Um, and what we do with that is tell the kids to take the information that they learn and tell a story to their peers,
006to family, friends, community members on um, the harms of vaping and tobacco use and why students should not engage in in substance use. So, it's a great prevention message. Um, with that, we have 10 students that um, get well, we have over 300 submissions I should start out with. Um and then with that those get entered into a um community voting. So we have a large process for that but the posters are all entered anonymously um that the kids create into a voting process to community leaders. Um then I tally up the winners and with that we have 10 student winners from our seventh grade class that all receive a foam board copy of their artwork um a certificate and a $100 Visa gift card. And that Visa gift card is generated through um licensing
007fees from uh tobacco establishments in our city. So those fees are going back to prevention in the community that we're able to um give to those seventh grade winners. So with that, I would like to um introduce our 10 seventh grade student winners for our 29th tobacco prevention poster contest. I'll have all the kids grab your official foam um poster board copy and if we could just come up and we'll form a line and kind of go around and show everyone what you've created. Come on up. You want to show me your name? Wow, look at the detail. Very nice. Very nice. I don't know. I think this might be some of the strongest work I've seen. It's impossible. [Applause] And then board members, if you could get a quick photo. Sure. Behind you. Sure.
008Yeah. If you don't mind, we won't show you at all. Wherever you'd like to be back. All right, kids. Let's Guys, we're going to put you by the back over here. So yeah, taller people in the back. You can be over more here. Yeah, good job. You're a little more tall. Lots of cameras up here. Look at your parents. [Applause] Congratulations. Nice job. Great work. Follow us on Facebook. We will feature all. Thank you guys. Thank you. So, thank you all for being here. You are welcome to stay for our meeting. Please don't feel that you have to. You will not be offended if you This is exciting as it was. You've been here for the exciting part. You're welcome to stay. We will move on. Thank you so much. Thank you guys so much.
009I'll move to accept the consent agenda. Second motion was made by Mrs. Yang by Dr. All in favor. I any opposed? We will discuss our schoolboard calendar. We have a retirement dinner tomorrow night over at Lux Golf. We have a a board policy committee meeting on June 16th, a regular education board of education meeting on June 18th, and high school graduation on June 21st. District administrator update, Dr. Don. Excellent. Thank you. Uh, good evening. So, a couple highlights this evening. Um, while we are here at 7 o'clock, there's going to be National Honor Society induction taking place at the high school. So many of us may be chasing over there as this meeting ends. Um, and that kind of culminates a very busy month of the end of April into May with 15 concerts, a
010couple remaining yet at the Saber Center, induction this evening, senior scholarship next week, um, and then a plethora of sporting events going on outside of that. So, it's been a very busy district uh, month and we're trying to get into conference meets and things like that despite the rain. So, it's been a lot of rescheduling. And so shout out to Cornell and Principal Bolo and their work on that. Also, uh this week we also opened the family engagement survey that went out to all families via text message per child. Uh so that we're really getting feedback on what that experiences uh through the perspective of working with their child and their teachers in their school. This year we take that feedback and we bring it back together to our teams this year, especially during the
011leadership summit that we'll have in August. and the schools will work with their engagement groups to come up with new goals around family engagement. So, we're proud of the work of how that's grown. It also feeds directly into our coherence metrics which Dr. Mo will be bringing to the board in July. A couple upcoming dates we have the spring orchestra concert is also tomorrow evening. Uh next Wednesday we as I mentioned the honors night. Uh next Thursday is the high school and middle school spring jazz concert. So that rounds out the end of concert series for the district. Also, another exciting piece we have as June rolls in is the elementary grad walks. Uh, so I won't read all the dates, but mostly June 6th and and June 9th, our seniors will go back and
012visit their home elementary school and do a walk through. I think it's really neat celebration for the youngest learners to celebrate our graduates. But it's always really neat to see our youngest learners looking at, hey, I get to be a saver someday and I'm going to get back get to come back and do this. Um, so it's a really neat event. If you can stop by your lays on schools or any of them at any time, it's a nice thing. And Friday, June 13th, the Ed Foundation holds one of their biggest fundraisers of the year, TF for education. They are sold out for golf teams, which is outstanding. Um, and but the online auction is always uh going on also and an opportunity to donate. And as Misski mentioned, we have high school graduation at
013400 p.m. Saturday, June 21st at American Family Field. So, you will not be bored. There are plenty of things to do in district. Uh if you're looking for something to engage in. Thank you. Excellent. Thank you. Um we will move on then to board leaison reports. Anybody have any leazison reports? Nothing. I did attend the SWSA meeting, but we'll talk about that briefly later. So um school and community engagement reports. I went to the um one thing which was at the Saber Center the middle school um choir concert and to be honest I had never been to a choir concert and it was great. I I loved it. None of my kids were in choir. I really didn't go and I I really missed out because it it was fabulous. I I loved it. Um
014so it was yeah that's that's what I did. Um yeah I also I was at a band concert go here. Um, but always very excited to see our students and how they are succeeding. Uh, I'm just going to put a plug in for the jazz concert. It's going to be jazzy. Yeah, we'll stick with jazzy. Okay. Reports, presentations, and other schoolboard business 202526 preliminary budget. Mr. Crony. So, you were able to see the packet um and the breakdown of all of the particular components that u make up it make up the budget. So at this point in time there's lots of assumptions right one is we have no idea what the state budget will be um we are figuring in 2.5% CPI for all staff 3.45 for professional staff we know we talked about health
015and a myriad of list of items. Um altogether we're currently sitting about $330,000 in the red. That's as of around the beginning of May when the pack was put together. Um I reran numbers today so we could see where we are if we took a look at 521 specifically and we're currently at uh in the red 166,000. So we've essentially cut that in half. Um that's due to some staffing changes that have already happened. Um some things coming out of fund 27 and the way they're going to manage some of the IEPs a little bit differently given um some additional work they've had um over the course of time and projecting those. So, um fairly confident we're going to get to at minimum zero um simply by um being conservative at this point in time
016in terms of benefits. And I think um mentioned in the report at this point in time we always budget um new staff at family health, family dental, pretty sure most of those don't take it. Last year it's about 60%. We just don't know which are the 60%. So we just budget it for everybody at this point. So um fairly confident we're going to get zero at a minimum zero if not be in the black. um at some point in the not too distant future. So I'm happy to field any questions you may have. I'm relatively confident too, sorry, in the conversations at the state level that something's going to come through in banual budget, but we haven't, as Andy said, put any assumptions in for that um at this point in time. Just a general
017question if you know if we end up having a surplus in the budget and then same question for if the death budget deficit isn't able to be resolved where would you adjust to make up those numbers or spend that money. Yeah. So, we will take a look at uh if we're in the uh deficit piece at first and given it's 166,000 um we're going to really go back and I I I gave kudos to our departments um I think at our last board meeting and how really well they did. We're going to go back and find it from there. We're not going to take it from staff. We're not going to take it from buildings. Um so, we'll find it in that particular area. Um, we're potentially using 100, if we just use today's number,
018$166,000 of fund 146 to help cover CPI for or CIP projects for one year. Um, if we have a surplus, it's really going to depend on what it is. Um, I would be uh uh ecstatic if it was like $2 million and then we figure out what it is. But um ultimately I think if we have a surplus, we'd be looking to help um really bridge that gap in our um professional staff who are not going to get us who are not meeting a CPI raise because again we have media and we have um master's degrees. We have years of service. Those kind of bumps take away from that. So I think that'd probably be one of the first areas we take a look at. I would caution us though and say if we have
019a surplus that we'll use two million if it were like grandiose and plugging that all into salaries because we'll know the next year, right? And then we're going to be sitting in an area where the state's going to be at odds again um two years from now. So while I think a portion of that could help bridge that. had to be cautious about spending the whole thing and wanting to make sure that we have some plans to be able to step into it over a period of years so that next year we're not looking at a deficit at this point because we we'll know what the state is, right? We want try to start forecasting that out a little bit further to make sure we can cover that um particular piece. But that' probably be
020the first area to take a look at. Um and then CIP projects are always a great thing. Can we knock off some of those bigger chunk items? Um because those help create room for other CIP projects to move in or those things that happen. Football fields are a prime example or the competition field like we didn't plan on replacing that this year, but now we know there's a problem. Now it's you have to replace it, right? And so those types of large things don't come around that often, but smaller things certainly do um come around in terms of replacing concrete stairs because it's a big crack in it and now it's a hazard. So, thank you. You're welcome. Can we use the interest from our bonds which we will be earning towards the deficit or
021not? We cannot. So that can only be used for the referendum question. So anything that fits under that. Um so covering an operating deficit does not fit that need. Thank you. Any other questions? So this will come in June again as pro approval. Again, it's approving a preliminary budget which allows us to pay people in July 1st, allows us to pay invoices that come in on July 1st. We'll see it again at the annual meeting and budget hearing. Um, and then for formal approval in October. So, a couple iterations will come with obvious changes as we know it changed from then to now and it'll change by tomorrow again like es and flows. Um, but we'll certainly have more um understanding of the state budget at that particular time as well. So I I hope
022we will. Is there a deadline? I'm just out of curiosity. Is there a deadline for the state? Um yes, in state laws a June 30th deadline that is often adhered to but not always. So I think I I think two or three of the last five or so have passed the June 30th deadline. When we were at the lobbying day, they were banding about the the notion that we may not have a state budget till August. And they were saying that with some degree of confidence. So there you go. We'll see. Excellent. If there are no more questions, we'll move on. Thanks, Mr. Cromy. Thank you. We will have our better place to work update. More and better members of our come. Good evening everybody. Um, so I have some really wonderful people at the
023table with me, so I am not going to talk a whole lot. You definitely would prefer to hear from them on this subject. Um, but I have some members of our better place to work team that are just going to kind of talk to you a little bit about their experience and the work of the team this year. So I'll pass it on and let them introduce themselves. Thank you. Um, good evening. I'm Angelina Cologne. I'm a fifth grade teacher at Southwood Glenn Elementary and a member of the Better Place to Work team. I'm Erin Cassie Mch and I also a member of the team. I'm a seventh grade crosscategorical teacher. I'm Denise Ryan. I'm an English as a second language teacher in the district. I work at Countrydale and also Glenn right now but
024for many years I was also at Ben Franklin. I'm Jensen. I'm instructional coach over at the middle school and uh been a part of this team for the past year. [Music] Uh so since joining the Franklin School community uh almost four years ago, I've experienced firsthand the level of dedication and commitment to the vision uh from staff, students, and families alike. My interest in volunteering to serve on this team stems from my passion to be involved in leading change within a building and the greater school community. I see it as an opportunity to collaborate [Music] um with varying perspectives and efforts to advocate on behalf of others while thinking both inside and outside the box uh to create the best environment for everyone to thrive. So previously, our team sifted through the data collected from
025the staff voice to outline where our greatest areas of concern were in order to develop to develop a plan of action. And the initial months that we spent conversing and brainstorming ideas for calendar drafts, updates to insurance, PTO options, and a more transparent compensation structure. While they weren't definitely not always easy conversations to be had, um, they were necessary and a part of our continual process as a team to acknowledge the voices of our staff members in Franklin. You want to just kick. Uh, so we are pleased to share that our work continued this year with a review of our previous survey results circling back to staff needs in relation to new changes implemented during the 2425 school year. So while noting that the current state of health insurance was changing, we had an opportunity
026to share our voice in the most important elements to maintain choice in health systems, access to quality providers, cost effectiveness, quality of coverage, and from there several plans were shared with all of you, the board, to help select an option that would best fit everyone's needs over a longer period of time. And for the other items on our list, our team made the decision to keep the compensation structure PTO plans as is. um while acknowledging that we will have to yearly go back and review those uh to make transparency and flexibility. And overall, many of these positive school ideas um are on the horizon with the opening of the health clinic in the winter, more wellness partnerships being added, presentation offerings to the staff at professional development days, and a soontobe created model of staff
027recognition so their educators may be honored for their expertise and the service to Franklin School community. So again, I'm Aaron and I do teach I have taught for many years. This is my 28th year and the one thing I've learned over the years is that it's important that we can retain quality teachers. It takes time to understand curriculum to understand the nuances of how activities fit together, how they connect with the standards and then that same thing goes with staff too. How do you collaborate with staff? How do you trust the staff and the team that you're working on? Um I have the honor of working on many teams from ELA, crosscategorical math, science, social studies, our people service team and knowing that who those people are and what we can count on and how
028we can trust and value each other is important. So I joined this committee because I want to make sure that we're looking for positive strategies to not only attract strong teachers but also retain teachers because as they stay, that's when you really build those strong partnerships. And um I also noticed that in the field of special education we've lost many people and the pool for hiring is very small. So I want to make sure that we can look at how we can not only attract positive and strong candidates for these positions but then also when they're here how do we make them feel welcomed part of this learning community of educators that feel supported and you know valued in this district. So when we've been talking about our work on the committee, we've been working
029on positive strategies to recognize staff, but then also we sometimes have to have a hard conversations about things when people are upset about things and how do we look at that and recognize it and look for positive strategies to move forward. Thank you. Yeah, I I could say ditto, but that's not as eloquent as a thing. I also joined the team because as an English as a second language teacher, I work with not only many different students from many different places, but I work with many different teachers and many different grade levels. And it's very hard to train people year after year after year. This is what you do with a new student. This is what you do with someone who's been here a while. This is what you do with someone who's close to
030exiting. So, I was also worried about staff retention. And that does seem to be getting better. the turnover when I first started here nobody left and that was a long time ago and then in the past few years people were it was like were bleeding staff so that's why I joined because I wanted people to love Franklin that I loved because I've been here for so many years I thought why are you leaving so I wanted to make it a better place to work and now we're looking at staff recognition which we found that's very personal some people like to be recognized and they like their picture taken and some people are like just an is fine. Just a card is fine. So, we're looking at that. I think that's what we were going to
031discuss at our last meeting, but as the year comes to a quick close, it's very busy. So, I'm not sure if we'll have that meeting this year. Yeah, I can add live. [Music] Um I think the reason why I joined uh initially is because I know that uh it's important to really enjoy what it is that you do to enjoy your work. And uh when doing that everything is is so much better. And so I wanted to be at a place where I could contribute to whatever it might be that could develop that enjoyment within uh educators around here. you stay at places because of the people typically. And so that part wasn't as important to me as much as things like the the staff recognition and how do we get people involved and how
032do we build that community within our our schools. Yeah. So, this team will continue to meet year-over-year. We will work to um we have some new members for next year, which is great. We're always wanting to look for new voices and expanding the team and um anybody that's willing to bring information back to their buildings and ask questions and get responses and bring those back. So, we're really excited with the work that we've done, but also excited to see what we do next year. Any questions? Anyone questions? First, I'd like to acknowledge the important work that your team is doing because I think you're building the bridges between the administration and the staff, you know, and then subsequently to us. Uh, I think your role will be critically important in the staff retention and as
033you educators, I think retaining the staff because our pool is decreasing and decreasing and having a qualified experienced staff is so important. So I want to thank you from the bottom of Mahara and the tremendous work you guys are doing. Um do you guys see any specific I know pay and salaries will always be you know one of the questions which the staff will always bring up. How are you guys building the bridge between the administrator to the staff about the communications being done so that they understand that the district and the administration is doing everything possible within their boundaries to give the best so they are expecting I can answer please so I know we talked about this um at our last meeting recently with all of us coming from different buildings it's important
034that we do have a common message because if a high school shares one message and then it's like the game of telephone and it gets slightly changed, it can actually create more problems than try to solve them. But that transparency is really important and we've talked about like ways to be transparent about things. Even with the new health building opening up, how can we, you know, be transparent? Maybe there's maybe buildings have their building meeting at that facility. So it's like now we're not just talking in terms of like when you go there like making things concrete. Um, we talked about having a shared message that goes out. Um, and then people do come to us to say like, could you bring this to the team? And we had a parking lot once or twice.
035I think we can, you know, that's something we can easily add to so we can um, talk about the concerns that staff members have. Thank you. Well, I I hope you feel that the board supports all of your work and that if you had some kind of concern that you know there would be I think what Dr. Khan said, you know, communication, transparency, um because we're all in this together. Um so I hope you feel like we support your work and I I love the recognition piece of it. I mean, if there's any any particular piece, I I just think teachers deserve recognition every day, obviously, but hopefully you're coming up with creative ways to, you know, personalize that and and maybe bring in students and parents and and people who, you know, are are
036influenced and impacted um every day by these teachers. I wish I would have been more um when my kids were were in school uh been more tuned in to recognizing teachers and then I was very remiss. So trying to make up for that now and you know so thank you for all your hard work. Well, I find it hard to believe that you I doubt you were remiss, Mary. Highly unlikely, but yeah, recognition from the board is probably the least important thing. But, you know, Mary is great with a card. So, if you ever want to include some cards signed by the board in any of your recognition efforts or anything like that, please let us know. But yes, thank thank you all and thanks for taking time on a busy, disgusting night to be
037here. meeting the weather. Of course, it could be snow or ice. Boy, I do want to thank you all for being here and for the work on the committee for the um for the year. My question and you kind of touched on I'm just wondering how much interaction there is between you and the members of like staff members at your buildings? Like are people does everybody know that you're on the committee and how do they know that? And do you go out and seek input or do they come to you or is it just kind of a constant or is it I'm just kind of curious how that works? I can answer for Southwood Glenn. Um at Southwood Glenn there's a QR code on our weekly update that they staff members can fill out a
038survey. We have a question for the better place to work committee and sometimes they'll find us and they'll talk to us. We've gotten emails from certain staff members like can you bring this up to the better place to work committee? So it's kind of more it could be more formal or more informal but they know who we are and then is it monthly we share at our staff engagement meetings. We have engagement teams and we're part of the staff engagement committee at South Brooklyn and then we share out to the rest of the staff kind of what we talked about and that's a nice place to share better place to work updates. Awesome. Thank you. Any other questions? Well, thank you all for being here as we said and you can come and enjoy this
039lovely weathery. It's not snow. It's not snow, right? Thank you. Thank you. On then to our employee handbook updates. You can just hang up. It's a lower show than that. Um so yeah, we reviewed the um kind of high level changes to the employee handbook at the last meeting. Um, so I'm happy to answer any questions that might be lingered. Otherwise, looking for approval from the board. I move to adopt the employee handbook as presented and delegate the handbook to the administration for management update and modification upon the approval of the district administrator and senior leaders with annual review of any such changes by the school board. I second. Motion made by Angie, seconded by Dr. K. Sorry, Dr. Bigger. Dr. Khan. Is there any discussion? We have any questions? concerns. Okay. All in favor?
040I I Anyone opposed? Motion passes. Thank you. We will move on then. As long as you're sitting there, we can talk about teacher contracts. Yeah. So, this is a um a newer item or an item that hasn't necessarily been brought before the board before, but you will be seeing it on an annual basis moving forward. Um essentially, uh each year per state statute, we provide contracts to our educators, um by May 15th as the deadline. So, um we are looking kind of an initial read from the board and then when we come back with the board, um for approval, the contracts will all have been submitted by our educators that intend to return. So, you should see there should be a name of returning teachers on there. I'm happy to answer any questions. Questions? Okay,
041makes sense to do it. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for bringing that to our attention that it needs to be done. Moving on then we will have our capital improvement plan. Mr. Daniels, Mr. Cromy, [Music] good evening. Um, so we obviously covered this in the previous board meeting. Good evening. Yeah, trying to make this discussing night a little bit better for you. Um but no, we we shared the the 10-year plan last board meeting. Um shared why we have it, why it's important, shared projects that we did in the last few years with the capital improvement um money and what we plan on doing in the upcoming years. And so I think we're just coming back here to answer any questions or you're ready to take action. Anybody have any further questions after last meeting?
042I did we we did leave out the teaching and learning portion which was identified and I did that I added that the next day. So that would be the only change you would could possibly see at this point. It's very thorough and as such I move to approve the 10-year plan for capital improvement as presented. I'll second a motion made by Dr. Beer, seconded by Mrs. Yank. Any further discussion? All in favor? Anyone opposed? Motion passes. Thank you for that. Um, and we'll continue with Mr. Daniels and the HBAC technician update. So, in June of 2023, we um brought forth um seeking approval for adding an HBAC technician. At that point, the board approved and also asked for an update um just to show the progress. Um so, that's what we're doing tonight. Um we
043just kind of bringing it back a little bit. Um we had a $210,000 um preventative maintenance plan in the district, which is a good plan. Like that's the plan that our HR techch is doing now, right? But we knew that we could do that for far less um financially if we brought that position in house. Um well, we also knew that he would be busy with those things, but if we found the right person, he would be able to do a lot more than just the HBAC. And we proved that, right? So we, excuse me, we tracked that throughout the last 18 months because he's been with us for that long. Um, as we expected just in the preventative mainten maintenance side, he's saved us about $62,000. Um, but then we were tracking the reactive
044side and that saved us an additionally additional $61,000 um over the last 18 months. So if you do the math on that, that's saving us about $100,000 a year. Um, it's covering things again like we didn't expect him to do the reactive maintenance. We actually told our mechanical partner that we're taking the PM stuff from you guys, but we'll still lean on you for the reactive, but Ed has been able to do a lot of that anyway. Um, but then he's also doing things like plumbing, working on the buses, um, helping with some setups if they come up last minute. Um, he helped with the surf ground breaking just because we needed some extra help. Um, he's ready to jump in a plow truck, right? So he's very capable, had a lot of different skill
045sets that have come in handy in the work shows. Um so again, just to just to cap it, you know, in the last 18 months, he's proven to be cost effective. Um it was a very strategic decision and it just improves the service um across the district. Response time is far far quicker than what we could get with a mechanical contractor. Not that that's bad for them, but obviously having somebody on site that improves that that time frame. Um, so things are getting up and running a lot quicker. Plus the intimacy that he develops with the HAC systems and the knowledge he builds around that just makes it better for the district. So any questions? Again, just some information. Yeah. Do you envision is there opportunity for yet another piece like a similar work person
046to tackle other projects or are we kind of is this is this encompassing everything? I think the the position that complements an HVAC tech is an electrician. Um those two people often we have to hire an electrician to work with an HBAC tech, right? Um or if we had an electrician a lot, they jump into a lot a lot of HBAC. I have an HBAC degree. I learned a lot about electricity through that, right? So those two positions 100% complement each other. So I could see that being something that we would want to pursue in the future. So there's plenty of electrical work, especially in the CIP side of things. Not there's reactive stuff that wouldn't quantify it, but tackling some of the CIP projects 100% quantifies that. So congrats on a successful project. Yeah.
047Thank you. Oh, what the HC? Well, congrats to you. You guys approve that. So I just appreciate that you brought that as, you know, as a suggestion and it has certainly been beneficial. something. All right. Thanks, Andy. Thank you. Next up is our Spanish curriculum adoption. Dr. I checked in with Amanda or Miss Pound. Um, she said there have been no questions between last meeting and this meeting. So, unless you have any questions that came up in the meantime, we can move forward with the approval. Anybody have any additional questions? I'll move to approve the vos my daughter vosus digital resource for use in Spanish one and three is it one through three or one through three starting with the implementation plan outlined below for the 2526 school year second we have a motion made
048by Mrs. Yank seconded by Dr. here. Further questions or discussion? All in favor? I. All opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Next up, we have the 2526 SWSA agreement. You want to take that? Sure. Um, so in general, I this was annually we sign the agreement with SWSA. right now they're taking to their board a new agreement with the fees going up they're expecting to $3,700. I think that's about $500 over where it is currently. Um so they didn't have that yet for today. I think their board meetings actually maybe also tonight. Um so we really want to put it on as an agenda item for the board to discuss if it's a group that we want to continue with or not. I think a number of members here tonight and outside of tonight have been
049part of the team. uh we can give a little bit about their experience and then in June we'll look at either deciding to continue with our agreement and partnership with SWSA or or otherwise. I can speak personally that um while I attend meetings I get a about the same amount of information through my allstate WDA Wisconsin association school district administrators. Um we work with directly with people that are working in Madison. So I don't feel that I necessarily gain additional um from the work with SWSA just to give my perspective. I only attended my first meeting last week. I appreciated the information as it's come um via email from other members who have been on the um committee previously and just in terms of awareness of what's happening and I know that that legislative action
050has been a board goal. So certainly we want to continue with that, but I think just trying to find the right way to do that. Um we'll have to kind of decide if that SWSA is the right the right way. Um I did send that email, I'm sorry it was kind of late last night that um came from SWSA that just kind of shared some of their kind of overall what they do and how they do it. So I maybe have a chance to review that before our next meeting. Angie, you've been on the committee. In my my less than a year experience, it seemed to me that many of the efforts were duplicative of what WASB is doing. Um I mean it's important to have many voices lobbying for um the needs of school
051districts and but I didn't necessarily sense that the lobbying priorities established were specifically SW specific. Right? So I I I struggle to find the value of what having a sort of carveout group just for the southwestern or southern Wisconsin southern Wisconsin portion um the uniqueness of our needs that that warrants it. I feel bad saying that because it's it's a modest entry fee and I know that they're struggling. They lost a couple of school districts last year. And so if this were to continue, I I do worry for the continued existence of the group, but for it to continue to ex I I don't even want to go on record like arguing whether it should or shouldn't exist. I I'm just um I struggle with the duplicative nature of what I experienced. I just want
052to say duplicative again. Can you say it one more time? Is there any we interact with these other districts in other ways, right? Because it's not the only place where we like work together with some of these other districts. We wouldn't be breaking any relationships if we decided to. No, I think that probably between all of us at the table, the district leader lies have our own networks within um all the school districts. So WB, as you've said, is doing what this group is doing by and large, identifying legislative lobbying priorities and employing staff to um both directly lobby for and instruct districts on how best to lobby for them. Yes. Okay. Right. Correct. I agree with that statement. But I would encourage those of you who haven't been involved to take a look at
053the material and sent out because I might just be easily distracted. I don't know. Yeah. So, we can we'll bring it back in June. Hopefully, we'll have a firm answer from them on what their agreement is for next year. Um, and we can make a decision at that time. And we talk about this every year. I don't recall talking about this last year. It was pretty preunctery. Oh, okay. Yeah, we've just kind of always approved it or Yeah. Okay. Moving on. The treasures report is available in more docs. Questions? No. Okay. Well, then future agenda items. We have the preliminary budget action item, the SSA agreement action item, the electrician position first read. Um, annual academic standards adoptions first read, the Franklin forward update, approval of teacher contracts as an action item. policies 5010 student
054non-discrimination 4010 non-discrimination anti-harassment 2100 non-discrimination on the basis of sex and education 6312 student promotion retention um action items coherence plan and other year report saber center update and electrician position action item did we approve viola and when if so when We did not follow the garbage pickup that way. Yes, I thought we did approve Neiola and that'll take effect July 1. So, actually that committee meeting on the 16th of June, we will go through these policies listed and I'll note that the policies won't match exactly. We'll take the policy numbers for what will be new with Niola. Um, so some of these policies, it'll be fully explained in the report, but some will sunset. Um, and some policies will like this promotion one will stay, but we'll adopt the Nola one to cover the
055act 20 changes. Um, so that will all be clear for the 18th. It's just lucky as we switch over, but also at that date on the six. So to say with that, we'll have those adjustments from the first read from that committee and then we will send those as soon as we have them to the board. So the packet goes out on that Friday. You won't have the policies with it, but we'll send them after the meeting on the 16th or early the 17th. Um the other thing with that in that meeting, we'll talk about the whole schedule for next year for adoption. So those volumes are broken down. I think it's six volumes if I'm remembering right. We'll set the dates for when we're going to review those and start bringing them to the
056board and have a clear direction with that. But that'll be mostly throughout first semester next year, bringing those volumes. And then through second semester, we'll be bringing the we'll be our administrative team then reviewing the administrative rules that go with the policies. That doesn't have to come through the board, but that just finalizes the package to make it effective July 1, uh, 2026. And Ann and Linda and I will be on that committee. And I've heard rumors of three-hour meetings. I'm just It's probably four to six, but we'll hope for three. Uh, right. with breaks. Any other questions about upcoming meetings? Anything else? Okay. Then I'm looking for a motion to adjurnn. So moved. Second. Motion was made by Mrs. Yank, seconded by Dr. K. All in favor? I oppose. We are journ 648. Do
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