School Board Meeting 05/18/2026

001I [snorts] have one today and then seven and eight. It's one of them. I'll try [snorts] that and see if I can Yeah, he's got a little 1025. You know, for what I do it's like what I needed. One of mine I got six and eight gig disk. >> Mhm. >> [clears throat] [snorts] >> All right, 6:00 we'll just call the meeting to order. And roll call, it's like all members present with the exception of Jeff Drexler. And I think the next action is the board financial audit for this month. I believe Jordan and Amy. Amy's first time. Whoever wants to start. I can start. Okay. So, I reviewed there's another big Amazon bundle of miscellaneous. So, >> [clears throat] >> I've been reviewing that. Overall, a lot of the Amazon purchases are I think

002worded well in description descriptive well, but a lot of those when they roll up, there's not a good description that kind of summarizes the whole bucket. But, I mean they all looked like reasonable purchases in there. Uh the other bucket that was that was the Edmentum payments. So, that's all of our e-learning. I think there was over 23 courses. It was like 20,000 some dollars in online curriculum or coursework that we paid for. >> [snorts] >> Uh all looked pretty straightforward. Um Yeah, I was just curious. It doesn't like tie out to to classes. I think it's got like a count, but it wasn't really descriptive what the classes were or how many students are taking them. So, that might be Yeah, interesting to review. We're doing an audit of Edmentum at the end of

003the year when classes are done, but we're doing an audit cuz this was our first year. Edmentum is it's been an okay experience for our first year. We're actually looking at different vendors. Okay. We are Wisconsin Virtual Schools and some online system and so on. So, it's still still under review. Yeah. That might be something that would be interesting to trend if we still keep more of our e-campus. We do actually have a document that says what classes are being taken by whom. So, we have that already started. Yeah. Uh the only thing I only have one was you had some reimbursements. So, I just double cuz I think we talked about that might be a good standard. >> Absolutely. Pizza checked out. >> [laughter] >> I would highly encourage you and like you said

004in my whole career, I think every meeting, everything that comes out of my account has looked at so All right, anything else there, Jordan? No. Amy? So it's very interesting because I came in early this morning when I had time and I looked at those exact same things. Um the Edmentum I talked with the ladies in the office and they said it's very vague. Uh they're working on trying to you know, get the billing to be more specific, but if from Edmentum it's very vague, which I don't know. They should really itemize stuff and be very specific when they're billing. Um Audio Architects, that was a really big one uh for the uh it was like 45,000 and that was a very vague billing too. I can't understand when they like okay, all this equipment

005and then this is the total that you owe instead of this piece cost this like you know, and they said yes, that's very frustrating when it's not specific. But that all checked out and miscellaneous purchases um same thing that Jordan and I think I looked at the same one. What's interesting and I talked with Deb about is all those miscellaneous purchases for people that like you know, myself that look through the accounts payable to see a big a big Amazon purchase like that and you're like, what are they buying from Amazon, you know, but actually we looked through it and it was a lot of Beth Davis's grant money that she earned, you know, and applied for the grant and really worked hard on it. It'd be nice if we could have that for people

006to know that look, this is grant money that like she wrote a grant for, she earned, you know, it's not just extra money going to whatever on Amazon. >> [clears throat] >> And then another thing I looked at, well I just kind of glanced over in the account payable was the youth apprenticeship and we did the amounts going out to the youth apprenticeship kids. And I want to this is a compliment towards is it Mr. Johnson? >> Sure. Okay. My son participated in the youth apprenticeship over at St. Croix Central. And there's nowhere close to what these kids are getting out of the program that he got. You know, he yes he put the hours in, but there wasn't a whole lot given to the kids. Whereas she puts the money towards clothing for them,

007tools, you know, and it's significant for these kids to start off. So I just wanted to say kudos to her for you know, taking that money and really using it for the kids. That's a huge deal, I think. >> Yeah, we made the decision to cuz when you look at it, I mean, kids are buying [snorts and clears throat] $150 boots. Kids are buying tools that they will use and they might not even go back into what they're working for. Um, Amery's probably the leading YA school in our area. St. Croix Central is a seat bigger, but um, a lot of those schools do put the money back into either fund 10 or they put it in other areas and we've just made it a obligation to make sure that our kids are unless they

008get a little crazy with it, um, puts it back into what they could use. Um, cuz it does cost whether it's scrubs, whether it's boots, whether it's tools. Um, Sarah does a really nice job of saying yay or nay if it's questionable, but again, it is just kind of our philosophy to make sure that it does It's nice to see, you know, the kids are earning it and and they get rewarded for it, you know. >> Yeah, so everything is reimbursable. So just know that. Um, it's not coming out of, you know, a separate account. So Yeah. Okay. Well, thanks. Thank you, Jordan, [clears throat] for doing that this month and Yeah, I like your idea of highlighting the grants and then maybe when we're done, it's just some idea, I guess, if everyone's all

009set up, take a picture of it and We've got our creative content director over here. For For grants? Yeah, if we have it all spent or if we have it all set up, we could say, "Hey, this was all grant money." When it looks like expenditures accepted. Yeah, I'm going to add that. Yeah, there's a couple of ways. So, the one document that outlines different grants that are awarded, it's in our strategic direction. It kind of isolates that, but you also have in terms of the overall grant summary, I don't know if we have anything like that. Yeah, I was kind of curious about that in the last month's policy review. I don't know if we need to be doing something. Cuz I was kind of There's a couple audits in in this policy binder

010that I don't know if we really done. So. Well, there's no requirements in terms of an audit. I mean, that you have to outline this grants because when you dig into it, it will be outlined as the revenue as I mean, I get you're not going to see it when you do a review like that, but when the audit is taking place, you'll see the revenue as a grant. First of [clears throat] all, it's from a grant. So, surface level, yeah, I mean, we're There's people that whether it's Anne Marie, whether it's Beth, I mean, the number of grants that are coming into offset various funds. Um, maybe city cuz even in my prior district, EXLY >> [sighs] >> toyed with the idea of rewarding staff a percentage similar to a grant writer. So, if

011you're a grant writer, you get >> [clears throat] >> it's almost like a core curriculum. So, if you get a $500,000 grant or let's say it's say a $1,000 grant, you'd get 3% or 2%. Um the problem is now is everything from the federal government to the state and to both um organizations, it's grant driven. And so, um I think you'd lose some value right there. But, you could do a half a percent or something like that. Um cuz it [clears throat] does usually take some type of effort to put forward and bring that money in. So. Okay, I think that completes item C. Item D is policy review for the 7,000 series and district property. If you've got a chance, any questions? Yeah, I think kind of like I mentioned earlier, there was a

012couple of, you know, reviewed on a regular basis that the board reviews. I think one of them was a a physical inventory every 2 years. And I just, you know, I know we've got our the drivable equipment list, you know, with all the buses and the cars and vehicles, but is there are there other things that are assets that we're maintaining or depreciating on a schedule that we need to be auditing? You know, like tech ed equipment or anything in the art room or cafeteria equipment that we need to purchase to set up the commons cafeteria? Cuz I think there was like a $15,000 uh asset limit. So, like everything over that we're supposed to be listing. Yeah, technology we do have uh there's a software that outlines what we have in in terms of

013in stock and [clears throat] what we have, but some of those colors as far as uh an overall inventory list, each department keeps some of them, but is it is all centralized? Absolutely not. No, we're not there yet. I wonder if as we do like our facilities, workshops as we get those kind of back into the regular cadence, is that Yeah. >> Maybe we develop some agendas for those workshops so that we can highlight what some of those annual type style reviews are. Yeah, and I don't know. Like I said, there's a technology is the one that I'm aware of where it has a software that does that and it's coded based on, you know, barcodes or whatever, but some of this other stuff is appreciable like a, >> [snorts] >> you know, ticket equipment.

014Yeah, I think of like the routing cables and stuff like that. Those are pretty big assets. [clears throat] So, um, but yeah, I don't We certainly are are not in don't have anything like that right now. Any questions on 7000 series? I'll go to item E, mental health awareness month. Um. So, Bonnie Barker is a retired school psych and former special education director from Boyceville and she's been with us for a number of years as our school psych and then this last year she retired again. Um, however, she led um, our school psych because our school psych was not fully licensed so she served as the mentor which allowed us to get um, through the state uh, fully licensed. With that, uh, Bonnie has uh, has done a great job over her career but she's

015very passionate about uh, mental [clears throat] health. And so on a yearly basis, uh, she always wants to remind all of us, uh, including the board, um, of mental health awareness month and that is, uh, this this month, uh, in May. She also likes to give uh, little trinkets to remind you of the importance of mental health. So, I would encourage you to read through the the presentation is electronic. It also is in paper next to you. And then the trunk it was paid on her behalf. That's how strongly she feels about mental health and I think we all agree that it's something that we need to continue to focus on as it's becoming a major roadblock for non-union students and staff. So, thanks to Bonnie. And if you see her, just give her a

016thank you. Otherwise, yeah. Okay. After any questions on that? Otherwise, first action, approval of the agenda. >> [clears throat] >> You want to entertain a motion? >> I'll make that a motion. Motion by Joey, who seconds? Seconded by Scott. Any questions? Otherwise, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Opposed by nay. And that is approved. Up next is the open forum procedures. And looks like we have one community member who's here to speak. Uh so, just awareness. Do you want to state your name and address, Joan, as you start? And then um usually it's a 2-minute uh duration. I don't see anyone else here to speak. So, in that event, no objections, we can provide additional time. I promise I won't take much more than that, but it's not going to get

017done in 2. Joan Bartz, [clears throat] N12095 County Road Q, Town of New Sampsen. Um I did give you each a packet that talks a bit about the playground. Um, it shows what it's going to look like. There is a whole right about here. That is where the existing, um, swing bank is and will stay. So, there's going to be six the the six swings that are there will get new padding and swings for them, but the unit itself will stay. Um, but I'll I'll leave you with those. Uh, the Community Foundation of Glenwood City was founded in February of 2025. Our mission is to make the small rural community more prosperous, inclusive, and inclusive through education, improved infrastructure, and the promotion of arts. Our first project is the revitalization of Lion's Park focusing on

018replacing the outdated and broken equipment at the park. Our original budget for the project was $250,000, but we're close to wrapping it up for much less than that. We raised $78,374 from the local community in a very short time. I believe that's a true testament to the importance of this park project to our small community. An interesting fact, Anna reminded me today that our Facebook page went live 1 year ago today. So, you know, to see what we've done in a short time, I'm I'm pretty excited about that. Um, in addition to community support, we we we received $2,500 from a family trust in River Falls, a grant from St. Croix Electric for an ADA swing, a grant from Cemstone for 6 cubic yards of ready mix for footings including delivery and fees, and over

019$1,000 in private choice dollar directions. Other donations in kind include Bobcat and excavation work for site prep, labor on the cement work for the sidewalk, and all of the wood fiber materials we need, which is a huge donation. I think that would be a hundred thousand right there. Patrick, you probably know because you did the the one here. Um, we've applied for several larger grants from Kubota, the Community Foundation of Dunn County, and most recently, we're waiting to hear back from a grant application from T-Mobile. So far, we've been unsuccessful in all of these larger grants. We feel this is in part due to the fact that while the city has been very supportive of the foundation itself, they have already been taking out the existing playground equipment and helping with site with site prep,

020they haven't really had a financial buy-in, and I think that's hurt us in the larger grant writing. Um, we we will hear about the T-Mobile grant by the end of the month, and if we do get this, I'm kind of excited about the partnership with the school. 22,000 will go toward installation and 10,000 for sidewalks, but 5,000 of that will go to public art with the Glenwood City High School Department art department leading the painting of murals and garbage cans, and a thousand dollars to the Glenwood City High School market makers lab for custom signs and raised garden beds, and a thousand dollars for plants and trees. Of the funds that we've raised so far, we've spent $58,792, and you can see in your packet what what we've bought so far for um equipment. It's

021a 35-ft zip track and an obstacle course structure. Last year at our What do they call that? The summer kickoff kickoff to summer. We had a Cuz it wasn't It was National Night Out we did it, but we had [clears throat] posted it, and we had people vote, and obstacle course and zip track were the things that they most wanted. So, we got those two. Also, a pod a toddler play area eight for ages two to five, and a swing bank with the ADA compliant swing and then also a parent-child swing. To complete the project, we'd like to purchase three more pieces of equipment, which would include a large play structure for ages five to 12, which would replace the one that's still there. Um, a mini world and a merry-go-round type and an arch

022swing or a tire swing structure. These two smaller pieces are both ADA compliant and the total cost for all three of those pieces and freight to deliver them is $41,873. The community foundation is asking the school district to help us purchase those last three pieces from your fund 80. I did some research on that fund and I know that it's used for purposes separate from normal school operations for programs to serve the entire community, not just K-12 students. According to the Wisconsin Department of Education or the DPI, common eligible uses for fund 80 are community recreation, community parks, and programming among others like daycare and after school programming, which you do a great job with with your fund 80 or our fund 80. Um, by adding the including those three ADA components and the sidewalks

023um, around and hopefully through the playground. We don't have that showing yet, but we're hoping to have some through the playground as well like you do here at the school. Um, we feel that the updated park will be more inclusive to kids of all abilities and make it easier for our elderly adults to enjoy as well and thus making it, I think, a very good use of fund 80 dollars. It's my understanding that the school is looking to purchase another bank of swings. Um, we talked to Dan Wayne from MWP, which is where we're buying the materials for our equipment from. And he has promised that he will extend the discounted price to your equipment if you partner with us. Um, and he can also have it delivered with our equipment so that would also

024save the freight costs. Um, and I don't know this for sure. I'm not as kind of one of the the number cruncher on it, but from what I can see on the billing, it looks like that discount is about 32 or 33%. So, it's a significant discount. Um, we feel that this is a great opportunity to work together in a win-win scenario and help you build rapport with the community at a very important time as you're exploring the referendum process. Um I'm speaking with the city council meeting tonight, so if I duck out of here, don't consider me rude. >> [laughter] >> But I am going to speak with them as well. And like I said, while they've been very supportive of the foundation, um they have yet to to be able to put any

025dollars toward it. Um but giving them some grace, they don't have a fund 80 and things are running a little tight. And for those of you that have been in the city, I understand they just had a name change last week, too. So um they're they're running pretty lean. Um but even if they do find some dollars to support this project, we can anticipate there being additional costs as we get the to the installation phase. Um we know the basketball courts need resurfacing and we'd like to add benches as well. Um so I'm not concerned about us finding ourselves overfunded. I would ask that you please consider the importance um of this project to our community and the great timing for the goodwill and rapport building that it could be for this school district. I'm

026asking you to support the community that supports the Wenonah City School District. Time is of the essence as we're hoping to purchase the equipment the first part of around early June. Um this would allow us to have delivery and installation completed hopefully in time for restaurant opening. Um I thank you very much for your time and consideration. Thanks, Joan. Thank you, Joan. And if you're interested, I don't I mean I don't know what the timing is or how it works, but I do have the invoice for those the pieces of equipment and installation. That's kind of what you need. Do you have a copy for us to keep? Yes. Okay. Thank you, Joan. Yep. So just a reminder, um cuz we have quite a few board new board members, uh for future-wise to um making

027sure that during open forums that we don't respond, we don't make comments, we don't ask questions. It's simply you sit there and listen. You don't interact, you don't have an exchange. That's not the purpose of that because then you go against it trust me it will come back and bite you later on. So, just a good FYI as we move forward but certainly thanking somebody is not against the rules. So, thank you Joe. You're welcome. Okay. Good comments Patrick. So, that concludes the open forum procedure. We'll jump down to the consent agenda. >> [clears throat] >> Any questions on the consent agenda or anything that folks want to pull out from the on the list? I had questions about the approval of Cowbell Cyber Insurance application. I looked at the application and um had a

028few questions as far as what do we get for coverage? How much do we pay? I see the only dollar amount with the revenue expected over the 12 months is 14,000. And then the questionnaire. Yeah, so 14 million 14 million Is it 14 million? >> Yeah. Yeah. 14 million is [clears throat] the revenue. So, what do we get for this? So, basically this is the application and then we go through um uh our [clears throat] insurance company along with our commercial grade. So, Misska is then sent to. So, if you look at the application itself Frank fills out some parts of it, I fill out the other parts in terms of the overall. If you look our at our existing which I don't have in front of me but our existing insurance policy cuz this

029is a renewal. Um it would have those Sure. those items on there. And I can get that for you. Scott Does that answer your question? Do you want to pull it out or are you uh So, to answer your Uh well, right now we're just voting on the uh the applications. Just yes. I would like to see what what that entails. Yep, I can get that to you guys. Okay, thank you. Yep. Any other? Yeah, one of the things I saw was there was a couple of resignations in there, and the feedback was very positive about their experience at Glenwood. I was just curious, you know, do we do we perform exit interviews to kind of gauge you know, why people are leaving the district, and maybe use it to support, you know, improving retention?

030Yes, um and no. Um >> [clears throat] >> So, the employee handbook is still not finished. Uh that didn't exist. So, it's still a work in a progress. Um in terms of, you know, doing exit interviews, I personally meet with them and have a verbal exit interview um as we finish off. Um but in the in terms of an official document, we are not there yet. But in terms of, yeah, um and some in prior, and again, we can make, you know, there again, there's changes here on the board, um which we'll discuss some things tonight. I would put them in consent because again, based on the circumstances, you know, people will ask, "Well, why are they leaving?" We have resignation. Based on law, that's what I have to reference. Um but in terms of,

031yeah, in these two situations, it was made um very really made a lot of sense for each of these individuals based on what their goals are and where they go. Um are there going to be resignations in front of you that uh were because of something negative? Absolutely. I mean, I'm not doing [clears throat] my I would tell you again, if I'm not making people mad, I'm not doing my job. Um because I the push the envelope um, and keep consistent. With these two situations, yeah, they made made great sense and I think, you know, their comments within the resignation also aligned our experiences here. So, Yeah. >> [clears throat] >> Yeah, to your point, obviously we're not a big school district that has an entire human resource department. Um, but uh, it would be

032nice to if we find some way to start tracking like just a point of reference so that we can look back over time and know Yeah. I do have a form that I used in my other district as part of our overall employee handbook. It's just a matter of Yeah. putting it together and then We as a board a couple years ago when we had a lot of resignations created an entire exit interview. I don't know if we still have that information, but we created that and sent it out to all the staff that had resigned to get feedback. I have not seen that. Okay. >> [clears throat] >> I can look at my stuff and see if see if we have it. But as a board we decided on questions we wanted to ask

033just how to keep him out of it cuz obviously, you know, I I was just looking for it too, Jody. Do you remember that? Mhm. Yeah. Found it, but it was in deleted Google Docs so. Okay. >> [clears throat] >> Yeah. So, I mean we don't need to use that specific one, but it might give us some ideas of what we can use to form one. Okay, any other questions? >> I have one more. Yeah, but it's kind of recurring. Uh, there was a bunch of expenses in there for the cooler mechanical updates again and it's just, you know, we we keep seeing them and then, you know, we talked about it with the facility dashboard and it's like how do we use that to tell, you know, are those kind of planned budget or

034are we starting to exceed budget with those? How do we kind of The presentation I gave you guys last fall, I mean that that is the reason. You're actually sitting in next to another area where the compressor went out on Friday. So, um, I've actually if you go back and I can resend it to you, but every time we have a situation like that, I take those bills and I put them back into our facility um, strategic direction folder. So, when you Now, we can always run a report to see, but um, no none of these things are budgeted. These are all and that's truly one of the reasons of going to a hydro system and replacing all 29 roof top units cuz they're pricing themselves out. And when they were first purchased in 2016,

035um, they were according to Cool Air um, and another uh, mechanical contractor, [clears throat] they were kind of lower end of the I guess models that were in existence. So, uh, we're definitely I mean, again, the compressors have gone out. You're looking at I don't want to you'll see it next month because it's it's all especially with the cool, but uh, Cool Air was here the actual last couple days doing their PM uh, for this spring getting all those uh, started and then Masters Controls, uh, which is a separate company and does the control component, uh, they're coming Wednesday. So, we'll get all those things cuz weather has not been favorable in terms of using the AC pieces, but um, yes, [clears throat] I That's a huge concern Yeah, that's where if they're all in

036one spot, it'd be nice to They are. >> [clears throat] >> anecdotally, you know, it's $7,000 this last month. So, I mean, what is it every month? That's kind of part of that referendum story that we're going to want to put together. So, Yeah, I'll resend it to you, but if you look back in your Google Drive and what it was the November something work session where we talked about facilities, there's a separate folder of just Cool Air and that will give you an idea line [clears throat] by line what we're spending on these rooftop units. So, do you have money in the budget set aside for incidentals, like just >> Absolutely. Okay. Yeah. So, this isn't like you're running a fine line here. >> Yeah, you know, and the hard part Amy is is

037that we are still and again, I sound like a broken record, but we are still in creation mode in terms of our assigned budget, and what I mean by that is even tonight with curriculum, we did not budget that amount just because we are so far behind. Um if you read an action just once we get to it, I'll I'll I'll line it, but David Pacold wrote a summary in his process, um where they haven't addressed high school ELA curriculum until 2021, and then they were forced to um just spend a little bit of money. Now, until Dr. Curtis went and took them through through process. Um [clears throat] it was that budget at the beginning of the year. We talked about what that needs to be, but we had no idea what the needs

038are. We had to go do just do an inventory of what every teacher is doing. It's just part of our process now. In terms of your question about the building, yeah, I mean, you have we have an overall buildings and grounds budget, and then, you know, [clears throat] we have that set amount, but incidentals or whatever you want to call them, things that have happened just in my two years here, those amounts have It's crazy. Whether it's a boiler, if you look at this one, in no way did So, I'll just pull up so you can see. If you look at the Cool Air here, when they were on site, and this was just part of their PM back in February. These things were what they discovered after, for example, performed a boiler maintenance, which

039is required. Now, keep in mind, this was not done since 2018 prior to me. So, you think of that 5-year period, by statute, every [clears throat] one of those boilers should have been inspected. They weren't. Nor were they even taken care of. So, when I was hired, we actually spent a chunk of money just to get those things back up in terms of certification. Now, we're seeing some effects of those to where, you know, right now we it was tripping on low water fill, fire flow, excuse me. >> [clears throat] >> And this actually happened the night of parents' night here for basketball. So, it was we were here late that night, and we were inspecting cuz we were wondering why it was cold out. But then you can see, the fallout of that. So,

040there's a lot of things, I guess, going back to my comment in the of, you know, did you properly budget for you know, some unknowns? Yes and no. The number of amounts, I'll give you another one that's going to be coming in front of you in the next 2 months. We have to do an RFP. Every one of our we lost a uh this spring we lost a we lost a door opener, and we couldn't get a bus up. Well, then I had the door company fix it cuz we had to get the bus out. And then I said, "Can you please do an assessment of the openers?" They're all 25 years old. And he goes, "They're just they're ready to go. They're going to snap, and they're just going to go and we got

041I think eight of them. >> [clears throat] >> And so those are the types of things where that preventative maintenance or even just general maintenance we're seeing the cost of those because if No, I'm not saying that the boilers, you know, this couldn't have happened if it was taken care of, but knowing that for 5 years it wasn't inspected, it's just a matter of time before that sediments and it builds up and so forth because they weren't properly filtered, they weren't properly inspected, they weren't properly kept up in preventative maintenance, you're going to pay the price. And so when I come to you 4 years later or 3 years since I started and say, "Hey, we need this." Well, Patrick, why weren't you up you know, why didn't you weren't you up to date on

042this?" And again, I don't like to make excuses, but in the same regard, it's it's like how did we get to this point? And [clears throat] that lack of maintenance, not because of Bob. He worked his butt off and I've met with him a number of times and the same old discussion was made. There's no money. There's no money. There's no money. And [clears throat] unfortunately, we're seeing some of those effects with especially rooftop units. So, um I don't know. Like I said, I didn't mean to I I I I I need to kind of tell the story of how we get to this point because even building that budget, it's things that I have no idea. You know. You know, please forecast. >> Well, yeah, and even the the the the door openers. It

043just happens. Yeah. Now, we're looking at >> [clears throat and cough] >> that's a $20,000 $20,000 to replace all those door openers, install them and so forth. And again, it we're on borrowed time. So, again, I I'm trying to when I say we're building the budget and we're trying to forecast as well as we possibly can. Um, but sometimes they just scaffold so much where we're just playing catch up. And tonight is another example of curriculum. We should have been >> [clears throat] >> Um, you'll see the difference because I'll pull it up. I mean, we literally go through a curriculum cycle, which every 3 to 5 years you're replenishing and you're looking, you're reevaluating. Lately, well, we used to have a decade of where you haven't even addressed it or more. So, anyway. But

044one thing like with, you know, we've been using the financial scorecard for 2 months now, right? So, that was one thing Laura and I were talking about for stuff like that that's non-standard or maybe not budgeted costs, you know, how do we use that tool to help us see the financial impacts to our our plan, right? If how much fund balance do we think we're going to consume throughout the budget cycle. So, I think it'll be kind of fun to see how we start using that tool a little bit more. And we're still going through line by line with more in depth. We have a schedule um, in the next couple of weeks where we just go through, here's what was budgeted, here's what we spent. You know, here's the the surplus um, or here's

045where we went over just to get to that. And again, this year and I I think it's hard to say, but we have to see how the budget played out. Where are we over? Where are we under? And start making some appropriate adjustments. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah, no, that [clears throat] was conversation. I think um, we got to know our 7 million spend potential uh, with the capital investment and then it would if the referendum comes to fruition, it would be nice. Maybe Tim has something from past experience of kind of strategic capital um, expense over like 5-year horizon or whatever it might be. So, we start to budget those in the financial plan. Okay. Uh, with that, any other questions on the consent agenda? Otherwise, I'll entertain a motion to approve. >> [clears throat] >>

046I'll second it. Uh, I make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Okay, a motion by Nicole. Do we have a second? I'll second. Second by Jordan. Any other discussion? Otherwise, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion by me. Consent agenda approved. Administrative reports. So, since we just had a meeting, um, I gave our administrators the night off, um, due to graduation and a lot of extra time put in, um, plus, um, I always want to make sure that those reports are not just forced, um, that they really showcase. So, I'm going to take them over, um, and first one is 2026 summer school. Um, the first thing I want to outline is, again, we're expanding summer meals to be throughout the entire summer. Our first go at this was last year.

047And I came from the district that we did this and I can't tell you how important it is to have these meals and this food accessible, especially when you look at where our percentages are. Um, so, uh, really looking forward to having this, um, beyond summer school, which was what we did last year. We tried to do a soft start and then this year we're expanding it into all of July and all of August. So, thanks to Alyssa, uh, we are, um, expanding her contract, um, and she's actually the only one that is needed to put this together. So, fund 50 we're still working out. That is definitely one of those funds that, uh, we have worked to do uh for a number of reasons. Um I will be bringing to the board an increase

048in funds um or seeing them in terms of lunch costs uh this summer. Um biggest thing is is we my recommendation last summer was to freeze it uh based on where we're at this year because of higher commodities and a lot more funds that are needed to keep fund 50 afloat. Um we're going to have to raise prices um most likely by 10 cents. So, more to come on that. >> [clears throat] >> In terms of summer school, uh this is not public in terms of uh all this we actually just got this, but I'll bring it up in terms of we have students um who's doing what. Uh we also have uh our responses based on transportation and right now we have two bus drivers that agreed to uh create some um time in

049their schedule to provide transportation. And we're still looking at where those two will be um but in terms of summer school, we always felt that that was one of the limitations from families is just how they get here. And so, um we're going to try it with those two and again um venture out and see what the cost is and it's a three-year rolling average for summer school and how that counts as an FTE. So, again we're we're taking um some of my experiences from past and putting [clears throat] it um to work here. So, um more information will be coming um but in those documents you can see how many uh kids are in summer school which it is up on a preliminary note. So, we'll um look forward but JD's doing a great

050job of trying to get those things and making some appropriate changes um including the fact that years past uh there was some limitations where you as a staff member could only say yes or no to teach. And now she's saying, "I'll take it for 1 week." So, if a teacher wants to teach just for 1 week and teach that class, that's a a win-win. And same thing with kids. Um kids were you know you they would and we only ments our school year for 2 weeks, which never really made a lot of sense to me because most other districts do 3 weeks all of June. Um and then there's carryover into July and August with tops etc. So, anyway, um all the information is there. I'll give a final report here in in June along

051with what classes are running and what teachers because we will have to get them contracts. So, um more information to come on that. Um staff appreciation uh went very well this year. Uh one of the things that we do here in Garwood um is based on it's not teacher appreciation. So, if you look at the monograms and the messaging at the federal or throughout the United States, it's always teacher appreciation. I have always been an advocate of this is staff appreciation cuz we could not do what we do if it's not for the paraeducators, if it's not for the bus drivers, custodians. Um I always felt it was a slap in the face. So, um we term it as staff appreciation and we offer to every single individual that's part of our team. Uh this

052year uh Jamie took it over um and did a tremendous job. And the one thing that I will and it's it's behind here. I would encourage you at some point to click on that staff appreciation journal. It was a activity that was instituted this year and really I think the term that comes to mind is just a culture that we're trying [clears throat] to build here. And I think if you read those comments, if you read some of those interactions with how that was outlined and who was taking pictures and adding [clears throat] to it. I as the superintendent sit back and kind of just smile and say this is the type of culture we want to try to build. So, did a lot of the examples there with pictures and so forth. So, a

053lot of work by our administrators cuz we again are the we try to keep Krista out of it. We keep everybody else out of it and we just as administrators plan it and try to take care of it. So, there's certain things we can't do like graphics, we can't do what Krista does, but for the most part whether it's the meal, whether it's the other things, it was administrative base. So, special thanks to Jamie and Aaron and Richie and Sue just to make this a special week. Shana Hoffman also through the parent connection did a tremendous job. They've taken more of a a deeper I would say assistance with the two and recognizing that they're doing different things. So, again appreciation to that group that is taking part in making our staff feel appreciated. So,

054it was a great week. >> [clears throat] >> The last one is again, I'm not going to go through these, but again just in a short amount of time we have a variety of really I would say extraordinary things that pop out in terms of um what we do, uh activities that are presented, conversations [clears throat] that are had, um thank yous, uh you name it. And so, I just encourage you to click on those photos and graphics. A lot of them are what Krista makes. Um others of them are just ways of like the senior meal and so forth. I think it gives you an idea of just activities that we try to incorporate to give the kids the best experience possible. Any questions on staff appreciation, celebrations, or summer school? All right. Nothing.

055[clears throat] Thanks for covering it. We're appreciative appreciative of all of the staff that we're thankful to have. So, I really appreciate Yeah, the fact that that's 2019 pages long Yeah, no I agree. It's um like [clears throat] I said, that that was new this year and it was really again, powerful just to see the participation. Um shows it shows a lot of cuz we want people just like the kids, we want them to walk into the school with a smile on their face and excited to be here. We want the staff to feel the same way. There was only one concerning photo. Mr. Nargis took one and it was kind of down this hallway. I don't know if they he wasn't wearing that day. We're not sure about his judgment [clears throat] anymore. He

056did have one week before. I have no idea what he was using it for. I did learn later on that he All right. Head just to the business action items for discussion. Item A, approval of 2025-2026 common school funds planning purchases. So, if you look over the board recommendation, >> [snorts] >> basically we started the year with $75,599. This common school funds, we've had some record I guess don't I don't want to say it's a donation, but given from the state, and then it's given to individual districts at different amounts. And for us, this is a discussion between administration and Joe Williams, who is our library media specialist. However, based on her licensure, she also has an individual that she works with. And [snorts] together they came they come up with different proposals and so

057forth, then it goes to administrators. And then the other piece to this puzzle is Frank and I, who meet monthly even more than that. Excuse me. We look at different needs that are out there. If you ever look at common school funds and the requirements needed and required to use these funds, it's very strict. And so, this isn't just funds that you can say let's put it over here and purchase this. It has to be very specific. So, I wanted the board to be aware of where we're looking to again try to build ourselves back up. Unfortunately again, this is one of the questionable licensure areas that didn't exist. Tim does not have the ability to be the library media specialist cuz he doesn't have the license. So, what we did is we hired and

058her name Bonnie Bonnie, thank you. Um, Bonnie is a retired library media specialist from Menomonie. She's been with us for um, my tenure here and she has the licensure, so then we're um, and in 1202 that Krista does, we are satisfied that requirement. Um, but Bonnie is a uh, great resource and her and uh, we share her uh, with Boyceville and she does the same thing in Boyceville. Again, when you have 20-plus years of experience as library media specialist, so Angela gets a lot of ideas and and some different things from her. Um, the expenditures to date uh, were 12 iPad purchase and miscellaneous expenses um, that equaled that and then what I'm asking the board um, is through our team, we are coming up with recommendation um, and when we talked, uh, the first

059conversation that we had was with Frank and said, "Okay, with technology, is there needs that we need to get ahead of?" Well, Frank and I as you um, you haven't seen me yet because we've had to put it off, but when we have our strategic direction and we talk about technology, we are working on an overall replacement plan. The biggest thing that a lot of schools um, the mistake I think that is made is you purchase uh, technology with one-time monies and then it's not budgeted and then all of a sudden you have a you know, you're asking your board or you're asking the superintendent say, "Hey, I need $25,000 for Chromebooks." So, we put together a replacement plan and within that discussion, we feel we can get away with what we've done to get

060us up to a baseline and we don't [clears throat] need that for next year. So, with that said, our focus then moved to we need more and updated books within our library. We need to have those books in kids' hands. In terms [clears throat] of, you know, everything that is online, we need to make sure that these kids are reading. One of the things that I will always kind of >> [clears throat] >> deter people from looking at is test scores and say, "Well, what's changed?" I can tell you one thing that has drastically changed is the amount of time that parents read to their children. Research will tell you how successful that can help your child. So, one of the things that we don't have control over is when these kids leave our facility

061and go home. Now, there are parents that are doing what they need to, but it's certainly not where it has been or needs to be. And so, we felt we need to put some money into our libraries for book allocation. So, the books themselves actually became a list from Angela and Bonnie at the total of $49,733. The remaining amount available was $15,900, and then from that, our second recommendation is Jamie needs some more iPads so that each individual teacher has an iPad. One of the things that I mentioned last meeting was our um which we can't use common school funds, but our screens in our elementary are we're on borrowed time again. We just are. And they've been replaced once since I was a teacher here in 2000 and six, I think it was. So,

062unfortunately, we're doing everything we can by taking because they're they're basically like smart boards. Um and that's where you can use different tools and click on the screens and so forth. Um we had different classrooms in the high school that had those and what we're doing is they don't use that touchscreen piece. Elementary does. So as a board goes out in the elementary, we replace it with one of these and then you replace the high school or middle school screen with a TV uh that is high def just because they don't need the touchscreen piece. So that's another thing that we're working on as far as the replacement plan. With that said, with our new math curriculum, one of the recommendations were out of order or out of sequence and not aligned with appropriate grade

063level. That's what our teachers were required to do. Here's the standards. [clears throat] You go search Google search and find curriculum that matches that. That's not successful. That's not sustainable. That's not best practice. And so when I look at these amounts, which I'm sure you know, you looked at it and said, "Wow, where are we going to get those money?" I don't care what we have to do. We have to invest in this type of um process. I will tell you that um the previous administrator in the elementary wanted to purchase some things um and I said no because her answer to my question of what was your process she couldn't give it to me. If you look at the [clears throat] process that Sue and Jamie put our staff through to get to this

064recommendation it's best practice. They had those discussions. So with that said, um the overall um cost is still within cuz we are negotiating. So I'm asking the board to approve the recommendation that Sue has put together knowing that there's some leeway that we still have on our bargaining side and then our back pocket to say, "Here's what we're looking at." cuz they always change some of the pricing. >> [snorts] >> But, the overall process is what I kind of want to make you aware of and and kind of focus on. >> [clears throat] >> I mean, it's really exciting that we're focusing on stuff like this now. The only concern, I mean, this is our fourth curriculum item this year, I mean, the last couple months. So, looking forward to your point about rotating curriculum,

065you know, we want to make sure we're conscious of that as we're going into subscriptions and things like that so that we don't have three-year subscriptions on three different subjects all stacking up again. No, and that's I think you guys understand the the hardship of these jobs right now in Huron City cuz you're just starting from scratch. And we're constantly like when you're starting all this stuff from scratch, the timing is not perfect. >> Yeah. But, in the same regard, this also will be a scaffolding piece. And that's [snorts] what's exciting, too, is that you approved the math curriculum for Jamie in the elementary. The math curriculum that we're asking you to approve tonight scaffolds, which means it builds off of what Jamie's doing. And again, that's best practice. And how do I know that?

066And again, [snorts] I'm not looking for accolades myself, but I can tell you that in New Richmond, we were a top 10% school. There was for a reason. We had a wonderful curriculum director, Jess Ferguson, and the things that I learned from her and what our team was able to do is the same best practice that Jamie has instituted the elementary and that's what Sue Kurtz came from. So, just takes time. To your point, Jordan, yes, it you got to start somewhere and [clears throat] unfortunately, that's what our focus has been on ELA and math. What's our current cost for curriculum for What are we currently putting out? Uh well, coming in uh prior to me, the first budget, my first year, which was Tim's budget, uh it was 78,000. For both of those together?

067No, are you talking what was budgeted? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, that's what he had on his budget line item. And for all curriculum? For all curriculum. >> Okay. Now, within a year's time, I still don't know the final answer, Jody, but I would say you could probably could get away with a $50,000 budget line item. Now, it's just we were we need to get something. We need to create that baseline. What do we have left for curriculum to go after yet? >> [clears throat] >> Is there any other curriculum that needs to be replaced or Oh, yeah. Yeah. So, you're saying that 50,000 is like a baseline when you're sustaining your development >> A baseline year after year. Um right now, our elementary reading is is okay. Uh math was the focus this year.

068So, I think we got a strong baseline in those two things. Cuz if you asked me, "Okay, if we want to be a 10% top 10% school, what do we have to focus on?" Cuz then here's what my answer would be. Reading, math, critical thinking. Those are the three things that I want my children, all these kids, to know how to do. With that, if you take say you take social studies, okay? What is social studies? Yes, it's dates, it's times, it's learning from history, but it's reading. You look at science. What's the premise of science? It's math. >> [clears throat] >> So, when you focus on building that strong of a core, you're going to be successful in those other areas. To your point, one of the things that I'm paying Randy Cotulla is

069to write some curriculum based on standards for science. >> Science. Because our new math, excuse me, science teacher is coming right from college, and it's it's a kind of a strong suit for Randy, and so I was comfortable doing that. Science is a little different beast, but we still have science. But then in high school, just [snorts] take marketing, business, uh chemistry, physics. I mean, there's textbooks, social studies. I want to get to the point where we offer psychology on site. Um so, there are Yes, there's more that we have to tackle in terms of but our goal right now is just math and reading or ELA. And once we get those things done, now we can look at some of those other areas such as electives, um some of those others that are Again,

070I don't want to say they're less important, but math and reading and ELA is the the core right now. So, maybe to Jordi's point, is there >> [snorts] >> Do we have some of those curriculums that will bend to the like next year's budget and the two-year budget? We're still cuz I We haven't built next year's budget cuz I want to see how like this year is my I feel like my first budget I would say where I was able to tweak and put amounts down. But I also had to just I had to see it play out. Just to see how close we are. I will tell you that um Brian Johnson for example, my finance director it was like clockwork for 27 years and I knew we were going to do a carry.

071If he came and said we're going to carry over 300,000. I knew that's what our carryover was going to be. Here you know, Jody was lying to year after year um because Tim and I he said it in his one statement, well we always had 5 to 600 carryover. Well yeah, I I could have millions in carryover when you take away these things and you don't you don't keep your boilers up to date. I mean I can keep that amount and and I could just wow you, you know. But that's not what was happening. So [snorts] it's it's [clears throat] it's still this movable target that I wish I had better answers for you but again, I feel it's my job to just get us to a baseline of where um cuz everything I'm bringing

072to you is not bells and whistles. It's like the structure. It's the it's the pillars of what we need to build our school off of. As we're starting to develop this curriculum, would it be helpful to to kind of create a curriculum scorecard? I mean like where where are we doing well from the course? Where are some of those ancillary next steps of what we want to develop and then, you know, as things kind of age out can we see hey we haven't updated ELA in 5 years? Patrick, what's the plan? Yes, no it's it's very similar to a technology replacement plan. yeah. It's a technology or it's a curriculum replacement plan. And again, everything's a little bit different. You know, you build up and say, "Okay, best practice." And again, people put a a

073non-numerical value of Well, when are you going to go after and redesign your curriculum? [clears throat] Should be 3 years? Should be 4 years? 5 years? Or think the data will tell you. If things are successful, why are you going to change? Now, we might have to buy a new software or we might have to update, you know, the textbook because they came out with a new edition or whatever. But, yes, to your point, once we get rolling here, it's the same type of replacement plan. So, in your budget for curriculum, how where do where does this additional expense place you? And if it's over budget, where where are you drawing your money from? Fund I can tell you we're going to be on probably 80,000 over on this budget line item. I don't [clears

074throat] know completely because the other piece that we added in was eCampus. And once we start adding those numbers in, so again, it's you know, it's it's not best practice. And for Nicole and and Amy, I've told the board this my whole career here so far, this is not best practice. You don't sit there and use fund balance, but I have no choice. Cuz I can I'm not going to sit here and let the current students, especially our high school kids, pay the price cuz my job is to make sure that we continue not only recoup what we can, but we got to build. And that's why this job has been so difficult because typically you would walk into a position and just say, "Okay, what what can you change?" Here, it's like you're you're

075starting from ground zero. Plus, you're doing a cleanup from here. So, you're trying to balance, and to your point, fund balance. Where's the 80 grand going to come from? Well, the good part is is that even that first year where we underspent by $1 million, that is saving us right now. And that $1 million was to say no to the former administrator that said, "Why don't we want to purchase some curriculum?" Show me the process. Well, I don't have one. We just a couple teachers sat down and said they wanted this one. No, that's not good That's That's makes no sense. So, we saved 80,000 that year just on curriculum cuz I said, "There's no process behind it." Yeah, you can go and sit there and purchase 80,000, but how did you get to that?

076Did you go through the entire process like Sue and Jamie have? No. But they could come to the board and say, "Hey, we purchased curriculum." Perhaps you can talk to this company if you're going to purchase both of these from them and say you need to send us a deal. >> Well, so that's why I'm asking that you just approve >> what they're because there is uh you know, I I'll give an example. Um my last year in Prairie Farm, we moved from this uh very archaic student uh records to Skyward. And in one phone call, I got $40,000 knocked off. And it's just I'm asking for you guys to approve this, but give [clears throat] me some leeway in terms of I'm still bargaining with them to say, "Okay." Cuz they always have, you

077know, it's like a car sales team. >> [clears throat] >> You know, there's there's there's things that we can maneuver around. So, um yeah, I'm I'm I'm asking the board when you approve it, don't put a dollar amount on it. Just give me the leeway to do my thing. I like the textbooks. I like the physical part of it because that needs to that needs to happen. I just again, I want the board to know all the legwork has been done by Jamie and Sue. They are we're so fortunate to have them. Um yes, there's direction and there's discussion with our elementary but the number of discussions that uh Sue had with a middle school team that I don't want to say it was the closest, um but they are now. And it's it's pretty

078she's done a tremendous job. She really has. So, anyway, um I could go on more, but is there any questions on anything in terms of what you see? The only other feedback is that from the general [clears throat] fund balance, right? We're we're over our mark of general fund and we're still trying to spend down to that 15% revenue market, right? So, that's where spending from the general fund is really helpful [clears throat] for stuff like this. Okay. Okay. Are there any motions to approve? I'll make that a motion. I'm just not really sure how you want me to put the books. I would say just uh Approve the curriculum? Approve the recommendation. And then, like I said, Cuz if we put a If you put a dollar amount to it, then I'm I'm tied

079to that. the curriculum. Where if you just allow me the flexibility, you can even say that in your recommendation if you, you know, allow the administrator to have flexibility with you know, the overall, but if you just say as a as a recommendation, cuz there's things here that we're still working on. You want me to get a motion to approve the curriculum review and adoption process as um presented. Presented, yes. Okay, thank you, Jody. You've got a motion. >> I'll second that. We've got a second by Jordan. Any additional discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. All right, opposed by nay. Great plan recommendation is approved. Item C, approval of class 26 donation. All right, so um the history here is um when I got here, uh that was when [clears throat]

080we went through line by line, uh there was these accounts in fund 21 and I started to question what those accounts were. And basically what it was as each class raised funds and they go on to graduate, anything that was left over was then started in an account downtown at Hiawatha for that class. So, for example, this year, and I don't have a final amount cuz we're doing final expenses, um but it's right around $1,200. And so, previous practice was the you could do a a couple different things. Um some I get I learned of class [clears throat] ended up buying like a thousand dollars worth of prizes and then they raffled it off to their classmates, which again, it's their money, so yeah, go for it. Um other classes chose an alternate route which

081said, "Hey, we want to have a five-year or ten-year reunion." And they started so Ron Johnson would and Tim would start an account downtown and that money would sit there and then you could come back and use that money obviously before refreshments [clears throat] and their reunion. That makes no sense to me why we are funding as a district parties that happen 5 years after. So I cut that off and basically it comes down to like the conversation with this class Kira Flick has taken it on to her cuz I once they brought up the fact that they would have a surplus then we talked about possibilities and so she took it upon herself and formulated this Google form. They came up with these categories and then ultimately [clears throat] it was decided by I

082want to say over 75% of the class chose the K9 unit from St. Croix County and I really applaud these kids cuz they can and they knew full well they could go out buy a $1200 worth of junk or TVs or whatever, raffle them off and it's like no we want to leave a little bit of a legacy. So their choice was the K9 unit. So I'm asking the board to approve the donation the total donation amount is not yet determined but it's roughly around the $1200. Seems pretty fitting since I think we have like three going into criminal justice on that class. Yes. Was [clears throat] there a policy or anything that needs to be updated as far as is there a guideline at the end of the senior year that the school for

083the class fund is spent down? They can spend it however they want, donate it but we're not continuing to I got rid of that language of going down to hire a law firm I don't well there wasn't a policy it was practice. >> Yeah. So that just went away. As far as this being written no we don't have anything formal just yet. This is more practice at this point. So just as an expense that's going to go on there to balance them up to zero. >> Cuz it's right now all this money is in the class of 26 fund 21 fund balance. Can use it however they want. >> [snorts] >> I I just again, I I think it speaks volumes of this class. I need you to want to entertain a motion. To approve

084the donation. I'll make that motion. I have a motion by Jody. Is there a second? Second. Scott. >> [clears throat] >> Motion and a second to approve the class 26 donation as presented. Any other discussion? Those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed say nay. Donation is approved. And for the newspaper and if anybody else I just want to clarify you know again truthfully. Awesome job. She just took it upon herself cuz I said within days I said I need a decision and she's like I got it. She took it, created this Google form you can see so I put it there for documentation so kudos to her. Awesome. All right. Two old buses. All right. So this is where we're at in our inventory and [clears throat] basically I'm asking the board

085for permission to take two buses that we knew in the fall um when Brian was here because they barely squeaked by for approval with the state uh, DOT and the inspection. And then, uh, followed up with Jerry and these two, uh, we didn't want to spend any money because we knew that they would not last another year or spend, um, any funds to repurpose them in any way. So, just looking for approval from the board to get rid of two of these buses via, uh, the auction site and get as many on funds as we possibly can, but these again will not pass inspection, so they're doing us no good. Whatever happened to the bus that, obviously, that must be one of them that we sold that they were they said that they were going

086to try to do a project with. Correct? Oh, the project? >> Yeah. We sold that >> That sold that get I was just thinking like, get Yeah, that's, uh, I assume no [clears throat] one was so, okay. >> Yep, Ms. Birch had a had a uh, an idea of a schooly was is what it was called. >> Yeah. Um, and actually that was my first year back here as the business teacher and kids did some presentations around it. Um, [clears throat] it just never materialized and took a lot more. So, we got rid of that one. I will tell you though, uh, the last two buses that we sold uh, the individual that bought them and he's going to be one of my first contacts. Um, Greg just emailed me over the weekend. Um, and

087what this gentleman does, he actually takes parts from these buses and drives them over, uh, the Mexican border. Okay. Um, but what he does is he keeps shells for school districts, um, or not for school districts, but for uh, departments, fire departments and they actually use them for training. And one of the things that Greg's been a fire for a long time and he's like, you know, I didn't even know that that was a thing. And this guy doesn't charge them. He just gives them the bus cuz he gets out of them what he needs. So, it's just a shell. And so Greg and I have met with this individual and the amount of time, if you ever look it up, where a bus is on fire and the ability to get out it's it's

088pretty scary. And so Greg was going to have everything set up, but he emailed me this weekend, ironically, and just said, "Due to the brush fires and different things that they've had this spring, he's going to push it to next fall." And I said, "That's fine. We're here to help you." We're actually going to do it [clears throat] here on site in town where we had the bonfire. Okay. We're going to do that as a training but to work with our local fire department. But yeah, I think it's just a great thing and again, to know [clears throat] that I think, you know, Greg has been a chief for a long time and knowing that he can use some of those buses for that for the training, he was all for it. Yeah. >> Yeah.

089That's cool. For what we'd get out of it for that. Yeah. Moment training. Yeah. So, I'm not asking to replace these buses. They're just taking up space and they will not be approved and they're not worth putting any money into. And unfortunately you know, if you ask me, yeah, we're probably going to get maybe two grand a piece. That's it. So, don't look for a windfall. It's going to pay for a curriculum? Yeah, I think it's going to pay for the curriculum. It's not going to do that. Almost. Wait, pay for the current curriculum. And I want to add a data motion to approve the sale of the two buses. Um I will make a motion to approve the sale of the two buses as presented. Okay, we have a second. Second. Second by Scott.

090Any other discussion? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed by nay. It is the approval of the buses for sale is approved. All right. >> [snorts] >> Item eight, approval of Commons equipment needed for second serving area. So, I'm I'm thinking you're picking up on our theme here. Saving money. >> [laughter] >> Um but also investing in changes that we feel better the experience here. With that [clears throat] said, if you look and I'm sure those of you that have kids, you know, especially high school kids, they're eating at 1:30 in the afternoon, which just is not acceptable. Uh going into this year, especially with Jacob Maze, um who has done a great job, you know, for formulating, sitting down with Richie and Jamie and Aaron and myself and really just formulating

091a team and talking about ways that we can make our schedule better. Um so, if you look at since I started, you know, we've instituted uh grab and go to try and offset that time period to where they fully eat lunch, um different things like that. The only way that we can make these things work and again, this has been successful as I wrote in many other districts including New Richmond, Cumberland, etc. where you have the main um kitchen that makes the food and then you transport it to different locations. Um to basically, uh if we're able to do this, which I'm really stressing, please approve this, we now can have our high schools kids eat at 12:30. Now, you know, when you look at the investments, yes, we have a work uh system that's

092on borrowed time. We understand that. Um especially and I want Did I include the pictures? I didn't. I have the pictures from the assessment. So, we had Brinks um come in and do an assessment of the heating uh elements, [clears throat] um the heating uh ovens and so forth and that actually is in really good condition in that uh kitchen area. The one thing that is not in good condition is the dishwasher. Um so, what it needs is a thorough cleaning. Uh but, there's also if we're going to do this, [clears throat] we have to invest in some other pieces, which I had a list I put together. So, you can see it's, you know, milk coolers, trays, um scoops, etc. So, yes, there's a financial um need uh for this. However, uh especially when

093it comes to changing our schedule, this is the only way that we can really make this happen. So, to your point, you know, um before Amy, again, most likely using fund balance in fund 50 to try and get ourselves to a baseline. Um but, again, when you think about what's best for kids, eating at 1:30 is not what's [snorts] best for kids. Cuz they sit there and they go in their lockers cuz half of them three-quarters of them don't eat breakfast. Then they have these crappy snacks from who knows where. And then they just munch and munch and munch and munch and then it's 1:30 and And um they eat. And I don't know what they eat. Well, if you're a coach, you might have a pre-game meal at 3:30. Well, coach, we just ate

0942 hours ago. And it just there's so many pieces to that puzzle. So, um, the investment financially is well worth and we'll find the funds to do it some way or somehow. That's how strongly I feel about this one. It's pretty straightforward. I mean, the only thing they're going to be doing in the commons kitchen is basically serving and washing dishes, right? Serving, washing, and distributing. Yeah. [clears throat] I mean, it's a it's a warming area. Yeah. The good part is is yeah, the heating and warming elements and and appliances are actually in really good condition. The dishwasher, it's an eBay thing. We used to have a surplus of food service dollars. Yes. What happened to that? >> those. We buy something in the regular kitchen. Well, what I got here um, so there was

095a surplus and you guys were required to spend it down the year before by the state. Yeah. And so, what was there was some confusion because Marcy was in charge of doing that. >> She had tables on there which even Lisa came to me and said we ordered tables and they were never ordered. Um, the graphics, um, they had [clears throat] a contract for I could find it. I don't know what it was, like 25 to 30,000 [clears throat] dollars worth of graphics in the commons. Um, I actually begged to get out of that contract and thankfully and they had no reason to let me out of it and I just kind of got on my knees and just said, "Please, you know, we need other things." And that's when >> [snorts] >> um we

096needed some other equipment. Uh so, the fund balance and then uh the other thing that was used was we had budgeted the replacement of the floor in the commons area, but then we ran into a moisture issue. So, we had to spend $15,000 to um to combat that. Because it was part of that floor replacement, it was an add-on to fund 50. Okay. So, we had to use fund 50 uh for that. So, we are not anywhere near that fund balance to where the state is requires us to spend down. Um but something like this, again, we're not talking 50,000. Um it's still going to be a stretch. Because I think we're barely just scraping by um in fund 50. I don't have final numbers, but it's it's not like we're making um a lot

097of revenue. >> increasing the price 10 cents per meal next year. >> Yeah. I think, like I said, this is one of those where it's it's like uh special education. You know, our carryover that we spend 900,000 for sped. Well, here, too, we might have to take some fund 10 money to get this done, but again, to me, this is such a necessity to get some balance within our food service area for our kids. How long ago did we stop using that commons cuz it used to be useful? Yeah. Uh it was from it was Sherry's days, and but it was like I want to say 10 years ago. >> Okay. I mean, it was a long time ago. And that's part of the reason that that um I think we were using it when

098I was here as a nurse. Were you? Mhm. Yeah. >> Yeah. I I don't know. I think in the office, we were using it. Yeah, I don't know why they she went away from it. I know they weren't using it when I was here came back here. Sometime in the last >> That or the staffing too with Yeah, I don't know what happened because I think there was a time where you guys partnered with Voice Go. With [clears throat] Sherry? Yeah. Sherry would go back Sherry would go back and forth. So, I think there was someone that I don't know I don't know all the details, but So, my question on those uh lunch tables I know I talked to you about it. Um four of them I mean they're like around a piece? Is

099that about right? Close, probably. And those aren't figured in here, so that's another 10,000. Is that something that like will you can like get out of next year's budget? Is that why it's to be determined or what? We're going to see uh because I want to take a a more of a a closer look into cuz this is what Alyssa was kind of going off of. Like the flow of it or what? >> Yeah, because of this is kind of new it's like we can well So, if we have to take a couple tables and bring it down this hallway so, we'll do it. Um so, some of these things are going to be based on again the [clears throat] final dollar amount hasn't been decided because we we have to take a better assessment.

100Cuz even at the end of the year we always assess the equipment [clears throat] say how many tables are just crap like we can't even have them anymore and we haven't done that see that's what we do in the summer. And there's no reason we can't get that money out [clears throat] of the community ed fund because we also use those tables when we come in for community sporting events and other I'm just thinking tax wise business is what I mean. And summer meals, right? Fund 80 we will have I know it's very tight like what you can use and what you can't, but I just can't. We uh I will reset because fund 80 is always a fun conversation of the requirements, and I will reset that >> strict like, you know, Cuz even

101with with with what Miss Bart said tonight is all accurate. But I will tell you this, too, is that we're not close to what some of the needs we have here in terms of fund 80. I have just kind of again, we got the basic of what playground equipment we have, but there's definitely between Beth and Jamie, there's more requests in that area. So, again, and I sat on this committee and and Joan, they did a great job of formulating this crew, but um I will send you the requirements of fund 80, which really puts, to Jody's point, could you >> [snorts] [sighs and gasps] >> similar to Tim? Cuz it works. You purchased a bus. You can't do that. That's like an obvious one. In Richmond, we we contracted [clears throat] with PD for

102an SRO. You could do some of those partnerships. Certain things of capital, like tables and things like that, it gets really dicey, but you know, Yeah, I don't want to put us in that position, so I just >> it's no, I won't let you get there, but No, yeah. But it it that would be a stretch. >> Okay. Because it's not a daily use. Got you. Um And trust me, >> designating that But it's it's a good document for all of you guys to hear because we have a fund balance of fund 80, so that you can actually see what the requirements are. It's a It's a pretty straightforward document. Okay. Open up the discussion. Anybody want to entertain a motion then to approve the tennis funds equipment needed? I'd make that a motion. Had

103a motion by Jordan. Do I have a second? I'll second that. Seconded by Jody. Thank you. Any discussion? Otherwise, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed by me. Motion carries. Approval carries. Item F, approval of creation of full-time mechanic at the Department of Grounds and Sanitation. >> [clears throat] >> So, um I want to thank Derek because uh this is the first time here in Brownwood where we did a a agenda review, which is something that I'm used to doing. And I went into detail with Derek um in terms of well, how did we get to this point? Long story short, I would say is uh when I uh was hired, one of the first hires that I recommended to the board was to um hire Ryan McVay, who was like

104us, was our mechanic. He could just do so many things. At the time, he was the at currently, he was the transportation {slash} mechanic. Um he, you know, worked on submarines in the Navy. I mean, he just is very um talented in many areas. Tim never replaced Bob Swanner, so there was a chunk of time there where the director or supervisor, I call supervisor of the Grounds and Grounds, was not hired. When I took the position, um I said that I would not I had known what I was walking into a little bit. I wouldn't take people backwards. So, at that point, [clears throat] I sat down with Ryan and said, "Is this something you could be able to do? Because we we don't need a full-time mechanic here. So then what are what transportation

105responsibilities are there? So when you see all the names of Ryan McVay, when you see Christie Smith, when you see Jerry, when you see Randy Catolla, those are all items that are in this mixture of I was trying to move people to number one, not take away a compensation because I just was not comfortable doing that, and Randy Catolla was one of them. He was a teacher that was beyond the teaching scale. And which makes no sense because you shouldn't be above the teaching scale. So then I assigned him as transportation coordinator, and then we went through that process, and then it became too much with his teaching load. So then that's where we got into Christie, and Christie did a great job, and I wish she was still with us. She really did well.

106So then we hired Jerry, as you know, and we did kind of a part-time. If you take all those things together, including the added documentation, I think fiscally it makes sense for us to see if an individual out there exists, which means when you add up Christie's stipend, >> [clears throat] >> her time both pre- and post in terms of the bus garage, when you take in Jerry's time, when you take into account what we're paying Mike's Auto Body to do, when you take into account what Blaine Brothers does, when you take all of that into account, I think it makes sense for us to move in the direction where I'm not taking anybody's job. Jerry, when he took this position, knew that this was somewhat of a band-aid. Um and then when you add

107in the custodial component where there's times where Tim does need extra help. And so with that said, my recommendation is to create a position um to have a full-time mechanic, transportation coordinator, and grounds assistant and put this all into one. Now, does this person exist? I don't know. So I'm going to ask you to post this um and see what happens. And if we don't get any bites, well, then we're going to have to piece mail it together similar to what we do this uh past couple years. >> [clears throat] >> Isn't that basically what Ben de Groot said and Mike Olsen did for the years that they were here? I think so. Okay. I think they were um I don't know if they I don't know if they did the grounds and stuff. >>

108know if they helped out with grounds. Yeah. Um But I think Mike did all the plowing and stuff back in the day. Okay, yeah. So um I know Ben um just because he's obviously on staff now. Um I know Mike, but I I haven't had that conversation with him. I actually tried to get him to take the mechanic job. Um he turned me down, but um yeah, I think at [clears throat] one point you did have some type of model um that existed. So um the other addition to that is is that I think we have a we have a little bit newer fleet. Um so some of those things is advantageous for us. In talking with uh Jordan Logue, you know, again, I told the board this where they even have a mechanic, but

109they uh take all their um trucks and so on and they bikes to uh King Oil. He's like, "You cannot be like they do." So, that's why we outsource that. And then I talked to Phil McCarthy and he said, "Yeah, we had a truck that was worth 15 grand." And [clears throat] he goes, "Nowadays, you take it into Blaine Brothers and 5 grand." He goes, "The truck was literally worth 15 grand. There was something wrong with it. We take it to Blaine Brothers, it was 5 grand. Now the truck is has 20 grand into it, but you're still going to get a 15 for it." I mean, that's it it's like when you hit a deer, it's going to be 3 grand minimum because of plastic and so on. So, the outsourcing is kind of

110a balancing effect. Um you know, Jerry is doing some of those things. There's other things that he does not have the ability to diagnose because he doesn't have that software piece. Um however, we did find down a software component that he feels he can make work. He's in contact with uh the company to try and get the update cuz we do have one of the plugins. Um I've also looked into Scott's uh piece in terms of I think John Deere has it and some of those others. Blue Bird doesn't have where you can I don't What did you Your terminology, Scott, was like you buy this package >> Remote systems diagnostics. >> Yes. So, Blue Bird does not have that ability. Um International does. Some of the big companies like John Deere and International have

111do, but Blue Bird does not. So, I think that will go away at some point. So, I met with the drivers and I did get the question, you know, Patrick, are you ever considering you know, going to where you outsource all transportation? I said, yeah. I I said, I cannot sit here and say that that's not an option. Uh we did that in New Richmond. Um there's a variety of districts that can't find the bus drivers and we're not at to that point, but I can tell you that last week the we have drivers that don't will not drive in the Twin Cities. And so, we will be having that discussion here sooner than later looking to outsource transportation um to Kolbussin or some of these other companies. Um I [clears throat and snorts] personally

112would like to stay away from that as as you know, as much as we can, but at some point when we can't fulfill the sub drivers, um [snorts] we're going to have that discussion. With that said, I'm still thinking that this is the best solution um if that person exists. They specifically have to be a diesel mechanic, too, right? Well, our buses are actually gas. We were starting to turn over, but it also comes down to diagnostic tool. And yeah, Jerry was working, so I brought that $20,000 one to you. Can't think of the name. That's where we explored different options, but in his cleanup process, he found one down there. It was just outdated software. So, he's looking into He says, if this if we can get the updated software, I think this will

113work. But there's still things that we would have to outsource to Lake Brothers, just which we don't. For example, the most recent one was the brakes. We don't have the technician tools to bleed the brakes, and put this the proper pressure >> [clears throat] >> in. So, Blain Brothers had to come and do that. >> [snorts] >> The concerns that I have with with this is I mean, for one, what are we going to require as certifications or experience for somebody for only $50,000 a year? It seems like it's going to be hard to find somebody to do that. I know what you're saying, though. Um, but I mean, the basic mechanics that that that we might expect would be oil changes and brakes. You know, those are fairly simple and easy to do, but

114it sounds like we can't do brakes here. And for oil changes, it's more cost-effective to take them to Mike. So, with the complexities of these vehicles that we're buying getting into, what will the mechanic be able to do on them that looking at this list of of different different [clears throat] things that [snorts] that we've had to bring the buses in for? What could the mechanic have done here on site, or what would have had to been shipped or brought somebody over to see? >> The first one, the 50,000 is just a placeholder. That's not what we're going to buy. To Scott's point, so if you look at So, I'm Um, when we started to think about this months ago, I started to have Jerry um, put down what does he work on? So, in

115his time sheet, he has to list out what did he accomplish. So, this one was from April 16th. Uh, Land Pride mower deck program remote for blue shed. Uh, spent time on the east door, installed starter on the bad boy more. Follow up work on bus 10, which we all of us separate document that tells what uh work has been done to bus 10. Ordered headlights for bus four. Um this is a bad one because this is when Christie was leaving, so I had some crossover training for that. This was from March 1st. Uh death bus two worked on Bobcat, the one we sold, checked on parts for bus six, installed bus 12 radio, picked up parts for Bobcat. Uh Bobcat, checked all ordered parts or parts switch on bus six, talked to Ben on

116bus three. Um check CEL on bus five, removed codes on bus six, installed brakes. Um Bobcat sensors, kingpins on bus two. >> [snorts] >> So there's still some of those minor I don't want to say minor, but I think we can say minor. It's not heavy. Yeah. Check kingpins and park park brake [clears throat] on bus two. Uh finished kingpins on bus two, ran ECU to Blaine Brothers for bus six, rinsed buses, greased buses. Um s- CEL on bus five. >> [clears throat] >> Fixed the stair tread on bus four. I in- interior lights, tracking engine codes. He's doing more It sounds like more main- just basic maintenance. Yeah, it's not like, you know, a ju- a mechanic that's taking out a transmission and, you know, diving into pistons and things like that. It's truly

117you know, but a part of it is the software recognition, but so when a code comes up, and I think [clears throat] all of us could do that. Like I have a tool for my older trucks where, you know, it tells me the code and here's the part and I go in and just takes a little bit of elbow grease, but do this. Most of us stay a mechanic to do that when you probably can do it if you know what the code means. Well, especially on the sensors. A lot of times you just need to know what the code is to swap out a sensor. Yeah, that's the thing. He just out of blame others, at least that's But we have a fleet of a lot more than just buses that he's working on

118as well. Yeah, so if you look at if you look at the bus that you approved, the bus sale, you're talking trucks, you're talking over you're talking, you know, there's other things. If it has a a motor, Jerry's taking care of it. So again, and I'm fine either way. I'm just trying to keep things as efficient as possible looking at, you know, where we're at and and how we are going about it. 50 grand was just a placeholder, you know, I don't know. You're If you've got somebody at Blaine Brothers, they're probably making what? 100 dollars an hour? I don't know. You know, I'm sure that the cost is or their salary is pretty high because they're probably at schooling and certifications [clears throat] and so on. We need more of a maintenance person than

119we do a mechanic. >> So is Jerry I I don't know. Is Jerry full-time? Like is that what he does? What >> No, no, Jerry is he only has 15 or 20 hours a week. >> Yeah, is that because he Is that because he chooses to be or No, I capped it. My recommendation was to cap it at hours. We had a transportation coordinator. We had this He was just our So, is that something that you could put can't you know make him into like a a full-time if he's interested in or no? >> No, this was a part-time thing. So, he has a full-time job. Okay. And he does this on the side. Okay. So, he works at >> [clears throat] >> I don't know where, but he's a true mechanic. Um and he

120comes here at 3:00. That's the other part is that if [snorts] he comes at 3:00 when the buses are basically going in a half hour or they're going out the door and then he leaves at 5:30. When you work on the buses That was one of the questions I asked him. So, you don't necessarily need a like a true mechanic. You need a maintenance >> all-purpose mechanic. mechanical person. >> Sure. And then do they exist? I don't know. And I think with the range of the benefits there's flexibility there. We're trying to see what's out there. Yeah. If anybody [clears throat] wants to do it. But then you keep hearing on still you said? No. Okay. No. Okay. Jerry, when he was hired it was you know again he's got a full-time job. This was

121just a sidebar for him. Okay. Did you exist cuz Randy and Ben existed? Yeah. Well, Ben and Mike >> And Ben and Mike they exist. They do. Yeah. It's just a matter of you know If we can entice them in. >> [clears throat] >> I guess like I said I I apologize for all the the back story, but I want you to understand how we got to this point. You know, cuz one of your first questions if I was a board you would have been like why did Randy pull up? Where did he come into this discussion? Once again he you know he was at a bunch of pay scale and I had to make it make [snorts] sense. Cuz it didn't [clears throat] make sense at the time. And even from a retention perspective,

122you know, I generally Brian a couple [clears throat] of months ago about all the hats he wore, right? And it's just that wasn't what he was looking for. So, this is I think the right size of the role. [clears throat] >> [snorts] [clears throat] >> So, I guess I make a motion to accept this posting and evaluate this position. I'll second it. Okay. And motion and then a second. We're voting on the approval of the creation of full-time mechanic. Any [clears throat] discussion? Any discussion I had, I mean, it it looks like based on the expenses that we've tracked so far, it's it's probably like 40 grand. Yeah, that's why I kind of did the math. I'm like the two of these that we're paying hourly was would be like 44,000. >> [clears throat] >>

123But I and I I ran the numbers, too, and when [clears throat] you look at some of this miscellaneous stuff, and I again, that's where you add in the the grounds part. You know, so they would have assist with whatever it is, mowing, that type of thing to make it viable. Because yeah, when you add up the numbers, you know, it doesn't For sure. But but that's where again, this also was Ryan was here until October. Christie was here um for 1 year. I mean, there it it's truly been a hot spot. So, it's really hard to actually put it all into one and have it flow to what it looks like on paper, if that makes sense. Well, there's things that aren't quite viable that having a person at position could make a lot

124of other lives easier potentially. Yeah. Great if [clears throat] we get some consistency and could do snow removal, too. Okay. Well, and that would be, you know, if we do find the right person, that conversation would come back to you because we said a 2-year in terms of snow removal Yeah, we want to do it on site now. We want to invest in you know, a plow ourselves and and one of those cuz machine-wise, they're getting better and smarter. You can lease some of those machines. Yeah. I mean, if we had the right people, we could do it easily. Jordan, got a motion by Jordan [clears throat] and a second by Scott for the approval of the creation of a full-time mechanic. Any other discussion? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye.

125All those by nay. Approval carries. Item G. So, um in the next uh yeah, 2 3 weeks, we're going to go line for line, so I will have some better um more detailed budget pieces um as we close out the year. I did want to I was actually [snorts] pretty excited um for our government to finally show some bipartisan and put some support in to specialized funding and follow through with their process of promises. Um to hear Vos and Governor Evers, you know, together, um I thought it was a done deal. And then this happens. So, long story short, um if you're wondering what happened, um and again, I hate politics, and if you ever want to talk politics, I'll talk it, but um I could care less what side you're on. Um Tom Tiffany

126got involved. And I personally uh I heard him and I have spoke. And from what I have heard, Tom Tiffany got involved, and he's running for governor, and it put some stall on this. And then I don't know what happened. So, it's pretty disappointing. I did have personal conversations with Rob Kryback, who's a representative for our area. >> [clears throat] >> And um Bob Stechel, and again, I think uh we all thought um you know, there's a high likelihood, which would definitely this would have helped us. Um but now we're back to square one. So, with that said, uh we'll see what happens. I know there's a variety of communications going out there to reconsider. Um but when you have that amount of surplus at the state level, um and you have not fulfilled your

127budget requirements for the percentage [clears throat] for sped, that's where it's it's really frustrating. So, other than that, I don't have I just put in some of the the conversations that we had at the with the state and so forth. So, um I don't know if you guys have any questions or comments. Give me a lot of that. Funding and updating the fair model is really just our preliminary budget for next year. Correct. It allows us to develop that. So, we'll see. Um we'll see where this goes. Um I guess I'm back to where I didn't think there was going to be an agreement. Cuz I didn't think Tony and Vos could get along. And then when they did, I was like, "Wow, this is awesome." Um and then it's torpedoed by other people in

128thinking that community people just put your differences aside for once. What I heard is that it passed the house and failed in the Senate. >> Yes. Yes. So, I guess do do we as a board ever I mean, should we all be reaching out to our you know, local Senate representatives or should we delegate somebody to kind of communicate and and vouch for approving that? Here's the thing. Here's what I will tell you. I So, as this board gets to know each other, you're going [clears throat] to hear me. I mean, I stay away from the political piece. I really would deter you from taking political stances. Because all you're going to do is alienate different people within the community. That's not our job is to go down those paths. Can you individually reach out?

129Yeah, I I agree with it. You know, I don't care who you are. You uh reach out to the representatives and say, for example, in uh in New Richmond, Rob Stachel's daughter was in Richmond, Brett. So, him and I would sit down and he just wanted my perspective from as superintendent. He still does the same thing. >> [clears throat] >> We have a lot of disagreements. But, we're cordial enough to sit down and just say, "Hey, here's what you know, you're you're supposedly the expert in this area. I want to hear from you." And that's what I respect about Rob. So, but some of these school boards, and again, if you guys want to go down this road, I would I would shy away from it if I were you, but you know, they they

130create resolutions and they start to create some division based on who's in their district. So, yes, you can always contact legislators based on your position as board members, but as a whole, I would really deter you from taking those stances because we got >> [clears throat] >> every which way, you know, in our district. And sometimes those things can come back and I know they've hurt districts before. Yeah. That makes sense. So, I'll have more and a better update detailed next month in terms of budget. Thanks for the update there. Next under communications, sharing of communications. All right. I just want to on the administrative content, and again, I apologize because if I haven't told you before, please always make sure that you're logged in and then you can see what I put on the

131administrative side. So, in the administrative side, who can see it? It's everybody that typically sits here, administrators, etc. If you ever see something in the executive content, it's only you. Um, and me. That's it. She can see it based on her being the overall, but she's obviously that's part of her job is confidentiality and she [clears throat] knows that if she shared it, she'd be done. So, but that's content that even I don't share with administrative. It's very rare, very rare, especially when I get to know and trust my administrators. But just know that when you log in to see those things. Um, tonight I did put an email and so I contacted once I So I back to my office after we tore down some of the things for graduation and I sent an

132email to Derek and said, "Hey, FYI on this because that's what I feel the board president's job is." And then I shared it with you guys this morning as we kind of do a game plan. I did not feel comfortable based on, you know, changing similar concept when I took this job is I did everything in my power not to have closed session because I heard >> [clears throat] >> through the grapevine, you know, and people do. They say, "Well, if you're going to close session, you're just not being [clears throat] transparent." So, I did not have unless I absolutely needed it. So, the same thing with the agenda. I didn't want to change the agenda. Tomorrow I plan to send a staff update talking to I told Derek this today, too. As a superintendent,

133if Krista, and she's not on this, she's an example, but if she would come to me and say, "I resign." I would go to my office, [clears throat] I'd send her an email saying you resigned at 8:04. I sent the resignation legally. That's legit. Um with this, this is one of my bosses. So, I can't take that. So, because I wasn't going to change the agenda, [clears throat] I'm asking the board unofficially to verbally accept his resignation. If [clears throat] you do that, then I'm able to share with the staff, but more importantly, I'm able to post tomorrow to get the process going to find replacement. We find ourselves in a, you know, again, June 8th. We're going to meet and we're going to talk about referendum questions. It's May 18th. So, I want to

134get going on this. So, with that, I guess do you informally accept this resignation? We don't have to. You don't have to, but it's >> [laughter] >> So, if you say yes, then that allows us to say, "Okay, I can put in my message the board verbally accepted his resignation." Which yes, Jody in the in a sense, but it's legal terms. So, then I let staff know because I need to let staff know because when they see a posting for a board member, they're going to go "What? Well, who's gone?" And I we need to be up front with our staff. So, then we post it, and then we set the parameters of it and how long you would like to. So, in my and again, I can't change the agenda, so we're not going

135to go into this because I can't get off and have this whole discussion, but I put it in this section because it is a communication and how I'm going to communicate to staff. And if you want to have another work session this week uh to how you want to address this, great. We can do that or we can just follow what I sent you. This is the board vacancy, and here's what we need to do. And then you appoint. I've gone through the appointment process. We appointed here in a couple different times, so it's pretty straightforward. The posting is the first start. So, just from a strategy viewpoint, we're going to have data back to review on the 8th, right? >> Right. So, we don't necessarily want to fill or have somebody sworn in before

136then so that we don't have to repeat the data review that's going to drive the next year of activity. Oh. Well, we do have the majority, so we can Yeah, that's correct. Right. Yeah. Okay. It would be nice, but I don't know if we could get that done in 3 weeks. >> Yeah, that's why I was curious what the goal is to try to get an MPC. I I agree with those comments. I I It'd be great. I just I don't know how doable it is because what happens is is that we post it, we set the date, and then you guys interview the candidates. I don't need to sit in [clears throat] on it. Previous appointments, how long was the How long was the period for um I have to look at it, Scott.

137Do you know what I'm trying to say? Yeah, it's posted for Derek, were you on that one? I tried twice. You did, too? So did I. I think I think yeah. I will I will look I guess the Again, I want to be I'm a rule follower, so I don't want to go off cuz this wasn't on a formal agenda. Yep. Um but I will put stuff together and we'll kind of communicate via email. You got another good lesson today was don't I use text because it's the fastest way to get to you guys, but please just don't respond um to the group cuz that's a walking forum. Um and I do that all the time. I mean, in terms of you know, the police are here. I want you guys to know don't the

138the rule of no surprises. I do live by that. So, with this, I'll get and look back on different postings we have. I don't know how long Maybe you know how long we left it open. I'll find out that, and then [clears throat] we'll put it together a timetable through you know, communications, and then go from there. I just I want to stay away from having this discussion Yeah. So, no decisions need to be made today. No motions. We just need to in Well, say if we're going to um If I'm going to be okay be okay approving the resignation. Okay. If you're okay with uh me moving forward with the posting, that's then I'm going to communicate with the staff. I [clears throat] don't plan to go to the public, but with staff, I

139think they need to know cuz they'll see the posting. Yeah. Um I will I already have this on the eighth agenda to approve Chuck's resignation. So, that will be one of the first things to do on the eighth, and then we'll go from there. Any objections? No. Uh the other communication that I have was um the expulsion. And again, this is another learning opportunity. Um We'll talk more about, you know, what expulsion is uh to Scott's questions. I can't share with you uh what the expulsion entails because when you come in here, it literally will be set up like a courtroom. Um you have the Trevor um will be in the middle. You guys flank him, and then administration sits on one side, the family sits on the other. We present, they present, and then

140you decide. Um the basis of this uh uh expulsion is death threats to an administrator. So. And I've been on several. >> [laughter] >> Mhm. And sometimes they don't even show up. I mean, something You never know what you're going to get as far as like the students or parents or, you know, some don't present at all. It's so I would not I did 22 of these my first year of administration. Yeah, we expelled. Uh my philosophy has always been, I want to hold the power, so we expel them, and then we bring them back, uh because kids make mistakes. But in this scenario you'll see my recommendation and why. But I won't go into details because again it's it's very similar to a court proceeding. We just don't have a judge. In this case

141it's the end of the school year, so we're expelling him for next year or just removing from the district or >> You're expelling them you're always expelling them through their 21st birthday. Okay. So this is for their duration. Again in Richmond the 22 we expelled 21 of them came back on their improvement plan. Like we allowed them back in if they did XYZ. The other one was selling drugs on property and like no. The board said absolutely not this kid's not coming back. The others were other offenses. Okay. So right now is there I know let me know if this June 2nd works for you so that I can plan and again I just need a quorum. So I just need four people. So just let me know then. June 2nd or the 26th? May

14228th. June 2nd. June 2nd I moved into this cuz there's plenty people that have Yeah, we have other stuff. Yep, okay. >> baseball regionals and track [clears throat] etc. And then Trevor was actually full with expulsions. Is that the one the fan season? That's the first. Okay. I'm going on the first. I was like oh crap okay that's the first. Yes. Yep. And then the other one I'll be in contact with is setting up with Derek Scott and Jordan. Have you guys talked about the compensation and I'd like to get that Uh going. Um so I will be in touch on that, too. That all falls under communications and meetings. I guess the only question is on the community foundation request, is there a um Do we need to put that on an agenda for

143the next meeting or is that something we want to consider as a board? Yeah, I just brought that up. Patrick and I when we went through the board review, one thing I had to ask or had that I've seen in previous boards is the future agenda request. And so we'll probably try to have this on the agenda going forward so that if you got a hearing things from the community or just other things that you want to have on the agenda, this would be a good time to add it. So yeah, anyways, with with that said, yeah, um we obviously had Jim come and speak tonight. Is that something that the board would want to add as a discussion for a future agenda? And [clears throat] and I think that the intent would be again

144for the fund 80 and if we would want to entertain using that. I think it would be a great review for us just in general with the fund 80 and what that is and it can look like cuz if it's like it's obvious, why would we engage in a whole conversation elsewhere? So I don't know. >> [clears throat] >> Yeah, no, I think it would be a good discussion when she came in. We can look at it for the next fund 80 thing that you're going to send us, Patrick. Yes. And what we've done in the past is we always let Lisa know by like I don't even know the certain date for her to put agenda requests out to administrator. [snorts] Hey, we'd like to talk about this individually and not as a person,

145as a group. And then she'd add them to the agenda before Thursday when we have that meeting or something. Yeah, that works, too. So don't feel like you have to put it in today like if you have something. Yeah. Yeah. I'd like to see it on there, I am on the Community Foundation board, so I would abstain from that vote. We'll pretend you've never said anything about it. Okay. No, but I think it's going to be a good use of the money for a baby and if it's usable for that, >> [snorts] >> we can use it. Yeah. Otherwise, I think that uh leaves our agenda. Uh we'll entertain a motion to uh adjourn the meeting. Can I make a motion to adjourn the meeting? Yes. A motion. Second. We have a second. >> [clears

146throat] >> Got it. Any other discussion? All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed by nay. Meeting adjourned. >> [clears throat] >> Yeah. Yeah. >> [clears throat] >> I will also just uh say say a special thanks to Amy. She bailed us out for graduation with the uh flower arrangements and so on. They were done pretty poorly and uh she came no hesitation. And