GCSD School Board Meeting 8-25-25

001What was it >> on the side? [Music] How do we know? washing a few [Music] The second I only get one take. We're doing it live. We're doing literally tens of people watching. That would be a lot. >> Yeah, I think most people watch the next day. All right, I have six o'clock. So, at this time, I'll call the school board meeting for the school district of Glenwood City to order. Our roll call, all members present, with the exception of Dr. Luisa Kaiser, who is absent tonight. Uh we'll move to item C with our board financial audit wants to go first. [Music] >> Yeah, I uh I generally just asked to see the monthly uh the monthly bills payable and see if anything. I went through it and uh nothing really was there um to

002go. So I didn't dig into it any pages of of the past month's expenses. Okay. >> And I audited a couple of credit card reports. So as walked me through the approval process where we fill out the expense form, we match that with the receipt in addition to the original request or the spend amount. and uh it seemed like very good process for having controls in place, but it's also very cumbersome because it's a lot of paper and it sounds like Miss Newman, no surprise, has some good ways to maybe improve that. So maybe looking forward to a better way and a more efficient way in the future. >> So is there a piece of paper for every purchase made on the credit card? >> Well, like three pieces of paper. >> We got the

003bill, we got the invoice, we've got the expense form. >> Yep. And then we we got everybody in it. So >> yeah, quite >> And is there 50 60 100 items on the credit card statement? >> Uh the ones I looked at there was yeah probably 40. >> Okay. Yeah. And and everything was good. >> Yep. >> Okay. Thanks for doing that. Appreciate it. Uh item D. I don't want to toot my own horn. I I don't know. You guys, we talked about this. Dr. Kaiser got it. >> Sure. Let's talk. Who's going to do the board financial audit next time? Jody >> Jordaner. >> Okay. Jordan's up for next meeting. >> Yeah, there's two people. >> And then Lisa will be >> Oh, I thought it was third. >> Oh, I'm sorry. It is.

004I'm skipping October. >> Yeah, you skip September. >> September. >> Got it. >> You two are on for next meeting. Is that right? >> Yeah. Okay. >> Correct. Sorry. >> Super. um board recognition. Um they the W just has the uh if you attend the conferences or meetings and things like that, they just give you some points. So um it's just uh professional development. Um so I would say it's good to recognize. >> Yeah, I'm not going to recognize myself. >> So congratulations to Mr. Drax, our vice president. um reach level three and you know how this goes is truly recognition whether you go to the WB convention um regional meetings etc and it's just an opportunity for WSB to recognize and the public to recognize too that they've gone above and beyond just regular

005board meetings uh to professionally develop themselves and what we have to offer. So, um it is a is it is a big deal and so he will be recognized in Oaklair on October 28th and again um Christa or myself we typically pass those on as they become available and you can always go on the WSB website and again go to um events and there's typically but we will also make sure you're aware of it in meetings. So congratulations Joe. Thanks. Level three. Two more to go until I reach the top. Uh hopefully I can do that. Um all right. Next item on the agenda is our uh board development tool. So I put this on there because um as a followup to our WSB training this past summer. Uh these are tools that are on

006WSB. um as you learn more um typically in the past um I've done these in the spring when we talk about board ethics and some different components and it's typically after the new board members have um taken both and so forth. So again, um there's a variety of things that like the board audit that I've made suggestions to. In the end, it's the board yourself um and how you govern yourself. And these are some tools that are out there that have helped um over the years just to see where you're at. Uh there are some other ideas out there and I talked to one of the board members about that where even on a weekly basis or excuse me a monthly basis after the board meeting you kind of take a liker scale and answer

007that um and we did in my prior district and how the meeting went and were there questions and it's just reflection and then at the following meeting you read um actually what what would happen is Christa would read those summary results and then if there was any questions and so on. It also gave me an opportunity to because I would look at them next day and then I would um follow up with any board member that had any questions, that type of thing. So again, I think there's some tools that we uh that you guys haven't been exposed to that uh could possibly help in the process. Um so I just wanted to bring that to your attention in the future. >> Great. Thank you. Is is there a district specific link to that annual

008survey? Because I think when when I read through there it kind of said who or how should I take it? >> Yeah, you would have to get we are not signed up for it. >> Okay. >> So what happens is is we go through WSB you get a district specific link and then it's only so you don't see other public schools and so forth. So no that alls I did was just give you the the flyer version um so you can see that exist if that is something that again you know in the end you govern yourself and so these are tools that help that um in the overall scheme of things. So if it is of interest please do let me know. I I will say one thing that um they constantly harp on

009um maybe people at WSB is is um self-reflection. Um to be an effective board. Um one thing that an effective board does is is is reflect on their on how they're doing. So, this is something that I would be in favor of to do after our meetings and have a period of time to reflect on on how productive we thought we were or effective um as a group or as an individual. So, um that's one of the one of the habits of highly effective school boards is uh doing that reflective piece. So, um I'd be in personally that's something I would be in favor of. >> And there's two there's two options. One's an annual option which Kelly's B would lead and then the other one would be more of a district informal option which

010um we were in the process it was paper and then they'd hand it but we were in the process of making it a Google form. You fill it out before you leave. It's very simple, very straight and then it just jumps right to um spreadsheet for me to uh to see. So yeah, uh it definitely if you're interested um in either or both um again that's where you let me know and we'll get set up. >> Okay. >> Um so right now we'll ask for approval of the agenda. I'll entertain a motion. >> Motion by Jody. Can I get a second? >> Second by Steve. All those in favor say I. I >> opposed. Motion is carried. Now we have time for our uh community open forum. If anybody from the community wants to talk,

011are there going to are you guys at a separate time? Okay. >> They're going to be presenting. >> Okay. So, well, you can talk now if you want to. >> Okay. If nobody else will, I guess I'll say something. I know with an Mavis had sent an email to the the group about how we can use our fund 80 funds. Um the Henman Park there's a community um well community foundation that was established to uh start raising funds. I think there 70 or 80,000 raised by the community so far. The goal is 250,000 to raise for that. So I think as a board if we could you know look at how we can use those fundating funds to support community engagement you know and have a similar play space. I know our district uses that

012for outings and things quite a lot too. So I think it would be a good use of of funds especially kind of the the nature of how we got to have such an excess in that fund. So I you did reply to that. Um and did you see Patrick to that? Okay. Um in in any case I think that is something that the the school board can uh support if not financially in spirit as well. I think it definitely is a good >> yeah a good thing for >> you know she she had other references that you know make sure we kind of kick the tires on it thoroughly because I think it would be great if you know if the city can can support and if the district can support that helps get a

013long ways there because we're overall it can only bring so much >> I sit in on those individual meetings uh too but if that's a agenda of interest we can put it on there because I would have some more information too Okay. All right. So, we'll move through the consent agenda. Does anybody have any um Well, we'll I'll ask for a motion to approve the consent agenda. I have a general question. when you kind of bulk all the the consent. Is there a good way to kind of show now that we've gotten like our budget finalized to kind of show like kind of a burn rate like as we're adding headc counts and things like that? Are we, you know, within the budget of what we kind of plan for on an annual basis or

014are there some things that are pushing us outside of what we budgeted for within the consent agenda? >> We can't. Well, we need to follow. So first you got to ask for and then >> and then we'll >> So Jordan your question will come up in the business section when I go through the budget talk about that. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Motion by >> by Jody. Can I get a second please? >> Somebody so inclined to approve the consent agenda. Second by Jordan. Okay. Any questions about this any individual item right now? So, I will point out um there's a variety of of items there. Most of them are pretty self-explanatory. The one item uh letter, excuse me, why is all of our handbooks and I would make sure that you paid particular

015attention to those links. Um students sign off on it. Um parents sign off on it when they register. Uh there's a variety of new handbooks there uh including uh the eCampus. Um the one project that I had uh hoped to finalize by this meeting was our overall employee handbook. I was not based on the changes in July here. I was not able to finalize. I should be able to hopefully finalize it here by October. Um with that said, we also had a variety of changes. is the elementary handbook is pretty straightforward and I know these have already been sent out. Um the high school there was quite a few changes that were made um in a very positive manner. Um thanks to Dr. Curtis and Mr. Naris, they went through and there's quite a bit

016of updates uh similar to what Jamie did last year in terms of discipline and procedures and processes and so forth. So, I would encourage you to uh when you have a time to go through those uh because there's a lot of updates uh we didn't track it there um but you'll see those um Aaron also created a parah handbook that will probably be part of the employee handbook itself. Um so, a lot of again going with our notion of having proper procedures uh in place those handbooks are critical to that uh topic. Any questions on handbooks or any other topic within the agenda of consent? On item double A, the EMC property and casual insurance, there's reference to our rate going from 75 to 1.0 or comp is there roughly the amount went up 10%

017for our premiums. Uh, is there a time maybe I could add it to one of the future agenda items where we go through where those losses are occurring and what we're doing to prevent future claims happening. >> Um, yeah, I would caution this board just because we are small enough where those claims can be very much isolated and identified. Um in terms of what happened, yeah, it was uh quite interesting to see how many happened last year and why our claims increase. Uh overall, yes, property increase um throughout the nation and you've heard those song and dances. Uh with our workman's comp, um we had more than I've ever seen um for my staff in one year. Um and they were really um bad luck in unique circumstances in terms of you know is there

018process procedures that should have been in place that would have maybe prevented some of them there really wasn't. It was more of the accidental part. So whether you call it luck or whether you just call it um you know if there could have been more preventive measures the answer is no. >> Okay. But we could certainly talk about it. Again, the one thing that we always have to be careful around here is uh when we do talk about some of those items. Yes, we can. And you guys know we can talk about individual names, but they still come up. Um and there's only so much information we can share, but individually I can easily answer those questions. >> Sure. >> Okay. The only one thing I've seen is even if it's a dashboard of like

019how it happened or what kind of categories falls in more of a lifting ergonomic type what are those categories? >> Yeah, I guess I've never had that that question um or seen a dashboard in work comp just because >> there probably not a lot. >> There's typically not a lot but this last year I for whatever >> I would kill for that work comp rate. I I don't get that. Don't get that. >> Yeah. So, >> okay. Is there any other uh questions about the consent agenda? >> Okay. So, all those in favor of approval say I >> opposed. Uh the motion carries for the approval of the consent agenda. We will move to administrative reports. >> All right. On my report, I kind of went through what we did this summer and leading up

020into the school year. Um, so beginning of August, special education department gets together for scheduling. This is just an important piece of the piece of our pole because it's a critical part of ensuring that students um our students receive services outlined in their IEPs. Um it's balancing those student needs, the staff availability and pair educator assignments. So just really looking at that because that end goal is that consistent high quality support and um access to education for all of our students. Um, and it really is a balancing act as you're trying to schedule everybody. So, um, getting everybody in and actually we use this room and we're all together and we bring Mr. May is too because a lot of that is shifting some of those student schedules around to make sure that everybody is

021where they need to be getting what they need to get for creditwise and just really bringing everyone together to have those conversations and even shifting some of our par educators schedules and making sure that if they're where they need to be the students but also those educators too. Um, next up, I also included our CISA 5i mental health and behavior summit. Um, so myself, Jacob Maize and Tracy Marbbeck attended this summit in Wisconsin Dallas. Um, it was wonderful and it was actually a little bit of a break just too because it was um at one of the lodges down there. So, it was very a very nice um kind of getaway for a night. Um but it was bringing those educators together to address urgent student behavior and mental health challenges. Um the summit just

022provided a wonderful look at different strategies um the cultural frameworks and peer networking um allowing for so many different um different avenues to look and those um keynote speakers and other providers coming in to offer from everything from a detective bringing in something on um novel I'm never going to be able to say say it. Um they looked at everything from um Delta 9 to what could be coming in different baits and everything to um BAM and everything under the sun um and mindfulness and yoga and everything that we can offer and support our students. um and what it looks like for free time in a 90-year time span. Um and how many years of life that students now spend on their phones in that time frame. I mean, we looked at so many different

023things at this mental health summit and what effects that it has to do on brain development. Um, so it was a very nice way to just look at all those outlooks and the effects that it has on our students now in our schools and the this or those long-term effects too. Um, at the beginning of the year, we had our PLLD days and it focused, our special education department focused on strengthening that collaboration, compliance, and organizational practices so that it can last us throughout the whole year, reorganizing, bringing everybody back together to focus on our students and everything that we're doing for them and throughout. um because we know that it adjusts every year and as we're learning and growing together and keeping that going for those students, our families, um sometimes that has to

024do with communication, but also offering those tools and account accountability, but also reviewing the IEP and the evaluation processes so that we are set on all of our um framework and compliance throughout all because we always know that that updates and want to make sure that everybody's on the same page and going together um for our students. Um the next day on the 19th, we offered a refresher um because we were just about to the end of our 2-year window for our crisis prevention prevention um intervention and nonviolent crisis intervention training. So, we had a um refresher training for 18 staff members on this um and really the focus now is on deescalation strategies. Um at the bottom of that um there are a couple of um links that you can click on for some

025tips on deescalation. Um and I'm trying to think of the other one that I have there. Um deescalation and No, you're fine. Um, there's all sorts of good information. Seven principles for effective verbal verbal intervention. Um, so Heidi Ruther from CISA 11 came and she is a wonderful resource for us because the key thing is preserving safety, dignity, and calm in the moments of crisis. But what she really focuses on is how not to have those situations. So what can we do to be supportive of a student that you can see that escalation happening and what can we do to avoid it? Um but then of course there is always the holes that we need to know in case an escalation does happen. So, how can we do that safely in order to avoid hurting

026um the student and ourselves and being safe so that we're following every legal thing that we can possibly do. Um and that actually goes along um with our um solution and restraint that we do every year in October. Um, we I have a report for the board that shows anything that we have done in the school for any registr. Um, so Heidi does a great job and actually we just learned that we do have a staff member that is a trainer for that. So we may be able to utilize her a little bit more in the district for these things and especially on the deescalation strategies because again that is the key component there. >> Yeah, I might have you might have said it and I missed it. Was it Paris in on that too?

027Okay. >> So um actually state statute has that you need one person trained in your school. Um, but we try to get as many people trained as possible, but to keep up on it, if we have a certain number trained, so we had at one point 25 and that was at our at our training um about a year and a half ago. Um, so to keep that refresh, we wanted just that half day training. To do a full training, it's eight hours and this one's about four. Um, so we invited everyone back that had already had that eight hour and then if um say Jamie needs the training, I can send her to CISA to get a full day training to add her to my list. Yep. >> The other part of that is um

028typically if you send somebody to get fully trained Nikki Montello now Mickey right um it's close to a $15,000 investment. Mhm. >> Um so that is a additional perk of having this right here to train our staff um because those are not cheap to bring in and I'm always been a fan of train the trainer model. So that actually works in our favor >> very much so. >> Um Hill topper hang time end of the summer. They always seem to do Chuck-E-Cheese at the end of the summer. that's one of Beth's favorite field trips um that she does with her crew. Um and then they took advantage of the PLLD week and used that for the end of the year summer programming. Um cleaned, reorganized, reviewed procedures, had a good meeting and went over some

029of those processes. Um identified any improvements and planned for the new school year. Um, those preparations really helped make a smooth transition for the school year. Um, I did not get a chance to check in with her today to see how the first day went. Steve, >> I think it went from what she told me. It went pretty good. >> Yeah. Hang Time Tiny Toppers and Tiny Tots. They all from everything that I heard and saw, they tore everything apart, cleaned everything up, and reut everything back together. So, I think they were set. They had new kids starting and some more on the wait list and ready to roll for the year. So, >> new employees >> and very excited for their new employees, too. And I know they put them to work last week,

030too, getting all reorganized. So, >> and she's not the only one that likes Chuck-E-Cheese because she had I think 67 kids were back. >> Yes. They all love Chuck-E-Cheese. I just know that's one of her favorite field trips. She says it every year. She goes, "I did go to this the one um one of the parks this year, but she goes, I'm going to Chuck-E-Cheese no matter what." >> So, yes. >> Okay, >> I'm all set, >> Jamie. >> All right. Okay, so just a few little things here. Um great first day at the elementary school. Lots of positive energy. Um those kiddos getting dropped off this morning and coming off the bus, so it was fun to see all of their uh smiling faces. only had a couple tears by some pretty littles, some

031four or five year olds, but it was it was pretty good. I think I saw more tears by parents uh dropping off. So, um never gets easier for some of them. Um so, good day with that. Uh a lot of the classroom teachers today and for the remainder of this week are spending a lot of time teaching behavior and expectations. We spend a lot of time the first week of school doing that, reteing everything. This is a good example. This is a not so good example. Um going through all of that with the kids. I also did something new this year that I did not do last year and I did have an all school assembly at the end of the day. Um so close to 300 elementary kids in a gym can be very

032noisy. I'm sure they probably heard us down here in the middle school high school. Um but it went very well. Again, lots of positive energy with those kids. Couple things. Um I think I gave you guys a heads up in July that I was doing taking two of the flex days for my staff and doing assigned training with that. So they came in the beginning of August for mass standards. We've been talking about the essential standards with you guys. So, we continued on and actually started that with them. Um, we'll finish that up here in um our September PL meeting and hopefully get that taken care of um that whole process. So, it went really nice. I know the staff appreciated to be able to have one full day to do it whereas last year

033we did reading language arts throughout the year. Um it just drew the process out. Um math standards are also a lot easier than English language arts because it's more just right to the point. So I think staff kind of appreciate it was a much faster process um for them this go round. August 12th uh that's when I brought in CISA 11. Liz Clinton from CISA came in and did our youly training for phonics. She did a phenomenal job. Kept the staff engaged. Um staff did a lot of practicing of what the instruction should look like within their classroom. Lots of conversation. So um that really was beneficial for staff. I had a requirement where it was going to be um K through three teachers had to attend. I left it optional for 4K grade four

034and five. Um and all of the staff came. So I had 4K through fifth grade there. And by the end of the day, fourth and fifth grade um had already found a way like hey let's figure out skill groups and work on these kids that are missing the pieces. So I actually have 4K through fifth grade implementing some part of the program um if not all K through three will be doing it 30 minutes a day and I really feel feel it's going to give our kids the needed boost they need for phonics. I also pulled in the secret stories um which is just a supplemental program that goes along with the phonics instruction that teaches the kids tips and tricks of when they come to vowel combos different things how those vowels or um

035graphings are making the sounds and words. And so that has been super exciting for the teachers and they're going to start rolling that out um this week with kids and teaching them those tricks um to remember when they're reading and decoding how to break apart those words. Um also let's see this year I started uh brought in a student pledge that we are going to be saying every day on the announcements with those kids. Very basic. I am safe. I am kind. I'm ready to learn. Um, we're also having the kids each take the pledge and sign off on it to have ownership of it. So, every day we'll be going through with the kids and then pretty much all of our behavior expectations can go back to those three things. So, it kind of

036pulls it all together. Last thing I had is uh we had open house last week with our students and families. We had a great turnout. Uh, I have to pull the numbers from last year for our attendance, but this year I counted 277 students out of 296 that came. So that's 94% um turnout for that. So I was very pleased and happy with how that night went. So that is all I have. You have any questions for me? >> You missed your school theme which I really really like that really good. >> Yes. And that's everyone, right? >> Yes. Absolutely. Yep. Yeah. Thank you. >> Be the reason someone smiles today. >> Yes. So today in the school assembly we talked about different examples of how we can do that and what that looks like

037and different things. So, >> all right. Before we begin the next one, I want to formally introduce our two interim principles. Um, it's been a great uh I would say month of this administration team. Looking forward to the things that I can learn and that they these two can bring. Uh, but also the camaraderie amongst the team itself um has really been a refreshing uh component. Um, Dr. Curtis has been with us. She met the board. Um, and she's been with us in terms of the mentoring program and uh, worked with me in some different capacities. She was here with Betsy Huller when she was on a leave and did some work with our elementary for a month. Uh, it's been a great addition she's been in the office um, working on. And that's the

038the beauty of this interim piece is both of them bring uh unique strengths and things that I think we can take and I introduced them at two assemblies today uh and I stated the fact that I think they can help us take our middle school high school to the next level. Um Mr. Naris uh brings 19 years experience as a high school principal. There's quite a few things that I don't remember since I've been a student for 12 years. Um, and it's been a while since I've been an elementary or high school principal. Um, but just his knowledge and experiences. Um, it's great because he walks in and he sees a bunch of kids and he probably like our vice president coached them um and had their parents etc. And so he gets to use

039that. Um, but it's a great talking point. Um, one of the things that was nice today is all the administrators were out and about and whether it was at the bus stop, whether it was for launch. Um, being visible is is a key component. Uh, so I just want to thank both of them uh and my team. Um, it was an awesome start and uh I'll let the two principles do their report. Um, one thing I did want to mention is uh Mr. will be here on Mondays and so it made sense that he will attend our board meetings. Um Dr. Curtis will be here um based on what is at the meeting. I'm not going to call her in um just for the meeting itself unless there's a presentation component that's needed. Um but

040those two have really been a strong team already. They didn't I don't think they knew each other prior. Um, and thank God >> you can already see that they they get along. So, um, I will pass it over to them for their update. >> Start. Let's talk about the first day because you set up this morning's activities. It was awesome with the music and >> Yeah, we had a great first day. We had all the teachers in the front area. We had music. Uh Shane had that going and um balloons just to give that celebratory welcome back uh vibe and I think kids were were excited. They had they some of them took a little treat. So we we had that for them. So um some good feedback on that today too. Sarah, you can

041add a little bit on that. But it was nice to see everybody excitement with the first day of school. >> All right. and our co-arum principal responsibility. Do you want to cover that? That's the link that I think Patrick. There you go. >> So, we decided we would just kind of try to switch things out based on our strengths. And Richie, I don't know if you want to highlight anything. Uh just the first thing I mean um the school management culture has always been a important to me uh as a teacher educator for 35 years and and a administrative uh leader in the building because I think you really got to set that tone. The leaders got to set that tone in that building and culture and today both of us were hitting classrooms. We

042were knuckling kids saying getting high fives and just getting to know kids and um I think that's important. That's the only way I've survived in education over the, you know, um, I got two former students right here. Were you in, were you in when you were here? What year? >> What year did you get? >> 90. What year? >> 90. I graduated 89. >> But it's just I mean that was one of the reasons why I came back, you know, when I found this out, talked to Jamie and Patrick and stuff and I'm like Lemons was a really special place. got to meet some really cool people, families, the community was so supportive and I thought, you know what, I'd love to go back there and try to help out whatever I can and stuff.

043I was retired for two years and it's just a it's a really special place in my heart and um so many wonderful things happened in that short period of time that I was here, but uh it was really special for me to come back. But um but no, it's I just think that that I think is it's not easy to do. I talked to the staff the other day. I sent out a what was that uh slide I just said. There's a balance between authority and compassion, you know, and there's such a um it's it's a hard thing to to kind of balance because you got to you got to set the tone. You got to put the line in the sand, but you also have to get have compassion for some of these kids

044knowing where they're coming from and what they're going through in their lives. and being able to do that it's, you know, even after 35 years, it's still, oh boy, I missed that one. But I think that's huge. And I think that culture is so so important in building, you know, and that's why even today I was told kids even in middle school, get involved in extracurricular because that sends I mean you have more of a positive experience uh in your education if you get into extracurricular and I don't care what it is, the class play, the art club, it's sports, it's band, whatever. And I've seen that in all my years that have been in it. It just makes a big difference and it does set the tone and help the culture of the building

045when kids have more invested, you know, in their education. So, um, and then Patrick through the PTO approvals, that wasn't my he just said, "You're doing." So, that's why I'm doing that. you kind of divide it up, but um and I'm used to doing a lot of that. But I am so thankful for the lady on my right here because some of the stuff that I wasn't really strong at um she's going to be doing a phenomenal job and she isn't ready and so it's so nice having somebody to work with um with that. So athletics have been a part of my life all my life here. Um so I'll work with Jake on that school events. I'm used to that facilities and things like that. And Sue can talk about the next part. >>

046Sure. Um we are trying to kind of build up our RTI or multi-level system of supports interventions for students that might be struggling. They'll be working with the middle school on that kind of taking off where uh Jamie has been working on the K5 levels kind of building that on the six through eight. Uh we have the beauty of a win time and the PLC time in the morning for your middle school. This is a a schedule that many schools wish for and you have it. So, we will really work very hard to uh work with the team to kind of use that time to build and part of that is a is renewing what a professional learning community model is. It's a framework and uh some f some of the staff here were aware

047and some not just because it just needed to be re a refresh. So we did a little refresh at um the teacher and service and uh we'll be working on that. So we'll be taking notes from our meetings and agendas and building our um the four questions if you're familiar with that. It's basically what do we want students to learn? Um and here I'm blanking out on the second question. What do we do when they don't learn? Uh the next question is how can we extend student learning? Um, so it's really a focus on data and the information that we would use our data to help us with instruction with students. I'll be continuing the mentor mentee program and we'll divide staff evaluations up as we get to that. We haven't uh had time to

048really to look at that just yet. But so while I look at that as a as a parent standpoint, we probably are going to Mr. charges for a lot of things and a staff standpoint is going to more. Is that correct? Divide it up >> overall and I will be here on Wednesdays and Thursdays. So if there's incidents or things that happen that you're going to take over, but we'll be communicating. We really seem to have the same philosophy. Uh one is holding kids accountable and then secondly just more about distributive leadership. So looking at the teachers already that have good things going and building them and helping helping them to um do the things that they know and have been trained on. >> And I plan on meeting with this with these staff. I

049did this for a lot of years in common. It worked really well. Uh just a quick fivem minute meeting on Mondays with the high school check in this is what's going on this week just to touch base and see each other I think is important. And then I plan on doing that with the middle school because sometimes the middle school feels left out. They're like they're not part of got the high school, you got the elementary and they're in between. Sometimes they feel like am I in middle school? Am I part of the high school? Am I part of the elementary? So I'm going to meet with them on Fridays and mornings. And uh that's that's working well. So hopefully that works well with our staff here too. Um what else we got here? Um

050and then soon we'll meet with the middle school during their PLC time weekly. The staff in service went really well. We had two meetings. We had one at first day and then one on Thursday, the last day. And it seemed to be well received. I think the staff appreciated the time that we gave them to get prepared for the kids. We uh uh we did go through the handbook uh changes as uh as Patrick said, the expectations and then the PLC model as well um seem to be positively uh positive uh feedback from staff at the start of the school year. Today was a great great day. Um, do you want to talk about the professional learning community model or anything? >> Yeah, thank you. >> Yep. Mentor, mentee. That's going to be great as

051well. Um, Jill, right, Jacob have been doing a really nice job getting any campus up and running. We have a lot of kids um getting involved in that. Even just some taking just one or class here, even at school, kind of a hybrid type setup. Not a ton of changes, but we did make take some language out um just to try to clear it up because it just seemed to be um a lot to kind of read through to kind of figure out where where this discipline um action kind of fall. Um and we we'll we'll take care of that. I think it's pretty well set now. Um the tardy language as well, we move that to five minutes instead of 10 and we get to class and five minutes. Then if you're five minutes

052late, that turns into a tardy. So kids just need to get to class. I know it's going to be quick because it's three minutes now passing time, but they'll get there. We'll work with them. Um, and then we have a little makeup and late work due to absences if the kids's gone or has something going on. Um, five day to provide more consistency so teachers and kids know because in the past I've dealt with this too. It's like one teacher would give a month, one teacher would give one day. So to try to have some consistency on when late work is due. So, I think that that's important and I found that um the consistency is good to be good. Uh parking lot duty. I had some unfortunate things happen up in the parking lot

053uh after school when I was um uh in Cumberland and some student get hit by a car, buses going through, things like that. So, we are now going to have a couple staff members. I'll be out there and another staff member out there with a bright orange um vest on. You got parents coming in picking up students. You got uh kids wanting to get out of there, get to work or just get out of school. They're coming up from the lower parking lot. You got buses trying to come in and pick up students. So, we feel the more supervision we have, I think it's going to be better in that short period of time. There's a lot of vehicles coming in and out in 10 minutes. The grab and go breakfast, I think, is going

054to be very well. I we done that before. I think it's going to be good for the kids to have that opportunity that maybe come in school a little bit later. they get to class, they miss breakfast and still have that chance in between first and second hour to get breakfast. And then this is something we've worked on and we've uh had success and I've talked to Patrick about it. We're going to start out with it's a home room at the end of the day. Now that the resource time is at the end of the day, home room, advisor, adise, however you want to it's all the same thing. But the last 26 minutes of school, there's going to be a home room. There'll be clubs happening that time, but for the first month, the

055kids are going to stay in their home rooms. Uh, get through the updated handbook. I want everybody to say, "I didn't know." So, the teachers have a handbook review sheet we put together and stress the areas that need to be um um go gone over so the kids know. Um cell phones, um dress code, things like that that we seem to have problems with. And that's not here. It's every school. Um, and then they're going to work on goal setting, expectations for the year, and then the big thing is I mentioned earlier, building positive relationships within that group because they're going to be together all year. And then complete any homework assignments that need to be completed. As I mentioned, club and activity meetings will be held during that time as well, which will be

056nice and it's at the end of the day. Eventually, what we'd like to do is when we get enough grades entered, we plan on implementing a resource privilege system at the uh that's based on attendance, based on grades, and it's based on behavior. And if kids are doing well in all those, they're going to have some privileges at the end of the day to maybe go to the learning lab. They don't have to sit in their home, their home room at the end of the day. They could go to the gym. Um they can maybe go to the wait room if they have a car, if they have transportation, they can maybe leave for the day. Um so that's something we got to work on. And obviously parents are going to have to sign a

057sheet to allow their student to do that. Um, so we're looking at doing that here. The only thing we got to come up with is a system of tracking those kids and making sure who gets to go where. If a kid needs a help with math, English, they'll have that access to go get that extra help with that teacher at the end of the day. So, um, we're going to work on that and try to get that set, but the kids, I think, seem to be pretty, uh, excited about that. We get that off off and running here. Uh, the schedule's pretty well set. Jacob's going to be working. He worked all day. Jacob Maze today, tomorrow he'll be working in trying to get kids schedules set, but he put a lot of time and

058effort into this over the last month. So, I give him a ton of credit for that. If you see him, thank him. Um, the first week, as I told them, it's going to be chaotic, but I thought today was chaotic as I thought it was going to be, I thought it went pretty well. So, I was very happy with the staff, how they responded. Um, so that went really good today. And then of course uh we started off our fall extracurricular athletic uh season last week with a big win over Leah Strong and the girls had a volleyball scrimmage over the weekend. Sound like that went really really well. So we're off and running and glad to be back in Glow City and working with all of you and um it's going to be a

059great year. >> Well, thank you for helping us out this year. >> Yeah, you bet. Yeah, personally and professionally, it's just I couldn't be more thrilled that the two of you are here. This is >> so your truck. >> We'll settle up after. >> Got remember he's level three now. >> Any other questions for uh our co our dynamic duo? >> That'll be a placeholder till we get something clever. Um, okay. So, we'll move on to our our business items. And this is what I'm I'm guessing you're here for is our senior class presentation. >> Okay. >> Just wondering if you're taking a couple board members with you. >> Maybe I know you're on our list. >> I saw that I was on the list. >> If I can get board approval, we'll see. All

060right. So, um, is there any preamble to this or should they take away? these uh these ladies uh and a couple that couldn't be here tonight presented to me uh last spring and u I'm going to let them do their thing. They're going to put this on their resume. So ladies, if you want to take front and center and introduce yourself and then go from there, >> which screen would you like? >> I will have it up. So if you want to stand right over here, I'll have the main screen. by David over Miller was one more officer. Um he had late practice. So >> this one you want >> or the other one your slide up or do you want >> the slideshow please? >> All right. >> Okay. So we are the student

061government for the class of 2026 and we're proposing our senior trip idea to you guys. My name is Haley Toa and I'm the class president. My name is Miley Blazer and I'm the vice president. Oh, >> I'm Tessa Wagner and I'm the class secretary. >> Okay, so that's the place that we'd be staying at. Um, some details about it. It's a large group cabin located outside of Minong, Wisconsin. It sleeps 62 62 people. There's 10 and a half bathrooms. Um, it's an hour and 43 minutes away. We would stay there for two nights and we would need a school bus and a trooper to haul bags and food coolers. We would need six to eight chaperones and the trip would be from Friday to Sunday. We would leave Friday morning by about 8 and return

062Sunday morning by 11:00 and the only weekend that we we would be able to do it is April 17th through the 19th. >> Um just some possible activity options that there are. Um there's a pool and a hot tub. Uh there's a movie theater, pool table, hoops, foosball, ping pong, like etc. Those games. Um there's a state park nearby so you can hike uh bonfires, er games, shoreline fishing, golfing, crafts, board games. Um and then just really like rest and relaxation. These are just some pictures from inside the cabin. And then this is the backyard and the outside too. So, for sleeping arrangements, we got to view a 3D tour of the house. So, we just kind of walked through the cabin. Um, we mapped out a number of sleeping spaces because it provided us

063with a number, but not exactly where they're located. Um, we're planning on keeping boys and the girls separate and also the chaperones. So, the main level when you first walk in, it has eight sleeping spots and we're planning on taking six to eight chaperones. So they would be sleeping on the main floor so that they have access during the night to go upstairs or downstairs if anything happens. Um the second floor and the third floor will be for the girls because there's mainly girls in our grade. Um so that's 23 sleeping spots and six sleeping spots. So combined together that'll be enough for us. And then the basement and the clubhouse loft there's 20 sleeping spots. So that will fit the boys. So there's a clear. These are just some pictures of the bedrooms in

064the cabin. Um and then just potential shapers. This is not limited or we can have others but um Miss Nichols, Angela Williams, Sue Blackmore, Angela McGee, Kim Uner, Taylor Dingling, Holly Olson, Patrick Olson, Randy, Chuck Draxler, Matthew Shoots, uh Casey Wagner, Jared Keane, or David. Okay, so the cost breakdown, the lodging up front, we're going to be staying two nights and that's $8,284. Um, the cleaning fee was originally $800, but we got it cleared because we'll be doing our own sheets, washing them, and putting them on. So, that saved us $800. Um, property damage insurance is 50 per night, so it'll be $100 in total. Food, we're going to be ordering our own food from Sam's Club so that we can cook for everyone in the class and everyone will kind of be eating the

065same thing together. Um, that's $1,800 to $2,000. Transportation is paid for by the school and additional costs are to be determined if we want to buy any other board games or um backyard games. So the total cost together is $10,184. Our class account currently has $13,21. So that would leave us with $3,17 for graduation and senior expenses. >> All right. Do you guys have any questions for us? This is a 3,000 whatever dollars. That's plenty. >> Last year's graduation cost. Do we know? >> I think it was only like 2,000, wasn't it? Roughly. >> Just under. >> It depends on the photographer price. >> So, I think last year they went a little lower with the photographer and only spent about 500. And then this year, if we wanted someone a little more professional, we

066made a,000 or something like that. really nice job presenting. I the uh the question I had was how come you don't put the trap rooms out in the basement? That was just No kidding. Uh looks like you put a lot of thought into this and uh thought about a little bit of everything. Um one question I had is how did you determine April 17th was the only date that worked? Was that like a survey or how did you >> open? We did it based off sporting events. So, what people have to be back for for softball and baseball and then prom for the games and activities. I don't know if you guys know, but at the library you can check out like big test or the toss game and the junga and all sorts of

067things. If you guys wanted to go check those out, they might be for free there. But, >> no, it sounds really awesome and I'm surprised by how much money you guys have. Why do you have so much money? >> That brings up a really good conversation. Is that something we want to get into? My goodness. >> So, um I'll interject and again, thank you ladies did a >> great job. Um when they presented to us um last spring, it's one of those and for those of you that don't know, this is Miss Sarah Nichols. She's our art teacher uh in the district and she has been their advisor since they were freshman. Um that's one of the things that we're talking about is advisors uh co-curricular contracts etc. Um, from a fundraising standpoint, Miss Nichols

068has kind of led the charge, but uh, we have had a lack of, I would say, again, process and procedures about what amount is because businesses, um, and just different things. People get nickels and dime and so we do have to put some parameters on that that which we're currently discussing. uh in terms of how did they get this money? I mean, Miss Nichols has been a driving force behind them. Um and again, some of these items that come up, whether it's being prepared for prom, whether it's be the the trip itself, um I will remind you that when we were talking, Mr. Naris, I asked him, you know, did you take senior trips? U and if so, what what did you do? Um, those of you probably that graduate from Gladwood remember Beaver Creek

069in sixth grade. Um, that went away uh, I don't know when um, but it was a great opportunity uh, into Richmond. We took a 4-day trip for middle school sixth graders to Camp Waffle. Uh, we stayed with four nights. We had individual cabins and so on and I was a chef a number of peers in that. So, the one thing that I've learned is that these students just want to spend some time together and kind of their last harrah. Um, obviously you saw the the property. It's unbelievable. Um, >> I like the fact that we actually have a schedule for what the working sessions are going to be. It would be really nice to see, you know, towards, you know, the next working session, which is facilities and infrastructure, right? We know we've got like

070a coming up, right? So, we'll have the results from that. And then I guess you know with your kind of board update you know dashboard you know is that you know what's gone well you know what good looks like maybe some maybe key improvements or you know lessons learned type things that you know we can focus on for each of these working sessions like how do we how do we think that gets developed to kind of build the roster of what the working session is. For me, it's building that agenda really comes down to yeah, what what have we done? You know, the facility one is easy. You know, number one, we should be taking a tour as a board. Number two, talking about all the summer, um it was also our annual performance survey.

071As an admin team, we felt consistency would be um a good thing. And so, uh, we just rewarded a little bit of the first, um, goal as we continue to redefine our culture. I think uh it is pretty evident um what Sue Richie are going to bring to this team, the work that Aaron has done with SPED to get our files back up in order, making sure we're doing and then the work that Jake continues to do to rebuild the elementary program, especially from a curriculum and behavior standpoint. So, we wanted to be consistent uh because that trend data is always the important key. Um and so um we're recommending that we keep the three goals for this community. Is there a way to measure I'm guessing there is to a certain point um go

072to goal number one you know every student every day to to to measure discipline referrals or you know to quantify um you know maybe like you had we saw the the board about um the relationships every teacher that thought that they had a good relationship with a student you know >> um are you can you talk about some the tools that you might success. >> So, the dashboard that we talked about and approved is going to go live uh in September and we'll get to it, but to Jordan's point, there's ways to track things and I would agree uh goal number one is harder to quantify. Um yet it isn't because when you look at the pieces of the puzzle, the right year, the annual performance survey, you know, is it as simple math? No.

073But if you take one piece of the puzzle because culture is not just one score. It's a whole variety of things. Um if you click in and you saw the the performance survey results, there is trend data that we're going to be looking at. Um you know in terms of those things, culture um so I think there's a variety of tools absolutely can we pull in um discipline data. Um those are some of the processes and procedures that we're trying to um be a little bit better at making sure we're doing whether it's skyward edge climber. We're just not there because we're formulated baseline. I mean if you look at tonight um this is the start of my third year and we are now officially approving the second reading of policies. I think that tells

074you the work that has been put in by the administrators but also the framework to build a solid foundation and that's where again yeah to your point I think that we can always when we get to those work sessions and we talk about students that's what we're going to talk about we're going to talk about some of those I would say benchmarks such as maybe referrals things like that if you walk down the elementary um unless you took it down but it talks about the the what do you call them on that board um where they pied you. >> Oh, positive office referrals. >> Positive office referrals. They reached 200 and they got to pie Miss Schaffer. Um then they got to throw balloons at us and get us wet and make us suffer outside.

075>> This year goal of 300. We made 260 last year. So our goal is 300. >> So if the students achieve that goal, what do they get? >> Oh, we haven't decided that yet. Open for suggestions. positive start, >> right? It didn't start right away, right? We didn't start to like a little higher. >> So, I think those are definitely ways, Chuck, that we can quantify the the behavior um or culture as you would say it. >> Um I think this year, in my two years, I mean to have both levels because we've talked about it having assemblies to start the year. um where here it is. Here's an introduction. There's just different ways that you can build that and I think um I was talking to Scott too. You know, you guys follow the

076same process as anybody. You can walk in um but you don't have to notify me if you plan to come to school. I know that was somewhat of a understanding. Come in. I want you to see these things for yourself. Now, if you're sitting back in the class and kind of interfering with instruction, that's where I'm going to have to step in and and uh try to ask you to leave from that. But, you know, that those informal I would say walk-ins and just seeing the way things go. Um, come down to football games, go to volleyball games, and just overall those are definitely um quantitative in some regards because you can see how that culture is. So, I feel I can give you a pretty good representation of what Glenwood City is um using

077those tools. >> Yeah. Good. I And I know you'll be able to you'll just feel it. I mean, when a when a positive change happens, you know, it's just important for us to get that as well. And he's looking at these survey results. They're all positive. Some are more than others, but I mean, it's not it's not all bad. Yeah, it's good to see that as a reference. >> Y >> great. So, uh any other questions? Otherwise, I will uh ask for approval of the GCSD 2526 district goals. >> The um the metrics that are shown in here still not adding up had a chance to correct them. But >> that and now that you said that, I've fixed it on the other one. I just pulled that from the 50 copies that I put

078on my file. I did like about the culture aspect though. I did like how Mr. Nar just was talking about the fist bumping and the discipline and almost like a continuum of on one end of the other and you trying to find that balance and I'm Schaefer is talking about you're using a smile every day. that environment, that culture I think is what we're trying to and it's hard to measure. We got over eight, but >> it's hard to change in one year. I mean, it starts with some little down there, right? So >> I will say this um you know because I evaluate not necessarily that I'll do a formal evaluation on those two at the end but um I have received and I hate it when people say this where you know I

079got so many people they talk plural that are saying this. I can back it up. The number of teachers that came up to me and just really talked about how refreshing they thought this PL day was. Um, our days were. We changed it to four. Uh, the first day was actually pretty informal where they just got to walk in any formal meetings that get into their classroom. Um but to the flip side of that, the professionalism uh by these four um really set the stage. And when you have veteran people that have been here for maybe decades or they've been in other places to make those comments and to to take the effort to come down and tell me those um I think speaks very highly of of where we're at, but also what each

080one of these fours brings to the table. So, um, yeah, I'm I'm looking to take that next step, um, on many levels. >> Um, all right. I'll entertain a motion for the approval of the 2526 district goals. >> Make a motion. >> Motion is by Jody. Can I get a second? >> Second by Jordan. All those in favor, please say I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion is carried. Item E, our policy set approval. So this uh is twofold. Uh as we've been talking about last meeting, uh we approve the complete array of policy. This is the second reading. So if you have any changes um or concerns, this is the time because our policy, if it's a new policy, it requires two readings. Now in the future wise if the policy is based on some

081grammar changes it only requires one. With that said the next one is the resolution. So we have to do both of these separately. So I'll start with the second reading. Is there any questions on the uh second reading of the policies in general? You know, I know in the past you we've talked about how how we as a board review. I know there's a lot to review and you know, there hasn't been a ton of structure of who's reviewed what. So, I guess do do we as a board feel that we're reviewing the first and second readings with enough detail around some of the important areas such as finances like we talked about a few months ago. um to really make sure we're reviewing well enough that we're confident we're making the changes that that

082this board and this district need. Uh not necessarily today, but kind of the future like you talked about too, right? Should we should we be reviewing with more detail? Um, >> I I I will say I read through them, the ones that you were talking about in particular. Um, you know, it seemed very comprehensive. I I don't have the knowledge and expertise that Patrick does and the team that he work with on it. >> Um, you know, and I it's fair to say this didn't happen in a bubble, right? You didn't just do this all on your own. >> No, I think if you you know the Neil uh I did have Christa start with me. Um you know this is probably I can't tell you how many meetings within the last two years. The

083unfortunate part to Jordan's point here is that we find ourselves where not only did you lack policy, you had outdated policy and that's why you spent money to invest in a third party contractor like now legally that covers you. Now uh was there a lot of decisions um that I made? Yep, we want to go with this. Yep, we want to go with this. Yeah. Um, part of it stemmed from me doing this process in New Richmond. And so I would pull in my finance director, I would pull in my HR director, I would pull in um, you know, from a curriculum standpoint when we talk about it as an admin team. The purpose of this is to create a baseline. Now that we have a baseline, you definitely are going to there's going to

084be things that come up. This is not set and you are going to have to what they call um district specific policy like it's just Glenn would cityize it because some of the policies we had in other districts they don't apply here or they're a different there's just a different um component to it. So um this truly is just a baseline. Um, do you want to get to the point of reviewing? That's the old committee. Um, I I would say no. Um, because it just these are the governance that are set by the board. Um, but one of the things I'm trying to institute around here is that these are here to protect us. These are easily um, one of the better tools as administrator. I'm not picking choosing quite honestly and I've said this

085before publicly. I don't know how he or others did it because he must have been picking and choosing how he treated people and how he addressed situations because when the policy is there, this is what we follow. >> Yeah, I would be more concerned the fact that we've lacked so many policies. I mean, I brought that up in a board meeting before I was on board a board member. So, yeah, start with this baseline and then we start digging into some things as we come across them is so much better than having none. Yeah, but it'd be nice to start setting that structure, that cadence of of review or Q&A. You know, kind of the same thing like if we're doing our working sessions, how do we how do we keep a log because I

086know we don't want to change policy as we run into instances, right? But how do we record those instances where then we can have that feed back into our policy as a >> you certainly could create like the number one business item every month is policy review. And as you went through the month with my updates or anything, did anything come up and just have a setting number. Um, there are things as we get going here where I will be tying each discussion or a business item to a pillar or to a strategic. We're just not there yet. But we certainly can. Again, if if policy is more of that review and you just want it as a constant um I would say we could actually put it under the board piece too and it

087could be similar to the audit. Yep. I had this which then offers up a um an opportunity for board to just and it's a standing agenda item to bring up any policy for discussion >> or even if we just rotated to all of the right thousands 2000s >> as it printed potentially have a date right so now we already this year we're next year and year after that and year after that so every month we have here's do thousands >> yeah that's how they used to do it nowadays um when you get to a policy. So at the end of the year on every quarter I get an update from NEOA and then I will bring those updates to you and it's basically a spreadsheet and it talks about here's what it is, here's what

088it says, here's what we recommend changing and then you guys get to change it from there. So that's the purpose of Muella because they have the expertise. Yes, I have the expertise in terms of having done this for 12 years. But in the same regard, the state statutes, federal government, uh law changes, case studies, all those things, that's why we pay NEOLA to keep us up to date and protect us. >> Is a is a continuing agenda item something that you would like or is that something that I mean you want it more targeted than that? >> I think doing something consistently I think would show really well, you know, and help help us reestablish that trust with community as well, right? in would that be something where um the individual board member would say

089you would you would talk about the financial stewardship piece where you would look into that part policy on your by your own choice or would you like it to be something more >> together >> or or together or would it be like I'm assigned to have policy 1000-2 I I I wonder if we just do it in the thousands 20 thousands chunks and just have it on kind of the similar as our financial audit and we as a a board can kind of do our homework and maybe do a quick review and just see if anything you know maybe stands out right >> there's 9,000 >> so or 10,000 officially because there's zeros so if we did that we basically in 10 months would be through and what I can do is I can put

090it under the board meeting so instead of your recognition and popularity of >> WSP. >> Um, I could put in there post review 1000s and then your job would be to go through it. Some of you may have questions, others may say nope and you just move on. >> Yeah. And I don't think, you know, we don't have to have any resolutions to fix anything. It can kind of be Q&A, too. And we can say, what do you think about that? And just I think would it be a good open discussion around just policy recurring, right? So I think that will help a lot to be honest. >> Make a motion to establish that as a ongoing policy review. >> I don't know if that's necessary. >> It's not necessary right now. What what is

091asked and again my job is to make sure you guys keep on track and not go off. So this one we're asking just for the second reading. Um but for me to add to the agenda has already been noted in the notes. So I will just add it um in there. Next month September will focus on the zeros and then each month we'll build up and your job would just be to review if you want and it's on there and so we're not breaking any governance laws. Unless you're level three, then you have to come with a policy memorized and you have to recite it to everybody without skipping a single word. >> Couldn't be noted. >> Okay. Uh is there any other questions about the the approval for the policy setting? Okay. So, right

092now I will ask for the approval a motion for the approval of the new GCSD policy set. The second I'll make that motion. >> Motion is made by Jody. >> Can I get a second, please? >> Second is by Derek. All those in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion is carried. So now we are at item F, approval of bylaws and policies of the school district of city board of education resolution. So for this and you can say as printed but this is a true I don't know how many resolutions you guys have done over the years but resolutions are a little bit different. Um and yes soon as you approve this resolution then all the policies that were prior are no longer and all the new policies is what governs this body

093and it will be a roll call vote. >> Yes. Okay. Just take a minute to read it. >> Anybody have any questions about this? >> So, this is basically establishing the new policy after we, you know, formally reviewed our two meetings, right? Well, again, the biggest thing that this does is it looks at the board docs because if you go to board docs right now and I can pull it up, you can see how inept our policies are. Um, and basically this wipes away all these or whatever this is, it's done. and the new policy which is in the draft and tomorrow Christa presses some buttons and the new policies will be uploaded. So this is the final piece and that's why I recall especially a resolution um if anybody has any disagreements but a

094resolution is of that next tier when it comes to board approval. >> Okay. So right now I would entertain a motion for the approval of bylaws and policies of the school district city board of education as presented. >> Why are you looking at me? >> I'll make that a motion as presented. Chuck >> motion made by Jody. Can I get a second? >> Second by Derek. And this is going to be a roll call. So we're going to start. We'll say yes or no or abstain. Steve, >> yes. >> Jordan, >> yes. >> Derek, >> yes. >> I'm a yes. Joey, >> yes. >> Scott, >> yes. >> Okay, the motion is carried. Thank >> um item G is a health insurance in L of insurance policy review. This is something that um Steve had

095brought up to to Lisa and I um in we weren't exactly clear on, you know, what our policy was or what the handbook might say. Um so we wanted to to bring it in front of the board meeting um you know to talk about this today. So this is something that uh was instituted from this side of the table. So uh we want to get into that a little bit. I would like to uh just point out, you know, this is not something that I'm bringing to the board. This was a board requested item. Um if you look at and my internet is down on this computer for whatever reason, but if you click into it, um it clearly states how this uh policies interpreted. And so from a standpoint of uh this and loop,

096I put in uh different information. Number one, um I'm going to have to restart my computer, but if you look at the administrative side of things, there's a spreadsheet that shows what our cost is per district of that take in loo. I did a summary for Dun St. Croy of how many schools actually have in L, which out of the Dun St. Croy, all of them have inl except Spring Valley. Out of the ones uh the Spring Valley, take that off the table, everybody else has in Lu at a certain amount that varies and they do include spouses. Um so we're different in that respect. Spouses and dependents are basically in the same category according to the feedback that I got. Um, I will publicly say that uh I definitely am not um I wasn't

097interested in bringing this to the board because it would be beneficial to me um because I happened to have a spouse in the district. I based on the previous superintendent, I was not comfortable bringing something um that would basically give me an advantage financially. Um, but in the same regard, I think it's a it's a policy that um needs to be discussed um for other reasons. And so I'm just going to turn it over to you and what you guys would like to do with it. the question I have. So yes, section C, any employee who qualifies for participation in the district group health insurance plan may wave such participation and elect to receive cash compensation in lie of the health insurance benefit. If the employee is not covered by a district health insurance plan,

098I'm assuming the employee we're talking about is covered by a district health insurance plan. >> Yes. to the to your point, Derek. Um, and I'm going to reference the email that Dr. Kaiser sent um in terms of her statement. Um, yes, I was made aware of when this individual was hired. When you look at the policy, it clearly states that this individual would be under a family policy as a dependent. And that's how it's stated and that's how it's interpreted. And that's consistent with any of the universities or other state uh state of Wisconsin that I'm familiar with. I happen to have a resource that's very closely aligned with benefits in the state organization. And so I would say that language is consistent. So I'm not sure why there's confusion on applying this policy accordingly.

099[Music] Well, I think to me there's a confusion of because it's it it speaks about a lot about spouses. >> That section does not speak anything about spouses. Any employee who qualifies for participation. That's any employee >> regardless black and white. >> Where was the >> which one? Patrick Y >> um >> was that in a in a in a policy where it was saying spouses? >> It's it it says right in this >> but it in section E. >> Yeah. Okay. >> It talks about most spouses are employed by the district. Okay. >> And are eligible for health insurance. Employees shall be eligible for two single plans or one family plan. Premium contribution for spouses shall be no different than the premium contribution for similar similarly situated employees in spouse does not work for

100the district such as the following options exist for such spouses. subject to the eligibility of uh the shirt period. >> Does do you understand um um you know what Derek was saying about items? What was the one there? CCMly. Um, >> I do I do understand that, but I look at it as if if I'm an employee at the school and I take up the insurance and I take out my family coverage, so myself, my spouse, and my children would be covered under that health insurance. So if my spouse works somewhere else, they would get an inlu if their company offered that. Right? So why why is it different here? Because the difference that in lie of is for the health insurer because they don't have to provide coverage for set employee. That's why they're

101paying that money because they don't have to provide the coverage. If they're providing the coverage, they're not gaining anything. Therefore, why would they pay out and provide the coverage? That's the difference. If the other employer in your example was providing coverage, then the benefit is that company that's here isn't providing coverage for set employee. >> What if it's the same health coverage? You know what I'm saying? The same like hell parking, right? Yeah. >> And and if I work at another place, then we have health park. >> Well, the the intent, right, Affordable Care Act passed in 2010 says we have to provide coverage for all employees. If you've got employees that are just picking and choosing whether they participate or not, then it's discriminatory because people may choose that, hey, I don't want to

102I don't want to participate. I'd rather take the 4,000. Well, what happens is only the people that stay on the plan are people that have health problems, right? Everybody else cash. Well, pretty soon you have a health plan that can provide them. really expensive because everybody that's on it has previous health instances that are coming out. So that's that's I guess the nuts and bolts of it is this is not a new the person the people that we're talking about have health coverage. They're getting it. Section C says therefore they're not qualified for any of those. Is is it helpful to discuss whether or not we want to offer in L of spouses or family members um that are not currently qualified to get it? >> Well, if they're not qualified, right? >> Well, I

103I I should say. So if two spouses work here at the district, one of them doesn't get right. We can do that if we choose to. Is that something that we want to look into offering? And that's a at a cost of $30,000 a year for the five affected families. Um, you know, in in an individual case or not what maybe brought this to the forefront um in one way or another, I I agree with with you, Derek. um that it's it's spelled out there pretty clearly in the handbook. Um that's not to say that we can't decide to do it a different way, but it would be at the cost of the district. >> Yes, absolutely. So, just a reminder, we're all here as a board to represent the district. Our purpose is to

104provide education for children. I think what we're doing right now is getting a little bit off of the rabbit hole and we're using time to benefit certain individuals and getting away from our core purpose which is to educate kids. Well, and I understand that we do have, you know, that's our core purpose, but we also have a a responsibility to our employees in, you know, and to the taxpayers and our employees are giving the health care that they're what we're talking about is giving financial incentive, additional financial incentive to employees. We're not talking about taking care of them. >> Y >> there's a difference. Does anybody else have any any uh other discussion matters about this or any other questions or clarifications needed? The only thing that I will say in our superintendent meetings that

105have come up in the last number of years since Obamacare was the the goalpost has changed. So individuals now can be under dependent until 27 >> even if they're married. >> Yes. >> Yeah. 26. >> So you know though there there's different thing like I said my job was to put together the information so that it's in front of you. Um this is certainly in lie of came about more recently just because you could see and Deb put the spreadsheet together. um if we were not offering NINU um what our cost would be. So there is definitely an incentive um and that's why I wanted to not only put a spreadsheet together but also tell you you know what other schools are are there you have the ability to take the policy and frame it

106however you want. I I think your point there is if if we were to not do the inu of and what our insurance cost would be is one thing, but with this instance where we're not pursuing the in of we're already incurring that cost, right? So it's not really a benefit to pay for it twice through insurance and through in there's no um approval of anything. This was just a >> Yeah, just for just a policy review providing clarity. Uh I think to to summarize um I believe right now it's the the board's position that we are acting uh in accordance with the the the the handbook and uh see no reason to change what we do right at this time. Am I being clear and kind of a little bit. >> Oh, that's okay.

107Um, and we got the board's name out there, but u and and it certainly can be discussed. I mean, but it it would be a change and it would be a cost concern to the district. If if we're okay with how things are, we don't need to do anything. And and maybe we'll have some strong employees one way or the other. But um I I think that that the board is pretty clear um in this employee handbook to I don't I don't >> Yeah, he does. >> He's got bad timing. Um, all right. We will move to item H, DCSD 2425 and 2526 budget update. >> So, I don't have a lot of changes since my update. So I actually just uh reposted the my summary from Joe Biden board meeting. The one thing that

108has just come um to our attention is the projection of the equal equalized value um that can be a huge uh piece to this puzzle uh which will be set the levy which you will get a precursor at the end meeting next month. Um what I will point out uh with the water value is um I'll do some comparisons and throw we just got this and we're going to throw it into the bare forecast model and that will give us a better understanding um our job at the annual meeting and that's why I moved it when traditionally had it. Um, to Jordan's point, um, yes, it would be great to have some type of pie and it kind of shows you how much you're spending, blah, blah, blah, but there's so many facets of I

109don't even know how that would work because you have so many different um, funds. Um, now it could work in the regard that, you know, here's fund 50, 38, 39, 10, etc. run that shows you, you know, how much you've used, but you're always going to be behind. Um, what I will say with the equalized value, um, is property value. Uh, we unfortunately get hit a little bit harder here in the city because we're still part of St. Croy County and those numbers actually have ticked up um, overall. And again, I'll throw that in and you're going to have a a very detailed model when it comes to the NMB and export. Um, is there any questions on um that I can explain right now in terms of value? What that is? Not only value,

110but when we talked to Bear Marquez, uh he had mentioned the two things that went down for us that was improving our uh additional funding uh because those deductible receipts that went down were the ESSR funds, which is basically COVID funds going down. So, everybody probably had that. But then also, uh what went down was the insurance claims. Is there any way to know what those insurance claims would have been? that would have got removed from uh that went down a couple hundred thousand that helped us because our percentages right all the way from primary secondary tertiary went down but because those deductible receipts also went down our funding could go up which I'm assuming is what a lot of their school districts didn't see yeah restitution um unfortunately the whole Tim Johnson situation so

111we um I filed uh when we were doing our investigation we had a twound,000 rider on fraud. And so we received a prrated check uh based on insurance and that was again to our benefit. Um that restitution is in that overall number and that's a number that I've shown you guys and you'll you'll see it again. >> I think we're over uh I know we're over 850,000 in restitution from Tim's situation. Uh so specifically that would be uh the other part of that I would say Derek that plays into it is um two years ago when I first started we had straight line winds um I'm surprised EMC just doesn't say SEA we don't even be around >> um because you add in the straight line winds which at the time again it was a

112a lot of work but it was a huge benefit. We got to replace a 1992 floor. We got to do a variety of things that just uplifted our facility. Uh the first year I was here prior um as a teacher, there was a flood in the tunnel which then seeped up into the classrooms and got the uh it was cabinetry and so on. So our claims have been through the roof and thankfully uh we've we've established a pretty good relationship with EMC. It went up everywhere. Um, but ours didn't go up as much as I thought it would. Um, but to your exact point of restitution, I think that's where some of those numbers come in. >> Makes sense. Thank you. >> But overall, as far as budget, I don't have any other updates unless

113you guys do. But again, next month, it's going to be a plethora of more concrete numbers. Please note that we don't get our final numbers until October 15th. So, it's very difficult to project. Um, but we have a more clear picture. Um, I talked to the staff about compensation. Um, just from the standpoint of we're going to follow the same process what we did last year. Um, I feel much better about now that Deb and I have had a year together here and trying to clean up a variety of things um to where our budget is pretty on track. You can see in my update, you know, we over spent u but you can see why and it's pretty clear from back pay to just different things of why we got to that point. So

114again, if you get asked in the public because I have that rule where my job is so that you guys don't have surprises, um pull that document out. Um I think that could be very helpful for to for you to say how, you know, how is the district doing? Um, how are you doing in terms of your overall spending? What are you spending it on? Um, as I stated, there's a variety of things that I put on the agenda that I probably normally wouldn't have just to build that transparency. But is there any questions on any of those documents um or from last month's update? I will have a uh uh trend data to show you the evaluation and how it affects our district specifically um which I'll present at the annual meeting. Um Derek

115is going to be gone. He's going to he has a an activity um running a marathon um in another country um for that. Is it another country? >> Yeah, it's Germany. >> Germany. I tell Patrick I'm going to be gone and the basic response with you had one job to do this at the end of meeting you're going to be gone for I will present u which I I normally do anyway um Sally just previously go through so it's all right but um yeah we'll go through and you'll be able to see um hopefully we answer taxpayers we had some positive feedback last year in terms of the detail that we go into to try and explain school finance is not easy to understand. >> That's why I asked about kind of like the burn

116rate and when we have some of these other, you know, agenda items and it just seems like every month there's 5,000 10,000 here. It's really hard to paint the picture of, you know, is this within the forecasted budget or are we extending ourselves with the things that we're approving, you know, that are in some of the consent or other agendas. That's >> to Jordan. I think if you click on this model, um, and I've said it before, but I'll say it again. I don't I don't know how really went through this process without this. Um, but this will take you through every single this spreadsheet is on steroids and basically those questions. Now, when we do get to the fi the fiscal work session, this is what I'm going to go off of and I'll

117go into detail, but I think with what you're seeing, um, yeah, there's no Jordan, there's no easy like dash >> pie picture, um, just because there's too many separate >> be more like a fuel tank and >> and you have multiple fuel tanks because there's different budgets and so on. But that's again a process that as we get to learn about each other and the board, you know, how do we quantify? It's easy because it's a budget, but what does that represent and how does that look? Um, but what I would encourage you is that I will anytime I make a change to this forecast model, I'll give it to you. But again, you can get lost and spend days in it. um which what I've done, but that's over a course of my 12

118years as a superintendent. But don't be afraid if a question comes up, I will try to pinpoint. Uh Dererick asked some good questions and um in that instance, I didn't know the answer. So, we got Maris um to answer the question and it was specifically to that insurance component. Ready to move on? Okay. uh GCSE transportation, please summarize. >> All right. Um so we unfortunately last week we had our plan um for those of you that don't know the state trooper um organization actually um signs off on our bus and they do our transportation inspection. And uh Ryan got a call that morning that there was a major accident in the state troopers vicinity and so he couldn't come. So, he rescheduled it for today. Um, unfortunately, we have a uh transportation fleet that we've

119been talking about for the last six months. Uh, we're sitting pretty good in terms of our fleet, and I'll just um bring it up as far as our inventory of what we have. We made some major changes last year based on statute. Uh, we have vans um that don't seat as many. uh we have some outdated vehicles that again due to Ryan's expertise we're able to fix and so forth. So we're going to be coming up with our facility plan. We're going to come up with a vehicle um replacement plan that makes sense. The unfortunate part is um from our bus standpoint that's we're having those discussions and we just recently lost a transmission um in our 2000. It was uh bus number 11. No, I'm sorry. Uh what did I put? >> 16. >>

120It's a 2004. This one. And the transmission went and the conversation was Ryan, tell me how many we have to have in our fleet. So, we have seven buses that go out and offer transportation to our students. The other three um are used for activities uh whether it's field trips, whether it's co-curriculars, etc. Uh we had 11 um now we're down to 10, which is kind of our according to Ryan. Um and Christiey's new, so Ryan's information. The bad part about that is um there's a wrench in this whole thing and that is uh the decision by Tim to purchase a bus with fund 80 monies. You can't do that number one and if you do do that which their reason to remedy is you had to and I don't know where they were told

121this um but it's not accurate. You needed to keep mileage and so on. So, we're trying to uh it could only be used for community use, which means tiny toppers, hang time, etc. can use it um because they're fund 80. Well, then the district would have to pay Fund 80 or the Tiny Tots to use that bus doesn't make any sense because that's a you know, for a bus to sit in that manner. Plus, when we were going through this whole process last year with investigation, um it should never been approved. Um and again, it's not your fault. Um but you can't buy buses with funding money. Um even to the point where let's buy a van because we talked about that. Um no. So that poses a problem that within that 10 one of

122our buses is a fund 80 bus. So I'm working with DBI to try and say okay we're we were in an unfortunate situation. There was a mistake made. Can we somehow the district pay use fun 10 to purchase that bus for a depreciated cost or whatever so that it's in our fleet. So, we're still working on that. But in the same regard, um, based on a transmission that's not worth putting in in the 2004, um, the transmission, according to Ryan, I think it was four years ago, they priced it out and, you know, it's 8 to 10 grand. And to throw that into a bus, um, that isn't worth it doesn't make any sense. So, uh, we also have a bus bus, uh, I want to get the number right here. Um, we have a

123bus that's on its last leg and if it makes it through the year, uh, we'll be surprised. And that is, I believe, 10. And so, again, I think the likelihood of us bringing a bus to you for approval is very high. And so I did put a bid um or a quote in there and to see what a cost goes for. We talked about this through but againund roughly typically you would go 76 passenger. We're looking at 155,000. So I just want to put that on your radar. Um we did I have a very draft in terms of what the um evaluation went today. uh he has some fixes that he needs to do. They do a it's a very thorough job and I always bring that back to the board so you can see

124what the bus um evaluation look like and what they went through and so we should be good. Ryan or excuse me Ryan thinks that he can get those fixes uh with the four buses that were identified. They were pretty minor. Um, and one was a break that they kept. It's like they knew it was going to um go and it did. So, he has to fix that. So, overall um we have some fixes in that regard. So, I'm not asking for anything uh in terms of approval tonight, but know that the likelihood of us having a bus uh purchased this year is very high based on recent events. Any questions? >> Can you remind us what the lead time is on the bus? >> Uh, we actually could have bought one last month. >> Okay.

125>> Um, because sometimes they, you know, they have wherever they are. Um, some schools have got into the specialty piece where it's healthy. Um, that type of thing. Normally, yeah, lead time is pretty extensive. It's not like it's go to the bus lot. So, you just never know. We could have um that day we he's like we we have one has one. You want to pull the trigger? No. Um I got to go to the board uh for this one. So, it just varies. >> Would it be helpful if we approved it so when Uber does have one, you can pull the trigger? >> Um yeah. I don't know where. Like I said, um, and that's that's the discussion. I'd be more comfortable. Um, I should have an answer within the next week to say,

126can I just transfer? You know, they know our circumstances. We were on the naughty list for DPI financially. Um, they understand that there was mistakes. They understand there's charges and there's a level of forgiveness um to where we don't have to track and we could just maybe move it. Um, I wish it was that easy. It's not. Um, can we get by? Yes. Um, I want to see what the final evaluation says to before we make a decision. So, it might be in front of you next month and I'll have some more data. >> Do we get any quantity break if we need to get two? I mean, the next newest looks like it's only one year newer, right? So, do we get, you know, a 10 or 20,000 break? >> Um, I don't know.

127Um, but what I will tell you is that now that we have really um, we've been able to push off a referendum because when I was first here, I was at saying we're going to have to go in a year. It is certainly not best practice to go off of fund balance money. And so I am much more apprehensive. Um, when we get final numbers, I'll feel much better in terms of giving you a true recommendation of where we're at. Um, especially since we haven't settled compensation wise either. >> I don't know the answer. I'm guessing yes. If you buy two, they'll give you a little break. But >> question as we become it's similar to what we're working on with Frank. We're doing a a computer replacement plan. Facilitywise, the same thing. You know,

128you're going to see these things that if we follow this, of course, we always have surprises. Um, but in the same regard, let's have a plan in place. Any questions on transportation? >> All right, the next one item, the stair under. All right. So, um I think you know it's it's a common theme. You know, when you have a lot of things that haven't been addressed for years, you're going to start to see things that just creep up. And um again, I don't want to sound but really like a broken record, but I need to bring it up for rationalization. Um we found ourselves uh two years ago where things weren't evaluated. We didn't have state permits in 2018. And when you leave that lack of maintenance and I actually talked to Bob Swanole um

129a couple times and I just said I want you to understand that when I publicly talk about this, it's not a reflection of you because anybody that knows Bob Swanapool knows he poured his heart and soul into this building. He was just told no, no, we don't have the funds. We can't do this. We can't do this. But we all know if we do that to our own houses, what's going to happen? Uh we're starting to see those. Uh Derek and I spoke about the rooftop units. We have 29 rooftop units that were the cheapest on the market and a lot of them were bought in 2016 and they're starting to go and you approve one tonight for the tune of roughly 13 to 15,000. Um that adds up very quickly and there are definitely

130more efficient ways to do that. We also talked with the market um or excuse me contractors in that area and they said you've got basically the cheapest model you could possibly get and so they're not going to stand or withstand and hold up. Uh with that said this one same type of thing. Um some of these things have just been um ignored because when you ask people you know is this happening? Yep. What what happened? How did you fix it? did just swept it up and moved on. Unfortunately, all the earth underneath the stairs is going to is basically washing away with big rains. And we all know that we're having more of those. Why am I bringing this to you is because if we don't do something and we have to replace that, we

131will no longer be grandfathered in. Right now, that stair is not ADA compliant. And we know that that's basically other than the true walkound, that's the only way that you can get from the lower lot to the upper lot. If that thing washes away, we are now in tune to three times as big of a stair, including a ramp. Now, I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but you're talking about triple the cost. And so what I'm telling you is that this came about because this wash out was very visible after we got the parking lot done and we're like where did that come from? We knew some bits and pieces but not to that degree because we just didn't notice because the parking lot was um in tough shape. So I would say be

132prepared um because I'm getting quotes right now to how we can fix that. Now could be minor, could be major. I don't know how much wash out is there. The part that scares me is is that if something like that would go, so does the grandfather and we would have to completely redo that section uh to incorporate a ramp back and forth. So it'd be three times as wide as what it is now at three times the concrete cost. So I would rather fix it if we can. So, next month I should have an update on that. So, I just wanted to provide you guys with an update um in this questions. >> Our lot was nice. >> Yeah. Yeah. I thought they did a a really nice job. You're going to see um some

133pictures if you haven't. I think we uh the pickle ball courts, the basketball courts were lined. Uh we did some different things, but lots of compliments at the football game. Um yeah, parking lot, the new herring bone, um I think opens things up a little bit, too, uh with some of the the drive so we're not finding oursel in situations like Richie talked about where kids are getting hit. It should open up the lanes even further. Um we are um I'm working with an individual to take um aerial shots because we got it's kind of like a um you know a common you got one shot at this. We redid the entire parking every black surface in our district. So we're coordinating it with a friend of Christ's uh with um also the grass uh

134being clipped by Ryan. We're gonna get some nice aerial shots of our district to utilize future marketing, etc. >> On this, I'm assuming we couldn't get the new format quoted, just a ballpark idea, unless we had some type of drawing or ren. >> Yeah, I mean, they could probably, you know, throw me a ballpark. It would be nice to just to know what the cost of this fixer upper is compared to the cost of the >> Yeah, >> it really became a discussion when we did the punch list for the parking lot and that's where we were talking with CISA 10 and that's what the conversation has been. So, um it's currently not in the audit. um we're going to put it in there um just because it came up. But again, I want you

135to be aware. This might be something where I have to pull the trigger pretty quickly um just based on we we know where the rains have been. I mean, torrential rain seems to be common now. And then just one final thought because Jordan's alluded to this a few times about how we've got a lot of these unexpected uh things come up and so it's like a known unknown and so is is there a way or would it be beneficial that we do we look at all of these instances that have come up that we didn't that wasn't in the plan that wasn't in that capital funding plan we say okay we spent 100,000 120,000 on these I'm sure as much but then we say okay We're going to do an acrruel of $10,000 every month.

136So now we because we know it's coming, right? We we look at the the way we've invested in the the facility in past practice. We look at some of these other instances. So do we just set aside that figure based on what we've seen every month. So then when it does come and you come to us and we're like, "Yeah, that's we how much have we already acred for? Oh, we already got 30,000 there." >> Yeah. >> So for this 40,000 expense, it's only another 10 grand out of the It's like a budgeted contingency and as we consume it then we kind of know hey we're out of you know now we've got to reach into another pocket somewhere right >> typically that is how districts >> that's how I have done things in the

137past where your capital improvement is your biggest pocket because yeah you can't foresee you know personal piece you know my furnace just went out >> did it something that I expected I knew was getting to that life, but you got to pull the trigger. And so when you look at our overall budget, when we set it at the annual meeting, you'll see that expenditure be our biggest pocket. Um, but what's very different from previous years is there's not pockets in foam. There's not pockets in some of these other areas that are concrete cost. These are pockets knowing that things are going to happen, natural causes. Um, but also to your point, we find ourselves with more just because we're trying to catch up. And that's what I think we I find myself talking too much

138um because I'm trying to rationalize like you might be saying why why are these costs coming up? I mean, are you not taking care of things? you have five years where things were basically not addressed, it's going to catch up with and unfortunately we're seeing some of those like I think can we do stuff to stay in front of it too? We kind of track it because like here, you know, if we fix it, do we need to grade it so that it doesn't the water doesn't go that way again? And then are there other foundation areas or concrete slabs that we need to go look at and say, are we grading correctly? You know, maybe we just need to go. >> When you see the financial audit, you're going to be number one, overwhelmed.

139Number two, you're going to see the figures and you're going to be like, whoa, Chuck, win the lottery and we'll be good. >> He's level three. He doesn't need the lottery. >> I think we'll end on that end item on that point right there. Okay. Um so communications um one here. Thank you. Your support in my future career is highly appreciated. Can't wait to pursue my future career with the help you have granted me. I will be attending the University of Wisconsin Falls to study animal science. My plan is to become a large animal veterinarian. Thank you, Al. Okay. Our schedule of meetings. Um, next is September 22nd. That is the budget hearing at 6 p.m. with the annual meeting follow. Um, I also encourage any of you that want to come with on October

14028th to all clear. Um, I'm planning on attending the the regional meeting there. Um, I think we just tell tell Christa if we want to go, not just let Christa know if we want to go. Um, I don't know what the deadline is for that, but we'll figure that out. But that's put that on your radar chain, Jack. But um just so the budget hearing is at 6:00, >> the annual meeting follows and then the September meeting follows. >> Oh yes, sorry. The the regular board meeting >> and I try to keep the agenda as light as I can because we're going to be sitting through a variety of presentations, etc. But I can't make any promises. >> Okay, this time I will entertain a motion first. Second by Jody. All those in favor say

141I. I. >> We are. >> And just one final announcement. Um the board has graciously always uh provided uh it comes out to about you know 8,000 of apparel that is for every staff member. We've made some changes to where you can go online. That uh shop closes tonight.