001Okay, hold on one sec. I haven't got on vacation. I did not hear George's on vacation. Yeah, he's in Tennessee. reason I know that this is why I did not sorry we don't need a qu and we can go ahead and get started if you guys know you're going to be gone you can just send me a quick text we'll take care of Get out the streamers and [Music] Yeah, that's okay. All right. Um, we have a very full agenda tonight. So, a lot of it is, uh, going to preface it by you spending time prior to the meeting looking at things. So, if you have questions, uh, feel free to ask. Um, some of these I'm just going to skim over. Um, first, we did, uh, have a nice recognition for the school district
002of city and music department. Another one, NAM, which is a NAM designation, best communities for music education. Um, and this was again another acknowledgement of the work that Matt Lamb has done along with Maddie and what they built. So, at the very bottom, it talks about what DAM is, and it's the National Association of Music Merchants. Congratulations to uh Matt and Maddie for this recognition. Yeah, I think they said there was like a thousand I think schools recognized which sounds like a lot but then when you think what 400 schools in Wisconsin alone. Yeah. So pretty small got recognized. I am finding that music educator has quite a few these little pockets for recognition purposes that I wasn't wasn't even aware. Certainly adds to his uh his resume. So um the next one is we've
003already talked about this topic uh but Jake Cord put together as our ad. He put together an outline of what we're doing as coaches. And again, I feel like we're because I coaches, we have a pretty good understanding. Um, for example, like tonight, uh, there's boys basketball in for open gym. Tuesdays are volleyball. Uh, Wednesday is football where they go to, um, St. Gro Central. Uh, Thursday volleyball in Altuna. And then Tuesday, Thursday is baseball. And so, uh, track and cross country, they don't they do a lot of individual stuff. I don't know if they even meet as a team, but they do a lot of different things, uh, in smaller groups. So, um, just showing the board that uh, we're all working together, especially with the change when it comes to um, contact days.
004Um, again, the only one that hasn't changed is the football piece. Um, and then NIL. Um, I guess, uh, it'll be interesting to see if that ever materializes here. Um, I'm sure it will, um, in some form, but there's definitely some some rules associated with that. Um, I think the biggest one you're going to see here in Newwood is is if an alumni, um, assume not an alumni, but a high school basketball player, football player, uh, volleyball player wants to put on camp and they offer that up and then we have to address that whether we allow it. Um, who gets the funds, um, things like that. So, it's kind of a a wait and see. uh WIA is uh building the ship while it's sailing it. So uh we'll see what laws and regulations
005they come out when it comes to the NIL. Any questions on that update? Appreciate that Jake's thinking about it. Yes. Right. We got volleyball and basketball and kids are in the same ones and nutrition wise and stuff. Luckily we've got the lunch program going. Well, the one thing that is comes up in other schools is they've had coaches approach them and say, "Okay, now I'm working with my athletes. Time to pony up and uh we need more funds." And again, for those coaches that have been in it, um this is what you've done. You've never This is how you've approached summer. Constantly coaching your athletes, putting them in leagues, etc. But now if you want extra funds um because of this I know schools are having those conversations. So it works really well as long
006as the coaches are on the same page and all understand that we're all here for the same reason. If there is one that decides that you know my sport is the sport and you're going to be penalized if then it becomes an issue and that you know Mr. sort of just wants to make the board aware of the change and also kind of share the good news that everyone is is working collaboratively right now but know that that is a potential hurdle along with the camp we're asking for I like the opportunities a little hesitant that we're taking away so much time with kids you know they aren't really having summer much because they're in every sport under the summer on top of working So I'm a little bit like when are we going to
007be like okay give him a break you know so kind of makes me a little bit huh July 1st to you know yeah so it's getting me a lot for it's uh it always has been um if you uh as a program want to be competitive um this is what it takes and there is there's different thoughts that are out there and um it's not easy. It's not because we know we're asking especially in a smaller school where we have multiple a lot of our kids are dual triple um sport athletes. Um but in the same regard when we're not winning, we're not being successful, you hear that other side. So, it's it's a double-edged sword and it's it's it's tough and it really comes down to these kids making decisions, which they shouldn't necessarily
008have to, but they are. Um, I don't have the answer, trust me. Um, I've battled with this my entire career. Where do you find that balance? I think it's a really hard issue, but I think I also think that Glenwood as a district is behind in that aspect. Yeah, there's there's definitely some Yeah, we had that where people like what we have to do stuff in summer. Well, do you want to be the bottom of the barrel? Make a choice. So, all right. Um, the next one, um, I was actually able to talk with her via email. Um, but, uh, congratulations to Miss Draxler. Um, it was great news to hear that she was, u named the state president. Um, Miss Burch um, invited her to be a part of our FFA um, teaching position
009and she joined us for that. It was a great um opportunity to hear from her about FFA. Um but yeah, this is a great acknowledgement uh for our district, for our community. Um, she's certainly putting Glenwood City on the map in terms of uh, not that we weren't there already in some regard, but this certainly shows what city kids are capable of doing and looking forward to seeing her and what she does with her terms. She'd be really mad if she saw that we put a big picture of her. He was uh at the at the convention there was um large like life-siz cutouts of all of the board members of the current board members and so they each had these big giant cardboard cutouts. Anyway, um yeah, my brother was telling me how he
010picked hers up and started like Yeah. playing with it and somebody came and yelled at him. I would not be surprised. He said something like that. That is a young lady represented and I I hope you know her. He said I do. But that's my Molly is a a fantastic young lady. I had the opportunity to go to convention. And the convention that they put on is incredible. And this isn't just about it's not just about farming and farm the animals. It's about speaking and it's about technology and it's just about about the future and it was really really it was a lot of fun and she is such a talented young lady. It's fantastic to have her. I wish we could get her on the staff but she's got lots of big things to
011do. Um but she's phenomenal. So, all right. The next one um is a little from the grapevine. Um I heard it was a very touchy subject and I can understand why. Um but the uh previous principal prior to Miss Burch um ended up painting over the class murals which created quite the uproar. Um, with that said, uh, Christa before they were painted over was able to capture pictures and one of the things that I would like acknowledgement from the board was some direction. Um, one of the the things that we're trying to do around here is celebrate our history um, in many different ways. And um, whether it's the front with showing some nostalgia um, the community is kind of becoming our truly community comments. And so, um, I think down this hallway things get
012lost. Um, so I'm asking the board, um, would they be interested in paying for obviously the school paying for uh, creation, um, and putting these very similar to the ones on the wall there. So, they'd be kind of a canvas and putting back up to help celebrate the murals. I don't think anything's been done since 2018. No, they have not 2019. So again, um it's it's not I'm not saying that we will start to continue that. Um that will be a discussion decision um if Miss B wants to do it down the road. What I am saying is that this is kind of a history that um it was there and it was certainly um I know in Prairie Farm from we had each class created theirs um and if you walk down their hallways
013that's and that's where people stop. Um, Christa, we were cleaning out a closet. J was cleaning out closet in the elementary and there's a bunch of old photos and if you've been on Facebook, you might have seen that summary. And um, from what I've heard, it's just people are constantly talking and um, you know, reminiscing. And so, again, putting these up would be a step in that direction in terms of celebrating history of Longwood City. So again, I wasn't going to make this decision by myself. Maybe it's something we don't want to resurface and have that uh come back. Um or maybe we do. So with the four board members here tonight, is that something you'd like to pursue? Leave it. I mean, I'm in it, so 2001. No, it's terrible. It's terrible, mural. I
014would not ask mind. It's terrible. Um, I think it's I think it's good that if we do put some cameras up that we acknowledge that I I know there was a lot of hurt feelings with that for sure. So, I I'm not opposed to it by No, I I think there'll be some uh maybe some, you know, some loss of detail in doing that, but that's okay. Um, no, I think that that is a would be a nice thing to do and maybe there's something else we decide to do going forward. Um, but I mean it's what 18 years of Yeah. And they're about 50 bucks a piece. So I think right Krista 50 they'd be le that would be the the most expensive one would be 50 43 and we'd have to actually put
015it a little bit bigger just because of the details but again I I'm fine with whatever the board decides. I just didn't it's been a discussion my first two years here um that these existed what should we do with them should we bring them back and that's that's a board decision because of the turmoil that did create we use 80 community uh most likely yes how big would they be um the largest size would be 20 inches by 30 in. So bigger than bigger than those. Oh yeah. But I'm coming back. [Music] Okay. We'll pursue that um and go forward with it. All right. Thank you. Okay. Um the next one uh couple four five let's see six um I'm going to have a budget budget presentation in the regular board meeting. Um some of
016these will be the discussion and so I wanted to touch base on these and offer up any details that you uh would like to ask. So the first one is our transportation fleet. if you're not um we're doing a lot right now um this summer of true HR um process procedures and cleanup in terms of making sure we have everything. For example, tonight you're going to be looking at um a summary of our contracts and services. We they were all over the place and there were you know I'm kind of a one-stop shop. um including our inventory for transportation. One of the two two reasons to bring this up. Number one, um are you familiar with what is in our fleet? And number two, um we will be having to purchase a bus in the
017very near future. We had transmission go out. Um we had another one, I shouldn't say go out, we had some warning lights and so on. Um Ryan's keeping up with everything, but um a bus in the tune of 120,000 is going to be a purchase that is going to need to take place here. So, um wanted to put that on your radar. Um obviously other than Derek, the board is familiar with um our is issues last year with the van situation. We prop we didn't have proper um size of vans and so we had to trade those in based on state law. 15 passenger vans are Why? They're not safe. So, you can only have a max of eight um including the driver. And so, we had two 15 passenger vans um that we were
018illegal and then we traded those in for the Kia that we had. So, it did cut down on our ability to transfer. Um but in the same regard for now. So uh again just information there's our fleet and then we'll talk about you know as we go because you will see budget line items to replace some of these as we go on a yearly basis. Yeah. I think the gas version was like 120. The diesel version was 150. Does Ryan have a recommendation as to which one fits our fleet better? Yeah. While the diesel one struggles during the winter, um the gas one gets better gas mileage. Um but there's there's pros and cons of each and then there's a variety of schools that have now gone to the propane um ones. I will say
019at the convention I met we purchased some buses in 2023 and I met with the Bluebird guy asked him about diesel versus gas. He said they sold three or The only diesel buses they sold at the guns were gas. So, and then we immediately had issues with the diesel one with the DEP system and it was out of commission for months because they couldn't get parts for it. So I'm a diesel guy, but I think it's gonna be gas mileage, but the problems that you run into. So yeah, when it comes to that that part, Ryan would say the same. The propane is is a really a step even further. Um, one district that is pretty known for the propane is COEX. um he uh spent quite a bit of time he was kind of
020a big proponent but then those were purchased through grant funds at the federal level. So again a lot of stuff at the federal level is in question. So, but yeah, again putting on a radar. I'm not making any recommendation um when I talk budget today um about bus purchase, but again these are all moving parts that will be in that decision process. Is there a longevity piece to it or I mean is it for they reach do they reach like a certain mileage and then like for a certain year or No, we'll uh we'll run them to death. um the 2000 25 years old. The the biggest one um Steve is is when the uh state patrol comes in the fall and does their inspection and then if we have some major problems then it's
021usually where you start to think about what you have to do. Um I can say that uh if this does come up um I uh it's a big no no but um Glenwood would purchase the bus through fund 80 which you are not supposed to do. Um so that's one that we're still trying to dig our way out from DPI's perspective. Um I have notes on those phone calls and said don't do this again. Okay. Um, so one of those buses is was purchased through fund 80. Otherwise, the rest are through the normal fund 10 process. Okay. Um, next one is uh I should have put these in a different order, but um this free summer meal summary. Um, we had a lot of great opportunities here. Um it is done because we just wanted
022to um kind of tiptoe our foot into this process. Um I really want to say a special thanks to Jody. Jody stepped up um with the resignation that you're going to be asked to approve of Tori Strong and who has been gone since uh the end of May. Um, Jod typically does a lot of painting for us over the summer and she stepped up in this manner to help lead this program so we could still offer it. Um, I want to say thank you to Christa did the same thing. There was a lot of training and screen time required um through spreadsheets etc. And without Jod and Christa, this program would not have gone on. So, special thanks to both of those. Jennifer Nuggard was our pair professional that was there and helped assisted. So,
023big thanks to her. And then Janice Bonty filled in for Jod when Jod was gone for a planned absence. So, I want to say special thanks to those four. But um if you click on u there's a variety of uh pictures and also um some data there, but then we talked about participant summary. So when you look at the overall summary um pretty substantial when you look at breakfast 1,243 meals lunch 966 with a total of 2209. Uh there's 15 adults that came and ate with their grandchild or um their son or daughter. Um Christa, anything you want to add? You were you were around it quite a bit. Nope. Thank you. You're welcome. Um the nice thing about this because you're going to hear me talk about fun 50. Um there was some unfortunately
024there was some mistakes uh with fun 50 and we've been in the red for the last two years and it wasn't uh properly identified in that manner. Um so this actually is going to help us get out of the red when it comes to uh fund 50. Um, in addition to meal prices, which we're going to talk about, um, the reimbursement rate of this program is very helpful. Um, almost to the tune of $5, which is typically um, very good program. But I think uh, you know, for this program, the biggest thing was is we put food in front of kids um, and kids that needed it. And so we do plan to expand this next year. Um this year it was just a matter of let's see how we do it. Um I come
025from a district that we did this all summer and it's a huge asset to your community. Um and you could see in two weeks this is how many meals that are there. So I think you can see the the direct benefit of this program for our for our school. If I remember right, this is reimbured at the federal level. Yes. Yes. Question on that. So I Yeah, I hope you don't see it go away, but um I know there are some discussions within the department of ed that that is one of the uh shortfalls between that and uh wraparound or after school care. So, we'll see what the feds do with that topic. But very very good uh success rate uh for Glenwood um to start. Okay. Uh we're going to talk budget. Uh, one
026of the things I wanted to again, we've been talking about this and when we talk about the surplus uh that we will have this summer um as the budget um closes in about 7 days. uh parking lots. Um the high school, I've had so many conversations over the past uh two years as far as what conditions we have, what are we able to do and um pretty clear, I would say, um consensus in terms of our high school parking lot. It instead of if it was sealed properly, we probably would have been able to prolong that. Um but unfortunately it was way past and we would have been make wasting money and so um even the last uh two years by sealing wouldn't have accomplished anything. Um so instead of 30,000 to seal coat you're
027now spending 130,000 to rip it up. And uh the rest though I think we're able to to save. Um I'm getting bids on a variety. There actually is new technology. So there's the seal coat, then there's what you typically see on county roads, um city streets where they put the the seal coat and then they put the little rock uh pebbles on top. So I'm working with a company out of Chipo Falls, uh with that. And then there's a new a really new concept uh where they have a machine uh that goes over the top of the parking lot and actually reheats it and then it resettles. And the gentleman and that's his uh comment um there where the infrared would you would not have been happy was his comment to Ryan. Um it just
028wouldn't have it wasn't in the proper condition to do that. So the infrared it really isn't anything that we could take advantage of now but future-wise it might be. So I'm just in the phase um again once we have final uh book numbers in the budget and we understand which is what we're going to do later in the board meeting today is prioritize. Um this is definitely um so that we don't fall into the same position we are with the high school. We need to make sure that we do something with um the elementary um and some of the other areas. Uh the high school is just going to have to be a replacement and that's a plan replacement most likely next year. So there's a lot of different um information here. So I've just
029up to questions. So dare to they also use the So what's that? They also use the grass. The grass. Yeah, that's a whole new topic. Um that's okay. I I like being the bad guy. Um but when it comes to fund 80 and fund 10, so the the state guideline is if the original building or the original um purchase was through fund 80, you're good. If it was purchased through fund 10, then you have to continue with that. Now the exceptions are like a playground um and a wait room that is really truly community- based uh community um education things like that. So from a facility standpoint, yeah, that's it's a stretch. Yes, the community uses it, but we purchased it out of Font 10 or I'm assuming we did. Um and then unfortunately it
030is part of our daily usage. Um, so yeah, we unfortunately and that's that's kind of why we were stuck a little bit with all that fund balance and fundating. Um, we just can't do certain things with it, which I wish we could. So, the way I heard it explained was if you need it anyway to run your school, so like a parking lot is something you're going to just have at your school on a day-to-day basis. Well, if we were to find out that it was coded wrong or purchased wrong, it would have to be Steve like the inception. So, like way before you um and we don't have that documentation. So, unfortunately, um we did try to um even playgrounds now. Um I think they felt sorry for us. Um, so when I went
031through with the the state, I said, "Here's what we would like to do." Well, typically, and we had to go off of what DPI said. And so, to Chuck's point, do you use a playground every day? Do you need a playground? Yes. Is it community- based? Yes. Can we use Fund 80? And that's the only reason that I proceeded with funding funds for the community or for the the playground because he gave us at the time um he has since moved on but as the DPI finance director he gave us the okay and I got and Sally was on those calls with me so I feel good that yeah we're not using it in a um inappropriate manner. So it it it makes sense to me to obviously let's do the maintenance where it's yeah
032still appropriate and then formulate a plan. So later later in the meeting you're going to help me prioritize those type of things um as you may have seen already and uh that would be a capital improvement so 146 would be an option. Correct. Yep. Um, all right. Uh, here's another one, um, that certainly is passed its life. Uh, we have staff computers and, uh, we've been working on a replacement plan for this, um, pillar, and Frank and I have met quite a bit in terms of creating a replacement plan for Chromebooks, but also for stack computers. Um, unfortunately time is not on our side and we have staff computers that um, Windows 10 is going to do to expire in October of 25 here in the fall. And so we really don't have a choice
033with this. So you'll see that uh, later on in the meeting I put this as kind of number one because uh, we just can't go without technology. Now, with that said, um years ago for me, um I made the decision I want to continue with it. Um desktops are not a universal machine anymore. Um they're kind of a waste of money in my eyes in terms unless it's like a CAD machine or something that needs to stay put. We need to provide our staff with some um ability to be flexible to take these things home to work where they need it to be. So, um, what you're going to see are the updated quotes for these 22 machines so that we can get them in the hands and replace a variety of desktops that are
034obsolete and then will expire with Windows 10 and we would like to uh do this um this after this meeting basically. So, um we will come to the um later on again from a priority standpoint um and talk more about that. But does anybody have any questions on that? So, the the uh you're planning on replacing everything with laptops. Are you going to have docking stations and monitors and desks for each of the laptop? Yep. Um Marcos did include that in their quote. And so again, we're not asking you to um tonight. We're just asking asking you to prioritize um we would still be able to use because we budgeted um we're working with a variety of things including budget rate um and cease 10 through our technology contract. And so um but the Marco
035code does specifically talk about if you look at the paragraph that's from Frank where it's including a docking station and then the other ones are just regular um computers where we would have to purchase docking stations in addition. Any questions? Okay. Uh the next one is a radio replacement plan. Um, we have a variety of handheld radios um that are losing um its life. We have some that we would like to add um to the mix. Um if you've ever gone down the radio path, um they they seem to have the market corner where it's kind of all or none. Um depends on some frequency and so on. um they seem to change the models in which then you need to add some different licenses and so on. So long story short, this comes down
036to safety. Um I will say that this is not a priority right now. Um the computers and the parking lot in my recommendation are more of a priority. uh we can live along but we do um in terms of making a broader investment um we have to get to the point of making a choice. Um, and I think Jamie is short. How many? I at one point she was counting like between what was it? I thought it was like five, six. Um, there's a variety of that are out of date. U, we have a host of radios that are seem to come from like four generations. Um, and so the replacement costs are there to make sure that we have um there also is another priority which I'm going to get to in just a
037little bit like our PA system that's more of a priority other than these handhelds. So again um putting everything on the the docket in terms of these are needs that we have. I would say the radio is more of a lower lower um need at this point, but it still is a safety component that we'll talk about in the near future. Any questions on that? What was what's the what's the primary use? Is it mostly I mean we're just finding ways to connect with I'm in the office and I need to reach the bus garage. Yep. So there's there's a couple different scenarios there. Number one, yes, the buses uh with a repeater and then when they're out, so they connect to the main um um not only offices but the main transportation individual um
038in house. Um it does come down to safety protocols. you know, if we have a fire, um if we have a bomb threat, if we have some type of safety situation, um from a special ed standpoint, um if we need a student um and corral a student because they're um they just need help, whether it's um restraint or there's just a situation where we need more staff. We do lock downs. Doesn't do that. Um we also have um playground, you know, because it's immediate. So there's there's just a lot uh custodians use it. Um one of the things that we've had here that we're changing is everything was on one channel, which is not conducive. Um I built a plan in my other district where we have 16 channels which is the capacity of a
039radio and each channel is designated but then your number one channel um which we put at the bottom so it was an accidental was the emergency. So if there was a lockdown or if there was you know like last year we had the fire or if there was something active shooter everybody knows to go to that channel. Um, and it's only certain radios, so it might be just admin. So, every radio we actually had, uh, Rosback Communications go through last year just because I didn't trust that they were where they needed to be. Um, and then through that evaluation, they're like, "Wow, you uh, you're going to run into some problems here very shortly." So, there are some radios that we lost this year. Um, and it's just starting to compound. So, we need to
040put this on our radar. Um, but we're we're not it it hasn't reached that higher priority. Um, unfortunately, we have a lot of priorities. Um, but this doesn't reach towards the top. Any questions on that? Okay. Um, the next one, we're currently having discussions and um, when it comes to snow, obviously we're six months of winter where we live here. um we're at a threshold where we have to make a decision and that decision is is that do we look at contracting or do we look at an investment into some heftier equipment? Um right now we really struggle when it comes to snow removal of over five six inches and um Boyceville was recently in the same situation. Um, again, I come from a a situation where we contracted and it was very simple because
041we just didn't invest in the equipment. Um, which you guys know, I mean, we live in winter and it depends on who uses it, how they use it, and so on. We have a plow truck that is ready to uh ready to die. Um we have some other investments that we need to make in the bus garage and in the garage area alto together. Um in our budget process um again we're exploring what does contracting look like. We're having discussions with Harvest Hills. We could handle you know the 3 in type of snow um with our current equipment um but we don't we really struggle with those others. So, um this was definitely one that we need to discuss as a board um whether you think the investment should be on staff um because it
042takes person power, it takes larger equipment um which is not cheap. Um from a standpoint of contracting, it's roughly 175 to 200 an hour. Voice bill was paying 225 to Cornin. um and they have with their referendum that they just approved, they actually pivoted and um spent money on equipment to get away from the contract. Um so there's a couple examples right there. Um talking to Greg from Harvest Hills, obviously there's a commitment on his end if he has equipment sitting here and just waiting for snow. Um there's times where um you know we have a lot of snow and there's times that we don't. So we're just having all of those conversations. Um in addition to the staffing um we got hit really hard um very unique but very hard this year with FMA
043in our custodial area. Um so when it came to staffing yeah we were really pushing people um unfortunately and there's just not a lot of subs out there. So, this is definitely a conversation that I want to continue to have. Right now, the only thing I'm looking for is is that do you want me to continue consulting um or conversations with contracted services? Um because I told Greg I would call him after the board meeting today um and say yes, we're interested. He he's not sure how the numbers would work out. Um, he has made comments that it would probably have to be an all or nothing just because I can't afford to purchase or rent um or lease large equipment and not, you know, if it only snowed 3 in. So, it there's a
044lot of up and down here. We use Harvest Hill for both of our businesses and I will tell you that they are phenomenal. like I'm like I have staff that come in at 6, 2, and 10. I need that driveway clear and he's always been on top of it. I mean, I've never once had an issue whatsoever. So, you know, to have that peace of mind. I know that that was great for us. It was worth it. That's good feedback. Is the 175 to 200 per hour for if say if they had three pieces of equipment in here, is it for piece of equipment or are they just going to have one? They would just have one. Okay. Well, I should I don't want to speak for them, but that's that's the tone of the
045conversation was yes because like Haywa Bank um National Bank uses them and their um baseline is if it's white we want it gone. Yeah. So even if it's a half inch, they're on it. Um and again I said, "Well, what about our situation?" because if it's less than 3 in, we don't need your help. And that's where we had to talk further. So, I guess I'm just looking for direction from the board where you know if he does say and there's not a lot of contractors out there and there's obviously a huge difference between Cormack and him um at the time. Um, I haven't put together an RFP on this, but is that something that we'd want to explore? Otherwise, if it's not, then the larger equipment purchases are going to be a need. So,
046with Harvest Hills, did they talk about also clearing your sidewalks and stuff like that with that cost? Uh, we haven't got to that point. Okay. We don't have them do that part, but they do. probably would for $200 in usually for something in into Richmond when we contracted that was not they only stay in their vehicles or they so that's typically the building custodians responsibility do we have a cost breakdown on what it cost school right now per hour no I I'm just um yeah Um, it's a tough question. Um, I don't I can't even tell you based on what has happened, um, what we what it cost us to educate a child, much less break it down into a mechanical pieces. So, um, we're going to get to that point, Scott, right now. I
047couldn't tell you. Um, I could, uh, or I can tell you that the equipment part is just it's on that verge where we really have to plan. Um, and if we don't plan, we're going to be in a pitch and say, "All right, Greg, we need you to come for whatever you want to charge us." So, do you have a best guess for what the equipment is going to be cost or going to cost if you replace it? Just an idea. Uh, well, right now, um, we're talking about one plow truck. Um, and we, Ryan and I have not even talked about like what would that look like. Uh, we have a Bobcat that doesn't um, have the right tools and the attachments to do what we need to do. Um, you know, we had
048tournaments this past summer or this past winter where I I probably spent from 6:00 to 2:00 constantly. I I just spent the whole time in the truck while we had the tournament and it was based on because of the equipment that we had and that was a Saturday. Um, so no, we haven't broken down to that point, but I can and pre item were you here when we went through the fleet? Yeah. Okay. So, go back to the transportation fleet document and it'll talk about, you know, what we currently have, but it's it's pretty it's outdated. Um, and the truck is uh I don't know how much life it has left. And you know, and I and I could see a situation where like that small loader tractor um the Kabota I think it is
049that when it's time to upgrade that, you upgrade that to a larger machine capable of moving snow. Uh which the one they have now is not. Um and I about the work truck. I ridden it a couple times. Yeah. That's an old mind belongs on farm. Um, so but you know I don't I don't think there's anything to be lost in a in a conversation with harmony eagles like what does this really mean? How many snow events do we get a year you know on average? Um kind of putting trying to get a number on that as close as possible. I think you know there's nothing wrong with that. No, but the the biggest one is kind of the all ornone and that's where I kind of need the direction of the board where he
050wasn't a real big fan of the the partial just because of his cost. So if we do go and I don't want to waste his time either. If we go down this path, it it's truly going to be the all or none. Like if we have I mean maybe we'd still have the ability if it snowed and we needed to make it safe for buses to just load kids. Um and I don't know Julie how they handled that. Like if you were in the middle of a day like do they just drop everything and or do they wait for the snow event to be done and then they come? For our up top roof home, they'll come multiple times a day. Okay. For the day program, because we shut down, I they wait till till
051it's done. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. And then I'll deal there. But up top, he's sometimes up there three or four times a day. Okay. You know, but it's not a big parking lot is, you know, going through with his truck. But so that's the biggest question I have for the board is like, you know, to continue these conversations. It he wants to go down the road of kind of an all or none type of thing. It's not really all or like you wouldn't come if it was like one inch, right? We're talking there the lowest amount. Well, I I threw out three inches. I said under three. I don't think it comes for sure under one. I said under three we can take care of when that's where it was. Well, you know, then it's my
052cost and it's the machine and do I can I afford to just have that thing sitting there? And I said, "Let me let me talk with the board and then then I'll get back to you. Does David take care of dining? Um, we Yes, they are responsible for the building and the parking lots. Then we just pay the rent. It's just like you rent a rent an apartment. They're responsible. My opinion on this is if somebody can make money doing something, we can save money by doing it ourselves. And he he made that comment, Chuck. He said that, you know, please know I'm not making money, you know. Um I know and maybe he's he's a business, but but you know, you got to have you got to have a good plow truck. You sure
053have two units here at the school that you're plowing and you need two guys to sit it, right? If we have those things in place, then I think we can do it ourselves. in with a plan to replace like if we had had a winner like last year, we probably would have paid them a couple thousand bucks and had everything done and saved ourselves the expense of a new plow truck and having people on call and everything that comes with it. Just depends on what the weather is. I don't really slippery parking lots last year. We don't have a ton of cash, right? I think the cash that we have, we're trying to get to the referendum. So, it seems like Boyceville had a model that worked for them where they did the costing and
054paid someone to do it and then when you got the referendum, you built it into it and now you've got your equipment paid for. Yeah. you know, from a from a K Cabota, you know, when Brian and I were talking about the equipment, the K Cabota, we spent quite a bit last year. Um, we had an individual was very hard on, we've since rectified that. Um, the plow truck has uh we had two foul trucks um that we can push snow and yeah, they're we need it's going to be in front of you one way or another. specify and right now we manage with janitorial staff. Correct. Ryan um and then janitor or custodial that comes right away in the morning. And then if it's during the day, then it varies. And then if it's
055on a weekend, it might be a a board member or it might be a basketball coach or superintendent or I don't know, Marcy. She only drives she only drives big equipment. I know how to drive the power. I did. I don't know if we've given you any clear. You haven't? Yeah. So, you know, you want that? I need that. Yes. Okay. So, for me to appropriate and budget, like I said, we could live along, but um in November, I might come to you and say, you know what, I need 80,000 for a plow truck. Why wouldn't why were we talking about this? what we are now. Well, something that's been brought up already is is how Boyville backfield with the plowing until they were able to get a referendum. Um, is that something we would
056want to consider and just say, you know, this year did he have it done by someone else and see how it is? Um, are is he asking for multi-year contracts or is this a yeartoyear contract? No, we were just broaching the conversation. Um, and that's where it was, you know, I threw out 3 in or less, we wouldn't need help. And that's and then we started to talk. Well, that's that won't work for me. But and then he actually some of these other numbers he gave me because he was part of the the bidding process for voice. I mean, on the low end for a brand new 2500 Silverado, you're looking at 300 hours of plowing. So that's a long time to limp along to see if we can get a referendum in a year
057or two to help us purchase new equipment. But then you brought up the fact that staffing is is difficult. You know, it's one thing to have custodians and other people who can do it during the week, but I don't think it's our superintendent's job to be plowing snow for six hours on a Saturday. I mean, even though you can do it, and I'm sure you're happy to do it, is that truly your your job here at the school? So, I mean, if if we if we look at having someone else do it, uh, looking at the ROI and how many hours you get based on our cost for custodial staff and equipment kind of seems like it's a it's a it's a win-win in today's economy. and then see what happens in the year or
058two. Does that sound Okay. Yeah. Go ahead and continue the conversation with Harmony Hills. Okay. Well, Hills like like anything we will we will have an RFP process, but I'm just like I said exploring it and he's never called in sick for me. Showed up every day that All right. All right. That's what I needed. Um policy. Holy cow. policy and pro procedure. That's all right. Um there is an update. Uh here's what's going to happen. Um we this week we finished through last week, excuse me, through the 7,000s um and 9,000s and I only have the 8,000s left. And so what's going to happen is is you're going to have um I'll have an update for you in July. Um, we're going to finish the 8000s. Uh, and we're very close. You're in July.
059You're going to have the first reading of the policies. In August, you'll have the second reading and then you'll have a resolution that will adopt all these policies. Um, and that's a big hurdle that we've been facing. Um, with that said, because this did come up in a conversation with a board member was, well, you know, basically you were the one that was sitting in the room doing this and what if we don't agree? You always have the ability. My job right now was just to get us to a baseline. We were so uncovered in so many situations. Um, there's a baseline. if there is now a policy like whoa that's not we don't agree with that that's where you bring in board and say we want because you heard this at our WSB training
060um a couple weeks ago you're not going to read through all those those policies but as things happen um that's where you're going to be like oh we need to talk about this or I may bring it to you based on state legislative change or whatever the case may be. So, um the only other update with that is is David Popco needs some hours and he's going to be assisting me. Um and we will have an employee handbook ready to go um in August along with our student athlete handbook, the middle school, high school handbook, the elementary handbook, and now we will have an employee handbook. Do you want to continue the rest of your administrative reports or we can move beyond that? Um, if you look, I don't need to address the the last
061one. The service contract, I already talked about uh fun 150. I'm actually going to talk about um in my budget update. Uh the flood, I will talk in the uh the budget update, too. Um and then there's a list within the campus of what we're addressing for facilities. So, a lot of this stuff again is you don't need me to insult your intelligence by reading it to you. Um, it's all right there. Um, and you can go through. Okay. The only other part in there was about the health insurance. Yep. And I will talk about that in our budget. Okay. But again, if you look at the the main piece there, that is a it was not good news. Okay. So, we'll move on to the regular uh board meeting then. At this time, I'll
062call the school board meeting for the school district of Glenn City to order. Um, all members present except for Dr. Lisa Kaiser and Mr. Jordan. Were we able to do our financial audit? Yeah. Okay. Um, so I had to pull a couple checks. One was in regards to this thing called Simply Good Food. I wasn't really sure what that was, but apparently um it is a subscription service or menu planning software that they use for it. Yes. Actually, she never even used it. We approved it at uh two meetings ago. Okay. So, we're using that for next year. For next year, that's pretty cool. And then that was for um 3,888. Is that going to be for the entire year or is there another one? That's an annual annual expense. And then the other one
063was for Oakidge Chemical, which was for $8,522.40. And that is a whole lot of for lot of chemicals, some cleaning supplies, stuff like that. So I thought it was a really high amount of that. Yes. It doesn't include the the gyms, but it does include all the classrooms. that I I asked uh to let me look at the monthly expenditures for time. Um and basically I was uh because of the issue that we had with a few years ago uh I wanted to make sure that best grant money was getting used and not be more or less charged against her. Yeah, a little update on that. We currently um it is not being appropriated um prior never saw budget and I mentioned this last time never saw budget for fun. Um, one of the things
064there was a quoting here that was taking place in terms of where some of those grants were um, situated. So, um, it's a process and have met a number of times to try and tell. It is a process. Yep. I know that has told me that this is 80 years. Okay. Thank you. Any questions from anybody on? Okay. Uh Steve and Scott are up for next month's board. So, please plan accordingly for that one in July. Uh all right. So, the uh ECSD board of education meeting formats. I put this on the agenda now that our new board members have had a little experience with a couple meetings. Um, and wanted to ask the board as a whole what format you would like to continue. Um, do you want to continue with the with the
065work session prior? Um, there's basically you could do it at however really you want. Um, sometimes I think uh I know these ladies for sure get sick of listening to me. Um, you know, regurgitate some of the things that we talk about in the meeting. Um, so wanted to offer up the uh option to the board. You know, how would you like read down the calendar because this has kind of been a conversation that we needed to have. So what if I'm g every other month we do two meetings and then the alternate one just one. Is that what you're the one that I had that seemed to go well? Um but again that's that that was the previous district I was in. Um I'm not saying but I did I can say that my
066the previous board really liked the fact that you know what on this work session the only thing we're going to talk about is facility and instead of my admin team you know Ryan is sitting right next to me and we go through everything facility wise. Um maybe Walt's here, maybe marketing Johnson is here, whatever it may be. If it's technology, um Frank is sitting here and it's just focused on that instead of kind of some of this randomness. Um but when I asked the board, the previous board this question last year, they said, you know, we'd like to talk about these topics. Um, it gives us an open chance to talk about them and ask questions which again I'm fine with whatever you choose. I just wanted to be clear like do you want to
067see a change? Do you want to keep it the same? I guess my question would be is so you have your technology meeting your deep dive say February when it comes to June and we have something like on the work session tonight about computer replacement or radio replacement that you still address those so that would we still have the committee meeting or the work section I should say to to address those or is that a become an agenda item in the regular board meeting the best way I can describe it is a like a regular meeting is like a a PLC meeting. So you hear us talk about PLC's and one of the things that we always talk about is let's not have it be a you know where we talk about field trips and
068all this organizational stuff. The regular monthly board meeting is that it's the business side of things. It's the approvals. It's the hires. That's what a meeting should be. and it it should be about 45 minutes and you run through it and it's done. Um obviously we're in a different situation here based on what has happened. Um but the work session is where yeah our presentation is just focused on technology. Now can it come up in another realm? Absolutely it might come up. you know, you're not just it's not just there, but for one time during that year, like that is just the focus. Plus, it gives, you know, an opportunity to hear from Frank. Um, when it's the financial, debt would be sitting next to me. Um, because if if Frank, Ryan, and Deb were
069here tonight, they would just sit here. There wouldn't they wouldn't be really involved. I also like the idea that that that meeting would not have a hard end time where it could take as long as that's always been my biggest kind of you know bugaboo is we have a maybe the deadline is good but you know it's like you want to be able to discuss as long as you need to without a deadline. So the other question I'll address though is okay Patrick you know these topics in the work session like when do we get to know these I would send these out on a uh Friday update that that's you read it at your own leisure and then in addition to that I would always meet with my board president we'd go through the
070agenda and actually Chuck and I did that um last week when he knew he was going to run the meeting which again is a WB. Um it's just good practice. Um every Friday I sent an update to my board and they just read it at their leisure. Um and then uh when it comes to the the board meeting itself, yeah, I've heard this stuff. We don't sit here and talk about it and regurgitate it. So again, I I'm not saying that you did it wrong, but I'm saying that there are different ways to do it. Could we give it Could we get an example? Have a have you run one of those meetings? Have a work session where you have a uh a topic. Oh, absolutely. I ran for seven years in Richmond. Exactly. And
071just we have one, we sit through one and we see how that goes. Y and then we can make a decision on if we want to go forward with multiple times a year of having that type of meeting. Yeah. I think that would help more to show us exactly what you're talking about rather than I could send you the presentation. Um it what I do is is I send you this Google folder and it is stacked full of data um evidence um examples, things like that. Let's just say it's facility, you know, then we go through our 10 or five 10 year facility plan. If it's it, yeah, we're talking through our replacement plan. It's, you know, it's just some of those. And I have examples right now that I could send in for us
072to do one like to the other part at the end of the year. We would literally probably spend two hours on the end performance survey. We would talk through the goals and just those two items would take up two hours easily. um just so that you can really dive into those because that's students and that's staff. Um so yeah, I mean I I can do however this is like subway. You can build your own. Yeah. No, I'd prefer that more of the focus on the sex builders and we have the presenters, the experts. I think it make us more effective. We'd know a little bit more of the how and why rather than having you transfer it from the experts. I I do just have one I agree and I would like to see that
073um one thing that we've talked about is is how um what's the term clarity creates confidence? Is that what you'd like to say? Um is is there do we believe that we are in a position as a board where where we can go to that model without I mean is there still clarity here for the public to to know what's going on or what's happening. That's just my only if I I think there very well is but you know that's just my perception on board. Am I does that make sense what I'm saying? you know, it's like, oh, you got new radios. Why did you even talk about that, you know? Well, that's why I think the Friday emails would be very helpful, you know. Yeah. Yep. So, hear that. So, Chuck, I use the
074word transparency. Transparency is there you go. Creates confidence, but in the same regard, yeah, the Friday and I started to when I first got this job and then it was like we did this at a monthly meeting. I mean, it it takes time. It takes me a good two to three hours to put those things together um throughout. So it Okay, so let me rephrase my question. Can we still be a transparent board under that model? I think it'll give us instead of ending at 5:30 and saying, "Oh, we're going to jump back to it at maybe further down the line or at the next meeting, maybe we'll get all the information we need at one meeting." And then if people in the community come to us and say, "Hey, you know, what was the
075deal with the readings?" We're all going to have that knowledge. It's at a time based or objective based, right? And and we won't have to turn around and say, "Well, we talked about that." So then if that is the the the direction, then basically work sessions would go away and then the board meeting would start at 6:30 and then go from there. And again, I'm still I am putting a lot on the agenda right now because I'm doing what you said. I'm trying to build that that trust, that confidence. There's a variety, you know, if if I'm still here in three years, there's things that I will not put on the agenda that I currently do because they just don't belong there. Um, case in point, when we when you guys settle on the, uh,
076policy, uh, we put the threshold because right now there was no threshold. I put the threshold of $5,000. If there's an expense over 5,000, it has to be approved by the board. Well, I up that to I believe I put a threshold of 10 in policy. You guys can change that. But again, you know, there's not you can reach 5,000 very quickly nowadays. And does the poor need to do those things? That's what my job is. Um, so that that's that's an example. But again, I I'm good with whatever is decided. I just wanted to have a conversation. you know, it it might just uh theoretically, I guess, you know, with an update coming from you and then the opportunity to ask a question of Patrick or of the board president in the meantime. Um,
077you know, and any further clarification on anything is easy to get. I just it will won't necessarily be in a public forum which really I I don't know I just guess I would just want to make that point but I do like the model of the twice a month that you have been proposing for the last couple years. I think I think that is good. And then the summer usually is a it's kind of an off period just because families are so busy. You know, June June and July um are very much small, very um shortened. We don't have work sessions just because families take point. You know, we have two individuals on vacation. I'm sure we'll have some in July, August. Yep. We're ready to hit the ground running again. So, when would you
078like to start this and then I'll put the calendar together? You want to start it in August? August. Okay. All right. I will put the calendar together and uh I'll put it on next agenda. Do you want to have a work session? Um well yeah so be no work session on this July because I'll start with the updates. Okay. 28. 28. Sound good? Okay. Uh Derek, can you give us a an update on the SISA 11? Well, you had promised it was going to be the nicest day of the year and Jody promised that they would treat me well. It was pouring rain when I left and they quick cookies to eat. So things have changed. I had little expectation here. Areough fried chicken. She's still loving it. It was good updates. So Brandon Robson
079uh he runs the tight ship there was annual meeting. So we reelected Jack Redmond who's in St. Croy Central uh to continue seems to like it was doing a good job. They got a $26 million budget for this year and uh they continue to save us as much money as they can by district. It was good. Yeah, cookies are good. Sorry we hyped you up so much. I don't think you would have gone if I would have told you that's what they were going to give you. So, so the the next item on the agenda is from the uh the June 12th meeting we had with Bruce Quinton about the from the WSB with the little board training. Um Dr. Kaiser was a little late and Scott, you weren't able to make it that night.
080Um but if you look in Bordox there's a presentation there if you wanted to um I I thought it might be interesting if we could just briefly very briefly say what what something that we we garnered from that presentation from that night and I'll start for me I I like what trust is important but verify that's kind of what I got um Joey Um, it was a lot of stuff that I had already learned because I did this training as well when I first came in. So, it was just a really good refresher of remembering our roles as the board versus Yeah, I thought so. I thought the the labeling of what we are responsible for responsible for things and I know it's not Yeah, helpful. I mean, it's always nice person's perspective out of
081it. There's always the overlap between roles and responsibilities. So, it's always nice to have another resource. So yeah, I encourage you if you get a minute that's you know pretty straightforward but some good information. Oh I don't know I you going to grade it? Sure. Okay. All right. So at this time I'll uh entertain a motion to approve the agenda. Motion by Jody. Can I get a second? Second. Second by Derek. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carried. Agenda is approved. At this time, uh, open form procedures. Anybody from the community have a comment. Okay, we'll move right on to the consent agenda. And I'm going to grab my second page. I'm going to go off the computer. Oh, it's on the back. I will say, and again, it's not I'm not
082questioning it. You don't have to read each line item. That's something that they've done. The consent agenda. I'm not going to be reading every line item. Okay. Okay. I just wanted to verify that that's not illegal. It's not. It's the consent agenda is the consent agenda. I'm trusting. Yeah. That that is Okay. So at this time I will entertain a mot. Is there any questions on anything in the consent agenda? Okay. I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda motion to approve the consent agenda. Motion by Derek. A second. Second. Second by Steve. Any any questions clarifications on that? So if if I could I just want to point out a couple different things. So we have support staff, hires, resignations, extensions of contracts, um etc. Um some of them um there are obviously
083the details are in the uh resignation or the letters of hire etc that you can read. Um in terms of I wanted to outline the the summer food contract is in there. Um we've talked about all these others. There's donations. I wanted to clarify the donation part is even if you somebody in the community truly donates $5, we're going to put them on there. I think they deserve the recognition um no matter what is given. Um so you'll always see those types of things um in the the policy um to do that. Um I wanted to bring to your attention GG. Um this is where again as the planning goes forward uh for a joint band and acquired performance trip again you're not approving the trip you're just saying hey yes you know we're going
084to be okay with you starting to put an agenda together uh they have a rough outline so again there's going to be a lot of different things that are going to come up um in terms of the MM or XL let's go back just because I had to pass over. Um you're aware that we had a flooding situation and so unfortunately we are not going to uh reach the threshold when it comes to insurance. Um but there are some good things that are coming about it. Number one, um the we have narrowed down um and fixed the the overall problem which is the backflow pretor in our boiler system and hydro um piping. With that, uh I do have some good news that I got right before the meeting. Uh we have to replace the
085flooring which we had to take up and we had to test the floor and thank goodness uh there actually was black mastic or we thought was black mastic and it tested negative. It was the best thing I ever heard. So we do not have to abate. Um Jamie has really enjoyed her time outside of her office. Um but we are now on track to get everything done. Um, I did want to outline, you know, carpets plus, which you just, uh, are asking to be approved. Um, we also ran into a situation where, um, and I wholeheartedly agree. Um, the orientation of that office doesn't make a lot of sense. And if you were part of that planning, I apologize kind of. Um, it just was poor planning, especially with training. So, um, we actually now's
086the time to do it. I told Jamie, I said, "If we're going to do this, let's do it right." Uh, we ended up taking a wall out and putting up a different wall. If you saw the specs, the state approved it without going to uh to get a um approval at that level. And um it what it's going to do is offer up a true conference room for Jamie and her staff. She didn't even have the ability to meet with more than maybe two teachers that could fit in the corner of her office and that was very uncomfortable. So now she's going to be able to meet with um even two grade levels possibly. Um so even though it was a pain in the rear end, um there was a good thing that happened out
087of it. Um the other one I wanted to uh is MM. Um, if you remember the cost of these doors, the door itself, um, is probably with the jam, it's probably a3 to $5,000 investment. U, we're looking at custom graphics, uh, that height, if you wouldn't walk out tonight, if you look at the storage door, that's uh, across from the gymnasium or the gym doors themselves. Um I have multiple quotes as you saw in the uh board docs. Um so we're really um and the the designing phase is going to be with administration but it's going to be again not specific to what sport plays in the gym. It's going to be all-encompassing. It's going to be arts, athletics, academics, etc. Um the other one NN is the wax cars. for whatever reason, but we
088had one car that you could only fill up in Glenwood City. So, we had people taking our vans um trips and they had to use their personal credit cards. We're trying to stay away from all of that. So, we're actually going to a fleet card of WEX, which means you can stop at any gas station and it goes on the school account, but we also have a process and a procedure behind that. Um so, uh SLP, um I did want to again just because this is a bigger budget item, the total cost of SLP, um this is no, um knock on Aaron, but the overall cost when we start talking about what are we going to offer an SLP um if they're actually exist in person, um it's going to be a lot and it's
089going to be off the chart of a typical teacher. your contract uh because right now you can see what the overall cost is and it's much higher than that. So if you uh see an agenda item in the future and you're wondering well we used to always have an SLP on the teacher contract that's not going to happen not in the next five years. Um, so we have to understand that um, knowing that I think Aaron said that the SLP process has gone relatively good virtually, but I think we can all agree that's not best practice. Um, so I wanted to bring that cost to your attention. Same type of thing. Um, so just a couple things I wanted to outline um, as we talk budget later in the board meeting. One more question with
090the on QQ the approval of cool air. How do we decide today which contractors we're going to use for different services? So um depends on the overall experience I would say. Um we have a maintenance agreement and Christa has done a great job. We had contracts that nobody even knew we had. Um it it was rather embarrassing because there was contracts that have rolled over because nobody's paid attention to them. Um so we put that in one overall and you can actually link you can click on the link into it um later in the agenda. Um right now we have ongoing relationships with certain vendors and so we would rely on them. I can tell you that one of the contracts I'm very happy to keep to be done with is Nanny uh North American
091Mechanical. Um we had a fire up in one of the um rooftop units and they could figure out and they were the ones that installed it and there was insulation that was flammable. It was just a I wouldn't call them uh for anything. We actually ran into Cool Air and it's the first time I've worked with Cool Air um when I first got here and they were tremendous to work with. Uh Scott um Neil Scott uh he uh just a tremendous guy and um I I didn't really know him. His kids voted in Richmond, so we we connected that way. um he worked with Marcy before I got here um in Tim's absence and he he would go above and beyond and so when it came comes to cool air I trust him and that's
092a lot of the factor that's taking place now we are going to go to RFP for our mechanical so nanny will have a chance to go air will have a chance at it and so on in situations like this where we had four um water fountains leak like hundreds or thousands of gallons, burn up our floor, get Jamie a new office, whatever it may be. Um, you got to go with somebody who would trust. Now, that's a big number, but unfortunately, we're in a situation where I need somebody I can trust that they're not going to BS me and say, you know what, let's get a little let's get a couple more thousand out of this school. Um, so I don't know if that answers your question, but a lot of it goes with some
093of that experience and that trust. Yeah. I'm just thinking when we get the the policies and procedures developed. I'm wondering if we want to go to more of some type of we've got the request for both it sounds like, but just making sure that we if there's people even locally that we could use. I mean, I'm looking at their dollar rate and I'm thinking there's a ton of local that are a little cheaper than that where we can save some money. Now, right quality work might be different, but if we've done the due diligence and said what our policy says, we go out and vote and then we validate and we get a letter to recommendation, we know we can trust them, right? Because we've got all of these procedures in place. So, that's the
094only reason I bring it up is just to make sure that we've got a good solid No, that's a good question. Uh it actually came up with local concrete. Um you know we had some local people that were interested and they they had a very compar or a comparable bid but when when we made the phone calls and looked at recommendations and at the extent of what the work was done um it was obvious that we went we need to go that route. Um but I would agree with you where you know there is and you will have policy in policy there will be process and procedures of how do you get to this point um and what the board needs to follow and obviously you always own the right to make that final decision.
095It doesn't always come down to cost. It comes down to those other subjective factors too. Um but to your point, yes, we want to make sure our local people get a chance at this. Um and know that we're not just going to skim over. Yeah. They might win and they may lose, but at least here's how we did it. Can I just ask what we do have open for any professional positions right now? Like teachers we have any besides? Yeah. Did we fill them now? We have a we have an interview on Monday for our last open position, the seventh and eighth grade ELA. Okay. After we talk a little bit more tonight about options for Spanish and we'll have direction there, too. Okay. We also have um school nutrition coordinator. We have those interviews
096on Wednesday. Um Christa Ben, Jody Boltz, and myself will be conducting those. Um Casey Noble uh will look to fill that position. Um and then we have a custodial position that is out there. You don't I do not have um actually. All right. We have a motion and a second for approval of the consent agenda. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carried. Now we are on to administrative reports. Miss. All right. Um I have um started off with a picture from one of the more recent um Hill Topper Hang Time field trips, Mary Park. And they were actually in this picture um celebrating a friend's birthday um on one of their breaks from um having fun at the park. Um they are averaging right now for summertime anywhere from 45 to 50
097students per day. Um and that is just the hangtime crew, not the tiny talk crew. Um and they are definitely keeping busy. Um so on the weather days that they have not been able to get outside when it is a little bit not nice. Um it is definitely a little bit louder downstairs. with Jamie. I'm not down there as much, but it is. But it's a very good energy. I love it. It is. And you know, having a blast. Yes. And let me tell you, the lunch program has made a huge difference. Um, and I was only in there a couple of days to visit, but I I would agree with you, the energy was amazing. Um, I actually had a couple of parents. I definitely saw that number of 15 of the parents or
098the grandparents. I had a couple wander from because they were meeting for lunch. So they're where is it? And they're like, "Wait, I hear them. I think I can find them." And it's like you go down this hallway and just keep going towards the sound. And I actually walked one um woman during the day and it it was pure joy. Um because I think you know it's not a regular lunchtime, it's a summer lunchtime and they were all having a blast and then you mix the summer school into it and it was just a good vibe. Um, but they were definitely enjoying themselves. And my highlight with them is the when the ice cream truck comes on Fridays. If you ever having a bad day, come to the elementary school on Friday at 1:30. Just
099their excitement. Oh, yeah. And they're just so excited to have that ice cream truck come. It's amazing. It is such a treat. It is. It's cool. And I'll just listen that to that you staff members that won't miss the Friday afternoon for that treat. And ever since she planned that, that has been an ongoing Friday tradition for many. So that is just one of those I I want to say that side benefit, right, of Friday afternoons. Yeah. Um, I try to avoid it, but I would go down just for the enjoyment of the kids and that um that absolute summer um ice cream shmear maybe we'll call it because it's inevitable that one of them melts and drops and you know we got to catch back up with that. But yes, so they are definitely
100enjoying the time. Um, I know Beth's email last night was or yesterday afternoon was, "Well, there's no more lunch program for the six we're back to breakfast," you know, and and that. And it's it's a great thing that program. I just think they so enjoyed it, but they're also already right back into their routine and they have it. It's just they enjoy it and they're right back into it because she has such a routine with all of her staff, even the student workers. The kids even know it. Um, and they're utilizing everything very well. So, um, next thing is the access test results. So, we have six participating in the access test. Um, four with ISPs. Um, and the overall scores range from 1.8 to 3.9. So that could be because um one's in their
101second year here in the US. Two, um they may have been in English speaking for a very long time, but on that access they might have tested at a um 6.0 in listening, but in writing they might have tested a 3.5. So their overall range is at a 3.9. And to test out they need to be um at that 4.5 to a five to be test out of the access. And yes what is the access? access is for any English language learners, English language um that may have when they came into our school, they had put on their home language surveys that they were speaking something other than English at home. Okay. So anything that could have been M or Spanish speaking for us here at so if they pass the access thing and that
102that means they then what what is it? How does that change their status? So they pass they would stay on monitor for two years to show us that they are fully capable and in um able to do all things. they understand what's understand academically and this everything is um at their standard range for all areas. So they look at listening um listening, speaking, writing um and they also do a mix on the access where they combine two scores. So, ELA and writing or sorry, reading and writing. Um, but we have kind of a a span where some of our surrounding schools have a lot a lot bigger population. Ours is a very small population. And about two Yeah. two years ago, we had one family, they're like, we should have never marked this on our
103home language survey. They speak English at home, but they're a a different or a among family at home. They speak or they're they speak English. So, they don't want their students to have ISPs because they'd already taken the access because of the state statute. They still have to continue to take the access. So, this is also one of those reasons that that score is a little bit lower. the student doesn't have an ISP, they are have to take the test. Those two students are like, "We really don't want to take this test." Like, and we've seen that in some of our other tests, right? Are they're just not in the mood to test. They don't want to do it. They're at that point of we're over tested at this point because there's the state is
104saying that we have to do this. Um, but overall the ones that are doing it for the fact of we need this because it's good for us and we're learning from it and this is how we're tested on it has made really good gains and improvements. Um, my next thing on here, the graduating class of 2025 exited eight students from our special education and 504 case loads. That's a pretty significant number when we're looking at this. Um, and when I look at that that number, I think, okay, so what's that going to mean for case loads and looking forward because we have that 12th grade class exiting out and I have a new class, we have new classes coming in down at that lower level, right? That 4K class coming in. So automatically my mind's
105transitioning in looking at those case loads coming up and I transition into the next year. My fourth grade going to fifth grade, my fifth grade going sixth grade and automatically making sure that my case loads, all of our case loads are making sure that we're meeting all those students needs, factoring them in with their peers, their teachers, all the support that they're going to need. So, I'm moving right into that 25 and 26. And we're looking at it as a special education team. We want to ensure that all those students have that access. Um, not only with the correct teachers on the correct case loads, that they're equal. Um, and so we were kind of making the making sure that every year that they have that snapshot. We do a snapshot that tells about all
106of our special education students. That gets transferred to that next teacher. That gets shared out with who it needs to be shared out with, but then they transport transfer it to that next teacher and it gets updated with each IEP or each evaluation. We want to make sure their accommodations, their modifications are up to date, but we're also proactively looking to make sure that all their needs are met and updated. If that means that at the end of the year, we're looking at hm this student might need more help because they're making a pretty big transition whether it's um elementary school to middle school, middle school to high school. Where is that looking? What do we have to change? we make sure we have those meetings before the end of the school year so we
107can plan for that next school year and make sure that that's all set and ready. Um or if something even happens over the summer that we're updated on, we have to kind of look and say, okay, is this case lo is this student right for this case load? Is there any adjustments that we have to make so that it's the right fit all the way around? So, we're tried to plan for that at the end of the year, but if there's changes, we're meeting in the summer to make sure that it's gets done. Um, some of the other things that we look at and I just know that I have to plan for is to continue to monitor all those evaluations and IEP processes, not only for our students, but to make sure that we're
108in DPI compliance because that's something that since I got into this position that we've been really working on keeping up and making sure and I've been working with the staff on and they've been working with me on because we are all together as that special education team that we want to make sure that we're together. How often does a student get dismissed from special ed services? Depends on what level and what their need is. You have a couple a year or does it is it r more rare than that? Speech and language a couple a year. Okay. But then we usually gain a couple a year. Sure. Sure. Um, and if it's um, yeah, it all depends on what they're working towards. If it's like a reading goal, something like that, and it's early enough
109that they are found very young and we can get it and work up, we can usually dismiss hopefully. I would like to see you know by that third fourth grade but all depending and then move on move on and out before middle school would be ideal. Yeah. Is it more common for an IEP to change? Yes. Than for them to be outright just well you've achieved this goal but still got to achieve this goal now. Yes. They would be updated and monitored and move on. I think yes. They should you should be meeting those goals and setting the goals. I think one thing that was evident here and I don't know sped like these ladies do um but it was pretty evident that we were not identifying students early enough. Um and so putting those
110processes and procedures in place. Um in terms of like even my first year um Eron and Larry would talk about just the lack of process and identifying those kids um to get the help that they need. It needs to start early. Get it early. And that that was there was I would say a lot there was a lot of short. So, I know this summer too, since we're on this topic, um, we actually are paying body marker to assist Aaron come through because our student spent files are kind of in disarray and so they have to go through each one of those files just because very similar to our staff personnel files, they're the right documentation is not in there and there's hundreds probably not hundreds but more than there's Yeah, there'sund 30 roughly. So
111that's the specific things that we're looking at. So we'll keep moving forward and that's one of the reasons that you know looking at that specific PD for the staff and development looking at I want to be able to kind of focus on those certain as we go. Any questions for right? You're good. I'm good. Okay. Yeah. So that could be I could have a I have a good segue kind of into part of my report picking back off of what they were all just talking about. So um taking a look at kids and identifying them at the lower levels. Um why are they struggling? Is it truly that they potentially have a learning disability of some sort and they're not identified yet or is it just something's wrong with our instruction? So when you look
112at the data wrap up there in the title one the spring planning meeting that's all of that data review and that information that we um have implemented this year as far as the data with the RTI program taking a look at the student scores where are they where is their growth where are strengths weaknesses why aren't they getting it where seems to be those common denominator things so we have done that three times a year this year for the data um where we meet and review the universal we just met again in May. So what that does is we take a look at all that information and set up our groups for the fall. So what students are going to be getting academic support and reading, academic support and math, and then official interventions. Once
113we put students in middle official interventions, that's when we start tracking them to see um with that intensive structure if they're making gains or not. If they don't continue to make gains, we change the instruction. We keep progress monitoring them. And then at the end of a process, we say, "Okay, we've done all of this. it's taken about a year and they're still not making those gains, then we are okay to have that data for our special education referral. Um, so that kind of wraps in all those pieces. You'll notice for the title one spring planning meeting, that's a requirement that we have to have um because we're title one schools. So under ESOP, the elementary and secondary um education act, we have to have that meeting and I have the presentation link there. So
114sometime take a look um through that presentation. But one thing I do want to point out in it is um this year I did a full needs assessment with multiple data points for the grade levels. So instead of just looking at fastbridge data or Ames web data on the kids um I brought in like for example my on the presentation it shows um for kindergarten recognize 26 uppercase letters recognize 26 lowercase letters because those are our benchmarks our expectations sound production classroom performance Sam Del on slide 16 so this is all the data that we pull together to look at to see if it's working with these kids which are kids that are struggling which kids aren't making it. So instead of just looking at one piece saying, "Okay, they didn't make benchmark on swap,"
115you know, it's pulling in multiple pieces. Uh yeah, so this is kind of was neat to see the kids across the bigger span because we don't really want to judge a kid on one one piece of material. So we did that for reading and math in students or in grades K through five. So that was brand new to us. And then the next one, I think we're down one more slide and I'm not sure who has it up. There you go. That shows all the results um of the highest need in our elementary school for academics. So, our current first graders who will be going into second grade have our highest academic need. And those scores are all weighted scores that I showed you on the previous sheet for calculations that shows us a breakdown
116of where we need to have our highest focus of need of where our issues are. So, this just kind of pulls it out for us. Um, then it goes all the way down to 4K where you can see has the lowest level of need for our reading and math. So, quick question. Yeah, I guess it's a quick question but maybe not a quick answer when you have identified like a a grade or a class. Yep. How do you is it hard to determine or how do you determine whether it's boy there just happens to be an extra three or four STE kids in this grade or we have a problem maybe with our materials or some teaching that maybe needs to be adjusted. How do you how do you triangulate that to figure out what
117that class where the issues are? Yeah. How do you So, so a couple things. So, with all of this, I include all students in it. I include our EOL students. I include our SP kids in it. Um, once we get that data and we say, okay, well, this student does have a learning disability in reading. So, that is reading score is going to be a struggle. So, it is kind of a little bit of an outlier for us, right? Um, but if you look back um to slide six, Patrick, it shows kind of, and again, this is an older model, but we're still kind of on it using it because it makes sense um to us right now, but your tier one instruction should be working from what 80% of your student body. Um that's
118your core reading instruction. So, we start to look at if we have grade levels where there's more students than 80% not making gains and you're at 50% of your students, it's a core reading instruction problem. It's a core math instructional problem. That's one of the things that I was able to kind of determine fast and I've had conversations with the team here as far as okay, we shouldn't have this many kids struggling. We shouldn't have 40% of our students struggling in reading. That's a core reading instructional problem. So that's why this year I brought in f funological awareness in grades K through three. Next year I'm bringing in another reading program, UFly, which is just phonics based because those kids aren't getting the core phonics instruction that we need. So, um, that's kind of how
119you have to start breaking it apart is looking at those specifics. Does that answer it? Yes. Yes. So, there are there are benchmarks that are this clearly kind of defined. Yeah. Yeah. And there's always wiggle room. There's always, you know, you always tend to see a class at the higher level of need sometimes more than other classes. They're just Yep. They're like that kind of every year. You know, you kind of have those ups and downs. you have really a high succeeding class, you know, but when you're looking at the general piece, you can kind of pull out those trends, right? Um, so again, looking at ours and these numbers, to be honest, they're they're kind of consistent to where I came from with with the amount of kids. You know, when I first did
120the and I think when I did the needs assessment with my results came back here, it kind of solidified. I thought it's like, okay, these numbers are pretty consistent to what I've seen. you know that 177 score isn't extremely high. I've seen that the same data points for a grade level be up to 150 160 you know so again it looks alarming like wow that's 177 but in reality you know it it kind of balances out so it really just depends on the group and again this prioritizes us to make sure which it's funny I love it because it solidifies what I was already saying um where niece I' I've said all year long our current third graders are struggling they're my biggest priority and concern that's one reason why we've kept them as three
121section ctions going into fourth grade. Um that was kind of that bubble group. Um and again this data that we did showed the exact same thing, you know. So again, it solidifies what we were already seeing, but yet it helps determine. So again, according to ESSA and um the federal law of how the programming works, we have to make sure that we are servicing these kids are our highest priority. I can't put all my services and funding down to third grade math because that's a very low priority according to the needs of our current building. Does that make sense? Three third grade. I Yes, there's Yes, there is. There is. And it was funny because I think I'd miss seen kindergarten. There's a air one kindergarten. Okay. And it's so funny because in the meeting
122they called and I was like, "Oh, you're right. I did." So, yes, I forgot to. So, that bottom one is actually kindergarten reading kindergarten math. Yes. Yeah. I think this also leads to a broader conversation. of when we I think one of the first things we talked about as an admin team um was moving that third grade at the time was first grade into three sections. And so when we talk about future enrollment, you know, you're going to get to the point where you decide, okay, is it two sections or three sections? And I think we've talked about in terms of do we have a you know we have one school counselor, do we have from a mental health standpoint to a behavior coach, instructional coach, things like that. Um I'm not saying again I
123think the term you use Chuck triangular. I mean Jamie and and Marcy they'll tell you and and Aaron when these decisions are made they're not just using one data point they're using multiple data points but again I think I want to point out that the third grade because you're going to have to make these decisions in the future where we're going to have 60 kids in a class and is that worth another $90,000 for a teacher? I would argue yes because we want the base to be as strong as possible. Um and put our eggs in that basket. So again just when you look at this I'm not saying that that is the reason the third grade is there but I would say it's one of the reasons. How many third graders? Oh gosh I'd
124have to look. It's 63 I think. I'd have to look. But that was a group like you said was originally in kindergarten they were two sections, first grade they were two sections and then Patrick moved them to three sections in second grade, three sections in third grade and kept them. And that again absolutely can have a factor especially if they're a little bit lower of a struggling group also. If they would have started out three sections where they should have been in kindergarten, first grade, which are the most important from a reading standpoint, I'm not saying you I would say you would see a difference. You would see a difference. Yeah, it would still be. Yeah, for sure. You can't you cannot be as individualized as you possibly could with 30ish kids in a class
125kindergarten. Class size isn't the biggest factor in student achievement, but it is would you say it's a higher um behavioral group too? Yes. But I will also say that you think of a lot of those groups. They were also some of the groups that I had when it was only the two sections in 4K. So it was a lot bigger class sizes. Also Chuck, you're asking really good questions and I think you know when you when you want to know how how we determine where they are and then also asking those questions about special education. um this is the way this is the path in which a student goes into or stays out of special education. Well, and that kind of leads me into the next question I was going to ask. How long does
126it take? I'm sure it varies student by student teacher identifies or score identifies for this kid. Let's put him in RTI. Yep. Yep. I know that's a process. It's right in the name. So then to get them into spend, how long does that take? I would say a good year. It's a year. It's a good year because what we really hope is they don't have a learning disability and we're just missing something with core instruction and we just bombard them with an intense instruction and then from a lot of the kids for a good 15% of the kids it works. You know, it's that 5% that it doesn't work for them. They go, "Okay, there's something more here." But we really need to rule that out before we sit here and say, "Well, this kid
127isn't getting it. They've got to have a learning disability. Let's refer them." So about a year because I do um typically one tier 2 intervention for 8 to 12 10 or 8 to 10 weeks and then two tier threes is kind of what we try to do. And in most cases they can't legally qualify for special education unless you right unless you have done those interventions and you've proven that you have strong core instruction like that has to all be documented. Yeah. Yes. Which I'm sure you've heard about. Well, I hope I'm sure. Yeah, but I've never asked that question. And I think too with this like you say, okay, it brings up like I said the reading things that we've done, we we've implemented and also too later in the I think it's one
128of the action items or whatever for math. Yeah. You know, why we need to beef up what we're doing for math. You know, these are all the things that it comes off comes back to. So, when when there's a a kid who's struggling, the first reaction isn't a spread referral necessarily. or even RTI. It It's what can I do in the classroom? Yes, correct. That's tier one. Okay. Tier one is in the classroom and then it's Is there a referral process for Yep. So, Yep. So, we have um I've been working I've got um a handbook that we follow for RTI as far as that process goes. So, does that go through you? Yes. Okay. Goes through me first. Um, and that goes through those data meetings like I was talking about where teachers have
129to we have the initial data there already of those names targeted. Okay. Then teachers have to as we go through them and say, okay, this kid's here, you know, what are you seeing in the classroom? Yeah, I'm seeing the same thing or no, that's not accurate. And we start there as an official process as far as identifying them. Then I ask them, okay, what are you doing in the classroom? You know, I'm in there making sure that that reading instruction is taking place, that they're following the curriculum that we have prescribed to. um and then monitoring that um what they're doing with it. But then also too before they'll even get to an intervention I have say they have to have an academic support of some sort whether that's during our Hill Topper time or
130sometimes if they already have that then it will be with um one of our interventionists but not even labeled yet as a tier intervention. It's just intense academic support. So I try to give them a lot of those benefits before you know that we're trying to get them what they need before we start the official process. So with a successful process like that, you should if it's working right, I mean you should be able to cut those fed that's because we don't want to misidentify a kid. We don't want to say a kid has a learning disability when in reality we just haven't given them the proper instruction that they needed. They need something else. Yep. But that's why it's so important to look at these scores repeatedly and make sure that your staff is
131well trained in the core curriculum that they are supposed to be using because that they're Yeah. And have good core good core curriculum. Yeah. Because you can't How do you know what it is? You know, that was your first question. how you know what it is if you haven't if you're not all consistent if you're not all using the same thing if you're not all using the same thing consistently. So it's really hard to pinpoint that problem when you can't um have that guaranteed viable cord. Well, in fact, with teachers, they could usually be like they could point to who they know, but the data support that Okay, I'm asking a lot of questions. No, it's all good. And here's another one, Chuck, where it wasn't happening was the six week turn. Um, and what
132I mean by that is is we would just let kids kind of flounder through the process or lack of process and then at 6 weeks now it's like, okay, this isn't working. So now you got to pivot. Yeah. And that pivot was not happening. Um, and the pivot is now happening like this is plan B, this is plan C. Um, and and not just say, well, they're just in the program and we'll just let it. But this that subject I am well informed. Yeah, no questions on that. Yeah. How how does the needs assessment results of this compared to what you see in the fast range trends? So yes and I so the trends I would say because this is this is five three to five points of data per grade level. Your fast trends
133is just one score you know. Um, so again, you're going to see I would say they probably mirror um if you're showing because I know that the third grade if I'm remembering correctly that their grade is a flip right. You mean just taking this with overall you're saying? Yeah. Would you get would you say that fastbridge would tell you a similar thing or would would they contradictory would you see in the results of the two? I would say I don't know. I I would say a little bit. Yes. Because again like what I said as far as what I see with our current first grade going into second grade, our current third going into fourth, those are definitely our highest highest needs. Um but you know, when you look at that, that's kindergarten. Um but
134yes, see like for this for kindergarten, so we have to use Ames Web Plus for K through three because that's a state mandate with act 20. Um okay, you look at your first kiddo there that's blacked out for Ames web early literacy. They scored in the first percentile for um on ACT or on AMS web plus they have 11 out of the 26 uppercase and 10 of the lowerase there. But then you look at the kid below 21 out of the 26 uppercase and 22 out of the 26 uppercase letters there. So that that shows that they're really really struggling on fastbridge or the Ames web according to this. Whereas here in our benchmark data, it's showing them that they're okay. They're not as low as what that universal screener assessment showing. Does that make
135sense? So, this might give us more precision. Yes, that's because again, it's multiple points of data. I personally don't even want my own kid judged on one ACT score. You know, if you're going to judge my junior daughter, I want you looking at multiple things on her, not just that one ACT score. So that's what these needs assessments allow us to do. Okay. If we're looking though, if I'm looking at if fast bridge matches, you one of the things that we wanted our goals were typical or um aggressive growth in our students. And if I'm looking at math, um you've got 69% of your sixth graders were typical or aggressive in their math growth. So 69% of second graders. Third graders, however, were at 53%. And so there is that, you know, that does match
136the this might be a bunch that's struggling. Oh yes. Yes, for sure. Yep. Trends are the same. Trends are, I guess, same of the two, but yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh jeez. Okay. The rest of mine is just a bunch of nice pictures in celebration of the end of the year of stuff. We were pretty busy at the elementary school. We had end of the year um dance and field day um which was amazing. It was awesome to see all of the volunteers that came for field day. I've been involved in probably four different district field days over the years. And I'm not just saying this, but this field day was by far exceeded anything I've seen. um just the age appropriateness of all the activities, the keeping kids busy, right down to how many
137how much time they spent at each station. It wasn't too much. Um I think I saw maybe one little behavior thing I had with a little guy and that was it. Um it was a very very good day. Um so Patrick also parttook in the um this Jeep, but he also Yes. Um so it was it was a good time. very very awesome to see all that. Senior walkthrough was something Marcy and I did together um this year also something new where we um kindergarteners through the PTC grant. I think I've mentioned that they got um caps and gowns. So we took the opportunity to dress them all up at the same time. So my littles walked with her seniors just to the elementary school. Um but it was awesome and it was neat to
138see the seniors like how good they were with the kids. Marcy said they're all worried about we hold our hands, what do we do? and it was so kindergarten graduation was also a huge success. I did put the U recording on there for you if you guys wanted to see that. Other great things, positive office referrals. We were able to make our 200 mark this year for positive office referrals, which I thought was pretty darn good since we started, I think in November. I started late this year with that implemented. So, we did a staff inflatable uh race, um which the kids really liked, and then we did a dance afterwards with that. Um, so there's everybody with that. That's a good time. And then, um, Miss Miller asked, "If we make it to 250
139before the end of school, can students pie you in the face?" And I said, "Sure, why not?" Um, and I don't know who worked harder to earn that, the students or the teachers. But I think they were all working together. The last week of school, I had, you know, 10 at a time coming to my desk. They're like, "Oh, you all are working together." Um, which was good. Kids, kids like that. So, awards day. Um we did awards for um art, safety patrol, outstanding purposeful people, student council, physical education, and then also our fifth grade farewell took place on that last day. So um definitely May was a whirlwind. I was not expecting. I thought it was busy as the director of learning in previous uh position, but no nothing in a school. Yes. So
140yeah. Any questions on that? No. All right. I think it's once a month inflatable. Those were it was so fun. It's absolutely so fun. Um my my update, we talked I think we we had a meeting um after graduation. Last time we were able to talk about the the senior events. Um end of the year wrap up. Some of you may have received a um received a Sky Alert and a new report card. We're finding that if we change classes midterm and they weren't entered correctly, Skyward then gave them an eighth of a credit, which is um something that we hadn't seen before. So, you know, on that abundance of caution, we reran report cards to make sure that everything was was correct. And what we are doing moving forward with Miss Millie taking a
141new position, we have a new um counselor is trying to really figure out who does what. When I started, Casey started as well and it was well, Miss Laughen does these things, but then they were going to try to house all of transcripts and styler buttons and things that needed to be inputed um in the in the counseling office so we have more of a more uniform approach and so there's not so many cooks in the kitchen because Samantha can figure out one thing and then Casey figures out something else and then and now Jacob is in the mix trying to figure out this and it's just a lot of people and I don't know that we all have the same information. So going forward that's one of our goals. Um which is again to
142the point of why why you may have gotten a sky alert. Um we want to make sure that we're all moving in the same direction and we have the same information. Um we did summer school this year. eight, like I said, eight students were invited to participate in in five were actively participating and that's credit remediation. That's not Jamie's big summer school program, but as Brenda Johnson and I have taught before, and I think this year was was another, you know, illustration of this, our students that struggle um sitting in a room for three and a half hours online uh in a in a self-contained kind of program in a room. it just doesn't it's not the best format for them. You know, we saw more behavior issues, more attempting to escape and avoid and
143um more this summer than we have in the past. And again taking those probably the most some of the most needy learners who struggled during the year and putting them in a format that is basically um self it's you have to be motivated and you're on your own and um that's a struggle. So going forward, it's going to be something that we need to talk about as a team what that model looks like because if these students are already credit deficient, putting them into a situation where they're not going to be successful, that's not that's not the best for them. Um so know that that is on our radar. Um we are waiting to get our forward data and we do have fast bridge but we're waiting for um the forward is in. We don't
144have the official data file yet, but waiting to see how we did on that. Um, graduation. We did a question come up about graduation and Miss Wilson and I met and met with the seniors and they gave us a resounding we'd like to go back to Saturday. They had some positives about Friday nights but really wanted to go back to that traditional Saturday. So, that's what we did. Looking ahead, we're working on hiring. I'm sure you asked that question. Staffing um we are hiring Missy's position. Also on Monday we had four candidates that were interested in that job and we have had one candidate for seventh and eighth ELA that is from the United States. We have had two from the Philippines and one from Cameroon who have applied. Um right now we are choosing
145to to interview the candidate from the United States. Um we do we are so right along on that. We use we can and we can has the ability when you apply automatic apply. So there is a host of teachers and it's the running joke um that when districts have an open position, people from the Philippines and these very uh remote areas have applied. And so no, we're not discriminating. Um we're simply these people either don't exist or if they do um they won't come here for. We do have their um Duran Arkansas is a district that has hired um they did hire a Spanish teacher from the Philippines I think if I'm correct. Um, so they there was a real person and you sometimes we wonder um they went through the process of getting that
146person approved and did hire them struggling with classroom management although fluid fluent in the language kind of those things that it takes to be a teacher here. I do struggle with that. And so it is a conversation. Some sometimes we we're not sure if they're real people and how this process goes, but they did go through that process and some positives and some struggles. So um I've not had one from Cameroon before. So interesting. Um we are having we are doing a little bit different. We're excited. So um Matt Lamb and Bander came to me and said you know how about we try to implement general music for the students. So it's either band choir band and choir or general music. Um and on those opposite days if you are not in one of those
147you'll be in PE. So, our middle school students will have um PE at least two days a week all year, which is what they need if you know middle school students. So, we're working on scheduling, working on staffing, and our some of our core content teams are working together this summer to align what they do. you know, most of the teams have had new members in the last couple years, and so they're working together to identify standards and make sure that they are um they all have the same expectations and that our Wisconsin state standards are being hit. So, that is my that's my update. Chalk, any good questions? Come on, guys. It's okay if you don't. It's all right. RTI middle school because what we've been doing really is catching the kids that weren't
148in that process before that should have in in a good RTI model. There are very very few kids that should be identified in sixth grade. And so if a student is a move in, you know, we have a I was going to say sometimes it's not our fault. Yes. But working to um those kids now that are coming to us in sixth grade have been through um some of them have been through an intervention process or already in process. So they'll continue. and our schedule right now is going to be is going to incorporate those kids that we know are going to need to start an intervention right away. So, it's a continuation often and that's kind of been, you know, starting at my level and then working through, you know, suppose that because there's
149catch up that probably poses some different challenges because of the schedule that they are moving. Is there a It does. I I I think I know what was it was called this year, but there was a special hour when um is that something like they go to intervention during win time or something like they have their RTI potentially? Yes. Yeah. Does that change as they get older? Is a tier three still a tier three if you're in eighth grade where Yeah. Uh we had we had a couple students that were in that had come to us. I had a student that came in ninth or tth grade, very credit deficient, but had some pretty significant reading needs. And I had two staff members doing a reading intervention with that student um upper grade student. So
150it does it it's the same um the same process. Yep. And you're just Yep. And you're you're just doing it whatever level they are. And often times if they're really struggling, we'll see an eighth grader who, you know, their instructional level is fourth grade, you know. Um, so yeah, Chuck, you're carrying the questions. Nice job tonight. Okay. Are we good? Ready? Move on. Okay. Business. Okay. Item A, GCSD 2526E campus in GCHS Spanish plans. All right. So, um, this is one of the reasons we changed this section to business action items and discussion. There is no action that needs to take place. Miss Burch and I are going to run through um you know I'm excited about our our model change because we've been talking at you for roughly going on an hour and a
151half and you're like just shut up and let us go. But so because this is the part where you should have heard some of these things at least two or three times. So, I'm gonna just kind of cut to the chase um and then encourage you to ask questions um because this especially this first one is a major change for us. Um let's do a backwards design. In the end, uh we're going to ask um two things. Number one, eCampus. We want a opportunity to um allow students to take online courses here and not lose them. You're going to hear me say in uh the budget update later um on the business section, not only did we have to increase or we lost out on $130,000 of open enrolling funds in addition to what the
152budget was set. The state is now recommending that that number increase. And so next year projected we are looking at 1.2 2 million going out of the district to open enrollment and 6 roughly 20,000 coming in. Those are big numbers. So with that said, one way we are trying to encapsulate um at least some of those students is offering an ecampus. U Miss Bur did a fantastic job. If you click on this one, this handbook and put together um there is a lot of different conversations that took place, a lot of different experiences. Um I did some of this in my previous district. Miss Burch has done a lot of leg work to get to this point. Um so basically we're looking at if you give us the thumbs up to proceed with um GCSD
153hill uh ecampus which allows us to offer online capabilities to take classes. It does not allow us to open up a charter school um or open enrolled students uh to attend this ecampus. But if you look at the handbook that Miss Burch created, there's an application process. Um there is uh an IEP process. If it's special education, this is how you would register. Um it's very well put together. So um before we move on to the Spanish part, is there any questions on the ecampus? We've been talking about this topic for a while now. Um and again, our hope is to take the open enrollment part. Uh we are losing students to like EPC. We also are in a situation where the traditional setting just doesn't work for a student. And so we put all
154this together into one. So I'm just going to kind of open it up to questions. Um the biggest driver behind this is a software um and curriculum called Edenum. And um Miss Bur kind of vetted a host of different options. and I was set up a call with her and the different groups last week and I've heard other schools um you know checking references, recommendations, things like that. Um and it all checks out. So um basically uh we're looking for the thumbs up, not a formal approval of moving forward with an ecampus opportunity for Glen City. It might say it in there, but is it just for high school right now? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Um I think a couple of important points are that there is not u school there is not yet a point
155where you really where you hand a student a Chromebook and go we'll see you at the end of the year. That's not what this is and that's not what good education is and what it looks like. um we do have students that for a variety of reasons, you know, don't like transitioning in the hallways or struggle with the bigger classes or so. This is in in our minds um a way to slow roll this process, a way to have more of a hybrid model where if you do like PE and you want to go out for PE class, but then you take a couple two, three courses online, you have a staff member who is assisting you, monitoring you, making sure that you're completing your work and making those connections with you. So there is
156the the reason there's an application process process and there is um a clearly laid out procedure for how to enroll and the things that we need to identify is because we still there's still our kids and we still need that contact with them and that adult guidance. We still need to do college and career planning. Um, and so this is a way to offer more opportunities as opposed to that just here you go, we're going to put you in an online class and then we're going to try to scroll. You know, it's it's opening up more online class options for students with a a staff member and more um kind of rules surrounding the program. I think one of the biggest things that's always asked um when I was designing this program in Richmond, it
157always came back to staffing. Do you have an individual that can oversee the program? Which leads to our second conversation um is the Spanish part. Miss Burch and I sat down with Miss Sandor early on um right out of winter and said, you know, a full-time Spanish teacher in a school of 700 or a high school of 180 just doesn't it's not feasible. Um and we've done some different transitions like adding the CTE uh individual and so forth. Um, we had that conversation. Um, which I think possibly led to her resignation that you approved tonight. Um, but again, our job is to use our resources in a productive manner. Um, after we had those conversations, it was an understanding that half her day was for Spanish and the other half was going to be for
158this ecampus. Um, and that's kind of where things were left. um we had conversations where she u was looking for a different position um and then all of a sudden it came to fruition um last two weeks ago. Um so with that said there is the eCampus handbook that thought that we were trying to do but it does come down to do you have a staff member? Um well now we have a hole in our um budget in terms of a full-time FTE. So with that we do have a plan in terms of a staff member to oversee this ecampus which is what this virtual it's not where you hand a Chromebook and say good luck. We actually have a certified staff member um and the person we have in mind for this actually has
159worked with us. We're both big fans of this person because they have filled in for us in a great capacity. But we'll open it up. Um but again it's that hybrid model. We still have oversight. We still have process. We still have procedures. Um I think co opened this door. Um and it's not a bad thing but you also have students that you know whether they want to work or they have whatever their reason for doing this platform. Um that's what the process in in terms of application will. So with that said, that's part one part of the discussion that we have today. Is there any questions specifically about the eCampus? I do I think I've asked this before, but I just want to clarify if you are living in a school district and now
160we offer this. Can they not do it with another because like you said, we're not open enrolling or taking open enrollies, right? So there's other campuses like that as well. So if they're currently open enrolling with EPC, now Glennwood offers it. Does they have to come to us for that ecampus? You always have a choice to open your child. I for the online version, we would like them to like if they are, you know what I mean? Because we're not taking open enrolls for these. Can we will you're saying well we allow our students to do the same model in another place because we do have stu students open enrolled out. Yeah, we could deny the open enrollment out because now we offer it is what I'm saying. You know what I mean? an online
161version, but we can't we're not required. I don't I've never I've never denied. I've always fundamentally believed that you know what, it's it's parent choice. I'm not a fan of the voucher. I I hate the program because it takes away funds from public education. But in the same regard, a parent should be able to choose where they want to go. Right. But I think a lot of them chose because we didn't have that option. Here's what I'm saying. Right. And our hope is that they they come here, right? That they will. Well, I'm sorry. Go ahead. They also have the opportunity to participate in sports on W, right? Because you can't. So, we had we had individuals that were were taking online classes outside of our district and they wanted to participate, but they couldn't,
162right? So, this thing is multiaceted in terms of it's our kids. We want to offer the online piece. We want to give Miss Burch flexibility to offer one of these classes because maybe it's not working out or whatever the case. Uh we want these kids to participate. Um I think right now from a budgetary standpoint I pressed Miss Burch and said give me a number like how many because you have to pay by the seat and she set that at 15. You know in her mind there's 15 students that fall into this type of category. Some of them already exist. Others of them exist by going to other schools. So, we're trying to to bring that in. It's very similar to the summer month or breakfast. We're going to put kind of tip our toe
163into it and see where this takes us. We get the same dollar amount for them if they're open enroll campus versus in person. No. From state. No. Well, yes, here. But we're losing out on those students. But it doesn't matter. It does not matter. They are our student. They're in our system. But right now, because it is not uh it is not a chartered, it's not a separate entity. We are not taking students like from Spring Valley that want to enroll again. We're not there yet. Correct. But if we have those students that want to come back that reside in our district, this is a this is this is a vehicle and it could lead to that point where we acquire charter sets which then allow us to take kids from Milwaukee or county. Right.
164Right. So, can a can a e-learning student participate in in some classes here? A hybrid type whether it's a CTE or band or Yep. Absolutely. And that's that is that's the hope because I am a a firm believer in the human connection and the more that we pull back from that the kind of skills that we may lose. And so my hope is that those students, whether it's one elective, maybe it's two, you're still having that connection with peers and staff, but you have the option of taking four. I could I could see that that being a good choice for some kids. I would always I would encourage you at some point um it's always interesting. um piece to tell my board this. Go sit in the the uh the seating area of the high
165school office and see how much kids leave and come at different times of the day. It's truly like a college campus. The years of where, you know, every kid starts and and then they end the day, those are gone. I mean, we have kids going in and out um all the time and not where, you know, they're either working, they're going to classes out off campus, they're doing, you know, so that again we're we're changing with the times and this is just another piece to their the full-time staff be their home room teacher or will they have a separate home room teacher? that um is yet to be determined because we have it it hinges on the Spanish conversation quite honestly. Yeah. Yeah. If it's a resounding success, is there some limit that we would
166say we only have enough staff to support 100 or 200 or whatever class number might be? If it's a resounding success, um I would say that we would have our students that are open and rolled out returning, which then brings that funding back to the building, which means we can hire more staff. So, the sky's is the limit in terms of what we can do if we have, you know, students, whether we like it or not, students have a dollar amount tied to them. and should we be able to bring enough students back and offer a program that is successful and is showing success for these kids. Um I would see that we could have more staff that are in that program. I would encourage you to look at St. Corey Central. Um if you
167look at the amount of staff that they have to um run this type of program at St. Corey Central, it's It's it's pretty alarming. Um I think the one thing that we can't lose sight of and Miss Burch touched on already is that human connection. There's check-ins processes here. If you look at the handbook, this is not where you just take a course and then at the end, you know, because if if you fail this course, your parents are paying it back. And for a student, that's the oversight. That's why we need a certified staff member um to oversee this to do those check-ins. Hey, you're 20% behind. You need to do this, this, this, and if it's not happening, parents are called in, you're meeting, and so forth because, you know, and again, I
168don't know what the amount is just yet, but can you get imagine getting that bill? Um, and we do it now. If you take a a postsecondary class and you fail it, you're paying for it. And that could be a $300 cost. That is s is a surprise for a family. That that's a that's a big surprise. Is it when you say alarming, is it alarming on the high side that they have? Very. Yeah. If you look at their staff for the sacred central and one of the things I I was always frustrated is, you know, it's a charter status. So they there was kids kicked out all the time for they didn't fulfill an assignment and they could kick them out for that. Um, but it's it's it's really interesting to see how much
169staff they have just to run this program and they get kids from everywhere. The reason that that online connection or the human, you know, the overseer, the person that connection is important is because we have had um quite a few students that come to us from various online platforms um schools, programs that are significantly behind in credits because they were in an online program and they were allowed to take six classes that they didn't do. and now I have a a super senior that came to us with 10 credits or something. So trying to build a program where there still is a significant amount of oversight so that we don't have students in, you know, they end up dropping out because I'm 19 and all of my classmates are gone. So how do we make
170a program that there still are those checks and balances and they are not allowed to fail for so long. So um and Mr. Save is the principal of EPC's online academy and that their magic number to run that program is 25 students and that makes you know that pays for the staff it pays for um the program whatever platform you use whether it's Edenum or um that's that the number. So, if this is a wild success and we have many many students coming back or rejoining us, um you keep that number in your head because that's what it kind of what it takes to be to add staff to to be in the the black. And my number was 27 in Richmond um to be but this is that was through a different program. I
171should point out too that um Jamie was a big help because Cumberland has an existing program like this um so we used her expertise too um when we came to developing this outline. I don't know if you want to add anything Jane. No, we just always saw it as a way to keep students with us. We didn't want to lose students to outline districts because of virtual education or different things like that. So it was just a way for us to keep the students and to meet their needs within the district for us. So with that, so the second part of this conversation is Spanish. Um and I kind of set the stage already. Um so um Miss Burch put together um this summary um right here. So basically it comes down to um how
172are we going to offer Spanish here in um the ecampus right now would be like a part-time position. uh and then the other side of that would be Spanish would be then equal out and one FTE which we have budget wise. So um if you look at the options and I just said to Miss Burch I said you know put all of the we we had a variety of different discussions um I had them with superintendent she had them with building principles um and then she put together uh this chart. So, I'm going to let her start and I'll just add in um as we go here. Basically, we have three viable options. The first one is all of those students that are interested in Spanish would be enrolled in Wisconsin virtual school. That's a
173platform that we use right now that offers us um Wisconsin licensed teachers. It is a completely asynchronous course. What that means is our students would have, you know, headphones in, they're watching the lesson, they're doing the lesson. It would be at a time, a specific time in their schedule. For instance, if I want Spanish one, you might walk by the high school computer lab for an hour and you've got a whole classroom of students doing their online course. Now, the the positives, I guess that's a cost effective um or more cost effective. The drawbacks would be that we are um we have a staff member to monitor their progress, but it's an asynchronous language course and that's tough. Um the second option is that we do have Plum City. There's a licensed Spanish teacher that
174is willing to zoom in with our kids or allow our kids to zoom in with their Spanish classes. their Spanish one and two in their schedule right now is closeish to our schedule. Um, you asked about home room, Chuck, and and the difference I think would be that that that Spanish class. that Spanish class would have to start at 8 am. Right now, our home room starts at 8 am. So, those Spanish students would start their day at 8 and go to 8:50 and then they have their 20 minute home room and get back on the bell schedule. It doesn't work as cleanly for Spanish 2, but it is it's a live person and live instruction. we would as a district um do an agreement with them and pay that Spanish teacher for taking that
175overload. We would have a licensed staff or a staff in the room. It wouldn't have to be staff, but we'd have a staff in the room to monitor our students while they are participating in that Zoom class. And so those, you know, when you asked if the if that home room teacher would be the online students teacher, maybe some, but in this model that, you know, our staff member would have to have those Spanish students in their home room because their home room would be at a different time than everyone else's home room. So for Spanish one, it works wellish. for Spanish two which would be second hour it's a little bit different and so we have to work together because they kind of the classes overlap they don't they don't match our st schedule
176as as much and so how that looks and how she structures it I think you know I have faith that we can do it they did that they did this with Elmwood a couple of years worth a couple of years back um an agreement like this and so that would be, you know, at minimum 7,000. They did 6,500 for one class before, so she would be taking an overload of two classes and that'd be all year. So, it's a cost. Um the the third and final option is that Edenum is this this platform that we're using for our online students. It is um it offers us the option to have three times a week, four, five times a week, one of their Spanish teachers match our schedule and zoom in with our students and do
177the lessons. So they are a Wisconsin teacher that zooms in with us. As you can see, the cost is is pretty high um for that. So those right now are what what we do have as options. Um I guess what we did not say is that you can post for a point two Spanish teacher and the chances that you have that um someone out there that wants to come and match our schedule and and work for 2 is we we know that that's probably not a viable option. So, this resignation came to us and again, Miss Burch and I have been having these discussions all spring. Um, but then we didn't think it was a a viable possibility. Um, when it did come, I talked to the superintendents and again, I did learn through this
178process that the Dun St. Croy um suits and principles have been working over the years to try and match up their battle schedules um because these situations are going to come up. They're going to come up more. You know, we talk about SLP, we talk about Spanish, CTE. Um people are not going into teaching like they used to. So, these are this is just the tip of the iceberg. Uh with that said, Clear Lake is in the same boat and uh Chris and I have already said yes, let's talk for next year. Maybe there's a 50% Clear Lake Spanish teacher and a 50% teacher. So right now, we're looking at this as a possible band-aid for one year. Um the other thing I will say is Spanish has changed, especially during COVID. Um there's a
179variety of college that colleges that got off the Spanish train in terms of requiring it for entry. Um some of them, you know, even with ACT, we're not going to look at ACT now. Summer is reverting back, but Spanish is not as much of a requirement. um the only schools and um Jamie you said it I feel like Madison Madison that require it and the U of um the other one but like a variety of these others. So, we also have 19 kids in Spanish one. We have 11 in Spanish 2. Um, I think there's three students in Spanish three and one in French. And I think it's safe to say Spanish and three and four. You know, we'll just go online and that's their way to advance that. What we're concerned with is Spanish
180one, two. And one of the point that I want to bring up is this past year we just weren't ready to make a decision. Um, so what we did was we utilized Amanda and did Spanish immersion, which is great, but that's not a need. That's a or that's a want. It's a great program, don't get me wrong. And it allowed Jamie to have more of a PLC model um to put it in rotation. But our plan is is that we're now going to use um Angela Williams and teach uh library media um skill sets uh in to that rotation. And then Amanda at the time focus in on eCampus and then her Spanish. So now we're short of teacher. And so what we just heard is our is our plan. So, uh, what I need
181from you guys is I hear that eCampus is something that we're Yep. We're ready. So, we'll bring that to you in July. The Spanish part is what we need direction on. So, when I was in Spanish 4, I actually tapped and did that as with Spanish one and twos. And I think that that could be a really good option for your Spanish three and four students to have that opportunity to help us in our whatever model we choose. But I think if we did it where there wasn't an actual teacher, that would be a great option for them. It is it is provided it works in their schedule that. But it's um you know, one of the students is is cool. Yeah. Which is already helpful. So you're fluent in Spanish. No, I was like
18220 years. Sounds like sounds like you. No, but I think I think if we could look at that option, I mean that Spanish four, even the threes and if they're taking Spanish three and four, they're pretty versed. Yeah. And taking online Spanish is going to be very doable. Spanish one and two, that's a difference. It's doable. But I mean to have that hands-on person to help these people. If they if we decide to go on an online without a teacher, you have your Spanish three and four students that are going to be excellent resources for these guys. Well, and that utilizing that language. I mean, that's what we want them to be doing. So, so with the uh virtual school, there still is a teacher somewhere. Uh Wisconsin virtual school. Yes. It's like pre-recorded lessons.
183Yes. Pre-recorded lessons. Yeah. So, so you're referring to the first one? Yes. So, and but somebody's grading things or they're submitting assignments. They're submitting assignments. I'm not sure. Did you ever see to her? Can I say sign language? Yes. It's that chunk. It's what that looks like. The students are watching that. Then they're either uploading videos. Okay. I was going to say, so she uploaded videos in sign language. So, they Yes. would potentially be uploading videos of them speaking Spanish or or they would be it is it is graded in their submissions. Yes, it is graded by their staff. They aren't just watching videos. They are they're submitting work and being obsess being assessed. Yes. But then there will be a possessed fulltime certified teacher sitting in the room at the time. Okay. So that's
184not as but they may not certify meaning they're teacher they might certifially happening because all of our students in a Spanish one are at that same level. There's not a reason other you know we have to pay for them each and every one of them to take that course. They also individually need to submit their own work. So every single kid in that class has to submit that work. There's nothing saying that we can't start with the lesson. So everybody's got the same lesson. We're all watching it here. There's no reason that you couldn't put that on a large board and we watch this. The teacher watches the teacher maybe learn Spanish at the same time, but we're all watching that lesson together. Then the kids go and submit their work. So there is the
185option that way to do some group work. You know, Chuck is enrolled in Spanish one. We're all enrolled in Spanish one. Well, we put that lesson up on the board because we're all on the same lesson and we do it together as a group. It's just that we need to have all of the students enrolled and pay for that course. Yeah. See, so it seems like the the driver for Spanish is the fact that colleges require it for entrance, but not Spanish foreign language. Spanish, but Spanish is kind of the most popular and it's what they registered for because it's what we had offered. Sure. If I put Mandarin Chinese on there as the option that we were going to that's what they would sign language considered secondary language. Secondary language. So they do ASL.
186Okay. I was going to say controversial. It is ASL speakers do have their own sort of culture. But it's American Sign Language. Yeah. So the main thing is it's not limited to sign. It's not limited. It's not limited. So, if that's the driver and schools are getting away from it, do we have Sorry, I'm a statistics guy. Do we have the statistics of how many students who entered in Spanish one moved on to a college that required it? I mean, that that would be almost an exit interview type of thing to see just exactly what the ROI is on us offering Spanish. Of course, we want to offer it. If a student wants to take it, we should have it available. But at what level do we need to make it available? You uh unless
187you did a post graduate survey, we would not have that that data. Although you do when students are getting ready to go to college, they kind of have a college in mind. Um so they kind of know what the requirements are. There's a I would say based on remembering students and you know maybe 60% actually follow through um you know they at the grad party I'm going here or I'm doing this and then things change. I think a a better even point of research is how many colleges you know we've mentioned too that we think we know doing that research on how many colleges are actually requiring it. Sure. You know how many local college? It seems like we're spending a lot of time on trying to decide what we can spend on Spanish and
188we don't even know what we really need to spend on a second language course. I think that at this point because there are still colleges that are requiring it um it is something whether it's Spanish or or another language it's something that we do need to have available. It would have to be a phased out type of church. Absolutely. I just mention this to anybody who will listen. If you want a blue collar job, you should learn Spanish. Well, of course, that's what I think it's more important for those type of students, but they don't necessarily understand. But you know what I'm saying? No, I I understand. It's not a It's not a question of, you know, what language it is. It's just how much time are we spending on it? How much money are
189we deciding to put into it? And is it something that the students really need? If it is, great. Well, absolutely. or do we use an e-learning model like we're coming up with and say this is now one of our e-learning offers that we put in that students can apply for and then they're the one or or it's like you this hour is going to be foreign language and you choose whatever one you want to do from our online offering. Yeah. No, because I I would say that it can be a part of a well-rounded education. You know, absolutely totally agree. I think that's why you you try to make it a priority, not necessarily for the college and just to be and I think this also speaks I mean we're basically cutting Spanish from 1.0
190to.5. So we're already making that jump signifying that we have 180 kids in our high school. We don't need a 1.0. So where it goes from here, yep, we'll have that data to be able to track. I guess that's why I want to make distinction on just single world language. But so on that third option, because the first two I think were kind of committed to Spanish itself, the third option, could we have kids in French and Spanish and Mandarin? In Wisconsin, Wisconsin virtual school has a bunch of course offerings as well that they have different languages. Would But in that case, would they all be sitting next to each other with their headphones on, one learning Mandarin, one Spanish? Yes. Um, in theory they wouldn't have to. They would just need a spot in
191their day that they have an online course and we have that happening throughout the day. Are you Are you talking? That's the one I was referring to that I thought was our only option, but it sounds like one would also support it multiple different languages, but it sounded one doesn't. Yeah, but I thought we needed the teacher to be there for the assessment. So, how would we do that if it was throughout the day? Um if you are if you are doing something like Wisconsin school that is graded on their end and then kicked back. Okay. Um there isn't the need to have that. Some of the courseware like edum can be self-grading. Um you'll turn written work in and honestly the box probably checks it or it's check boxes and it's calculated. Um, some
192of those like Wisconsin virtual school, there is a live teacher somewhere that is grading that and then kicking it back. It may not be right then, but it is within a day two. So, you have a running grade if you're and correct me if I'm wrong. If you're talking because this is where I'm hearing you guys your discussion is like we we're more interested instead of just Spanish world language. And if that's the case, then three won't. Number two wouldn't work. Number three wouldn't work either because Edenum in our presentation said you will have a live Spanish teacher two to three times a week. And again, now you're kind of pigeonhold into a Spanish teacher. So, if if the board is talking about we're looking at a world language and we have a spot for
193you, we have a certified teacher, when I say professional teacher, it's a teacher to help. Um, they're not Spanish or world certified, but they're a teacher that that's their profession. And then I might have two kids in Spanish, three kids in French. I got a kid in um sign language, Latin, French, German, ASL, Chinese for virtual academy. This is Yep. Wisconsin virtual school offers without getting the input from all I feel like that's the best option. Then we can broaden it outanguage. you're surveying which five people here that we would often times in Richmond uh we would even even as large as we were um we would do a 6603 with Somerset because they had a sign language program and that was for PTO um that was seemed to be a popular piece. So, if
194that's the direction, and that's kind of what I'm hearing from you guys is let's do away with such a a specific world language and open it up. Um, and we have a staff member to oversee it and then they can choose from whatever. They can also they can absolutely What I don't want to lose sight of is that um and my recommendation would be to try all this for a year. I don't want to lose sight of the fact that not everyone um can be successful online and language is hard and so if this is you know um if this is a a direction and I like the direction I like the option of multiple different languages but I also don't want to lose sight of the fact that some of our learners might really
195need a person and so I think it's if we do go this direction um we need to come back together and monitor the effectiveness of these offerings. What were the grades? How many credits were obtained? How many did not do well or decided to drop? Because that's going to tell us if you know we can continue and that will lead to the the the other discussion of do we partner with a clear lake, right? You know, 5050 because if we posted a 50% it, you know, as Miss Bird said, it's it's we wouldn't find anybody. So, this is where we try to problem solve at least for a year. Does it seem like the students that are taking this the Spanish or the or the uh the other languages, they're a little more driven towards
196learning that because they're learning it for a reason. That's where we're at now. Yes. Which is why we have 19 instead of a whole class of 50. You know, that's why there's the 19. Those are the ones. Well, I think a lot of them thought they had to take it, too, and now they're learning more so that these colleges don't necessarily require them. And you also have I mean, my son's in that in that boat. He ended up not taking Spanish because he just he doesn't know where he wants to go. And he's like, I'd rather take this than and if I have to take Spanish, I'll take it when I get there. Um, now does that say you can't you won't get in if you apply? because some of these schools say you need
197to have it just to apply. So, every kid is a little bit different, you know, in their path. Yeah. I I like the idea. I like that we've come up with an option that wasn't on the list. I think that's great. That's what we should be doing. Um but, you know, we'll have to watch it. So I'm what what the next step is is I am going to write up a true recommendation um based on what we heard tonight number one ecampus hiring a staff member um and then the second part is is I'm looking at option one for Spanish but more so geared toward now that's the thing that we we have 19 students that are currently registered for Spanish So when these kids come in the fall, that's what they're expecting to take.
198Um, and they still kind of they can, but I guess my question would be now, are you going to pull them together on day one and say, "Well, you don't have to have Spanish. You can have Mandarin Chinese now if you want." Well, I think a phased idea because it's already promised is not a bad thing. We don't have to do everything today or even this fall. We can look at it. We can test it. We can see how it works. And in two years, it could be implemented. Yeah. But we're looking that far down the road. But for this year, it's kind of set. We have 19 students. They're expecting Spanish. We should move toward getting them the Spanish that they were promised. And then phase the other parts in, test it, and see
199if it works. If it does, great. If it doesn't. Okay. So, you guys are picking basically option one knowing that Miss Burge can expand it. We'll have a further conversation down. Okay. So, you will see those. We're going to work on everything right now. Um, do I uh do we have a permission to move forward with interviewing the certified staff member position to oversee it because then we will have that name to you for approval. You okay with that? Okay. That will be part of the recommendation then. All right. All right. Uh item number DC HSCT incentive grant summer. Okay. Some of these uh again um I know how antsy kids get and adults are worse actually. Um sitting there for hours. So I'm going to do an overview um and then uh again you
200have access to this information. Every year I like to update the board when it comes especially with this graph right here um or a table. So if you look at the class of 202122 and so forth and basically this could show what is the CT incentive grant if you're not aware of it. This is where we have students that are a list that they can go and get certified in. If you look at what this offers our kids, they walk away with specific certifications, whether it's egg, uh, business, health science, family, consumer, marketing. Um, the it's all over. And I think this is a growing program because it's a resume builder and um I always want to make sure that the board is updated that this number one this program exists through the departmental workforce.
201Number two there is an incentive for the district that in terms of financial incentive but more importantly there's an incentive for these kids. So if you look at what Miss Johnson has done over her three years here four okay for and this was um it wasn't submitted I'm not sure why that was the year that I okay so this bird started late um that year so um but if you look at where the three certific certificates and now we're up to 19. That is that's awesome because these kids are walking away with a true certification, a resume builder, uh a thing to take to their employer and say look what I have done based in addition to my my diploma. So again, um everything is right there if you want to update more, but I
202would encourage you at some point to just click on this um link and look at these certifications because there's a lot of opportunities out there. How are they made aware of the program? Um the the staff members have to implement the program to get the students. So, every year I sit down with the CTE staff and say, "Here's the list of approved certifications." It changes slightly from year to year. Sarah Johnson um oversees the YA youth apprentichip students. Those certifications are primarily YA. Um two years ago, we had Ryan McB who did Bergen Stratton. um he did small engines and so there was some certifications that that following year um because it it you record it the year after we've had I think two or three students achieve their CNA that's another certification where we
203can earn money from the state of these are primarily they are under youth apprenticeship and then youth apprenticeship funnels them into a certain lane so if I've got a student working at a restaurant. They're in the apprenticeship, but they are in that um hospitality tourism range. And so that's the certification that they get. They are proving that they've got those workbased skills in hospitality. So primarily that number is the growth of of YA. Um but I just sat actually I sat with Miss Hilby today because she's will be our business and marketing teacher and I showed her the certifications. we can certify a student in Adobe if we take them through that whole suite of of products and then test them out. So the CTE staff looks at what we're doing and then looks at
204those certifications and see you know we see if that if they match and then they sell it in home room and other places they talk about it in courses in the course hand ya is yeah I mean that is listed in our course handbook and then how are they recognized at the completion of their certifications they are recognized at our awards night they get a certification and then it's uploaded that that is um then uploaded to the state of Wisconsin, but they're all recognized at the award site. Any questions? All right. Um Jackson, do you want me to keep going? Yeah. So, the next one is an action item. Um, and the the history behind this is that if you have heard about impact testing, you probably had a child or know someone that was
205in athletics and impact testing was very big um in terms of concussion protocols etc. uh we are finding another trend right now that came up in in our discussions as soups but also uh with our AD uh Jcore and um based on this I am recommending that we terminate uh impact testing uh for the reasons that are outlined here. Number one, uh we Miss Burge also had discussions with um schools and why they are not using it. Uh we're one of the few schools in the Dun St. Corey that still have it. Um and part of it was especially as a coach, um concussion protocols are very important. Um but if the medical community is not using them um and there's other reasons like kids are manipulating and and I have seen that um but
206basically it comes down to where doctors now have their own protocol and they'll just follow their own personal protocol instead of looking back at this data. So, not only do we spend money on impact test, we have the students come in, take a test, if they get a concussion, they have to go back to the computer, take it. Um, and even in that process, if we've learned anything from concussions, you know, kids will sit with um um glasses, uh sunglasses because they can't look at a screen or they can't even look at a screen for weeks, etc. Yeah, we're still trying to have them take a test. So, with all that information that is in this, I am recommending to the board that we um eliminate impact testing as most of the dead currently does.
207Any questions? Anybody make a motion to eliminate the impact testing? Second. All right. Motion by Derek, second by Scott. All those in favor say I. I. I opposed. Carry. Okay. Number D, GCSD 2425 district goal summary. Okay. So, with the model that you guys have approved us moving towards, I'm just going to give you the 30,000 foot view on these two next uh board items. We do not need action. Um but again, these are things that are going to we're not just going to be done with it. So, the first one is the district goal summary. Um, I have always been uh one that I don't care that we have um a slogan. Um if we set district goals, they're going to mean something and we're going to come back. We're going to reflect on
208them and look. So, I'm just going to give you um a very brief overview of how we did this past year, but that's not going to be the last time that you hear this. So, um, if we go back, here's our strategic plan. Um, I do want to point this out because Chuck, one of your questions, and again, we are we we like your guys's questions. Um, it it it's truly that's why we're here for these meetings, but you use the term triangular. Um, this is something that I've used over the years, and it's an inverted triangle that points down to one thing, my word here, and that's kids. Um, you know, we have our core purpose, we have our strategic plan, we have our district goals that comes down to our building level goals.
209And I for one will tell you I need to do a better job um of overseeing that part of it. We call them SIPs. Um, and that's the building piece. Um, they developed them this year. Um, and my normal protocol is to meet with them one time per month. and I truly could not find the time to do that.