001Yeah, she Have forward session then. Good evening everyone. Um we're going to change things up just a little bit. Um JD is ill and not able to join us tonight. And we also have this who's not able to join us tonight. So um instead of the uh group picture, we're going to take individual pictures. when you have a you take a little field trip with Christa. She's going to take you to our Bwood City screen and she's going to do individual mug shots for you so that we have access to them for a variety of of things. Not the bad part, the good part. We're going to hold these numbers or anything, right? No. No. So, if you would like to uh I'm going to stay here. It's going to be a quick photo op
002um by the learning commons and by the old school store and you can smile series whatever you want but just know that this is going to be used for uh future media pieces like board um celebration week a variety of things. So you follow Christa and take your picture and then we'll get started uh when everybody gets back here. You know, usually for picture day, they give you a heads up. He did. I know. Was the one you couldn't find the attachment for? So, did you see the No, I didn't. Toilet looks much better. I thought these little kids. Oh, I figured. Yeah, it's very much. Yeah. Where what we should have done. Well, and when the first one came through, how long ago? We had one more email. Yeah, but there's also two in
003the other one, so it probably makes it easier. They just take the group. That works. Got lots of stuff done. end the year. This guy looks like I think we got [Music] almost beginning of the week. They all get a leisure head over the weekend. Um, Saturday I took my son to his tournament. Um, and then Sunday, Shane, myself, Jordan Myers, Preston Yeah, it was interesting. It was a commodity opportunity. We were there for gosh, we left here at seven, got back away from me. Thank you. So, no. And yes, depends on how you're looking at appcate. All right. Uh we'll get going. Um I don't have that much, but I also want to provide a variety of uh positive and very encouraging things to end the school year. Um before I get started, I
004do have the performance survey basically ready to go and that should go out here on Wednesday with a summary. So the window for that summary is going to basically be the 21st through June 11th and then I will have a preliminary report for you um at the next board meeting. So, I wanted to start off with a variety of uh positives. Uh first is the Fox 9. If you uh haven't seen, we had a very big surprise here. Is there anybody that didn't get to see the video? Did anybody see the video? Otherwise, play it. Okay. Um great opportunity. Um, I want to uh point out a couple things of how we got to this point. Um, Kirstston Cond was the individual that recommended Matt for this award and uh Chuck Draxler added a letter.
005Um, they asked myself to add a letter and then uh the whole celebration was planned by Marcy. Um, Marcy worked with Fox 9 to get him here in the manor. Um, typically actually the last winner in our district that had this award was my mother-in-law came out many, many years ago and they offer up an assembly to do it and Marcy had a great idea to do it at a concert where his family would be there and so on. I think that tremendous idea and so uh we worked with them. Um Marcy did all the planning behind the scenes and uh you saw those of you that saw that the video um kind of the fruits of that planning. So it's a great surprise and uh he was really surprised and you could tell by
006his comments he was a little taken back but welld deserved. I think it's a a great that day I had a meeting up at CISA and somehow the superintendent from Prescott knew and I don't know how that leaked. Um but um and then the other individual, I don't know if you saw, she was up in the front, but she's a representative from um Royal Credit Union and her son um Poland. Um Nelson, um I actually had him in class my first year back here. Um and he's uh in tech school right now. She was the representative. So So um and then the banner that's hanging in the front uh was made by Kirstston And then uh we needed two little um gnomes to go out there and hold it. So I picked uh my daughter
007Macy to help keep the surprise um so they wouldn't blab and steal. So again, I think overall it was a great opportunity to showcase an individual that has dedicated his life uh to our school um but more importantly to kids and music. So, great recipient and great opportunity. Yeah, nice job pulling it off. It was a lot of back and forth. the one snapu or not the snap. It worked just fine, but you have to put a um a notice on the doors that um anything that's being filmed is for box 9, it's their right to it. And so she was like, well, you kind of have to hang it where people are entering. I'm thinking, how are we going to hang sign that says you might be filmed? And we're still going to, but
008don't worry, lots of people don't look at a piece of paper like this, but it's only post other ones. We did. We did post that one. I'm like, it's a fox 9. What? Wait a second. Size was a little a little smaller, but no, it worked out. All right. Um, the next one is another variety of things that I want to outline. And I think again I think these are celebratory pieces that you're going to see. Um especially when you look at where our CTE department was and where we are now. I think there's a lot to be celebrated. Um but here's the fruits of your one of the first approvals at the beginning of the year and discussions um was the uh CT equipment and CNC machine and so on. Um we are really
009striving to create partnerships with the city um businesses etc. And you're going to see that in your annual performance survey to where we can continue to build those partnerships. Um, this is just another example. Um, it started off by a request. Um, and I know, um, the clerk is no longer there, but Sherry Rosnell, who's been there for a number of years, um, we just had a conversation and I, uh, it was one of those where our signs are getting old, uh, but there's a new local. Any any ideas or who do you go through for signs? And so we were talking and it then materialized into Mr. Keane and Mitchell and Blake and not Blake Cole Cole. I made that mistake. This is the wrong graphic. I'll fix that. Um and Wyatt and they
010created these signs. And so you're going to see these uh throughout town. But the one thing that you can't see, and we'll get a picture later, is they're um powered by LED lights and they will light up at night. And so um we used uh some different examples. Um we actually did this type of project in quarry form um using CNC machines and so on. There's it's great to see the creativity. So the creativity behind this was simply the kids. It was not, you know, Mr. Keane. It was not myself or the city. They just said, "Here's what we need. You do it." And I think uh they speak for itself in terms of how they turned out. So, great example. Um, another one, um, if you haven't had a chance to see, um, is
011this the sign, and this was the backstory, um, actually started with Rocky. And when we were taking up the floor, he just stated, you know, it'd be really nice to save that look somehow. And if you saw the pictures of the before and after that I sent out, um it was quite the the project to get to this point. And I think it really turned out well. And so when you go to the elementary um the gimmatorium, you'll see that this is hanging there along with a plaque encased in a frame just to recognize. So when Wyatt and Jordan come back for many years down the road, they're going to be able to say, "Oh, I look like this in high school." and also I did this and we're going to continue with those types
012of projects around campus. So, um I think we'd all agree um this is really turned out really well. Um, this was another thing where we just had the concept, we wanted to save it, um, but didn't really know how and how it would work out. And the kids took it and then it just evolved into this. And actually, this uh, logo is kind of turned into my favorite one of a hill topper. um with the what nine of them that are around our campus, which is a whole another conversation that we'll be having soon from a marketing standpoint. So, uh if you don't uh or haven't had a chance to go see it, it actually uh is hanging on the where the door that we took out of the gym and it really fits nicely.
013Um, and I know I can say it fits nicely because we got the approval of many first, second, and third graders while it was anchored. So, uh, feel good about that. Um, as you know, we ran into a number of snow days this year and as an admin, we were brainstorming on ways that we could make up that time in a reasonable manner um, but also understand how we could give back to the community. And so uh we instituted uh and we didn't want to take away from the PL and you guys know the backstory because you approved this but um this is a summary of the pictures that was taken uh from that day um to again give back um proud of the students. You know there was not 100% um but it did
014go to show that there's students out there that even maybe a small task made a made a difference. And uh these are the types of things when we say soft skills that we want our students to develop into good human beings and giving back. So if you haven't had a chance to look at that, we broke it down by uh grade. Um a lot of trash picking up, but just different ways to give back. We have some group shots of um feeding starving children and so on that some of the groups did. So, um, another example, and this has all been happening in in May, but it's obviously a lot of planning that goes into this point. Um, going back to the sign, uh, this is kind of give you an idea of what the
015other one looked like. Um and somebody from the city um well obviously we're a small community and so when they heard that we were making signs for the city uh the EMS wanted in on that and said hey we need a new sign um and I'm guessing fire will be next. So um but this is another example and they came and said hey we want uh this we were working with the EMS um staff um to create. So you'll see another sign uh that was completed by our students and and Mr. Keen. So um and there's many more um things that I will share. if you ever see the title we're sharing. It's just my way of outlining and there's so many things that I could celebrate but these are things that really stick out.
016Um and we'll share with the staff and then we'll share it on social media and so forth. So just wanted to uh share these from just the month of May. Any questions? Okay. Um I wanted to touch base on the budget and if you haven't had a chance to read through um actually it again I cut and pasted the article parts of it because sometimes people you know get caught up in where the article came from or origination. Um I can say that this is all factual based. Um, actually Friday night after graduation, it was right around 10:30 and I got a text message and it was from Senator Stashel and he's asking me some questions and he goes, "Hey, we're uh negotiating right now on the floor." He says, "I need to ask you
017some questions." We were texting back and forth about sped reimbursement was the topic. Um, so there is a lot of discussions that are going on. um the the points there that they actually took out of proposed budget. I wanted to give you an idea of what that looked like because again we're delaying um excuse me uh staff compensation and just because of where we are with our budgets in the last couple last number of years until we can get it remedied. Um these are things that are going to really affect um how the bannual budget comes out. So, uh, the big parts that I wanted to just point out is, um, there certainly is a lot of focus just like I stated with, um, and Senator Stashel is on the JFC, a joint finance committee.
018So, uh, the the sped reimbursement is definitely a discussion that they're having. um whether it's and and his discussion with me was under or around the concept of would you rather have around 38 39 40% reimbursement or would you rather have 90% of a high cost spent? And that's a hard question to look at because there was an individual um superintendent that was they were that was sharing his story and he said um they had their budget and at the start of the year they received a student move into their district that was high cost and they said it cost 400,000 to educate this kid. um that seems very very high to me. I don't know how they got that number. Um but it certainly you know between transportation when I think of the high
019cost students that I've dealt with over the years you could spend 90,000 just to transport an individual. Um, and then on top of that, if you have a paraprofessional that costs 60,000 uh with salary benefits, you can see that that cost uh can really take a budget and um create some issues with it. And so his discussion was, would you rather see the reimbursement or the high cost? And my answer was I'd rather see um you know the high cost is certainly it's it's it can really affect you as a one-time but the overall majority of our sped students are in the the um category where higher reimbursement and his comment back to me was I thought it would have been the other way and I said well it just depends um there certainly are
020highc cost students but um there's more general population um in terms of spent. So that's how I answered um his messages. So I anticipate some more updates this week um at my state meetings um that we'll have. Um other than that, is there any questions on this article itself? anything that um I did sit down with our treasurer um and Derek and I went through basically uh Derek's done quite a bit of homework in his not so much free time and he's watched a variety of webinars and so on with Bear and so and uh some of those things. So we sat down for about an hour and 15 minutes and we just walked through uh the bear model. We talked about all the different tabs. Um because again uh public education um finance is
021this whole different ballgame. It's just very different. It's not even similar to a public government entity. Um it can be in some regards but most of the time it's very different. So, um I appreciate Derek's time um during the day that he took out of his um job and responsibilities to come in and better understand that. Um if you look at the documents, these are all the same documents. The only couple that I want to uh just reiterate that I sent out um this past week was this is the first time that I made this public. Um, but this is the Tim Johnson restitution summary and I did get a response uh from the DA and uh we'll know more on June 5th and I'm going to attend that hearing. Um but it came down
022to where this restitution um this number is the best guess that I could come up with that they needed for their um trial and also for their charges. So we'll see where where this goes. Um, but this is the first time that I've shared this publicly. Um, from a standpoint of trying to explain to our staff why we are deleting our compensation uh for them. The other one was um the email that I sent out um every year on May 15th, we're required by statute to offer contracts to our certified staff. Um, and so those were handed out using last year's summary and then just explaining to them. So I appreciate the staff uh putting their trust um in in us and and myself to make sure we uh as we budget for next year,
023we are looking at another quality raise. It's just a matter of working through some of these finer details. Um, with that said, is there any one of these the rest of the documents you have seen? Nothing has changed at the federal level uh with title six. Uh, the others in terms of the federal funding, we still have not heard any type of decision. It was kind of quiet last week um or last two weeks from the fed side of things. So, is there any questions on any of these? like that proposed 60% of sped reimbursement. Where does that put our sped costs? Does that get us to where the goal is or like where they might end up landing for final sped costs? I I don't I haven't ran those numbers, Jordan. Um but what
024I would say is we transfer from fund 10 to fund 27 1.1 million. And so if we would add another right now we're roughly at 27 28%. And so theoretically if you would just take that reimbursement um we'd probably be down to 700,000 that we have to take. So it would be a huge help, huge help. Um but one of the things you saw um him taking out his budget is the revenue ceiling and that was a big change last year but they were not willing to go that route. So we're still capped at the amount of revenue that we can take as a district. So um again don't hold me to that number but I would say 3 to 400,000 if they would go to the 60 mark. We were very cautious as superintendants
025that that I mean that's kind of really high in the sky. Thank you. Um you know if we get 40% that's still going to be a benefit to us um from 27. So we'll take whatever we can get. Um, but I I guess if I was to say how confident I am that they will actually follow through with the 60, I think it's it's on the lower end. Do you think that they include it in a tier system possibly to get it up to 60? Is there was there any dialogue about that? Uh, I have not heard that. Um, you know, they they talk about it as I talked about last time. It goes back to the time where Tony used his veto power and they're using that as a can we trust this process
026and this so they're being very careful of that dialogue but I haven't heard of any tier system like year one year two but they have done that you know in previous budgets when it comes to um you know first year you get so much per student you get so much per student but Tony kind of solidified that um with his veto pen last year. Um Deb and I are meeting uh constantly and we're we're going through um our current budget. Um it's again we're going to impose the April 1 deadline for again staff. If you haven't basically used your budget come April 1st, you're not going to most likely use it. And so for us, it's a getting a some headway in terms of so we can start wrapping books up um and preparing for
027our audit and seeing where are we when it comes to budget. Did we come close? But again, this year we have to go right up to June 30th to really see because we made some major changes to our budget. Any questions on any of that? It's really dynamic environment. So hopefully we get some of the variables figured out and then we can plug them into the model. Yeah. Yeah. Um I did as you um approved I did um put on the survey u the question about would you support an operating referendum? Um and but I move the year one more year down the road. And so again, it's going to create some discussion, which it should. Um, but there is not I don't see any other path in two years that we couldn't uh or
028that we wouldn't have to go to referendum based on current programming. So, we'll get um some feedback, you know, to just preliminary feedback to see where that is. Again, it's going to create some buzz, which is okay. Um, but I'd rather put it out there and understand that if they do have questions, they come to board meetings or come to the annual meeting and we'll constantly be talking about this. All right. Any questions? Okay. Um I don't know if you have heard but the WIA has approved and um the NIL rule uh which basically is I think we were state number 28 um that approved this. Now is it going to really affect us in Glennwood City? Um probably not. not near to where some of the other um areas such as Milwaukee and Madison
029and so on, but it could, you know, we have a variety of accomplished athletes. Um I could see it as at any point Mike's Auto Body could create a poster and and put, you know, a picture of a kid on there and give them 200 bucks. Now, that's legal. So, uh, we're working through, um, obviously you guys know our policy history. So, we're, uh, we're working with Neiola on policy. WIA is still working on their end in terms of what that looks like. Um, but I wanted to make sure that you were aware of that and there's a lot of things to yet figure out. Um, I'm sure all of us have our opinion when it comes to the NIL at the college level. It certainly has made some major changes at that level um
030for student athletes and um I think you're going to hear a lot of it in Wisconsin and other states um again I don't know how much it's really going to affect us here but I I could see it's going to happen at some point. So it look like based on the article that would have it kind of official again this month or maybe a published version. Yep. Yeah, they uh they didn't do a lot of pre-work. I don't know if they anticipated not passing or what, but um very similar to a lot of things where they're sailing the ship and building it at the same time. So, we should have some updates in terms of what those two major uh changes because the other change that was approved is basically there's unlimited coach contact except
031for football in the state of Wisconsin now. So, every sport can have unlimited contact before year round. One exception of July. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Um the concept is is that uh people were commenting and saying people were doing it anyway and there's truth to that. People quite a few programs were cheating per se. Um and they thought this was the best solution. But I think there has to be and there has been discussion with our coaches in terms of you know what does this look like? We want multiple um sport athletes. don't want to get um away from, you know, taking over time. Um our kids are busy if they're in sports, but we've had a kind of a calendar that head coaches, including myself, that, you know, Mondays are for this sport, Tuesdays are
032for this sport, and kind of work around that. Um and just but there's there's certainly discussions that we need to have so nobody goes crazy and consumes that time so kids can still enjoy their summer be with family etc. So it's another I would say um process that we have to wrap our heads around and build some expectations on. Any questions on either the NIL or the contact? I mean, it seems unlikely that any of our policies would be conflicting with the new rule, but um I mean a lot of it was, you know, kids can't be paid based on the performance of any competition. But I'm assuming after it's published then we kind of intersect the two just to make sure that they're not conflicting and that we're I would say you know even
033things that I've done um so my athletes have helped me at camps and um you know give the t-shirt and a freezy pop and some of those things you can't exceed the $25 amount. Um, so the NIL again, yeah, there's there's just different things that I know we haven't thought of that's going to happen and we have to be ready for some of those uh that may come up, but I think it's going to hit some other bigger communities before it hits us. So, but you never know. Again, Draxler Farms might put somebody's big face on a sign right outside. All right. Um, I wanted to make sure that you were aware of this. I did send this out on May 2nd. Um, this is quite the the blunder. Um, and I just wanted to
034open it up to questions. Um, this is not a mistake on any of our parts, but Excel Energy, uh, when they put the new, uh, meters up back in November, um, I believe they, uh, put what they told me was each box and the meter has a sticker and the the installer m mixed the stickers up. So, uh, kudos to Deb and Darla. They saw our bills and they were like, "Well, this, uh, this isn't really adding up." And so, um, and again, I'm not going to read you, you saw all the details. Um, so there is, uh, the reason I wanted to bring this up at a work session was if, uh, the public sees these bills for eight grand for energy, it's like, whoa, what are you doing? Are you And it's just
035kind of again I wanted to publicly make sure that people know that we're working with Excel um to try and remedy um the situation. We are going to have some bigger bills and especially when we do your financial audit um you'll see Excel for a large amount more than our typical um so again wanted to make sure that all parties knew why that is the case. So, um, yeah, that was the only question I had. Like, if we knew it was roughly 7,000 per month, then can we just acrew7,000 per month until we get the actual bill, then we'll reverse the approval, pay the bill, and then in that given month, it'll basically be a wash. Yeah, I'm I'm still working with their representative. Um, it's been very frustrating. I Sounds like we were asking
036and they weren't even No. and and I would send documents and they're like, you can't open them. I'm like, it's a PDF. I don't have it locked. I don't. And then it's just been very frustrating. So, I'm waiting for them on how they're going to actually remedy the situation. Um I have talked to Kent um our mayor via email just to again understand um because they especially with Sherry um not clerk anymore they didn't really catch it um and so they were surprised by this information too. So I will uh update you guys as much as I know and when it becomes available. Any questions on the Excel? Okay. Um, finally, um, I and I actually have an update uh, today within the last hour that I got from Mr. Revard who is a journalist
037asking some questions. Um but the analysis of our student cell phones. So um Miss Burch was ahead of this. Last fall we instituted our new changes. Um so I think we're ahead of the game just like most schools are. I think majority of schools have had something. But I did get an update that it passed the assembly and um they passed the bill today that requires school districts to adopt a policy essentially prohibiting wireless communication device usage. I put together a handful of questions and so I'm going to answer those questions. But again, making sure that it's on your radar because this is one of the bigger items that is going through the legislature um that we're, you know, for the most part were um already in line with what the legislators were talking. When
038they say complete ban, that's always been our questions as a superintendent. We were like looking at these legislators saying, "Well, what does that mean?" like they can't bring it into the building or they have to leave it in their locker or um and there's new technology out there. There's one school that I saw um they put it in these sleeves and the sleeves are locked all day long and they when they leave school they click this um it's almost like a you know when you buy clothes at a department store and it just clicks it and it opens it and the kids just line up and it's like a factory and they get their cell phone. So, there's still um language that needs to be determined and I'm curious. I I haven't even read his
039questions because I just got it um this afternoon, late this afternoon. So, uh we'll see what the assembly it still has to go through um the other um legislative um group and then we'll see what they institute. So, I don't know, Miss Burge, anything that you wanted to add? No. um not huge. I sat in on the um one of the I think DPI was zooming talk with administrators across the state and we all were invited to weigh in on this and I did sit in on one of the one of the opportunities. I think there were three across the state different times. Um, and I think it's it it mirrored, from what I heard, it mirrored close to what this shows. Um, that was early on in the year. And I think as this
040year has progressed, more schools, I don't have even changed mid year. Um at the beginning of the year there weren't so many that were on board with a full ban or even a kind of soft ban, but um it seems again as more information has come out about how harmful cell phones can be and bullying and all sorts of things um change changes have been made in schools. And so we're we're where we need to be, I think. But I I like that our voicings were taken into account and it seems as though the policies have been made or are being proposed that reflect what educators are saying, which is nice. How do the kids do with the latest policy being, you know, new this year? Were they pretty pretty receptive to it and respectful
041of it or did we have a lot of incidents where you know for the most part if someone said give me your phone it was give me your phone. The staff have been you know it's a slippery slope because if a student has a phone in their pocket and uh certainly female with their phone in their pocket and male staff member says you know I see your phone well why are you in my pocket? So I think that for us and for our language, it would be best if we said absolutely hard and fast or even if the the state said absolutely hard and fast, zero zero tolerance. I like that language because then it really doesn't start this slippery slope. you know, it it consistency matters and if students are allowed to use a
042phone in one place and a teacher reacts differently, then it's tough. Our middle school has been pretty good about nope, they're in your lockers. But I've noticed even now that there are um I see them more and we're good about taking them, throwing them in and here you go, you get in at the end of the day. And again, you know, I was surprised at the um I don't know how positively students responded when their phones were taken. Um but I I think that tightening it even a little bit more would help us. We have to do a better job as a staff because we're not consistent. And that that that has been a message that our admin has been sharing because I take phones almost daily and they're sitting on my desk. Um they've
043learned to now not walk past my door. Um but I'll when I'm out and about I'll just put my hand out. But um we have to be more consistent. As I was reading the bill here, um his first question said that the assembly bill um generally prohibits pupils from using wireless communication devices during instructional time. And so that would be basically what the policy says. Um the the part that I've always struggled with is um as superintendents we've discussed is this good or bad and I think we all agree cell phones are not conducive and they're not and even our students when this policy went they we had some students that are like it's actually nice because I don't I feel a little less connected. Um but we also have um classrooms and I was
044one of them in the business area where we would use them constantly um in terms of whether it was the camera for marketing or whether it was you know calculators or just looking up different things. So um my belief has always been teach responsibility. um the legislators um want because it's a it's a national thing and do we get push back from parents? Absolutely. And now we are able to say and and Miss Burch and and the board and um all of us took a little bit of heat when this went through just because you guys know the biggest um culprits when it comes to texting during the day, right? It's parents. Parents are the ones that are texting their kids. And so just trying to create some of that disconnect and I get it.
045We're all busy and so forth, but um this is going to give us an oversight in terms of this is statute. This is what we have to have. Um but I think we could all do better in terms of um years ago when the phones were not smartphones. They could still text and I bet Jordan was one of them where he could text in he could text in his pocket. Um, we had kids that they could because of the way the phone was set up, they could actually text in their pocket. And I'm like, how do you I was a um, yeah, I just was blown away how many students could actually send coherent messages by texting in their pocket. Now, they can't do that because they got to see the screen. But, um, I
046think, uh, again, we'll we'll see what the language is and then we'll adjust the policy. that states before July of 2025. So this is not a topic that uh you won't see in the next couple months. I can tell you that it has significantly reduced the amount of discipline issues that I see for um for bullying, for posting, for posting on TikTok because many of those things they are now happening outside of school and the kids are not bringing it into school. If it is, if it's causing issues in the school, we can then address it. But it has really really reduced the amount of like visits I have about that which is helpful. Are we tracking the number of incidents at all where phones have to be taken? Is there a metric that is
047being captured? Are parents advised when their student um crosses that line? when they need to. Yes. There's uh we're trying to this summer work through so we uh we've been paying the district has been paying for years um software called Edge Climber and Edge Climber um basically is a portal to take data and disseminate it into graphs and things like that. Um, one of the things as we start to track, Skyward does not do a good job when it comes to tracking within the Skyward system. Um, but we're going to be instituting where we put our data into um through Skyway that will talk with any puts into these nice graphs um where the behavior areas are. Cell phones can be one of them. So again, there's a learning process to that and making sure
048the expectation is out there with staff. You can take this, this is what happens. Um, but yeah, I would agree with Miss Bur this year compared to last year with cell phones. Yeah, huge difference. Huge difference in the policy big leader in that category. All right, any questions on the cell phone piece? Okay, that's all I have. So, one general question I guess before we get into the agenda. I know like last month we had a good kind of strategy vision kind of topic in the in the content of the agenda. Is that something that's recurring or I know we talked about like some of those pillar focus sessions. Do we have that as an ongoing agenda as far as how we Well, next month I'm coming. So after you do the June um or
049let's say retreat, whatever you want to call it with um WSB. Um one of the questions that I have for you is what structure would you like to see? Um I think I've I've said in my opinion um and I'm fine with however the setup is, but like these work sessions. Um, and every board does it a little bit different, whether it's, you know, separate nights, whether it's the same, whether they don't have one. Um, I want to have the discussion, but I want you to go through the WSB training first to understand like what's out there and then go from there. But to to your point, absolutely. I mean, we have to have those discussions. Um my suggestion as you know is that every other month we have a work section dedicated to the
050pillars. We have six of them where we can do deep dives and that's the only thing that we need to think about and dive into but um I wanted the WSB platform to be presented first and then have that discussion. So board retreat I think like casinos or cruises, right? Not necessarily training couple hours. Well, you're you're going to get a meal, but you're going to be sitting in this room. So beautiful sky. There's a picture. So just got to get Steve in there. I remember standing next to him. She's facing taller. Exactly. Ka. All right. Is there uh anything else questions otherwise we can take a little break and use the facilities. Uh we do have a lighter agenda um for once. Um so uh we'll get into that later. Um but any other
051questions I can answer any of the uh items? We won't deviate. Um but this time is kind of a give you some updates from this model. All right, we'll come back at 6:30 then. Christa, can you make Jordan a little less pretty? Maybe make his hair less perfect. I took a shower for you guys today. I usually work at home and don't send anybody all day long. So, this is the one excuse I have to get. There is a meal for you. So, there's an opportunity. What is it? It's like a chicken biscuits like biscuit gravy vegetable medley. There's some scones. I think so. Oh, I got that. It's like a pot pie. He can Yeah. So that's something crazy. Yes. Because the more he at the county fair, they have a lot of a
052banking contest that is separate from the Yeah. from like the entries and stuff and the winning ones from each county get to go and represent their county as a state and I entered it every year. Well, one year it was muffins and one year it was a bun cake and I I won the bun cake and every other year I had to come in to No, my cherry pie came in second place and it's always second place to um the maze for the same Yeah, except for the bunny cake. I won and when I after I won the cake, I did bring in good. Oh, then I did. But this year's competition is already does it. Bread, beer, and cheese. My wife just told me that mine expired. A lot of it was pretty high
053level stuff. [Music] We I don't understand. What's that? Oh, I didn't make it. Um Tori Strong or makes it for us. Yeah. Yeah. I will pass your thanks along. I don't think so. I had a meeting [Music] very structured approach and it's really dry almost halfway through. Sure. [Music] I just Huh? That's have. Yeah. tornado. Yeah. My my wife called me from the floor of the book room by the library. Where are you? I'm planting corn. Why? What's up? There's a tornado on my back. I better just finish this field quick and then I'll go get in a steel and wood shed or heavy. I've seen you run into a shed full of blades. Yeah. Are you sure that wasn't that was the name of the documentary? It was actually too twisters. Twisters the vacuum.
054I saw and I'm like this is rude like actually like tore up by metal. I did. I started it. [Music] I did see that over by or something. Yeah. Hey, how's it going? Our barn collapsed and the first winter we were in the barn and something like 90 cows under that was 1996 the first we were in the barn Christmas Eve 96 wings have one or was somebody else's I remember I wouldn't Don't for Those cell phone cages are getting very popular at lots of the comedy shows and concerts and things like that. The uh Joe Rogan has he built a mothership in Austin, Texas and when you walk in your keep it and at the end you give them back to the college. Right. All right. I am going to call the school board
055meeting school district to order. Um, members are present with the exception of Steve Davis this evening. Um, and next is the board financial audit. You want to go first? I'll go first. Um, I had Miss Newman pull three uh texts. One was for Verizon and it was actually avoided because it was made out to the wrong Verizon because we have different Verizon vendors. This one was made out to the Verizon North instead of Verizon wireless. But just look at that bill and check. The other one was for professional speech therapist. Everything was in order there signed and signatures the way it's supposed to be. The next one was uh interesting. It was a reimbursement for one of our students who is a member of the apprentichip. So we talked about that a little bit. Um,
056students are renting up to $500 that they can be reimbursed for supplies for things for their furniture. Anything from tools to scrubs to work boots, um, things like that. So, I just looked over one of those. Um, so the the student had brought back a receipt um, with their purchases on it and this one was cool. Um, and then it was signed off by their uh advisor and uh went through the process and they were reimbured for that. But so those were those were all good. All right. I um looked at one for an educator grant and I talked about this one. It's a different type of grant. Um she actually emailed me afterwards to get a little bit more information because I said, "Well, what do you support?" who is the educator effectiveness grants
057and looks if I guess we get the money we pay it and we get money back from the grant or something so it's a little bit different for her but we use the funds to the funds can be used to cover the cost associated with system development training software support resources and ongoing assignment and we currently use it for our Aristotle K12 license because I I'll explain it a little bit um because it's one the educator effective grants by statute gives you uh reimbursement and uh Glenwood city does not use front line and so typically districts will be reimbursed up to $25 per teacher to use frontline which is the kind of the it's where you put in documents and so forth and it's a true evaluation system. um Glenwood doesn't use that and I
058was surprised at terms of like what do we use and it was more of a Google system but it wasn't necessarily implemented with fidelity. Um so with that uh we get up to a certain amount and hear it equal out to like 4600 and so in terms of let's at least use that and then use it towards a Google our Google platform so we don't lose out. Um but as we've talked about before, we're looking at our E process, making sure um just kind of looking at a new system. Uh front lining is a little bit cumbersome and so there's certainly things in there that I think are overdone. Um but we're discussing different ways to properly evaluate and understand that there's a feedback system and what that looks like per statute. So, it's still
059in the works and we're working through some more details this summer on that topic. I did respond to her uh email. She did send me the invoice. She said it was from last year, but the one she actually sent me is from 23. Y um but I assume that that's a yearly thing that we just renew and the grant is ongoing or Yes. Yeah. It's by statute and so it's it is one of the funded mandates that actually they came through with. Um, but as far as how we utilize that, we're still working through what our ease system really truly looks like. Yeah. Um, and then I pulled um one for Amazon just because it was a little interesting. It says it was a redo PO. Did you see that? No. The way it was
060worded on there was interesting. It just says redo of last approved PO as more projects came in. So, I just inquired about that and that was actually for the city science. And so, um, it all went fine. She said that their plan is to switch it to fun 21 hopefully next year. So, they can really see the ins and outs as they continue to do these community service projects where they can see what they've spent on it and they're not looking to make any money. They just want what they spent on. It's currently fun. It is. And it's difficult to because we need to have the material. Um, and we have to have the material up front and so it's difficult to make sure that you have the correct material and are we doing time
061of materials? Are you doing any sort of labor? Are you doing anywhere in here on our um equipment things like that? And so it we're not this is the first time that we've had big jobs like that that we're we're hiring ourselves out. And so it's a little Yeah. So she said she's such an elder current to see if she can switch to a fun line by line detail. Yeah. And there's actually the E was not coded properly in the past years. So we had to go searching in terms of where that should should be. Um one of the process that we've talked about as a board, you know, um the previous accountant actually would just take money and move it from fund to fund. Well, that requires board approval and so you really try
062to limit those um changes throughout the year. So, yeah, that's part of the process. Um and then making sure is we had quite a few mistakes between fund 21 um balances weren't correct and then where are some of these things coming from and properly identifying them. And then the other one I pulled was a check um to Denver River Falls. Um I believe it's for our early credit, college credit for a couple students. Um my only question with that and it no one I don't expect to was do they have a passing grade for us to then pay that? Is that part of the early credit? It depends on Yes, they do. Okay. Um, we depending on what that check was, we either were paying for their tuition or we're we're paying we pay for
063their textbooks. So, however, yeah, I think this is actually the tuition. So, I there were a statement that came back that Yep. of the classes that they enrolled in. And if they don't earn a passing grade, they need to pay us back. Okay. And that has happened um because these are older students, what the agreement is is they have to pay us back before they graduate. Gotcha. Otherwise, they don't. Yeah. So, and yeah, that was your We're gonna actually talk more about that same topic in the business section. So, does anybody have any questions for your goals? Some feedback on the the student kind of led activities where we're doing estimating and and from a project management standpoint. That would be kind of a good experience to outline an estimate and say here's your time,
064materials, costs and kind of program project manage it front to back and be able to provide that summary to the board for those types of audit purposes would be good educational experience and also help clarify for us too experience. I think that I would say what we encountered this year was is I don't know whether we call it a perfect storm or um an interesting scenario and in that we have a lot of machines that can do a lot of things. We have an instructor that has the capacity to use them and students that we're getting up to speed. you know, we haven't had students on these machines before. So, we are able to put out some really great products, but I think the emphasis, if I'm being real honest, I think the emphasis was
065more on can we get them on these machines and get them going and make sure that they're operating them. And so, I think going forward that I'd like to see that too because that's a huge piece of business. That's a huge piece of making projects. Um, understanding what time of the materials is and estimating. That's a really important piece. I think it was more instructorled this year. But I think that is a it is an important focus. Even if it's not super applicable, just an introduction, you know, I still get confused by race and stuff like that, right? But just to know that those kind of things are out there. Yeah. Or the computer classes, but those take on that piece. Like, you know what I mean? Because like I'm a worker B. I probably
066don't know anything about financials, but people that are in that accounting piece, maybe they take on that piece of or that, you know, the combination of the business and marketing. Yeah. Doing that, right? And we have talked with the CTE department about wouldn't it be great to have that big collaboration of you are marketing our projects you are doing the pricing and then we're we're making okay that's it I'm added that's it y all right uh so next up is the approval of the agenda so I'll entertain a motion for the approval of the agenda motion is made by Jody second I'll Second by Chuck. Any further discussion hearing? None. All those in favor say I. I. Say no. Motion carried. Next up is our open forum procedures. Anybody in the gallery wants to have
067a chit chat. Okay. All right. Next up is the consent agenda. Item A is advanced from the 2028 25 meeting. Approval of March 2025 financial statement. C. Approval of April 2025 financial statement. E is the approval of April 2025. He is the approval of professional staff resignation Giani. F is the approval of support staff resignation of Jason Strong. Uh G is the approval of support staff resignation Kathy Hansen. H is approval of professional staff hire Michelle Svin. I'm assuming she only has two L's, not three L's in her name. Okay. All right. Uh I is the approval of professional staff Morgan Kalenbach. Uh J is approval of school psychologist 6603 agreement with Boyceville. K is the approval of SLP6603 agreement with Boyceville. L is the approval of portable stage risers and stairs. M is the
068approval of hubish. Hitch. It's all in the hitch. Okay. Contract. Um N is approval of 500 mile quick donation for GCE field day. O is the approval of 404 hours from rods and rides donation to Mr. Keen's classroom. P is the approval of Glenwood City, Wisconsin DMA grant contract. O is the approval of Skyward 2025.6 contract and honors the approval of Bloodwood City FA to attend the nextG agricultural education conference. Any questions on of anybody on those items? Would like to point out so the recommendation for the stage risers. It's a rather large moment and I wanted to make sure the board was aware of why and how we got to this moment. Um, I did verify, it was interesting because I was meeting with, uh, Tammy Ericson, um, who most of you know, graduated
069from City, and she stated that those are the same risers that she used back in the 1980s. Um, and Ryan confirmed, and Miss Burch knows that it took literally a day to put these risers together. um and duct tape, bubble gum, and um some shims and zip ties. Um they were just not as safe. Um and so we've been looking um for something that was reasonable but also multifunctional and so um we did order these. Um we had them for graduation. Um I am seeking approval you know post but understanding that from a safety standpoint uh they were not legal uh per se. Um not only did the risers come with uh stairs um they were actually help put together by uh students. Um we ended up giving them um some food to uh um
070celebrate their accomplishment. Um but overall these are going to be used they were paid through a 50/50 between fund 80 and fund 10 and the reason being is we can use it for um events. We actually have a request for the rodeo to have their pageant here in the gym. We also have um the rustic lore looking to use the gym next year because of the technology and I think uh from a standpoint of the scholarship night um some of the changes that were made for that it was uh went very well. So it is a large ticket item. We did have one thing that did not come in in that um if you were at graduation, which all of you were, um you saw that we have two juniors that uh are um the
071individuals that hold hands while they're coming up and down. Um that's more of a safety piece. Um and we need a proper stairs that actually goes up that has railings and so forth. And so, uh, we're going to be getting rid of those wooden things that, um, they've served us well, um, but they're not as safe as they could be. Um, so we have stairs. They were ordered. They just didn't, uh, those show up. This, uh, I believe they were pushed back because of production. Um, so again, um, instead of the wood structures and the old risers, uh, we have an updated piece. They also are now on carts and so we can take them back and forth. Storage is a lot simpler. Just overall it's a it's a much much better process in place.
072So I wanted to make sure that you understood why and how we got to this point. So any questions on that recommendation? I was going to keep the ushers. They added a lot of color. Weren't they fun? I'm sure we can still keep them. They enjoy their job. That was going to be the first question about could we use fun and it sounds like we're at the half of it. So that's good. At least we're happy with it. Yeah, I was comfortable um knowing that from a community standpoint, we're going to get more and more individuals and entities that want to use our facilities and we're working on a policy process to support that. But um just because of the gym setup, technology, etc. And it's already happening with two entities. We've always had rest
073of glory as you know, but um the rodeo um heard the what we can offer. So we have them coming in August. Um we'll get one. All right. Um anybody inclined to make a motion on the consent agenda? He says one more question on the voice bill that's shared in those contracts. There wasn't really any detail on how we're sharing or splitting the time. I think one was 50/50 and the other was 6040. So, is there any detail on, you know, who's where, when, and like some of that detail is how we share those resources versus just a straight company? Go ahead. Um the um school psych will be two days a week and so far right now we are looking at doing um Tuesday Thursdays with every other Friday just because this will be
074actually an increase in services for school psych. Um so we right now Miss Barker is two days a week. Um so we'll actually increase by you know that half a half a day. Um but um just to make it more convenient so it's not going back and forth for half a day. We um kind of agreed agreed upon just doing two Fridays a month. Um and we'll sit down um this summer and look at what Fridays um plus we have a very good relationship where we go there's extra evaluations, there's extra assessments, could we maybe work something out where we need you this Friday instead of that Friday and we will go that way as you know. Yep. and SLP um actually um Becky Hannistad and I were discussing they're because of how they are
075looking. So um right now Jenna Valic is here in that position as a point4 and her days right now are Tuesday Thursdays. So that's where our switch is is happening. Um and she is moving over to boys full full-time over there. Um and Kaisa is going to be coming over here in that 0.4 and she had um actually covered Jenna's maternity leave. So we do know her um and the students know her over here already. Um but within that move um Miss Hannist needs her over there for the early childhood portion on Mondays and Tuesdays. So what we are looking at doing is just switching up her days and um maybe doing a Wednesday and Friday over here for that. the other portion uh when it comes back to the school site. So these people
076don't really exist and if they do exist um they're taken by CISAs that can offer higher salaries and cars and some other perks that uh school districts usually cannot. Um the individual that we have is actually um not done with school. um they're an intern and which is typical um with individuals because it takes quite a bit of schooling to be a school site. So she is going to be supported by Miss Parker um who we all enjoy working with and she will be her mentor um with another side contract that will come to you in June um because of the the mentoring hours that are required. So, this individual actually won't graduate until next summer, not this summer, but next summer. Um, and again, that contract will be coming. Um, and then the rest
077did it job of explaining. So, it really just we you get the the overall 6603 and then the the usually the people services or student services individuals dictate, you know, what the schedule looks like. So then this kind of joint uh site is temporary until you'll see candidates for certification then and then voice will get her back full time and then we'll have our own or how does that so the funny thing is is this school Bonnie had Bonnie has been in individual or separate contract Bonnie works for Boyceville right now too so she's shared already but she's retired seven times by now I think so she's just she loves her job she still if this would not have worked out, she would have continued to work for us if we would not have found
078a school psych. Um she's just at that point. So this is actually probably best case scenario for Bonnie herself is being able to mentor this person. Um this school site has been um she technically graduated but has to do the internship as her last piece of this. So she's coming to us from the Milwaukee um uh University of Milwaukee. I cannot think of the exact name of it. That could be um but she is very new. This is just the last step. So it's like um if I were doing my student teaching um but for school sites, it's that extra piece, but she has grad. It's just that final piece for her. So no matter what, she needs her internship. So next year at this time, she will just be full-time shared between us two.
079Oh Okay. So, no. So, we'll still be sharing going forward. Correct. Yes. So, 60 especially for the new board member 6603 is typical. It's a sharing agreement between schools. So, uh we have a variety of those. Uh we do one with manual arson with our OT with Spring Valley. So, it's you're going to see more especially as we progress because districts are really starting to put partnerships together because we don't necessarily need full-time individuals. Any other questions on any of the items on the agenda? I was just going to say it with handy to have the uh financial statements for the past two weeks, especially as one month I think we netted reducing 700,000 in the fund in the general fund and then the next week I think we added 800,000. Yeah. And we're still
080um Deb is doing a great job and we're still trying to catch up um you know again when and it's it's not excuse it's it's just fact where you're doing three audits and just constantly putting and we're coming up with a new report um that we will institute as far as what you guys see in terms of accounts payable um and we're just going to be making some of those changes. So, um, yeah, it's been, uh, it's been catchup entire this entire last year. So, typically, uh, once we get going here, we should be able to make it more, I would say, on time what you're seeing. Energy. Yeah, that's right. Well, and the other part of that is DPI is always behind. So, our revenue always comes in. typically later it's government and uh
081you're going to see and that's why a lot of schools do short-term borrowing. We don't do short-term borrowing. Um we're in a good position because of our fund balance to be able to do that. So um again once we get everything kind of figured out the those two documents will be more up to date. So make a motion to approve the consent agenda asended. Motion on the table by Jerry. Is there a second to that? Second by any further discussion here. None. All those in favor say I. I. Say no. Motion. Next up is our administrative reports. And want to go first. All right. Um, so I was going through and was looking at all of our evaluation and IEP meetings this year. We've had special education 141 evaluation or IEP meetings this year. So
082far, I still have a couple in the next few um the next couple of weeks to finish up the year. Um, that is with Miss Barker um conducting 42 evaluations or re-evaluations. This year we've had approximately and I I tried to go back and but instead of um I think total we've had 17 new referrals but that does not mean that they've all qualified. That's within this full year. Um so that was a nice eyeopener for um you know to look at everything. Um, so I believe Miss Burch sat in on one for me. Um, but otherwise, um, Miss Barker and I have LEA for all of our meetings this year. Um, so nice to see. Um, one of the benefits this year is that um, a good discussion that came up was making sure
083that our our dates matched up. So if our meetings were our evaluations were offset because of a odd date or they were pushed forward a little bit, we tried to make sure that we moved our IEP and our emails up so that parents didn't have to come in two months later for another meeting. We tried to make sure that we had all the meetings together. That was less time for our parents to have to come in or even our staff members. everything was together and that probably saved well you see 42 evaluations that would have been 42 more IEP meetings that our staff members would have had to have hold and another LEA to be in on above the 141. Yep. So making sure that our dates match up our evaluations all that is very
084important for now going forward that number should be about the same so that those dates are all together. Um, so just making sure, but what offsets that is something that um, maybe a request for another meeting, which is no big deal. We always do those, but having an evaluation date that doesn't necessarily line up with an IEP date, but making sure that we go, okay, this evaluation is at this time. If your IEP is two months later or vice versa, we just make sure is it okay to do that evaluation of that IEP at the same time and we bring those dates together. Um so successful year with that. Um but that does make you know some of those meetings can get long. um but very informative for everyone there and using all that appropriate
085data to make sure that we're doing um our due diligence by creating goals that are supporting our students and making sure that they're in the room that they need to be. Um the next one was a picture that got sent um to Mr. Olsen and I by Miss Pastel. Her students had earned a pizza party by reading a combined 2700 minutes at home. That was nothing at school. that was all at home. So, just something fun to share. Um, they went uh she went and got pizza and some soda and they just had a nice party after um trying to make sure that they were engaging outside of school in the regular. Our biggest feat sometimes is making sure that middle school age is engaging in books and reading independently um when they're not here
086at school. making sure that they find something that they're interested in enough to continue doing it after they walk out the door. Um, so that was a big thing for them. Um, they really enjoyed um, you know, I think back to um, the book thermometers. She had one of those in her in her room and they really enjoyed bringing those minutes in and filling that up in order to earn this. So that I feel like sometimes that um brings it back to those core memories of the book at pizza personal pan pizzas. Um and then I'm going to skip right down to our successful um tiny t and hill for hangtime program. Um Beth and her crew are geared up for summer. Um, one of the big things um that we see coming is registrations
087for babies. So, as I was looking at and speaking with Beth about there are babies from September into February, as we have discussed in the past, um that max baby group size is eight over at Tiny Tops. So, she has five registered to start from September to February. So that group as they age out that age kind of keeps going. So we have the 0ero to one age, the one to two age and then the two to three. So they kind of age out and then that three-year-olds they come on over here. So right now um we have three children aged um ready to um excuse me um five for 0 to one September to February and then three for the one to two group June through August and then there is one um staff
088child that will We I'm not quite sure on the date on that one yet. I think they're waiting to see if they're going to stay home for the summer or maybe get some days in the summer, too. So, that number is growing. I believe by December, we will probably be up to the 28th mark over at Tiny Tops, which is very nice. Um, but another reason that we want to get that last job spot filled um over there because we will definitely need it to stay in ratio. And then the Hill Topper hang time summer registration. Last year I think we capped out at 72 registrations, but they weren't there every day. The full crew um they average between 55 and 60 every day. This year so far they have 70 registrations. And I'm saying
089so far because she always gets more um up until summertime and sometimes that very first day. Um, her days are all planned out. They've been they've had that planned out for quite a while. Now they start working on it while the snow is still on. Um, some of their adventures look like the tropical adventure Crayola experience. Every Monday is make it Mondays with crafts. Every Wednesday is water Wednesdays and then Fridays are the ice cream trucks and then Tuesdays and Thursdays are their field trip days. Sometimes it's the parks. I believe some of the big events are that Crayola experience and there's a Thanksgiving day as well. So, she has every day planned, but they do have their downtime too where they on the days where they're here and they have to stay here because
090of the weather, they have great indoor activities all set up. So, and the space is available to do that now with that great space downstairs where they're able to stay in and have the space to move around. the space. Um we were pushed towards the end of May concrete. So within the next couple weeks goal with a concrete to get those slabs for so um it's in the works. Um unfortunately that is going to tie into the community celebration. Mhm. Okay. So it it will be lined off and fenced off. will be fine. But that was the time that they could do that. So to get those uh what is it? Water Wednesdays. Water have that ready to go. It's longer than I but it's just big fonts and pictures. So don't worry. I should
091make actually. Yes. she um so Jamie is not able to be here tonight. So um what she was shared and she does a nice job of both her and Marcy do a great job of updating our staff uh with their own type of update every Sunday night it goes out so they know planning for the week. Another thing that Jamie does is you have seen I know some of you if you haven't been on these newsletters um will get you on that list but she takes and creates these um in the know with the principal and so we updated uh the three from May um in and that was her update for this. So when you get a chance just look at those great communication tools for the elementary um I just did a little
092bit of a overview. You know, I've talked before about spring and how it ends up being a little bit crazy and I wanted to share with you. We're talking about communication and and this year um we started a month at a glance calendar. Many school districts, bigger school districts that are in Hudson and we get a a calendar that says this is happening on this day and you've got this whole year. And we've not had that. But the longer I've been here, the more that we have kept track of those reoccurring things and started to develop this calendar and we have them already in the works for next year so that we can see that whole picture. Um, and people for planning purposes can have an idea of what's happening when. So the first thing
093you'll see is just this I wanted you to see what May looks like in the staff versus eyes and all of the different the meetings that are happening the um the track dismissals I'm looking at that the field trips the testing all of those things so every day so it was just more of an so that you can look at that through the lens of of a staff person um I Take the next scroll. That next piece was we're finishing our fastbridge assessments. That was part of our district goal to have um to to have I'm thinking aggressive normal or no typical or aggressive growth was our um school district goal in reading and math on the fast bridge assessment. So once we're complete, we're going to know how we're doing on, you know, eight
094of our students have shown that growth. So um 6 through 12 are working on those right now. Our seniors are taking AP exams. Most can talk a little bit about different options that we have, but that is um one of our we don't offer the AP class in the building. We do also offer our students the opportunity to take AP classes through the staff and virtual school. So these are all of the different exams that our students are taking and some are um two or three students and some [Music] are the next piece was farm in the Glenn. This was um a post I think and so many of these things are we are able to post. I think that this day is is good for a number of reasons. It's so it is so
095fun to see all of our students K12 going down there and checking out the animals. Um but what it does for the students in the A department is gives them another opportunity to showcase their skills on a different level to educate others and that's that kind of highest level of internalizing your education and being able to share that with others. So, they're educating our K12 students on the things that they do and what it takes to put what it takes to successfully care for an animal. What I did not know is there was going to be alligators this year, which is fun. And is that photoshopped? Nope. I'm actually hanging on to the I brought him up to your office because you weren't there. We'll find him sometime. I know he's got away. I don't
096know. Is that like an emerging leader in Wisconsin agriculture? Alligator alligator farming just farm in the Glenn plus alligators. I don't know. But they live right across the street. So maybe they just left out. One of the things that we talk a lot about is college and career readiness. And I wanted to show you what our eighth graders, this is one of the field trips that they do yearly, college ventures. in Oaklair and learn all about different careers. This is more of a hands-on opportunity for big huge events. This is one of the things that they can do is take that bingo card and and interact with all of the different you they have opportunities to stop and as you can see stop and learn what it means to be a firefighter, learn what it
097means to be. So there's there's trades, but there's also there's business and industry. This is one of the first opportunities that we do when we take our eighth graders and have gotten two years in a row. We I have gotten personal communication back. Not this year. I don't know what that means, but not this year, but I have gotten personal communication back from either organizers or presenters that have said that our students have been so well-mannered and polite. And that's always nice to hear. That's good feedback. I've been to a few tech fairs where you can tell the kids just read the questions that you know teachers have kind of pre-written for them and they just read it and write the response and getting some feedback on how we're doing. You know some of these
098they're really good. we are we are whether our kids are really really that good which is what I like to believe or that people do just they do a very nice job of communicating those things and maybe that's because we need to hear it and they know we need to hear it but we really receive a lot of great feedback we just received you know we were talking about the tornado we just received an email from Kax superintendent yeah that said um our athletes were in Kax and sheltered there and just what a a nice bunch of kids they were, how polite, how respectful. Um, you get feedback from ours and refs and it's always nice to hear that. Um, I've said over and over, I'm generally not worried about taking our kids anywhere because
099they really they do a nice job. They I'm pretty proud of them. Um, the next thing I put on there is our scholarship night. that I wanted to feature this as opposed to Fox 9 because both I mean we know that they both happen but um Fox 9 has already gotten some air time tonight. So I included this because if you didn't see it if you weren't a part of that night um $375,000 close to awarded to our students. Now, that's a portion of um colleges awarding scholarships to our students, but it's also those private scholarships um tuition waiverss and things like that, military, but that's a that's a big number and that's really impressive for our kids. It was it's a it's a great night. It always ends up being a night, but it's
100important. It's important to recognize the the donors that give us those generous gifts and all the students that have worked hard to and if you don't know about this and I I don't want to go into this at length, but if you don't know how the process works, please ask or how how we do things. But some of those are some of the scholarships are decided upon internally by a committee and we have six or seven members that fit on the committee and and we go through the applications and make sure all of the kids are are qualified for the scholarships that they have applied for. And it's a it's a it's a process and I will say that we have I put Casey and Samantha on there um work tirelessly to make sure that
101that night goes off seamlessly as well as our Yeah. And Chuck said this year's community um I don't know if you want to talk about the choosing process. Sure. Um I I guess this is scholarship. Everybody has their their um their achievements, their essays and uh some community members. Um Miss Burge uh the the guidance counsel get input from one another. Um, you know, there's a couple times it's like, well, I didn't know this about this kid and and it's like, you know, I think that, um, the community does a good job of of supporting these kids and trusting that to us and, you know, to to to go out and and uh, I encourage any of you next year, I won't be able to do it because R will get all the money. So,
102some of you do it instead. Thank you. Um, so I wanted to just kind of it's a great way to we are able to showcase our culinary arts students and they work with us to devel develop a budget and prepare um light appetizers for the evening who were featured on a clear A channel 15 for our signing signing day and that has gotten a little bit bigger and it's a pretty a great way to recognize those students that are going out to those collegate things and now they're going to make a whole bunch of money on posters because there's a new law that says they can. Um, I This is probably one of my favorite pictures and one of the most fun things that we have added to our walk of honor. We included the
103kindergarten students this year and to see our seniors in the hallway as we're getting all lined up inside. And I I screen grabbed this from the video because I don't have our photos yet of the kids in line, but our seniors taking these little guys pants and even if they didn't know them or know, you know, they were so fantastic. And we've got these big big seniors and little little kindergarteners and they were so wonderful with them and reassuring and they're talking to them, they're high-fiving, and it was absolutely fantastic. So when we do that walk of honor, we have music on the overhead and parade the students through and our kindergarten students had caps and gowns and it was fantastic. And some of them were like this part, should do we do we hang
104on to them? Do we hang on their hands? What are we supposed to do? And you can see they're grabbing them and just lead them through this. It was it was wonderful. It really was. It was fun to fun to see. There was about every emotion that you could imagine. There was tears. There was and this again to what Miss Burks said when you saw the the role model opportunity and then just the opportunity to see that we're graduating and in some years I'm sure they were. So it was we had teachers and staff members and kids crying and happy and it was just uh it was pretty powerful. Yeah. Yeah. Whose idea was this? Or did somebody see it from somewhere else? Um Jamie and I had seen it. Jamie sent it and I'd
105seen it. I it circulated on social media and we've seen it about the same time and thought there was a signing day and there was there was this and just thought it' be a great thing to do. Um and now once we've done it, we realize, you know, once the first time you do something, how are we going to line up? Where are we going to line up? where are we going to stand? And Jamie and I both kind of like we're gonna find a place and we're going to walk through and it's going to be cute and it's okay. I can hear Chris on the video. I don't know where she wants it. And that's, you know, at the end of the day, we know that we're all like I said to you at
106graduation. The kids are going to show up and they're going to it's going to happen and it's going to be great. And the kindergarten gowns, do they get to keep them or are they staying here in the school forever? Okay, perfect. They do have one request to change next year. These high school kids wanted to see the kindergarters. So, they want them to come all the way through. They saw some of the pictures and they're like and then the little ones come to the big deal. Um, this was the night before graduation. when I was here when we laid and Krist had a somebody had a picture similar to this but this is one of I think I think I've taken a picture like this every year and it just you know everything's ready and
107it's that night before and it's quiet and you know that that next day uh things are going to change things are going to change for their kids and it really as difficult sometimes as our seniors can be and I think they do that to help us with our separation issues from them. They start to ramp up a little bit and then we go, "Oh, yep. Time time to go. Here you go." Um, they really, they're a good group. They listened when they needed to. They did what they needed to do. Um, I was just I was very proud of of how they how they worked. Um, this is, like I said, it was here. There was 48 seniors that walked. One chose not to. um and one will she'll be finished by the end of
108the summer. This year our number of students with HSED diplomas was four and that's pretty high for us. That's the highest number since we've been here and it's just students that either come to us that um have a deposition or come to us and you know they need another option and it was it worked out well for these students. Um, and so I included a little bit that you can look at about the HSSE and what that is on your time if you'd like to know more. Of course, you can always ask questions. There was so many people that helped at graduation and setup and and we changed it as you know to Friday evening. It's the first time we've done that. Um, it it takes a lot of work. We moved the award ceremony
109a week earlier which was also a change this year. Um, there were so many kids that jumped in during the day to help and do and get set up. And it it was it really it takes a village to put on something like that. And again, heartwarming, but at the end of the day, our kids really they jump in and they do and it's great. I'm very proud of them on a lot of levels. So, just a little bit more for me and and all those thank yous. And if you have any questions, please always ask. Otherwise, my seven pages is done. Um, on the high school graduation, was there like a um suggestion by parents that wanted Friday night or what was the reason for changing? We talked about, you know, from a standpoint
110of looking at the scholarship night and how to incorporate more families into that. We're looking at the the, you know, partnering those up. Um, Miss Brooks and I are going to sit down and kind of reflect and also talk with the juniors and seniors or excuse me, goodbye seniors and just, you know, what are some of the the drawbacks? What are some of the advantages? Uh, we also have, you know, parties. We still have every season going on. So, we have these celebrations going on, but we we have quite a few that are there's baseball, softball, track, and they're trying to get these parties in, and there's just a lot going on. So, we're going to sit down and reflect. A lot of schools do Friday night, majority of schools, I would say, not a
111lot of due Saturdays. Um, so it was worth a try. Um, and then we'll reflect and kind of go from there. I wouldn't say it came from one specific spot. It's been a thought for a while. Um, and how that would look, you know, getting the kids back on a Saturday or taking that time from families and when they could have parties, you know, it's just, it was a how about we try this and let's see how it goes. It's one of the, you know, we don't have to do what we've always done because we've always done it. What about this? Um, there were things that I really really liked and some maybe some challenges that can be tweaked going forward. From my experience, one of the best parts which we weren't able to do
112was where the graduates line up outside. That's what I was thinking. You just get to it's it's nice. It's comfortable because it was hot. Um, and we don't have air conditioning. Uh, which we pumped in as much cold air as we possibly could, but that was one missing. And as you guys were going back to your seats, I went outside and it was lightly sprinkling. And I'm like, I could just picture Grandma So and So yelling that, "Why not go outside?" Um, so Miss Burch had plan B available, which was inside. But I think that's that's one of my I've done majority of my graduations on a Friday night and that's one of the best parts is it's just it be outside and congratulate and so on and unfortunately the weather just didn't work out.
113I think the only thing that I heard a little some people ask like how how how was it determined or was there a survey and I'm like I I don't know if if there was a survey because in the past it's always kind of been like you know then next the upcoming senior parents they put put a survey out to ask them what they were looking for. Did we we didn't do that this year this time we just made the choice. No and I okay because people ask I go I'm not really sure how it came about. It's um I've also never heard that there's been a survey as long as I've been here about the date of graduation. Yeah, I thought it worked out. Oh, I'm not I'm not complaining. I was just like
114I just had people asking about it because they were kind of expecting a kind of a input or something like that, I guess. Yeah. I think there's there's so many moving parts that people don't see that goes into the the planning where having on a Friday night also is conducive to where all hands on deck to get ready for that night. But again, you know, there's you're never going to please everybody, but we are going to sit down and kind of discuss especially what do we think, what went well, what didn't. Um, it just happened Friday and it's Monday. So, we haven't had a chance to do that. So, and I emailed you guys and I but I and we talked about this a little bit before how how nice everything was and I know
115that that's been an effort from everybody this year, but it just really the old the old place cleans up pretty good. So, nice nice job. Yeah. And we have our senior class advisor in the name. So, thank you for helping those. Is that all you have? Yeah. Okay. All right. Uh business action items. First one is the uh approval of all 2025 early early college credit program and start college now applications. All right. Um so a couple things that I wanted to outline this I believe this is a new concept for for Glenwood. Um and so this is something that I'm used to doing. Um the recommendation here it does say it's from Miss Burch and Miss Laughlin. Um, I put it together just as a template for future use. So, I'll explain and then
116Miss Burch can u chime in on a variety of things because I got a lot of information from her. But this is uh bringing to the board is important for a couple reasons. Number one, uh we have to understand what is the statute which allows students to take up to 18 credits um and pay for um through the district. I wanted you to see what we currently paid. Uh, which this past year we paid uh 12,000 something. Um, and it's there. Um, so I put that in uh 12,900. So close to 13,000 for budgetary reasons. Um, but also I put in there and they're they're hidden because they're student uh information. But um, you can see where students are applying, what type of classes they're taking. Um, I think it's really important for the board
117to approve these applications, um, because of the budgetary component, but also understand because you're making decisions in terms of what staffing we have here and what we don't have. Um, I think when I came back to Glenwood, one thing that I was surprised at is we don't offer psychology. Um, and that is a core course that I think we need to really look at in the future. And Miss Burch is really looking at different opportunities for next year like with having uh Dr. Coll back in the classroom where he's doing a phenomenal job and some of the things that he's going to be able to offer EMT um med careers med careers and just taking some of those stats that we have gained through trend data and so forth. what are we offering? What are
118we not offering? You know, what is some of the courses that we should be offering? As you know, this coming year, we're going to be offering um Miss Sandor's half of her um basic day is going to be an online component uh so we can capture some of those online students. So, there's just a lot of data here that I think is important for you guys to see. Um I'll start with the top where these are um the statute itself. So there's a lot of as I think George said at one time the acronyms and so you got to get used to some of these acronyms that you hear. The ECCP start excuse me start college now. Um and then the dual credit uh welding academy. Um this year was actually our first year where
119we had an applicant um and he was an opener bowl student that was part of the welding academy. Um obviously I know the welding academy very well. Um, and it's been a great success where they basically can take uh this program and when they go to uh New Richmond next year, they literally have maybe one semester and then they're done. And so what an advantage that is uh for an individual um that fits their need, that's what they want to do. Um, we did actually have I haven't shared it with staff yet, but there was a video out there that two two of our previous students um have already have jobs before they graduated. Um, and I'll share that with you'll see it. Um, but I just ran across that this weekend. And so those
120are opportunities for our kids through this programming that I think um we're going to have more discussions especially when we dive into our work sessions about what we offer, what we don't offer, what the staffing look like at the high school level and so forth. um the existing criteria uh this is uh from Miss Burch and in terms of well how do we get to the point of what classes are suggested by the family how are they decided upon what do we accept what do we not accept because if we accept it here or excuse me if if we don't offer it here there is a threshold and this is where policy will come into play and say okay um and and staff students parents, the board, everybody needs to know like what is this?
121How is this determined? We had one student that I think it was I she probably suggested and um requested about 14 different classes. Now, she's not going to get all 14. She's going to get maybe two because she still has core credits here that she has to take. Um, but our top student according to Miss Laughen is a student that graduated this year and he's leaving Grunwood with 16 post-secary credits. But the the the part that we'll talk about in the future is times have changed. And here's what I'll give you an example. Um, some of these postsecondary opportunities now what's happening is the enrollment at W River Falls is going down. And so in New Richmond, we partnered, it was Hudson River Falls in New Richmond, we partnered with just River Falls. So any
122student that was going to the Wisconsin system was now able to get credit. Um and then we got a stipen um from W River Falls that the teacher was able to get because they taught basically a college level class. And in Richmond, we chose to give that stipen directly to the teacher. And so Stout is now reaching out because of regional and having some of those discussions uh with Miss Burge. And there's just there's it does come down to the regional component. So, colleges are getting um creative, but they're also understanding that how can I increase our enrollment um in more of a partnership way. So, um keep that in mind. But the overall criteria is outlined there. And then below in the uh pictures is kind of the state statutes, but also um the
123comparables. I don't know if you want to mention or talk about any of this part here. The criteria over these graphics. Um it it's it almost sounds misleading I guess or it looks misleading because um when you talk about offering a course well you can't offer a comparable we can't approve a student if you offer a comparable course here at the high school. But when you begin to look at what is actually in a college freshman level course, it is very difficult to argue that unless unless it is an AP course that we have those comparable courses here. So as the statute reads, the class has to have 80% has to match the um college syllabus and material with about 80%. And so we we don't you know high school for the most part we
124don't offer those college level courses. I think to add on to what Mr. Olson said that it it's is a great idea in theory for us to be able to offer college level courses here. Unfortunately and I I don't speak on my own. We have worked in this in Dun Croy. I meet with the principles once a month. We work for we work with Oaklair, we work with River Falls, we work with Stout. Those universities are different in what they ask for for staff to have uh the level of education. For instance, to teach a college level class here, you have to have a master's degree in that area. So, um Mr. Chicago has been going back and forth and back and forth because even though he's a phenomenal English teacher, he can't teach a
125college he cannot teach a college level English course. Uh his degree is in history and he has a um his master's is in history. He has a another degree in English, but he can't. So you have to you have to jump through an awful lot of hoops to be able to teach a college level course at the high school. Um it's some of the universities are better to work with than others, but the amount of work that it takes to try to get to the point where we're able to is it is it's difficult. Um you know, as I'm I'm looking through this, I do have different invoices and statistics and I'm looking at, you know, we've got a student at W Stout just for price point. We've got a student at W South who
126we have a bill for I think [Music] um for eight credits was I think $69ome. Then I've got a W Stout for a three credit class which is also um one was for eight credits was $678 um to W Stout. Then I've got River Falls, a student taking three credits and it's $43. So it's different. Um the pricing is different, too. Um when you're working with universities, you do get a portion of that back and that's what that ECCP or urban early college start now is working with the technical schools. When we do uh state universities, we get a portion of that money back. We do not when we work with tech schools generally their fees are a little bit less. Um state statute says that we do have to offer students this opportunity and
127our students can take up to 18 credits. what you mentioned, we have pages and pages of, you know, if I I I look through them and you may have students that, you know, 14 classes. The reason that students have to list all of those classes is because they get put in this strange position where the college schedules are not out and they will start college. Actually, most of them will start college in the fall before we come back to school. So, not only do they not know right now what exactly when those classes are going to be offered, they also don't know when the classes are going to be offered here that they need to be here for. So, for instance, if I'm a senior and I need um citizenship citizenship seminar or personal finance
128and they're offered at this time or this time, even though I might be able to get in the class that I want, if it's offered at the same time, then then I can't. And so it it it's a whole lot of moving parts and pieces for this process. And we have to have more I I our criteria has to be more robust. We have to have a because I'll give you an example of I've had a student in the past request to take um 1980s rock and roll. and it's like, you know, we are not paying $250 for two credit class of 1980s rock and roll. So, there's there's definitely criteria. And go back to Mrs. Burch's point with the masters. Um, one of the things there is a program out there that's funded by
129the state grant process where if a teacher is interested to earn their master's degree, you can get twothirds roughly paid for by this grant. Um, and I've had a number of teachers out in the past take advantage of that. So, we're always looking at ways for teachers if they want to get their masters here in Glenwood. Yeah, you get an extra um $2,000 stipen per year. Um, but this is a state process. Um, and then future- wise, it makes you certainly more um allowable. So, if you have a masters, if you can make sure that students um you know, if they can get college credit, um as Miss Bur said, there's there's so many moving parts and we've done a lot as superintendents to try and bring it together, but every college um they have
130so many boards, layers, and so on that it just it's not even even the state system, you'd think that Oakclair, where Falls and Stout would be on the same page. So again, the purpose of this tonight is just to make you aware of number one, what is this? What are the acronyms? And then I'm always going to have or give you the list um in terms of okay, so if you look at student one, this is what they have requested. And I'm not going to identify students, but student two. So I want you to see where are these students requesting. Is it online? Is it in person? Is it post secondary in terms of fouryear? Is it two-year? Um, so you can see the list. So for next fall, so the requirement is by March,
131what's the deadline? March 1st or 10th, something like that. So you will see these um at the April meeting um for approval in the future. We're going to get into a site. Then next fall you will have the next semester. So any student that wants to take a second semester course, you'll see the same type of format next fall for the spring semester of 2026. So again, lots of information and again I won't make public, you know, you guys can see who these students are and what they're taking because I think it's important as decision makers. But this is going to be a thing that we're going to have uh consistently in both the spring and the fall for you to see in the future. Any questions that you have just as we see it
132more consistently maybe getting an idea of courses that are that are kind of repeats right where we see some of those categories that are popular and then some of maybe other cost trend ranges especially as we're looking at it by semester now too. For me, it's that trend data of actually the classes and I think um Miss Burch is working on one where she's having conversations with Dr. um because we offer um Sarah Johnson offers MedTerm which is a dual credit course but there's quite a few of our young ladies especially that are you know CNAs and so forth and it's like how can we um even my son who's at Madison you know some of his buddies that came from whether it's Durand or so on you know they walked into school with 10
133credits 12 credits And that's basically one semester. And so um when you look at that, not that we're trying to reach that particularly, but we can also offer some of those courses and if we have lower numbers in certain courses or we see a trend that it's more welding based or more CD based or businessbased, you know, those are the type of partnerships we're looking to to grow. So again, I know this is a lot of information, but um this is something that you'll see um in the future. Um but I think it's good for you to understand what are our kids taking, how much are we spending, what does the budget look like, um and understand the criteria that's deciding. For student four, it says intro to sociology three credits and then introductory sociology.
134Are they two different classes? Yes, I saw that. I was like see the same exact thing. Yeah. Is she just trying to get into one of them that's available? Is that kind of that thing? That was the students that was like it's very possible that one is online and okay got and then we don't do an A man physiology. We do but again the it has to 80% college CBCTC would be comparative it's not and we then we have to be we have to be in line with exactly what they're teaching and we have to prove that um we have to prove that we have the same materials teaching the same way um assessing the same for in order for us to say no. Right. Right. Is a scenario where we can leverage those what
135was it 6063 or whatever those other district kind of agreements are or if we've got interest in qualifying a course that qualifies. Yeah. Because that is one thing I was going to mention. You might have want five kids to take a college level class. you can't allocate a learning teacher just for a small class, right? And that's the the advanced is in that we about that. Um, but when you only have four students that are going to take a course, um, it's hard to justify that type of course. We have also talked as principles, you know, um, Mr. Gretzk and I have talked because we're so close. What it does entail is a schedule that is aligned. And so we would have to we'd have to determine that if we're going to share a teacher
136and in in certain cases, you know, if um Spanish is a really great example I use all the time. If you have a very small Spanish program or if you have higher level Spanish, you could collaborate um two districts could collaborate and someone could be online or in this case you could certainly send students to voice but our schedules would have to match up. And it's not that we're not. No, that actually came up in my last suit me and I guess years ago um cuz they sent me the folder after uh if you look at Mondovi, Mondovi has the same calendar and the same high school schedule as two high schools uh in their region and it was for that exact 6603. That's that sharing piece. Um, Spring Valley, Elton Mound, or excuse me,
137Spring Valley, EPC, I think have done the same thing. So, yeah, our natural partner is Boyceville. And so, um, and I wasn't aware they they did that a while ago and they, um, they sent me the folder and, yeah, it's progressing because as a small district, we need to look at those things. So yeah, there is good information there, having those discussions, making sure that we can help one another out because they might have a staff member that is credentialed and we don't or vice versa. And so we have to leverage those opportunities. It as maybe minut. So, in theory, it sounds like a great idea and it's something that we've kicked around and kicked around, but our calendars have to be not even the schedules, our calendars have to be the same. So, it's
138a lot of things to to take into account to do something like that. Um, in in and a lot of pre-planning um and then calendar the other part. So back again 2010 I was in Prairie Farm. You had this ITV um and I don't know maybe Jordan you remember it but um Jody So you had this room and they used to give out grants and they had like seven ATVs and you had multiple people. Well CISA um you know you paid a consortium fee you had all those things. Now, especially after COVID, well, there's an easy way. You just zoom or you Google Meet and you can do the same thing. So, as superintendent, we're talking about, okay, let's start using what we learned from CO to advance our kids because what Elk Mound might
139offer um or Boyceville is different than here. and instead of paying a stout, now we're paying, you know, a more reasonable fee to do the same thing. So, I'm excited. There's a lot of opportunities I think that have we haven't scratched the surface here. So, yeah, it's a commitment for the students, too, right? For for them to take it on. And it's a big benefit though to those families. I mean, Mr. Dar alluded to the price of school these days, and you could get 18 credits. I mean, that's almost two years worth. Got colleagues at Woodbury that their kids go to college and they've got two years of college left. They just cut their cost of their whole secondary education half. I mean, it's it's a it's a great thing that we can offer something
140that we can amplify for those students willing to commit to it. And you think that our testing scores would only improve because now you've got more in-depth knowledge on certain topics and subjects. Incentive. Yeah. I think I wasn't really aware of any of this like in high school if I didn't know that much money. How many high school kids think about it? And they do have to they have to go through an application process. They do have to be in good standing. And so they're it's not like we just go, "Oh, yep. Anybody can take these college courses here. They have to be able to juggle. They have to be able to manage their time. All sorts of things. But there are certain criteria. So we've talked to our school counselor, Mr. today is about
141we we have to do a better job of making sure this information is readily available and that's that is um you know these are options whether it's a sign up night whether it's you know there's just different opportunities that we need to make sure that we go through to disseminate this information in a better manner. So, all right. Um, again, a lot of information, but uh, wanted to make sure you're aware of this. Is there any questions? Will we get any kind of update like in the fall then what the final number is? Obviously, once because this is what we're saying is right now, but if something doesn't line up with schedules and whatnot, they might not be taking all those resources, right? You can, but in the fall, you're actually going to get this,
142right? But like what actually that number is going to be cuz we're saying it's this right now but not everything's going to probably die by fall. No it won't. But if you look at like this one we tried to I had debt break it out to where you know you could see what we paid for at Stout Ca 9 is an online component. Um River Falls um what's [Music] that? Um and AP is is is mixed into that. This is last year's. Yes, this is the current school year. So this is what we're paying um from a budgetary standpoint. And actually we have not properly budgeted with just this category. Um fun fact, it used to come out the high school budget. Yeah. These budget lines came out of the high school budget which it
143shouldn't because this is not Yeah. we've talked about. So, I think that budget has to be looked at totally different because we only had a couple kids before and now we have a lot more activity. So, that's [Music] definitely right for the um college early college ECCP we get a certain portion back. I think that was part of the guidelines that we need to create for some of the strength relevancy of the coursework and you know refund availability to so youth apprenticeship we also get money back um through those grants. Um so if a student attains a certificate and we haven't really talked about um kind of where that goes but so if you look at the youth apprenticeship um that Sarah Johnson runs and then Marcy inputs that data into the database and then
144we get a grant back um in my previous district we use those funds. So if you got a certificate for I'm trying to think of a certificate we had students that completed Briggs and Stratton. Um they got a certification in Briggs and Stratton and so the district gets that money back. Um what we use that for to is to purchase more textbooks um to to supplement what we had for that class. um Sarah's youth apprenticeship which then that money goes into her program which is why as you could see uh she can up to $500 she can get two old she can get yeah and that's more from the state but what we're going to be doing is we're going to be taking these reimbursements and putting um because these she machines have to be
145replaced and so it's a way that we can start building up a budget to replace these machines because as you know the machines that you approved this year. I think it was a total of 180,000. Those are not cheap and they don't last, you know, decades. So, we're going to use some of those grant reimbursements just to offset um so it's not such a big surprise because at any given point some of those machines can go down or tools. All right. Um I'm going to Yeah, I'm sorry. There's a lot of information. Um so we do need you to approve uh overall great motion for the uh fall 2025 college uh college credit program and start college applications made right there second oh I got Jordan okay second by Jordan any further discussion questions hearing
146none all those in favor say I oppose say no motion be the approval of the 25 summer school staff contracts. So these are um and again this is Jamie's first year so it took us a little bit longer. We made some some changes as you know and she presented the other month. So typically you will see these in April not in May. Um but we got these contracts together. We're going to make some some changes in terms of our uh summer school and we already have whether it's consistent pay um especially at the elementary level making sure that classes you know you don't have a second grader in with a sixth grader or a seventh grader. So we're splitting those up. Um, and as you may know, um, these numbers are then inputed into a
147a DPI spreadsheet that gives us a percentage of FTEES in the fall. And so we get a certain FTE that's counts into our overall budget. So, um there's a lot of details there again, but um inside the administrative side of board docs are the individual contracts if you wanted to see those. But this is a summary uh that we're looking to approve um for summer school. There's a couple resignations. Are they still working through the summer for the summer classes as of we think we think they are teacher wise? Yes. I think that Yeah. with the impending um resignation of the school nutrition. Already had a conversation today of an individual that will take that over because we were excited about that opportunity. Um and uh I have to we're meeting with TBI tomorrow. Um
148so we're looking at making sure we can still offer that. Motion to approve the summer school staffing request. Anybody there? Do I have a second? I'll second it. Second by Jeff. Any further discussion or questions? Question I have is how many kids do we have? Um I don't know. Jamie will have that information. I did tell her that typically we're going to when we start to build this up, we're going to have a ratio meeting. We're not going to run a class if we have x amount of students um because of our changes. Um, and that's some of the feedback that we've actually incurred was, you know, when when you lump in a second grader with a seventh grader, um, not only is that hard to teach it, um, but from a kid standpoint, that's
149just and that's how it was done. So, I told her, I said, for this year's um, we're going to run it probably with lower numbers because we want to get the word out. Um, I can I'm still running numbers this summer, but one of the biggest barriers that we um need to look at is transportation because right now um I would say based on staff input that is probably the biggest barrier of why students are not taking summer school here in they just can't get here. Parents are working and so on. So, we're going to really look at that this summer and what can we offer. Typically in summer school, you don't go to individual houses. You might go to an area, especially rural wise, just because you don't know how that looks. And so,
150you can cut down transportation cost, but um I'll have that all outlined after this summer. I wanted to wait till Jamie kind of got a year under her belt and understood what summer school was like. But I anticipate us offering transportation and then this program growing in the future. I want to say the last two years full time equivalent was 38. Does that sound right? Uh when the revenue cap sheet I believe that's Yeah. So, but the other thing is we're going to increase is uh we're looking Miss Burch and I are having discussions with the new FFA teacher um and or egg teacher and using some of those hours. Last year we incorporated some camps and so on. So, there's different things that I've learned over the years that you can get that number.
151Consider summer school with different activities. Yeah, there's more kids. Yeah, there's a ratio. All right, there's a motion and a second on the table for that. Any other questions? All right, hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. Oppose say no. Motion car. Next is the uh approval of the summer school workers. So I normally would just put this into the uh consent agenda, but I wanted to outline it in terms of the new board members. So uh we do hire uh students for three different areas here. um during the summer. And um I've done this in this was done prior to me. Um we did make some changes. We actually to Jordan's point, we make it more realistic. We actually conduct interviews. Uh we go through and we create recommendations. We go through
152in terms of applications, etc. So, we really try to make it a job um process experience for our kids. And when it comes down to they're they're huge helps. Um, so I'll just go through each one. Uh, summer custodian. Um, this is the individuals that help. Now, are they in line to where they're going to be running the, you know, the waxing machine? No. These are the the power behind moving desks and chairs and things like that. But they do a great job. Uh three of these individuals are really making a difference right now because we have we really got hit with almost the perfect storm in our custodial area uh with a variety of circumstances as you know. Um so three of those kids are actually making a huge um help. They're right now.
153Um but the recommendation from Ryan um is what you see and this is not students workers. We got transportation grounds which helps us outside and then we have um also here and this will be changing because of recent circumstances but overall we're asking to approve these individuals for the summer and we did create a tiered um compensation system um as you approved at our November meeting with the compensation increases. Uh if you look at the next one, uh we do hire one intern for Frank's position in IT. Um the last year, um we had Zach, um help and did a phenomenal job with Miss Flick. Is it Zack? Yeah, Zack. Um and a lot of times, especially over the summer, you know, each machine has to be you have to touch each machine for updates,
154etc. So some of that work, you know, we're framing oversee it and then he can work on the back side of things and these students are doing some of the the other manual pieces. So uh Le Umbra is uh Frank after going through the interview process is his recommendation and then we also have one for Tiny Tots um which I had her break it out um and again it's a growing program. We have a variety of students that um Miss Burches has enhancing the TAP. I think you guys know it as TAP. Um but it's more so that that experience and and she's looking to grow that in many different areas, not just classroom assistance, but child care, etc. So, um your overall approval where is at all three recommendations all in one. Um, but
155I wanted to make sure that the new board members were understanding what we offer in the summer. We have students that work for us. It's gone very well. Um, and then we make it a more of a job process. So, it's they can learn what an interview is. Um, which is pretty interesting. They, uh, some of them have no idea and they, uh, they're pretty nervous, but it's a good learning experience for them. Any questions? forget to consider these as part of our FTD rat show. What's that? No. Because there's no education and we pay them, we cannot. So, good try though. All right. I'll entertain a motion for the summer. So, motion's made by Jack. Do I have a second? Second by Jody. Any further questions hearing? None. All those in favor say I.
156I say no. Motion carried. I have two communications this evening. [Music] Mr. School Board, thank you very much for choosing me for the GC class of 1950 scholarship. This money will be put to great use as I continue my education at CW3 major in American trucking. Thank you for considering me as a recipient for your scholarship. The money will will be used to obtain education at an community college for nursing. Um and also to continue playing sport sincerely is Bill Davis. Achievers only graduating for a couple days and then they are handed envelopes or they're handed the addresses. So easy. So that they know where to send the thank yous. Hint h. Here's the addresses so that we can get them get them. [Music] So we have our um training session. What date was that
157again? The 16 13 was it? Was it Thursday? June 15th. 15. No. June 12th. I'm in 12th. I knew I knew it was a Thursday. June 12th. Yeah. Okay. So, we have the June 12 meeting and then [Music] the bottom. Oh, it's going. Okay. So, June 23rd. All right. Any other meetings in between that? Anybody else? June 2nd of the [Music] Internet session. No, no, it will be kind of built. I will send you the agenda when he um sends it to me, but overall it will just be a a presentation mixed in with a informal discussion Q&A. And then the next calendar you'll have for us at the next meeting. We do tend to have two in August, right? With the annual or did you make that? Oh, you made that September. But that's
158actually we'll have that as a discussion at the next meeting because again what would you like to do? Would you like to keep the current format? Would you like to change the format? So think about that discussion after the WSP. Um so at the 23rd of June that will be a board work session discussion of what would you like to see? Okay. I'll entertain a motion for adjournment of the meeting. Motion made by check. Do I have a second? I'll second. Second by say I need [Music] at the top of our Oh, the other number. Yep.