001to call the Monday, October 27th, 2025 order to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Um, consent agenda will be first. Uh, we have two items. The approval of the minutes of September 22nd board meeting as well as the statement of receipts and expenditures for September 2025. Do we have a motion? Some moved. Second. First and a second. Any additional discussion? All in favor say I. I. Opposed. And that passes uh superintendence report. Yes. So this is the final week of our first quarter. So we have parent teacher conferences this week. Um and then no school on Friday, November 1st for conferences and grading planning for teachers in the afternoon. Um it's Red Ribbon
002Week across the district and it's a a reminder Ribbon Week is a national initiative focused on promoting healthy drugfree lifestyles and supporting students overall well-being. So at Kennedy and Woodview, students will celebrate under the theme really excellent decisions red. Um each day will highlight a different wellness focus such as healthy routines, kindness, physical activity, and mindfulness through classroom activities, reflection questions, and visual displays designed to encourage positive choices and community connection. At John Lung Middle School, activities will emphasize healthy choices and community building through sore lessons on bullying prevention, spirit days, and visits from Vaky Waki family services and a therapy dog. Student council will also lead a fundraiser. um saw them today selling bracelets and candy bags to benefit Cerrona Recoveries Healing Point House. And at Grafton High School, students will engage in daily
003announcements and themed activities promoting leadership, self-awareness, and healthy decision-making. Highlights will include lifesaver handouts with positive messages, a red ribbon week cahoot, and Leo's Club Treat Station, Wear Red Day, a health fair during parent teacher conferences featuring local organizations, and puppy yoga as a healthy stress relief activity across all schools. Red week will reinforce the district's shared commitment to empowering all students to make positive choices, support one another, and lead healthy, purposeful lives. Um the other topic I have here is called educational funding partners. And this was going to become a standing item under the superintendent report. Um this change provides a dedicated consistent space for organizations that financially support our students such as um the GEF, PTGS, and our booster clubs to address the board. U moving forward, these groups will no longer need
004to use the open comment section. Um updates shared via email will also be delivered here during the report and I have one of those in my um possession. Um a GEF update for um the school board um to let you know and the community know things that are going on with them. They have their seeds to harvest annual appeal is in full swing. Hopefully everyone received their green envelopes in the mail. You can send envelopes back or make a donation to GEF online on our website through PayPal. Um, their next event is our it's a wrap holiday gift wrapping event. I think this is their second annual one on December 21st from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at BSG. You can drop off your gifts and our volunteers will wrap them for you for a
005suggested donation of $2 per gift. And then the next GEF meeting will be held on November 10th at 7 PM here in the GHS library and all are welcome to join them. And if there are any other educational funding partners here, which I do not see any um but we would in the future we would allow them to come and present to the board um in this section here and not in the open comment piece. Um and then um uh one item of note is um we are grateful to once again receive funding from the United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Washington County through the helping kids succeed initiative. Um for the 2526 school year, the district has been awarded $122,000 grant to continue supporting key programs that promote student success. The funds are used
006to provide KA tutoring services starting November 4th which enhance literacy and math growth through Lexia and Alex programming and support the district's kindness and courage retreats programming through youth frontiers. Um this is the final year of United Way's generous funding and we are deeply appreciative of their continued partnership in helping every student succeed. So something that is a grant funded that um is coming to us which we appreciate. And then a couple um accolades for the high school that we want to mention as well as one for the middle school. Um, boys and girls cross country teams competed in sectionals. Um, this past Friday, the boys finished fourth overall, girls finished sixth. Senior Cali FA finished fifth overall individually and qualified for state for the fourth consecutive year. Um, she'll compete in Wisconsin Rapids this
007Saturday for state um volleyball, girls volleyball. They repeated as regional champions for the second consecutive year um by defeating New Berlin Eisenhower on Saturday night. and they travel to New Berlin West on Thursday in a sectional semi-final at 7 o'clock at night. And if they win, they would move on to a sectional final at Whitefish Bay on Saturday for a trip to state. Um, and then football um won their level one playoff game at home and play again this Friday versus Merrill. And if they win that, they would play again at home the following week. And if they would win again, they would have a neutral site for level four. And last but not least, Elizabeth Mueller, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce, has a special announcement to make. So, I'll invite Elizabeth to
008the mic. Thank you for um allowing me to come tonight. Today, we had a great celebration. Um we all know and love Kelly Reek and she was nominated to be Grafton Area Chamber of Commerce's outstanding citizen. So, we were able to award her that today. I kind of wanted to back up. Um we did career cafe this week at the high school. Um it is our new initiative um with our businesses. We are basing it off what the career clusters last month in October. It was manufacturer awareness as well. So we did the building and moving cluster. We were able to bring four businesses. That's the key number that the high school wants to come in. Um and it's not like any other career fair. it is during their lunchroom and they can approach the
009tables and they're all interactive. So if they went up to Capco that was there, they were able to use a hammer um and make a metal stamp um and it had a GS GHS on it. Um and then the water treatment plant did some experiments with water um fill up Lithal let them put together um a box um a gingerbread house I should say. Um and then Ram Tool had a die there and it was just interesting to listen to the kids ask the questions. So it was cool. Next month we are doing caring for your community. Um and so we have Aurora um Grafton Police Department um Ozaki uh Fire Department Blue Sky Wellness and Evol um Evolve Physical Therapy that'll come in so the kids can take the time and go talk to
010them. So, it's a really cool thing. Super excited about this. And um kudos to Scott Manti. He does not want credit for it. But um he said if it succeeds, it was his idea and so it succeeded. But you know what? We always have an outstanding citizen and we also have an outstanding community group. And so I am actually here to present the school board with the outstanding community group this year. Um, I got a glowing letter um from Lester Bartell um [clears throat] speaking of you guys very highly. Um, and the committee has chosen you guys. So, several of you have been through this already as the outstanding citizen, but now you get to go through as [laughter] the outstanding community group. So, you don't get to be the grand marshall this year, but
011[laughter] um, you get to participate. So, I have folders for each of you. And I also have the famous graft and chocolate bars. Um, so from Handmade with Love, but uh that was just a little business plug there. So, but congratulations. Um, reach out to me and we could talk more about it. You'll also be hearing from News Graphic and hopefully Yaki Press as well. So, [applause] You have chocolate preference. Oh, dark. [laughter] Oh, yeah. This is a good day. Thank you. I don't know. Lester must want something. Hearing a lot about us. Two years in a row. Look at you. Thank you. Make sure thank you. Oh, I gave you two, I think. Oh, that was me stealing them. Thank you. And then Jerry's not here. I'll get that. Do you want a picture
012with them? You want He's not into that sort of thing. Make sure he gets that one as well. He definitely could be a little sweeter. Thanks, Elizabeth. and um thanks for the partnership with the chamber um in just a variety of ways. But congratulations to our school board. Um amazing to have you be recognized in this way. And we just had school board appreciation month. So like so or week I guess not month but week. So um um caramel apple. They did they got a sweet trio apple. Another plug for a business. Um a different business but definitely sweet trio. Yep. That works. I figured you'd like that. Um so and with that that concludes the superintendent report. comments or questions we have? Well, thank you very much and you know certainly uh congratulations to
013Kelly Reek. I mean outstanding, you know, had to deal with her with many things. Thank [laughter] you. So, um but congratulations to her. Very, very welld deserved. Okay, thank you again. Um that brings us to public comment. Um I did receive one email that I did forward on to the board today. So, if anyone received that, um is there anyone else that has public comment? Okay, seeing none, uh we will move on to item C. Umformational items from our October 20th finance committee meeting. Yes. So, first uh we'll go over someformational pieces. Uh to start [snorts] off finance committee, we had Jill uh Schwenson come on behalf of the Woodview PTG who presented plans for a new playground for the kindergarten through 2 grade students. The playground used twice daily and located on the north
014end of the Woodview property will replace the existing 20-year-old structure. Total fundraising goal for this project is a little bit north of $154,000 with $35,000 in seed money from the PTG. The equipment will be purchased from Burke following a competitive quote process. This is envisioned as a two-year project involving various fundraising efforts and a tiered system of support levels which will be recognized with a sign on the property upon completion. Another item that was up for information at the finance committee was the teacher OPED discussion. In discussions on ideas uh to attract and retain teachers more effectively, administration noted that teachers were seeking salary increases rather than increased retirement benefits. Last spring, Foster and Foster, our actuarial firm, was contracted to determine the salary equivalent of the existing OPE for teachers. The goal is to
015replace the OPED benefit with an equivalent salary increase, allowing for more effective budget management in order to align our resources to attract and retain quality staff. At the September finance committee meeting, Jeff and I presented this replacement, offering teachers within 10 years of eligibility or with 20 years of district service the option to retain the current benefit or accept the salary increase. While all other teachers would receive the salary increase in lie of those retirement benefits, the finance committee expressed interest in the administration presenting this concept to staff to gather their feedback. During the September uh 22nd professional development day, we along with our actuarial firm presented the information to staff during two separate presentations. Following that meeting, staff were provided information on how many years they were from retirement eligibility along with a calculator
016to help conceptualize the value of the salary increase. Two weeks later, Jeff and I went to each of the buildings during the various staff lunch periods to gather feedback from teachers and met with union leadership. The feedback had three primary themes. one to expand the choice of salary or current benefit to all current staff. Um to make the salary increases related to trading the benefit larger and to create one-year bands for salary determination rather than using the three-year bands. We took this feedback to the October finance committee last week which was followed by discussion on this topic in general as well as the feedback received. In general, some members on the finance committee expressed openness to expanding the choice between the current OPEB and the salary increase to all current teachers, not just for those
017within 10 years of eligibility or 20 years in the district. The administration is comfortable supporting this concept as it addresses a concern raised by teachers and offers them the choice to retain their existing benefit or opt for a higher salary instead. the uh so we're bringing this forward to the full board tonight to get further feedback from the board as a whole with the idea that we administration would then use that feedback to bring this back in November uh to the board for approval. So that with that before I move on to that lastformational piece, I will turn it back over to Steve to elicit any um [clears throat] comments, thoughts, questions. First, I mean, finance committee and administration, thank you for all your time and effort. I think the discussion has been really good
018to get to to this point. Um so I any this would be something that we would vote on in November. Um, so any comments, questions, additional things that you would want to see in order for us to um have that vote um a month from now. So just to be clear on on like the outcome of us voting on this is that it becomes optional for them to make this decision or is this just an implementation at that point? Um I believe the recommendation that or the discussion at the finance committee meeting and kind of what Tover just said that um this would be something that would be open to everyone. So they would any existing staff member will have the choice any new staff member hired after this or the start of the next
019school year then they would default into the higher salary. Correct. Correct. And it's a one-time decision, right? They would have to make existing staff would have to make that choice at one time and then it's done going forward. Um I mean I I we talked about it finance and it yeah makes it easier or more of an option for everybody. Um it's going to make a little bit of salary administration a little bit different um because you'll have two tiers potentially of somebody that opted for the salary increase and so they'll be in a different bracket and then those that I shouldn't say bracket but at a higher scale and as that those that opt to keep the retirement benefit would be at a lower salary. So it' be different for recruiting. We would, according
020to Jeff, we'd look at new hires based on that higher salary amount because that's one of the reasons to do this is to bring in staff at a competitive salary wage. So, so yeah, we would have potential teachers at varying points in their salary, but potentially same years of service, same type of of teaching responsibilities, etc. I don't think we touched on how long would teachers Hi. Yeah. How long would teachers have to make that decision and what supporting documentation would we provide to help them take to their people to to go through that? Yeah. So, um we'd be looking to get this done one would presume by the end of January. So right now this has been out in front of them. They've had the calculator. They've had discussions. Uh we certainly would be
021looking at um bringing in we have done it in the past. We think there would be a lot more interest now in bringing someone in during the PD day. We have the wellness hour. Someone who could talk about investing and uh you know making those financial planning decisions to help with that. But then they'd also get the information so that let's say for example over the winter break they could maybe meet with a financial planner if they have one or find one if they don't or talk with family however they make financial decisions. Thank you. Any other comments, questions? I mean it's not intended at all to be anything that we're taking away. It's just to give another alternative to this. Um, so I'm 100% agree with the suggestion that came out. Um, and appreciating
022that it is a little bit more work, but you will know exactly where those people are if they keep the benefit. Um, so it'll help us with planning purposes from that standpoint. So um, I think that's extremely doable as well. So good. It doesn't I guess one thing I'll say to it doesn't exactly achieve I mean drawing the line and closer to that retire or that eligible time doesn't help eliminate that oped um anytime sooner potentially if somebody opts for it to to retain it who's further away from retirement that OPED would still be out there which was one of the kind of the goals But [clears throat] to not have that liability going many many years into the future and we were at that 20 years in the district or 10 years away from
023retirement and we probably heard from three people that were within that 15 year range because no one was in 11, 12 or 13 because that 14 or 15 that was probably the piece there. So that would give them that option. But I think anyone younger than that or less experienced, it's hard to forecast that far in advance. I mean, and that's been part of our problem. It's hard to tell a 25-year-old, if you stay for 30 years, then you'll have this this benefit, this oped benefit waiting for you your whole life plus five more years. Um, so that's been a a struggle with that. Um, which we think this would address that with because they're looking at their salaries and we're one of the few districts in the area that still have OPED benefits. So,
024and make us more competitive with them. So it's helpful to hear from the board. We'll come back then in November which gives staff time as well and we'll begin planning with that. So in November we'll have that kind of all detail kind of you know this would be when we present it. This is when we would have to get information back and then we'll be able to use this for the recruitment as we need for the 2627 school year. Okay. Yep. We'll have a roll out plan ready in November then for the board meeting. Okay. All right. Everyone's comfortable with that. Okay. Thank you, Dover. Yes. Uh, the last piece of information, uh, lastformational item from the finance committee meeting was the John Long Middle School construction project update. So, with the fifth grade edition
025operational to start the school year, we are nearly completely build out on the construction work that occurred this past summer. We uh also reviewed owner managed projects that were completed without using design or construction management services, thus saving the fees for those services. Uh and we also reviewed owner managed projects that are currently underway and should be completed in the near term as well as owner managed projects that are upcoming with a slate set for execution next summer. And that would be it for theformational items from the finance committee meeting. Okay. Any other questions for theformational items? Okay. Thank you, Tover. Um, let's go to the recommendations for the board item D. All right. First up is the health insurance renewal at the finance committee meeting. Dan Mongoven of the Horton Group came to uh
026present information regarding our renewal. Uh first we looked at our claim activity over the past 3 years uh to measure that out waiting uh years uh that were more near-term more heavily than ones from the more distant past. the uh and then we took those projected we took those claims if you will uh and took our other pieces of our health insurance costs, the actual insurance pieces if you will, stop-loss insurance, transplant insurance, gene therapy insurance, um the uh the TPA services as well as the PBM, the pharmacy benefit manager, which switching that pharmacy benefit manager is a big piece for reducing our projected costs for healthcare. Um, just switching uh from Optum to the uh and I'm going to blank on their name. True Scripts. Thank you. Um, saves is projected to save about
027$350,000 just because of the pharmacy mix that our user group uses. Uh so what that gets us to is about a projected 5% increase in what we expect costs to be. Uh the district administration is recommending and out of finance came a recommendation to increase the funding sources by 10%. So the district and employees would uh would contribute 10% uh more than they did last year. The idea behind that would be um as you recall, we our first six months being self-insured, we're able to sock away a little over $100,000 into a reserve fund. The next year, the next 12 months, we were underwater by about $580,000. So that that $100,000 wasn't nearly enough to protect us from that bad year. Uh we are currently, and we'll talk about this later during the first quarter
028budget report, we're a little over $100,000 underwater through the first quarter of this fiscal year. Uh if we stay there through December, and then if costs actually do come in 5% higher, but our funding sources are 10% higher, we'll actually break even for the fiscal year. Um, so the idea would be we'd like to put some money, get some money set aside into that reserve fund so we can level out um our future increases in the funding levels. So this shows the uh total contribution uh starting January 1st, the annual contribution uh broken down by the employer portion and employee portion. Then here you can see the change for the employer contribution from uh 2025 to 2026 for the four different plans that we offer. And then here you can see the impact to the
029employee uh annually uh per month and per paycheck depending on which plan they are on. Uh then so we do have from finance a uh um recommendation to approve these insurance renewals. Before we get to that, I will also uh review dental. Uh so here you can see that this year our renewal for for dental insurance is 28%. Um which is a lot for one year. However, when we locked in with Metife a couple of years ago, it was a two uh 2% decrease with a multi-year lock. So, for four years, over the course of I should say three years, it was actually down 2%. So, over that 4-year period, it increased an average of 6.4% per year. We're essentially catching up to the inflation that was occurring while we were somewhat locked into a
030multi-year deal. And this is the impact that uh our employees would see uh annually per month and per paycheck with this renewal. This also came out of finance committee with a recommendation to approve the 2026 dental insurance renewal with Metife. With that, I'll turn it back over to Steve to discuss [clears throat] comments or questions based on the renewals. I mean, one of the things that I know that Dan did note that he's going to follow up with us on is some additional opportunities and things to investigate for improvements in the future. So, that will certainly be something that I think we will want to make sure that we have so we can give ourselves some additional options in the future to hopefully offset some of these rising costs. I think it's it was important
031part of the discussion too that out in the marketplace of similarly sized plans you're seeing 12 15 20% renewals and so when when we went self-funded and took a hit year one now we're kind of seeing the benefits of that. So 10% in this marketplace today and the ability to maybe get ahead of some in the future is a really big deal. Um, something Dan also brought up was that we're not changing any of the benefits. You know, often when you get price increases, what you do is you cut what you get. And it's nice that we're in a place where we don't have to do that. Mhm. Agree. Okay. Good. All right. So, we got to take these in two. Um so the first one I would look for a motion to approve the
032insurance health insurance renewal and employee employer contribution amount starting January 1st 2026 second first and the second additional discussion all in favor say I. I opposed and that passes and the second is the dental insurance renewal. Uh we look for a motion to approve the 2026 dental insurance renewal with MetLife. So move second. Additional discussion. All in favor say I. I opposed. And that passes. So once again, thank you to the work of TOER and the finance committee to uh meet and get that for us. All right. Lost the agenda. Um next we have personnel report. Oh, I'm sorry. Recommendation. I'm sorry. D2. D2. 2026 final budget and levy certification. Can't miss that one. Got to do that one. That's important. It's hiding there to um that's all right. Uh so we began this process
033back in February looking at revenue projections and then into March and May um with staffing projections um working on the preliminary budget in May and June having the uh further meetings in September with the annual meeting the budget hearing and now we are finally uh about to cross the finish line for getting the budget and tax levy approved. So, these were some of the pieces that we knew we would have to wait until October to get. Um, and these things were mentioned uh at the annual meeting as we were having to use estimates for these pieces. So, I'll go through these uh final numbers that did come in in October and how they impacted the budget. Um, just a spoiler alert, the overall budget only changed by about $2,000 from the annual meeting and the
034total tax levy is the same. Uh, but we'll go through these items which did uh some of which changed, some did not. So, our three-year membership average projection at the annual meeting was 2073. That did not change. So, the numbers came in um and that is exactly what we have big important part of the revenue limit along with that uh $325 increase per member. Um so that pretty much hit spot on with what we were expecting. Uh one thing that did change within the revenue limit was the private school tax levy. Uh so we are estimating that the uh private school tax levy would be would increase about a4 million dollars over last year. Um we were pleasantly surprised and that would be based on the fact that the dollar amount per member was going
035up significantly. Pleasantly surprised it only went up about $110,000. Um, and so when that gets applied onto the revenue limit, that revenue limit ends up dropping about $125,000. So that was the estimate that we were using at the annual meeting, 25,880,000. Final revenue limit is $25,756,000. Again, about $125,000 less than at the budget hearing and annual meeting. So out of that revenue limit, how much equalization aid are we going to get, which will then determine how much of the property tax levy will be needed to cover the additional portion. We were estimating 11,275,000 at the budget hearing. We also did say that we expected because of the strategic moves to double up on our fund 46 transfer and to defease $1.3 million in debt at the end of last fiscal year max basically taking our
036um our shared cost up to a certain point which would maximize our state aid that we are expecting to get at least $500,000 more once that final aid amount was released and it did come in at about $600,000 more than that July 1st estimate. So with that, we take the what was $25.9 million uh revenue limit. This was the estimate from the annual meeting which would have had 11.6 million in aid and a $14.3 million levy. Instead, with that decrease of about $125,000 in the revenue limit, increase of $600,000 in state aid, the tax levy within the revenue limit drops by about $700,000. Now, because of that, uh we are able to to maintain the same all fun tax levy of $19.9 million. This was the estimate that was used at the annual meeting with
037the uh revenue limit tax levy of 14.3 million, 5.6 million to fund 39. Instead, keep the overall uh fund tax levy the same. We're able to levy additional funds into fund 39 to pay down future debt. And why is that important? I mentioned earlier how we defeased back in June $1.3 million in debt. That helped us to that helped us to increase our state aid by that $600,000 which minimizes our reliance on property taxes within the revenue limit. So by levying these additional dollars into fund 39 in about a year and a half, we're going to be looking at defasing debt again to try and maximize state aid and reduce our reliance on property taxes. So that is a key piece for our long-term strategy at maintaining a level uh fund uh tax levy. So
038that all fund tax levy does not change. It stays at $19.9 million. That's a 3.4% increase over the prior year. We were estimating property values would go up 15%. Final property values actually grew by 16.6%. So we take that all fund tax levy that doesn't change into a larger pool of property value. Instead of a $6.33 mill rate, we end up with a $6.24 mill rate, an 11.4% 4% decrease. So overall school taxes levied don't really change. That all fund tax levy is the same. The school tax levy credit is still an estimate. We won't find out what that is till November, but we're not anticipating it to change much because the state did not allocate any additional dollars for that. Um, so all said, the total school taxes levied would increase about 4.3%. However,
039with net new construction accounting for 3%. Those that those new property values coming online would absorb most of that increase in the total school taxes levied leaving just a 1.3% expected increase for remaining t for the existing property owners owners for the school portion of their tax bill. This would mean we would meet our key performance indicator of total school taxes levied when accounting for net new construction not increasing more than the rate of inflation. So we have two recommendations on the table coming from finance. One to approve the final 202526 adopted budget and one to approve the certification of the 202526 levy. Turn it back over to Steve. Same as what we got from the finance committee. Any comments, questions? [clears throat] Okay, Toeer. Thank you. Good work. Um, as Toeer mentioned, we have
040two recommend uh two recommendations for approval. Uh, so first I would look for approval of the final 2526 budget. So move second. Sorry. First and second. Additional discussion. All in favor say I. I opposed. And that passes. And the second we look for approval the approve the certification of the 2526 levy. So move. Second. Additional discussion. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. That passes. So thank you very much, Coper. All right. Now personnel report. I think winning that big award has sort of thrown us off a little here with the [laughter] school board. They're in fact taking it away. Well, you've already eaten your chocolate, I think, so they're not getting that. She's coming to take it back. [laughter] Um personnel report. Yes. Thank you. Um we would ask for board approval for uh
041Sarah Shingle, uh the new district e coordinator. She would be starting on 12125. So, as a reminder, as the school began, our EL coordinator had resigned. We've been partnering with CISA 1. Um, so we have that continuing throughout um until January. So that we're going to have a little transition time of of um her coming on board part-time um to work in that role. And then we have um information only um Tammy Kazinski who's been our purchasing accounts payable and facilities manager in the district office. She'll be retiring effective December 5th of this year. So we wish Tammy the best as she heads into retirement and and being a wife and grandma and so forth. She's done a great job with us and we'll we'll miss her in retirement. Um and then we had Ryan
042Staniac um special education parah at John Lung Middle School resignation comments questions just to clarify. So the new e coordinator is part-time part-time going okay. Yep. Still part time. Yep. So it was parttime when when in our original situation this one will also be part-time um as well. All right. I would look for a motion to approve Sarah Shinkle, uh, district EL coordinator, starting 12125. So, second. Additional discussion. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. That passes. We welcome Sarah. We wish Tammy the best in her retirement and we wish Ryan um the best in his next career move as well. All right. Um 2526 first quarter budget report. Yes. After brief intermission, I'm back. Uh so we have the first quarter budget report. Um and this will look familiar. Um each quarter we provide
043this information. Uh what looks a little different. Normally this is colorcoded green and gold. You may have expected even more green and gold with the big win. yesterday. Um, but actually this is the most boring uh version of the spreadsheet I've ever presented. There really isn't a whole lot to write home about in terms of where numbers are shaking out in that first quarter. Uh, however, like we started last spring, we are going to each quarter take a look at how our health funding is going. So, the health care costs um, and we started doing this last spring. We'll do this every quarter. So for the first quarter months of July, August and September, uh we took a hit in July with expenses uh exceeding funding sources. We certainly had a much better August where
044the funding sources uh outpaced the expenses. And then we were we're pretty close to even in September with a little bit of a loss there. When you look at that cumulative running total, taking that big hit in July, clawing quite a bit back in August, adding a little bit more in September, we're about $108,000 underwater. Much better than last year. Last year, we were over $400,000 in expenses outpacing funding sources. So, this is certainly much better. um and and expect especially as we hit into the second half of the year with increased funding sources uh to get some assistance there. So that's where we where we are tracking in terms of the selfunding that is information only but uh turn over if there are any questions. [clears throat] Okay, information only. Thank you for the
045update. Um, that brings us to enrollment updates. Employee benefits. Oh my goodness. I'm Jeff, you are right. We are off. [laughter] Uh, 26 employee. Too many things for 12 today. 26 employee benefits renewal. Steve's trying to cut me out here. Yes. So, uh, want to hear more about this. All right. So, uh, bringing vision life longterm and short-term disability insurance renewals. Um, this, uh, basically, uh, there are no increases to any of these renewals. Life and long-term disability are 100% paid and provided for by the district. Life has no increase for next year. Long-term disability is locked through 2027. We also offer employees the opportunity uh the optional opportunity to purchase short-term disability and vision insurance for themselves. Again, 100% paid for by the employee. Those rates uh for short-term disability locked through 2027. Vision,
046those rates locked through 2028. Uh and so administration is recommending the approval of vision, life, LTD, and short-term disability insurance renewals. So with that, I'll turn it over to the board. Okay. Comments, questions? Okay. I look for a motion to approve the 26 vision, life, LTD, and short-term disability insurance renewals with our current providers with no change in employee employer contribution amounts. So moved. Second. Additional discussion. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. That passes. Okay. Enrollment updates. Uh third Friday count. All right. Give you a break from Mr. Adams here. Uh two quick information only updates for you. One being our third Friday count. You can see an historical and current um bygrade level breakdown of our enrollment with 2,198 students enrolled as of third Friday this school year. And then the other update
047is around open enrollment. We continue to be a destination district with more students choosing to open enroll in than open roll out of Grafton. So this past year we did open up 34 seats. Uh we had 21 new enrollments from those open enrolled seats. Um and we like I said continue to be a net positive district for open enrollment. Comments questionsformational only. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. All right. I um Neil updates approved by superintendent. Yes, these are per board policy. Um anytime there's technical corrections or technical revisions approved by the superintendent at the next board meeting, I will alert the board to those technical corrections. So in our work with Nola, these 25 policies had technical corrections that were made to those and our policy committee will re meet and review all the other
048updates at our right before our November board meeting. Same thing information only. Yes, it is. Yep. Any comments, questions on these mostly clerical small list. All right. Thank you. Uh gift reports. Yes, we have multiple gift reports that we would ask for board approval for. One being from Olsson's Piggly Wiggly with Charlie Russell, the VP and GM of the Midwest Division um for Kennedy Elementary School's PTG. They donated a restricted gift of 50 dozen Long Jang donuts for the KT Kes PTG donuts with grown-ups in the amount of 500 valued at $500. We also have John Long Middle School PTG with Maggie Madden as the contact person. Um it was 49640 items that restricted gift for items for a portable outdoor classroom, whiteboard, seat pads, and a wagon. Um and then from the Bayard Summersburg
049Group, Craig Summersburgger, the contact person, um they donated $1,500 towards the homecoming fireworks show for the JHS athletics restricted gift. We have blanking system Frank Odinger for the FTC robotics random engineers. A restricted gift for GHS robotics in the amount of $1,000. And Grafton Athletic Booster Club with Adam Rigg is the contact person for GHS tennis. A restricted gift for tennis bags in the amount of $1,786. and the Rotary Club of Cedarberg Grafton Patto contact person for GHS Robotics Random Engineers Restricted Gift uh grant for $1,000 for GHS Robotics. All right, comments or questions on the gift report? All right, I'll look for a motion to approve the gift report as presented. So move second. Additional discussion. All in favor say I. I opposed. That passes. We thank our community for the generosity and we
050will get a letter out to them. So, thank you. Um that brings us uh our next board meeting um will be um here on November 24th and then after that one then we will start our tour. Correct. December will start in correct. Yep. So November 24th we'll be back here in the library. Uh that brings us to adjournment. Uh, the board of education will consider a motion to convene in close session pursuant to Wisconsin statute 19.85 section 1 subsection C considering employment promotion compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility for purpose of considering performance related data of the superintendent quarterly review. Do we have a motion to adjurnn? So move second. Voice vote. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And yes, we are enclosed.
051Thank you everyone.