001Allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Uh consent agenda. um approval of minutes of the August 25th, 2025 board meeting as well as a statement of receipts and expenditures for April 2025. Do we have a motion? So move second. Any additional discussion? Um I just have one thing on care under the adjournment. Um that motion should be 6. All the other ones said 6. Great. Thank you. All right. Um so I would look for a uh voice vote to approve um the minutes as presented. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. And that passes. Superintendent report. Yes. Thank you. We are off to a strong start to our year.
002Um thank you to everyone who joined us for the ribbon cutting ceremony that we had at John Long Middle School. So we had a wonderful turnout for both the ribbon cutting and then for the open house that followed that. Um today the new air conditioning units were installed over at John Long. Um and so which means that those portable units that we had in classrooms and in the hallways will be able to um be removed. Um so we appreciate everyone's patience with that. Um um across the district we do we want to acknowledge our parents' patience as we started off the year a little rocky with some of our busing concerns. Um so I know there's a number of of emails that I received the board received to received um and uh having a face-to-face
003meeting to set up with rightway. um since that the issues have have improved significantly um but we want to continue to be responsive to our parents um but we appreciate their patience as we worked with Rightway on that. So overall it's been a strong start. We're excited for the great year ahead. I'm excited to start with some great um news tonight. We have some students here from our high school. Um and you know we typically when we have championship teams or students who win competitions we bring them for um recognition at the schoolboard level. And we think of um tonight we'll be recognizing first two students who scored a perfect score of 36 on the ACT. Um so to get a perfect score on the ACT is like winning a championship. Um it's also the
004first time in school history that we've had two students um from the same class score that perfect score. Um so it's a it's a it's an amazing thing to get a perfect score on the ACT. Um and if you don't like attention, it's even better that someone is with you. Um because then you don't have to be the only person that you have to sit here and have us tell you how how much we love you and how great you are and like oh when I grow up I want to be as smart as you are sort of thing. Um so I'd asked Joy Josie Nep and Audrey Klener to come to the mic. Um so each of them earned a perfect score of 36 on the ACT and I've just asked them to maybe
005say a little about um what they're thinking about studying as they leave Grafton High School and maybe um a memory or you know how you did so well on a standardized test. and I'll take notes just in case I have to take another one. I I can go first. Okay. Um so, hi, I'm Josie. Uh when I leave Grafton High School, I'm hoping to study either chemical or nuclear engineering. Um and I don't know, one memory I have from studying for the ACT was retaking the math test like six or seven times. I just I don't know. I really like standardized tests. that I have as long as I can remember. So, it was fun for me. It's kind of sad that I don't have any more to study for, but hi, I'm Audrey. When
006I leave Grafton High School, I'm interested in studying aerospace engineering. And special memory from just my time at Grafton High School is I'm super involved in our music pro program and our band program. And that's been a really good memory. So, being able we had our last marching practice today. So being able to spend time with those people are definitely like it's been really important. And when I got my score back, it was our opening night of our musical. So I got to tell everyone and it was just a really supportive and exciting atmosphere to be in. Any comments or questions from the board? So, I'd like to say how excited and proud we are from from the district standpoint to the accomplishment of two scores is amazing. Josie, I'm familiar with your parents and
007how proud they are. Um, is there anything that stands out to you as like noteworthy that we could learn from as we pass your uh your excellence along about time management or balancing your extracurriculars to be successful as a new student going into the ACT exam process? Um, I would say one thing that was super beneficial to me was the resources that the district provides through Clevver. That was my main study tool. And then also utilizing practice opportunities in class, especially those um for the reading and English sessions in especially my AP L class were really beneficial um for my growth and understanding how that portion of the test works. Thank you. Um, yeah, I would say kind of the same as Audrey. I really enjoyed using the method dies that we got through the
008school. That's what I used to study for math because that was definitely the hardest part of the test for me. And just having that resource really I think helped um me get a better score. And then yeah, same thing with like AP Lang and even like the lower English classes. Being able to do those practices like as a group and go over all the rules together for the English test. I think that really helped me a lot as well. Well, thank you and again, we're very excited for what you guys do in the future and congratulations. Thank you. Where do you plan on going to school after you leave Grafton? Oh, I don't know yet. I decided it's good. There's a lot of options. I can have kids. Hopefully they make you take a standardized
009test. It sounds like great. So, what we'll do is we're going to switch and I'm we're going to get a picture with you guys in just a second, but we're going to call up Alani up and we'll have Audrey, you'll sit and we'll have we'll recognize Alani and Josie for their work on being National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists based on their strong performance that they took on the PSAT NMSQT exam um on a Saturday. Thursday, Saturday. I thought it was in school. Was it in school? Was it a Wednesday? Was it a Wednesday, Thursday? It was during the school day. It was a memorable day at Grafton High School. Um, so you missed the morning and you were able to score very well. Um, and to be named at this point, which is super exciting as
010well. So, um, Alani, we haven't had a chance to hear from you. So, what are you pl what are your thoughts and plans as you leave Grafton High School and maybe a memory that goes with that? Um, I want to study physics somewhere hopefully at a college. Uh, yeah. And, um, yeah, I have a lot of memories like I know uh, for the ACT when I was practicing for it um, I was doing it in Cran because I was like at the hospital at the time. So, I was doing my ACT Olympics in Cran for my uh to try to help my team out. So, that's a great memory. Josie, were you thinking of the PSAT as being a big piece of it or just took the test or? Um, I actually didn't realize that
011the PSAT was was for anything. I thought it was just a practice test because it was preat. just Yeah. Yeah. I took it because I thought, "Oh, maybe I'll do better on this than I would do on the ACT." And then I didn't get a perfect score on that one, so I didn't take the real SAT. And yeah, so I mean, it was definitely a pleasant surprise when I realized that it could maybe give me a scholarship. Yeah. So, I was going to ask, is was the PSAT harder than than the ACT in your in your minds? um the PSAT you have to there's it's not all multiple choice for the math and so I didn't like that part of it. I I liked it more because I'm better at the math and I'm worse
012at the English. So half of it being math was to my benefit. Well, definitely congratulations to all of you. It's a great accomplishment. A lot of hard work and your families as well. Certainly be proud. Congratulations. So, if we can, I'd like to bring the board in the front end. We'll bring Josie and Audrey up first and take a picture with them and then we'll have Josie and Alani come up next. She's right here. We'll give you guys a chance. We'll switch the line. Come on. That's super cute. Awesome. Congratulations. [Applause] a little bit. So, a great way to celebrate the year is we start with just some of our seniors and being recognized with their academic um successes. It's a really proud of them and the work and their families um should mention Lonnie
013is Carrie Walls's daughter, which is a big deal. So, congratulations to Carrie as a parent, but all of our parents um for their kids. I know they're proud of them. Um we have uh Wisconsin School Board Week is coming up on October 5th to 11th. Um this week is set aside to recognize schoolboard members across the state. Um we are fortunate in Grafton to have leaders who selflessly dedicate their their time and their talents as advocates for our students and our community's um future. So during the week of October 5th through 11th, I encourage community members and staff take a moment to send an email or a note of thanks to our board members for leadership and service. And on behalf of our entire learning community, thank you to each of you for all the
014time and efforts you put into making our district uh destination district and we appreciate that. Um, we do have some notes appreciation we'll give you afterwards. And we have a small token of thanks, an apple for each of you. Since we already took a picture, maybe I'll take a picture at the end with you instead of getting up again. Um, but we do appreciate you. And then National Custodian Day is coming up on October 2nd. Um, great opportunity for us to recognize our building custodians and our districtwide maintenance team. Um, and Jamie and his team, all the work that they do that provide a clean and safe environment for student learning. Um, so they are often underappreciated behind the scenes for all the work that they do. It's a great opportunity for us to recognize
015them. So on that Friday, we'll be thanking them with a lunch for each of them um Friday the 3rd um for all the work that they do. And then speaking of lunch, National School Lunch Week is October 13th through the 17th. Um and we are fortunate to have Chartwells as a partner um as they do a great job providing our students with healthy breakfast and lunch options. And we'll be thanking them for their work during the week of October 13th through 17th. And as you enter tonight, you saw the the front of the school being that has been painted and so forth and some banners. um um is homecoming week at Grafton High School. Um there's a ton of activities happening across the district. Uh we're excited for our students to be involved in that.
016Um each of our buildings are participating in theme dress days um going along with the high school's theme. Um and we are continuing our tradition of having our student athletes greet elementary students before school on Friday morning. So they'll be there on Friday welcoming as they come in that day. Um one change this year is around the parade. There's been a lot of discussion about that and some questions that have come up about that. Um, it does start on Thursday evening at 6:00 with staging begin at at 5:30. I know the the police I think are shutting down the roads at 5:30 has been the post. Um, the the parade itself will start at 600. So staging begins at 5:30. Um, the earlier it used to start at 6:30. We moved it up earlier which
017would allow this to for students to get to the stadium before dark. Um, so a safer environment for our kids. Um, and then all the activities that occur after that. um but to be able to have that occur. Um additionally, the parade has been adjusted to begin at Kennedy Elementary. Um this change was made at the discretion of the police department um as the parade will no longer go down Wisconsin Avenue um due to safety concerns and police workload was the rationale that we were given. Um and although we appreciates the police department support to ensure safety, as a district, we would like for our students to experience the tradition of walking down Wisconsin Avenue and supporting our local businesses as a community. We've expressed that that hope um to our police department. Um and
018our hope is to work with them and the Chamber of Commerce in the future to reestablish a route that includes our downtown area as part of the route. Um and then um we have our soccer restroom concession stand update. Um it is um the outside is um substantially completed. We are looking at October 1st for the um the stand to be operational. So as you walk down towards um the stadium, this is the side view. It's the where the ticket window will be for people to be able to receive tickets. Um on the back on your left will be the next picture is the restrooms. Um and so the restrooms that will be there. So um that those will be on the back as you go there. And then the front area is the concession
019area um that gives you a view of the soccer field as well. So I'm excited to have that become operational on October 1st. Um and with that concludes superintendent report. Any questions, Mr. Nelson? Okay, thank you. Uh, next is a public comment. Um, I did have one email from earlier in the year or earlier in the school year that I did share with the whole board. Um, I did get some information tonight which we will get scanned to um, all the board members um, as well. Um, so other than that, I think the GEF is here. Um, so just name and name and address please. What name and address, please? Oh, sorry. Erin Shoemaker, 1923 Shasta Avenue. I'm here representing um Craft and Education Foundation. Um so, one of our focuses this last month and
020we're going to focus the rest of the year um is trying to pair more with we talked to Jeff about this more with the school board or with the community. So, I'm meeting with Elizabeth at the chamber and we are going to try to reach out to more community members and really grow our base because right now our board um we have all these exciting ideas but we have nobody to run these exciting ideas. So, that's one of our f um one of the big focuses that we have. And then um just an update, we had our trivia night last Saturday at BSG. We had um over 70 attendees. We made over $2,000 and it wasn't supposed to be a fundraiser, so that's pretty great. Um, we had four donated raffle prizes and BSG was
021really great. They donated um champagne for our VIP table. They gave us cash back from the bar up to $250 and then um also gave us the place for free and um donated to our raffle prize. On this coming Sunday at Lime Kilm, we have our portraits in the park. We had 10 spots open as of this morning, so I'm not quite sure if there are any more taken. For $70, you get um an 16 by20 print and then digital images are available for purchase. See harvest has gone out. It's our longrunning mailing campaign, so green envelopes go out to a large amount of the community. Not everyone gets one, so um look for those in your mailbox. And then a new event that we're hosting is our Halloween bash. It's going to be on
022October 31st at Ember Social. Um a costume contest, games, prizes, food, drink, admission, all that stuff. And it's $35 ticket. And that is it. Thank you. Hi everybody. Uh Heather Braum 1404 Adele Court in Grafton. Um so I am here on behalf of Kennedy PTG. Uh we decided to take a page from the GEF playbook and uh come every month. Uh we're going to rotate around through our new board that we have and use this opportunity to kind of highlight some of the things that we've got going on in our parent teacher group and um just sort of keep the board and the community informed of some of the things that we're that we're doing. So um I just want to start back with uh we had some exciting things happen this summer. First of
023all, we have a new board. Um I am the newly elected president of the PTG. Um, and then Danielle Davis is another mom from Kennedy and she has stepped in as vice president. Um, Rachel Weissman is our treasurer still. And then we also have another new mom, um, Mallerie Russell, who is new to Grafton. They're a new Grafton family. So, that's really exciting, too, that she has come on as our secretary. So, we spent some time together this summer and kind of redefined what we want to look like and what we want to be for the school and came up with some some really great ideas. So, um, so that's kind of what started it. Uh, one of the things that we did then too is, uh, we created a new website for our PTG.
024We really want to make sure that our families are staying informed and everybody can find the information in a user-friendly manner. So, it lives right on the Kennedy um, elementary school homepage. You can find our link right to our website there. Um, so we did that. We also um, I'm sure as you are aware, Mr. writer had put in a grant for a new sound system in our gymnasium and he got partial part of the grant from GEF and the PTG was able to fund the remaining balance on that and we got that installed this summer too. So that came from last year's costume t uh for $4,290. Um so that was pretty exciting. Uh we also have engaged with a new spiritware vendor and we're pretty excited about that as well. One of the
025probably best things about it is that the store stays open all year round. So families have an opportunity to purchase things on the fly. So we're excited about that. Um the past few weeks, uh we had an opportunity to uh sort of reap the benefits, I guess, of the Grafton Downtown Business Association's back to school bash as part of their second Saturday monthly series of events that they do. Um, and we're proud to say that Kennedy CA became victorious in the Dunctane contest, uh, beating out Woodview by just a few dollars. So, we were super excited that our family showed up and and did that. Um, and from what I understand, we will be Oh, I'm just going to highlight these dollar amounts. So, Kennedy Dunk Tank earned $42 and the Woodview Dunk Tank earned
026$335. So, either way, it was a great fun event. It brought our families out and our teachers were troopers about getting into that dunk tank. So, big shout out to them as well. Um, we also just held our family fall fest this past Thursday which was we sort of hit the repeat button from last year. It was worked out really well. So, we thought let's just do it again. U, we had our mini golf there. We had cousins and Chick-fil-A. Flips Donuts came. We had the robotics team, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, ice dogs hockey. and our fourth grade bake sale bought in over $1,100 to help fund their trip to Madison later this year. So, that's pretty exciting as well. And then upcoming, um we've got our first Popcorn Friday kicking off this Friday, uh
027which is a huge highlight amongst our our students. Last year's Popcorn Fridays um brought in enough money that we were able to gift each one of our students, including our Encore, I'm sorry, not each one of our students, goodness, each one of our teachers, including our Encore teachers, um a $60 Amazon gift card that they could use for uh their classrooms. We also have our Donuts with Grown-Ups coming up on Friday, October 10th. We have MC Teacher Night happening on Tuesday, October 14th, which again is another big uh highlight amongst our our uh staff and our students. And then we also will be, as I mentioned, um the costume tout. We're going to be doing that again on Thursday, October 30th. So, uh thank you for that. And uh like I said, each one of
028our board members is going to be we're each take turns, uh from one month to the next. So, more to come in October. Thank you. All right. Item C, someformational items from our September 8, 2025 finance committee meeting. All right. We met as a committee and uh first thing we went over is a retirement benefits review. We had representatives from Foster and Foster who presented results of an actuarial study outlining the value of future retirement benefits as they relate to salary amounts today. Uh earlier today, Foster and Foster along with Jeff and Toeer presented the information to staff with regard to potential change in the district's oped benefits that would replace the retirement benefit with an increase in salary. Yeah. So earlier today, as you said, we were able to go to um in the
029morning present to middle school, high school teaching staff uh some of the why behind we're looking at adjustments to OPED benefits and potential compensation. Uh Colleen Aterson from Foster and Foster was able to provide similar information to what anyone who came to finance heard on some of the um numbers behind why certain values would be you know provided as a salary replacement for a benefit depending on how far they were away from earning that retirement benefit. Uh and then um I was able to give um some of the next steps. So, an email was sent out to all teachers today outlining where they are in terms of which band they're in and how far away from retirement earning that benefit uh they would be. um as well as announcing to them that next steps as
030they as they uh sort of take in this information, reflect on it for a couple of weeks, having Jeff and I out in buildings the first full week in October to take any feedback or or questions that may have upon reflection. Um but we did have a lot of really good questions uh that people uh asked today following the presentation. Okay. We also reviewed a health insurance update. We had Dan from Horton in. He provided an update of our 2026 health insurance renewal efforts, including working with alternative pharmacy benefit managers to replace claims and utilize more progressive sourcing delivery solutions for prescriptions. analysis with an alternative pharmacy benefit manager showed potential total savings over $350,000 through rebates and program saving opportunities. True Scripts clinical programs could significantly reduce specialty prescription spending. Uh this savings along
031with current claim activity point to a likely 10% increase in employee and district contributions. And then we had a treasures report uh that was presented in detail uh like it was tonight at the annual meeting and budget hearing questions. Okay. Only item D personnel report. Yes, we have um for information only we have resignation of our EL8 at John Long Middle School of Trisha Van Cestin. Um, we are currently seeking to fill that position, but we have a it's information only for the board. Yes, that's the one that we're looking to fill at this point, right? Yes. What's that? Oh, and the coordinator position that we approved um we we've contracted out. Thank you. That that was approved last month um for the EL coordinator. We've contracted with CISA1 to have someone in place because
032trying to find a a person after school had already begun was difficult. And so Amanda worked with CISA one to get a a contracted person that is going to be on site um um for one day a week with that overseeing that. But we still have that position posted, but it's filled for now, but we're looking to fill it more permanently. Is that the high school? That's EL coordinator overall. Yeah, that's coordinator over all of our EL8. So that was the new move that we went to this year was adding EL aids, right? Um to work in buildings in each of our buildings with that and the coordinator then stepped down on that welcome welcome back day information only. Any questions? All right. Item E, GHS advanced placement report. Yes, Miss Leon and Mr. Mate.
033Good evening. We're here to share our advanced placement EP report and uh Mr. Mante is going to get it started and I'll wrap it up. Awesome. Um good evening everyone. I'm excited to be here um on behalf of the high school and reporting our advanced placement data and information from the 2024 2025 um school year. So, we'll go ahead and get started. Uh this is a report that uh we have uh given for the last number of years. So just a quick reminder that our AP program offers college level courses and exams that students take while they're here at the in the comfort of GHS. uh many advantages of doing that but listed are earning college credit uh earning advanced standing uh at college saving time and money and then obviously standing out to colleges
034building their resume as they look to uh apply to their college that they desire to be accepted into. Um so this here tells a great story for 2425 school year. Um all of these numbers that you see under the 2025 columns uh are column are the best numbers we've had in all of those categories. So um we have the most AP students that we've had ever had given the most exams that uh ever of 745 um 303 students scored at least a three or better on their exams and 89% um of all the students who took an AP exam scored at least a three or better on one of those exams. So, if you take a look, you see uh a good trend there. One of the things that we're super proud of is that
035uh normally when you would see more of your students take your classes, you would see uh the opposite occur in terms of your overall achievement on those exams. Uh it's not the case. So, our trend is we have more students taking them and then we're even doing uh better on those with time. So, super proud of this slide. uh when you look at the pro the health of the program uh as a whole. Um next uh what I'll share with you these are just a couple of things that stood out to us when looking only at two factors. So we're just looking at participation and pass rate and just grabbing a few of these um and highlighting them. So what you can take a look at the columns and this will be consistent about the
036few slides that we'll show. Uh looks up it looks at our percentage of students who have participated based on the number of students who are in the class. um our pass rate, the Wisconsin pass rate, and then basically just showing um our percentage above the particular pass rate. So all of the um uh classes here had a significant progress there. And you can take a look at the 100% participation uh in chemistry uh computer science principles, uh art design, the smaller number of students taking that course, but great participation and pass in those classes. Um, moving on, lots to celebrate in terms of our two main uh comm arts courses with lang uh English langen comp and English liten comp. Uh, you can see a 100% pass rate in liten comp there as well. Um,
037and as you move your way down, you'll see some social studies classes and AP hug, uh, macro and microeconomics. In particular, microeconomics had a very successful year being 17% above the pass rate for the state of Wisconsin. uh music theory is a small number of students again very similar to the art class that we highlighted um and then um on the last side you can taking a look at some similar numbers in AP research we had 100% uh participation and pass rate um and then also really stands out as well AP US history our sophomore level course um with significant number of students all of them took the exam and all of them passed the exam so that's something that's uh important to to point out to the board as well. So in terms of
038participation participation in PASS, those are our highlights. Um and then certainly with uh all of our data um you we're highlighting some here with all of our data. We're aware of our strengths also are aware of our necessary areas for growth within our program as well. Okay. And as Scott mentioned, you do have um a document. The board has a document with all of our AP data for all of our classes. Um I'm here to talk next about some of some additional celebrations that we have. Uh our students have the opportunity to earn some AP capstone awards. Uh we have our AP capstone dilemma uh diploma which is if they take AP seminar, AP research and then also throughout high school earn a three or higher on four AP exams. And then they also have
039the opportunity to earn an AP seminar and research certificate by taking those two courses. So we're gonna highlight um that this evening. So uh in 2025 we had four students earn the AP captor stone diploma and four students earn the AP seminar and research certificate. In addition, our students can be recognized as AP scholars. Um, to be an AP Scholar, you have to score a three or higher on three or more AP exams over the course of their time here at Grafton High School. Um, you could also be an AP Scholars with honors. So, that is receiving an average score of at least 3.25 on all of their AP exams that they've taken and score a three or higher on four or more AP exams. And then lastly, they could earn an AP Scholars with
040distinction, which is receive an average score of at least 3.5 on all of the AP exams they've taken and score a three or higher on five or more of those AP exams. So again, showing the past five years, we ha um had 62 students earn the AP Scholar Award. Uh 36 students AP Scholars with honors and 70 students AP Scholar with distinction. I do want to note that it was um there was an error in your board memo with those totals. So these are the accurate numbers with a total of 168 total scholars. Are there any questions for Mr. Manti or myself? Questions. Scott, what US government what's the there was only one that says students in class. We had a couple of students or taken as an independent study last year. This is the
041first year we're running it as a class. So, right now there are I think it's 21 students who are enrolled in AP government for the first time we're actually running the class. So, we're excited to see how that goes in in the first year. Um, and we'll be able to report back uh to you next year with how that first year went. Okay. I would just like to say a big thanks a shout out to all of our teachers um you know for uh overseeing the program and the work that they do to help our students be so successful and also our students for really pushing themselves and scheduling difficult course work in order to see some of the increases that that we're super proud of. So big thanks to our teachers and students as
042well. Absolutely. Thank you very much. All right. Only um F summer learning academy report. Yes. I'd like um Mr. James to come on up and share our summer learning academy report. Good evening everybody. So this summer uh we had another successful summer of our summer learning academy. We offered 173 unique courses uh including 13 academic courses, 160 enrichment courses. Um some of them were offered multiple times which allowed us to offer over 288 courses for our parents and students to choose from. Uh we saw this year we saw the highest student enrollment in our summer learning academy. we had uh over 1,100 students um compared to last year in 2024 where we had 1,040. So tremendous growth. Um the table here illustrates uh the the trend dating back since 2021. Also to align with uh
043Wisconsin's act 20, the reading law, students recommended to participate in academic offerings were again selected based on personal reading plans. um and our I Ready scores. These recommended students receive early access to register. Uh our academic courses continue to serve the students from kindergarten to sixth grade focusing on math and reading and then uh offering our high school students uh credit recovery opportunities as well. And then additionally, we continue to offer our 4K jump start classes, giving our youngest learners that opportunity to preview our four-year-old kindergarten classes. And then similarly, we offered our 5-year-old students they had the opportunity to enroll in our kindergarten readiness and our safety town classes. Our enrichment courses also spanned just a wide range of subjects. Some new courses were offered this year. Um, some of them were photography 101,
044mini golf, bookworms, and then the fan favorite, Hanging with Taylor Swift. Uh, the students in grades 7 to 12 also had the chance to volunteer. Uh, we had a ton of teaching assistants um for our enrichment classes, for our safety town classes. We had a total of 78 TAs, including 55 student TAs for enrichment courses and then 23 student TAs for our safety town. This resulted in a total of 1,354 volunteer hours for our students this summer. This summer also uh presented a challenge, but a successful challenge. We were able to uh have summer learning academy here at the high school due to the construction at John Long Middle School. As a result, significant changes were also made to the parent and guardian pickup and drop off drop off procedures. Uh this was to align
045with the logistical needs of holding summer school here at the new location. Uh we mimicked our school year procedures. Parents were asked to drop off in the front and then pick them up in the front afterwards. Uh we utilize our TAs to guide our younger students. also throughout the building throughout the course of the day. Our most well-attended classes were those offered to our fifth, 6th, and 9th graders who were preparing to transition into their new buildings. We offered one-day classes coming to fifth grade, middle school 101, and our Blackhawkall kickstart. Other highly soughtafter enrichment classes included our escape rooms, pickle ball, flag football, and again hanging with Taylor Smith, Taylor Swift. Lastly, I just want to say a big thank you to all of our staff that made the transition to the high school
046super successful. Uh to Jamie and his crew to help make that transition extremely successful. So, thank you everybody. Questions? I just want to a really good experience as a parent involved with the summer school program, drop off and the coordination of switching from the middle school to high school seemed very seamless and you guys did a phenomenal job with the offerings and dealing with the influx of kids here during the summer. Yeah, definitely great success. It's great to get the kids involved, give them those volunteer hours and opportunities in the summer, you know, when they have a little bit more time. So, it's great that it's a a district-wide activity. So, thank you for all your work. It was first year. It was Damon's first year taking the program on by himself. So last year
047he had some help with Michael and and so to take it on and he had help with Julie and and Amanda as well and Scott, but like and and Jamie. Um but he oversaw all of it and all the logistics and all the pieces of moving it from the elementary and middle to the high school and then construction pieces and all these things that we had going on and and you have you have Yare and you have band and you have football and you have weightlifting and you have all these things going on and he did a really nice job of overseeing it. And so we appreciate the work you did, Damon. I want to mention that to the board as well. Great. And I I wish in hindsight that I would have had the
048three students share their their their class schedules with you. Um when we're talking about AP um because I just looked it up and um you know, you you have four, six, and seven AP classes that those students are taking. Um it's a pretty rigorous course load that they're taking um at the high school. and made me think of it when they were doing the AP report of like those are some of our kids who are taking those rigorous course loads but doing very well on them. So I won't say share who because they aren't here and be their information to share not mine. Um but kudos to them and I'll turn over to Amanda for the next one. Good evening. It's time for our annual update on the district's use of seclusion and restraint uh
049which is mandated by both Wisconsin Act 118 and our schoolboard policy. Um, so I will submit this report to the board, um, as well as submit our data to the Department of Public Instruction, uh, later this year. Um, just as a reminder, uh, during the 2324 school year, we did a an extensive curriculum review to look at moving from CPI to Mant. Um, and it appears we were a bit ahead of the curve as many other districts, including the Richardson School, which is known for its response to students with behaviors, has moved um to Mant as well um and and are seeing some really good results. Um, currently we have 30 staff across the district that are trained and utilizing Mant. We have two in-house staff members, both Julie McGyvern, our Kennedy school psychologist, and
050Katie Martinez Ortiz, our high school school psychologist, um, who train our staff in Mant. Um, we have a nice spread across our buildings. Um, 12 at Woodview, 14 at Kennedy, five at John Long, and nine at the high school, which is well above our required minimum of one staff member per building to be trained. Um, and we we view that as to be very important so that we feel safe, um, that our students are safe, our staff are safe, and we know how to respond to any potentially disruptive behaviors. So, on the on the, um, last part of this sheet, you can see our, um, data year overyear. Um, this past school year, we did, uh, um, have two incidents of seclusion and nine incidents of restraint to report. Are there any questions? So, the
051staff gets trained, is that just a one-time training or is there annual training that they receive? Great question. So, that is a local decision um that Mant and and previously CPI gives districts to decide how long that training is good for. In our district, we have a two-year cadence. Um and Mant is a little bit different because there are three portions of the training. There's conceptual, relational, and technical. So most of those 30 staff have that conceptual component which is really the deescalation and if they have the continued chapters that relational and technical then they receive additional training. So it it really depends on the staff member and the purpose. The majority of our staff have that first portion of the training. Some of them have gone through rigorous second day training as well. Okay.
052informationational only. Any other questions, comments? Thank you. All right. Thank you. All right. H student overnight trip requests. Yes, we have multiple requests that we'd ask for board approval for. Um um Oshkosh on the water classic tournament which is for the boys wrestling team on December 29th and December 30th. There is the bystate girls classic 2025 which is for the girls wrestling team on December 29th and December 30th and the Wasaw Women's Warrior Challenge 2026 on January 16th through the 17th. Um they all have the same information about the fundraising pieces that they've been doing. They have um chaperones that would be um consistent with whether it's for the boys or for the girls that would go along with that. But those are three different um wrestling tournaments that we would ask for board approval.
053So as they prepare for their season, they can plan on attending those. Any comments or questions? And then there'll be a female chaperon for the girls team. Okay. All right. I'll look for a motion to approve the overnight trip request as presented. Second. Additional discussion. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. that passes. Uh gift reports. Yes, we have multiple gift reports tonight, which is great news um that we'd ask for board approved for. So, uh the graph athletic booster club with the contract person of Adam Rig has donated $3,000 towards the huddle package for athletic programs. Um the Blackhawk Fireworks LLC, Matt McKelie, um being in the Meccy, excuse me, Mecca Villi. I'll just keep going. um donating $1,200 for first responder and military appreciation fireworks um which was a great event with the
054chamber um last Thursday night. Great event um we appreciate the sponsorship there. Donahue and Associates with Mike Donahghue for the homecoming fireworks sponsor in the amount of $500. Jamie Lubner Real Estate Group. Jamie Lubner is the contact person for homecoming fireworks sponsor $500. Grafton Athletic Booster Club. Adam Rigg for donation towards homecoming fireworks for $500. Heidi and Lucas Ka um for GHS football donation towards SNAP fundraiser in the amount of $250. Marlene Pritchard for a designated gift for girls and boys cross country programs um in the amount of $630 in memory donation for coach Gary Pritchard. Tracy Corbin for the girls and boys cross country program. Amemory donation for coach Gary Pritchard in the amount of $500. Terry Pritchard for the girls and boys cross country programs in memory donation for coach Gary Pritchard in
055the amount of $250. Uh Willow in the amount of $1,000 for JHS FTC Robotics Random Engineers 2382 sponsorship donations. So, it's restricted. Thrivant financial grants for the GHS FDC robotics random engineers 2382 for five Thrivant grants of $1,250 and matrix with Matt Mark Wolf being the contact person um for a sponsorship donation for GHS FDC robotics random engineers of 2382 in the amount of $3,000. And then as was mentioned by Aaron um earlier, not Aaron um um Heather said about the money that was donated by the downtown business association, we actually had them donate $600 towards um phase three of the athletic complex um development. Um so they had funders that they gave towards um Woodview and Kennedy. Um but they also raised money for phase three of our athletic complex development in the amount
056of $600. Any comments, any questions? I will look for a motion to approve the gift reports as presented. Additional discussion. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. That passes. We thank everyone and we will get a letter out to each of them. Um the next board meeting um will be here at Grafton High School on Monday, October 27th. Um that brings us to adjournment. Um, the board of education will consider a motion to convene in close session pursuant to Wisconsin statute 19.85 section 1 subsection D considering a strategy for crime detection or prevention for purpose of reviewing school safety drill and information. Do we have a motion? So second. We'll do a voice vote. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And yes, we are enclosed. Thank you everyone.