001[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Good evening everybody. We are reconvening our regular board meeting of June 23rd. We convene at 5:30 into close session and we're back. Um, I want to welcome everyone. We have with us at the board the table a member of the inner city student council. Would you please introduce yourself? Chanelopold from Prebble High School. Thank you and welcome. And as always, please feel free to engage with us on any topics. We also have um Superintendent Vicky Byer. So if everyone would please stand and say the pledge. United States of Americ. Yes, I'm about to about to do that, I think, if I'm reading your mind. So also at the um table this evening is a newly appointed board member um Miss Dr. Samantha Meister and um we have elected
002that she will read the mission statement this evening. Thank you. We educate all students to be college, career and community ready inspired to succeed in our diverse world. Thank you and welcome. Um the land acknowledgement. We the members of the Green Bay Area Public School District recognize and honor the original inhabitants of northeast Wisconsin. Our district lives, works, and learns upon the ancestral homelands of the Monomin and Ho Chunk Nations and the current home of Onida Nation. We acknowledge the 12 diverse and vibrant Wisconsin First Nations who have persevered here since before recorded time and continue to be integral parts of our community. We uphold our responsibility to repair relationships, initiate part partnerships, and stand with all First Nation communities. Okay, we're going to go to the next portion of our agenda, which is recognition.
003And these are always uh fun and exciting moments. So, we have a couple of items tonight. Tonight, it is my pleasure to acknowledge two organizations in our community who deserve to be recognized for their contributions to the Green Bay Area Public School District. The Friend of Education Award is bestowed upon an individual, organization, or group whose leadership, acts, or support have significantly benefited the Green Bay Area Public School District, its employees and/or students. First, I would like to acknowledge Shopco Optical. They have been partnered with the Green Bay Area Public School District for two years as our provider for the school-based vision program. Shopco optical has provided more than 300 eye exams and glasses through their kids in focus program. Most recently, they provided 4 days of eye exams at Nicicolay Elementary Community School, examining
00491 students, of which 76 needed new or updated prescriptions, and six were referred for follow-up care. The ongoing services and commitment that Shopcole provides our students and their families is immeasurable. They remove a barrier to a student's ability to learn and flourish in school, resulting in greater academic achievement. We are grateful for your commitment to our children. At this time, if I could ask Kurt Lauderbach from Shopcole to come forward and receive your award. All right. Sound good. All right. Definitely want to thank everyone for this opportunity here. Um, quite honestly, when Amy reached out to us a couple years ago, we really had no idea how many lives we could touch with kids in focus. And to be able to see over 300 students here, as you referenced, it truly is differencemaking. To be
005able to provide the right eyewear to make students better students, to make athletes better athletes. It's quite a privilege what we get to do and having the opportunity to help those in need is truly great here. Um, definitely I think that I thank everybody for this award. The team I have at Shop Co-optical from our mer marketing team, our merchandising team, the doctors, the optitians, the lab team that made the glasses, they're the ones that really made all this happen. So, I want to thank them and thank you. So, we really look forward to keep doing this and we're excited about doing it again next year. So, thank you. Thank you. So, no, no, Kurt, don't don't go anywhere. So, board, let's go over to the backdrop and take a picture, please. All right. It
006is also my pleasure to recognize a cohort of individuals who dedicated significant time this year, this school year, to learn more about the Green Bay Area public schools. I want to acknowledge and extend my appreciation to Superintendent Byer for her leadership in identifying the need in the district and for setting a priority of intentional community engagement. In addition, I wish to express the board's gratitude to the Green Bay Area public school public schools education foundation chair Eric Vandenhu for partnering with the district and leading the sessions. Tonight, we recognize the first Ambassador Academy cohort. This group of individuals spent time together each month learning about the inner workings of the district and participating in a book study. Schools cannot do it alone. More importantly, they provided valuable feedback and asked great questions to help us
007as we continue to do what is best for our kids. not could join us this evening, but for those of you who are in with us, who are with us tonight, please come forward and receive a certificate and then we'll take a group photo. So Terry Bush, Jennifer Fashionbower, Amy Hogan, Beth Kowalsski, Virginia Mua, Tom Murphy, Melanie Parma, Alyssa Profett, Shannon Seer, C. Meer Tabaska. Sorry about that. Wa tao if that's I apologize if I and Joanna Wickland Thank you. All right, we're going to move to agenda item four, open forum. And uh if there is anyone that has yet to register to speak, now is the last chance. Does anyone wish to speak? Right. So, we'll move on to agenda item number five, updates. Clean energy advisory committee update. I think is that Kale
008Good evening, Kell. Hello. Good afternoon or good evening. Sorry, I'm trying to get nice There it goes. Thank you. I just have a brief uh update for the board tonight. Um the clean energy committee uh held their monthly meeting on June 10th. Um Luan Olirri uh graciously filled in for myself and led that meeting. I was able to attend about the last 30 minutes of that. Um during this meeting, I'll just a few highlights. Um we noted um we had a survey out um regarding clean energy uh to our community. uh we did receive those that closed on the 13th. So we did not discuss in this meeting. We will discuss those um that information at our next meeting in July. Um we did schedule visits to Star Elementary for the uh geothermal well drilling.
009Uh that first site visit was held last Thursday. uh we had three members join um and we have another um time slotted for this Thursday for that team to come out and see um what is actually the tail end of the geothermal well drilling. Um and then we also had a presentation from Jenny Brinker um in regards to a grant-f funded netzero pathways presentation for six of our schools. Um, this kind of was in unison with our Mckinstry uh information that we've had with them. Um, this again was a grant-f funed piece um that that team had put together. Um, that presentation is available and will be posted. Um it's uh lays out uh essentially um additional information of how we can uh meet some of our our clean energy goals. Um again, a lot
010of that aligns with what McKinstre's uh pathway that they're developing for us um has in it. Um so it was it was nice to have another set of eyes on that um and information to help us meet our clean energy goals. Um and then finally we had Mckinstry update the team. So they are currently working on a few things for us. Um one um finalizing our pathway to that clean energy um um getting our um our desktop or our sorry our dashboard um up and running um for some of our uh solar projects where we can see live information um for some of the uh clean energy steps. we've already taken. Um and then as well as update us on um some projects that we are um exploring um that may be presented as um
011projects here in the upcoming months or years um to help us uh continue to achieve or work towards our clean energy goals. Um so it was a it was a a good agenda and and um a lot of information from both um the net zero pathways and Mckinstry and uh we'll reconvene again um I believe July 8th for our next month meeting. Any questions? All right. I don't really have a question, but um I just want to say that um after after your big presentation, was it back in December where your plan was submitted? Um some people would think maybe that there'd be a little bit of a lull in the work, but there has not been a lull in the work clearly. And every time you come before us, I can see that. And
012I just wanted to say I appreciate that. It's we've got a deadline and it feels like it's a long way away. Um but the it's such a huge lift that we need all that time and probably more to get achieve the goal that we set. So thank you. Other questions? Uh I have one. So, can you remind me if we were able to actually execute the alternatives on both properties that are being renovated, Dodie and I think it was Chapel. Um, Chapel opens next week. Um, don't quote me on the exact date of that. So, Chapel has not opened yet, so I can't say that. Um, Dodie, we did accept the alternate for the solar array on that project. Thank you. Other questions? All right, Gail. Thank you. We'll go to 5B, legislative update. Uh
013Jet, thank you. So, um you've all received the um grid that we've been using and you'll notice that most things say no change. Um and these are education bills. They're not really part of the um budget. So, I'd like to make a short comment about the budget. Um first of all, right now it doesn't look like the budget's going to be approved by July 1st. So, we're going to be waiting a little bit longer. Um, actually, they're not talking to each other, I believe, unless that changed this morning. Um, now something that has been pushed out there is that there has been an increase for highcost special education aid that has been proposed to be put in the budget. And um, there are some legislators that are saying, "Oh, this is great. This is historical.
014We're really funding special education, but the money is going to highcost special education aid, not to the overall general uh special education. And so this funding impacts about 0.5% of the entire students. It impacts 3% of all the special education students and of course not every student in the district um gets special education services. So it's only 0.5% of the students statewide. Okay? So keep that in mind when you're hearing that this is such a good thing that they're supporting special education. 5% of the students. Um, so they're dragging their feet on education. There's lots of things happening with the budget. I would like to urge everyone to either make a phone call to their legislators, senators, assembly reps, um even to the governor, um and say how you feel about the budget because when
015the budget doesn't fill the needs, we're going to have to cut things that nobody's going to like cutting. And you can thank the representatives that didn't um increase education in the budget. We have $4 billion dollar um excess money in the state that they're not releasing. Please reach out to your assembly reps and your senators. Um that's about it. Thank you. Thank you, J. Anyone have questions for Janette? Laura, I don't know if who can answer this for me, but um the funding for um act 20 work that's still that hasn't been released yet either, has it? Okay. Any does anyone have any idea when that might happen or are we expecting it to just basically never happen? According to the Wasp WASPY WSB, is that how you say it? Waspie. Thank you. Um, yeah,
016they're thinking it's not going to happen. And then that money goes back into the general fund. So, it's gone forever basically if we don't get it unfunded mandate. Another one. Any other questions? So, Janette, you may not be able to um answer this. I'm pretty sure you can't answer this, but Vicki, um a as we see the budget um kind of continue to mature or get close, is it possible to have Angie um come to the board? because I'm really interested in understanding and having others understand what it means to say that there's no additional shared revenue. Yet, there's a 20 the $325 increase in the spending cap because it's my understanding that that is a direct drop into the property tax bill without any augmentation or um funds from the state. And so if
017we can kind of get a a a picture of that as we go forward, I would appreciate it because, you know, we we went on record as we went through referendum um that, you know, it is our job not to increase the mill rate. Um and it feels like we're not getting support in that mission from the state. You are correct in that. Uh if the state legislature adopts the proposal that came from the joint finance committee, that $325 per pupil additional fees or funds that right now are coming out of state aid would shift to local property owners. So that would impact mill rate. If you are a property owner in the state of Wisconsin, our our mill rate would go up. Um, and to Janette's point about the uh high needs special ed
018uh for us that will equate to about $200,000. That's it. That would cover for maybe two students that are are high needs for our district. So, thank you for bringing attention to that, Janette. Other questions, statements? All right. Thank you. Now we'll move on to um agenda item six, consent agenda. Will someone please read the motion? Go ahead. I moved that that the consent agenda items as presented be approved. Second. Any discussions? Kenzie, online voting is now open. All votes have been entered and the motion is carried with all board members voting in favor. Thank you. We'll move to agenda item 8A, the sale of real property adjacent to Frabel. So, will someone please read the motion? I move that the commercial offer to purchase parcel 21-8068 with a purchase price of $60,000 as presented
019be approved. Second discussion. Kenzie. Online voting is now open. All votes have been entered and the motion is carried with all board members voting in favor. Thank you. We'll move to um 8B, land exchange agreement between village of Aloway and Green Bay. Will someone please read the motion? I move that the proposed exchange of land with the village of Aloway at the following sites, Langlade Elementary and Webster Elementary, including the described agreements, contingencies, and details as presented, be approved. Second discussion. Kenzie. Online voting is now open. All votes have been entered and the motion has carried. The results of the individual board member votes are as follows. Meister, yes. Canel, yes. Minnow, yes. Gerlock, yes. Larly, yes. McCoy, yes. Becker, no. Motion carries 6 to1. Thank you. We'll move to 8 C, General Contractor Award
020for auxiliary services. Will someone please read the motion? I move that ACE Building Service be awarded the bid for the general contractor for the building addition and renovation project that uh the auxiliary services building in the amount of $3,550,500 as presented be approved. Second. There's a second by Janette. Discussion Laura. Um that very large amount just reminded me to um that we should probably tell people in the audience who are watching that we've these have all been discussed already in our last meeting like we're not just um seeing this for the first time. I was going to state that as so some of these things are novel. Um so as we get down to um E I was going to make that same announcement but um you're right. Any other discussion? Kenzie, online voting is
021now open. All votes have been entered and the motion is carried with all board members voting in favor. We'll move to 8D, award of contract for birectional amplifiers. Will someone please read the motion? I move that Neielson be awarded the contract for birectional amplifier improvements at East High School, Franklin Middle School, Lombardi Middle School, Prebble High School, Southwest High School, Washington Middle School, and West High School in the amount of $349,8143 as presented be approved. Second discussion. Kenzie, online voting is now open. All votes have been entered and the motion is carried with all board members voting in favor. Okay. So now I'm going to second what Laura said. Um rest of the agenda has primarily been discussed at our work session and now we're just going to take action on the items that were
022discussed. Um we'll move to 8E. Will someone please read the motion? I move that the Boys and Girls Club of Green Bay be approved to provide services for the 21st century community learning centers and or fund 80 community-based afterchool programs for the 2025 to 26 school year for Dan's and Fort Howard elementary schools for a total of $282,860 as presented be approved. Second discussion. We'll get it, Kenzie. Online voting is now open. All votes been entered and the motion is carried with all board members voting in favor. Moving on to 8F, selection of providers for community based after school programs. Will someone please read the motion? I move that the white the YMCA of Green Bay be approved to provide services for the 21st century community learning centers and/or fund 80 community-based afterchool programs for
023the 2025 2026 school year for Baird Bowmont Dodie Eisenhower how and Sullivan elementary schools for a total of $872,17322 as presented be approved. Second discussion Kenzie online voting is now open. All votes have been entered and the motion is carried with all board members voting in favor. We'll move to 8G, potential change to district's internal uh internal income protection protection plan. Will someone please read the motion? I move that the district transition the internal protection plan from the current 82.5% of income replace 60% of income replaced as presented be approved. second. Okay. Um, so at this point I think the uh the votes will be taken and Alex I think you all abstain from voting. All right. discussion. Lynn, I would just like to explain why I chose option two instead of option one. Um
024and or keeping it as it is. This is the difficult thing, but um the staff has come to us several times now in the last few months and offered us opportunities to u make a hard decision in light of a $10 million deficit that we are facing. And this is one of those hard decisions. What's good about this is it will the change will apply only to people as they enroll in it. Anyone who's already involved in the pay um uh the protection income protection plan is not going to be affected. It will be new enrolles. They will all know exactly what the terms are. It's very transparent. they will know that if they choose to enroll in this and a very very small number of our staff do enroll in this program, this is
025what they will be able to recover 60% of their income. So that's why I chose that one. I think it is a a fair and clear opportunity to save some money. Yeah, Andrew. I'm I'm going to move to amend the uh motion by replacing 60% with 70%. Second. Okay. So, at this point, we're discussing the amendment to the motion. So, anyone want to have a discussion on 70% versus 60%. Andrew? Yeah. So I I know of, you know, in the in the overall tradeoffs that have happened over generations between um educators choosing a lower uh salary for a more generous benefits package. 60 puts this number below the percentage of income reimbursement that I've I've known of for several people I know in the it actually takes it below some of the private sector funding,
026private business funding that I know, which maybe is around 2/3. Uh, so I just wanted to get the the vote out there between uh I want the board to be on record between 60 and the 60 option and the the 70 option. There's still savings under the 70 option. I also want to clarify that the the word enroll does not mean is not being used here in any kind of intuitive sense of the word. It it does mean if you're drawing disability right now, if you're drawing IP right now, you at 82.5, you'll stay on it for the duration of the incident. But this isn't about conventional wisdom would be people would think of new enroles as new employees but in fact it's it's everyone after they the only people that don't immediately have their
027number change would be those who are in drawing right now and they'll change as soon as they stop drawing. Is that correct? I appreciate the clarification Andre. I think Janette I agree with Andrew. So when I did a little bit of research um previous before our work session and we were discussing this further most um disability payments range between 40 to 70%. Most employers do not provide this. Um they provide a plan as we discussed a few months ago that the employee employee can purchase. Um and I think that was reimbursing at less than 70%. 70% is a generous amount, but I agree that we ask our teachers to do a lot and I agree with this 70%. Even though that's really the top end of what most disability plans will reimburse, um I think
028our teachers are worth it. Others Okay. So, at this point, we'll take a vote, Kinsey, on the amendment to um 70%. Gerlock, no. Canel, yes. Meister, yes. Becker, yes. McCoy. Yes. Mow. Larly. Yes. Motion carries. Okay. Um, so that's done, right? We'll move on to I'm sorry that's the amendment. Now we have to actually um address the motion. Apologize. Any any discussion? Should we reread the motion so everybody's aware of what we're voting for and not just us but the people who are watching? Sure. So the motion that we're voting on is that we move that the district transition to the internal protection from the current 82.5% of income replaced to 70% of income replaced as presented be approved. Kinsey Minnow. Becker. Hi. Meister. Yes. Canel. Yes. Gerlock. I McCoy. No. Larly. I motion carries.
029Okay, we will move on to 8H. Job description updates, please. Will someone please read the motion? I move that the job description updates as presented be approved. Second discussion. Samantha, I apologize if this was already covered. I see that it was it's a two-year grant-f funed position. Um, has there been discussion in terms of is this a renewable grant and or discussion about an ongoing opportunity to continue to fund this because I think this is a really critical role within the district. Vicki, Mike, can you join us please? To your question, there have been discussions. I'd like uh Mike to fill you in on that. Good evening everybody. Hello, welcome. Congratulations. Welcome. Thank you for the qu uh question. We did talk a little bit about the the idea um during the work session of
030you know proof of concept led us to this recommendation and that carries through um as well. This the funding for this uh is currently um largely sponsored by a partnership and great work by the the GBEA and Mr. Brent Bergstrom. So Brent and myself have dialogued about we believe that the first half of this year if the board approves the position getting the position started on board will give us valuable information about the next steps in seeking funding right and so um is the grant renewable with the NEA uh will is the United Way grant renewable sometimes they will tell us um you can't apply for this one again but here's a different one so um you know both Amy Fish's team and Brent's team have been really passionate about ensuring that something that's great
031can be supported and we need to commit from my perspective we need to commit to reviewing and deciding do we reallocate district resources um to say this is a permanent thing based on how it's going. So that conversation would start to happen as early as kind of the six-month point of the two years so we can proceed. So that's important to us. Thank you. Other discussion or questions? Thank you, Mike. Kenzie, I missed who did the first and second on that. Is anybody able to All right, I had it backwards. Thank you. Online voting is now open. All votes have been entered and the motion is carried with all board members voting in favor. Moving on to 8 I revisions and repeal of board of education policies and rules in the 300 series. Will someone
032please read the motion? So, Andrew, I move that the revisions and repeal of board of education policies and rules in the 300 series of policies relating to teaching and learning as presented be approved. Second discussion. Kenzie, online voting is now open. Al all votes have been entered and the motion is carried with all board members voting in favor. 8J. Will someone please read the motion? I move that the revisions to board of education policy 431, student attendance as presented be approved. Second discussion Kenzie online voting is now open. All votes been entered and the motion is carried with all board members voting in favor. Moving to 8K. Andrew, you please read the motion. I'll move that the revisions to board of education rule 431, student attendance and truency procedures as presented, be approved. Second discussion.
033Kenzie. Online voting is now open. All votes have been entered and the motion is carried with all board members voting in favor. Moving to 8 L. Andrew, would you please read the motion? I move adoptions of board of education policies and rules in the 800 series of policies as presented be approved. Second discussion. Kenzie. Online voting is now open. All all votes have been entered and the motion is carried. The results of the individual board member votes are as follows. Meister, yes. Canel, yes. Mow, no. Gerlock, yes. Larly, yes. McCoy, yes. Becker, yes. Moving to agenda item 8.M. Andrew, please read the motion. I'll move that the revisions I'm sorry. I move that the revisions to board of education policies and rules in the 800 series of policies as presented be approved. Second discussion. Laura,
034just before we wrap this up, I just wanted to say that this these all this policy work is a huge amount of work. And I just want to congratulate Melissa, though I know a lot of people had a hand in this. Many many people. And um every time we go through this, I I I just want to make people aware of how many hours were put into this. That's all. Thank you, Laura. Other discussions, Kenzie. Online voting is now open. All votes have been entered and the motion is carried with all board members voting in favor. And finally, agenda item 8N. Andrew, I'll move that I I move that the repeals of board of education policies and rules in the 800 series of policies as presented be approved. Second. Discussion. Kenzie. Online voting is now
035open. All votes been entered and the motion is carried with all board members voting in favor. With that we've reached the end of our agenda. I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn. So moved. Second. Second. All in favor? We are adjourned. Thank you everybody. You have been watching the Green Bay Area Public School District's Board of Education meeting. Please visit the school district's website, www.gbaps.org, for more information on the district and future meeting dates. If you cannot fully access the information on this video, please let us know the accessibility issue you are having by calling 920-4482025 or by email at communications atgbaps.org. We will try to provide the information to you in an alternative format and or make the necessary improvements to make the information accessible. [Music]