001All right. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It is 5:45 and I'd like to call this board meeting to order, please. Marie, would you please start with our roll call attendance for board members? Tracy Hennis here. Nolan Jacket here. Heather Barry here. Tiffany Stapleton here. Kenneth Miller here. All right. Would everyone please rise and face the flag for the pledge of allegiance? Ethan is going to start us off. Thank you, Ethan. Check. Okay, good. 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. Thank you, Ethan. Is there a motion to adopt the agenda? So moved. Motion by Nolan Jacka to adopt the agenda. Is there a second? I'll second. Seconded by Tiffany. Any discussion? Hearing
002none. All those in favor of adopting the agenda as pres presented say I. I. I. Any post say nay. That motion carries. We will go forward with the agenda as presented. Um Marie, did anyone sign up for public comments this evening? Okay. Thank you. We did not have anyone sign up for public comment, so we will skip over that public comment procedure. Um, next on our agenda is a donation. I will pass it over to Dr. Stacy Gain. The board would like to thank the Granger and Button family for donating $300 to girls golf as well as $300 to the track team and $300 to the soccer team. Truly grateful for their generosity. Thank you so much to the Granger and Button families. Thank you very much. Um, next on our agenda is our consent
003agenda items, uh, which consists of several different meetings of minutes, our vouchers, the treasures report, and our personnel recommendations. Um, before we have a motion on our consent agenda, I would like to pause and recognize on our personnel recommendations from actually from last month and this month, we have two significant retirements. We have Dan Rutzoff who was here for 45 years. Is that correct? Wow. And then also Alan Ojala. And how many years was Alan here? 10. 10 years. Okay. Thank you very much to both those gentlemen for the years that they served HHS. We are deeply appreciative of their time here and we will miss them being here with us daily. Thank you. Um is there anything else that a board member like to pull out of our consent agenda? Hearing none. Is there
004a motion to adopt the items on the consent agenda? So moved. We have a motion by Nolan Jacket. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Tiffany Stapleton. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any oppose say nay. That motion carries. Those items have been approved. Um, next is our reports. We'll start with our referendum update from Mr. Ethan Sipple. Good evening. Awesome. Uh, here to present tonight the progress so far on Bitpack one, just a quick mention on Bidpack 2. One, just a reminder, was the parking lot out by the tennis courts, the restroom renovations in the high school here, and miscellaneous electrical uh LED lighting replacements, security and access and controls components just throughout the building here at the high school. So, starting with the parking lot, we are as of today cut
005down to the final grade um where we the deepest that we're going to take it. Cutting out the bio basin as well today. So, At this point, we build back up with stone. But starting Wednesday, we're going to be setting the light poles out there and roughing in for those before we lay the stone down. Um, so as I as it says, next up is grading stone and base. Biobasin was finished since I put this together. And then the next step for us is really preparing the curbs around around the whole site. Um, and then we will infill the curbs from there with the asphalt. So here are some pictures. Um, we had to tie our storm sewer in actually quite a ways down the street more towards in front of the high school where
006Summit meets Monroe which is almost a full block down the street. That was the nearest adequate storm connection that we could uh have to our site. So our friend here is putting that in. And then um the picture on the right is taken um towards the very west end of the site looking back um before we started to get into cutting the grades down. And then the picture on the right here is after we began cutting, we had to remove some sections of sidewalk would have been damaged anyways by the weight of the trucks coming in and out as well as preparing for the new entrances and concrete aprons that will meet out into the street. So, uh, good progress there as expected um, with what we knew ahead of time with soils reports, etc.
007restroom renovations. Uh update since this even is uh all the MEPs are roughed in under the slab ready to receive um finishes. We've infilled those with concrete at this point and we're working on our wall roughins and drywall are really coming up next. But before we close up walls, we work with the city to get that inspected and and um make sure that they're on the same page as us with timeline for that. I skipped one there. This is what the the restrooms look like. abatement. Um, Integrity Environmental being our partner with the district on that was pulling uh some of the older tile out from the walls. Um, getting things ready to take out the walls themselves. And then once the walls were out um or at least the faces of the walls, you
008can see kind of on the left picture how the walls were made. Back in the 60s, they didn't use studs. They used wire mesh trusses more or less that they applied tra uh plaster to. So the way we build back with that is not the same type of construction. We use typical stud and drywall um all walls to receive tile finish as well as floors. And then the last piece to update on is electrical lighting and replacement. Um as of last week we're at about halfway with lights actually going up. Uh that's not the full indication of percentage complete though because there are uh switches being swapped out, occupancy sensors. Um kind of the brains behind the lights themselves. Um this is a picture of Tracy's office after we had everything removed. And if you
009were to go in there now, I believe the grid is up and ready to receive MEPs. Um but that's what it looks like once your room has no ceiling. expecting that some of these areas to to bring the inspector on board at the same time as we're looking at the restrooms kind of to make sure that he comes in, you know, as few times as possible, make best use of his time. So, this is going to be this specific area completing in the next couple weeks, but in general, we're tracking very well with the scope that we have in hand. I was just going to mention one thing. We had our special meeting two weeks ago, bid pack two being the pool. um really lining up the subcontracts and the subcontractors to get in there,
010start removing those wall finishes. That's really the first step in that whole process. Any questions the bid packages as so far? Thank you for the updates, especially the pictures. It's nice to actually get our I get our eyes and get a visual on those things. It was really appreciated. Yeah. So, it sounds like everything is on pace to uh be complete according to the schedule. Yeah. Uh once you're out of demo, there's a significant especially in interiors, there's amount of risk that kind of goes away with what are you going to find. Then it's just a how do we get to the finish line, making sure our finishes are coming in in time and installed in time and hitting those inspection dates as well. All right. Thank you very much. All right. Thank you, Keith.
011Thank you. Uh, next is our superintendent report from Dr. Stacy Gain. So, couple items tonight. I'll start out with the graduation was certainly a success for our talented students who we wish the best on their new journeys and truly appreciate all the staff that collaborated to plan such a successful day, as well as our Hartford Fire and Rescue who are always here for us to support in the case of any emergencies that transpire. And to that end, at this time, we want to welcome back a special graduate whose journey certainly extends far beyond the classroom with the lifelong friends here at HHS and really the ability over time to ignite those passions and really weave herself into the heart of our community. So, at this time, we welcome back a very special graduate. All right.
012just on behalf of the Hartford Union High School. All right. On behalf of the Hartford Union High School staff and Board of Education, it is my honor uh to present Gabrielle Nelson with her high school diploma. [Applause] Great. Congratulations Congratulations again, Gabrielle. We wish you all the best. That's a great moment. Next, a few congratulations to our many wonderful coaches, athletes, families. Uh, starting with our baseball team and truly an unforgettable season. So, so proud of those students, coaches, and families who supported that journey. In particular, Carter Cuts. Congratulations for earning the Northshore Conference Baseball Player of the Year. His leadership, hard work, and dedication are truly remarkable. in addition to Owen Kipper who took fourth place at the state golf tournament and will be added to our wall of honor. Outstanding accomplishment and you
013may have seen in tennis Ethan Hoffman made it to the final s 16 in singles at state and Jake Otto and Alex Hoffman won their first doubles match. Um congratulations also to several following the following track and field athletes. So we had Ezra Marcos running the 800 meter. Jeremiah Langer, Brain Brilan Renick, Broady Gum, Ezra Marcos, Ethan Webb, and Adam Zern running the 4x 400 relay, and Jeremiah Lininger competing at the high jump and the long jump. And Jeremiah also broke, which we were just talking about, the school long jump record by 21 feet and 10 and 3/4 in. Amazing. And finally, Josiah Lubie competed in the pole vault and state championship in lacrosse. So, super proud of all of those student athletes, families, coaches, and everyone who really supported that journey. Uh, a couple
014other items. Just wanted to note as requested by the board of ed to investigate additional furniture options subsequent to the last meeting, administration is in the process of getting quotes for student desks and so hoping to have those quotes within the next few weeks. You'll also see a lot of movement around the building based on really looking at student need and where staff um for teaching assignments and locations need to be around the building to best support students. So that'll be a little bit of movement. Also wanted to just give a shout out to everyone who has facilitated our strength and speed program. Our numbers are fantastic. I believe there's over 300 students signed up. 120 seventh and eighth graders approximately and over 180 10th through 12th graders. So truly amazing commitment on those students
015as well up and early in the fitness center. Uh related to technology, just wanted to mention a few items. We've successfully replaced all of our wireless access points to boost Wi-Fi coverage across the building, addressed a few minor issues to ensure all the devices are operating effectively. And our technology team continues to fine-tune new access points, implement latest security settings, and engage in professional learning to really keep us moving forward. Um so looking ahead we'll be updating some of the firewall and servers enhancing cyber security um a variety of things in in addition to class link which will really help um simplify for our students and really having that one login. So a huge thank you to Miss Verhance and Mr. Selinger and Mr. Hasted for their excellent work this summer in all of those
016different projects. And then finally just wanted to give a shout out. We had our first annual Rotary River bike ride and it really was a success. Really that love of biking meeting with the commitment to support the Boys and Girls Club of Washington County and the Hartford Bike and Skate Park. So really looking forward to expanding that ride next year. It really was a amazing event and a lot of work that went into that um by many to make it a success. So huge thank you to everyone that was involved and that will be the conclusion of my report tonight. Thank you, Dr. Gain. Any questions for Dr. Gain? All right, then I will move forward into our schoolboard report. Um, number one, I was just notified that Patrick Dodie, our new director of student
017services, is in attendance this evening. So, thank you, Patrick, and welcome. [Applause] Um, did you want to say something? I was just gonna say welcome to Patrick and we are super excited to have you a part of our amazing team as an addition. So, thank you for stopping by tonight, Patrick. Glad you're here. Get ready to work. Um, also my report this evening, um, some referendum projects updates. Um, as you know, we had the groundbreaking on May 27th. Um, I want to thank not only everyone in attendance, but also the our communications person as well as the Washington County Daily News for the way that they covered that event so well, as well as our updates. I've seen um even even an update or two continuing to be put out there, not just on our
018own social media, but in the newspaper. So, that's really great. We need to make sure we're continue to get that information out there to our public. So, thank you to everyone for that, especially with the communication. Our core planning team meetings continue to happen. um that schedule has, I guess, morphed a little bit. There have been some additional meetings. Um we are now going to be um making sure that we're getting that information out to every board member. It's been a little bit bumpy along the way. So, apologies for that, but we we are getting to the heart of it today during our meeting as well. So Marie is going to be working to help um kind of be our manager for us and our liaison between us and that whole group to make sure
019we're getting not just the agendas and the minutes but also that we understand what the the meeting schedule is. Um we do have that that document where we're trying to get one or two board members sign up to attend. Ideally we'd like to make sure we have at least one board member in attendance at those meetings and and hopefully two. It's what's important is that we all stay up todate and in the know. So even if you're not attending, please take a look at those links and those documents um to make sure that we're all the same level of understanding. So the next time we attend the next CPT meeting, we're kind of up to speed and we can kind of pick up and and follow along with the meeting. Um during our meeting today,
020Ethan did help both Laura and I. You will be getting you probably did get something today. It's an invite to something called uh is it like trim line? I I'll set I'll send you an email. It it doesn't look like it's from Ethan, but it isn't directly from Ethan, and it does invite you. So, create it create your login for that. And that helps you get access to more detailed minutes from all the meetings as well as all of the drafted drawings and documents. And so, there's gosh, like 130ome documents there for us to access. So, that way all board members are in the know. even, you know, our our bathrooms are in major demolition mode right now, but I was able to pull up the drawings to see what that looks like when they're
021done and ask some questions pertaining to that. So, know that that is there for us to access. And um if you need any help with that, please reach out to probably Ethan. Would that be the best one? Ethan Simple would be the best one. So, you should all have his email in your email box somewhere. If you don't, reach out to me, Stacy, or Marie, and we can help you. And it's trimble is what? Thank you. it'll come in as Thank you. So, I just I just got access to that this afternoon and it's awesome all the information that we have access to. So, please stay up to date. Let us know if you have questions. Our Q&A sessions and opportunities for anyone to come in and ask questions or get more information about our
022referendum projects is is still happening before every regular board meeting. Um so, just reminding everyone to please take advantage of that great opportunity uh for anyone out there who might want to know more or has questions. Um, our board member engagement has been phenomenal. Phenomenal. I just want to thank everyone. We we've had, you know, multiple board members present for the groundbreaking. Um, we had a board member participate in the interview committee to hire a director of student services. So, thank you, Tiffany, for doing that. Um, it's it's awesome to truly see the the collaboration and engagement that's happening right now with the board. Um, our new board members also had a meeting with Rob, Stacy, and Stevie for an overview and understanding of our district finances, our student services, our curriculum instruction. So, that
023was awesome that that was able to happen. Thank you for making time for that. We've had board members reaching out to Stacy, Rob, anyone on on our administrative staff with questions and with ideas. That is awesome. The the level of collaboration and transparency here has been really wonderful to see. Um, we do have a board workshop scheduled for September 4th. I know there has been some talk um with multiple board members just kind of bringing stuff to me as well. It may be a good idea for us to keep in mind if there be a possibility of another workshop maybe in August as a thought and that would be more of a a a working workshop. There's a couple of ideas of things we need to tackle. Um one of those things that we do
024need to tackle that Stacy and I will be taking a look at in July as well is so we have this great level of collaboration and transparency happening. Um, we need to make sure we're taking a look at our our policies and our practices, administrative guidelines and and make sure that they are written in a way that works well for our district and it has shows the the collaboration process between the board and administration in an appropriate way. You know, not not imbalance in either direction. We also don't want to be in charge of micromanaging the day-to-day here that happens in the district. So, we'll be taking a closer look at that. So, if you see any policies that you find concerning or maybe match the best practices that we that we have experienced here
025recently. Please bring those forward so we can work on those as well. Um, speaking of that collaboration and transparency, I did um get interviewed for our audit, our financial audit, which is happens, you know, is it every year, Rob, I get that call? Yeah. And I have to say it's kind of a boring call, but this year was actually pretty fun because she got to ask, "Was there anything unexpected to happen this year?" Well, yes, there was. Um, but and she said, "Well, how are things going at the district? Do you feel good about um the level of transparency?" I said, "Absolutely." I mean, it was really fun for me to say that. I am so confident in the level of transparency, collaboration, the way that everyone is working here together. Um the the information
026that that Rob and Stacy bring forward to me and the board on a regular basis has been wonderful. And so, we'll see more things in our even just for information and discussion. Maybe they don't even necessarily need board approval, but we're we're experiencing that transparency so everybody's on the same plane of understanding. So, thank you to our our administration staff for that and our board members for being engaged and making sure that we can do that in in an effective and and appropriate manner. And oh, I have one more update. Sorry, this one came in at the last minute. So, last month we talked about joining that Title Six letter coalition. Um, Corey Brewer from from Will did get back to me today and she just wanted to provide an update because there are several
027federal courts have issued injunctions temporarily blocking enforcement of the certification form. And so she just wanted me to see to see and share the letter that is going to the Department of Ed tomorrow. It's the same letter we saw last month. There's just one additional paragraph that says, "We also note that this issue remains a subject of active federal litigation. Preliminary injunctions have been issued and summary judgement proceedings are underway. While these legal processes temporarily pause enforcement of the certification requirement, the ultimate outcome remains to be determined. Regardless, the department continues to enforce title six obligations. Clear guidance from the department will help LEAs, local education agencies to understand and fulfill their responsibilities. So just an additional paragraph saying that yes, we understand this is litigation, but we still need your clarity from the department
028of ed. So that is that is there that is the last update I have. Um if anybody has any concerns about that or would like to speak to Corey Brewer, ask her questions directly, please let me know. Um any other questions or discussion? All right, then we will move forward in the agenda. Um, up next is our items for discussion and possible action. Starting with our roofing consulting proposal. So, we're putting forth a consultant proposal related to the sampling of roof systems really to verify the roof construction components that are going to be performed based on the roof plans that have been developed by Bray Architects. And so really the sampling would be performed on each of the roof areas in two locations to determine um the insulation or is it structurally sloped things of
029that nature and amazing what they have available nowadays. The infrared scanning um in place of the roofing would be performed by an aerial drone and then having an infrared camera also really looking at where are those if any um wet spots and um moving forward there. So really a roof construction assessment collection of roof core samples for analysis thermmo imaging is being put forth to be proactive in how we're moving forward with estimating timeline etc. So that is what is being moved forward at this time. So is this also going to be covered by the uh referendum dollars since it's associated with that? Yes correct. Thank you. Are there any other questions for board members? I guess a question I have in looking at this is this a roll call vote? I I would think
030so given the Yeah. the cost All right. Hearing no further discussion, is there a motion from a board member? Yeah, I will make a motion to approve the roofing consulting proposal as presented in the packet. Is there a second? Second. We have a motion and a second. There is a cost to the district. So, I will go I mean I will go ahead and start the roll call vote myself. I Tiffany I I I I and that is approved. Thank you. Um next item for discussion is the Renaissance renewal. Thank you. So this is a renewal that comes to the board annually. Renaissance is the parent company that offers um several different universal screener tools that we use in the district specifically related to um academic supports that we can provide students. So again, this
031is something that we um bring forth annually as it aligns to the goals that we have to making sure that we're um providing students with access to instruction. Um, so it's looking at some data points through math and reading that we can continue to um increase achievement in that area. So again, universal screeners, all of our ninth and tth grade students take the STAR assessment and then based on data from the preCT and the universal screener, they may take um fastbridge, which is an additional tool that we use and then we use that to progress monitor as students are going into intervention. Thank you, Stevie. Um, and just so I'm understanding in in our board packet, looks like the cost of this is $10,24. Yes. And is that a guaranteed cost? Yes, it is because
032it's by seat. Okay. Thank you. Any questions from any other board members? Um, for board members, um, just so we're aware, typically when we do a vote or make a motion, I should say, when we make a motion and then take a vote on something that's the cost of the district, we usually do voice the cost. And so, um, let's let's be sure that we try to do that in our motions this evening as well. Um, I'll be sure to work with with Marie and Stacy and try to get those on our agendas in a little bit easier manner for making those motions a little bit more seamlessly. Is there a board member who would like to make a motion on this item? I can make the motion to approve the renewal of Renaissance learning
033at the cost of $10,24. Thank you, Tiffany. Is there a second? I'll second that. We have a motion in a second. Any further discussion hearing? Now, we'll put it to a roll call vote starting with you, Tiffany. I I I And that has been approved. Thank you. The next item for discussion is property and casual insurance renewal. Are you able to put that up on the screen? Thank you. Um our insurance for property casualty work comp um cyber security all those different pieces renews July one every year. Um we have our existing um expiring here in the first column. Um and then we have proposals from um that EMC um through uh our broker M3. Um and then also proposal from RNR insurance with CIC. Um as you can see, we're um if we compare
034to where we were expiring um to this year, we're seeing a pretty good savings. um and using that opportunity. If you scroll down a little more, McCoy, to the bottom, um one of the things when you cover the building um value, so if there was a a loss to the building, um there's a total dollar amount, but then it's also calculated based on a cost per square foot. Um last year we moved that up to 300. I want to say it was probably at 275. Um using this opportunity, use some of the savings this year to move up to 350. Um and that in some instances could be a little low. Um but that added another just shy of $12,000. Um also wind and hail damage. Um our current deductible on all other property is
0355,000. Um took the opportunity to spend a few dollars at 4109 to buy that down. That's probably more likelihood of something that could happen. wind and hail damage um to to be able to reduce that uh deductible if we have a claim like that. And then also a uh move up for $300 um the violent events um to have a higher limit overall um if we would ever need to invoke that coverage. Um so we have a total of uh renewal of $191,573 that we're looking for approval from the board. to move forward with the uh insurance for next school year. Thank you, Rob. And do you see that cost fluctuating at all? That would be the cost that we get build. Okay. No, that's that's firm cost. Thank you. Any questions from any board
036members? Is there a board member who would like to make a motion? Yeah, I'll make a motion to approve property casualty and insurance through EMC Insurance Company for a cost not to exceed $191,573. Thank you. We have a motion by Nolan. Is there a second? I can second. Seconded by Tiffany. Any further discussion? Hearing none, let's put it to a vote. Uh we'll start with Heather. I I I I. And that has been approved. Thank you. The next item for discussion is the 2025 2026 preliminary budget approval. So, there's two different documents uh in here. One is the uh kind of a a memo to the board. Um what I put together is the current budget where we where we understand it today. Now, what I will say is from the state standpoint, they're still
037working on the state budget. Um it I can say won't get done by July 1. Um, but there's assumptions that we've built in or I've built into my budget in kind of keeping things at the current levels. So, example of an additional $325 per student for the revenue limit. Uh, keeping our per pupil aid at $742, some of those historical numbers. Um, I've kept special education um reimbursement at 30%. Um, again, there's a lot of items that will come out of the state budget eventually that will will help fine-tune our budget. Those things will happen over the next few months. Um, and as I put in here, there are the couple pieces that really drive uh the rest of our budget will be those pieces from the state. Uh, and more specifically, is there a
038a different number in the revenue limit per student? um our enrollment that we we take every third Friday in September that drives the number of students that we multiply that amount per per student to get our our revenue limit. Um this year you'll see that uh we have the expenditures um that we're going to be asking in in the next couple um agenda items of having salaries increased at the 2.95%. Um, also we have an additional tax levy this year to make the first payment on our referendum that was passed in November. Um, so I'll talk about that in a second. Um, and just budgeting other expenditures at historical levels. Um, I would just point out uh for for again this year keeping as many of our um supply or non salary and benefit accounts
039um at a zero increase if possible. Um, and then using some of the savings like we saw with um the property insurance as an example, um, we still have a few um, employees we're looking to hire and those benefits that people choose to take will have an impact on the budget. But currently, as the budget stands, um, we're at about $395,000 more expenditures than our anticipated revenues. Um, that's down a little bit from the half a million that I presented to the board in the budget projections back in December. Uh, but I again I be cautious that there's a lot of moving parts here that are going to change. Um, but this budget that we're asking you to approve will be the budget that we publish in the paper and we take to our annual
040meeting and this year the annual meeting we is going to be in September. We decided that the last annual meeting at traditionally had been at the end of October um to have that in place um and have the annual meeting at the September I think 25th if I have a date correct then in this in this document um just trying to show the what the the tax levy was last year at just under $10.3 million um that equated to a mill rate of $1.75 per thousand dollar of home value. When we add in the projected budget and the additional tax levy for the referendum, um this year we're projecting a just over 12.7 million and that would equate to about a 2.0 $26 per thousand of home value. Um, and I put in there just
041for just for illustrative purposes, if we did not have the the referendum this year, that 12.7 would be 10.995. But we we have we have to levy those dollars. A reminder that the tax levy for the referendum debt falls outside of the revenue limit, so that doesn't have an adverse effect on our budget. Um there's another document that is what is used to um we'll use to put in the paper uh at the appropriate time for the annual meeting that lists out each fund that we're using and our our anticipated revenues and expenditures and it shows last year's uh so the 2324 school year that finished a year ago what the audited numbers were. Uh the budget is uh the second column for the current year of what the board passed um in uh last
042October when we certified the tax levy and then the last column is the projected budget that I am um looking for approval today. Um what I would point out a couple pieces is fund 39 is an added fund now that is the referendum approved debt. So that's where um and and the way this is put together, the fund 38, which is our non-referendum debt. So the debt we've had in the past that we're paying off um is added together in um these two categories together. You see, so that's where you see a significant jump in the revenues and expenditures for that that area. The other area is um fund 49. So below that on the last page of the second document um that wraps together all of our fund 40 um which we have four
043or three different funds fund 41, fund 46 and fund 49 um are all different types of capital projects. Um what I'll point out is that this year in this year's budget um we didn't we didn't budget the um revenue for the referendum because we passed the budget before the um vote took place on the referendum. So it's going to look out of kind of out of balance for next year because we've already sold $14 million worth of bonds that we brought in as revenue that's going to show up in this year's column when we finish our audit. Uh so next year it's going to look like we're taking in a lot less money. Uh and but we haven't spent much of our dollars in the referendum budget yet in fund 49 because that'll end here
044next week. Um June 30th is when we cut off and move over to the next year. So we've already brought in over half of our revenue for for the referendum and we've only spent a very small fraction. Um so I just want to point that out. that might look a little bit different if if you see that or see that um there's a a red number on that account. So, uh with that, um I would take any questions. Is there a board member with questions for Rob? I'd like to just say thank you for taking the time to lay this out so in such a manner that's so easy to understand. Um, it's very clear. Thank you very much for that. And I think in this case, we'd be looking for approval as presented uh
045because there's a lot of information here. Again, a reminder that these numbers will change between now and when we certify the tax levy in uh that last week of October. Okay. Thank you. Um, any question for Rob hearing? None. Is there a board member who would like to make a motion? Thank you. Motion made by Kenneth. Any Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Tiffany. Um hearing no further discussion. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any oppose say nay. And that has been approved. Thank you, Rob. Uh next up for discussion is the anatomy and physiology textbooks. Thank you. So this is a proposal to purchase an updated textbook that aligns with our two anatomy and physiology courses, movement and then communication and homeostasis. And it can also potentially supplement one of
046our PLTW courses, HBS, which is human body systems. This enhances um not one course but multiple courses within that biomed science pathway that we have and are so proud of within the science department. Um, the AM courses use textbooks as a reference. They currently have a textbook published in 2006 and as Miss Axford reminded me, human anatomy does not change. However, our under our understanding of how the body works continues to change and grow. So this resource will provide students with a more upto-date um information than current materials that they have. One thing I would like to point out to the board um is the cost that is referenced in the attachment is a sale price which may or may not be extended by the time we purchase textbooks. So, if the board would like
047to approve so that the total not exceed $2,000, that could take into account if we purchase those textbooks after the sale. Thank you for providing that information, Stevie. That's helpful. I was wondering about that price. To me, that looked like a really good price. I'm like, whoa. I mean, I haven't seen a textbook sex, sorry, textbook approval in a while, but I had expected the price to be a lot more. Um, any question for Stevie? Is there a board member who'd like to make a motion on this item? I will make a motion to approve the purchase of anatomy and physiology textbooks at a cost not to exceed $2,000. Thank you, Tiffany. Is there a second? I'll go ahead and second it. Any further discussion? Um, hearing none, we'll put it to a roll call
048vote. I think we're starting with Ken at this time. I I I I And that has passed. It's approved. Thank you very much. Next item for discussion is the Hartford Education Association compensation. So we have Do we want to separate these out? Correct. Okay. So this uh spring um we met several times with the HA um and the board um provided a proposal to them um that that represents a 2.95% increase on each individual staff members each individual certified staff members um current contract. the 2.95 represents the um required amount that we can go up to and um don't have to bargain beyond that. Um so we we through that process um they've tenatively agreed to that as well. So, we're bringing it to the board for approval um at that 2.95 for anyone that
049was um working in the district this year that is coming back next year to receive that percentage increased on their contract. Thank you, Rob. Uh any questions from board members? Hearing none, I'll go ahead and make the motion um to approve compensation increase of 2.95% for certified staff as a result of negotiations with the Harford Education Association. Is there a second? I'll second. We have a motion and a second. We will do a roll call vote starting with you, Nolan. I I I I And that has been approved. Thank you. The next item for discussion is the support staff compensation. Um it's uh my understanding that uh traditionally the uh percentage increases have been similar across all um employee groups. So we are bringing uh that same 2.95% um compensation increase for each of our
050support staff members uh for the board to approve. Thank you, Rob. Any questions from board members? Is there a board member who would like to make a motion? I will make a motion to approve a 2.95% compensation increase for support. Thank you, Tiffany. Is there a second? I'll second that. Second by Nolan. Any further discussion? Hearing none, we'll put it to a roll call vote starting with myself. I I I I. And that has been approved. Thank you. Next item is administrative employee compensation. Similarly, uh looking for the board to approve a 2.95% increase for our administrative staff. Any questions? Is there a board member who'd like to make a motion? Is there a second? I'll second that. We have a motion and a second. Hearing no further discussion, we'll put it to a roll
051call vote. Starting with Tiffany. I I I I. And that motion carries. That has been approved. Uh we have some future school board related dates on the calendar. Our next regular meeting is July 16th. We do have a board workshop for August 7th. There was one previously scheduled, so that certainly can be a discussion point now. Yes. Okay. That could be a useful date. So, please check your calendars, make sure you're available. Um, or let us know, I guess, how about this? Let us know either way so we know if we can use that date or plan a different one. Thank you. Um, and then also our regular schoolboard meeting in August is August 20th. Um, any possible future agenda items a board member would like to bring up? Feel free to bring them um
052to me or Stacy at any point in time. Um, our next item on the agenda is to adjourn to close session. This is a close session pursuant to Wisconsin statutes 19.851E. Deliberate or negotiate the purchase of public properties, the investment of district funds, or the conduct of other board business whenever competitive or bargaining reasons require close session, specifically negotiations with the Harford Education Association. Is there a motion to go to close session? So moved. Is there a second? And we will do a roll call vote into close session starting with Tiffany. I I I thank you. We're going to go into close session. Thanks for being here everyone. We'll be back in open session in a bit. But you don't have to stay. We have nothing going on afterwards. No, I'm not asking you to
053stay.