001What's that? [Music] [Applause] This is what we succeed in justice. They wanted to talk to you yesterday. I was going to ask you to take a closer [Music] 31. Let's call order of 631. Pledge of [Music] Algiance 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. Public notice. Uh, all board members are here. So, we do not have to vote on virtual participation. We're going to move straight to public comments. Give me a second. I'll keep it quick because I know you guys are probably busy today. Just want to say uh thank you to Tiffany. It's your last meeting. Appreciate all you did for uh for the school system, for the board. Um I know it's
002a lot of work, a lot of dedication to be here, you know, week in week out. So really appreciate the uh the time you put in. Lydia, Tiffany, I wanted to take a moment to express our greatest our deepest gratitude for the enormous impact you've made on this district. Your unwavering dedication to our children and our community has truly made a difference and has not gone unnoticed by the parents, students, and staffs whose lives you touched. As a small token of our appreciation um for your hard work and countless hours you poured into making Heartland Mai what it is today, we as a community have come together to give you this gift. It's our way of acknowledging all the lives you've touched along the way and celebrating your commitment to the district success. We hope
003you'll accept it as a symbol of our collective thanks. We will truly miss your impact on the school board. Your leadership will be greatly missed. Thank you. [Music] Christina, my name is Tiffany for your efforts as you serve in the district past three years. You have been dutiful in your service upholding the core values of our district. You have led not just by words as anyone can do but in the actions put forth by vetering our district during a time of change and much concern. Your positivity and faith that our district is in excellent district seeing and highlighting the recent national blue ribbon award. Most importantly to many of us our children have benefited from the countless hours that you pricelessly devoted to improving areas of their learning and bringing ideas forward not just the
004current students but the future of our district. You have even helped make our board meetings more efficient during these three years in content and length. Um my hope is that the current board continues to work together in their efforts for the students and staff building upon the work that you have done. Lastly, Tiffany, I've been asked by Sarah to send her regards of gratitude for you for serving our own district. Apologetically, she was unable to attend the meeting due to her triple contract of school sports, the NHS induction ceremony of Thank you, Darcy. Sorry. Um, so I have [Music] Um, new business. I know that you are going to be talking about the trip to the Holocaust Museum and I hope you guys approve that cuz I got to check them when my child was
005in eighth grade and seventh grade, no eighth grade, and they all seem to love it. So, I hope that they get to go next year. Um, okay. In some of the nail policies, I was reviewing looking and there were some instances where there were blanks when it looked like there was definitely supposed to be a number in that place in at least two places that I saw in the 9,000 policy. And so I know you guys are considering those tonight. So I want to make sure that you guys are aware of that and that you can fix that before you actually approve it because otherwise it would be good. Um um let's see and then oh the other thing was I know that there is discussion and possible approval to sign um certification for the
006Trump order and I and since we know that most all of the executive orders come under legal scrutiny I would ask that you guys wait especially since the state superintendent has declined to sign until we get more Thanks. Thank you. That concludes public comments. Do you have a [Laughter] [Music] public? Okay. Well, I just wanted to say a quick thank you, Tiff. um take a moment to thank you for your time, energy, and the heart that you've dedicated to this school board. I don't know why I'm like going to cry right now. Um I've always looked up to you as a friend and as a mother. Literally, I cried if anything. Okay. Um and it was especially inspiring watching you in this role. I know it wasn't always easy, but you never wavered from your
007ideals and stayed strong in your values. Your commitment to our kids and our community has made a real difference and your leadership is part of what inspired Matt to run for this role and this obviously impacted our family. So just want you to know that you should be proud of your service and we love you and I can't wait for your next chapter. All right, we're moving on to number six, which is the Arrowhead Youth Baseball presentation. I'll hand it over to you. Yeah, I don't know if it's too much. I was trying to shorten it down a little bit. First of all, whatever you need to do. Thank you so much for what you did for the board. I know it took courage and convention to do what you did for a number of
008years, and it's not easy. You've had to deal with a bunch of hardships. Your community has been behind you. Darl had youth baseball and previously late Country Baseball's been behind you and the board and supporting us uh for over the years to have an access to the baseball field and dining. We greatly appreciate that. Um, we hope that the next person with those issues will be able to feel just as good. I know it's going to be very difficult and they have the same courage and conviction that you have. Um, in regards to the United Youth Baseball, um, we did lose Zion baseball field, so we're looking at re bringing back Little Red Schoolhouse, which you and I coached at one time a long time ago. Um, it's just a great opportunity. It's in a
009great location. Um, and I thank you, Tina, for helping bring this up and Chris. Um, we originally had an assessor around $11,000 to bring it back to its original um, state. Um, with volunteers and stuff like that, we've knocked it down to around $3,500. So, what we're really looking forward is, you know, someone to, you know, for a date when we can start. Um, so we can tell the volunteers to get it done. Um the big things that we want to look at is um we're going to leave the grass on the infield because we know that people like to have dogs there and many of you if you've had kids in soft or anything like that you have a dirt infield they start making sand castles and eating dirt. So if we leave it
010we leave the grass there it tends to be a little bit better. Um so we like to do that and then we can have our coach pitch and our our T-ball teams there obviously be open up to the public for the school as well. Um, and we see this as like a three-year process where we start out and then we gradually see, you know, how much use we have with it. Um, you know, our enrollment is through the roof in T-ball and coach pitch. Right now, I've got 10 teams in coach pitch. I need to find um fields for us. So, we really appreciate you guys working with us on that. Um, main thing is we need to find out what we do with the dirt once we dig up. Where do we haul it?
011Where do we bring it? Um, if we start a garden again over there, maybe we can do some tomatoes and cucumbers. I don't know. But uh it's we're going to bring in about 22 tons of infield mix that'll come in and then we'll spread that all out. Um so basically we're just looking for the approval and starting date. So I don't need it right now. You guys can let me know. Yeah. So we do have um the you've seen the we all have looked at that. Um just my quick recommendation is to reach out to Jake um Zul um in regard to the dirt because I you know he may use that in some fashion with his landscapes for the future. Um but I'm very excited about this. I think any opportunity our kiddos can
012get started in sports and outdoor activities at an early age the better we are. So I appreciate you this a huge donation um of your organization. So really appreciate that. Um, as far as going forward, I'll just send you an email and we'll move forward. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Do you guys have questions? So, we don't have to uproot. So, we just wanted to bring you guys into Thank you, Mark. Thank you. Okay, moving on to number seven, consent agenda. uh items I have there are uh donations, personnel report, monthly voucher and purchasing card report, and schoolboard meeting minutes. I did want to uh just call out the donations really quickly because there's quite a few. So, a big thank you to HLF for a micro grant of $216.14 uh for the
013Dreams Lab and Nightboard. Um, another one from HLEF which is a microrant which is for $250,000 going to South for fifth grade author visit. Uh, another HLAF microrant for $500 going to North for a recess squad. Um, another HLAF microrant for $200 going to South for fifth grade boys basketball party. Um, Duke's Bar and Grill donated $80 to Northshore Middle School athletics and Katie Meyer donated $70 to Northshore Middle School athletics. Um, Wisconsin First Robotics donated a,000 to Northshore Middle School for the robotics club and they also donated 500 to North for the first Lego League clubs. So, lots of donations this month. So, thank you. Thank you. [Applause] [Music] Motion to approve the consent agenda item. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I consent agenda is approved. Right. Moving to number eight, our Neola
014policies. Uh we are going to hopefully adopt and resolution of 8,000 9,000 and 2000 series. Does anyone have anything? I'll just make a comment from the public. The original documents that were uploaded, I think Darcy spoke about it during the public comment. The initial documents that were uploaded were missing some of the initial uh updates, crossouts, and fill in the blanks. There should have been a new version that was updated as recently as this morning. I just took screenshots like like an hour ago. Oh, maybe an hour. Okay. But those were updated with the ones that went through policy. The only thing I would say to the board is that these all all three series have been gone through by the committee and agreed upon with the administration and that anything that might be missing
015would be just to carry over consistency with current practice. So if superintendent is in there, it should be district administrator, vice versa. If there's a missing name or if it's a specific name say a holly it'll turn into business manager whatever it is those kind of corrections will be worth coming as well but the content has all been covering correct Neil do you have anything to add to that the other thing that I would add also is that once we get and and maybe this comes up in our PPC committee report but I feel like it's appropriate now we're talking about policies once these get pushed through these are the last three to bring everything up to date. Now, once we're all aligned with Neiola, there is a process, and I'm going to rely on
016Tina and Amy to describe that maybe here as to minor changes that get made or updates that get pushed from Niola. How does that how does that work? If we realize we push through all those policies and we did in in subsection C of a sevenpage policy, we missed a dash out or a zero or something. How does that update process work from? So, if it's non-contentbased, so it doesn't alter the state of what the board policy um intent is, then we make those corrections. There's a board policy that says that we can make those kinds of corrections. Um if it has anything at all to do with content, then we would take it to the PPC committee and then bring it back as a regular process. So I w with that process and that
017is exactly what you described us in in the committee meeting because there's there are a lot of things in here. I I feel like once we get completely in line with the if there are clerical errors we have an efficient process to fix those. Um and would encourage if anybody in the community sees a clerical error please let us know and we'll use any eyes that you can provide to give us some backup here. Um but I we went through these with a fine tooth comb. Um, and I I think we are ready and we're ready to actually move forward later on in the meeting and get all these billing policies in place. I guess my only question I I go through I go through my updates answer most of my questions. I guess I'm
018not looking for you to say something just to talk about it, but is there anything you I didn't see anything with them, but anything within these three series that you think warrants that warranted tough decisions or discussions that you think should get elevated to people to hear about? I mean, for me, yes, there's always a hot topic of title n or 10 or whatever it is with in regards with transgender students and non-discrimination and that kind of stuff. Um, Niola itself is updating their policies in a subsequent minor update to make that language uniform and in compliance so that we're not it's not affected by any lawsuit that we're under or anything else like that. So it that was what I saw as the most controversial thing in there is this does update a non-discrimination
019policy to be in line with the new standard and in line with the the the federal guidelines. I I will just interject on that. We have a process here where we um every year at the start of the school year we have mandatory videos. We have um the employee handbook, the student handbook. So now that we get these when we get these approved the employee handbook will tie directly back to the Mola back to the the policies it'll be linked in everything will be tied together and so will the student handbook. So there it will be completely even and everything will be followed under policy because policy guides everything. Once we have that our employees will be given the top 10 most needed to read policies that we have. So, anything that would affect our
020employees directly or students directly, we will make sure are in front of parents and staff. That's a different policy practice. Um, but it's important for us to do the answer to the question of getting caught, you know, like, wait, I you know, where did that come from? I never read that. So, that's one thing that we're going to try to do. I I think the other thing I'd say too, Matt, is if you look through the policies and you look at the edits, it it's not clear to anybody looking at it, but almost I would say 99% of what you're going to find in there is either strikeouts or choosing an option. So nothing was generated correct by the board or by the administration. All of it was picking within the options that Niola provides
021to you with I think one notable exception and that's in one of the policies tonight which is policy 21105 which is the mission of the district and that mission of the district was discussed by the board as part of our strategic planning and the mission that we're approving in this policy is in line with the strategic plan we discussed as the board. everything else in these policies have been selecting options to make them in line with our existing board policies and they kind of unify everything so that just like Tina said, we can go back and have a student handbook that reflects our policies and have a staff handbook and all that stuff kind of cascades after we publish these things. Thank you. And I think the only exception to that might be in Tina
022confirmed, but there might have been a couple of instances where there was missing language and maybe we brought something forward from the old policy, maybe a paragraph or something here and there, but again, it wasn't anything that was created new or generated. It was like if there was content missing or specific to middle elementary school. I think there was a couple instances where maybe we brought over some some old where there was just a lack of information in there. So Neils is absolutely right. Nothing new was generated or fundamentally changed. Good. And then if I'll just say this that if we approve that this evening then we will need signatures from each board member to signify that we are adopting the policies they will become official for our district and then we can go ahead
023on the back end for uploading and get these taken care of in the system. I'd like the motion to approve the 8,000 9,000 and 2000 series policies. I'll second discussion. All in favor? I the adoption of 8,000 9,000 and 2000 series is approved and we are we are moving forward. Been a while. It has been a lot of work. Thank you all for all of the work. Everybody that's been involved in that work. Um, it's been incredible. And a public shout public shout out to Amy Harker Murray. You did a lot of work with us. Thank you for reading all of those with us. All right. Uh, we're moving on to the superintendent's report and Tina's going to give us some district updates. Yeah, just a few things coming out here. Um, we talked already
024about the policy and the handbook. So, that was one of my updates. We are working diligently to get those ready to go and out to everyone. Um we are hosting a staff appreciation um on the next half day um for our retirees for our 5 10 years of service. Um so we're really excited to do that. We'll have a little lunchon and presentation for our staff. Um and then just a focus on continuous improvements um and looking at how we serve our kids. and um I'm excited to share in the future um some of the the newer ideas and programming that that we're working on right now. Um so that's kind of the district update pieces. As far as transportation is concerned, we did run into a hiccup. Um it's no surprise it's trying to
025get the consortium of buses together with our um the contract. It's two years apart. There's three levels. There are a lot of moving pieces. My commitment to you on this um is I'm I I am committed to not making it worse for our kids, right? I don't want I we got to keep our kids safe. The whole reason we went down this path was safety was first. It was never a financial initiative. Um it was all all about this mess out here that we have on a daily basis and ensuring that our students are safe. I would also really like to not have to be out at 403. Um but we're working on that. So once um Amy and I have another meeting tomorrow um which will really probably help us tie up some loose
026ends. Once we have that, we will go forward with the transportation survey that will get out to the families and then we'll we'll have a like a open house kind of where we talk the I keep looking at Matt and Chris because they're very involved in this. They've been in meetings with us. Their support has been incredible. Um, and then we'll get everybody on board, let everybody know and then get something new for next year or not. We may end up a status quo. We don't know. So, we're just trying to get to a place where we have answers at this point. Of course, you can. I'm going to go up there while you do that. I know I'm running for election last year. The transportation plan was kind of a hot topic. got a
027lot of comments on it and I know a lot of people are pretty eager to find out what the outcome of it is but understand that I Chris and I have been in at least one meeting with DMAN Amy and Tina have been in a ton of meetings with Dman. We don't control Dman. I mean what I learned is that we are part I mean we we knew we were part of this consortium with Arrowhead when that incident happened. We pulled the contract and look at it looked at it. I'm sure we could get an out because of what happened and things of that nature if we took it to court and things of that nature. But just to get out of the contract as a fiveyear out. So we could say we want to
028get out now and we'd be out in whatever 2029 2030. So it's it's a ridiculous contract. We didn't sign it and we didn't even sign it because it's signed by Arrowhead. We have a contract with the other schools. So it's not even a contract with Hartman. So I just for people here or people who are watching, you know, please be patient. Don't think we haven't been doing anything on this, but there's been a lot of fits and starts where we think we've had some pretty interesting ideas that could solve a lot of problems. We take it to Dman and it won't fit. If we would have worked, it would work if it was just us. But we've got these seven or eight other schools that we're trying to work with and we've always kind of
029got pretty low priority on that. We've gotten the shaft in that pretty much for a long time. So, we're trying to rectify some of that stuff. And, you know, the hope was to have this whole plan out before the summer so everybody knows what it's going to look like next year. And just it's being worked on, but it's it's harder than anybody would like. So, thank you. I appreciate that. It has it has been. So, next I'm going to move to um on the agenda the strategic plan. Um the board and I and Amy have been working diligently for the last I would say eight to nine months um meeting regularly in board workshops and hosting holding you know other events getting community input getting staff input um getting administrative input working with um Danielle
030from Piwaukee used to be at Pewwaukee is now a consultant to try to get us to a place where we have some guideposts Um, and so this is where we're at. After all of that work, it's culminated tonight um to these five strategic pillars um with our mission as follows. To empower every student to discover and develop their unique gifts in a nurturing environment, preparing them to thrive as compassionate critical thinkers and lifelong learners. We have five pillars being fiscally forward um which includes program efficiencies and growth. um talking a little bit about salary and benefits, cost savings initiatives and using existing resources and then also revenue generating resources consolidation and alternative education. We also have wellness, climate and culture, behavior, student staff, community relations and brand imaging, health and nutrition, food service, physical activity,
031outdoor opportunities and mental health. We also have safety um which includes transportation. The safety plan um reviewing and building improvements and cyber security, community engagement is communication, marketing, collaboration um Arrowhead High School alignment for student success, partnerships, area businesses, local leadership groups, and HLEF. Student success is portrait of a graduate, student services, academic curriculum, electives, and creative programming. Um, so that's that's where we landed. And so moving forward at the next meeting, I'm going to out of respect for my staff in the buildings, uh, we worked with this within our administrative teams in the board, is what's called the portrait of a graduate. The board has asked that that be the first priority and that really talks about the development of the child. Um, so next in the next meeting, I will I will introduce
032that to you all. We also have core values identified. Our core values of excellence at the H Heartland Lake School or Lakeland uh H Heartland Lakeside Knights would be integrity, collaboration, personal responsibility, common sense, respect, well-being, student centeredness, compassion, resilience, creativity, a growth mindset, and critical thinking. Um and then we have the definitions. All of this will be out on the website as soon as we get uploaded basically. Um and then so next steps will be that um we put together the portrait of a graduate to be implemented um September. Um that includes some themes, some monthly themes, some commonalities between kindergarten all the way up through 8th grade um ending in a capstone um activity for our eighth graders um that I'm really excited about. It includes community service and reflection um and and
033a whole lot more. So that's kind of where we're at with our strategic plan. I won't be able to move forward with any of that work unless the board approves their strategic planning sequence like to make a motion to adopt the strategic plan as presented by superintendent. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Okay. Your strategic plan is adopted. Yes. Excellent. Yes. And it does deserve an applause. Very, very hard work and very this is very committed to that. Um lastly on this, I would just like to just take a moment um to express some gratitude. Um Neils, I just want to start with you. uh you've only been with with the on the board proper for two months, but I think um having known you as an audience member and and having you join
034us on the board, I appreciate your thoroughess, your willingness to learn and understand um because I think that was a curve when we first started. I think I think there is a true um uh I don't know how what the right word is, but I think you know what I mean. When you're an audience member, it's different than when you're actually on the board. and Neils, you embraced that and understood so much more and supported our work and um I appreciate you and thank you for that work and I hope that you're going to continue to be a wonderful audience member for Excellent. Well, thank you. Thank you. Oh, you know what? I do have [Applause] So, this is our our official Portland Lakeside ballpoint pen. So, congratulations. Thank you so much. Thank you. Absolutely.
035And lastly here, um it's kind of surreal for me. Um after tonight, there's only one person left on this board that was involved in my hiring. Um so I just want to make sure that I I pay tribute to the work and the the effort. Um Lindsay, I'm not that much different than you. So here we go. I'm crying over. Um, on behalf of all of us, we want to extend our deepest gratitude to Tiffany for your incredible leadership and unwavering dedication during your time as the president of the board. Your steady guidance and genuine passion for doing what is best for kids always have left a lasting mark on this board and our entire community. Through your commitment to collaboration, Tiffany, you brought us together as a true team, fostering unity, respect, and a
036shared sense of purpose. Your thoughtful leadership has ensured that every decision we made centered on the well-being and success of our students. We are very grateful for your vision, your compassion, and your tireless service. While your term as president may be coming to an end, the positive impact of your leadership will continue to inspire us for years to come. Thank you so much, Stephanie, for everything. President, on that note, on that note, I make a comment to the superintendent's report and last comment. Thank you. So, I also want to echo a lot of the same sentiments that Tina just shared. Uh it's a it's a happy and sad night for me. Uh happy that you get to spend more time with your family, your husband, your children, and life. Uh so so I'm thrilled for
037you in that regard. What people don't realize is the amount of time and effort that this woman has put into this position over the past three years. So the sad part of it is losing you as an active board member. always a great friend. But I want people to understand a little bit and by Robert's rules, I have 10 minutes. Not that I'm going to take it off, but I want people to understand Tiffy's journey and how she got here. She was a byproduct of co uh she was involved. She paid attention. CO hit and a lot of things came to light. Some people took to complaining. Some people came to posting. But Tiffany did something and she stepped up and she said, "I'm going to serve. I'm going to do something about it." And
038whether it was meeting you beforehand, even you were involved at policy meetings before you were even a member and you were doing something. But you said, "I'll do it. I'll put myself out there." And she sacrificed a lot. She's lost some friends over this course of the few years. Why? Because she was convicted. She was not ashamed of her beliefs in doing the right things for the kids and the community. We have some new members that'll be joining the board here soon. Just to give you perspective, not only what she's done, what she's doing, or what will happen in the future as a great result of Tiffany. We have binders for you tonight that did not exist before Tiffany. There was nothing when she came onto the board. There was nothing when I came on
039to the board. Welcome to the board. Here we are. Here's your packet. Go. So, she spearheaded that. Tina alluded to it in her conversation. What people don't realize is prior to the superintendent search, she led one of the biggest transformations in a board that I've ever seen. That takes incredible courage, incredible courage to change the makeup of an executive board, an executive team, and then to take over as president to help align where the board was going with the community. That was a very, very hard thing. And I don't think people understand just how difficult that was that she did that because if you know Tiffany, which many of you do, she doesn't have the aspiration to be in the spotlight. It's not her nature. I can almost guarantee you she never thought she would
040be nor wanted to be president, but she is and she's remained it because she is so good at it. Then you go to the next step of the hiring process of the superintendent. Again, people do not realize how much work she did preparing things for the board, reading resumes, scheduling interviews, working with staff, holding community conversations, being in this room until 1:30 in the morning discussing candidates and all the follow-up conversations with our consultant and our search consultant. Then you look at what was presented tonight by Tina, the strategic vision and the updating of the mission. A lot of that was taken underneath her leadership and her driving saying we need a beacon for the future to to be better to move forward. That was again through her leadership. Talking about the schools and their
041presentation, how their outlook, what the experiences when people come in, talking about the whole child, not just reading, math, arithmetic. No, she talked about the the the journey of a student and having a joyful experience. And so she was an advocate from the beginning for fun, being back in schools, having parents be back in the classroom, having field trips, outdoor activities, whole learning, not just facts. I could go on and on and on, Tiffany, and talk about the things that you've done, but I want to talk about how you did it. You did it with passion and care, but you did it with humility. compassion, empathy, and whether some people agree with you or not, you made sure that every voice was heard, felt heard, was important. You didn't do it for political reasons. You
042were apolitical in everything that you did. Every decision was made to be better for kids. Everything better for the community, better for the staff. I've never seen a leader with you with quite the humble approach, the logical way of addressing issues, people, and not getting too excited about things like some people. And you will be missed terribly. So, I just want to publicly thank you for your leadership, your guidance, and what you've done for the district. Sure, for my family, but for everybody, but then also for the board, for the staff, for everyone. You have been an inspiration and we will miss you terribly. Thank you. [Applause] Okay. Business reports. I'm sorry to have to follow with that. Um, okay. So, monthly financial reports. Um, March was right on target. Um so fund 10 or
043general operations uh money we received uh in March was the equalization aid of $1.2 million. We also received our uh per pupil aid of $840,000. We received some of our grant funds of over just over 37,000 and then interest in our savings account is almost 26,000. So we're still doing very well there. The rest is tied to school activities, things of that nature. Um, expense wise, we're looking good at this time and on budget. For fund 27, that is our special education fund. We did receive some additional special education aid of just over $100,000. Uh, some Medicaid reimbursement of $659. And then some of our grant funds because those are built quarterly and that was just over 71,000. Our air fund transfer was just over 56,000. This is lower due to some of those other
044dollars coming in that month. Otherwise, expenses look good and on budget at this time. Fund 46 is our capital improvement account. Uh we are earning interest only at this time and that was just over 6,000. Um fund 50 is our food service. We did receive some of our federal funds um breakfast aid of 1300 and lunch aid of almost 13,000. Otherwise, money deposited into those accounts are straight from students and families for their fund our approved accounts. Fund 80 is our community service, but it is just for our daycare and daycare revenue and expenses are on track. Um any questions on March report? Um so next up is just a pre preliminary look at our budget. So what I attached in um for docs was our I guess three current scenarios based on state budget.
045As you know state budget won't be until later in the summer early fall. Um so this is going off of the information we have at this time. So the top of the budget is just assuming everything would be status quo which would be the 325 state increase that supposed to go on for basically ever. And then of special education we were told it would be around 33%. It's really coming in closer to 30. So that's where I put that budget um at was that 30% reimbursement right there. So at this time with that information you will see that the budget is balanced. Um it has adjusted but I'll tell you more about that later in a positive way. One other you have an 18% health. You mentioned that right? This has 8%. This has 18
046that's why I said it's getting better. Um I can say it real quick because Matt gave us an update. Um, we were looking at an 18% health increase. Um, with our new broker, they've gotten that down to 12.5%. Keeping our insurance exactly the where it is. So, that's where I have a little extra money at this time, which is not reflected in this because we didn't have that at that time. So, great news. Um, we're moving in the right direction. Um, the middle scenario is the same as the top. Um but as everyone's talking about federal funds and those dollars and what might happen with them um at a business official level if um when we have our meetings and having discussions they're saying for next year um worst case scenario we might lose about
0475% of those funds. Um so that does show just that 5% decrease with everything else staying the same and you do see that that would bring us down to a deficit of 28,000. not very concerned about that because we could absorb that especially with the health insurance premium um coming down. Uh the bottom scenario is the same as the two above it but with no federal funds. So that is where you see that we would have almost a $600,000 deficit if we lost some of those federal dollars. So not something that we're worried about in this upcoming year, but things to consider for future years. And that 600,000 is just general and special way, right? There's also food service is it that food service like 2,200,000 that's within this 500 as well and that's all
048federal right now state correct. Um so next month I'll be bringing you more detail but I just wanted to give you kind of a high level look at this time. May we'll have more detail. June we will need to approve a preliminary budget just so everybody is aware. Um would you have any questions on what I'm presenting this evening? I mean I think if anybody were looking at this and they look at the forecast side I think everybody would be really concerned because the forecast is in two years from now at a million dollar deficit. So yes in the forecast just so you know if you look at the very top you will see I have not changed any numbers. So right now I am projecting a decrease in student counts. So we will see
049that from 1087 to 1055 and then um I'm not projecting out any differences. So that's where it might change from year to year. But you're right. But that's what we're always looking for is right because as we've seen in the past a year ago and this is also for community conversation too, right? Because 23 24, 1100 kids. We're projecting next year to have 1055. We've seen declining enrollment for how many years? 10 years, 15. I mean it it's goes down every single year. And we're not getting any more money from the state. It is the same exact funding year after year. and salaries and benefits are going up for teachers and there's nothing else coming in for the district. So, I know as a board we've talked about that before about what can we do
050with our local representatives and all that kind of stuff, but any help we can get from from you guys, from the community, from anybody watching to please beg your representatives that our district, and it's not just ours, it's all these public school districts need funding. I mean, we're looking at a $1.7 million deficit two years from now. I mean, we're really healthy financially. It's not going to be that way for a while if we don't get more funding and we can't get any more funding and we don't want to go to referendum and referendums just don't work and that's not what our purpose is. But you can see we've got a responsible budget here. We just can't keep up. So, I just wanted to point that out. looking at those budgets going out a couple
051years out, it looks dire and and I don't think it just looks it is right. We're we're approaching a tough situation. I I I mean I'll add though I don't disagree with anything you said when Amy has presented this in finance kind of along the way and initially when we put in the budget and kind of carry stuff over it's always negative and so you know and Amy and the rest of their staff you know work very diligently to bring us in on budget every single year and we have not cut educational programming extracurriculars things of that nature. So, we have we found a way. We continue to find a way. It just it gets harder and harder every year, right? There's there's there's not a lot of fat to cut pretty soon. You start
052getting muscle and then you get to bone, right? So, that's it's tough. Um the estimates you have for declining enrollment is just based off the the natural curve that we see. Do you foresee that maybe we're overestimating that with the potential influx from Lake Country? Um, at this time absolutely. Um, when I worked on this, obviously news has come out, things have changed. We have seen it seen an increase already. Um, we also have that new development going in down the road. Um, so that could bring some students to our area as well. So, um, that's all things that we're looking forward to um Tina and I actually discussed that this morning. We also discussed some other budget adjustments we might be able to make in two years um that we're not ready for at
053this time, but something we're looking at for that following year that would have a great cost savings. Yeah, for sure. For sure. I think the other thing too is just really being mindful of all of the little things. All the little things. I know, you know, we we've talked a little bit about summer school being the number one revenue building generating, that's the word. Thank you. Uh revenue I keep coming having a hard time with generating um thing that a school district can do. And so we are already right now running on a again an increase in enrollment in our summer school program. We keep revamping it. We keep adding classes. We keep bringing new ideas. Um, we're closed for third through seventh grade because we have so many students that are interested in being
054in our summer school program. We still have room for littles. So, if you're got littles and you haven't signed up yet, please sign up. But the biggest key on this is attendance. If you sign up, you have to come. And I know that's really hard, but we get all kinds of people that sign up and then they're like, "Oh, we're going to, you know, go on vacation," which is great. It's summertime. You should do that. But then that that affects us negatively and it could have been filled with a student that could have been there but because they signed up late or mom and dad were doing something different or whatever they were doing and didn't get them signed up in time um we lose that revenue. So if you signed up everybody listening um
055show up be there because it does help the district truly. Okay. Any other comments or questions on very other thing I'd say is just correct me if I'm wrong, but just like every year when we go to approve, we'll have to approve this in June, but we still won't know what the state's doing at some point. So, it's it's it's really just a moving target, but we have to have a budget approved in June to start the school year in July. Just understand that. And then the same wackiness of the timing with the public meeting in October, right? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, she has that like the 325, I think the Supreme Court has ruled that that can stay in, right? But the the the state legislature can just change the the law and just
056get it out of there. The war will last do something. So even that even though the Supreme Court doesn't necessarily describe this budget cycle. So um so moving into the next item, it is our contract increases for 2526. Um so just a little quick history. Um teacher contracts need to go out by May 15th. So they have until June 15th to review and sign. Um, I do like to try to put in their new contract account so they know that they're signing up for it. Um, so that is what the document is that you will see under the executive um section. It does include the CPI increase. CPI ended at 2.95%. Um, we are able to put that into our budget and balance. So I am recommending that um to the school board. And then
057um if you remember from last year uh we were doing some market adjustments for some teachers. There were a few teachers um because their difference was so large that I did have to spread it out um so you will see a few of those that will also receive a market adjustment um this year. And then I threw in um our two new teachers that were just approved on the personnel report. So, if the board is okay with what I'm proposing at this time, I would use this like I did last year where I can create the contracts off of this and have them ready by choose to sign. I'm going to make a motion to approve 2526 contract increases. Second. Who is that? I signed. Thank you. Discussion. All in favor? I 2526 contract in.
058Um, next on the agenda is the school fees. Um, I'm bringing this forward um because last year we looked at athletics and activities and we did make an adjustment at that time. Um but we haven't looked at um the instruction fees or food service fees in some cases for a little bit. So 4K um when I asked our historian in our office says it has not changed since they implemented those. And then the last time the K through 8th grade fees were adjusted was back in 2012. Um so what I shared with the finance team was kind of a local average based on the Peter schools in the area. we are um the most inexpensive in the area. So um I am proposing an increase for 4K and K through 8 um to be considered
059this evening um as we presented as part of the strategic plan. We're looking for other revenue um brought in. This is not a huge revenue source but it is an option. And then same thing with food service. Um, I did put in that third column uh when they were last increased. Um, as you can see, most of those I just raised by a nickel. Um, just again for a little additional in that area. Are there any questions? Could you briefly for the instructional fees maybe for the benefit of everybody? What do the instructional fees like? what do they go for or pay for or what do we use them for? Sure. It's any materials the students receive. So um if it's textbooks um web support, we have a lot of software programs that we use.
060So it covers all the things that were directly students. And then for the food service fees, how does I guess if I look back not only last year but a couple years back, how how those adjusted with our contract with Charwells considering that our contract with Charwells is up for the public as well? Yes. Um we have not been adjusting based on the food service contract. Um the food service contract can be increased by 3% each year. Most years they choose to do that, but we have not been increasing our Um, food service fees have to stay in that food service bucket. Um, so they can only be used for things tied to food service. Um, with CO we had a lot of additional funds coming in because it was 100% federal funded. What we
061were able to do with those dollars was we were able to buy two new dishwashers and then also a freezer. So any money that eventually builds up in that town balance, we can put back into the kitchens for the students, things like that. So some of these minor, I call them minor nickel increases. To me, basic math, it seems like they're right in that 3% line. Okay. Motion to approve this. I'll second. Did you get that press? M first second. Discussion. All in favor? I school fees for 2526 are approved. Um, next up is um the 4K playground mulch. Um, this is coming to the board because I did not have this budget, but this did come up earlier in the school year by concerned parents. Um the 4K playground has rubber mulch. Um it
062was put in over 10 years ago and it is coming off um the kids shoes, things of that nature. Um so we went out to bid to see what rubber mulch cost. It's quite expensive. Um Matt did ask that I bring in some additional information um a little bit when we looked at that quote that was just over $90,000. Um because we did not have this budgeted, we have gone to look at what else we do. So we did get three quotes to have all the double mulch taken out. Um the ground red dug and then um wood mulch brought in. Um, so those three quotes are attached in here for the board to approve. Um, at this time I am recommending going with the Lake Country landscaping because they are the least expensive and
063we'd like to get that done yet this spring. Um, are there any questions? I have one. It was a significant cost difference in that one between the other two. Significant. So my question is is it because they have bigger machinery with the skin the machines that they're doing for application reduce labor or did you ask a question of what is the why this massive difference? I mean if you're 5% different it's fine but we're talking 50% almost. No I must be honest Greg handled all the dialogue and handling all of that. He did not see a difference between the two. I had just asked the question on if we were providing the mulch when I saw how low this land is and he said, "Oh, no, it's in there." So, that was my thought. Um,
064but no, Greg has handled that. I trust Greg 100%. Just reading it, I could not see what the differences were between them. I mean, I read them carefully because thinking I missed something and I couldn't find it. I couldn't find the difference. I think it was the disposal is what I saw as the biggest difference. They charge a lot more disposal rather than the other places. This one was a lot less than the disposal, but the actual was kind of in line. The mulch was similar in price. The labor was similar in price, but the amount of work was lower than that. So, a couple questions and maybe these are better for for Greg or not. Um, I was trying to find the same thing as you because uh on the line from Lake Country
065Landscaping, it says install playground chips supplied by school district. The next line down is a quote for 160 yards of certified playground mulch. Is there a difference? That is Greg question. Is there a difference between playground chips and playground mulch? That seems ambiguous to me. Um and then the the other thing and again just devil the details are removing soil 6 in down skid steer. Then it says hand dig six feet down around equipment. That probably should be six inches, but I would want some of that to be ironed out before we sign a contract. Okay. Um, so I I think as a board we can move forward with a vendor. But as long as we can get some of those other Sure. Just the devil's in the details. And for a $12,000 contract, just
066want to make sure we know what we're getting. I don't know how you do that, Chris. I think you just we trust that you can you can motion to approve it with the understanding that before they but we can approve the administration for doing it, but they're the ones then that execute the contract. So, they could go through with direction from the board like you just stated to make sure those details are added up before actually signing. We're just approving. I don't think we sign it, right? We don't sign it. We're just approving the expense. So then the details could be figured out by the end. Start. I have a motion to approve what's Lake Country. Motion to approve engaging Lake Country landscaping for the launch for the total for the total of 12,649. Yes,
067I'll second. All in favor or discussion? All in favor? I. Okay. 4K is 4K parents will be overjoyed. I think it's healthier for them anyways. Mulch I had in my house was horrendous. I can refill the mulch from my son. Okay. Okay. Um so the last item is the food service contract. We are in new year three. Um they did move the cap with 3% increase. Um this is just a standard approval but I wanted to bring it as a separate item just in case there were questions. Um but there is nothing outsorted normal or what they've usually done. I do need it approved um by May 7th. upload to the DPI website. Um, but are there any questions when you look through the contract? So, I guess my question goes to our strategic plan
068and health and nutrition and a number of comments that we've had as a board and as a community about our food service. Do we have to do a three-year contract? Um, well, standard is five, which is what we're currently in. Um that is something when we do the RFP process which will be next year um you can do something else. I have had some discussions about certain items that I have basically said please don't put these out here give them to somebody else. Um and we will continue to do that as we work through this with this company. Um but when you do the RFP process I would highly recommend at that time the board express some of their concerns because the food service company will come in do a presentation, they will bring in
069food, all of those things. So, I I misunderstood. This is the 3% raise. This is not a three-year contract. No. So, um at the very top of that first page, 2025 contract. Yes. Got it. So, this is renewal number three. So, there'll be one more. Perfect. So, and I will just add that um at convention I did kind of seek out some different vendors um and tasted some of the great food and things that I think are kid-friendly and and made a little bit more sense from a health perspective. We did come back and have that conversation about what does it take to do an RFP service RFPs are very different than other um contractual RFPs. So, um Amy dug right in and sent that right over and certainly something we will be discussing in
070the future. Great motion. What do we motion? We can sign it. Um, yes. I can sign it once. Motion. Motion to allow Amy to sign the char. I'll second it. What was the actual motion? Motion is to allow Amy to sign the char service contract. Motion to allow motion to allow Amy Holly to sign to sign the Charwell's food service contract. Was it seconded? I second it. Yeah, thank you. I'm good. Okay. All in favor? I Okay. Food service contract. Right. Moving to new business. Um discussion and decision to approve the eighth grade field trip over state border to the Holocaust Museum in Illinois. I'll start with a motion to approve the eighth grade field trip to the Holocaust Museum. That's second. Discussion. All in favor? I. Okay. Field trip to Holocaust Museum is approved.
071Uh moving on to the 66.03 contracts. Discussion and decision. Just I didn't compare last year. Somebody's just removing the same thing we've done last year. Motion to approve the 66 contracts presented. I second discussion. You got it, Chris. All in favor? I 66.03 contracts are approved. Okay, that brings us to the last item under new business, which is the discussion and possible decision on the US Department of Education's requirement of all school districts to and assigned certification affirming compliance with federal anti-discrimination laws under executive order for uh 1419. So I forwarded um a couple legal responses to the board today uh as well as a link to the Department of Education to kind of explain what we're talking about. You guys saw the certificate that we have to fill out. Um the deadline is in
072two days. Um, so let's open it up for discussion. I have a question for Superintendent Bman. It's are we currently in compliance with all the anti-discrimination laws under the order? Are we compliant? Yes. Okay, that's all I wanted to question. I saw that um one of the things taking forward it was from superintendent. It looks like it went to all the various superintendent or other districts doing this as well. Do you know it's interesting none of them had seen it or heard of it um until this email came out. So the so the question came yeah I have no idea if anybody's voting um I can read you know I think we can make that decision. There's no other discussion. I Madam President, I'd like to motion to send a signed certificate affirming compliance with
073federal anti-discrimination laws under executive order 14190 to the DOE, DOJ, and DPI. I'll second it. Discussion. Do we need our own legal team to review it? Like I guess my only concern is that there's something in there and then all of a sudden they can use whatever it is that we signed to yank federal funding away because of whatever else is going on in our district that's unrelated. Like is there any I know you sent something from a lawyer. Is that our district attorney? Yeah, that's our legal. Perfect. Okay, that was it. I just I'm not familiar with who our attorneys are. Yeah, I don't I don't know whether or not this is enforcable, you know, what's going to happen with it, but I mean, basically, we're trying to say that we're not discriminating people.
074Exactly. Right. And if somehow this is found to be enforced and we presented that budget where we could lose $600,000, that would be pretty catastrophic for us. So, this isn't saying we have to do anything. From what I can read, it's saying we're not discriminating people. I know it's got the buzzwords of DEI in it. It's not defined. So, who knows what that means, but take that out of there. It basically says we're not discriminating advantaging one race over another. We're we're not in violation of federal law. We're doing either of those things. That was the reason why I made for that reason. There's nothing in there that I see why we wouldn't do it. And even if it's not necessary, it's more of an insurance policy for us. Okay, there I second it, right?
075Correct. Okay, so all in favor I I Okay, certificate is going to get signed. Okay. Um I'm going to just kind of read the statement about how the recount went. Uh so this is a statement of the board president and board clerk. On behalf of the board president and board clerk, we would like to express our thanks and gratitude to the board of canvasers uh who were um Jake Wool and um Sarah Ferguson and Ginstein and the many municipal clerks and pole workers who assisted the Hartland Lakeside School District with the election recount conducted on April 10th through 11th, 2025. The recount was conducted at the lawful and timely petition of John Bulis, who is the petitioner. As the margin between the petitioner and Morgan Henning was less than 0.5%, there can't be a fee
076imposed on the petitioner for the recount. Accordingly, the district assumed the cost associated with the recount. As a result of the hand counting of ballots, the differential between the petitioner and Morgan Henning, the candidate receiving the lowest number of votes, but who is still elected, was reduced from 10 votes to one vote. While the recount did not alter the election results, it is noted that the board of canisters determined that several absentee ballot envelopes were improperly completed, but still counted on election night. The board of canvasers lawfully removed a corresponding number of ballots and the ballots were not included in the recount. Had those ballots have been included in the count, it is possible that a different outcome would have been reached. For all voters, particularly those voting absentee, this is a good reminder to
077ensure that the ballots and envelope are properly completed. The diligence of the board of canvasers and the tabulators that assisted in the process ensured the integrity of the election. We thank everyone that engaged in this critical civil process. Your support of the Hartland Lakeside School District is sincerely appreciated. The next topic is future board committee actions. Anyone have any? I have something I No, I'm not going to be here. I would really like um you guys to brainstorm on and we've talked about this a little bit, but uh how we're going to capture some of those Lake Country people that are starting to jump ship. Um it is like such a huge opportunity for us to grow our enrollment. Um and we need to like move fast. Um, I've had a number of people texting
078me about all all types of things like people are getting ready to to to leave. Um, and this we need to look at it in a marketing perspective. We need to look at it in do we need to have um small group meetings and invite parents in um to do presentations? Do we need to send marketing material? Whatever it may be. I know Tina and I have talked about that, but I just I feel a huge sense of urgency for it. Um, and I, you know, I think it I think it's just a huge opportunity and I think it's legit. We did, we did receive nine open enrollment requests from Llay Country just over the weekend. Um, and we continue to monitor that. We have a pretty decent fresh and I sat down today on
079kind of our social media campaign. Um, I think I think small groups is a good idea and I've got Moren and Lola right now pulling um we have about 40 students who open enroll out of our district to Lake Country. So, we're trying to get those back by direct messaging. Um, and and we're in the process of that. That isn't an end all be all. We will continue to do more work as the board deems appropriate, but I I agree with you. I think it's a prime time and a prime opportunity for us to um take some of our students back. Not to put salt, highlight our band. That's our whole that's our whole mission this this week. Knives out, right? Shows a little bit how ridiculous the school setup is around here. I mean,
080I think you guys, your neighbors probably go to Lake Country, probably some street over is probably somebody does the Lake Country where you guys live. Kind of silly that we're looking to poach their kids in the same school. That's what we live in right now. Well, I think it's, you know, consolidation hog, but it's it's like the like the starting point of it, right? Oh, it is. I mean, it's just so there's services they can't provide and there's so much duplication of a lot of things and resources just kind of wasted. These kids play on the same Hawks baseball team. You know, they live two blocks away and the school a ban the school can. So, let's go steal those kids. It's kind of silly. Working together on this sort of stuff. Not saying we
081shouldn't be doing this. I know we get the world with events outside. Madam President, just as an announcement for the the rest of the board, there is a district-wide assembly meeting on Thursday night, May 8th. Uh I'm unfortunately unable to attend this one. But at that meeting, which was the second meeting now of all district boards that are invited, this one will have a presentation on consolidation ins and outs. And there's even a possibility that one of our state representatives will be present as well who sits on the education committee. Cindy Duk was invited. We're not sure if she's going to be present. I think she might have a conflict and may not be able to, but they're still going to be reaching out to her afterwards for a conversation. So, if the members can
082go, it might be a good time to express more of those thoughts and have those conversations either again fostering more shared services, collaboration, continuity, and curriculum. There's a lot of things that even if we are not jumping into consolidation talks right away, there are things that we can do today that would enhance the community in general and at large for having students better prepared through their journey through high school. Uh policy alignment. We just went through all this approval tonight on policy. If the students are coming from a different school that have different policies and then end up in Arrowhead that have different policies, well now kids add to the confusion of all the transition. So just even these conversations can help with continuity in curriculum, in behavior, in policy and then fiscally like Matt
083said that might be the next logical step. But I think it's these early conversations that can help lead us in that direction. We approved two contracts, those 6603 contracts are shared services. There's no reason five or six of those sorts of things for special education, talented gift, whatever it is, right? It's like there's there's a lot of a lot of reasons where it makes sense at least to have these conversations. And I don't want us to project a negative frame of listening to and free community. I don't want us to project a thought that there's not this collaborative spirit happening. It's a good thing right now. These are the first conversations of districts interacting in 50 years. Oh, by the way, that's another thing that Tiffany helped to do. So, I didn't put that in
084my list earlier that she helped navigate and and and get us doing. So, these are the first conversations in 50 years of boards working together. So, it's moving in the right direction. So, we just need to keep the momentum and hopefully our board can help and lead some of those constructive collaborative efforts. Awesome. Any other topics, guys? I don't have a topic, but I think it's probably appropriate to ask about um we have the conversation about accepting open enrollment seats um like we did last year um right after so we can get our students here and let families know. Um I I would I would like for us to do that meeting on May 5th. Um and that will be new board, right? So, new board members as well as those that you know obviously
085once you have seen on May 5th is a Monday. That's the meeting date that I think we need to do in order to capture all of those kids. We can do that. This a special board. Yes, we can do that virtually. Um or we can do that in person. We also are going to take advantage of that meeting to talk about health benefits. Um just so you can hear a brief overview of what that looks like. Um, so I just wanted to I I think it's important that we have figure out a way to do that. But May 5th is be traveling for work in We did a virtual. Are you kind of we do virtual? Oh yeah. Okay. I will be here like that. Good. Thank you. I just want to make sure that
086we can get that figed out. Anything else? Um I just wanted to um before I move on to the oath of office, I just wanted to thank everyone uh for their support. Um it's been a very long three years. Um I knew it was going to be a tough role, but definitely not as tough it as it has been. Um, the magnitude of the the amount of information I have taken in and and learned is pretty spectacular. Um, and I I I I wouldn't I wouldn't change my choice of of running. Um, it was very difficult for me to decide to step down. Um, a lot of the things that I was hoping to be able to accomplish on the board got pushed to the wayside uh because we had a superintendent surge. We there
087was multiple multiple huge tasks to be done. Um, I, you know, I wanted to, you know, talk about interactive learning and getting the kids outside and and adding new electives and and and thinking outside the box and doing creative stuff. And um, it's hard for me because like we got through all this hard stuff. Now we're starting all the like cool fun stuff and I'm not going to get to be a part of it anymore. Um, so I'm I'm really sad to leave that. Um, I I uh welcome Matt and Morgan to the board. Um, it is definitely an entirely different perspective once you're sitting up here and kind of behind the scenes. Although we do everything in in front and center, there's still a lot of stuff that you just don't realize until you're
088sitting on the board. Um, I guess I am going to be very sad to leave uh Tina. Um, she has been a humongous positive addition to our school district. Um, we've been ranked fifth for, you know, several years or in the top seven. Um, they think we're a little stagnant in a lot of areas and Fresh Eyes has done us. um a world of good and um her central office experience, her um dedication to processes and systems um has reorganized us um brought in uh a lot of accountability. Um and I think she's feeling the same way I do. Uh we're just starting to embark on like the good stuff that really is going to um differentiate us from the other schools. Um, and I think as she rolls out the portrait of the graduate,
089you guys will see that. Um, so I just ask that everyone sitting up here continue to support her. Um, be respectful to her. Um, and continue to collaborate. So together we are better. [Applause] Okay. So, we are going to swear in Morgan and Matt. This is our first student. Oh, yeah. I think Yeah, you do. Yeah. Yeah. All right, front row. Come on up [Music] now. Read this. Hi, Matthew McDonald. been appointed as a member of the board of counselors for the Hartland Lakeside J3 School District. Swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin and will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of set office to the best of my ability. Oh my god. Congratulations. Appreciate it. This will be your packet with actual
090votes. All right. Thank you very much. Same thing blank. I having been appointed as a member of the board of canvaser appointed as a member of the board of canvasers for the heartland school district where Matt's oath was incorrect as well. That's what his sentence is board of canvasers instead of school board. It should be elected to the office of school board. That's why they kind of stump it is incorrect. These will probably have to be updated. I can get you the original or the actual These were printed for us. Hang tight. We're good. You want to read here? Do you have it? Oh, this was the attachment. Okay. If you have it, we can read it. Do you have it? What am I appointed to the office of? You're elected to the office of
091What's the office? Board of Education. Carl side school board. salad. Seeoplightly this and then just yours and then we can print one of these until we get the right document. Why don't we wait? We can we can have you sworn in with Gretchen here and she can notoriize it. It can be done either by me as the clerk or it can be done by her as an order. So it has to be before the 28th. That's when the official date starts. So what I would say is tomorrow. Tomorrow let's talk with Gretchen to have the right form updated and then you can either we can try you don't have to do it with me. It's probably fastest to just come in, stop in, and do it when Gretchen's here. She's here till roughly 1:00 p.m.
092each day. Yes. So, you can just do it with her right at the office. I can do it for you, but then try to coordinate schedule a little harder for me. She's here every day. Yeah. So, just shoot an email that they're ready to go and I'll stop. We can do that. And then Morgan, here's your step, too. Thank you for catching Welcome, welcome to the board. [Applause] Let me know when you're ready. Yeah, give me just a second. I have a couple other screens open for that. I will update this portion here. Okay, good to go. Okay. uh PPC committee main meeting. That's going to have to be determined with new Oh, yeah. We probably should just wait on plans. Well, no, we said we we could do it before the meeting because they
093need to um Okay. We need to present a budget. Yeah, that's right. We did. So, you're good with May 9th at night? Okay. Still May 9th. Oh, yeah. 9 a.m. Yep. Yep. Still work. Is is that still current? Board workshop. We're going to do some governance work on that night. Um just to get everybody up to speed on what that looks like. Okay, great. And the next school board meeting is May 19th at 6:30. Yes. And don't forget May 5th we have a special board meeting for open enrollment seats and benefits. Um we may as well make it the regular time. So 6:30. Um, and I'll get a link and all that sent out to the board. You said at 6:30. I was 6:30. Yes. We will have emails to both of you before that.
094Okay. We'll have that all set up so you'll link into the heart email. I'm good. If you uh we're going to move into executive session now. So, this is our closed session. So, thank you all for being here. Thank you guys for all your sweet supportive words. A motion to move into position. I'll second. All in favor? Oh, Chris. Yes. Neils. Hi Chris. Yes. What's the official time on that? [Music] Let me know. You should watch your You said your ear your things. Okay, we're live. We're live. Yeah, we're live. I see it. Madam President, yes. I'd like to make a motion to deny the employment contract alteration request. I second. Who was that? Neils. Thank you. Discussion. All in favor? I I what? Madam President, I'd like a motion to adjourn at you last.
095I received my motion. You get a vote for the Sorry. All right. Hold on. We moved too fast. We didn't do an A. You're back at the motion to deny the employment contract authoration request. Neils Peterson seconded. No discussion. All in favor? I I not in favor. Motion passes. Okay. A motion to adjourn at 9:46. I second. All in favor? I If we don't close, you're not gone. I know it's Chris. [Music]