001key key wordss for resilience those types of words that we are utilizing within that maybe that ties back to the values here when we start to look at resilience is on right so that to me is no-brainer because it's part of our apprach of a graduate so I don't know if that's if that makes sense I can go through this and kind of narrow it down sure especially if our portrait of a graduate is our priority yeah I think some of this can that but some of this stuff is a little bit s portra of I mean portra of graduate going to have ay heavy education comp but I think we agree I agree that t what's going to happen because we think that we put something in place that e e e I will
002say Culver has a mint shape it does I mean yes call Shamrock correct I think it is definitely more normal occurring flavors in the world if you will I understand that McDonald's is absolutely nowhere near anything in my second grade class we we've did this Mo the most amazing like obstacle course in our classroom that my teacher set up and it was all like St Patty's Day themed like walking with like a potato on your foot and stuff and but they're there got to be two winners and the winners won shamai shakes did you win is that no why you don't like is that why you don't like them is watch that thing melts and then look at your C why would you ruin it might have actually had real ingredients back that's true probably
003realish potatoes are Irish I was just like part of second grade you don't question list you're like oh potato on my foot that's cool I think we should bring that back actually my daughter has asked why we don't have St Patty's holiday uh parties yes this whole catch a leprechaun thing is not something I had growing up and not live yes yes live I like that you repeated it welome let me know when you're ready CH I am ready you tell me right let's call the order at uh 6:33 okay PL of to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God and jusice pro of giving public notice okay um all board members are in person so you don't have to vote on
004Virtual and public Happ is next and our only public comment is Marg of course um okay so I just want to say thanks to Tiffany for your three years I know you're coming up to the end so thank you and enjoy the time with your family thank we're going to get back um and then my only other thing was regarding the agenda item on the district's membership with wasby and the return on investment I would like to urge the board to PRI prioritize transparency by making the information and data behind what you guys are going to utilize to make the evaluation fully accessible to the community as these types of membership reviews are important part of responsible fiscal management and I think the community deserves to understand how these decisions are going to be evaluated
005I also respect ask that you guys delay any decisions until the new board is sworn in just so that they have a chance to um review the information and also I understand that Arrowhead is conducting a similar evaluation but I don't believe we should feel pressured to follow them um we have our own unique needs and struggles and such within our district so we need to make sure that we make decisions that fit best for our district um so I appreciate the boards commitment and hopefully we can have a good discussion on that thank you okay next item is the consent agenda i' like to move to remove monthly report from okay do you want to put that at a at next month or right following we just talk I we we have a process
006to like review that stuff and since we haven't had our finance meeting I think we should be blessed we it yet so I just move to next month okay item d right correct not suggesting there's something wrong with the report just through the proper on afterwards no well yes and then um I move donation just to talk about those yeah like of the donations uh you can go one of go well I think on behalf of both Chris and myself and the entire board just very appreciative for the HF for the continued support um of of all of our teachers and staff and students um for the M for the carts and fem hygiene products um as well as the basketball party for the six gr boys um well earned and really appreciate the work
007that you guys do and and the support that you give our school awesome thank you three microgrants total $97 amazing thank you make a motion to approve the consent second Chris let me know when up I'm assuming that was already removed okay and then who second I okay all in favor okay consent agenda is approved with d removed so now we need to vote on um moving the monthly voucher and purchasing card report to next month motion to move the monthly vouer and Purchase Card report through the April meeting I'll second it all in favor okay Tina superintendent report yeah so this is my annual plug for our Summer Splash um and I think we are starting to get a better understanding of the importance of Revenue and we talked a little bit about how
008are we going to get more Revenue this is one of the biggest areas that school districts can gain revenue um we did a phenomenal job last year just by making a couple of tweaks um to an increase of $76,000 into our budget that was fabulous um we worked really hard and I've got to give big kudos to um Dave and Heather but but really Moren um has done just an extraordinary job if you've ever walked in in the last two weeks there's Post-it notes all over the conference room table um and I was just doing some just some really quick numbers for the first time this year our 3rd through 7th grade class offerings there are 67 class offerings um ours so we got to really get those third or seventh graders in there um
009we've got everything from leadership opportunities to babysitting to CAD to um uh exploring underwater and you just have a lot of different things same thing with our 4K through second grade um the important piece of this is we changed our schedule last year to increase our attendance now remember we had eight weeks before and we increased our Revenue by $76,000 so think about that math problem for a minute um but we need people we need kiddos and we need them to come often times if we have a schedule um class and let's call it Legos and we have um 15 students signed up for Legos by the time that class is over those two weeks are over our attendance is down to 10 well it's important that we understand that if we're not there every
010single day for Lego class the district doesn't receive the revenue because it's based on FTE so really really try if you're going to sign up it's going to come out here in the next week or two so if you're going to sign up pleas that your students can be there at all sessions um that they sign up for because we are going to cap the classes we also are going to not runs classes if there aren't at least 10 students in each class that why the why on that is because it costs us to bring teachers into teach the classes if it doesn't become a coste effective balance then it doesn't make sense for us to run those classes um so I'm very excited about the great work and the things that are going on
011with that and and I'm super excited to see um How We Do how we do this year with our Liv so that's what I have transportation update great on you yeah I just think yeah I just think that it's important for us to again continue to have these conversations um we had some um situation occur I don't know a week and a half ago where there was a arraignment hearing and there were some bus drivers saying that um that they had seen the video um and that caused some pretty um intense emotions around the community um I want the community at large to know that the district immediately contacted dowman dowman ially said we have not shared that it is absolutely categorically untrue that anybody body else outside of the people that sat in that
012room that day from the district perspective or the um the um police have seen that video so they I I asked them to write a letter they did um we called a meeting for our families that were impacted by this directly board support was there I had Chris Chris and Matt were able to um be there that night to kind of just show support to our families and then kind of talk through what are we going to do next and how to how do we make this right um we knew that this that was yesterday morning at 9:00 a.m. there was a pre-trial or prehearing um the defendant um would he be the defendant what the person in question um he um waved his rights to a prehearing um which was really tough for our
013families but the da pulled our families into conference um to kind of just have conversation and just say this is how this is going to work we can expect a trial probably 9 to 12 months out um so but I did want I did want the community at large to know that at no point was that video shared I know that's out there um but it was not the other piece that we're doing we we just found out we were supposed to have a meeting um dowon's working with all of us all of the districts because as you know our our um transportation contract is a with a Consortium so it's all the districts working together then that group has a contract with dman um and that contract is like 5 years long we I
014mean it it's a long long contract and we can't do anything with that however we have everybody on board and meeting about um making some changes looking at some some alterations to the plan and then we've also worked with dman to um have them get they have an implementation it's called optimization for bus routes which they've never used before before um they've always kind of done everything by hand and so now they have this program that they can plug in all of our our kiddos in the routes where they live and hopefully come up with a better plan um so we'll see what ends up happening we are working to make some adjustments once we have a better understanding of the cans and cannots you can expect a survey to come out in the next
015week or two um to try to get the community's understanding of what their wants and needs are in reg uh regard to transportation I think our greatest concern and and guys hen is safety we've got some safety issues we've got some safety concerns particularly with this shuttling thing that we have going on and we just want to make sure that that we we take care of what we need to um as far as our students are concerned so once we have a little bit better idea of that we'll get the um survey out which we actually thought would be last week but because of some changes um we had to hold on it but we're hoping to get that out and then um once the surveys come back we'll s the ize that data put
016it all together and then we will host a forum um where the board and ourselves will be there to kind of talk about the outcomes um and then start planning forward for next year so expect some changes for next year you just don't know what yet so that's our update uh am uh the discussion on monthly Finance report yes um so as Matt said typically I've reviewed this Finance so um since we didn't get to do that yet I did add it to four ducks yesterday so if you want to pull that up um right now between all of the accounts we do have just over $9 million in those accounts uh fund 10 activity for the month of February we did receive our second tax deposit that totaled almost 2.2 million um interest on
017our savings account we're still earning a lot but it continues to drop it's at 4.55% now um but we did earn interest of over just 19,000 um the rest of the funds received or typ school fees extra activities and such um again expenses at this time appear to be on schedule um what I will be doing um for the last quarter is trying to project out based on like a fiveyear trend so I will be reviewing that with Finance beforehand just so that we can see that we are on target um but that will be a new report so I'll have them review that first uh fund 27 for special education we did receive another special ed Aid payment of over 100,000 we did have some Medicaid reimbursement come in for over 20,000 and then
018our in fund transfer from fund 10 to fund 27 was about 117,000 this month um otherwise District expenses look good in on budget uh for special education as well um fund 46 is that Capital Improvement we're just earning interest on the money in the account and that was about uh 5700 fund 50 is our food service we did receive some of our federal funds breakfast Aid was about 1,600 and lunch Aid was about 14,000 the rest of the revenue is tied to food deposits from for students and families and then on 80 is our community service which is the um Lakeside Academy um so all of that is tied directly to her Revenue in um expenses and she's um almost quite On Target but yes um with that rate increase that went into January we
019expect to see that change and come down a little bit as well are there any initial questions on the financials at this time thank you right moving on to new business discussion and decision on 2025 Summer band camp agreement um just so you know in case you're new to um the board this year Summer band camp is part of our summer school program um it is a shared service um so that is why it is a 6603 agreement um with the feeder schools in this area area we do get credit um for those students for toward summer school and it's just a great opportunity for students in general um but this agreement does need to be reviewed and approved by the board does anyone have any questions standard last so um I would motion to
020approve the second all in favor I okay Summer band camp 2025 agreement is approved Chris let me know second NE sorry thank you okay we're moving on to the W review discussion and possible decision on value return on investment of Wisconsin Association of right so I'll leave I'll leave it off um I've had a lot of experience with it over the last couple years and also served on the policy and resolutions committee and I I'd be really curious to see what Matt and Chris your experience has been over the last year because you're in your the first year when when I first got on the board I took anything and everything I could from wasby everything when when I first came on here there wasn't a binder no oning for us it was welcome to
021the team there we go so I took that upon myself for self-education and I was taking anything and everything that I could and you fast forward to today and I've still continued to go to fall conferences Regional gatherings legislative and law updates up north the state conference and attended multiple training sessions and then of course on the policy and resolutions committee and all the work that was done there and I found that after the first I don't know six or eight months the quality of the education really became diminished as a new board member who knows nothing I found it to be very helpful in those first six to 8ish months and then after it kind of goes down where it's not really providing super helpful information that's not available through other organizations not available
022through self teing or other happenings when I went to the State Convention I I tried to pick presentations that were relevant to our district and I didn't I made the mistake of not paying attention to who was giving the presentation and as an example you would have at times districts other districts providing presentations on a topic of student achievement as an example and they have terrible poor achievement and they're the ones giving the presentation I heard some Financial ones that I attended and Amy Holly could have taught it much better than what I was getting so I was I'm I'm disappointed in the quality after you get to a certain point in the information that's provided at those uh I experience in a lot of the regional Gatherings uh those are great networking events to
023meet other districts talks with talk with people and even interact with the WBY staff you're not getting much out of it it's it's it's a networking event more than anything W presentations but not a lot of useful information now I fast forward into the policy and resolution committee which again takes a significant amount of time for someone as volunteer a significant amount three different times driving out of out of the area it takes whole days sometimes overnight so it's a lot of work on our part and I I struggled with the way that it's managed so as an example the first meeting we went to I think it was in Steven's Point there's a group of I forget how many 30ish people that are on this committee representatives from different districts and regions throughout the
024state and they bring the resolutions that are submitted from districts to this group and then they talk through it and decide which ones go forward and which ones don't and there's three criteria I'm sorry it's longwinded but you need to understand the background there are three criteria that are used to determine whether or not these resolutions move forward to the general assembly at the State Convention and that's are they timely are they pertinent relevant and are they worthy of discussion and unfortunately as we broke into I think it was five groups so that there would be an odd number of votes of moving forward or or or or not and the the executive staff including the president presid of the meeting were moving around the groups throughout our conversations interjecting themselves into it and helping
025navigate those groups to a certain position so it was influencing the outcome of whether or not resolutions were getting carried forward and I didn't like that that's not the role the role is of these representatives are the ones that should be doing then you take as an example fast forward now to the State Convention again this is where the the resolutions then are voted on by the membership to whether or not they get accepted to be part of the law resolution packet for the legislators that they Lobby for and one of the one of the polic resolutions that was turned in that was again subtly encouraged not to be brought forward was the protect women and girl sports that's submitted by New London and that got torpedoed at the policy and resolution committee and it's
026interesting because if you look at the criteria is it pertinent is it timely and is it worthy of debate I would argue that it's probably one of the most debated things in all of 2024 uh everywhere and in the first week of the new Administration it was but it got killed and not allowed to bring full at the State Convention then when the conference votes on it they shut it down somewhat quickly and it was not even allowed to be brought to the floor for discussion so when I'm looking at it I'm I'm struggling because I'm seeing a particular mindset driv driving the membership in a particular direction um I I we don't use their policy program any longer we use Neola that's much much cleaner much more helpful we don't utilize their legal services
027and we don't I don't personally see a lot of return on many of the educational things so when you look at budgets when you look at costs and then you also look at some of the resolutions that did go through are against things that we voted to go certain direction which means those initiatives are going against the will and the thought of the people of our community so we're paying and supporting a mindset and initiatives that go against our community so when I'm looking at all that and I'm adding that all together and I talked with Amy at one point I think our membership fee was in the 4000s somewhere in there and the total spend for trainings reimbursements travel program was around 15,000 give or take I believe is that still accurate am what
028I just trying to pull real quick I'm using round numbers because I don't remember the exact I think it depends on the number of things that people attend but it could yeah it would be a range probably between 10 to 15,000 so from my perspective the the value of it I think it it's helpful for a new member new board member but now that we have our own onboarding program and there there are more agencies there are more more groups out there now providing good education U school boards for academic Excellence the 1848 project will others there there's a lot of other information out there and so when I see when I see the history of what's been happening with B the quality of the education and then the insertion of driving policy in a
029particular direction I just don't see the value when it's counter for our community longwinded sorry a lot of history but Matt and Chris I'd be really interested if you took some of the different training seminars if you felt that those were overly helpful I did some just ini show like hey you're new school b t this thing I thought it was helpful I would say networking wise it was good initial because you sat down with a couple boards in the area um although I messed up the sections and I got sent to one that was a little further away um so that I think initially there there some steps that were helpful there's some lunch lines here or there that have been informational but I wouldn't say that it had any more information than anybody
030else that was out there I was getting the same thing from all the other all the other ones that were out there um is it an annual that we pay and is that coming up soon or is that something that we pay already question um it is typically um yes it's for the school year so it's it would be coming up in July in July so if we made this decision um new board BS com in would have an ability to look at it as well um before that that time frame in I I thought it was Ade was I didn't think any was more less than was seen anywhere else my my fear in in Waiting for a new board is there's more than 50% of our board is up and so it could
031have a very different Outlook and you may not right now we have four members that have been here for a while and at least have had enough experience with it and no offense meant to that me you just only been here a l so you haven't had much of an opportunity unless you've taken any of the trainings or I guess no so there could be a different board makeup at that time and then by then they're making a decision on something they have no experience with potentially potentially again I I I'm not projecting anything with the election I'm just saying that more than 50% of our board is up goad I mean I I think we should probably wait till the new board I guess my bigger question is what is that what is that
032it's a four grand membership what does that get us I think it gets you access they just online there's a lot of stuff online so I couldn't access all I wanted to go I couldn't access that if we dropped out and then we obviously could go through the convention meetings is that pretty much it I believe so Tina asked me that as well and I'm not sure some groups still go to a different I didn't I didn't I didn't like I mean these are those policies we went through at one I didn't really appreciate that I think if you're going to advocate for something you should advocate for like two or three things like if there was there was stuff on there that was kind of just so an name that you know all the
033law makers could say yeah I like five things they brought to us and it's like met nothing right like five minor things so you know I would prefer more concentrated portfolio what you take to to advocate for but you know the Heartland school board's not going to dictate the entire wiby to narrow that down to stuff that we really want um I don't look I think any policy they advocate for there be people in the community that are for and against it so I wouldn't say that you know they're routinely advocating for or against policies that are directly in contrast to us but I don't you know how effective are they with this with this advocacy I mean they've been I mean I know this special education funding is my big thing and I know
034that's been on the talking point for a lot long years and we're the worst in the nation what we I mean that's it seems like a a simple one that they could push for that it's gotten into ATT traction so look I don't I don't have a strong opinion for or against I I would suggest as you said with have the board could be could be three new members come May mean let those folks figure it out whether it's some of us or not be my suggestion I also think there's a you're very familiar with wasby you're very very involved um and I think you bring up some really good points when it comes to how effective is the representation um I think it's worth the the board I mean I saw it on the
035agenda I I didn't know what the what your feelings were on it and that's what the board meetings are for I think it's worth taking those feelings and going back and and looking at was and challenging was say what do you what do you bring to the table maybe there's something that we're not taking advantage of that they do provide I don't know as a board member and that's where I feel like you know it especially with a new board coming on you know I don't think it takes much to you know take that same Community input and be like hey is this where we want is there a better organization that can represent us better you brought up a couple of other ones I think we should as a board be a part of
036some kind of organization so we're not just going at it alone but if it's not wasby you know what is the right one I mean you mentioned a couple of you mentioned will I'm sure some community members would feel about will as you might feel about lby right so what are the Alternatives out there and what benefit do they give us to advocate for funding right I I remember and I loved I think it was three months ago you got up there and we're like hey does anybody realize how little we get reimbursed for this stuff like and then at the at the feeder school it's like if we're all together talking about let's leers together as all districts we have so much more powerful voice like focusing on that at I feel like and
037what the alternative is versus just let's just exit now um I think there's a little more to deliberation I at least would like to learn more about it um to see what there is a possibility of missing before making a decision that you know our dues are in July is this a decision that has to happen at this board meeting can I ask one more question do you guys as is there any benefit to you of us being part ofas that's a good question is there stuff you get from it that we're not we haven't talked about here that like oh you cut us up with this this is really going to screw us we use them for this and that no I think in the past it was probably more tied to um yeah
038the policy um at this time there's nothing that I personally use it for um I might jump in on a capital chat but those are online I'm sure I can still do that but um otherwise yeah I think I think I can speak to the superintendent piece of it because I think that they take what we have standards right we have standards in the state of Wisconsin and wasby takes it takes the 12 standards and tries to I don't even know the name of it because I've never been evaluated under that that process but it's it it's pretty Antiquated right I mean it's it's a pretty old system it's not relevant to the it's it's meant to be districts use it date that's what it's called the dpes um use it universally and we're not
039all the same so you can't take that right and measure it with that we don't do that here um we haven't done that since I've been here um we don't use it for the policies I do go to the um convention but I'm also a member of the wda which is Wisconsin Association of school district administrators and they partner with wasb so I still get the discounts going to and there's only two that I go to that I love to go to and the rest I don't um is the law I love that law of conference in July and then I also enjoy the convention so um I've tried a couple of the other ones but I I I don't mean anything that's really effective for our district it's really personal contacts and networking stuff
040that if I'm going to network I need to network down here not up in like you know different varing places so otherwise yeah we don't really use WB for much from the district office perspective were there Alternatives that you've seen before to wasby that you that you saw might be more effective I just know that my pre previous experience was really reliant on the um Club memberships of Wisconsin Association for school district administrators and we would bring John Bales in um John Bales is the executive director of that organization and so particularly in my previous District I know we're probably getting done with me saying that but my my time on that is like starting to wear out but um he he would come and do work with the board um even the um people
041that we've had bar sh came and did a um governance um session um that was not through WB that was through wda um I don't have experience with any other organizations except for those two and I don't think you need to have memberships for other other organizations I think some of them you don't know yeah no I mean are you saying I saying we don't need to be joined to any organization right that's what I'm saying when we need something we can go resource it out and I know my experience with was has not been great um the the uh the trainings I've gone to were not helpful in the least bit in fact they I walked out of there thinking my God I just wasted three hours of my life I got nothing out
042of that um sat through one in Green Lake I don't know one fall and it was it was just talking in circles I I there was nothing productive that came out of it um and it it it it there was not real life um discussion about root causes of things or um Innovative thinking or or or ways to try to combat at these like like the birth rate thing or the enrollment decline it was just like talking in circles talking talking talking so I I the seminars I went to during the convention I was really excited about one I took one specifically on um superintendent evaluation I walked out of there being like this is crazy this is so complicated we can totally do something so much simpler um so and we do not I
043I think I have called WS two or three times in my three years for five minute legal advice um so we don't need it for that I know there's schools that use use them a lot more um and to be honest when I have logged in to look at stuff uh for instance I was logging in to see if they had a superintendent um format or example for evaluation that I could work off of no I had to I I was going to have to pay I was going have to pay a couple thousand dollars for it so even with having that membership and being able to log in you're still blocked out of stuff it's kind of like a nickel and D for everything that you want um so yeah I I I don't
044I don't think it's that big a deal I think that we can still access certain things from law and people can still go to the trainings if they want to and we can we don't need to lock ourselves into one thing I mean I'm really interested in the school board for excellent stuff right now I think they're kind of on The Cutting Edge of really trying to think outside of the box to fix some of these bigger problems um so that's that's my I have a question so the the the subject of the agenda is discussion and possible decision on the value and return of investment of was of last week was the intent of this a discussion and decision for the district to leave wasby because if it was I feel like that might
045be an unclear agenda to the public if we worded it this way and can we as the board make a decision to leave wasby with that as the subject of the agenda item it's already paid for for the year right yeah so this would be just more of a decision not to look I I haven't heard anything that suggests we're doing we're getting a lot out of our 5 to 15 grand um I just don't think we need to rush tonight to kick ourselves out of it I'd suggest pushing this to May or June E when we got a new board on and deciding that that' be my suggestion does it automatically renew it does not so so we have to make a decision as a board we the next board I'm I didn't mean
046interrupt you I'm sorry go ahead no we'll receive an invoice in June so we can cancel at that time or notify them at that time I don't think it's a good idea to wait I could say wait till next month if there's some additional research that or phone calls or something that might that needed to be uncovered okay but I think it would be a mistake to wait and ask a potential new board to make that decision what but a potential new board could just come in and say wow guess what it's my stent here we are we want to reverse course and we want to stay they could but we at least have the four of us have direct experience with it some more than others um but we have at least firsthand knowledge
047experience good or bad some of both I think and I think it's more within our responsibility to make the decision for it yeah I I guess I'm I'm confused if we get an invoice and doesn't automatically review the board's going to make a decision anyways it it seems like this vote doesn't really mean a good thing am I missing something motion what right but but you see what I'm saying Chris like like I I want to do more research but at the same time I feel like whatever we vote doesn't really matter because the next board can decide to pay the invoice like it's nothing that's binding right it's just more of could it could unless I'm trying to even if it was a motion to not do it for the school year board could
048RSE course beforehand yeah could and no matter what they would have to make a decision when it comes anyways if they want to pay it or not or you should would be canel by that this that decision would be made if this was talk that way that wouldn't come then it just it would just be done there be no invoice that comes can I make yeah go ahead motion yeah I'm I'm done discussing I'm yeah I'll make I'm making a motion to make no decision on our membership I'll second so let me just repeat it to make sure I got it right M motion to make no decision on our last membership correct okay second yeah discussion bag I think we're not making any decision at all anywhere anytime Just the Way It Was Written
049I didn't hear what you said I'm sorry I said something bag that the motion was just we're not going to talk about anymore don't for make your own motion no I'm just this is the discussion portion right so where I was just saying I think it's very that there was no like we're going to put this off until then it's just hey we're not going to discuss this anymore so I just wanted to make that it it it sounds like we're not getting much out of it um but I I I guess I I didn't do the homework I should have done coming into the decision to be in informed um so that's why I I think just making no decision I mean is an appropriate motion okay any more discussion all in favor I
050I okay all not in favor no n combin the two okay motion fails is there another motion on the table Madam president I'd like to motion to not renew our WB membership for the upcoming year second that discussion all in favor I not in favor okay motion passes to uh not re up our was membership let me know when you're ready to move on I'm you're good yep I uh so we're moving on to the board president report um I just wanted to kind of give everyone a recap on how our all feeder school board meeting went last week at Arrowhead um so uh all the we uh Chris myself and uh Kim invited all the school boards that are feeder schools into Arrowhead to come together uh to discuss multiple things mainly like mainly
051just to start communication start collaboration um to try to break down that competition wall that we have um and be able to start benefiting one another um so a large part of the meeting was just kind of going around and everyone talking about their school and and getting to know what each school is about um and what they've been focusing on um there was talk on shared services uh a lot of talk on curriculum alignment um you guys were pretty much all here when we were talking about our strategic plan but really making sure that when the every kid from every feater school gets into into Arrowhead as a freshman that their staff is not able to identify what feeder School they've come from um and what that looks like in order to get that
052aligned um and then obviously lots of time was spent on uh unification consolidating the district obviously or consolidating all the feeder schools into one district with Arrowhead um that was contentious I guess we could say um definitely some very strong opinions from certain schools um against it um I I you know I think there's been some presentations on it in the past that I have not been part of I would really like to be able to be a part of one to have a better understanding um the process takes five to seven years is is is our understanding um so there's lots of moving pieces I think one of the concerns specifically from meron's school district was that um people are very happy with their property taxes and there's going to you know be losers
053and winners when you consolidate and that we just not going to be able to get all the municipalities to to vote on it and agree on it I completely disagree with that I think this is something that the community probably doesn't know about or understand at all um or how it could benefit them and I don't think property taxes are that drastically different where people would be in that much of an up over it um however I do think it's it's worth continued talks and getting getting the board members educated on it and then being able to educate the community on it so um I think we planned on having additional group meetings and even potentially breaking off into like subcommittees for different topics so um it was a it was a it was a
054start um I will say we were the only board that had all our board members there so that was awesome um and then I'm going to just let you guys speak if you want to say anything of how you felt it went yeah I was a little frustrated my consolidation discussion um yes idea the property tax difference seems a little silly it's it's great if you don't have don't have any building issues right but you know we have to do a big building repair you're also Distributing that across across a greater thing may you better utilize your facilities and things of that nature so um and I agree with Tiffany I mean I don't think I've lived here for 10 years and I've never heard a discussion on what's it look like how could that
055work you know what's what really happened so I you know I don't know that um anybody's super informed on what that could look like and you know are there savings are there better efficiencies so blav we can do things um you know one comment I made away from the consolidation thing is there certainly um and Tina or somebody said this earlier when we in the strategic planning that you know there was comments made that Arrowhead could determine could guess which school certain students had come from if they're good in one subject or another you kind of tell that Harland kids are good at this and Mar kids are good at this and they struggle at this um and that coordination you know so there was talk that you know there needs to be better coordination
056between Arrowhead and the theater schools but that structure is just so challenging because the curriculum director we talked about strategic plan is coming here to meet with us that's great but you know I don't want say he she that curriculum director she needs to do that she needs to have seven meetings to actually have that happen to influence next freshman class and have that happen and so I think it's good that we continue as school boards to meet together but you know what happens in the classroom has to happen with the superintendent meeting with each other curriculum directors and special ed directors and figuring out ways we can you know if if consolidation is really something that just can't happen it's just too hard or people are going to vote for it that's F there
057certainly better ways that we can share staff we do some of that with like our physical therapists and some other Specialists and things of that nature but there's certainly more opportunities to do some of that but it's it's very cumbersome to do that unless you know it's basically somebody's got to hire that person and then loan them out to somebody else and and you can figure out what that cost sharing split is and there's a 5050 but we know we really need them 70% of the time because we got more people in that issue and you know it's just I think there's a lot of inefficiencies with how this area is set up and we've talked about the competition amongst the schools and I don't competition is certainly healthy but you know you can you
058can keep those Community Schools as kind of labs to you know every every teacher is going to teach something different you're going to find people that come out of things about it and so you know I'd rather have our district sharing best practices i' rather think they got this recipe for something that keeps them better so they can steal our students right I there was some people talking about that we thank you for sending up all your students it's like well okay you know um so we won't need them you have anything how El it was to have those conversations there's open Future conversations regarding that and sharing and hopefully that feeds down a little to sometimes those superintendent meetings too there's a lot of competition a lot of strand so I think just being
059okay that at top they're talking maybe we can start talking down below too so I was Sly encouraged there and I heard some good feedback regarding how do we continue to push this downward not just up at top sharing conversations I think from a it was good to hear the curric discussion but also that I mean there was I didn't hear anybody reject consolidation outright I think there was everybody was it's worth a discussion it's worth investigating at least there wasn't uh no at least that was my take at least two but the other piece of that is the parallel path right so I mean consolidation takes everybody to get on board but at the same time that doesn't mean we throw all eggs in that basket and I think there was a commitment from
060every District to work closer together when it comes to sharing um contractors to sharing you know whatever it is BU building plan safety practices all that kind of stuff because we're all in the same transportation district uh assuming we're in a Consortium for Food Service as well no maybe there's an opportunity for a Consortium for food Ser right there's so many different areas of opportunity for us to get together with the other feeder districts and that only happens if the boards are talking to each other right we can't just rely on Tina to talk to other superintendents right the boards have to own that as well if we're actually going to be serious about cooperation and that I feel like can drive and influence decisions that we may want on consolidation right but you can't
061just expect to go to one meeting and say everybody's going to be on the same page but the collaboration on all those other things can then drive to a solution and I thought that was and big thank you to Tiffy orchestrating it and Chris and Kim um Kim yeah I mean there had been board members there for how many years like double digits 15 whatever and it had never happened before right and you guys said it on so I mean that's that's leadership so thank you yeah I was I was very happy that at least they were all in the same room at the same time and one really good thing that came out of it was and you guys were all there so you can tell me if I'm wrong but Tiffany did an
062amazing job at positioning our District as exceptional each school got an opportunity to share their successes and their challenges and the board president of each or the representative from each school gave that report and Tiffany did an amazing job of really sharing all the wonderful things that we do what our Administration does what our business office does and how healthy our finances are and how we've been very fiscally responsible and um it was just it was good and it was good to see too that many of the other districts were many not all of them were performing well also it was nice to see some have some Financial celebrations that were coming out of debt on the very next day for the first time so it was a very healthy meeting and I I hope
063that the tone can stay down a little on the consolidation talk I agree with you meals that if we walk before we run we're more likely to run together and and if we push hard for that consolidation right out of the gate I think the defenses will come up and we're going to beet with a lot of opposition I think the sharing of the service the curriculum the nice thing was everybody kind of agreed on that approach for the curriculum and driving students together at the same level at arol so that was very encouraging because then that that Fosters more board directive to their administrations to talk to one another about how we can do that together and I also think and I don't know if I should say this but I think with the
064consolidation there may be some natural steps that happen here in the next few years with some of these schools going to referendum and if they don't get their referendums pass what does that mean for those schools um so maybe there's many consolidations working up to the bigger consolidation and I spoke with Jeff gross about it this morning Tina maybe you know and you can confirm if I'm correct here but if there was ever a districtwide consolidation there would need to be eight referendums all simultaneous that would have to get accepted from all seven districts plus Arrowhead to agree to a Master consolidation is that correct I believe so I think so so that's what Jeff gross and I talked about this morning and so for that to happen that would take a lot of work
065I mean we're not talking overnight mhm and so I agree with you timy I think there might be more micro consolidation opportunities that could eventually lead to that at some point I think it might just naturally happen from more cooperation and conversation together but it was a very good meeting I was very happy with it and happy that everybody sounded like they want to come back and continue the conversation so that's very good for our entire Community very yeah nice to put faces to names didn't call me back now um so good stuff there uh and then most of you guys were sitting here for the Strategic plan but I just kind of wanted um for those who are watching and who haven't been to workshops to kind of give a little recap on on
066where we're at with the Strategic plan um so we have five official pillars fiscal forward or fiscally forward Wellness safety Community engagement and Student Success so these are our five pillars um which are our core areas of focus for the next uh one to three years um we've got program efficiencies and growth and revenue generating resources as uh big subtitles under fiscally forward we've got climate and culture and health and nutrition under Wellness we've got Transportation um safety plan review building and improvements and cyber security under safety communication marketing collaboration and Partnerships under Community engagement and portrait of a graduate student services academic curriculum and electives and creative programming under student successes so with that we have um goals that we're going to be trying to achieve and the admin is working towards creating benchmarks
067and kind of a road map as to how those goals will be achieved um they're getting worked into time time frames whether it be one year two years or three years um some of them will build upon one another so at this last Workshop tonight we as a board were prioritizing kind of what needs to happen first um we are working on a dashboard that's going to be created that will be accessible to to community members and parents online to see just exactly what those goals are under each pillar as well as be able to check in weekly or follow up on where we are with achieving those things um I think at the start of this process we as a board felt it was really important to make something that was achievable um but
068also um fluid and that we weren't going to get super locked in to something uh if circumstances changed within the school um and we there's room to to edit and and change basically so if you guys have anything to add no okay so that's kind of where we're at um next month we are going to be are we going to have a workshop by next month you probably so we'll have a workshop for next month um and we'll probably be discussing more specific benchmarks okay so that's it on the Strategic plan uh moving on to future board or Committee Action discussion items does anyone have anything for future board items okay PPC you guys look like you're scheduled for March 6th at 400m is that correct yes awesome uh Finance looks like you guys are
069scheduled for March 14th at 9:00 a.m. corre correct okay and then April Monday April 28th uh 5:45 will be our strategic plan workshop and then uh meeting to follow at 6:30 can I ask uh for a change to that dat um moving that to April 22nd Tuesday April 22nd um that has a lot to do with swearing in um but it also is personal um I I I'm hoping to not be the country that next week um per our um vote tonight as to whether or not we can move that to that Tuesday um so if we can have it on April 22nd um and do the swearing in on that date because it's prior to the 25th and then the seating of the board will happen in May it's the same timeline we devop
070last year I think it makes sense for us to stay consistent I dat works for me just logistically what's that mean at the April meeting will new board members participate no they get sworn in just so think back when I think when you came on WE swore you in and then the seating yeah happens in May the new seat so so the five of us will be the board members okay and for the workshop too cor should we also schedule the April PPC yes meeting yes T sure I was thinking April 10th at 4 just to stay again consistent with that um can I do I need a motion for the board meeting we can just change okay we can just change that okay uh I'm sorry tin what were you saying April 10th at
0714 does that work for you guys to do the PPC meeting sure does Chris that week I'm not available you are okay um I could do the week 14th 17th is fine for me P for that work for you still isn't that Easter no Easter I'm talking about Thursday yeah sorry March as well yeah I could do four o' on the 7 otherwise if that's too close to Easter if you need to move to Wednesday oh you got and volleyball we could have come come BL my man it's watching no I'm six grade I'm not playing we got a proposal to out of high school or middle school sports there the 17th Thursday the 17th 4 P.M kindness a I was like Friday if you can Chris I could do the 11 18 18th is
072Good Friday how is it no school day I'm generally fible she tell me it works for you like that 9 slot the 18 not you guys are school's Clos you kind out here right so maybe the 11th then April 11th what day of the week is April 11th Friday Friday 9:00 a.m. y okay and the board meeting got moved to the just one the 22nd 22nd Tuesday the 22 did you guys feel like 45 minutes was tight would you like to take that to 5:30 I I think so because is this would be pretty much our final one talking this is pretty much the final one then and then we would take action in the meeting to adopt correct that is correct so if that's the case and I'd want to give us at least
073an hour to make sure that we've got everything dialed in so that at the meeting then we can take action and end it out that' be great so that would be the workshop at 5:30 yes Tiffany goes off into the sunset with an approved strategic plan that's right okay okay that concludes well go to Executive session yes Madam president I'd like to motion to move into close session at 73 I can't see what it's 736 736 I'll second it roll call Chris yes I okay thank for the community and for the people here there is no there are no decisions so we won't be coming back [Music] by Jake I like your prototypes I'll be in touch okay thank you