001e and join me in the pled AG Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all I looked the way all right I want to welcome everyone to the March 2025 Action meeting of the Board of Education First up before we have citizens request to speak we have recognitions and we have winter Athletics so I'll turn it over to Tim chuckle hi thank you for having us today um even though winter sports are wrapping up we have a busy night tonight Mr Moen is with uh Spring sport coaches and parents uh for getting ready for the spring Sports uh we also have all the all the student athletes here speaking and um intermural Basketball Championships
002tonight down at will River so uh we really appreciate uh you taking the time to uh hear about their Great accomplishments so um couple things before um I get done here and let them speak about everything that's going on uh we have just some recognition for our top senior GPA which is 3.7 uh 3.75 or higher um also Conference champions um state qualifiers and then of course we have some state championships over there but I know these uh young men and women want to speak to you about that and so without further Ado I'm going to I we're going to go through the slides and we'll start with boys basketball so thank you again hey guys thanks for having us um I'm Oscar Gros Sam selyy I'm Tyler lard and I'm Aiden Jameson um so
003we're the only team that is not done with our season yet um but our season has been filled with a lot of ups and downs uh overall our record uh wasn't amazing we were 16 and eight uh which is over 500 um it's definitely something to be proud of but we're in a very good section so we didn't get um a home game for playoffs coming up we had a very close team this year um it was fun to be around everybody everybody got along very well um which kind of helped us find some success on the court um but we also handled losses very well together um a couple couple accomplishments we had was we were conference Runner UPS um we had a winning record of 16 like Tyler said we couple up and
004downs but still had a winning record which is nice um just staying dedicated and working hard every day in practice um it gets tricky um in the winter the season gets long but um and then last first round of playoffs upcoming um yeah so that takes place in Stevens Point on Friday so yep thank you all right thank you I presume this is girls basketball yes hi I'm Ella wolf and I'm Maggie McConnell and so our season was very successful and we had a lot of Team growth um we did have like a couple injuries and illnesses over the year and but we stuck together and we played really well against like all competition um some of our accomplishments uh we got second in conference um um and then 177 was our record for the
005regular season uh we created good team chemistry this year we had a lot of fun together and um we just played well together and had lots of fun on on and off the court uh the first round of playoffs happened over the weekend uh we lost in the regional final but it was a close game and it was uh good to end our season with a home game so yeah thank you [Applause] thank you I'm Ashley I'm Gracin and I'm Chelsea and our season was very memorable this year as it was filled with a lot of challenges that we grew through as a team and we were able to overcome them which led to a lot of success this year for us um some of our accomplishments at the University of Minnesota competition we are
006awarded the kasner kick Duan award for our community service this was the first year we developed a game day team and that JV game day team won Grand Champions at the Stevens Point competition our varsity team had an undefeated season throughout all seven competitions um we are now the 2025 State CH Champions uh we have the highest we scored the highest that Hudson ton has ever scored and we outscored all coed and college teams at State all right good job hi I'm Kate Anderson hi I'm Lily and this season was a successful season we had a team of 15 girls and exceeded our goal of scoring of 136 uh we scored a 140.5 five at sectionals this past weekend and we placed third three individuals are advancing to State and we had four new members
007join our team including one exchange student and our summer camp had over 70 kids this year so it's like an annual camp we do each year um we had a few different fundraisers like Chipotle and Jonesy and we had a successful pink out meat raising over $1,000 for the Rhinos [Applause] Foundation hello I'm Brook sadh hold I'm Joey score I'm Mike ma um our 2024 25 season was filled with many challenges overall it was a huge season for growth and uh in the end we were 15 and8 up some of our accomplishments uh we had a winning record we were second in our BRC uh some people got achievements was Henry steel first team Mike Mau Eric Palm second team and Brooks ater hle Joyce car will M and Kane sprider and Owen pressure for
008honorable honorable mention um we got four seed in our section which was kind of lower than we wanted but we battled losing 13 seniors from last year which we did well with um we also did a successful chicken and corn feed over the summer raising around 15,000 if you've never been you should go and then um we also had a successful cancer game raising around $122,000 for Rhino's Foundation all right great job and I have been to the corn feed so that's it's a good time hi I'm Brooke monin and I'm Aon Madigan um the girls hockey 20242 season uh was unlike any before um we had a it was a huge season for growth we had a very young team so and teamwork also uh we raised over $1,100 for uh with the boys
009team for the Rhinos foundation and had three uh big Rivers conference all conference players as well as many volunteer events and fundraising with County Market with the boys um like grocery bagging trye for free food drive meet Raffles and barbecues um we pushed her only having four seniors and we continue to be the only non- coop in the state of Wisconsin for girls hockey and we grew closer as a team and played well [Applause] together I have another state champion coming to the microphone right I'm Beth PE I'm Tori I'm Sammy and I'm Lucy we are four out of the five uh senior captains on the red airs dance team this year our season started out in May where we started conditioning and working on our technique following this spring came summer where we attended
010the Just for kicks Minnesota dance camp in Brainard Minnesota it was there where we actually placed first place first time going there first place for our home routine after the summer we started learning our comp routines four of them and we attended the football games if you saw us on the sidelines and in the halftime performances moving on to our winter season we competed in monomon Little Shoot and then one of my favorite weekends of this year was when we went to the U ofm to perform at best of the best with um National renowned teams and then on the Saturday after that we competed in big Rivers's conference and then we also performed in the Adina invite in Minnesota and this is the reason why this is one of my favorites is because we
011because of the unique location we're in so close to Minnesota is we get to be involved in both the Wisconsin and Minnesota dance sides of the world and then we also competed at regionals and state um state was super fun this year it was unique because we got to bring three routines this year we brought kick Jack and palm which we haven't brought Palm in over a decade so that was really cool and at State we added to our state championship collection um and we got first in Kick fourth in jazz and Ninth in Palm okay and then under our accomplishments you'll notice the team culture so we had 15 seniors this year that's the biggest senior class that our program has ever had and that's half of our team and that could have been
012a challenge to us but I thought that it was pretty successful and it made our team really close we had a lot of great leadership on this team great [Applause] job hi I'm Isaac McKenzie and I'm Nate Zimmerman I'm Brady wapa I'm Tyler hay and I'm Ben Weaver um we had a great season um we were undefeated again for the fourth year in a row um we swept conference and sectionals and we were able to send some people to State um our graduating class has not lost a single dual meet conference meet or sexual meet um some accomplishments we've had uh we were husky invite champ ions uh conference and sectional Champions um we just started our Middle School summ Dive Club today um and we had almost a 100 Kids join so that's looking
013good for the next few years and then this year at State we were able to have seven qualityi seven qualifying events which uh between two relays and five individuals and then Brady here was able to take fourth place in the 100 breaststroke all right great [Applause] job I'm Liam nitel and I'm Dawson Kimber uh 2024 25 was another pretty good season for us every event uh we had the biggest teams and the most fans we didn't always place the highest but we we were there competing uh we had six individual sectional Champs and seven individual state qualifiers three Place winners being Liam who got his third state title um uh myself and Natalie ceter and then Liam yeah Liam NS was a three-time state champ Natalie ceter became a four-time state place winner Liam set
014the career pin record career takedown record and joined the 200 win club and then Dawson joined the 150 career win club and both JD and Natalie both joined the hunter career win club and then our coach Chris Hansen got his 300th career dual wh so Liam is there anyone else that has three state championships from Hudson are you the first I don't know not sure well he is the first all right all right great job good [Applause] job all right thank you uh all the participants great job this year you did a proud thank he wants to's he has something to tell you ask talk to the man you know I'm be out of so I think Dave over there be the one making the call wow on the camera thank you those are rare
015those are rarely called more than 24 hours in advance but it is March and it is Wisconsin so anything can happen all right that concludes our uh recognition so now we have citizens request to speak we have two uh do we have somebody that's got a phone out for timing got the three minutes first up will be Addison filiatro from Hudson speaking about center-based programming um hi I'm Addison and I'm kindly asking the district to have more parent and staff Outreach on removing center-based Elementary programming for autism and intellectual disabilities um I understand part of the reason for this was the equity audit felt it was inequitable but I think that's taking it out of context because students with disabilities are not shoved into a corner like in the 80s and 90s but are highly
016integrated into their classes and are providing many supports throughout the day um from having a child that has experienced this programming it is life-changing and I can imagine what it would be like for him um teachers and support staff are highly trained North Hudson and Willow respectively to effectively respond and teach students with intellectual disabilities and autism we have District Consultants but these teachers also have a full case load of very high need students that deserve their attention so unless we're going to change this and have them be full-time Consultants how are we going to train staff at other buildings so students with higher needs get the equit Equitable education they deserve um my other question would be whether or not we have reached out to all families that this would impact because I had
017just first heard about this a few weeks ago um do the families want this many districts in the surrounding areas do actually have Center based Elementary programming and it benefit students because of the specialized training that these teachers receive um and all students are general education students first and I'm hopeful that there will be more discussion Evol revolving around this versus a kneejerk reaction and I also wanted to thank you for putting the referendum out because it has been as far as I've talked to many people pretty positively received so thank you for voting for that all right thank you for your comments next up we have Kristen Hansen uh she wants to talk about the ref renom and EOS short for executive orders oh yeah okay uh that crew that was in here first
018of all amazing talent takes a lot of really hard work to be that dedicated to any craft that you love so I just really admire those athletes that were just in here and my family personally loves to attend a lot of the sporting events in Hudson and we're really proud um to do that so anyway so as it pertains to the referendum for April 1st um I would like to know the total amount of Interest being paid over the term of the loan and if that interest cost has been factored into the estimates of the median property values that have been circulated by the district um and also what the Defence fees are if not to term and then secondly was hoping that a status could be provided um on the steps the district is
019taking to actively ensure it is comp complying with the recent executive orders and dear colleague letter from the Federal Department of Education I do think it's critical that parents and community members understand and know that that the district is taking it seriously um we don't want Dei to become cloaked in new words and phrases like cultural transformation or culture of belonging engaging equities um Dei no matter the form um I think is a vehicle that steers away from Excellence towards mediocrity by letting characteristics override competence skill and Merit we need to focus we need the focus to remain on academics and we want high standards to be set and per performance to be achieved by all students whether it's founded or not many are concerned about agendas influencing our children and I think it could
020have an impact on the success of the referendum which I know we're all really concerned about um we've seen it across the country that schools have become the battleground of the culture war and it isn't appropriate for our children to be the guinea pigs of these agendas we need to focus on the academic and educate them so they're prepared for the workforce and to positively contribute to their communities the district is doing a lot of incredible things and I want those things to continue not only for the sake of our kids but for our community our state our country who are the recipients of the product that we develop thank you thank you I think that concludes the uh request to speak and we thank you for your comments now uh next up we have
021have reports so first up is Elementary media digital citizenship and coding so turn over to Dave excellent thank you very much Mr President and yep that's a mouthful there's a lot a lot in this presentation so back in the day we'd refer to Media centers as libraries and the change to the term media center it's not just semantics it really is significant they do a lot more than just circulate books that is an important part of what they do but there's a lot more to it um the term digital cens ship you'll learn a little bit more about tonight super important concept just and I'm I'm really going to overly simplify this but helping kids understand how to be respectful and safe while using technology obviously critically important um and there's a lot more to
022it so we're going to bring up the experts so we have Amanda McCarthy who leads all things it in the district and Sarah enberg one of our expert media specialist at the elementary level take it away oh usually I just have a loud voice okay as long as the button is up well in it yeah okay technolog is hard so um the other members of the media team couldn't be here tonight but I really wanted to take some time to recognize them Angela is uh new to the Hudson School District but she is the media specialist at Ep Rock Maddie is at Holton in she's a shared specialist so she's part-time art part-time media uh Sarah obviously at Hudson Prairie and then Julie Warren is shared between North Hudson and Willow River and Lauren Matson
023is at River Crest and the work that they do really is remarkable to come alongside our classroom teachers and impact reading achievement and build that love of reading for kids and so one of the things we brought to you today was uh our statistics around circulation oh that's the next slide um our kidss are seen by our media Specialists go ahead Tim so it's 35 minutes every week for media and that's where they do the Library part of the work and then 35 minutes every other week to do coding and you'll see what both of those look like through tonight so this is our circulation statistics this is just the 2425 school year and this is just our elementary libraries so we have circulated 40 over 48,000 thousand books um in kids hands that's the
024out the in the back on the shelf and back out again and so the work that our media team does teaching kids holding class in the library and getting these books turned so kids can engage with books that they really love is important um to building our reading achievement and building the love of reading for kids so these are some of the new books every year uh we are allocated funds through uh common School funds where our libraries are able to purchase more materials and update materials so these are just a few of the examples of some of the new books that we've added to our libraries you can see it's a great mix of fiction and non-fiction books and uh High interest books that kids want to read so we're going to start with
025digital citizenship what is it um it is like Dave said it is the skills the knowledge that kids need to be successful in an online environment and as you know that online environment is changing very rapidly and so we want our elementary kids to be equipped with a set of skills so when they get to middle school and we hand in that Chromebook one to one they know how to operate well in that online environment understanding the rights and responsibilities of that privilege and so it actually starts in kindergarten um building go ahead Tim building this set of skills so when we talk about digital citizenship we're talking about responsible use we're talking about safety online we're talking about what does it mean to have a digital footprint when you put something out there into
026the world it doesn't actually go away and kids need to understand the impact they have in that online environment we build their critical thinking skills and then we talk about digital etiquette what is and isn't okay how do you show kindness online so it starts in kindergarten at a very low level this is your device lots of kids come to us having experience with tablets and so we get them into Chromebook and there's quite a transition getting them onto that Chromebook especially bless the media people getting children logged in using their not a touch screen touchpad it's an adventure for sure um but we help them to understand how do you do that what is appropriate use on this device and then as we move through first and second grade you can read through that
027but we talk about what is it isn't safe to share online when you have a concern or question how do you ask for help what is private information what isn't private information um and so we really build their skill set so by the time we get through fifth grade kids have an understanding of what is an online identity when do I seek out an adult's help what is fair use what is copyright and so as they get to middle school they're well prepared to use their device safely and securely so these are some examples of what we just talked about the um one on the left is a fifth grade interactive pair deck lesson which I really enjoy teaching because it gives you a negative statement that could be online and we ask the students
028to work as a team and come up with how could that be more positive so in this example they're saying no offense but your handwriting is a mess and they it's a challenge for fifth graders to come up with something positive because their inclination sometimes is to come up with something funny but what would you say in that um world that would turn this negative into a positive POS and continue that forward because that can cause issues when they say something negative and it becomes a bigger problem and I really like the parck interaction with this because I can go back and see what they were writing and they really get engaged with it and then on the other side we have a third grade lesson where we really talking about passwords and building those
029strong passwords like we give them a password at the elementary level and we're really talking about what does that consist of and why do we need that and it kind of leads up from that kindergarten where we're talking about the personal information how your password kind of protects that go into the next slide so then we go into coding um so our goal is just to develop that problem solving and really explore some of those computational things um that we see them every other week uh you can go to the next slide in K And1 we use code.org um to teach coding and K1 is kind of more of a shared experience uh where we're practicing directionals and thinking about moving left moving right or moving north south east west I guess is more kindergarten
030in first grade um when we do a lot of that together on the board but I do also give them opportunities where we have some robots and tools that they can use and apply those and then in second grade is a big shift for them because previously they could move north south east or west on the Playfield on code.org but then now they have to turn left or turn right so really thinking about those kind of skills and putting yourself in a different perspective and then also moving forward um on the next slide we in third and fourth grade we start talking more about functions um where you're building a code and then telling it to run that function so doing two separate things and then when we get into fourth and fifth grade um
031we talk more about um conditionals and then in fifth grade we talk about variables which is a challenge because now you're taking that math and you're um applying that to your coding and on the next page um I have an example of a student project where they're using variables and it's the challenge for them is coming up with the label for their variable because it's asking you to create a game and or sometimes it says what is your name and so they put their name in there instead of the variable label would be name but this student um they were asked to create their own clicker game and so you can see they made all these Sprites on there and as you click there's the green things are the functions so as you go Tim
032can play the game back there and when he clicks on the Sprites things change and they start disappearing so learning how to code your program to make things happen one at a time because most of the time when we start that and then usually it says your score yes at the very end so you can go back to the so that all part of that code that they wrote and last week we had some students with robots so I have um robots and I challenged a student to make a minion out of that and they had to get their rulers out and they measured the size they wanted to be on the white paper and then they wrote the program to make a shape of a minion and it was just it was really exciting
033for me to give them a challenge and see them accomplish that on their own because a lot of times we just have more guided practice whereas now they're taking that and running with it so that's great yes any questions Mr President members yes um I have a fourth grader and I just love the mix of what you have going on with media and coding I love that they're still going into the library and checking out books and learning how my kids a book Hound so like that's fantastic but she talks regularly about how coding is one of her favorite things and it's like there's some complex stuff going on early I I would have a very hard time doing it myself over the last few years that fifth grade curriculum has really changed like adding
034the variables but I feel like our students have been more prepared because we've been doing this since kindergarten so by the time they get to fifth grade they are ready for some of those challenges we're talking too about connecting our elementary kids with our high school kids so we have kids at the high school that are programming drones using coding and so our for our element kids to see some of these real life applications it's not just clicking pigs there are real life applications and jobs that people are doing when they're able to code and so we think that's important and we do like a big hour of code thing in it's an international thing in December and really talking about you know think about all those things in your life that are AI controlled
035coding controlled that you don't even think like your smart speakers and your thermostats and all those things so they can really start thinking about where this could take them thank you right any other questions I would just say that some board members uh Kate me um that that extra step of authentication I mean you know you lost me at login so uh I know Tim will roll his eyes but I'm I'm actually I'm on today so but it's been a struggle but U well for our Littles we have a scan card so if you need maybe board members could get those yeah we can have that conversation and uh Swedish fish as a prompt so thank you can I Mr President can I ask a quick question about the copyright piece how do you teach
036that to the age group that you are teaching to uh typically we talk more about the copyright fair use in like fifth grade but in third grade I start teaching them like we've been researching like their favorite animal so we've been talking about the websites now you can just copy and paste that MLA format right into whatever note-taking document we're doing so we're really kind of introducing it there and then we use uh Brain Pop as one of our resources and they really talk about you know what is the law it doesn't necessarily go into specifics but how you can use it as a student 30 seconds of a song um images and text as long as you site your source so we talk a little bit about plagiarism and so that they're prepared when
037they go to middle school that you're going to have to have some of these things on your research that you're doing Mr President one more quick question how do you communicate this with the parents because I mean obviously Megan's a parent so she can you know talk about how that's impacted her and her family but I mean this is many years ago for when I had an elementary student so I I would think the parents are really curious on this process and where things are going so Elementary media encoding is actually something that's reported on the report card and so there's information that'll go home as part of that yeah typically along with the report card there is the statements about what um they're kind of learning but yeah trying to share it out on
038Social Media stuff and sharing it with Tracy too yeah and I think it depends on the school sometimes there's Media stuff that's highlighted in the newsletter that goes out from the building but it just kind of depends on what's happening in the building and gets highlighted at the time great work exciting stuff y all right great job thank you for your report next up uh actually three reports from Nick we'll start with the construction update Nick all right I'll be kind of quick on this considering you just had an update a week ago um with our our board work session we're so closely uh tied um as you can kind of work your way through uh North Hudson is continuing to move along um gym floor has been poured if you keep sliding down uh
039so that space is going to turn out to be a nice space they're currently working on filling in that wall on the end there um you can kind of see what it looks like on the outside so they'll get it uh they'll get it filled in now that the floor is poured start to see some of that Clash that are getting ready to be turned over in phase two at North Hudson uh ceilings are quite a bit lower than in uh phase one uh you can see how the projectors are basically at the top this next classroom this is a special education space this has full spectrum LED lighting so you can kind of see how um they're able to uh turn the lights to different colors so you don't see those covers over the
040lights anymore like you used to probably see uh their fire hazard and uh it's a problem and so depending on certain certain children need certain color lights helps them calm some other issues uh certain special education rooms have these we've had them at the high school for a while in some of the Middle School rooms as well uh keep going down you can see them pouring the Middle School uh gym or sorry uh North Hudson gym floor and that process uh if you keep working your way through Ep Rock has started phase two at Ep Rock um we've started the demolition of the classrooms you can see they're kind of drab when you take all the lights and ceilings out of them uh one of the challenges we've run into is the walls between the
041classrooms don't go all the way up to the bottom of the deck which creates sound issues the reason they didn't have sound issues before is because they had three layers of ceilings up there uh so now we are working on a solution to uh extend the walls between the classrooms up to the deck so that uh you're not essentially hearing everything that's going on in the classroom next to us uh as you work through it uh but the demo is in full full swing there's there's no asbest um abatement in this part of the project so they do when they do asbest abatement they do it in off hours as we've talked about but they didn't need to do it in this part of the project um but as you can see things are are
042moving along if you keep going down a little bit further this was the old display cases outside the music room this is another fun surprise for us take the display cases out but as you can see instead of them using the same type of glazed uh block everywhere um when they built the building they only put it in place places you could see at the time and so it prohibits it prevents us from having you know getting to raise the ceilings much in the hallways but also as we go to rebuild these um display cases that Old Clay block kind of crumbles it doesn't it doesn't hold up like uh um a regular CMU block so we're working through some solutions and options there with the uh with Mark and Johnson they've been great through
043that process um you can start to see this is just an exit out of the building with some temp walls uh as we kind of work our way through uh Ep Rock Elementary School start to see the more pictures of bathrooms um so the bathrooms that that did just open up then we get into the Middle School uh they're they've moved upstairs you know again uh they've gotten the carpet out of those uh spaces and they're uh got the lockers out of those spaces um ceiling tiles and getting ready to get the carpet out of the classrooms um and and getting some of that stuff done so those spaces should to turn out quite nice uh they they do look pretty drab when you uh take the lighting out and just have them in demo
044progress so um middle schools is moving all of the projects are moving on time right now um you know there's different challenges obviously uh Ep Rock and North Hudson you know parts of the building are shut off and so means you have to go around other areas uh to get around them uh but the staff has done a really nice job in dealing with that uh nor North Hudson's moving in I think was it Wednesday Bonnie is that right into phase two sets of classrooms and then starting next week they will move in uh they'll start demoing phase three the middle school and Hudson Prairie is actually going to be without power and without water for two days next week but spring break so we knew that they have to do a switch over uh
045new electrical panel um switch over and uh when the building was built they didn't put many shut offs in for the domestic water uh so anytime you want to do work work in the bathrooms you have to shut the whole building down which is a real challenge uh and so they're going to take advantage of those two days and put in some additional shut offs so that as we have additional work that's done in those uh in the building we're able to isolate those bathrooms so the whole building doesn't have to go without water uh when we when we have issues and so uh the pool shuts down I think April 1st and it'll be shut down for two months um it is getting new ventilation equipment in there um along with uh destratification fans
046and and things along those lines um and New Heating units for both the water and the uh in the air in there and so it takes about two months some people say why does it take so long um it takes us a few days just to drain the pool uh because we can't just the city doesn't want us to dump it just down the sewer um so we actually dump it uh it gets pumped outside uh into the creek behind the building but we can't pump it out there until after we've neutralized the chlorine in the water uh so that we don't have big fish kills or anything like that so all the water has to be neutralized and then it gets pumped out and then you know when it's all said and done it
047takes us about three or four days to fill it back up and then it takes after it's filled up with about 38 degree water it takes us about four or five days to heat it up to where you're not going to be having hypothermia by jumping in it um so you know just to empty it and to refill it and to heat up takes like two and a half of the eight weeks that's out of service and so then they will work to get all the other work done there's some tile repairs that have to happen uh and some different things and then uh they have to build some Scaffolding in the pool which is not a flat bottom you been in the pool it kind of Slants so they create some challenges so they
048can put in the destratification fans and some of the other duct work and things like that so that's where we're at with construction we're going to continue to kind of push through um as challenges come up we keep you a breast of the situation but um any questions on the construction just a go ahead just a quick one um did we have any events planned or meets planned I should say at the pool that we had to reschedule or try to relocate space for I know we talked to them um I think last fall so they knew that this was coming so I think it's been pretty good that they knew to go out so we waited till the high school season was over and then um you know it does our our biggest renter
049is Moo um they basically it's our only renter in the pool so um they know they had to go elsewhere get other pool time so Bob Mr President so uh Nick as far as Ep Rock um is that a that fix for the walls not going all the way up to the ceiling I mean for me you pop ceiling tiles here you're going to see all the way to ceiling you're going to see firecock with every hole that goes through from room to room so is that a code violation is that going to be an expensive fix or um it's not it's uh so it's it's going to be it's a sprinklered building so we won't have uh some of those issues so part of the renovation is sprinkler and the whole building um no
050it's it's more of a sound it's going to be a sound issue now um when the building was built it those fire codes didn't exist you remember you're talking 50 years ago um and so uh yeah so I mean what I think what the plan is between rooms is they'll be building uh metal studded walls drywall they'll put insulation in in those walls and then another set of drywall in order to try to get the sound from transferring through um but uh yeah three ceilings does a pretty nice job to um keep the sound now but that's well I know that's this is what you get when you try and renovate a building that everyone thinks is solid but they cut Corners when they did it and save yeah I mean I think um you
051know and we knew this was going to be the case that's part of why one of the options was to go start from scratch R is I know everybody thinks old buildings are wonderful and things like that but uh you definitely are at the mercy of what other people did like North huts and the ceiling Heights um I mean they're really low and there's not there's not much you can do about it it's just it is what it is um same thing with Windows and and things along those lines so yep any other questions okay all right uh referendum report uh it's just uh couple things want to remind people we have a referendum coming up on April 1st um it's for an operational referendum it is uh for up to six years or uh
052for six years up to $5 million uh to be able to increase the uh essentially the revenue limit up to $5 million in any given year it doesn't compound it's not five in the first year 10 and then 15 and 20 it is purely just up to five million in any given Year and that would be annual revenue coming in so there's no borrowing involved uh with this referendum um you know we talked about as it you know how it pertains and what the district would be spending the uh funds on this would be basic operations of the district and we talked uh talked about it in this flyer uh we have a little bit later in the meeting an opportunity talk about um other Municipal meetings Jamie brought that up uh and so I'll
053talk about that a little bit later uh but we've had a lot of good informational meetings people have asked us to come speak I think Tracy's working with Trinity and St Pats they want us to come and speak and provide them with some information as well related to the uh their parent groups related to the uh referendum and so we've had pretty good turnout uh when we've done the parent group meetings and things like that so much better than we've had in the in the past so uh really looking forward to uh hopefully getting to the other side of this but um that is that is coming up we just want to make sure that we have that and there's going to be more discussion a little bit later about other government meetings and then
054the last uh report that I have is community conversation followup uh when we did our community conversation back in April of 2024 one of the things that we told them is we would schedule a followup a year later as to what have we done with the information they provided and what does that look like our goal is to give the board a a status update at the uh March 24th work session kind of where we're at as it relates to our strategic planning based on the feedback that we got from the uh Community C ation uh back in April of 2024 and then uh inviting any of those members back or anybody from the community back to be able to share with them this is kind of the direction we're heading or you know we're
055presenting to the board of of the direction we should head as a district based on the feedback that they gave us and an opportunity to get some uh feedback from them a very similar format to what we did in January where we'll break into groups uh we'll use Google forms in order to get that feedback that works out really really well for us to collect a lot of feedback from a lot of different folks um just uh as we start to look at prioritizing uh the different things on our strategic plan uh what things need to happen sooner rather than later so just wanted to put that plug out there Mr President yeah Megan Nick I I totally remember but just in case others are wondering where is it at and what time for this
056Tracy it starts at six :0 and it will be at the middle school in the multi-purpose room just where the other one was yep thank you and I believe we'll also uh we have a reminder postcard that's going out as it relates to the upcoming referendum and we're going to add that to that postcard as well so everybody in the district would get a reminder that we have this opportunity for people to provide some feedback as well so all right that was my reports now I think it turn over to Andrew okay so I have uh the initial look um forward for the 25 26 school year so we roll everybody up we also as part of our process in terms of the elementary uh Elementary buildings we put all the boundary exception kiddos that
057are currently on a boundary exception back to their home school so that we really figure out where our um class sizes are at this moment in time again it's a moment in time it'll change a lot going forward but couple things that we definitely wanted to call to your attention um is that our kindergarten numbers are very low um the lowest that I'm aware that we've ever been at this time of year typically we're much up much more um frequently in the 280s um we're at 243 um so this is quite a bit lower than what we've what we expected based on 4K enrollment this current year and then um again based on our practice up or our presedent up to this point so there's is quite a bit of green in terms of being
058under class siiz guidelines for k um I know principles are working really hard to verify these numbers um and at the same time we wanted to make you guys aware uh based on this um moment right now we are down four sections likely we will be down only three sections um as we're moving forward because again K tends to fluctuate the one class uh or the one area that were pink not even red but pink is the Hudson Prairie third grade where we're at 27 um 27 28 um so other than that we're solidly in the green in the other areas any questions on that before we look at High School Middle School Kate has a question okay I'm not sure if now is the best time to say it but I just wanted to
059review because we talked about it at the work session um the 202 graduating class of 2025 you said was 460 yeah right around there give me one second and I can 46767 so I mean I I want the public to know know that certainly numbers are dropping if our kindergarten class is coming in at 243 versus our graduating class going out is 467 that's an enormous amount of students that are no longer coming into our district so I know sometimes it's like is that really happening or um are they being transparent that those are the numbers and you even look at the middle school high school numbers as well we solidly 360s 380s um and then High School higher than that like you can see the trend but even just on this document where we're
060fourth and fifth is 350s then pretty 320s 321 and then 301 for K that is going to be first grade next year right there's it's not a great Trend um in terms of enrollment yes and and also along with what Kate is saying I think you a lot of people will say oh they always start out with low and then the grow over the years and we'll get back up to that there there's no real indicators whether it's cost of living or inflation or that that points that there's going to be you know more uh growth in this in this community that like we used to enjoy yes and exactly that and looking at where we're 360s in the middle school they were 350s you know 340s in elementary there's not a massive growth you
061know that in migration piece just is not occurring like it had historically and I know Nick has a lot of data in that regard that he's um shared in the past yeah so if you look at just our our our current 12th graders now that that number says it's it's 467 however in there's currently 438 non-open enrolled kids in 12th grade so just our current our current students when they were in kindergarten they started at uh 411 so so we had 411 kids in kindergarten yeah 12 years ago um 13 years ago yep uh so current 11th graders um so there's not this huge number of growth I guess is what I'm saying so current 11th graders we're saying it's 372 um not including open enrollment ends these are just resident students in kindergarten they
062were 352 so there's only been a 20 student growth of Resident students um you know 323 for this year's 10th grade they're currently 385 four as was you know 60 kid jump uh so I think that's the the piece that people just have to understand our most recent capture rate is sitting at 85% we've fluctuated anywhere from 85 to 89% over the last 12 years is our is our capture rate Mr President yes um relatedly I was just reading an article on birth rates and I think it's 1.6 per woman is the average uh birth rate right now in the US and I don't even know maybe Wisconsin's lower because we're seeing our population age faster so it's um you know not unique to us not unique to Wisconsin not unique you know it's happening
063across the country and in many countries so it's um you know I I'd like to believe there's going to be this influx of you know 200 families moving here for kindergarten but there also aren't the homes it's very difficult and looking at the middle school high school numbers too um it is um a great bump that we just got in ninth grade um where the projected enrollment went from 377 December to 405 because of the private school kids coming in um and that pushes us above 400 we're not close to 400 thereafter so hey can you go back to the prior graphic um just with the enrollments um in the schools and you we've talked about this a little bit before but if you know people are wondering you know what impact enrollment we've already
064talked about the loss of Revenue but also how you recapture that Beyond closing schools because we're looking at a number projected for next year of 1,875 that's a th000 under what our capacity is a, um so it's not just we could close two schools we'd still have capacity uh at the four remaining schools if but I'm looking at it's an average of one to three sections in every one of those grades where we see green where we wouldn't have it if we were able to redistrict reboundary the district and consolidate in four buildings and you look at the two bigger buildings with Ep Rock and Hudson Prairie um yes it's more it's lighter green right like it's a little bit more consistent because once you're looking between three and four sections compared to two and
065three sections it's a game Cher it it helps us be able to um uh you know uh deal with the fluctuations um and have class sizes within the ranges easier it's just it's tough when there's only a couple sections but it if this concept of going from six to four the conversation nobody wants to have yet um but it's it's coming I mean the only thing that would stop that would be all of a sudden 400 kids enrolling in 4k next year um so I don't think that's going to happen and if you've got Ep Rock uh Willow and River Crest it's four section buildings North Hudson would be a three section then correct is what it is now yes yes yes I believe it okay but still we'd easily be able to handle all
066grades and even still have some green at 15 um available sections per grade yeah yes I believe so all right any other questions or comments all right then uh that concludes reports to move on to the action portion of the meeting uh first up is consent agenda items and uh I would ask that we have a motion consistent with the expenditures um that's on the board now Mr President yes Molly I move approval of the consent items and that the chief financial and operations officer be authorized to pay bills in the amount of 4,250 second all right all those in favor signify by saying I I I those oppos say nay the eyes hav it before you um click off of that you want to scroll down to the receipts that's says 20,733 is that
067pretty typical for for this time of year then we received our state aid payment so that's a big chunk that came in okay and our tax L the first payments came in all right so that's just a reminder of why we carry so much in fund balance this happens to be one of the times that we got a big shot in the arm but prior to this we didn't have that kind yeah we don't see receipts for most of the months out of the year right correct so okay thank you for explaining that and then next up is attendance at other governmental meetings um this is one um I asked for this to be put on the agenda because actually talked to I won't call out the township but I had a town board member
068say you know we have um other school districts that have given a report come to us and talk um we don't see anybody from from Hudson and part of that is because historically the first nine years plus that Nick was in the district and before that with our previous superintendent I think that had been going another nine years before that so almost two decades we had a meeting of the three townships The Village the city and the county talk about what's going on in the district so we didn't need to go to these Town meetings but now that we've gotten rid of um what's our acronym it was the IDC it's the igac igac but we didn't get rid of it um the municipalities are not necessarily getting along and so they're refusing to meet
069with each other so I just want to make sure that's yeah it's not the school district school district didn't get rid of it they just have let us know that they don't have a desire to meet with each other so so now we have to go out and meet with them and so they said well if you want to come and talk during public comments now one thing we do need to check might be something Nick Tracy or I could split up make phone calls um because I've got some experience calling these Town clerks and saying can anybody talk during public comments um I've learned that city of Hudson and town of St Joe and Village of North Hudson all three of those do not allow candidates for public office to talk but uh they
070didn't say anything about you know School District um you know members or the school district coming in and giving a short report so we could call and talk and see if that would be allowed um I'd be willing to go to uh let's see town of Hudson tomorrow night um you know I think I could do do that one uh does anybody else have time tomorrow night to go to town of Hudson I don't know I'm a resident there so uh you wouldn't I guess get excluded necessarily if you're a non-resident but um just to be safe I can do town of Hudson tomorrow night I can do town of Troy on March 20th and then we'll check for the others um do we have a North Hudson resident y all right thought so well
071Molly since you are a North Hudson resident you have the in if you want to volunteer can you go tomorrow night and Vol all right yes I'd love to do that thank you all right thanks for volunteering so that would leave town of St Joe and city of Hudson do we have any board members on in those jurisdictions well I am but I do not qualify because I am a candidate and I'm going to be on vacation but I can email the Clerk and find out if it can be anybody I could reach out and I I can do the info okay great so Megan will research uh town of St Joe and uh that leaves Bob as our city resident that's right I'd be happy just delighted to speak coun all right excellent so
072I think we're going to cover it but it's it is important to to get this out and see if there's folks that have questions at those meetings um but it's all part of our effort to make sure that people are aware of all the things that are on the ballot including this and again we're just encouraging folks to be aware be knowledgeable and vote all right any other questions on that otherwise we'll move down to legislative lobbying efforts and uh this is something that we've done at least we've discussed at least one meeting a year but I think we're going to start discussing it at more more meetings um this is a draft of a letter that Megan started we talked about it at the work session last week and it looks like uh I
073briefly was able to review that draft uh does say draft two so you Incorporated some of the things that we discussed Megan do you have other other questions does any board members have anything to add to this I would agree with your note that we'd want to send you know virtually identical letter but send separately rather than address it to both of them representativ zman and Senator stel and I think I got all the recommendations for additional things to add so sort of done an umbrella like modernize this formula please it's not working um so it's not just like more money like but some some further recommendations like you were talking about Kate and then added in um some more information um I guess on that on page two where it says many of the
074above I would put uh take out the the letter M and just start with any of the above Investments would improve the financial Outlook oh yeah good be good I mean yes Kate I just um in our work uh in our work meeting last week we discussed this letter just so that people watching would know kind of what the background is to this so because we're having such a down downfall in our budget we wanted to start lobbying um our legislators more so I think as a board we've taken a pledge to meet with them more communicate with them more um so Megan revised this or created this letter and we added in there and I think a lot of community members probably don't know this but um it's public school districts are required to
075provide payment for a lot of things that we might not think about so we did add that to the letter so uh one of those well a few of those is we provide transportation for private school students we provide um special education and you guys can jump in because you Nick probably know even more about it um special education to private school students homeschool um we don't get any funding for that so that's something that we're asking to just have even the smallest bit of reimbursement um Nick do you want to add to that or yeah I think that's um you know those are those are big pieces that I think a lot of people don't realize that we do provide that Transportation piece busing for uh our private schools um at at our cost
076and uh you know they don't pay for that uh along with uh reading services and and special education services and things along those lines speech services I mean we're providing a variety of services um and and we're happy to do so it's not that we're not we don't want to serve all kids uh it just this is a basically an unfunded mandate uh that we have and in addition uh we have uh kids that are homeschooled that then can come and uh take uh you know some classes through us they do take some classes we don't get the full reimbursement for that and then um and then on top of that they can participate in activities and things along lines that we wouldn't get any any funding for other than the activity fee which I
077think everybody knows the activity fee doesn't Co cover the cost associated with participation in the extracurriculars it just helps defay it a little bit for the district so um absolutely and I had a uh two-hour meeting today with representative Zimmerman and about seven superintendents we met in River Falls today to really kind of um reiterate you know where we're at uh and and the need for additional funds um his big push in the meeting today was you know I think there's going to be some funding uh but I think you know the big push I think that's that's being talked about to some extent is uh what is the level of reorganization and um across the state as far as potentially long-term fewer districts and what are the incentives associated with that and then the
078other thing is you know we talked about uh becoming more efficient and you know I even talked about when you have to close buildings that's not a pleasant conversation to have in your District but sometimes a necessary conversation to have in order to become more efficient and so um he he did appreciate that but I I think it was well uh he did a nice job it was well received the superintendent uh enjoyed it but um with him sitting on joint Finance along with Senator staf Schultz uh sitting on joint Finance uh that's those are two big positions for us to continue to try to um to Lobby um but when people ask us why haven't we been lobbying we have been lobbying in the past and uh the one point I did try to
079make uh to representative Zimmerman is when you talk about tax cuts at the state level it's not truly a tax cut if you don't fund local programming so then the local boards then have to turn around and raise people's taxes all it is is a shift of taxing responsibility from the state level to the local level and so I think people are starting to understand that more and more now that um down in Madison they can talk about tax cuts but it's not truly a tax cut if all of a sudden cities counties school districts have to raise property taxes because they're not getting funded adequately um to to meet inflationary needs so it was a good conversation Mr President yes Megan I just also wanted to note that I think five of us are
080going going down to Madison next week for uh the Wisconsin Association of school board Lobby day to meet with our uh representative and Senator so um you know we're we're doing what we can yeah and I think it in it might be four I I wanted to be able to go uh but I volunteered for something and then it created a conflict so I've got something local here that I need to volunteer for but yes Bob uh and I think with um people in the community when they hear well they're not willing to fix the funding problem that's been you unsustainable since started in 2010 that you know there's a history of districts combining in the state and that can really tear apart some communities that lose control of of you know their their own
081their own districts and I I I hope that that's not a a palatable option through the state yes I mean some some areas make sense to combine super small districts but I I wouldn't want you know a a Hudson Regional uh School District where you've got Somerset riverfalls Hudson all lumped in one group with three high schools and I I don't think that's good for communities yeah I I one other change making to the letter I think on that enact a 1-cent sales tax to help fund it says education I think it's helped fund um education uh capital projects so it'd be capital projects that was that one cent um and this is something that they've done in Iowa and that U Democrat and Republican legislators and Republican and Democrat Governors have annually renewed or
082biannually renewed whatever because it is so successful in uh being able to you know to allow districts that have aging buildings like Hudson to be able to fund those projects without having to go to referendum um I'm all for local control but um what happened at the state level with um the the funding being untied or um unconnected if you will with inflation is that it just basically it did shift like Nick said shifted from state aid to local property taxes and which puts a extreme amount of pressure on our older citizens and limited income folks um and so we talk about unfunded mandates that cap brought up it's also that includes uh underfunded mandates like special at a prime example it's which is funded at what 33% now um it's still by far the
083it it's it's very expensive when when a lot of the students have one-on-one Paras and so forth to to fund that so um if any one comination of a couple of these were passed we wouldn't need to be going to referendum so the folks that say why aren't you more proactive with this whole situation we have been proactive we started going to the public two years ago with referendum and you know if anyone who's been watching our meetings has heard that we're not doing this all on the backs of T tax increases it's just that we can't do it all on the backs of students either with total cuts that are going to end up increasing class sizes or reducing teacher salaries which makes us less competitive and starts us on a down downward spiral
084of um of being of having quality staff so um it's got to be done with a combination of cuts and revenue increase and um you know I think representative zman has been here what at least two if not three of the last uh four years or so that he's he's come we've invited him we've invited Senator stel hopefully both of them come this year and we've we're asking them to come what at uh the March work session either March work session or one of the April meetings y all right great Mr President yes um and this was was maybe me uh thinking outside the box policy-wise but uh you know I I I thought the save program could be improved by not limiting it to capital projects um but you know that that was just
085but I would take it so that's why I hadn't written that but I'm not opposed but I thought boy wouldn't it just be nice if the schools just got those funds to do what they needed to with it you know special ed isn't going to be 100% funded but if we could get it for Capital I'd take that right well and they really wouldn't even need to raise other taxes if they would just um try to work you know the governor trying to work with the legislature and spend what's already been taxed because they've been having these budget surpluses and if they just spent it on education um we wouldn't have to be going to referendum to the folks on to raise their property taxes all right uh um so speaking of budgeting Nick and
086that's our next up is the budgeting discussion for 2526 all right um so we went we went through this at the work session uh pretty extensively so um just to kind of recover uh the board kind of charged us with trying to find anywhere from one to one and a half million worth of savings going into next year and so as you uh can see I'm not going to run through each of these individually like we did during the work session but essentially looking at reductions in positions uh totaling somewhere around a million dollars and then we had you know savings as it relates to uh retiring employees and replacing with new hires so they wouldn't be reducing positions but it would be you know less expensive hires you know as they come in uh
087and then you have a savings of about 270,000 and what was our original budget allocation uh budget Pro retion with CPI coming in at 2.95 as opposed to the 3.5 we had built into the budget assumptions um as you go down at the bottom uh and Bonnie can answer more questions about the um any of the uh kind of assumptions are made but essentially we were looking at about a 2.6 plus million doll uh deficit going into um going into next year uh we've gotten that down to about a 1.4 4 million and you say well I don't understand you you've cut 17 out of there why is it only4 U part of it is we had a raise some of the assumptions we had to our our health insurance is not going as well
088this year as we were kind of originally hoping and so we had add about uh we added the we increased the amount budgeted for health insurance 8% instead of 5% and added 1% for dental which I think we had it flat before um so that's some of the difference in the car cost a couple of those large deficits this current year and next year related to the construction projects uh the only way you can spend down fund balance is if you spend more than you take in in order to get to fund balance so these are pre-planned spend Downs that's why the Auditors didn't have any problems with it they knew you know we knew we were going to spend this money 7 million in the current fiscal year 8 million in next F fiscal
089year um the thing is is they all it'll all be spent this summer but because our fiscal year breaks on June 30th July 1 that's why it breaks over two years uh you can see um the forecast model originally we stopped at 28 29 school year it was running about a $7.8 million deficit I think in our last projection now it's down to about 6.2 with some of the reductions we've made uh but we added another year to the projection model so it starts to bump back up again um so even when you start to look at a $5 million reoccurring you get about uh two to three years out and that in and of itself won't be able to cover the deficits and so that's why we need to continue to have conversation related
090to additional reductions even if it does uh even if we do see uh a referendum that does pass on April 1 um so so so thus my comment before about it being a combination of Revenue and uh tax cuts yes or or not spending cuts so with that um projected cuts um we have you know some people who say well why don't you know you've got this big Surplus or you've got the big um you know Reserve fund why don't why aren't you spending that so you were starting to save that is a planned spend down so we are trying to be proactive in lots of d y yep we are you know we're planning on spending 15 million of our fund balance down over the this current and next fiscal year related to construction
091projects that saves that saves taxpayers money on interest and borrowing cost associated with it so we only had to borrow 29 million versus having to borrow um 44 million for the projects uh you know the other thing is we have to keep a certain amount of money in our fund balance we have to keep about three months worth of operating expenses which is about $20 million on hand in order for us to EB and flow with our state aid payments and property tax payments and things like that receivables as Bonnie talked about and the consent agenda um we also know that when we have a uh reasonable uh fund balance like we have our borrowing costs when we do have to borrow money is much less because we're a better we're a a better credit
092risk and so that saves uh saves the taxpayer as well because we're we're borrowing at a lesser interest rate but just want to reiterate the current referendum does not have any debt associated with it the current referendum is only uh it's a operational referendum so there aren't any interest costs I know uh that one of the speakers had asked about that I was just going to ask about that and you covered it now so there isn't any interest rate per se with this referendum but um if people are looking at we have spent down some debth that's another one of the proactive pieces to all of this was spending down and so what where does that leave us with the average interest rates on the remaining debt from either the high school or our current
093projects um I don't I don't have the average interest rate rates off the top of my head I can tell you that we are aggressively been paying off debt uh part of the reason um we're able to only have about a 4 Cent mill rate impact on the uh operational referendum is because we've been aggressively paying down debt so we'd be able to back off on that debt payment as we feathered in the operational Levy so you know some people have said your math doesn't add up because you can't get to $5 million by 4 cents on the mill rate and I would say to them you're absolutely correct it takes about 65 cents on the mill rate to get uh 5 million dollar and so um what it is is we're backing off about
09461 cents of debt prepayment off the mill rate uh and so that's where that's that four that 4 cents you know kind of differential between there um and we did that in an effort to make sure that we're not spiking property property taxes or people trying to keep things somewhat uh level as we and to save the district uh property taxpayers money on interest payments uh is why we've done that we've we've known this is hence we tried to go to referendum two years ago we've we've seen this kind of coming down the down the line and so we've been trying to do everything we can to plan for it so on this 2526 budgeting discussion that's the agenda item is there other board members that want to weigh in on the discussion Mr President
095yes I'm Mo I just have a question on the bottom um Square there what is Tiff out equalize valuation growth and why does it change historical current year and then beyond yeah go ahead Bonnie sure so um the Tiff equalized value is what the Department of Revenue assesses as your property value and they used equalized value because then it makes it equal throughout the state versus having assess value which changes by m municipalities so if you look at historical that was the actual in 23 24 was a 10.07 increase this year it was 7.07 increase and when we met with be um we kind of asked what we should project and they suggested the 5% so in our I don't know if Tim has it but in our annual meeting packet there o there is
096a whole like historical column of all of that but that's again and be trying to be conservative yep and so the equalized value sometimes people will ask about assessed value equalized value school districts use equalized value so on your property tax bill that's the fair market Price on the property tax bill that is set by the state the assessed value is that is that is set when the city or or Township or Village decides how they're going to split up their overall tax collection and so sometimes people will say well you said the maill rate stayed the same but I live in the town of X and my taxes went up quite a bit for the school well part of it is because the value of people's property based on what the state said their
097value was went up and then potentially what their assess value what their Township or their Village decided to do went up also things that we don't have any control over but the reason we used equalized value as Bonnie said is municipalities are supposed to I think by law keep the assessed value within 10 to 15% of the equalized value they don't always do that because there's a cost associated with reassessing the municipality and so sometimes like the town of Hudson I think was a year ago they did a reassessment because they hadn't done it in a long time and people's assessed values the average went up 51% that doesn't mean the value of their house went up 51% me the assess value went up and actually got it closer to what the equalized value is
098so um that's why the state makes us because we're a taxing entity that taxes across multiple jurisdictions so us the county and the community or technical colleges all use equalized value the mun the other municipalities only use the assess values and then the other thing that failed to mention from the work session was that consensus of the board is that this 1.7 million um that's a good start but it's and just put a pause on consideration of further Cuts until we know what's going to happen on April 1st because obviously if the referend doesn't pass on April 1st we're going to have to look at either other Cuts or other deficit spending possibly and um but there will be all the different potential options that were discussed at the community conversation probably as early as
099the April work session will be discussed again um depending again on the outcome of April 1 um with these project projections there's an assumption about 50 student decrease in enrollment per year but it sounds like it could be just looking at the seniors to the kindergarten class like 200 hopefully that lowers I mean that's I projections are projections you have to pick something for all these variables for it to work but yeah there's a couple of things so in the de in the revenue limit calculation there is a declining enrollment exemption so it's not just like a slash it rolls off it's also based on three years so to try to calculate all that I mean we're going to have a couple years of the declining enrollment exemption to feather it off but it's it's
100coming if that happens the one thing I would say from the kindergarten to the graduating class we do pick up probably about 20 or 30 kids at that eighth grade so I mean it's still bad but it's a there's there is a little bump that we grab from the those schools at that eighth grade that you could add to that for the high school number yeah yeah yeah I think and and one of the things also our kindergart current kindergart numbers are are basically they're kind of pure numbers they're Rel they're primarily our students not a whole lot of open enrollment in in our kindergarten numbers whereas our senior numbers have the culmination of years of different kids open and rolling in um and so uh there's there's 30 students as I showed as I
101talked about earlier there's 30 students in their senior class currently that are open and rolled in that aren't current you know that are part of that number uh so then when you add that to the 20 30 40 kids from trining St Pats we typically pick up in Middle School the deficit is probably more like 100 maybe 120 um but yeah it could it could definitely be worse than the 50 all right any other comments but if we start uh increasing class sizes that could also impact uh families and other districts decided to open and roll into ours yep all right anything else all right then we move on to a couple uh votes we need then that is a second reading of board policy 100 series updates Andrea yes as presented and approved at
102the last um board meeting it's just the second reading of that update and I I don't recall there being any suggested changes in the first reading no I did not have any administration's recommendations to approve second reading is there a motion so moved all right second second all right second by Molly any further discussion hearing none all those in favor of approving the second reading of board policy 100 series updates signify by saying I I those opposed say nay the eyes have it second we have the second reading of teaching and learning policies Dave and I did see that a couple of the documents had changes it said from the last time I reviewed it so there was a slight adjustment there was a typo on some of the grade point average um issues the
103other two no change but weighted grade slight adjustment because there was a typo in there um but other than that as presented before we have the two that are required by law and one that was designed to maximum to maximize benefit for our high school students okay is there a motion to approve Mr President yes just one um notation I had talked to Dr olette about this today because I had a question from a parent about the weighted grades that that does go into effect this year yep for those current Juniors who are needing those gpas current Cur all current students yes yeah but the ones who are applying to college matters move to approve the policies as recommended second all right motion by Lyn second by Kate uh any further discussion hearing none all
104those in favor signified by saying I I I those opposed say nay the eyes have it in that second reading of those teaching and learning policies are approved I entertain a motion to adjourn so moved all right k in with another second on that motion all those in favor signify by saying I I I those opposed say nay the eyes have it we're adjourned