001Order not meeting of the school district of Jefferson board of education. We'll start off with the pledge of allegiance and the flag is in the back to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible and justice for all [clears throat] our roll call. Mr. here. Mrs. Fox, Mr. Eel here, Mrs. Mc William, Mr. Dling here, Mr. Here, Mrs. White here. All right. Thank you. First up, we get to have recognitions and we have Miss Hark with HOSA that'll be presenting. And if you could remind me again, I know I asked this. What is it supposed to stand for? Well, it's kind of like FFA doesn't stand for what it used to stand for anymore. So, it used to be held out of Patient
002Students of America. That's right. Okay. But it's now just HOSA future health professionals. Yeah. Because you guys met people from like China, Mexico, Korea, American Samoa, which So all over the place. So okay. So um we had nine state qualifiers this year. Two could make it here with us. So um for me it was an interesting year because a lot of kids competed in something that I've never had students compete in before. So that was interesting. So um I had Cara compete in life support skills. Um so she did a like online zoom session on our live regional day. Uh Meline Louvy is a repeat state qualifier in pathophysiology. She did a um online test. Um Sage Vic William did um extemporaneous writing. So that was a new event for me. I never had anyone
003compete in that before. Um Angelina Petrovic did clinical specialty. Um also a new event I've never had anyone compete in. Um, clear lip dental science, a new event I haven't had one. Um, and then, um, I had two teams qualify for health education. So, they have Kaylee Stos. Um, Kayle's a repeat for state um, and was an ILC qualifier last year, too. And then, um, Kyla Crown and Emma Caret also in health education. And um Emma's also repeat state and ILC qualifier as well. And then um for the first time I don't have a CPR first team competing which is very odd but um the one team that got um alternate for that of Kieran Kowski and Sophia from any other questions here. [clears throat] Are you interested in being a health educator? Um, in
004pediatrics. Okay. Like in the healthcare field, pediatrics. Okay. And are you interested in dentistry? Okay. All right. Well, congratulations to both of you. Thank you very much for coming out today. [applause] Next up, we're going to have the public comment. Is there anybody here for public comment? I see anybody jump up. Okay. So, we are going to get into the more serious part of the meeting. If you need to leave for other activities, now is a good time. But you're more than welcome to stick around for the meeting. Next up is going to be our consent agenda. Uh consent agenda this month consists of our minutes from our last meeting. No new employments, our three resignations listed there. Any of this could be separated out into a separate motion or we could do a motion
005to approve the consent agenda as presented. So move second with a motion and a second. Any further discussion? All in favor of the motion say I. I. Any oppose? Say nay. Passes. We'll jump right into reports. We have our um joint state education convention attendees report. Um, yeah, only Miss Weekman is present to provide the report today, so you're up. Thanks. Yeah. does come over. It does. All right. Okay. So, this conference I think was my 10th or 11th ed conference. Um, every year always brings kind of new ideas and a fair amount of tentative ones. I tend to pick topics that either seem new and on the horizon for our school district or we'll be honest sometimes I'll usually just pick things [clears throat] that are interesting to me as well. Um I will
006there's not oh so this is the name of all the sessions I attended AI in the classroom state finance right sizing district a facilities for declining enrollment um a legislative update against the odds held one rural school ranks among the best in the state And the last one on Friday morning that I went to was called the kids are ahead of us responsible engagement with AI tools. So um a fair amount of interest to attend as much of the AI pieces as I can attend this year and so I decided that my focus would be on um what I took away from a couple of the AI conferences that I went to. And in the midst of building this power, I actually tried to do something a little silly, not too much fun, but also
007to just say um that I definitely still learn. These are screenshots because I couldn't figure out how to get the images onto my PowerPoint. But in a matter of a minute, I decided to put a prompt into something and tell it to change all of our schoolboard members to superheroes and uh change the background to a castle and uh that's what I got. So um clearly I'm not ahead of the students butending attempting to try and at least learn a few things in the world. So, one of the major conferences that I had a lot out of was a professor at Watson Business School as well as a man that's in charge of it for a fair amount I think of larger um technical schools within the state and they both spoke and while I
008think that I wish we could share every single slide that they presented, um I did pull out just a couple of the main themes that I I think is probably going to be a benefit for most of you hearing things, but um they did the business professional really emphasized, not this slide per se, but did emphasize a lot about leaning in to AI. And you'll see in a moment that it really is separating who um who's going to who's going to be effective as far as in the classrooms and really guiding our students on ethical behavior and really the ones that are leaning into it. really trying to teach ethics and use and teaching these as tools while also trying to get the students to realize that they have to be able to explain in
009real time how they got this answer um if they're asked and to try and really try and you know fidelity and yet also really get them to understand the usefulness of these tools going into the future. Uh so one of the main things I just kind of present is the difference between what teachers can be doing with these AI tools and what students can be doing with these AI tools. And I know um in hearing this I went to a person I know personally who was studying for a very very big test that she's taking in her life. And when they talked about the fact that a lot of students are not even using AI to its full capacity, one of the examples they gave is them the students telling these professors or andor teachers
010like I'm using I'm asking it to give me a multiplechoice question about a certain topic and and the and I'm still not doing well on the tests. And the professor is like, "Well, it might be better if you ask it to give you a multiplechoice question about this topic with all four answers being likely, one answer being only off slightly, one answer, you know, like really digging into teaching kids how to use these tools with the right prompts um so that I can enhance it." And I happened to ask my family member, "Do you use AI when you're studying to take the MCAT?" And um I got back a lot a lot of um MCAT LSAT people that are studying to take these huge tests are using AI tools in great ways and it's really
011enhancing their studying ability and helping them understand what they don't know and how to dig deeper into topics and really um use that information. So I know it for sure and this is where they spend a good portion of time. I know our district is is, you know, right in the headway of of what's going on here, but really trying to understand that human behavior and not necessarily just AI is where our ethical issues exist. Um, it's not necessarily the tools themselves, but it's trying to figure out how to have guard rails and teach the ethical use of these tools. um that it's not that different than things we've had to do in our lifetime when it came to how we've evolved as humans. Um so, you know, thinking about it in a generative AI
012offers a lot of positives. Um but certainly there are negatives. Making videos, deep fake, surveillance, um all those things make it very difficult. Again, in the world of agriculture, they talked about, you know, small farms, organic being humane with their animals. Um, and in some cases, they're also fighting overuse of pesticides, herbicides, seed leasing, um, desert irrigation. So they just talked about all of these huge issues that are going on in our society and and really behind some of the negative is is about ethical use and behavior and choices, not just the tools themselves. Um and um this is just a quote on a slide that I thought was helpful. um education and especially in our setting K12 is not really understanding a challenge. Um most K12 educators are having to figure out how to
013ban or integrate the chatbot into existing curriculum and both of which are irrelevant um relatively speaking. And then the um the next big slide that I thought was super helpful was to think about it in different the different areas of AI. This this was this is one of the slides and then there's one for teachers and learners about that we had from a speaker on Friday morning where it said you know the students are ahead of us and we're all kind of feel like swimming to try and net ahead and figure out what to do. Um and so I thought this slide was a good summary of what he spent time talking about leading by learning and building a shared understanding of what AI is isn't. Um taking a transformative or a transformational approach so
014aligning leadership behaviors to the transformative implications of AI um emphasizing integrity [clears throat] um also with intentional opportunities to learn. um indicating um like discussing I'm sorry empowering use AI tools to support intentional teaching and learning and the big piece they talked a lot about was um for instance making sure when you lean in and this part of your syllabus that you're telling them like you want them to use AI, but at any time you're going to need to explain how you got from A to F. Um, and so if I have any doubt that you don't that all you did was use it for efficiency and you really didn't learn any aspect of how you got from one step to the next, then you're not worthy of the grade that you might receive. uh
015but that it is important that um like the business professor gave them a project on using marketing and budgeting and building a small business around a design and he absolutely told them it was mandatory that they used AI and used every capacity of AI and he said the group that got voted best was a Halloween t-shirt that said um WMadison happy Halloween and it had the badger dressed up in like a witch costume and they had built their entire business around all of the aspects of this shirt and how to market it and everything and the assignment was due on October 31st. So they had entire project and not I mean one of them did write out but the professor said so I'm gonna ask class how many shirts after you've built this business plan
016do you think you're going to sell on November 1 now that Simon is done you've this entire thing for the month of October and they were all okay I guess you got a point and he's like so AI isn't going to think for So, you needed to think ahead, oh yeah, it's a great design. It's October. We're thinking Halloween. But AI is not going to say to you, hey, uh, keep in mind your business plan. If you go live on November 1st, you're likely not going to sell very many t-shirts for an entire next, you know, next year. Um he just he talked a lot about trying to get people to use the tools and yet realize it's it isn't able to think um concretely. And then he also talked about how um AI tools
017when you're generating pro the things that come up are the average of what people have put into the learning versus people that think above average or people that have gone less than average of something that you you want to think about the fact that this is the average answer. this is what they're seeing the most often and it might not always be the right one and verifying your information and all those kinds of things. Um again uh principles for teachers and learners that I thought encapsulated some of the aspects for teachers and learners. This is the guy that does a whole bunch of different presentations uh during the morning. And uh he was probably the most um interesting to me in that he has analyzed and done research on AI news in a whole like
01817 school districts. He's the one that uh talks a lot about the students being way out ahead of all of us and we all need to catch up. Um, and so he gave a lot of literature and resources. I put that in our packet as well. He's got pages and pages of resources and curriculum and all those kinds of things. And then he did of course push um a AI with intention virtual summit that's taking place in March that I thought was interesting. actually hold it. Um, and the only other thing I was going to say about um, this is I think that um, with regard to AI, what I wanted to get at the conference was like hardcore curriculum. Where do you where are you supposed to get your teachers, you know, where are
019you supposed to send them? What are you supposed to do? Um, we can all kind of take our little online thing and trial and error, but you know, is there any hard hard curriculum on this as maybe a extracurricular um class or something like that, the the high school level and I just didn't get that. However, about 3 days after I was home, someone sent me an article that um just this fall White Water is having a bachelor's degree in artificial intelligence. So clearly there are people that are um that there is curriculum and there are people out there and maybe our administration knows it. It was just something for me. It feels so like you can't wrap I can't wrap my arms around how you get your teachers the information and especially with all
020the other things that we're expecting them to do from a curricular standpoint. Um so that's what we got. There were lots of other amazing presentations that I would love to share and I know that it's not always fun to just listen to me talk about them. So, um, if you ever wanted information about any of the other ones I went to, I could certainly pass that on. Any questions? All right. Thank you very much. Thanks. Catch up with the other two. Oh, no. I was just saying we'll catch up with the other two's present presentation next time. Uh, next up, we're going to get into our finance and operation topics. Good everybody. Tonight we're bringing to you is the second half um for approval for the West Elementary piping mechanical room um work. You all
021know what happened about a year ago around this time over at West Elementary and all the work completed during the summer. It was just too much work in phases. We're starting phase two and I know you guys have some information back. I did try to get three proposals. This is going to be a different grant project. I did try proposals one applied back and that's super mechanical and I also have three proposals for the electric and one controls. I have any questions, comments, concerns even the visual aid. I was kind of curious but then you didn't come up with it. So I wasn't sure that you discuss the financial for what department taken out of it's going to be underneath. It's going to be under my 71 711 or 546. But no question you guys
022could maybe I guess maybe I have a couple the hooper bin does that seem reasonable the only one. Does that seem reasonable? Yes, that that is within round. There's quite a bit of work down there. Tom basically all the piping in April here. We our should do a a quick walk through again in April. I'll show you that needs to be done. I should put in redundant pumps because I said we're going to do one pump. We need to be redundant because uh that heating system over there has water in it. We don't want anything to burst. Every case something would happen generator would fail. We know we have now do everything we can that we can make sure that we have done fail. Does this replace all the piping? It's [clears throat] just nothing
023upstairs. It's everything down the mechanical room down there. Never the old valves that are up there. If we did have to cut anything off, we can't even get off and those seven are up top and those don't even budge. Most afraid take a pair of channels on there. You know what'll happen. Okay. With this project, West Elementary for all the mechanical part everything should actually it'll be really good for next 20 25 years to come. The only other thing we had on there actually for the controls. So you guys can see in that proposal was an extra for some of the DAVs for the controls and basically those there since 1999 and some of the couple new ones replaced but most of them are still the 99 vintage. We're starting to have some problems since
024we're draining the whole system down. Now would be the time to take care of everything and replace it. If no further questions I just for Mr. for the finance very much. Very glad was able to explain all the mechanical side of things because we lean into his expertise on that. So, um yeah, so as uh you just put in your notes there. Um it is recommended that we're going to be using our recommendation is using bud 46 for this project. Um and just wanted to talk, you know, on the scratch here a couple different options that we could do within our budget of where we could take these funds from. Um to start with as a reminder we we use fund 46 as a long-term capital pocket plan. So last year when we did have
025uh the uh January event um this was something that we added under our capital maintenance plan as one right away in April that we knew that we have to have on the radar to start with. So this really top priority for us from a district perspective to take care of um within that. Right. So, we have a couple options of we do have about two and a4 million dollars of referendum funds still remaining. Um, there's a couple pieces that are still outstanding. So, our fendor contract we haven't entirely closed out. Um, with that there's some followup work. they're still competing for us and so um wanting to some of that obviously for the final payment we actually haven't processed a payment um and then we haven't had any of their um uh any of their
026contract um AIA excuse me since uh I think it was November payment was the last time so they're cleaning up their contract trying to finish that out and so that's one of the pieces that we want to pose with uh the other for the suggestion not using referendum funds uh would be we'll have to pay the IRS approximately $34 million arbitrage, right? Again, that was an early decision that we weren't going to speed up our time frame with the way that interest rates were happening in the beginning of 2023. We weren't going to speed up and rush construction and try and avoid having to make those payments. So, that is some of those funds uh that would have to be utilized uh their year marked for that. And then the last reason is really to
027try and give the board um some optionality. Right now, I think back in the fall when you know we were open or could close out the contract a little sooner, uh we had said that we would be bringing to as a future meeting to decide if you wanted to take on additional scope projects within the referendum question that made sense or if we wanted to transfer that to help with debt payments or debt levy. Um that is still an option that the board would be able to undertake whether that's more projects or uh to transfer back. And so, um, we feel that given those various three factors that using our long-term capital projects that we made a significant investment in this last summer wouldn't make the most. Um, with that timing that that's uh the
028current recommendation is using that instead of 711 just because Tim's capital maintenance budget is down to about $300,000 and we know that there's going to be some additional work that we need to do this summer. Um, you know, middle school boiler and a couple other things that we'll talk through in the coming months. uh just to fit underneath that operational capital project or our capital budget. Um so that would be recommendation to use 146 and it would be a 2627 expenditure. Uh meaning that as we're preparing budget that will be something that we'll be able to plug in prior to the August 24th budget year. So there's a lot of information there but wanted to just kind of provide that high level view of some of the rationale why we would use that bucket specifically.
029Any questions for the board? So, will the work get done? So, will the work get done then for over the course of the next school year for this project right here? Equipment. Yes, that'll be done and completed well before school's there. We gave them two weeks before school started. Everything has to be checked out and operational. Okay. And those funds then because they're going to get paid after July one or so then they can be in that I mean fun 46. Yeah, it's a great question. They some contractors will bill out um they'll they'll bill work and service performed as of June 30th. Typically if it's as those the majority of the work is going to happen after July 1. Um but certainly if they build something prior to that that could be uh an
030expense on 46 in this fiscal year that we would just go to this fiscal year. Um 46 won't impact our aid as a as a costic it's aided when it goes in um but we only budgeted for revenues in 46 this year not any withdrawals or expenditures out of that. Do we know one other question? Do we know why is it just a very unique thing that we got no other bids besides Hooper? No, you know, basically right now uh there's a lot of work out there right now and we all know about labor shortages for everything. Uh Mechanical is another one that's a little bit larger company. Their work's already booked up for the summer and with all the data centers and everything else. I know some of the unions and stuff they're they're
031looking for two to 300 more workers to complete all the jobs. So there's a lot of work after these contractors. The other one did a really fine job and I use him technique mechanical but he's a very small shop. That's a lot of work for him to do. He has other contractor during the summer slowly he climbed for us larger. It's about shortage. Yes. I know good work for all the mechanical mechanics contract. Sorry, my acronym. [clears throat] Any other questions? Any other info for us? What's that? Any other info for us? No, you guys want to show and tell us something over here because nobody asked. We can wait till later for that one. All right, I'll take a lot smaller probably about you from 1999 all the time. So it needs to be
032replaced [clears throat] and they don't as well. So that's what controls our heat and all the disable all the time. something drives it and then figure out why open [laughter] basically over looking at the calendar. Seriously, all day secret [laughter] something the year after I graduated high school considered old and broken right now. Exactly. Obsolete was [laughter] So with that, is there a motion to approve the proposal for the West Elementary mechanical room project with the total amount of $433,194 is presented? So move. Second. Motion second. Any further discussion? All in favor of the motion say I. I. Any oppose say nay. and it passes. Yeah, I think you're still up with the uh second Friday. Yes. Couple things have to remember uh to take me look bad without show. So, um anyway, so I
033do have a couple different reports. Um but one is just, you know, get this one in particular, some information for work. Um so as has been done historically again a great shout out to administrative assistant teams uh led by uh Josie Simons um just the work that they do to collaborate and get these compass count um it is really comprehensive and a well machine that they do to to try and make sure that we capture all the kids that are at school on our second Friday in this case this year of January those that return. So um the short is if you may recall last year from the third Friday in September to the second Friday in January uh we experienced a pretty I'll say significant given a midyear trend uh decline. We went from
0341612 I think I had it before 1589 I believe and I apologize I actually don't have that written down right in front of me. Uh but we we had experienced about about a net minus 25 or so last year. This year we we um our our total school headcount uh in in September was 1524. Um in in the spring or winter, excuse me, it's 1523. Um and so what you see here and what's publicly available for you all is our second amendment. As kids come back, we update that with DPI. Um and so if you look in that bottom rightish blue corner um our current head count for um revenue limit purposes and general aid purposes is 1519 but there's four no counts four kiddos that may be on extended vacation visiting family out of
035country or have medical reasons that they haven't been able to return back to school. Um so fortunately not seeing the uh trend that we saw last year with moving house over the course of the year. um each of the schools up and down a few again to to go through those but uh relatively similar and stable from where we were in September. So uh happy to answer any questions that you may have but uh this is just a uh update snapshot just before your eyes as we uh plan for next year and update some of our uh enrollment modeling. Um as we did last morning before any questions these numbers go into providing our general aid for next year. uh how much money the state is gonna get. That's a little bit different formula than
036the revenue limit, but it's an equally important thing for a different reason. So with that, I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. Not hearing or seeing any questions. Sounds like we can jump into our next topic, the 2026 summer school pay rates. Yeah. Um so this one uh thank you to Krauss and Dr. Ernest and all of our directors for their feedback as well. Um so we uh as has been done historically here in February, this also occurs as we're planning for summer staffing. Uh bringing for you some proposed summer uh pay rates um using some similar methodology what we have done in previous years. We have a couple data sources that we can use. Uh we can of course look at BKN who's already posting out there. But one of the
037ones that we've primarily been using is CISA 5 data hub. Um it's just a um collaborative that CIS puts on where if you submit some of your survey data, you get survey data back, right? And so specifically they have a report for last year's pay or some we use that to kind of give a a gut check. How do we compare the rest of our CISA 2 papers? Um, additionally, we know CPI that with with that increasing, so um, knowing where we're at within CISA 2 and also knowing that CPI is expected or is going to increase to 2.63 for contracts beginning July 1. Um, increasing our our hourly increase to um about that 70 cents there. Um, notably that 31 uh 45 for GMS counts is actually uh equivalent to per hourly for our
038starting teacher wage. So, we've been able to bring that up to something more competitive than what we would have for our normal teacher wage as a as a base wage, I should say. Um, within that, there's also just some increases with our our pair professional positions and our support staff positions. Um, again, working with our directors, um, asking Mark Peterson about lifeguarding and, you know, what does that look like as far as competition with some of our uh, cities and neighbors um, all felt that these were risks. Um so these increases would reflect for this coming summer um and then um hopefully would be again a way that we continue to try and honor the work that they do that we that we know that is such a valuable part of our revenue and environment.
039Um one of the piece I wanted to add is while these um hopefully the memo straight raised I know one of the conversations we had as a board and as an administrative team is just how do we compensate um for time and really value that for our teachers that teach six week sessions. Um, so while it is not as appropriate on this memo, I thought it was prudent to just kind of talk about a couple things that we want to do to to attract but really retain and and honor the time that our sports staff uh in six weeks. And so um two things that we're discussing for handbook updates which will come in April for the summer school staff um would be one uh taking a look at how we offer prep time for
040teachers at either six weeks or that second three weeks. Historically, we have that that Thursday after schools always kind of day where we have to get everything ready, our summer school meetings that Miss Carlson might lead us through. Um, but really trying to take a look back at staff that each six weeks if they're changing practices, teaching different classes in those three weeks and we offer them some time so that they're not doing that on their own where it's time at least um to get ready those second weeks. Likewise, if a staff member, well, they maybe on standard training, they they know all the protocols that they're teaching the second three weeks, if they come back in three weeks, they they typically don't have the classroom space that they can get ready before the first
041session. And so, can we offer them some time to just kind of help ease them and get them into the swing of things for that second three-week session. Um, so small way to honor their time in that regard. The other one that's a little bit um it's a little bit while I know we want to continue to see if we can push on this on a little more. We wanted to start a small conversation about um giving a a paid day potentially for our staff that teach six weeks. Um there's a couple dynamics that we have to consider, right? Obviously budgetary, what's the cost of that? Um but one of the things um also we have to consider um how does that interact with a certified staff position versus a support staff position. Um, so
042something we want to we have to flesh out a little bit within the handbook. Um, but as we've heard from surveys and feedback, right, the big thing is it's not really compensation is a big part of it, but but it's really the time commitment. So, how can we give back some of that time and still make that valuable? Um, while I'm sure we could give a sip if you've got six weeks, right? That that might be an option in the future we can continue to look at. How do we give that time back? It's may take pay for yourself and family for um just to to have a pay day off in in that six week session. Um, we wish it we wish it might explore, you know, going to be more, but obviously, you
043know, we probably would be a model where, you know, you get two weeks paid off teaching or anything like that. But, um, again, we want to really try and, um, while it may be less of an attracting new teachers with that, especially given the time frame of the handbook, we want to honor the staff that are doing that and continue to retain them. Um, so with that, that is kind of peripheral of obviously conversation, but I thought it would be valuable to talk about here just given our previous conversations that we've had about how do we take care of our staff and attractive team. Um, so with that, uh, I'm happy to pause for any questions that you may have regarding the proposed summer payments for 2026. I don't I I was just going to
044say that I'm thankful for you looking into this. I really appreciate you guys' time and I know it's always a challenge um because the teachers are at their stressed out level um and then we ask him to come back and teach and do more you know enrichment for the kids in the summer. Uh so thank you for looking at that and I just am curious is was it how was the information gathered that it was about time and not compensation? Like did you kind of just do a little survey? Did you just kind of talk to a few people? I Yeah, it's a good question. I know it's been I don't know if there's anything in particular. I know with historical survey data, we haven't done a new survey in the last six months or
045anything like that necessarily. Um but but knowing um you're exactly right. We have not done a survey in the last few years because the survey things weren't changing to things that people wanted some change on. So we were just trying to figure out. Most of this has just been conversations that we've had as people have left, you know, through the school year, those kinds of things. And most of it is just we're we're I can I can three weeks, but I'm burnt out. I just need or I need to see my family. I just need that time. So So informal doesn't work. Okay. And it definitely was about the the time versus compensations type of type thing is what I glad you guys are looking into this. I think it's helpful. Any other questions? Councilman
046Ward that case. Is there a motion to approve the 2026 summer school pay rates as presented? So moved. Second. [clears throat] Motion second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. I. Any oppose say nay. And that motion passes. Next up, Mr. Grant, is going to be the uh 2627 student fees. Yeah, thank you. So, this one again um minimal changes for this year, but just wanted to bring to you just a couple changes. I tried to highlight those in yellow and maybe just give you a bit of rash. Um first one is actually in the art classes courses. Um again, great work by Mr. Scott, Mr. layman flyer and counselors in the office, right? They they prepare a lot of this information come November course book time. Um just kind of synthesizing all
047as well along with um but the first one um was just art classes. So stage craft was a class um our teachers last year um Miss reached out to us in the spring and saying hey I think we should really evaluate this not that we necessarily need to continue to drive. um sometimes, you know, some of those other budgets, drama or things like that would be supporting some of these budgets or some of these um student outcomes as well. And so she just felt that it was not a necessary thing to continue and maintain and so recommending that we just pull that off just putting excluding stage craft. Um the second one is from the science class. So last year they worked 20 hours. We also missed that in yellow is AP bio. is a
048recommendation from the science department to move those to $25 per class. Um it is specifically for the consumables that was ongoing but the dissection specimens and lab supplies just the cost of all of those to continue to work for them. And so they're trying to just make sure that it's um the experience that we want to have classes and that providing supplies for them. Um and so that would be moving a key bio was in the $50 to [clears throat] that $25 their recommend or their recommendation that's $45. Um other than that appreciate Mr. helping support some conversation with Mr. Peterson as well is recommended for questions. How do we handle these for the families that just can't pay them? It's a really great question. Um, and so I know Miss N's here as well.
049And so, um, her people services department is a big proponent for um, I guess maybe hopefully do my best here. There's students that maybe situationally unable to pay for it. Um, could be in the bento or a different status now becomes a hardship for them. Um, and gratefully we have funds through hardship services to help support those instructional fees. Um there might also be students that that pre-introduced and it might be also unknown hardship again similar fun we cover those fees using those dollars. So potentially the one thing that we've done working with with students that may apply for is we have not we're not we're not typically um providing support just because we have limited dollars for all the athletic fees and things like that. And so I know Mr. Peterson is working with
050with those students or individuals that you know how how can we support them with a job or something like that not not necessarily within our walls right to so that they can support themselves in some of that. So is that reactive or proactive? So like do we wait for the family to reach out to us or do we identify as that occurs? Yeah, that's a great question. It's typically working with the people services department if you if I'm watching anything new for you this season. But but a lot of those I would say a vast majority are well known uh people services. Yeah. I would say our people service staff um is familiar with families that have already been identified. Yeah. And and even over the summer different situations that may arise that they're they're
051so starting or requiring them to us. It's badly productive. Thank you. Do we have I guess it's along the same lines. I was gonna ask the same thing. Do you ever does the administration ever hear from people that say I'm not taking a class because I can't do the fee or is it more you just notice the student fee is not getting paid, but they're enrolled in the class and then you're reaching out to them to say, "Hey, just call in to see how we're doing and I'm covering fees." Then that's how you learn, oh, you're having trouble. Okay, we'll refer you and putting funds elsewhere after a conversation. Outside of that, more specific say high school obviously. They're the teachers are very good advocates for kids. They're not trying to be too pushy or
052anything like that, but kind of knowing there's sense to something kind of off, but they also know that uh those teachers are responsible for those supplies and things like that. So there you're make sure that the courses are covered ex with that. Is there a motion to approve the 2026 27 student fees as presented? So move second. Motion to second. Any further discussion? All in favor of the motion say I. I I any oppose say nay. The motion passes. Thank you. Thank you. Down to policy and community engagement topics. We have our policy update uh 35.1 from Viola. This is the second reading. Were there any new questions or issues regarding this? Is there a motion to approve the Neola policy update 35.1 as presented? I move to approve the new policy is 35.1 as
053presented. Second motion and a second. Any further discussion? All in favor of the motion say I. Opposed say nay. and is approved. Future agenda topics. Um yeah, the upcoming topics there. One of the other things that we're discussing is just making public comment uh possible on every meeting. It's not required that we have public comment at any meeting. It's always been our practice to have it at the second meeting. Uh there's been some talk about possibly adding it to every meeting just as uh something to have. If you have any questions on that you discuss now otherwise talk to me in private discuss that more. Did you have anything? Uh just a general we just keep it all the time and we're never having to add it and it might take an extra five seconds
054if there's no one here. Then we get to announcements. Uh couple of announcements. Uh just a reminder that 4K students for 2627. We're getting the information out there. We have a press release going in the in the paper just reminding people about 4K registration. Uh and then also you'll see a you'll see our winter newsletter to all district residents talk about open enrollment. It'll talk about 4K registration. So we're getting the message out as much as possible. And of course social media will help with that too. And then uh kudos to everyone host annual event Jefferson High School 2015 [clears throat] raising funds for tomorrow's hope. This year's event took place on January 31st. the banking check everyone is offering you sorry back up to with that is there any motion to convene into close
055session pursuant to Wisconsin statutes 19.5 parents 1 C and F to discuss a confidential student issue and confidential personnel. Second motion second. Can we have a roll call vote, please? Mr. Yes. Mr. Fox. Mr. Yes. Mr. William. Mr. No. Yes. And with that, we will convene in close session. Thank you everyone.