001Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mrs. Schmidt, would you do roll call attendance, please? Mr. Condan here. Mrs. Fox here. Mr. Eel here. Mrs. McWill here. Mr. Peltier here. Mr. Nobling here. Mrs. Winkman here. So, my name is Charles Ernest. I'm the superintendent. I am not a school board member. Uh, we do have our seven elected schoolboard members here. This is the one time per year, the one meeting per year where I gave in and I lead the meeting until we do our reorganization. So, you'll have a chance to stick around for that if you'd like. But first, we're going to do recognitions. And I am happy to start out with
002recognition of March Citizens of the Month. And we will start with East Elementary School, Mr. Wickman. All right. Well, good night or yeah, good night. Good night. Good night. I'm going to bed. All right. Well, welcome to schoolboard meeting. I get the great honor of introducing you to Maddox Captain. And Maddox, why don't you tell us who's here with you tonight? My dad, my grandpa, my two grand, my nana, my mom, and my friends. And your teacher is back there. You can. She's waving at you, too. All right. So, Maddox here is nominated by our second grade team, and Miss Bissell is his second grade teacher. And they wrote, "Maddox is a kind and helpful friend who always offers Here, I got to stand next to you, so not in front of you there. Uh,
003is a helpful friend who always offers a helping hand. He is respectful, hardworking, and leads by example in our classroom. His kindness makes him well-liked, and he's consistently demonstrates responsibility and enthusiasm for learning." Maddox is an attentive listener who constantly pays close attention to his teacher's directions and instructions. He approaches each lesson with a focus and positive attitude. He always strives to do his best, giving his full effort in every task, no matter how challenging. Max not only excels on his own, but also thrives in group settings. He eagerly collaborates with his classmates, offering thoughtful insights and actively contributing to discussions. His willingness to share his ideas foster a positive and productive learning environment. His positive attitude and willingness to support others make him a valuable member of the classroom. Thank you, Maddox, for being
004such so much light in our classroom. We are lucky to have you as an East Sun. And Maddox here is like one of the best athletes we have and a really good baseball player, aren't you? Someday we'll play for the Yes, everybody knows. And your favorite baseball team is the Brewers. The Brewers. All right, Maddox. [Applause] All right. Sullivan Elementary School. Mrs. Krauss. Good evening, everyone. I am excited to introduce to you Lily Jonas. She is a fifth grader at Sullivan. And Lily, who's here with you tonight? Um um my mom, my dad, my stepdad, and my siblings. Excellent. Glad that you could make it tonight. Uh Lily is a fantastic student. She is a great leader. Uh she's a PlayWorks coach, and she's also part of our student council. Our student council this year
005has gone above and beyond thinking of others of just not only in our school, but in our community. Some of the things that they have done is an all school picnic, the food drive, and today they went to Alden Estates and delivered cards and toiletries to the people who live there. So, it's been a great great thing for her or for all of them. Um, she gives ideas and supports ideas and suggestions. She was nominated by our specialists teachers, which is Mrs. Vogle, Miss Hart, and Mrs. Punzel. And here are some things that they had to say. Lily has always shown respect for every classmate and myself as well. She is always on task with whatever project we have and has such a clear and immediate understanding of our goals and criteria. Lily is consistent
006in her work ethic and I can always rely on her. I can't wait to see what the future holds for her. Lily comes to class with a smile on her face and ready to go. She always works hard in all the activities that are done in class. Lily is such a kind student that is willing to help others as well as myself. She definitely displays our school values of be responsible, be respectful, and be ready. Lily [Applause] Jonas. All right. West Elementary School with Mr. Howard. All right. I have Travis Suxinger represent West Elementary, fifth grade. Trav, I'm gonna give you the microphone and ask you to explain who you brought with you tonight. I brought my mom, my sister, and my stepdad. One one of the most rewarding things, if you hang around long
007enough, is seeing someone in their first day of kindergarten and then they work all the way up through fifth grade. And what I asked our staff to do for this particular month is I said, "Could you give me a winner that made just amazing progress in in all facets of of being in school from starting in kindergarten now wrapping up fifth grade? It was pretty much unanimous that we picked Trav. Travis Luxer, I'm going to talk about you a second, Trav, but thinking about what kindergarten and and how you learned about school and where you are now, it's been a pretty pretty amazing uh growth that I've gotten to watch and our staff have gotten to watch and you're just a huge success story and I can hardly wait to see what you're going to
008do with the middle school. I might have taken some of my good words from here, but I wanted to say that to you. Trav, here's what they typed up. They said, "The West Elementary staff is so proud of all the work you have done here at West. Travis has made so much progress as and has grown into an awesome fifth grader. Travis does well in school. He's respectful to staff and he's helpful in so many ways. We know Travis will do a tremendous job at JMS next year and we want to recognize him for all the great work he has done in our school. Travis, we're proud of you. and look forward to seeing all the great things you'll accomplish in the future. Congratulations, Travis. Travis [Applause] Luxer. Okay. Get the bag, too. Nice job.
009Thank you. Jefferson Middle School with Mr. Madison. All right. We'll move that on to another meeting. I know there's a track meet and everything else going on tonight. Uh Mr. Oh, Mr. Layman with Jefferson High School. It is my pleasure to introduce to you Navea Milbreath. She is a sophomore at Jefferson High School. She is our March citizen of the month. I'm going to hand over the microphone and you can explain who is in your entourage this evening. My mom and dad are with me tonight. Thank you all for coming. I have lengthy paragraphs from a bunch of teachers, but I'll try to summarize because there might be some HIPPA information in these paragraphs. Uh, Na once again is a sophomore. She was nominated by Mary Whisen, a math teacher and coach. I would like
010to first uh quote Miss Wanthour. Nvea Mil is a student that gives it her all. uh she has overcome some adversity and she is willing to work with a variety of people in class. She is patient and kind to all of our students and respectful to all of the surroundings in the science lab setting. Miss Whisen writes, "Nevea is an amazing young lady. Uh she is a student that always works hard and willing to help others. She's very respectful to myself and all of the students in her class. She had some setbacks and over came some adversities and she is working as hard in a in math as well as athletics and she has honored Miss Whisam wrote to be your coach and your teacher in geometry and algebra 2. Then Mr. Elhousen writes, "Nvea
011Milbreer is an excellent nominee for citizen of the month because she is a proud of her good-natured approach to life and endless commitment to service work through our student council. She is a go-to person that can be counted on if it's Christmas neighbors or being a part of student council in the spring and the fall. Outstanding work." And then Mr. Cleer wrote, "Navea is a good student, joy to have in class. She's a natural leader and seemingly effortless. Gets along with others, is respectful to all of her students. Once again, overcoming some adversity during the winter season, but it did not set her back in all of her studies and becoming optimistic and an outstanding student in the classroom and a leader in the school. We'd like to thank Nivea representing JHS Eagles. Go Eagles
012and congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Next on the agenda is the 2025 validatoran and saludiatoran. That was my job. Mine are studying this evening, so they're not able to attend. Uh happy to point out that that's Sarah Germanson as our valadictorian and Anthony. Yeah, that'd be if if you don't mind. Mike, thank you. Uh so, validictorian uh Sarah Germanson and saludiatoran Anthony Shunk. Uh both very involved uh and studious um students here at JHS. So, this evening they are not able to make it, but happy to celebrate them. It was a tight race down to the end with our top five or so uh separated by in a thousandths um as far as GPA for uh validatoran and saludiatoran. So how about a round of applause for Sarah Germanson, Anthony [Applause] Shunk. Next on the
013agenda for recognitions is our recognition of vocal and instrumental music students and instructors. And I'm I'm happy to see a lot of people here for that. So, I'll turn it over to our instructors, Mike. Good evening. I'm Mr. Bryce Men, joined by my colleague, uh, Mrs. Denise Reichoff. And we are here to, uh, celebrate our solo ensemble participants, particularly our state solo ensemble participants. Um, solo ensemble is an opportunity for our music students to, uh, select a solo or a small group event, uh, duets, trios, quartets, etc., or small groups and to prepare a piece of music that they then perform for an adjudicator and receive a rating based on uh their uh demonstration of of ability and skill and musicality. And um at the district level uh we had a great number of students
014participate and we hosted this year. And so our halls were filled with lots of great music and uh we were able to then advance uh several students advanced to the state uh festival that just happened this last weekend in Whitewater. Um students can perform either a class A, class B or class C uh piece of music. Class A being the most difficult, uh B being intermediate, and C being beginner. Uh you must perform a class A piece and receive a rating of a one star, meaning there's a very small margin for error, so to speak, um to qualify them for state. And so we had a great number of students. Uh for me, from the vocal side, I believe we had 14 events um at state for state ensemble. Uh uh all of which performed
015well. Um, I I like to tell them that the the number on the page does not uh always reflect uh the many hours and and just how proud I personally am of them. Um, that's a snapshot in time. You never know if the judge is hungry or if they got a good night's sleep or what. Um, but they all performed very well and should be proud of themselves also. And so, uh, I'll take a moment to recognize uh the students I see in attendance. Um, so, uh, performing solos, uh, Landon Alvarado, uh, performed performs two solos as well as as a member of the vocal jazz ensemble. Piper Crabtree also performed two solos and as a member of vocal jazz ensemble. [Applause] McKenzie Denton performed her musical theater solo and as a member of selective
016voices ensemble. Chase Mixer as a member of our vocal jazz ensemble. Haley Peterson as a member of our select voices ensemble. and Michael Wilson performed two solos as well as a member of the vocal jazz ensemble. And I believe that is all vocal students in attendance. So I'll pass it off to band. Okay. All right. Um well just to piggyback on uh what Mr. Menshaw said just seem we have a scope of the competition that happens. So the rubric form there's five categories and each category can score up to 10 points. So this the whole rubric is out of 50 points. Now in this case 50 is bad. You want the smallest number possible. So all of these students when they go to state they have to score an eight points or less. So that's
017the type of competition we're talking about. Um bandwise it was a solo year for us. Um so all students uh performed a solo of varying levels. We had some a few students go to state as well. Um Anthony Shunk who is also not here. um our saludiatoran as well. Um he performed a parade drum solo and received a first at state competition and uh Claire Griffith performed her main instrument which is bass clarinet and uh this summer we were working on her bass climate solo and she doubles on tenor sax and I said hey you want to try a tenor sax class a too. So she took me up on it went to state and uh received a first for both of those events as well. So congrats to them even though they're not here.
018[Applause] Thank you. All right. I have a good feeling that's going to be in the newspaper. Congratulations, everyone. [Applause] All right. The board conducts its business in open public meetings. If you'd like to stay, we're going to move on to reorganization next. If you have other things to do other than reorganization, now is the time. So, we'll pause for a second. Thank you for being here this evening. [Laughter] See, this is what happens when I on the meeting. All right, moving on uh to reorganization of the board. 3A on the agenda is the oath of office verification. And I will confirm that the following individuals were elected to the board of education on April 1st, 2025, and has have completed their oath of office. Area three, Tim Nobling, school board member, three-year term. in area
019four, Georgia McWilliam, school board member to your two three-year term. I'd like to welcome Mr. Nobling to the school board. And congratulations to Georgia, Mrs. Mc William, for her second term. All right, that is 3A. Now on to 3B, election of officers. I do want to mention one thing real quickly though. to the schoolboard reorganization process. Uh so the first thing we'll do when we move on to election of officers, we will ask for a nomination for president. A few things that I want to point out. If there's only one nomination, if no other nominations are received, a second of the motion is requested and nominations are closed. Typically, a unanimous voice ballot is cast and the individual is elected. A roll call vote may be taken if necessary or asked for. If only one
020individual is nominated, there is no need for a secret ballot. If more than one individual is nominated, we will hand out ballots and Mr. Smith will record the votes. All right. So, now we're moving on to agenda item 3B, election of officers for the 2526 uh round of school board meetings. I will entertain a motion for president. I nominate Matt Peltier. I have a a motion to nominate Matt Peltier for president. Second for Matt Peltier. Second for Mr. Eel. Are there any other nominations for president? Hearing none, I will close nominations. All in favor of Mr. Pelier for president for 2025 2026 school board meetings say I. I. I. Oppos say nay. That passes 70 on voice vote. Congratulations, Mr. President. Thank you. All right. Next up on the um organization is going to be
021for vice president. Are there any nomine Well, please provide a nomination for the vice president. And can I nominate? Um you can. Okay. Are there any nominations? I'd like to nominate Terry Wickman as vice president again. Second. A motion and second. Are there any other nominations? All right. All in favor of Terry Winkman as vice president, say I. I. Any oppose? Say nay. Thank you. Next up is going to be our clerk or deputy treasurer. I'd like to nominate Georgia McWilliam as uh clerk or deputy treasurer. Second. Are there any other nominations for clerk hearing? Any uh all in favor of Georgia McWills as clerk and deputy treasurer say I. I. I. Any oppose say nay. And thank you. Next up will be treasurer and deputy clerk. Are there any motions for that? I nominate
022Seth Evil for treasurer, deputy clerk. Okay. Second. Motion second. Any other u motions or nominations for treasurer, deputy clerk? I won't be offended. Not hearing any. All in favor of Seth Evil is treasurer and deputy clerk say I. I. I. Any oppose? Say nay. And thank you, Seth. Uh, next up is the director of business services designignate. Is there a motion for um I'm sorry. It does say appointed. However, that's still an elected position. Oh, okay. May I appoint you for that position? Thank you. All right. Now getting into the main list of appointments for WASB delegate. Uh Lisa Fox, would you accept that appointment? I accept. Thank you. Um I'd like to remain the alternate for that position unless anybody else would like to be the alternate. All right. Our CISA 2 rep, Seth
023Eel, do you accept the appointment? Yes. Thank you. JA negotiations rep uh Tom, excuse me, Tom Condan and Georgia McWills. I'd like to appoint both of you to that if you're willing. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Our T review board repound would be Ryan Band and he's agreed. That's okay. All right. Perfect. Somebody thinks having a baby gets him out of meetings. Jefferson Parks and Wreck board rep. Bark Peterson, do you accept that position? Thank you. Our sponsor sponsorship advisory committee board rep again. Mr. Eel and Tim Nobling joining us. Yes. Yep. Thank you. And our Jefferson Public Library board rep, uh, Rebecca Condan. Yep. She confirmed. Thank you very much. Jefferson Community Foundation. Okay. So, we'll continue with Shannon Mooney on that. Perfect. All right. Did I miss anything else? Perfect. All right. Next up
024is going to be our public comment. We always welcome comments from the public. Uh it can either be verbal here at the meetings otherwise they are always welcome to send us a email or call us. Is there anybody here for public comment? Not seeing anybody jump up for that or any unusual faces in the crowd. We can move on to our consent agenda. Within that you do see we have a new employment Katie Cadats and then there is one resignation from Kayla Stfansky. Um got the presentation of claims and accounts and a long list of donations there. Any of this could be separated into a separate discussion but is there a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented? So moved. Second with a motion and a second. Any further discussion? All in favor of
025approving the consent agenda as presented say I. I. I. I. I had one question. Oh. Just on the resignation is that are there um are there dam um liquidated liquid liquidated damages? It's a good question. She's going to teach out through the year that resignations for next school year. So because it's for next year, there's no liquidated damages. Oh, okay. Any further questions? All right. Sorry, there's some interruptions there. So, does uh all in favor of the motion to approve the consent agenda is presented, say I. I. Any oppose? Say nay. Consent agenda passes. I asked Mr. Evil to read in that long list of donations for the record. Yes. Uh very generous donations again this month. um $1,675 monetary donation from Basin Precision Machining, Springbrook Machining to the JHS Fab Lab. Uh there was
026a $500 anonymous monetary donation for books at West Elementary. There was a $52.15 monetary donation from Culver's to West Elementary or the Culver's West Elementary dine out night. Uh, there was a $50 monetary donation from Kathy Shirley to the East Elementary Library. There was a $4,995 monetary donation from Rem Remco Warl to Jefferson Athletics. Uh, there was a $1,000 student sponsorship from Tomahawk Manufacturing, Inc. to JHS FSSE. There was a $250 monetary donation from County City Credit Union to the JHS Formula Racing Team. There was a $500 monetary donation from Gallat Grading Incorporated to the JHS Formula Racing Team. Uh then there was a $200 monetary donation from TR Krauss Custom Builders to the JHS Formula Racing Team. a $500 monetary donation from Premier Bank to the JHS Formula Racing Team. Um, lunch for JHS
027Formula Racing Team valued at $200. $220 was donated by Jersey Mike's. Uh, there was a $500 silver level monetary donation from CNC Solutions to the JHS Tech Ed department. There was a $100 monetary donation from Dale Goggger to the JHS art donation. There was a $500 monetary donation from Equity Johnson Creek Livestock Cooperative to JHS FFA Animal and Livestock Education. There was a $40 anonymous monetary donation to the JHS Eagle Closet. And finally, a there was two custom 22 to output shafts valued at $872 from Edertton Gear Incorporated to JHS. I don't know what those are, but we thank you for them. Um the total this month was uh $12,44.15. And for the school year to date, uh this puts us over $100,000 at $18,000100. 89 and.75. All right. Thank you for reading that into
028the record. And that's a lot of community support there. We certainly appreciate. Moving into section six, that'll be reports. We have Mr. Screda up with the high school good news report. All right, good evening. Uh, thank you for joining us for a high school good news report. Uh, excited to talk with you about how JHS is empowering futures together and some of our work this year. Uh, please stop me as we go through the presentation if you have questions. Jason, apparently, uh, we've got our popup of who's on the screen. Thank you for stopping me with that question. I appreciate it. Perfect. Thank you, Jason. All right, so first, uh, just a a quick look at our state report card. um our student demographics and score summary. Uh in red you can see that our
029school scored a 58 this year in the 2324 school year. Uh this was an increase from a 55.5 in a 2223 school year. Uh a change to our report card I want to point out uh would be the percentage of students identified as economically disadvantaged. Uh this went up uh from 33.1 to 37.5. uh and just two years ago that number was 28.8. Uh so just in the last two years it's about a 9% increase uh that we've seen at the high school. Uh due to that that's when the percentages change for priority weight areas at the bottom. Uh so because we have a higher number of students identified as economically disadvantaged our growth now accounts for a larger portion of our score than our achievement. Uh so just wanted to point that out as
030we go through. There you go. circles. All right. As far as our priority area scores, uh looking at the priority areas, we had increases in our achievement, our growth, and our target group outcomes. Um and a slight decrease in our ontrack to graduation score. Um I do want to point out the Whoops. Point out the target group in target group outcomes. Uh that's a big jump six points uh from one year to the next. uh really I think we can attribute that to our efforts in reteing within uh courses, our use of IE time and selecting students that are in need of assistance and also our co-eing model that we've used effectively within both math and English. We have two different areas uh that we are focusing on this year related to ACT. Um our
031goal is to look at the the student growth on the ACT. Uh the other goal is related to students scoring at or above the benchmark on the ACT assessment series. So we're aiming at both growth and achievement. Uh that's for all students in that series for freshman, sophomores, and juniors. Our seniors are not required uh to take the ACT, but freshman and sophomores have preac secure, juniors have ACT. Uh for action steps, we supported each of them with focus during our professional development days, during our professional learning community meetings, and also within our community work. Mr. Layman, this is our attendance data. Currently 2425. The last four years we have been above the state average. This year we are just slightly below 2/10 of a percentage and actually today onetenth of a percentage point. So
032it is up updated on um the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Wise Dash um as it syncs overnight with our student information system which we use P school. So we do a lot of things with our attendance uh committee. I facilitate the meetings with our counselor, with our school social worker, and we also have um someone who was partnered from one of the social workers from the Jefferson County Health and Human Services. And we al we piloted last year fourth quarter a student attendance improvement plan. It's called Check and Connect. It is a uh data-driven resultbased program and that is funded through um school refusal assessment tools um the check and connect program um the department or University of Washington and it's also connected with the University of Minnesota as well. Uh we monitor students
033who are at 5 days who have reached 10 days. Um, we send letters, we make phone calls, we meet with parents, we meet with students, and we talk about the need to obviously be in school. Um, some students have medical reasons. Um, those reasons will not count against a parents 10 days that they can call in a student and we go through all of the state statutes, um, 118.15 and 118.16 in the Wisconsin state statutes and, uh, we work off of that. Obviously, we work along with our school resource officers, Detective Eric Weiss and also um Officer Bob Pelco is kind of blending and transitioning into that position as well to help out Detective Weiss. And then eventually we have conversations with Judge Joanne Miller, but we want to kind of avoid the punitive end
034of things and we're really focusing on positive behaviors and correcting student attendance if avoidance is the issue. that has uh contributed to their attendance. So, thank you very much. And he also forgot to mention home visits as a part of that student attendance uh plan too of of uh whether it's our social or support specialists, Mr. Layman, other staff doing home visits just to check in. Uh I know I pointed out last year our college and career day because it was so recent uh to our meeting last year. Uh we did that for the second time again just on April 17th at a fair with over 75 different businesses, organizations, colleges, and universities uh for our students uh to be able to attend and learn from. Uh we also had sectional breakouts with 13 different
035presentations with different career career clusters that students are able to select. Uh college and career tours for juniors where they're able to choose from five different trips to nine different locations. Um and then a tour for our interested guests uh to share what we offer at uh JHS and opportunities to collaborate. Uh in addition back in this fall we added a uh college and career family nights. Uh so the high school model itself and parent teacher conferences uh when everything's available through powers school through email uh through a phone call. We weren't having the type of turnout that we had hoped uh from families. So we thought what's something that would be interesting for families to attend. Uh so we did college and career family nights and it provided families a time to uh talk
036about their academic career planning with their child. And we also uh paired this up with AVID family night, financial aid night for seniors uh and the life after high school event uh for students um in special education programming. So we combined those all in one night instead of a parent teacher conference per se and had about six times more people that we would typically get on a parent teacher conference night. Um so we're happy to see that for the first time uh that it was successful that way but also hope to add to it uh as we now uh have developed that event. Uh and again with college and career day and and college and career family night that involved all JHS staff um and we look forward to building building on to them. Uh
037next slide here is regarding instructional rounds. So instructional rounds are about improving instruction learning from one another. Our certified staff uh does this as departments or with another colleague uh to look for wicker examples and AVID strategies. We have over 60 different examples or entries this year from our rounding form. Um this is completed again by all certified staff. So they use that form that's up there on the left. Um on the right that's showing just an example of some of the wicker le checks that are completed uh by myself, Mr. Layman and Mrs. Grundle at the high school and then Mr. Ericson, Mr. Madison, Miss Grundle at the middle school. Uh so during these checks, we look specifically for instructional strategies and examples of wicker within classrooms. Uh we have over 180 different entries
038this year uh just from popping into classrooms and looking for those different strategies. Um and I would say this is one thing that we brought back from our sale conference that administrators attended up in the Dells. Uh brought that back from that event and then implemented it. And I can say for me that's one of the favorite things I do. uh just going into those classrooms looking for specific strategies and being able to give feedback from those forms. The teacher gets a form uh that gets kicked to them right away of here's what I observed, here's some of the things that you were doing and also gives them a chance to reflect were the things that I'm doing uh noticed were the things that I'm doing, you know, making an impact the way I wanted
039it to. Uh so it's been a good avenue of communication and instructional improvement. Lastly, I just want to some thank yous and appreciation. So, thank you to our students uh for their hard work and challenging themselves. Uh thank you to our staff for helping our students and selecting them for IE time uh working to ensure student learning and support. Thank you to our families uh for the support of their child in their education journey. I appreciate uh your work and our work on empowering futures together. Um what questions do you have? Thank you. Um it's awesome. I love that career day. Uh I I'm just curious about how is the attendance what is that percentage reflect? The number of students that are not chronically absent. So they didn't make the list is 92.4% are not
040chronically absent of our whole student population at the high school. Correct. Okay. Yep. Okay. That is just attendance and it's it's actually not just measuring the 10 days. It's they have to be above the 90% threshold. Anyone below 90% attendance at any time during your year they are chronically habitually truent. So you reach 10 days 11 day you're habitually truent. When you reach so out of 174 days if you are over 17.4 at the end of the year you will then drop below the 90 percentile. You are then labeled by the state as a student who is chronically habitually truent. The state of Wisconsin does not recognize medical or doctor excused absences. It is any loss of instructional time even family vacations or something family vacations things that we excuse because we know we are
041all human beings and we recognize injuries in school or out of school or medical procedures. We do not hold any student or family accountable for that. It's when we get into the chronically habitually truent. Okay. And then we have to separate what's medical and what's non-medical. My second question was just about um the priority area score of achievement and realizing it's not as big of the overall as big of a part of the overall grade just due to the economically disadvantaged. However, both English and math are still under the state level even with a rise. Um, what would you say the school is doing to address that? Certainly, we want to see that our school is above in both of those areas and certainly we're improving. Do you know what's contributing to the improvement and
042is it something that can be enhanced further? Um, yes and yes. Uh so if you look at just some of the reasons or or things that we're trying to do, uh parts of it is just making sure we're preparing for the ACT uh like some of our surrounding districts might be uh doing in a more formal fashion, incorporating that into our curriculum standards. Uh and also right now when they review that with um Mr. Grundle, they also have to do uh crosswalk just to make sure that the curriculum does match up to uh ACT standards as well. Um so we've incorporated that the last couple of years in addition just asking more ACT- like questions. Um it's just a different format at times and yes we'll be using collaboration within a classroom but when it's
043time to uh perform on that assessment do we have assessment questions that are similar? Are we able to make those parallels to those things? So those are just two examples this year that we've done. But when you look at, you know, AVID itself, writing, inquiry, collaboration, organization, and reading. Uh, one thing we've identified for next year that we want to work on more is just reading in general and reading across all content areas. Okay. I was going to just explain just this past weekend, I got in a conversation with a couple college students studying for a particular graduate school kind of entrance thing and the use of AI. Um, and it was interesting to me because they're plugging their entire notes from a lecture and then having AI generate 10 questions that are like, you
044know, move this information from this lecture and give me 10 questions that will be on the MCAT according to that. Um, and I it made me think, oh, I wonder if if AI is, you know, that's a piece of like every lecture you here's two questions that are going to reflect what you might see on the ACT or the pre-ACCT or, you know, just using AI is what I was thinking about. So, we had professional development time where we learned a little bit more about the use of AI and then also um had our teachers say based on this assessment or based on what we're working on right now, what would be some ACT questions that you would provide? um with answers. It's always helpful to ask them for answers and then to spot check
045that because they're great at giving you questions, but you also want to be able to see what are the options there. So that that was a timesaver uh for some staff to be able to do that. Cool. Thank you. Any other questions from the board? Thank you, Mr. Thank you, Mr. Peterson. All right. Thank you board members. Welcome to Mr. Nobling. New board member, Mark Peterson, Jefferson, athletic director. So, we're going to pull up. I just have a few slides for you. Kind of going back to 2014 when the state when when the baseball team won the state championship. We had kind of a push to make some improvements to Fiser Field. Didn't quite get all the way through. There's a lot of ideas about reconfiguring the field, doing a lot of improvements down there,
046buying some property. kind of fell through until the last couple years here. And I want to appreciate your support on our project with the back stop and the new dugouts that got done with school district funds. If you've been down there to see it, it's been a great upgrade both safety wise and keeping balls from getting on the road and just it's just a great everybody loves and is proud of Fisher Field and that's really enhanced that field. So, I want to thank you for your part in that. The next step is I'd like to go through a community foundation fundraiser project to try and raise some money to get ADA compatible bathrooms and new concessions down there without school district money. So the idea idea has kind of come up. We've been working on
047for two or three years. Um so let's kind of go through the um slides I have here. See if I know how to use this thing. There we go. So just a little summary here. So Jefferson Baseball uh Blue Devils Community Foundation are raising money to make improvements to Fisher Field. Uh the fundraising goal is to build a 12,200 foot concession stand including ADA accessible restrooms, a press box as well as seating plaza around around behind the area of home plate. Current restrooms concessions would turn into storage. All these improvements will be utilized by all the Jefferson community baseball teams and their fans. As you know, we have besides baseball, we have the Blue Devils hometown. We have youth teams that play down there and community takes pride in that facility. So, just some of
048the things that have happened. Once again, thank you for your tremendous support in the back stop project. I'll be showing some bigger pictures on the website in a little bit. Um, some things that we've done with Fisherfield sponsorship account. So, if you see the signs we have on the outfield fence and some of the the right field scoreboard and then underneath the new scoreboard, we bring in a decent amount of money each year. We've been using that to put into the field also. So, last year we put in 96 tons of new infield mix and and laser leveling of the field. Uh we redid the main mound and bullpen mounds, put some branding on the back stop. Uh we had some new helmet batting storage for each dugout. And then we had to we contributed
049towards the landscaping that was not part of the original project. There's a lot as you know when a project happens there's a lot of things that keep coming up as you go. And so we used some of that money um from our sponsors and the blue devils also chipped in um along with DND concrete. You can see here we did a concrete pad around the current stand and a sidewalk to the bathrooms which then entailed more uh landscaping around that. Um we as you know last year we had a private anonymous donation for the brand new score which is now up. So the next step is to try and find a way to raise some money to get some ADA compatible bathrooms and concessions down there to kind of top off that facility. Um so
050I want to thank the Jefferson Eagles Athletic Booster Club. They donated $1,500 for us to get this website started with the Rutler Corporation who we've been working with since 2014 with some of the uh donation money. They already had some topographical maps. They had a bunch of conceptual plans that didn't really go anywhere, but they're they're involved in a process since the beginning. So, I want to thank them for helping with that and administration. Uh and also I'm looking today for your approval to launch this campaign separate from using any district funds. Just want to make you aware of it. So, I've already talked with the community foundation. We'll meet with them again after tonight if this is approved. We already had a Fiser Field account as part of the community foundation. It has a
051whopping $647 in it right now from back in 2014. So, it is there. Um, and we'd run all of our donations through the community foundation. And then I work in accordance with Mr. Ernest and Mr. Bant and Mr. graphing as far as how we want to if we're going to bid that out or if Rutler is going to take over that because eventually it' be donated back to the district obviously or however that works with with that project. But I just wanted to get I wanted to come and give you guys an update what we're looking at doing um and answer any questions you have and get approval to move forward with that crowdfunding crowdfunding campaign. So, right now the website which if you click on you can bring it up and I'll bring it
052I'll be able to go to it here maybe too but um this has the it has what we where we started what we've done and kind of a conceptual thing of where we're going. So I don't know Jason can we get that website up on the screen or if we can click on that. So, this is the first draft and obviously on here it says there's a fundraising goal of 350,000 be more than that obviously with the cost of things going on and inflation. Um, and we'll have to change the completion date. This is a goal we had back in 2022, but obviously now we're in 2025. So, I if you can scroll to the very beginning or can I use this to scroll? Okay. So, if you kind of if you you have on
053your screen too, if you scroll down, you can kind of see where we started. I can I can stand here and do it too. So, the website is kind of has our introduction. It talks about kind of what I told you about that what the district's done so far that this is going to be a private campaign. Um, here's kind of where we started. You guys kind of remember these pictures from back when we got this approved. And then you can kind of see what we completed. So, there's the back stop. There's the branding on the back. You can see the new dugouts and new benches. Um, if you if I keep going here, you can kind of see all the new infield dirt we mixed in. um the branding on the back and then
054here's the new scoreboard in the bottom left. You probably seen that up if you driven by. And then we did put some cement around that area which was all basically gravel and mud before just to kind of and that was donated by DND concrete and blue devil. So that was nothing that we the district had put money towards. So then obviously have to update our year of completion. We're probably looking down the road more. We're going to have to raise our fundraising goal between $500 and $700,000 probably what we're looking for. are not going to be easy, but there's a lot of people I think that are really excited about this project in the community that might help out. And then next steps just kind of have some of the things listed I talked to
055you about. Uh it's going to be like a home plate shaped building behind home plate kind of where the rock and flag pole are right now. We would have new bathrooms in there, new concessions, and a small little press box up top that would allow us to host sectionals here. Um let's see. and then kind of give an idea behind home plate. It's kind of hard to visualize, but and this is like I said, we have some updated things. We met with Rettler last spring, but in order for us to update this, it was going to cost another $1,500. So, I put all on hold because I want to be able to raise some money to keep moving on. So, we have some ideas of having a pavilion off one side. We're going to have
056some kind of seating into the the hill with a kind of a plaza up on top and people can kind of work around that. Another big part of this is we've been working with the city, Mr. Ernest. I went and talked to the city finance committee. They they have committed to put sidewalks in along Dodge and Wilson which will definitely help with East Elementary and just a full of you know walking traffic around there. There'll be you know ADA compatible uh little ramp in that back corner there. So all would kind of tie into the concession building. We do it all in kind of coordination. So we're not having sidewalks and then driving over the sidewalks to do a building. So the city's on board with this. The mayor is really a proponent of getting
057this done and they've committed to do sidewalks along Dodge and Wilson to go along with this. So basically that this is just kind of an idea, but we have some more ideas. I have to update this. Like I said, everything costs money. Um, as you guys know very well are very well aware of. So we're going to have to get this launched and get some funds in that community foundation fund and so we can draw from them to go take some further steps because the next step would be to get this updated for sure and then we have to get um some drawings and cons some bids to get it started. But that's 10% of the project. So I guess I'll take any questions you guys have for me with this project in general. If
058I can point out just a few procedural things for the board. Um so as far as this whole project is concerned um schoolboard policy 6605 crowdfunding allows me to approve the start of it because then the board will accept the donation. However, this is a big project. So, we want to make sure that the board is comfortable with this move first and and make sure that um they they're able to answer any questions that that Mr. Peterson uh presented tonight. Uh Mark, if you could mention one thing, what's the budget for baseball? Just Coach Featherson's budget every year. I I give him $900 for baseballs and other items just from our 10 accounts. And so I asked that question because people think that some this is how athletics lives in Jefferson. We live off of
059sports boosters and donations and other types of things. Uh so this is a good example of this would be a crowdfunding to raise that money and then that money from the community foundation would be a gift to the district and that's where schoolboard policy 7230 gift grants and requests would have to be accepted by the school district. But of course, I want to make sure that you would be all comfortable with it before we even start this endeavor. If there's things you want to add to the website, I tried to put in there about how it's not a school district, we're not using our school district funds. I want to make sure people understand that. We put that sign up for the scoreboard before the referendum to make sure they understood that that was a
060donation. Um, but yeah, if you I have a couple more slides, but any questions you have right now? Well, the only thing I mean I'm fully in support of this if the community wants to, you know, raise the funds. Um, my two questions were, do you have any anticipation of whether they will mandate parking with a big project like that? Do you know or has it been addressed? Because I mean, there's just not a lot of room for parking if you're going to do a big massive build if they would mandate that. I do. It's not a mandate as far as I'm aware of. I can ask Rler. Okay. I know in some of our previous conceptual drawings when they talked about shifting the field, they talked about a parking lot where the green space
061is by the flag pole east. We don't want to go that route. Um parking obviously a somewhat of an issue, but I think improving the ADA compatible bathrooms is the biggest thing right now. Could we could the city find a way to get some handicap spots along those streets? Possibly. But that has not come up in the process with the city or Rettler, but it's a very good question. Something I can ask about. I would just want to make sure before you raised all of it and then you had to come up with a big spot for parking. Anyway, that was the first thing. Um, and then the second thing was I just don't understand procedurally why like if this all goes through the community foundation just like a scholarship that someone gives money to
062and then gives to one of our students. We don't approve those or accept them. So, can you help me understand what the difference is? Is it because it's property or like I mean it just feels like there's a totally a huge amount of money millions that go to the foundation that is given to our students basically then we would we would own this building because it's on our property and one thing you know there's no such thing as a free lunch because we need to maintain it and ensure it and clean it. You know I'm sure we'd have plenty of volunteers to do most of that but it would be another building that we have in the district. So, it's because it's like our we're going to own what these funds pay for versus like
063giving a bunch of thousands of dollars to a student. We don't really Okay. Okay. And then, oh, by the way, the Blue Devils, I'm sure, will use it and everything else. Okay. Okay. And I just want you guys, I mean, be on board, be able to ask questions. I mean, I want to be kind of a community effort. Um, so yeah. Yeah. Do you do you feel like it's a you're you're hearing that you might have a chance at getting the support, garnering it? Do I have any guaranteed? People tell me exactly how much they're going to give. No. But I know of a lot of, you know, veteran community members, senior community members, people that been here for a long time that are excited about this project and a lot of people get nervous
064seeing our senior citizens walk down that hill at all these baseball games. Absolutely terrible. So I do I I I don't know until we launch it, honestly. I mean, I haven't really I haven't told a ton of people about We talked to the city. They're excited. the mayor's on board. Um there's other private community members that are on board. We already had that donation for the scoreboard. I mean, I think there's more people out there, but give money towards something like this. Um but I that's why I want to have a good updated visual of what we want to do and I couldn't do that until I get approval to move forward kind of. Okay. To get to get that website updated then launch it. So, okay. If that helps or not, but yeah, that's
065great. Other questions? I guess just to finish up, I I kind of went through this already. Um, so we wouldn't use any of our building maintenance or activity athletic budgets. There are people who are looking to put more signage down there and adding sponsorships and they want to be part of this project. So some of that money could be used towards, you know, helping with update the website and things like that. Just no more money from the district. It'd be people who are adding on to those signs. So we bring in a pretty good chunk of money each year with those four-year commitments. And I'm already working on more for both Fischer Field up here. I constantly working on that especially in the summer. So, um, and I already talked about the fund and I
066guess this the next steps. Like I said, I already kind of talked about this, but you know, we'll update the renderings. I'll talk to community foundation, set a fundraising goal, launch the website. Um, we'll have to have kind of a social media campaign. I'll work with Charlie and and Valerie on that. Um and then I obviously we'll have to start working on you know getting some plans and starting the process of building plans and permits. So okay, anything else? Um yeah, I do have a question. I guess it is related to the insurance and maintenance. Is there any way we can get like an accounting of what current insurance and maintenance is and what we anticipate future could be that we could. I forgot to mention I I thought about when you brought the question
067up the city actually maintains that in the summer like we have that agreement with Fischer Field in the city. I don't know if you've seen that binder before. Um it's pretty thick but so they they incur some of the electricity and water cost down there. So we could find out we could talk to I could work with Mr. Bant to get an exact breakdown of what kind of expense we have and what kind of expense the city has. U but that agreement they're taking care of that for a pretty good chunk of the year. um I have to look at it a little closer, but in that agreement, it's really specific about those kinds of costs and what time of the year. So, like we're mowing it right now and taking care of the garbage,
068but then they take over once the baseball season's done. I think they I could be wrong, but I think they take care of the the electrical and water down there right now. But we'll look it up for sure. Yeah. When we present our M3 renewal every year, remember it's close to hund00 million of you add up all of our buildings and everything else. So, while this would be minimal, um, it wouldn't be zero. It's a it's would be a $500,000 structure. So, we can we can give you an estimate in the future of what it might and I think this would be a time to look at that binder, then that thing's probably pretty old. And if we're train changing the grounds that much with there's probably different maintenance that'll have to be there's different
069buildings. So, it's probably a good time to look at that agreement, make sure it's current, make sure it covers everything that's that anticipated to be there. And we and we update that every year with the city and we bring that to the board. So, that would be a good example to start that. And there certainly is a um a little bit of quid proquo because they want to put the sidewalk around that area as well. So, that we have a we have a verbal commitment from um both the city manager and the mayor right now. Well, we we can look into that more detail about what times of the year. I think they take care of the utility and water, but I could be wrong. Okay. And it doesn't have to be a real deep
070deep study, but just kind of going through the numbers and just looking at what we pay now and what we could anticipate. Okay. Just if it's not that much different, it's probably not not that big a deal, but y good. predicting three to four years from now by the time we can kind of get an idea of what kind of percentage like what it's costing us or versus a city. Anything else? Okay. Thanks for your time. Appreciate it. So, this isn't a formal motion, but yes. approve. Excellent. All right. Approve. Thank you. Superintendent report. All right. I have a memo that outlines some of the things I want to talk about tonight and then I'll get into the um kind of the I'll call it drama that that's that's happening. just um uh political uh
071my words, not anyone else's. Uh but um the first thing I want to start with is the annual board walkthrough. So I'd like to thank the board members who were able to participate last um Saturday and give a kudos to Tim Graphin for his expertise and time. U couple highlights I'd like to mention was that uh the East Elementary roof is scheduled to be completed by May 31st, 2025, if not a little bit earlier. And then uh the teched and egg areas. That was fun to show that off on Saturday morning. Uh I think we rival anything in Jefferson County and the fence line neighbor area. But I wanted to pause to allow board members to make any comments, questions uh just based on their experience from Sarin. I know during the ribbon cutting ceremony
072everything was shiny and new and walking through this time actually seeing how the Tekk and the A areas are being used was awesome. It's uh great seeing what's being produced and um what the students are up to. So it was a great opportunity. Right. Thanks again. Um the next thing I wanted to talk about was the conference that I attended last week and that's going to I'm going to jump into the title six um things uh later. So uh but I'm I'm going to mention it first. Um so the WD is Wisconsin association of district administrators. So it's the superintendent throughout the uh the state. There's 421. Uh there were well over 30 300 in attendance. Uh so many of the um of the sessions focused on act 20 um strategic planning, legal updates, title
073six compliance. Now we do a I would say a poor job of naming in education. So act 20 is the reading act, right? We talk about that all the time. Well, there's an act 20 every year. there's an act one goes usually up to act 900 a lot of times in but it's almost like share or madonna we just know which act 20 that is that we're talking about so act 20 when people say that in education that is act 20 from um I believe 2022 which is the reading uh bill and the science of reading expectations title six compliance that we're talking about now that is title six of the 1964 civil rights act So every federal bill law has titles to it. So we just we just assume everyone knows what we're talking
074about and we say title six, title six or we say title nine. So I want to make sure you understand that when we're talking about title six in this cont context tonight uh later that's what we're talking about. It's all goes all the way back to the civil rights law from 1964. Um I also attended a session keeping an eye on special education in section 504. Uh Tess O'Brien Heisman is one of the the attorneys that we use through Shane Lewis's law firm. So um I'm happy to report that we're doing well with that regard. Uh keynote speaker on Thursday was Paul Kismer, a happiness expert. Uh you can imagine his room was a tough one when he's talking about happiness with all these grumpy superintendent sitting there. Um short two-c thing to add. Uh
075instead of write, you know, we've all heard of gratitude journals. uh just think of three things that you that worked well for you over the last uh 24 hours. That's what I pulled away from him. Uh and then uh attended a crowded session titled what is currently happening with title nine. So title nine is title nine from the 1972 education act. Uh and um so um if you remember we we deserve we're going to pat ourselves on the back for adopting the 2024 regs and then rescending the 2024 regs and then going back to the 2020 rags which is uh what we what we did in cooperation with Nola. So we're all in compliance with our title 9 updates. Uh and then last but not least I attended a session at 10 what we should
076know what superintendents should consider. So, you probably are aware of this, but it probably it's almost certain that the Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear act 10 appear in the in the future. It could be a year away because it has to follow the appeals process. Um, there's a good chance that there's a high chance it'll be heard at the Supreme Court level. We'll see what happens. Looks like that could be a 42 vote with one conservative justice uh recusing himself from that uh in the future. So, uh, act 10 is from 2011. It was, um, it was the the act that changed collective bargaining in Wisconsin. So, that's my superintendence update from that conference. I appreciate going to that every spring. Uh, it's worth the time and and the effort involved with that. And then
077ticks and measles. Well, uh, if if you've been around my house, you know that the ticks are out in full bloom. Um, so we want to make sure that we uh are educating our families on that. So we put a flyer out from Fort Healthcare into our recent Friday focus uh about the uptick in ticks. Sorry. Uh and then also just to make sure that we are making people aware of the measles outbreaks throughout the country. Uh thankfully I haven't heard of any in Wisconsin yet. Uh we do keep a track keep track of our percentage of vaccination rate uh rate in the district. Uh and right now we do have 44 that are on the waiver list and there's different reasons that they can sign the waiver list. Uh but our vaccination rate is
078higher than the threshold considered a good target of 93%. So just giving you an update on measles. Um hopefully that does not become an issue in Jefferson, but uh we want to be proactive with getting that message out to our families as well. Strategic plan update. So recently we the the window closed for our parent and staff surveys. We received 210 staff responses and 388 parent responses. According to school perceptions, those are very good responses for both. Uh I think it's interesting that Lake Mills did theirs in in a similar time frame. So it'll be fun to compare with them. Uh at some point um Valerie and I have a meeting this week to go over our preliminary results and then down the road we'll have the results that we can share uh with the
079uh school board and then we'll use that as part of our strategic plan scoreboard to make sure that we're keeping track of our that goes with our attract and retain goals. and then also our communication goals and a number of different goals that we set with our strategic plan update from August of 2024. And you can click on the link there that'll take you right to our strategic plan uh website and then we have the scoreboard or scorecard. You can see all the things the numerous things that we're going to track uh over the next uh five years. the the staff and the parent surveys certainly help us with the pillar for staff growth and leadership and retention and then the pillar that connects school through community through partnerships uh as well. Of course, it
080it helps with community uh continuously improving services and operations too. Um so that's the the brunt of the first portion of my report. The second thing I want to talk about is the title six compliance. So, I feel a little bit like a social studies teacher going over this, but it goes all the way back to February 14th. There was a dear colleague letter from the US Department of Education to all 50 states, the the heads of all 50 states. Wisconsin, we have a department of public instruction. Different states do it different ways. We're the good old United States of America, United States of America. So, we do it 50 different ways in a lot of ways. Um, so what happened in Wisconsin is the DPI led by Dr. Jill Enderly said, "Yep, we're in
081compliance." So they sent that um back to the US Department of Education. And then just recently, US Department of Education said, "Well, we want um we want you to sign the compliance form." So back and forth, politics, state politics, federal politics. Not going to get too far into that. Uh but there was a lot of confusion as you know is is the state going to sign this for us? Do we need to sign it as individual districts? We got the legal advice from our attorney that it was never sent to us the form from the OCR. So it does sit at the state level, but it would be a good idea just to send something to Tom McCarthy. That's a deputy um state superintendent just saying, "Yeah, we're all in compliance with our title six
082regulations." That has to do with whether we're uh doing what's called, it's kind of an an odd term uh illegal discrimination. And it does have to do with some of the um the rhetoric out there about DEI or anti-Dei. And I I think it's important to note that we do not have any specific DEI programs in Jefferson. I do note that we we value diversity, we value equity, we value inclusion, but we don't have what's specifically named a DEI program for those types of things. So, you can click on the letter that I sent um to the state um to the DPI just a compliance and that was just to to cover ourselves to make sure that we weren't going to get caught in the middle of this for any threat of the denial of
083future federal funds. So I do want to point out that for 2526 the allocation of what states will get for title one, title uh three, title six funds, special education, everything else that's pretty much set. Uh what is yet to be determined will be the next federal budget and we'll know the 2627 and 2728 federal budget around September. So that's what's kind of happening now at the federal level. So because this isn't confusing enough, uh what happened on Thursday, because the deadline was Thursday to turn in, hey, you're in compliance letter. What happened in Thursday, there were three different federal judges that got court cases. Uh one from the um NAACP, one from the American Federation of Teachers, and the other from the National Education Association. Um, so three different federal judges put an injunction
084on the US Department of Education's dear colleague form that we had to sign for the OCR. So, if you're confused yet, um, uh, the the main thing is we're watching this. Uh, it's going to get played out in the courts. We did the right thing just to protect ourselves by saying, "Yeah, we're in compliance with that." And I do want to point this out, too, and I put this in the notes that you can read. Um, every year going into the year in August, we submit a form saying we are in compliance with and we're not discriminating against any groups of people. So, I think that's really important to point out. We do that every August to be able to um to get uh federal funds. So, I don't want to like kick up a
085bunch of dust, but I know there were three school boards around us that had a an emergency meeting on uh last week to talk about this. We're not to that level here, but I just want to make sure that you all aware of that that I'm following this up on top of this and I'm using legal advice and I think we did the right thing uh last Thursday just to cover ourselves. So, I'd love some questions. Why why did they feel the need for a special meeting? What were they discussing? Um so what happened there was there were different groups. I think the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty sent out some emails. Uh could be to everyone. I don't know if everyone received it, but probably specifically to a lot of board presidents saying,
086"Hey, you better do this otherwise you're in danger of not getting federal funds." So I think then there there's like different levels of covering yourself. The the one level is to is what we did. Another level would be to to sign the form and say it send it to the OCR. But then some lawyers said, "Well, if you do that, you can be complicit by making a statement that uh you're not doing something." So, um I think a lot of uh a lot of attorneys are are frustrated with this, but they're also uh getting some billable hours on it as well. Okay. Yeah, I think I got that letter. I was Yeah. So, I Yeah. So, you know, there's there's different groups out there, but Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty is is tracking this
087from their end of things. And then WSB is giving us advice. And then my association for superintendent, WASDA, school district administrators, is giving legal law advice and we've got a very competent uh attorney. It was great to get a hold of her on Thursday because she was presenting at the conference. So, I just walked up her and said, "Shaya, what do we do?" Okay, on that advice then we didn't need to scramble and do we didn't need to scramble and do a a board meeting and everything else because it was due by five close of business on April 24th. So it would have been very difficult to get that uh emergency meeting together. So and then even if we had the emergency meeting the injunction came out about an hour before close saying yeah you
088don't have to do this. So, so to repeat, not trying to kick up dust, not trying to confuse you, but I also want to make sure you you know that we're on top of this and we're watching this. We try to stick with good old neutral Jefferson politics, but sometimes things uh interfere in our day-to-day as well. Right. Thank you. You're welcome. Um, and that happily is my report. I should say this for announcements later, but I was thinking of it when Mr. Peterson was presenting, but uh Coach Featherson just had wins 399 and 400 and he's probably above that now. So uh that's a big congratulation. We'll have to find a time to honor him in the future for that that milestone. The first meeting in June. Look at look at Mr. Schmidt. So
089thank you. How many will I have by then? Thank you. Any other questions on the superintendent's report? All right, moving in policy and community engagement topics. Uh we 7A is going to be new approval for 5411 the third grade promotion and retention at risk students. It is an action item. This is our second reading of it. Are any questions on that? It'll be the same one I asked last time. um under promoting uh a did we get any clarification on whether we have to do it to their current grade level reading level or just to third grade reading level. Okay. Just whether a team of interested individuals Nope, it's not that. I'm sorry. It's under promoting a sorry until the student scores at don't necessarily have to be what they have to continue. Okay. So
090a when I read that and supports to remediate the identified areas of deficiency until the student scores at grade level which means of their current grade or of the third grade. Okay. So should the policy reflect the fact that that's what we're saying those supports need to remain in place for? Okay. Okay. All right. And we're just going to have an unwritten rule that it's their current grade level that we're going to give the supports up to that for their current grade level without it being in policy or would that be something that goes into administrative guidelines? Yeah. So, if you look at the other attachment is the administrative guidelines. So, that's the way that what we're going to u administer this policy is to make sure it's current grade level. Okay. Okay. Any further
091questions on policy 5411? Okay. And the idea of the test being meets expectations is always based on their current grade level that they're meeting expectations in reading grade level. Okay. So that flow chart gives you more direction as far as what where they have to be. Okay. Mhm. Right. I guess that would be my those were my I had two other questions. So, they were really about the flowcharts and that's why I didn't know if you want me to not ask them because we're really voting on the policy part versus the part that's down below. No, you can ask about the flowchart. Okay. I mean, so it's that supports the policy, but if you have questions about the AG, we want to make sure it's correct. Okay. I I mostly one of the questions I
092had about the flowchart was this yes student has RPR I'm sorry PRP. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. On the second it would be like the only one that's in the second row underneath that that says continue plan as written or reduce frequency of PM and or the level of support in the PRP. What is PM? What is that even? What is that? Okay. They don't have met people and they um proficient is the same as meets expectations. Okay, I just want to make sure. K or two, all they have to do is meet their people. Um, so a student in third grade has to stay on their PR the whole entire school year and you are required to do progress monitor. Um so what that box is that you see all alone by itself has meant that
093the student has met their y but they have not met expectations forward has been given until now okay student is showing they met progress monitoring and the goals of the progress monitor you have the option for progress monitor that's less frequency and reduce the supports okay okay but they can't okay and would there ever be a time in that flowchart you have yes student has PRP which is fine both those scenarios underneath that that are bracketed off are that the school and the parent agree that the student has not or that the student meets. Is there ever a time where they wouldn't agree? Correct. Okay. So, that's not part of this. This is these both scenarios are that everybody agrees either or, but there could be a time where that wasn't an agreement. Okay. Okay.
094It would be a discussion if they're in grade. Okay. Okay. PRP could be as simple [Music] as whatever. Okay. I just I know there's a couple parents that are very concerned and worried about the fact that our district um they don't want our district to go in the direction of retention. um and just really are are worried about making sure we understand the a lot of the social social emotional piece and you know all that stuff and I so as I go through this I I really feel like the focus is on promotion with supports um and I and I really want to emphasize that I think I've had a couple parents that are very concerned they saw that this was happening and I mean they kind of panicked like oh my gosh they might
095hold my kid back for you know reading and that's a valid concern. Um, and so I just want to make sure that we're we're really I I read through this AG. It seems very supportive. It seems very collaborative with a parents, you know, what their wishes are slash also being realistic about how, you know, behind they are and how important the state wants us to take reading, you know, as a as a whole. But yes, Correct. Right. And yet the whole premise of this whole policy which is huge or this act I should say is is the idea of it doesn't seem like it's retention driven. It just seems like we just really want this to be the ma a major priority for districts is these kids being at meeting expectations and reading. Right. So,
096okay, I think that's all I have. Any others? It is an action item. Is there a motion to approve the new policy 5411 third grade promotion and retention at risk students? So moved. Second. With motion and a second. Any further discussion? All in favor of the motion say I. I. I. Any oppose? Say nay. And motion passes. Next up will be our new position descript description for intervention par profofessional. Mr. Gindle. Oh yeah. I'm sorry. This is the second reading. Any new questions on that one? Is there a motion to approve the intervention paraprofessional position description is presented? So moved second with a motion and a second. Any further discussion? All in favor of the motion say I. I. I. Any oppose say nay. The motion passes. Thank you. Next up is going to be
097our first reading of the 2025 summer school staff handbook. Mrs. Krauss and Mr. layman. Sorry, I didn't see you hiding back there in the dark. I don't have any questions. First, I want to start and thank I don't think the mic's on. Thanks. First, I want to say I want to thank um Valerie because she reformatted everything. She's been working on everything so it looks fantastic. So, a huge thank you to Val because she has spent a lot of time on this. Um, as usual, we went through everything. Um, most of our updates that we have are uh dates that we have, some updates on our mapping. Um, if you go through it, you can see that there's some of the things that were uh taken out. Basically, we just link the board policies in
098with that. Uh, one of the things that we changed was the way that we were going to be doing our um absences if teachers were going to be absent. I think that's that's mainly it. Yeah, I was say most of it is at the bottom deleting some of the languages of policy. A lot of it is condensing all of the detailed information per the board policy and just putting embedding the link itself to the board policy and the maps the same as the student handbooks. We're going back to the way it was before Findorf created the construction. And now that everything is gone, we're back up to running as normal with the regular bus drop offs, parent drop offs, and moving the bike ramps or uh bike racks to a safe location. So, the bikes
099are new because I thought that was new that I was looking at this map. I'm like, "Wow, that's where they park their bikes." Yeah. years ago, it was it was right next to the buses on by door 26. So, you got out of the commons and everyone funneled out, but then everyone's riding the bikes around the buses, right? So, as we collaborated on school safety, we're like, shouldn't the bike racks just go up by the auditorium? And but once again, there's parent cars coming in the front circle rather than everyone going to the eagle. So, there's always the, you know, hoping everyone is safe drivers and safe bike riders. Okay. and knock on wood. Okay. We haven't had any problems. Okay. Any other questions from the board on this? This is a first reading, so
100we'll take a look at it again in two weeks. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you. Next up is going to be our review of the 2024 board self assessment. Uh most of us did submit our answers to that and have our answers to review there as a group. Dr. Ern, were you going to make comment on this? Yeah, f first. Thanks for taking the both of the surveys. It it is an apples and oranges comparison, so don't try to compare WSB and and ours. Um what I would recommend, you know, we can have a discussion tonight about some of the the big topics. We certainly can use this information later. Uh we started a tradition of doing a board workshop in July to help set our goals for the next year and
101I think this would be valuable data with um you know our end of the year strategic plan data with the staff and parent surveys. So combining all those together uh and then looking at it but but I I certainly don't want that to stop us from having a preliminary discussion tonight. Any questions or comments from the board on that whenever you look at the school the WSB WSB is done by school perceptions above three is pretty good comparatively. Um so you want to look at yours that score four. you want to look at your score in the twos just as as the you know kind of your top three bottom three is another good way uh looking at results sometimes and then we haven't done this yet but we could always do a correlation or
102a comparison I should say uh between the top three and one and the bottom three of another um and just to see if they if they sync up um I don't want to dissuade anybody from providing or talking now but I do think, you know, the the July, whatever we call it, workshop, workshop would be an excellent time to kind of hash through where we're high, where we're low. I mean, it it fits in with what we want to do there. All right. Nothing really stood out, I guess I would say, as surprising or that I was shocked by. I mean, as far as that went, but I don't know about anyone else. Any other questions or comments? Then we'll roll into our finance operations topics. This will be for the resolution and agreement with
103Wisconsin School Nutrition Purchasing Cooperative. This is an annual thing through CISA. Dr. Ernest, did you want to throw any other details in there? Yeah, the uh the cost of it is $300 and the $300 helps us out throughout the entire year. Um it's it's an investment in to be part of a cooperative that uh allows us to get competitive pricing on a number of our food items that's used in the student nutritional program. Any questions on this? It is an action item. Is there approval of the 202526 agreement with the Wisconsin School Nutrition Purchasing Cooperative as presented? Second. Motion and a second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Say nay. And we're approved. Next up is going to be the revision of the supplemental compensation handbook. Uh, this is second
104reading, I think. Um, any questions on that one? I just didn't get to ask it because I didn't review it at the last one. I'll be frankly honest. I spent my time on the stuff that was not that was second reading because I had missed the meeting. Um, I'm just curious how the substitute loss is like submitted and tracked. I mean are people submitting like today at the end of the day they tell their principal I prepped I was at this person's prep teaching for during my prep hours so therefore I get okay so it's like on a daily basis basically a teacher is going to tell their principal I lost my prep to go teach in this person's classroom and then we we compensate for that if it's their individual prep. Okay. Okay. I
105got it. And then it's submitted. Okay. Okay. I was just curious. And I would love to know how often that has to happen. Um versus I mean, we get subs for some of the stuff, but there's a shortage. So then you're ending up using, you know, having to pull from what I would call things that help people's mental health and taking prep time. So to cover. Yeah. So it we so we use teachers on call and thankfully our fill rate has increased especially since co uh but there are times where we were not killed we don't have building subs available in our district subs available and so we have to and I was a principal having to go to that uh that person say hey sorry but we need you during your prep to fill
106in for so and so. So, we know that exactly what you mentioned, it is a burden on people, especially with their busy days. Uh, but we want to make sure we've got a licensed certified person in front of our children. Okay. And it does say so in there. This is a practice that we have been doing. It just got now added to the book. Yeah. It just got put in here now. I don't think I realized I mean I knew it was happening. I just didn't realize Yeah. until I saw it. bill and we update this annually or not? We do. Okay. Um is there a reason that we can't is it just a timing thing that we can't actually put the amount of the base as um that provisional license step a we just
107don't want to put what that actual number is. It's smart not to just because then that's approved and we just refer to that number. 42840 is stuck in my head and now there'll be a new number after tonight. Okay. All right. So not having it part of the actual it's just nice because then quickly you can figure out what's 6% of that or what's 7% or whatever. How quickly the teachers can do that. Okay. All right. Any further discussions or questions? Is there a motion to approve the revisions to the supplemental compensation handbook for 2025 and 26 as presented? Some moved. Second. The motion is second. Any further discussion? All in favor of the motion say I. I. Any oppose say nay. And the motion passes. All right. Getting into communications, future agenda topics. Does
108anybody have any recommendations? And not hearing any. We'll go into uh board and superintendent announcements. My only thing is I know Mishmid you put out an email asking for volunteers for diploma handouts. Did you receive responses to that? Okay. Perfect. All righty. And that's all I had. Dr. Ernes. Yeah. I shared um um for your information a nice email I received from Leslie Pelican. Uh she's the workforce development um Bureau of Apprenticeship Standards. She attended our career college career day and she gave kudos to a number of our teachers in our building or administration. So I made sure that I shared that with those folks. I want to make sure that I I publicly thank Amanda Wallace for professionalism and organization. Eric Brooks, invaluable, guided her through the process. And then McKenzie Zucker uh who
109helped her out in that day as well. So uh we hear about the uh the bad stuff sometimes. I want to be sure that we hear about the good stuff, good and loud as well. So I do I know Mr. Screda share and Mr. Layman shared that in their report, but it really was a point of pride day uh seeing all the the people there and talking with their kids about their colleges and career opportunities. All right. Thank you. One one little thing to add. Um JHS musical was this past week. I I got to attend all four shows. Um it was really good. Uh the the cast and and the uh the directors did a fantastic job. So And music. Yeah, music was great. Yeah, it was really good. So I wanted to say
110that uh everybody did a great job with that. Very very good. All right. With that, is there a motion to convene into close session pursuant to Wisconsin statutes 19.85, parents 1, C, and E to discuss base wage increases for the 202526 school year. So moved. So moved. Oh, sorry. Second. A motion and a second. That'll be a roll call vote when you're ready, Miss Schmidt. Mr. Condan. Yes, Mrs. Fox. Yes, Mr. Eel. Yes, Mrs. McWill. Yes, Mr. Pelier. Yes, Mr. Nobling. Yes, Mrs. Winkman. Yes.