001Okay, we will call tonight's board meeting to order. Heather, will you please call the roll? Emily. Here. Paul. Here. Tara. Here. I am here and Kelly is excused tonight. Excellent, thank you. Moving on to item 1B, segment of public notice. Megan, was this meeting appropriately posted? Yes. Yes, thank you. Now I'll entertain a motion for 1C, approval of the agenda. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Three votes aye, motion carries. We'll now do the rise for the pledge of allegiance. Carmine, will you lead us in the pledge? I pledge 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. Thank you. Well done. We will now move on
002to item 3A, recognition of National Merit Scholarship Finalists. I'd ask you, Dr. Duke, to kick us off. So It's always exciting when you get to recognize students for their accomplishments and their achievements. Um and we have the privilege of one of our National Merit Scholarship Finalists joining us this evening. Uh both have been uh given their their awards. We've called them out on social media, all that kind of fun stuff. And uh Claire was able to join us, Jason was not this evening. So we want to make sure we take a chance to recognize her. So I'll invite Claire to to meet us up in the front here. Um and then Dr. Carlson, I believe you will take us through that recognition. >> Excellent. Good. How are you doing? How are you? I guess Good.
003I'm ready to start reducing this mic. >> All right, Claire. All right, Claire, whereas Kohler High School student Claire Brotz has been named a finalist of the National Merit Scholarship. And whereas on February 13th, 2026 Claire was presented with a certificate naming her a finalist for the National Merit Scholarship. Claire achieved this distinction by maintaining outstanding academic record throughout her high school career and by earning SAT AC and ACT scores that confirmed her exceptional performance on the earlier PSAT and NM NMSQT. Whereas Claire has continued to demonstrate a commitment to academic excellence, leadership and personal integrity throughout her high school career consistently striving to achieve her best both inside and outside of the classroom. Whereas Claire represents Kohler High School, the Kohler School District and our community in a positive and hardworking manner, serving as
004an example of dedication, perseverance and scholastic achievement for her peers. Therefore, be it resolved that on behalf of the Board of Education and the Kohler School District, we extend our congratulations to Claire Brotz on being named a finalist for the National Merit Scholarship. Give her an applause. >> [applause] >> This is for you. Do you want to say anything, Claire? Are you sure? Okay. And we're going to get a picture uh with the full board. So, we're very proud of you. You have a lot to be proud of. >> Thank you. So, do you have a full board picture? Come on this way. Should we just come up? Yeah. Jesse, why don't you come on up? We want more. Wait, you need a full picture. Okay. Yeah. >> [laughter] >> Okay. Congratulations again, Claire. A
005lot to be proud of. We will now move on to item 4A, public comment. I believe we have two folks who have registered for for public comment. We have Joy and Rebecca. Um Any preference on who would like to go first? Okay, come on up. So, share your uh as you come up and get settled, share uh uh your name. We already have your contact info, so you don't need to repeat that. Um and you'll have 3 minutes. I'll time you, and if we get to the 3-minute mark, I'll ask you to just finish your sentence. And if you still have more to say, you can just share that with us in an email. Um but I'll enforce the 3-minute rule as soon as I hand this off to you. Okay, go ahead. Okay. It's
006tough to follow Claire, but I'll do the best I can. Um good evening to all of you. For those of you who don't know me personally, I am Rebecca Bruder Ebert. I'm a long-time member of the Kohler High School teaching staff. I'm here tonight in my role as president of the Kohler Education Association. The association recently requested an appeal of a decision for which we have provided you all the written documentation. My presence tonight, along with that of other staff members seated in the audience, is to highlight the importance of this decision to us collectively. The denial of our request and the resulting inequity when there has been no change to our handbook or notice to the staff is troubling to us. At issue is an employment benefit often referred to as the ABIL or
007alternative benefit in lieu. This benefit was mutually agreed to by the district and the association decades ago and has long been financially advantageous to both groups. Although scaled back over the recent years, it remains mutually beneficial beneficial and genuinely appreciated. As the locals president this year, I was charged with investigating how this benefit has been administered. In addition to the many teachers currently covered by a non-employee spouse health plan and receiving the ABIL, I contacted retirees who were once employed together at Kohler as well. I found that all prior married couples dating back to its establishment have received this benefit. The first couple received it until 2011, at which time one of them retired. The second received it from 2008 2008 to 2011 when one of them retired. And the third couple received it from
0082015 to 2017, at which time both retired. One couple currently on staff together has been receiving it since 2022. According to our mission statement, every day at Kohler schools, we inspire inquiry, engage hearts, minds, and bodies, and provide supports to ensure all students can achieve success. One of those essential supports is our dedicated staff whose collective efforts have resulted in a state score of just over 93% significantly exceeding state expectations. We represent this district well. When any of us is faced with disparate or dismissive treatment, we all feel devalued. We are Kohler. We strive to do better. In closing, we respectfully request that you abide by the written terms of the handbook and provide the ABIL to any and all similarly situated employees. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have now or in
009the future. I thank you for your time this evening and your thoughtful consideration of our appeal to you. Great. Thank you. You're back up. And just as a process note for for the board and and uh folks here, during public comment, we simply receive comment. We don't ask questions or respond. That's just the nature of uh public comment. So, thank you very much. Okay, Troy, would you like to come on up? And I'll just start whenever you start talking, start timing you. Good evening. My name is Troy Manor, one of the employees that our KEA president referred to. I'm a 22-year educator I've been teaching in this district for 8 years. I've also been a parent here for 14 years. Early in September, I brought an issue regarding alternative benefits in lieu or ABIL to
010the attention of our superintendent. I requested this benefit and was denied. Learning that one spousal couple is receiving the ABIL, while we and another married couple were not, I inquired further and was told they were grandfathered and that the matter would be reviewed. I would like to raise some salient points regarding our denial of this benefit. Grandfathering clearly signifies that this was in practice. It's been established that three couples prior to us currently once received it until they retired. The most recent staff handbook also has no provision of this exclusion, nor does it include explicit parameters of eligibility. This is a matter of honoring the stipulations of the handbook and board policy. While it is true that we are spouses, we are more importantly individual district employees. The language of the handbook is clear and
011it supports providing this benefit to any employee who takes no insurance plan. To deny those who happen to be married to another employee Kohler employee is to discriminate against us for marital status, which is explicitly prohibited by board policies. The ABIL is a valuable benefit option outlined in the handbook with no mention of specific exclusions. I'm simply asking for what the handbook clearly states. It's a matter of principle. I respectfully request that you provide this benefit to all regardless of marital status. I hope that your continued support for the employees of the school district guides in your thoughtful consideration of this matter. Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. Megan, do we have anyone else signed up? Excellent. So, that concludes our public comment. Thank you all for providing them. Move on now to item
0125A. Uh the board president's report. Um I I'll I'll keep this uh fairly brief. Um I know later in the agenda Dr. Jewell will talk about the legislative advocacy he does. Um very fortunate to be part of that advocacy once a month with our Sheboygan County legislators and I can say that Mike does a great job representing this district and advocating for our our students in our community at those meetings. So, uh well done Mike and a big thank you as always to our teachers and staff for the great work they're doing to support our students in our community. Now, move on to item 5B, the superintendent report. A couple things and then Carmine will talk about some testing stuff in his report, but just want to recognize we had a group of our students
013that represent our young women's professional leadership group that they kicked off the women leading Wisconsin event that was held at the American Club. This is an event through CESA 6 that is targeted to specific female leaders throughout the state and included some pretty high-level keynote speakers. And so, our student leaders were able to a join to join that event and also welcome everybody. From what I've gathered is that it was a very powerful opening. I've heard that from at least three attendees not connected to the Kohler school district as well as the validation from some of our teammates here. So that was something that was a great opportunity for our kids and they were able to shine in that. Couple other things that we've talked about just something to put on the horizon. We're going
014to be going through phase two of the playground project and putting that on everybody's radar early. That'll start right after school's done looking at June 15th and run through the beginning of July. That'll be the second section of the playground. With it where the elementary the part that's not been redone. The other thing and we'll be sharing more details on this tomorrow with our staff, but we have three individuals that were named finalists in the Excellence in Education. If you remember a few weeks ago a couple months ago we talked about this and then there was a number of posts and information shared about nominating educators. I believe it was 500 and some nominations that came in for all the school districts. And so we have three folks that are identified as finalists. had the
015opportunity Nate, Natasha and myself to congratulate those folks in person at the end of the day today and there's some next steps in that process to to see if they're going to be one of the winners. All well deserved and so I'm hoping that that connects as well and the great part of this is the information that's shared back with us. We don't know a whole lot, but we're able to share what was written about them and share that with the educator. And so that was pretty powerful and I think they appreciated hearing that information. And then finally we'll talk a little bit more about advocacy, but there's a number of things that are going on in Madison too that are directly connected to us and looking at funding. State surplus has been a conversation
016and we'll touch on that a little bit more in our remarks later. But, that is something that has continued to be a conversation around the special ed reimbursement and the funding. The difference between some certain and some sufficient. And what does that actually look like for districts in their reimbursement for for special education? For a lot of districts, this is a pretty significant financial improvement and and something that we would continue to advocate for. Our local legislators I think have been very responsive in this discussion and I think leading the charge a little bit on some of the conversations. And so, there's the political navigation that needs to take place for those individuals, but that'll be something that I anticipate you all will continue to see, too, through some of the WASB communications and something
017that we'll continue to advocate with our legislators on. Are there any questions for Mike? Are the finalists confidential? They're not confidential. However, we have not shared that with our staff and I want to allow them the opportunity to communicate with their friends and family first. But, yes, I have an email drafted ready to go out tomorrow to recognize those folks and a social media post also ready to go. So. Sounds good. It's exciting. Very exciting. Any other questions or comments for Mike? Okay, we will move on to item 5c, a student representative report. Carmine, the floor is yours. Okay. Um first, I want to talk about the student council blood drive that recently took place. It was very successful and we want to thank everyone who donated and helped make it happen. We especially appreciate
018the support from our student community and staff which [clears throat] helped make the event such a success. Looking ahead to next week, we'll be holding our St. Patrick's Day raffle and dress-up days. All the funds we raise will go towards Down Syndrome awareness, so we encourage everyone to participate and help support this important cause. >> [clears throat] >> We would also like to give a special thank you to all the chaperones who helped with the recent band and choir trip, especially Miss Stokes and Miss Dixon for helping make it such a great experience for the students involved. In athletics, congratulations to both the boys and girls basketball teams on their season. Uh we're proud of the hard work and dedication both teams showed throughout the year. We'd also like to recognize our DECA students who
019competed at state. Congratulations to Oscar and Diego who earned the medals for the role play event. Charlotte and Mel also medaled in the two role plays and Katie Tipton placed seventh in in state and will be heading to national. So, great job representing our school. And then today our juniors took the ACT and we want to give a big thank you to all the teachers and staff who help organi- organize that and uh run the testing so smoothly. And finally, with spring break coming up, we hope everyone has a fun and safe and relaxing break. That's all. Thank you. Awesome. Great job, Carmine. Any questions for Carmine? Well done. Okay. We will now move on to the consent agenda. And the consent agenda includes approval of the February 11th, 2026 board minutes. Approval of invoices.
020The approval of employment recommendations. Included in the employment recommendations is the resignation of Nicole Whitmer uh effective after this school year. Uh we appreciate all the work uh Nicole has done and we'll miss her greatly. Uh but with that, I would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. I move. Second. Motion second. Any discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. Motion carries. All right. Moving on to item 7A. Board learning series, legislative advocacy. I will hand this over to Mike. All right. All right. Here we go. So, as we've talked about, again highlighting from your survey and stuff that we had talked about at the board retreat, a number of areas that you wanted to learn more about and kind of highlighted with your survey results. And so,
021tonight we're going to talk about legislative advocacy and that'll be a primer for school finance next month. So, this is going to get you warmed up for it. So, legislative advocacy is something that has continued to be a powerful tool and something that we need to continue to work on as school districts and board the board of education. It's something that a lot of school districts seem to stay on the sideline about and it's stuff that impacts us on a daily basis. I I was happy to join a county where we meet with our legislators regularly, as Paul had mentioned. And so, that's been a great resource of consistent attendance, consistent support, and just being able to share how legislative decisions impact school districts both from a financial perspective, but then also some of the
022other legislation that passes. And to be able to have real honest dialogue and felt listened to and questions asked of us of as they look at this legislation has been really powerful. But, I think there's still more that can be done and there is more that I would challenge the board to be involved with. And Paul, if I skip anything on our legislative round tables and work, please let me know. So, as most of you are aware, obviously you're part of WASB. And so, WASB has a number of resources that are out there dealing specifically with advocacy. And so, I've included some links in the presentation for you all to take a look at. If you have any issues accessing that information, let me know and we'll make sure you have your WASB credentials to
023to see that. So, that's an association that continues to provide guidance and support in different events that we'll talk about for you to be as comfortable as you can in front of legislators and also advocating for public education. And so, this is one part of that work. The SAA, this is another advocacy and lobbyist group that represents different, uh, school administrator alliance is what it stand for it stands for there and that's really championing public education. So, you'll see communications periodically from the SAA, um, outlining just some different advocacy efforts and highlights of what's going on in the capital. Uh, and so, it's a resource that we continue to use. Some of the items that I mentioned in my report came from an email and communication that we have with SAA yesterday of how do
024we continue to advocate, uh, especially in funding, um, with the special education reimbursement that's been a continued topic, um, throughout last the last budget, um, as well as in two dealing with, uh, the surplus in discussion. So, those are resources that are available and we'll continue to utilize. Mike, can I jump in? I have a question. Where does, uh, I've heard the acronym WASDA and WASBO? Mhm. What are those and do they fit into that? They do. They do. So, yeah, WASDA is the Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators. WASBO is the Wisconsin Association of School Business Officials. And then, AWSA is for our principal group, so we can rattle through those too. But yes, it's it's really a core that represents that, but it's really around advocacy and public education, um, and I think
025that's something that that has been, um, supportive, uh, for for us, too. That's helpful. Are they under the same governance or they all state-alone entities? They're stand-alone entities cuz they represent the different groups. However, the collaboration, um, is often times there, especially when you're pulling some of the financial information to make sure that that's supportive of those other areas. Okay, thank you. >> All right, so uh, as as we go into this and this is one is there is a specific toolkit that is aimed at school board members and this is again in your your materials and also on the WASB website. And while I don't ask you all to memorize this or become completely well versed in it, I think it's important that we continue to tell our stories because if we're not going
026to tell our story, somebody else will write that narrative. And what's going on in the schoolhouse and things that are happening need to be shared because just because you think you know something and you're writing laws and rules about it, I appreciate that our folks have been willing to ask questions, lean in and learn. And so that's that's something I would champion um and also make sure that I push for you all to to join me in that process and making sure that we're sharing and telling that story. I think the biggest impact items that I've seen in working with legislators are what they see in the classrooms versus what maybe the narratives are nationally or at the state level as well as just learning more about here's the specific details from a school finance
027perspective. This is what this actually means. Here's how this impacts school district X, not just the narrative around things that are in other school districts or across the state. So this is a resource and tool that's available to you for you all to to take a look at and highlights and outlines just some different areas. This is something I pulled right here to at the advocacy at the at the board meeting and this is again continuing that work and we have a unique situation where Paul in his professional capacity is also at the table for our legislative round tables and has developed really strong relationship with legislators so that provides a little bit of a a nice addition in there and and while he will always represent Dr. Carlson from Lakeshore College in those meetings,
028it's also nice to have him at the table for my K-12 public education perspective. And so, I think we need to continue to grow this, and it can't just be in the budget years. It needs to be continued discussion. I've been very appreciative of having that continued conversation at the county level with the superintendents, some business managers, and our legislators. And that is ongoing, not just when we get to the budget time. So, those relationships have been established. The questions are asked, whether it's around cell phone policy or special education funding. We're able to have conversations, and we're doing that throughout consistently. So, they know they can reach out to us with specific questions. Just some highlights right now, and this was something that was interesting to and and just in our meetings and that
029connection, and you can see the photo right there of our Sheboygan County group, too. We're We're learning information right on the cutting edge of where things are and and what legislators are thinking. Um and so, this is something some headlines that were out, too. And this is a little bit of the balance in the legislator legislature with our legislators. It's around tax rebates and special education funding. But, it's also understanding their story, what they're working with. And so, while they have championed some some different areas to look at tax rebates and increase special ed education funding, there's also the political dynamics within the capital or with the governor and there's areas that they have to navigate politically, and there's other stories that we could get into on on that, but it's about how do we
030look for that common good and how do we share that information so that our legislators are equipped to share our story, what does that impact, and best support them to be champions for public education, and also get them on our side on a couple of different issues. So, it's been really good, and I think this is something where I give a lot of credit to to our colleagues too at the at that we're sitting at the table too and and um some veteran superintendents that have really led the charge on some of these areas with some pretty direct and and uh honest feedback and I think that's helped to give our legislators an understanding so that they can continue to to lead through their uh political process. And we've had the opportunity uh to connect
031uh with both Devin and Lindy. They've both come for a tour um and we've been able to talk through some different things and it's interesting as you learn what are some of their areas that they're interested in. Um literacy was a big one uh with with uh Representative Brewen when she was here and so we actually connected with one of our reading interventionists and talked through uh kind of his role and what he does and how he supports the kids and and what does that look like and I think that was really powerful for her is to hear that work that's going on right from our students and uh from our staff. And so that was a a great thing um and we've been able to be have them both tour at different times and
032that was helpful. So when we talked about the cell phone policy and when that was going on at the legislative level, we had kind of a front seat to be able to share what does that look like? What are our current practices? How does that impact our instruction? Um and then again building on those relationships. And I have this fun picture of Dr. Carlson here representing and he was uh in Washington D.C. and again this is kind of that balance of obviously we know he has his professional role, but it's great to have him at the table too because he'll continue to be a uh public education advocate. So a few future opportunities that I think we need to look at. Uh day at the capital, this is in line with the biennium budget, uh
033but it's something that I would invite the board as we look at March of next year. Um it is a I think a very good day to uh some introductions, they schedule time with your legislators, and you actually meet with them in the afternoon, them or their staff, and have had a good amount of success in those conversations in the past. They also have the legislative panel that Representative Sheehan was a part of last time, but that's interesting, too, cuz they ask questions and they just discuss different areas. This is in addition to some of the other linkages roundtables items we have, but this is one where you actually go to the capital. My favorite quote quote and Senator Wimberger's in the picture on the on my left right now is you guys again. He
034said that to myself, our superintendent, and our board president when we went and visited him during this event in 2025. And I think that said something to me as knowing his style and knowing him a little bit, I appreciated that, but I think it also sent a message to where they knew where we were going to come in, they knew we were going to champion public education, and we were going to present our information. And one thing that we've been able to do and we need to continue to do is when they ask us questions and specifically around finance, be able to provide here's the tangible items. This is what this looks like. What are some of those other narratives that are out there across the state? Well, here's what this actually means for us.
035And so this is a something that I would invite and encourage us to attend in 2027, but just putting that on the radar right now. Do you have a date for that yet, Mike? >> There's no date set for that yet. It's in that same time period because it also coincides with the joint finance committee, and this is a big thing. And again, having been to a number of these and also participating in in sharing this the school's story and in working with our board members to to be able to present on this and champion what are our priorities in public education has been a really powerful thing. If you're not familiar, the the JFC they travel throughout the state with a number of different listening sessions. And so you sign up in the morning
036and you hope you get called early, otherwise you're sitting there for a long time till your testimony is called upon. And it's it's I've been fortunate to be very early in this, too, but it was also part of a coalition and group of school districts that were represented that shared consistent messages, explained how things impacted them at those levels. And so that's something where I would also challenge us as we get into that financial time in the biennium budget starting is us being able to be engaged with those, come up with our our message that supports, make sure that we have somebody representing our our interests and our district through that process and and being able to participate in that. So that would be another one of those I'll invite you to join me on
037type of items. And then I think there's just been another number of other things. This was an event to that the the governor held and it was they had their staff separated into different groups and priorities and really was a a listening session and the education group got rather large if you can tell by the picture. But that was a chance to for us to speak directly to the governor's aids and teammates about what we were seeing and what our priorities were and this was in Brown County, but what were the priorities we were championing. So there's a number of these that that will start to come up especially when you get into budget time, but again, it's really nice to walk into these events and have oh, it's you guys again because we're not
038just there when it gets to the budget time. We're telling that story throughout and being resources for them. Another resource that's available to you. This is within the WASB materials and on the website and you'll have access to this again. If you need your password, let us know, but there's specific tabs that break down advocacy and government relations. So, there's additional resources in addition to the item that I provided the link for around advocacy. There's some news that comes out and this this is partly your question of what some of the different entities are. WASBO is usually right on the front of anything school finance related. And so, this is their efforts and and how they see that and then their joint messaging with the SAA. And and so, this is again relating to budget
039surplus, special education reimbursement, looking at those areas and how to utilize some of those dollars. So, there's some information that's there. They continue to update this information as we learn more stuff. And again, this is items These are items that we can take and also utilize with the legislators to help tell our story, share that information, and just work towards a common understanding. So, there you go. I was hoping you were going to be here as I picked that picture. So, I'd open that up if there's any questions, but hoping I provide provided a little bit of legislative advocacy information. Really appreciate that work that you're doing. Forming those relationships. Getting involved. You too, Mike. No, thanks. Okay. Thank you, Mike. We'll move on to item 7B, community conversations. Uh students of business professionals, I'll
040hand this back to you, Mike. And then I'll hand it off immediately. Uh so, we had the the student linkage a couple weeks ago now, and so um Emily and Terra were able to join us, and so I want to make sure that uh they have a chance to recap their experience and talk a little bit more about that that linkage. That's true. Um hands down this was my favorite linkage that we've done. The students were awesome. I had six or seven of them um freshman through seniors and um they were overwhelmingly positive. We asked them about their experiences in the school, outside of the school, with school activities um and the things that they really said that were important to them is teachers matter. So loved that. It was the relationships, the strong relationships,
041the the good community that we've built, the stability that they feel, um the support in being pushed, people knowing them personally. It was it was a great meeting. Um their biggest area to grow um for in my group was school spirit. And um I love that because I think we could grow there as well as I sit at girls basketball games with me profe and one student or something. So um yeah, I it was great. It was overwhelmingly positive. They were so grateful for their experiences. Um they had good um they had good examples I guess of why they were happy and yeah, it was I loved it. Appreciated doing it. Yeah. I really enjoyed my group as well. Um we had very similar conversations. A lot of focus on school spirit and they pointed
042out that they wanted to be more connected with the village and that they understand that they're and they want to make sure the village knows that they understand they're representing them, too. And so the school spirit was really important to them. Um they also talked a lot about being aware of how to have a good kind of school work and personal life balance and they felt like the teachers were really understanding of that, Um um and they just like Tara said, they were really appreciative of the teachers. They value the school experience that they're having, and yeah, it was a great, and I really appreciate the kids that met with us. It's great. Great. Appreciate you two being able to be there for the student conversations. And then we discussed the upcoming conversations that will
043be forthcoming with business professionals, Mike. >> Yeah, so we have this scheduled for April. Um a couple things that we need to look at, too. If we do this at our typical time, we can adjust our HR meeting a little bit. Um but this would be looking at 4:30 to 5:15. Um we're looking for any recommendations if you have folks that would be interested in attending this. I'd say especially from kind of the HR talent development um side of things. I've reached out to a couple folks and have some folks that uh could potentially join us, but I think that this is one that any resources and help is always appreciated on. That personal invitation means um something, and so there's some questions. What I've found with this linkage, too, is this is one that
044um you usually get a good number of folks in the room, and you're able to talk about these questions and really expand on them. So, trying to keep these high-level questions, and then uh being able to to to guide that work. Uh definitely open to any adjustments or things we want to to ask and and work with folks on. Um but that's what I would be asking your help for is if you have any feedback on questions, let me know. And then if you have any recommendations or can make any introductions, um we can then invite those folks uh to the table for for that linkage. Like in Kohler specifically, or broader? It can be broader. I think if we Yes, ideally we're we're staying as local as possible, but I still think we can
045uh branch out a little bit more, so. Um I'll be virtual this meeting. I'm going to give me Chef running HOSA in the Dells. So, I'm not sure if that's possible for the linkage, but just that way. We can see what we can do on that one, Tara. Logistically on that, Tara, can we then move up the HR meeting? Right now, we have it tentatively for 4:00. Can we do that 3:00 p.m.? 3:30? I apologize. Sure. If not, we can We can we can work on scheduling that event, too. Okay. You will need to check the HOSA schedule, though, so that I can't I'll look at it. Okay. Okay, so we will uh I'm getting a little bit of an echo there. Sorry. Uh again, if you have feedback on the questions or uh edits
046to the question, get those to Mike and uh if you have any connections uh with uh employers, get those to Mike, also. Maybe help facilitate those uh if Mike doesn't have a connection with them already. So, you're looking for the HR people and I think that's I I think if it's beyond that, uh we can we can uh >> [laughter] >> We will definitely We'll definitely welcome uh >> [laughter] >> any anybody kind of on that that business professional side. I I do feel like some of that, especially in kind of talent development, where they're seeing some of the the the skills that are coming out and what do what do we want to see? I think that can be a more fruitful discussion for some of them, uh but definitely open to others. Do
047not want to close any doors on on that. All right. Thank you. We'll go into item 7C, our broadcast communication that uh Emily has authored. I thought it was a fantastic broadcast communication. Appreciate you running point on that, Emily, does anyone have any uh uh feedback for Emily? Thank you. I just like how robust it is in such a one page. Like I I really liked how you have the different pieces of each component. Um so, I just appreciate appreciate the depth that you went into of all all the different pieces of it. So, thank you for your work on it. Great. Great work. Okay, we'll move on to item 7D, review of the board calendar. Mike? Yeah, so just a couple things. We we do this every month. So, looking at that, the business
048professionals, obviously that that linkage, we have a number of committee meetings scheduled and we'll be looking at a policy committee meeting um taking place in April as well. Uh we have our NEOLA updates. We're reviewing those um with our representative on Monday to go through a number of those items that then we bring forward to the policy committee. Uh there's a couple other policies we're going to look at reviewing um at that time, too. Um and so, we'll we'll work through those together as we continue to update different items. So, uh watch for that for our policy um committee and I know they're aware of that that's on the horizon. And then we'll have our school finance 101. Uh so, Melissa, new director of business services, she'll have started by then and we're throwing her
049in right away. She's gets to do a school finance 101 presentation. So, talked to her yesterday about that. I think she's going to be um excited. Um and then I'll work with Heather, too, on our next broadcast communication um as we go through uh those items. And finally, we have too, with our goals that we set in July. Um and I'll be able to just bring you up to speed on a couple of those things um with where we're at and how we're working towards um completing or working through that that project, too. Um so, excited to share that information. Great. Thank you, Mike. Something to to think about as we get, you know, the end of this year, this school year, end of July, it it might be helpful, or it may be helpful
050for me, I don't want to speak for the rest of the board, that once we finish our final uh community conversation, to have you synthesize the the main themes in in in in a report. Now, I'm not talking about a 10-page report, but like a one-pager that we could all review together, um and and hear about how you're thinking about that, and any uh next steps that you would identify as part of those. I think that would be a a great way to um round out all the community conversations and see where that goes. Okay. I Sorry, real quick. I also just wonder about that summary if maybe that could be one of the village articles, too. I just think like we're so blessed for these linkages, and I I know they're in our agendas,
051but I do wonder just if people in the community know kind of the reason and the purpose, and I think they're really powerful. Mhm. Um and that was, you know, something I really appreciate you bringing here to us, so just an idea. We could I think we could set that up as kind of our July article to kind of kick off that and reframe that of a little bit of a recap. Yeah. Okay. It's a great suggestion. Okay. As our last last action item, now we're on to item eight, uh I will entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Okay, motion second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. We are adjourned at 6:30.