001[music] like to call to order this meeting of the cross board of education. We recognize that the school district of Lacrosse occupies the land of the Ho Chunk people. Please take a moment to celebrate and honor this ancestral Ho Chunk land and the lands of all indigenous peoples. >> Secretary, please call the role. >> Mr. Alberts. >> Mr. Veski, >> excused. >> Miss Books, >> here. >> Dr. Garcia. >> Mr. Jackson, >> excused. Mr. Ma >> here, >> Mr. Newister, >> Dr. Sprag, >> Miss Supa >> here. >> A quorum of the board of education is present. So the regularly scheduled meeting of November 3rd, 2020 2020 2025 is called to order. We will now have the pledge of allegiance. Please stand and face the American >> flaggation indivisibley andice for all. >> For those
002of you sitting near me, I'm not contagious. I've done the COVID test. I just sound much worse than I feel. So, I'm just being cautions. Um, tonight's agenda has been previously distributed to the board. I would entertain at this time a motion with a second to approve the agenda as submitted unless there is a motion to >> amended. Second motion second. Any further discussion? All those in favor of the motion signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed? Motion carries. We have no public speakers this evening. So, we'll move on to the school showcase, the Culinary Arts Academy. >> Right. At this time, I'd like to invite up uh Dr. Rotoring to present on our culinary arts academy. >> Hello. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to present tonight. Dan is going to
003project our presentation. Thank you, Dan. Um, I'm Britta Roing, supervisor of career and technical education for the school district of Lacrosse. And I'm here tonight to talk a little bit about our culinary arts academy. This academy is one that, well, I'm really excited about all of them, but this one I'm super excited about because we are in year two of this program. So, culinary arts academy is one that fits within the hospitality and tourism industry. So, oftentimes people will say, "How did you know this was a need? Where did it come from?" And so what we did first was we looked at the career pathway of hospitality and we looked for what was already represented and what may have had holes within that pathway. And we started that work in fall of 2022. Um how
004did we identify the need and what ne what were the next steps? So the next steps were that we spent 2122 taking a peak not only of the current family consumer science offerings but what was already within the pathway and what was missing, what was already being done well and what could we build upon. And so at that point we were working towards not only expanding our opportunities but also hiring teachers in those positions who had the capacity to take the pathway further. And as you know in hiring and looking for the exact right people to fit our team. Um sometimes that takes time you have to write wait for the right person in the right spot to be able to truly grow the opportunities as we would like to. So we did exactly that.
005Um continuing in 2021 222 into 22 23 and then 23 24. Um we actually ended that year with going from 1.2 2 family consumer science educators at Central High School and Logan High School to 3.0 um now this year in 25 26 at Central High School and a continuation of 2.0 at Logan High School. What that means is we not only were able to have appropriately rellicensed and appropriately prepared family consumer science educators, but we could build the pathways within those buildings and then look at what would be that next level of how we could cont create a capstone opportunity which we know as the culinary academy. So as I mentioned we had a revision of the pathway and the revision of the pathway actually started before the nth grade level. we had an opportunity
006when we went from three middle schools to two middle schools um to look at how we offer our exploratory career and technical education electives. And so what that meant was previously our middle school electives um may have been for example in family consumer science a course specifically on culinary arts and a course that focused more on um fashion, fabrics and textiles. What we did then as we consolidated the middle schools across all of our middle school career and technical education programming was we did what I like to call the appetizer sampler. And so we made sure that the representation of each of our areas, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade had a little bit of every pathway so that everything was being explored um across each grade level at the middle school. That work at the
00768 level was very important because as you know that's the first exposure and then the continuation as the students get through to the high school. We also updated our curriculum and our content. We added active career and technical student organizations in this case specifically family career community leaders of America. And then we were able to continue what had already been occurring in the academic career planning or ACP work. um but also to continue to extend upon that um as we built that hospitality pathway. The pathways continue to be revised throughout 2223. We added additional culinary courses in our high schools. Um we revised foods for life. We added advanced foods and world cuisine. Two of those offered for dual credit or transcripted credit with Western Technical College. Um, we enhanced the hospitality and tourism course
008which is offered within the business and marketing department. We continued by extending to three levels of marketing within the business and marketing department and extended by adding an entrepreneurship class. We created two strong or continued to build upon two strong FCCLA chapters at both of our high schools. We created strong work-based learning opportunities and then we continued to expand upon our academic career planning lessons. throughout 2223 just continuing on we continued the pathway revisions we l worked with technical college in creating proposals um and what happened was actually in February of 22 we were at Western we being the school district of lacrosse hosting the FCCLA region 5 competition and that was the day that Western made their official decision or or excuse me announcement that they would be closing their culinary arts program. I've
009been a part of many projects there um throughout my career in K12 and I knew that was the time to say hey what about us and so the first thing I said was to the director of ling and grounds please don't sell your equipment we want to buy it and then I realized we can't buy that you know with the amount of money that would cost for one item so I said could you guys give me a little time and allow me to make a proposal I think we the school district of lacrosse we could inhabit that space and we could do great things and so this was really kind of I call them all babies right baby or dream that had been thinking of and dreaming of. And up until that point, I thought
010we could bring this industrial culinary space to our buildings, right? But this again was 22. We know where things are at. We weren't sure what was going to happen with our buildings, etc. And so they said, "Sure, we'll hear you out." I spent about the next year and a half creating the vision of the culinary academy. And like I mentioned when I started out tonight talking about building our pathway, doing the work to have our students ready for a next level opportunity, having the right instructors there, and by right I mean not only prepared and licensed, but also passionate, dynamic people who could do this, who could be a part of teaching this each day. And so as Western said, "Okay, Bridto, we'll listen to you. You're here. You're out." Like I said, every couple
011months going back with a new revision or reiteration of what this could look like. um they kept saying yes or they kept saying come back and and answer these questions or we'll take you to the next level and nowhere along the way did they say no and I have to say that's attributed to our partnerships our support within the district of lacrosse and then the support that we have um with the WTCS system uh they wanted to know all the things who's going to handle this who'll handle that who will pay for something if it breaks what's our MOU how do we get our students here what does that look like and we were able to work together as partners to be able to create that agreement We actually had anouou in place for a
012year and a half before this culinary academy started. And the reason why I had it in place is I knew once I got it, I wasn't going to get it again if I let it go. Right? And so for the first year um before we were officially off the ground with the culinary academy, we would take our advanced culinary students over from both high schools. And we do that on our EL days, our Wednesdays and Thursdays to get them familiar with the space, to get them excited about the opportunities and to be able to um really make sure it was the right fit for us. During that year, we were pretty certain that it was. And so we continued on by, like I said, creating those agreements, um, dotting the eyes, crossing the tees, making
013sure that things were all set to go. And then we started the process here, excuse me, finalized the process here of presenting our course build, our structure, um, aligning our agreements with not only Western, we also have a course lined up with Chipoa Valley Technical College. And please cross your fingers with me on this one. We are working on Gateway Technical College. We're almost there. Yes. um oftentimes they're like lacrosse, why are you reaching out to us? And it's like because we want to play, you know, we want to do this together, right? It doesn't matter where we're lining it up for our students. Um but the fact is we're just about there on that last one that we will. So things have been going really well. Like I said, in the um spring of
01424 was when we presented this to students. We made it as an opportunity that students could have and we started to look at that recruitment stage. So that actually um leads me to slide 10. I'm going to jump just a little bit there just as a reminder what's in that pathway before when we get to like I've referred to many times tonight many times tonight building that pathway and making sure that we share that with students. So again that's a sequence of courses that we have built opportunities for students to earn industry recognized credentials. Those that we have embedded are prostart and we're just about there with serve safe. Our instructor just got certified. If any of you have ever taken that test, it's it's a tricky one. Some many people have to take it
015a couple times, right? Especially the instructor version. Um, embedding those work-based learning opportunities, the dual credit opportunities I talked about, and the students being able to be involved in a career and technical student organization such as FCCLA, FBLA, HOSA, DECA, Skills USA, Educator Risings. So, those are all the things we wanted to build in that pathway and we did. And so then we kicked it off in the fall of 24. Um and that year we had um it looks like low numbers numbers if you check the look at what I have on the screen. We had eight students and seven finishers. But I will tell you if any of you saw our students there, those seven students were incredible watching what they did that year. If you can imagine if you have courses in that
016new environment with with two instructors, um those seven students had so much attention and so much opportunity. Uh it has been amazing to watch them. They were a combination of juniors and seniors and then that leads us to this year which is our second year. Now the culinary academy is a one-year program which is different than our othermies in Lacrosse which are all two-year. So the culinary culinary academy is open to students who are juniors or seniors. Um we have a cap of 15 students. This year we stretched it by one. We admit at 16. The reason why the cap is so tight is if you've ever worked in a lab-based setting, in a culinary setting, um you you might understand that pretty well. If you have too many students, idle hands, they don't have
017the opportunity. Um and of course a significant um focus on the safety of our students in those industrial kitchens. So this year we admitted 16, the cap was 15. Um and we had nine students that we weight listed. And we listed all of the uh of those nine, they were all juniors. So, every student that we wait listed, we said, "We're going to set you aside for now because we have too many, which is a great problem to have, but we'd like you to apply again your senior year, and we're going to reach out to those students individually this year to give them that chance to do that." So, we've got a full house over there. Um, it's the similar logistics as the rest of themies, our instructors, our buses, our students. We purchase the
018parking passes, our curriculum content, like I mentioned, dual credit agreements. Um, that's a a part of my role. many mornings I start at at one of themies and so we're in a really good spot. Um, our academy has two instructors. The first one is named Candace Kina, Miss Kina. Some of you have had the opportunity to work with Candace, family consumer science teacher. Came out of a non-traditional setting. Um, came into the classroom, I believe, four years ago and has been shining ever since. Like I told you, we had the agreement for about a year and a half beforehand. I was waiting um for all the things to be in the right spot, our curriculum, our growth, our student needs to be ready for next level opportunities um and for the right instructor to be
019able to really own that. Um Candace and I have spent a line lot of time together over the last uh four years, but specifically three years as we've worked to get this off the ground. Um she's been absolutely instrumental in making this what it is. We do have a second instructor. Her name is Miss Sheila Works. She's at Logan High School most of the day and she actually teaches English for us at both of ourmies. Um she teaches English at the engineering academy across the street. So she takes English uh English 12 and wraps it around an engineering setting, creative ways to solve problems, walks across the street, has a little prep time and then teaches English 12 again wrapped in a hospitality setting. So, I like to say Candace makes English come alive for
020students who have chosen a very excuse me, Sheila who have chosen a very specific uh path and then she transitions back to Logan High School for the remainder of her day. Um the academy model I' I've talked a little bit about if there are additional questions when I'm done I'll certainly um have the opportunity to answer those. Um but again it's the first three periods of the days students attend there and then they come back to their home high school. Um, ourmies have students from Logan Central, CRVA, and PY. And occasionally, one of thesemies, well, more than occasionally lately, uh, one of thesemies will have a student actually leave their home district to enroll into the district of Lacrosse to be able to be part of one of thesemies. Um, I say these are many
021of the phone calls I take. They are the only academy that has open doors is a health science academy. The rest are closed. And so we've had students from other districts as far as um Veroga, DInnesota, and Sparta last year come to tour and to observe in our culinary arts academy um as a consideration of was it something that they wanted to come to Lacrosse to be able to have the opportunity to participate in. So we're very proud of that whether or not they decide to transition that they're interested enough to spend their time doing that. We've also had a student come to shadow Miss Kina, the culinary instructor, uh to be able to watch a family consumer science educator in action, but one who is teaching at a separate location in a capstone environment.
022Um, as I mentioned, the school district of Lacrosse has fourmmies. Sometimes people ask me how long have they been around. I believe engineering is in year six. Our architecture construction academy or ACE is in year 14. Health Science Academy is in 17. And as I mentioned, the culinary arts academy is in year two. Um, we have just included in this presentation, which I know will be uh shared as well. If you would like, I do have listed uh our courses and then the standards that we are using in assessment, standardsbased teaching and learning for these courses. The students have four four different culinary courses. Like I mentioned, three of those four are lined up for dual credit and almost number four. We're hoping for second semester to that one to be set as well as
023the English 12 that I had mentioned. Students not only take our courses and have these opportunities, we also are partnered with many areas of business and industry to create um agreements uh that extend outside of the classroom. One of the agreements in our partnership with Western for this location using their multi-million dollar industrial culinary space was to say, well, they said, you know what will happen when these students leave? Well, right next door to our culinary academy if you walk out the door and right over is the Kum Center. That is their dining facility at Western. Many of you have probably been there. And so they said it would be wonderful if we had a student in the culinary academy or a graduate of it to come be a youth apprentice with us and I'm
024excited to tell you that they just hired the first one. So we had a student named Eli. He is a polytechnic student. He's a senior this year. He was not able to be with us tonight. Um, but he went through the culinary academy last year in our initial year and he was just hired last week. Um, I will say that, uh, each time he gets an update on his application or his interview process or his hiring, he sends me an email and I read those with absolute joy. So, he's excited for his first day, which will be Thursday of this week. Um, and he, like I said, came through the culinary academy and is now there continuing his senior year at PY as well as, um, he'll be three periods a day as a youth
025apprentice in their union market. So, as we continue through the next few slides, just a little bit more information about our courses. I'm going to go a little bit quicker than expected there. Um, I had an opportunity to already talk about our English curriculum and our credentiing. And I really want to get to the fun part, which is slide 21. And you can see some of the cool things that we had a chance to do last year on slide 21. And that would be our culinary academy events. So we kicked off the year in September of 24 last year and then in August um excuse me went through 24 and then in the spring of 25 we had a senior spotlight and our senior spotlight were all of our senior culinary and engineering academy students.
026We had an amazing spread of food and we had our seniors in the engineering academy display um their projects, their capstone projects that they'd worked on throughout their senior year. We had family members, community members, business and industry partners there trying sampling all the products. As you can see in the pictures here, our students lined up in their black chef coats and then they would head in and be able to watch an individual presentation from a senior student about the project or um problem that they were trying to solve throughout their senior year. We also um continued throughout the year last year 24-25 with multiple opportunities to cater, to partner, to host. Um, so our culinary students are having opportunities to take their products that they're creating and share them in other settings outside of
027just our classroom setting. And if we take a peek at slide 22, you can see in the middle that is our culinary academy logo. If you have a chance to go into Western or walk by the um the dining facility there and look to the left, you'll see this logo huge on the wall. This was student created last year. So that's the logo of the Lacrosse Culinary Arts Academy. And there are pictures here of students last year in their chef coats and our instructor in the middle. And then I'd like to show you our I call them our family photos which would be on our next slide. And that is our group this year. And so those are our current culinary academy students. You can see they are in the industrial kitchen there um dressed
028to go. Uh, I think some of them maybe are a little bit nervous because we did have our communications coordinator, Nick Maru, there um, taking their photos, but we try to be light-hearted, calm family photos. So, okay. I know that was a lot of information. Um, but are there any questions or comments or things that I could clarify for the group? Yes. >> You said the academy is one year, not two. Could you explain why you chose just one year and not two on that? >> Yeah, great question. Um, when we looked at what we felt was essential to build, we wanted to create an opportunity that was attainable for students that they didn't have to commit to in 10th grade. Sometimes people don't find hospitality or culinary until they're a little bit later on.
029And we really felt that we could embed in there most of what they would need to be successful for their next step in a one-year setting. Being candid, I didn't felt like feel like we needed two full years based upon what we were offering in the high schools once we started really beefing that up. what we needed to be able to take it pretty darn far. >> Do you anticipate like it maybe a second year down the road where it would culinary arts two or something where you're able to take it again as a senior? >> Yep. Yeah, that's a great question. So, like I said, there's those four culinary courses that we embedded and we actually wrapped two of those around business courses at Western. During that year and a half planning process, I
030was able to write them in the culinary curriculum, address the standards, tie them to the business courses, and line them up. So, we did this in a way that all those courses walk really well right now into one year, two-year, and four-year programs. So, if we add in another year above that, that would take us even deeper into those next levels. Yes. Um, right now, if I were to guess what that would look like, I would say year five probably. >> And what doesou stand for? >> Oh, I'm sorry. Memorandum of understanding, memorandum of agreement, contract, um, handshake with words. Remember, so you got to explain a few. >> Absolutely. I'm sorry. I'm I need to Yes. Slow down. Yes. >> I think I know like nine of the kids uh pictured there and every
031single one of them absolutely adores the experience at the culinary academy. I uh was talking with Stephen uh one of the guys in there uh Friday night on the drive back from River Falls and he was like, "Yeah, know one of the things we had to do the other day was they chose they looked at local restaurant menus for supper clubs and they had to put like a spin on one of the dishes. >> They had like a burger competition between the teams. Like the things they do are really cool and they work on like plating and things like that. So, it's really valuable experience and a very enjoyable environment. Thank you so much for sharing that. That's incredible. And the burger challenge is part of our ProStart curriculum and our ProStart challenge which is
032something that we participate in at a at a state level. So >> yes, >> I'm wondering uh the FCCWA, those chapters, is it WA or LA? >> LA, sorry. Yeah. Um so that's cool. There's a professional organization that students get to participate in. What kind of opportunities does membership in that group offer for them? >> There's three areas of membership in that group. Um, one is connected to your community and that doesn't have to be necessarily anything formal. That could be something volunteering hours, uh, uh, doing something at a community event that is considered helpful, right? Formal or informal setting. The second one is where it's connected to their curriculum and content. So, what they're doing there embeds back into the learning that they have within their courses, not only family consumer science courses, but
033really courses across our entire curriculum. And then the third one is they have the opportunity to compete. and they can compete at the regional level and that advance to the state and national level and there are now 58 different areas of competition. There's something for everyone from someone who wants to memorize the creed and stand and say it and then at the end they ask them which line of the creed is most impactful to you and why. I might have judged this one a few times. And or the student can say, "I want to compete in wild game fabrication." And it literally is here's your goose. You're gonna cut it down into retail parts and then tell us what you'd make with each of these cuts. Um all the way to fashion design and construction
034where a student might have a sketchbook and create their their sketches and then their designs and their application and then present it. But again, there's those three areas. Of course, I think students involved should take advantage of all of them or as a past adviser, we try to lead them along, right? But even if a student now say shows up to a meeting, wears the t-shirt and at the end of the day says I was in this thing and even if they called it FCCLA wa okay right because um in my experience as a previous adviser when students can say they belong to something right and they have some ownership that's that's pretty impactful. But those are the three official ways. >> That's awesome. >> Yeah. I just have one more statement if I could.
035For somebody that's in the food industry, I I got to tell you how important this is and how it uh how happy I am to see it because once we lost that from uh TC, it was a it was a major hit to a lot of us in the food industry and you know to bring kids into this to see what it's about and maybe find their passion >> is instrumental and very important and and I'm thrilled that we're doing this. So, thank you. Thank you. I appreciate your comments very much and I will pass that sentiment along as well. >> Thank you. >> I love this idea, too. I think it's awesome. It's as someone who learns by doing things, I love um these sort of practical, hands-on kinds of experiences. Do we anticipate
036continuing to have access to the facility at Western Technical or is there a timeline on that? >> We're crossing everything I can when I answer this. Absolutely. Yes. I see no reason to think that that we wouldn't. I think back to vision vision 2020, you know, when when that space was renovated and the money that was put in there. Um I can't imagine that that space and that the the equipment, the quality of equipment and the access, you know, going away. Yes, you could sell it, but oh my goodness, what what a loss. I'm going to be canned when I say I'm going to hope that we I do enough that we do enough and they see our students shine and they see them come through that they look at it and think how could
037we ever have not done that. Um but if that would come to be whatever had happened I would certainly you know try to reapproach again and ask for an opportunity to come to the table and and maybe see what us a different iteration would look like. Yeah. Thank you. >> Have another question. Um, I think this is like the the model for a kind of program that makes us an attractive district. It is really really heartening to hear you say we have students from outside looking at coming [snorts] specifically for this thing. And I it's not the only thing that we have, but it's it's great to see it showcased. But related to Meredith's question, I'm wondering what does so at least part of this was initially funded through the Carl Perkins grant? >> Yes.
038Our our our curriculum and and training, not a large part of it. >> Oh, okay. >> Yes. So I'm wondering what the funding future looks like in terms of grant opportunities or or if that creates some potential instabilities for you. >> Absolutely. So right now Carl Perkins is still with DPI. If it goes to Department of Workforce Development, I think we'll be okay. Okay. And we have had that to be able to spend in Carl Perkins. I have to uh write that P pathway extensively. And that pathway is one that we are um in year four of in our grant. I was working on that right until I ran in here. And um I think that we'll be fine to spend in it even if it transitions over. Another area to look at are the
039Department of Workforce Development grants and some of the innovation funding that's coming there. Um I will say when we created this academy, we wanted to be very careful not to, you know, try to ask for extra dollars. Of course, we need some extra. Um but we because we are at Western, we were able to jump on the same bus. Um we're able to, like I said, utilize the English instructor have her walk across instead of driving back to Logan. Um, Western doesn't doesn't charge us for anything. Um, if we weren't offering some of those culinary sections there, we'd be offering other culinary sections back at our home high schools. Um, we [clears throat] already had the FTE in terms of the instructor. So, I feel pretty confident that we've built something that we're able to
040sustain. U, but I will always beounding and searching for additional grants and um, making sure that we're not only living on something that feels loose. >> That's great. Thank you. Yeah, of course. If I could take could I take two more minutes to show a quick video. Is that okay? Okay. All right. So, if we can jump back up, Dan, to the link. I was a little nervous when I started, so I wasn't sure I'd have enough time, but I'd just love to show this quickly. The Culinary Academy is a one-year program offered through the school district. The Culinary Academy is a one-year program offered through the school district of Lacrosse. The academy is unique in that it allows students to [music] explore the culinary operations pathway. It gives them industry relevant skills. It will
041give them hands-on lab experience in a setting that is mirrored to what they would see in a food service industry. We will also have the option for students to get up to 10 transcripted credits and a customer sales certificate that will be offered through Western and that is an industry um recognized credential. >> I wanted to learn more of the nittygritty preparing recipes, read them and learning how to make your own recipes and actually turn that into a dish and just get a more basic understanding of the cooking world. I've [music] gotten better at being more creative with my dishes. And I like the satisfied look when I serve my food and they're like, "This is really good. Best dish ever." I find the joy in helping others taste good food. >> It gives them
042the leg up to build industry relevant skills like learning culinary techniques and preparation. learn the different professional equipment, the hierarchy of how a kitchen works, learning how to be a professional, learning customer service skills. >> It was a real eye opener to what the commercial kitchen will look like. I can't wait to go back. I plan on attending culinary school in Milwaukee, get my bachelor's degree, and then I plan on opening up my own [music] restaurant. >> But most of all, I think it's the soft skills. how to work together as a team, leadership, time management, how to show up and work hard, building a good work ethic. I think those are all skills that they [music] can use not only in a professional kitchen or in a culinary operations, but in any career they
043choose and in life in general. So, an awesome opportunity for students. >> Thank you. That that was Candace Klein, our instructor [applause] there. So, thank you. >> Thank you. We'll now move on to the business and community partnership recognition. >> Uh yes, [clears throat] today we have an opportunity to recognize uh five uh businesses uh using uh through the Wisconsin Association of School Board's business honor role. And uh these businesses were identified uh in collaboration with our administration and the school board. And I'd like to thank in particular Dr. Rotarying for helping identify some of these businesses who have really made a significant difference in our kids' lives, in our community, and in our in our education. And so with that, I will start with the first one. Um, I'll read the award. I'll hand
044it off and then if uh the folks that are here representing that uh industry or that business would like to speak or say anything, uh you're more than welcome to. Uh so first is uh DA Automotive. This award recognizes outstanding dedication to education and community service in addition to excellence in the classroom. Um [clears throat] uh the recipient uh supports student achievement through auto tech scholarships empowering the next generation of skilled technicians. Their commitment extends beyond education. It's exemplified by their annual Lubathon benefiting the family and children's center demonstrating a heartfelt dedication to making a lasting positive impact both in and out of the classroom. And I can say from personal experience, I've done a site visit there and seen kids working. Uh it is just awesome to see kids hands-on, engaged in an industry
045that really needs uh great folks here in Lacrosse. >> [laughter] >> Dennis Love and Kyle Barter here. >> Thank you so much [applause] real quick. [clears throat] >> Hi Kevin Ruck. I'm the general manager of Doll Lacrosse. Um, you know, certainly it's an honor. Uh, the things that we try to do in the community are are kind of what our mission is is to keep people moving. And we don't believe that's just by buying and selling cars. That's for sure. Um, you know, the things that we're always looking for is is how to support the community around us because without a strong community, it's really hard to do a lot of things, right? And so, uh, we really appreciate the the nomination and the and the honor. Um, you know, we don't do it for
046those kind of things. We do it to to do exactly what I just said. So, uh, it's a little humbling and and we're honored to have you, you know, recognize us for the things that we do and truly appreciate it. So, thank you. [applause] >> Uh, next is Quick Trip Corporate. Quicktrip corporate has been an incredible partner of our Lacrosse Engineering Academy, our youth apprenticeship program, and in providing academic career planning experiences for students across the pre kindergarten to 12th grade setting. Uh excited to have Quick Trip here. [applause] >> Congratulations. Thank you. >> Good evening everyone. Uh my name is Matt Sloan uh with the operations maintenance department at Quicktrip. On behalf of QuickRip, I'd like to say thank you for this recognition. At Quicktrip, we see great potential in the students of the
047Lacrosse Engineering Academy as well as the uh high school youth apprentichip programs. We've seen great success with the students that we've hired and in those programs and uh plan to continue to support those programs in the future. >> Thank you, ma'am. [applause] Uh, next is the Rivlly Theater and Pizzeria. The Rivlly Theater and Pizzeria has been a valued partner to the school district of Lacrosse, contributing to student learning through both community engagement and career development opportunities. As a supportive employer in the youth apprentichip program, the Rivy provides students with hands-on experience in hospitality, customer service, and food service operations. Their continued commitment to mentoring youth and supporting real world learning helps strengthen the district's career technical education efforts and prepare students for success in the workforce. [applause] >> Hi, I'm my name [clears throat] is
048Jenny. I'm the events manager at the Rivlly Theater. U and yeah, thank you so much. This is definitely an honor. Um, and yeah, we have a lot of fun doing uh our programming especially around the school areas. Um, I personally [clears throat] um did the apprenticehip program. Uh, Oliver Olsen uh was my intern for events. He was amazing and it was a really fun experience getting to work with him and see him grow and flourish and um yeah, so we just we love uh we love this community and um yeah, to us sort of movies are more than entertainment. They're sort of a source of connection and we're very invested in, you know, kind of the younger generation experiencing film and the arts and so yeah, thank you so much. We love this. Thank you.
049>> Thank you. [applause] >> Next is Ron Hamus Refrigeration. Ron Hams refrigeration has been a strong and reliable partner to the school district of Lacrosse, providing ongoing support to both the district's needs and its career technical education initiatives. In addition to their professional services, Ron Hamus refrigeration has served as a dedicated employer partner in the youth apprentichip program, offering students real world experience in the HVAC and refrigeration trades. Their commitment to mentoring students and supporting workforce development plays a vital role in preparing the next generation of skilled technicians in our community. I don't think they could be here tonight. [applause] And lastly, uh, Mory's Auto Group. Uh, they have been funding our attendance matters program for the last three years. Since 2022, they have donated over $25,000 in total to support our high school students
050attendance. All students who showed growth were entered to win many prizes throughout the years. Um, Morris has been with us every step of the way in building this program. We appreciate them very much and will always remember their contribution to the school district of Lacrosse. >> [applause] >> and they cannot be here either. Uh just want to say thank you all so much to our businesses. You make a real difference. You make our education come alive and when you come into our schools, you make it realistic and uh and when you're saying the same things to students that are teachers and their parents are, it means a lot more. [laughter] So, thank you all so much uh for being here tonight. We have some other business to conduct and you might have other things to
051do. So if you want to take off, you're more than welcome to. Schoolboard meetings are also pretty exciting. So if you want to hang out, you can do that as well. Thank you. [applause] >> With that, we will then move on to the superintendent superintendent's consent agenda. The consent agenda is a mechanism used by the board to deal with routine business that must come before the body. Are there any items that members would like remove from the consent agenda? >> May I take a look at the board memo Hogan demo awarded bid? [clears throat] >> We don't need a second for that. >> So you want to >> That sounds good. I'll bring up um Mr. Joe Lvina to talk about our Hogan uh demo award. All right. So, I just had a This is
052really just for the public to know kind of how the process how we got through the award uh u the award for the bid right here. Just I'm curious to just hear a little bit more about how the bid went, how the process went. >> Yeah. So, what we do anytime that we do bid or we put work out for bids, we use the local builder exchange. And so, that builder's exchange goes all local contractors who have that that level of service. And so we did that. And so we had we [clears throat] received three local bids. I can't say three. We received two local bids and one from Ryan Lander >> uh for the the demo of the Hogan building. >> Are we getting a friends and family discount? [laughter] >> Like no significant
053difference. >> Significant difference. And and you can kind of see why from Rhinelander, right? They'd have to bring everyone down. But I think it's uh Gerky told me they were very aggressive in the bid. But it is not too far from what we kind of expected. So our bid uh our big budget was for this demo of the Hogan building was $560,000. And so within that is more than just the demo of the building. We have sanitary sewer, we have electrical, we have gas, we have all water, we have all those things that we have to do as well as abatement. So that falls in line with where we would be in the budget. [clears throat] >> Does any reclamation come along with that? >> I'm sorry. But is it any reclamation like materials recycling?
054>> No, what we're doing is far as recycling materials, they will recycle as much as they possibly can. But again, just to kind of remind the group that we have Habitat for Humanity and they're going through the building right now, taking anything of historical value that can be used in a building of the same vintage and they're doing that as as we speak. >> Yeah. >> What kinds of things are they taking? >> Um they're taking um >> doors, windows, >> Winston doors. They're taking the even the um >> window ledges because a lot of them are are marble and so they're taking the bathroom partitions in the older section of the building. They're taking doors, windows, they're taking literally everything. We had some brass push uh on the gymnasium. They're taking up the gymnasium
055floor. So, they're taking really a lot. >> A lot of cabinetry that was built in. They're able to deconstruct and pull out moldings. Yeah, >> the wood's old and you know it's grain isn't they don't manufacture that kind of thing anymore so they're able to repurpose that and other >> similar age buildings to match things. >> Probably not taking a boiler though. [laughter] >> No, they're definitely not taking our boiler. >> We'd have to pay them. >> Yes. Yes. >> Um the budget for this is that part of the referendum or is that part of the capital? >> Part of the referendum. So within that that that budget that we had for the new school is a demo of the old uh building which is the Hogan building. So that's a part of that budget.
056>> I have to say that I'm pretty shocked at the price. >> I I mean I >> looking at the others that's about where I figure it would be. And >> uh we we have to thank Gerky a great deal for coming in to help us out. And you know it is it is a significant difference in the cost and thank goodness for them stepping up >> for sure. I will tell you we do the bid opening in order they come in and that was the third one. So that was and I was sweating it a little bit I have to tell you until we opened up that third bid. >> Any other discussion? Otherwise, I look for a motion to approve both items on the superintendent's consent agenda. >> I'll make a motion to
057approve both items on the superintendent's consent agenda as presented. >> I'll second. [clears throat] >> Motion in a second. Any further discussion? >> All those in favor of the motion signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed? Motion carries. We >> then move on to the board consent agenda. And the board consent agenda uh is a mechanism used by the board to deal with routine business that [clears throat] must come before the body. Are there any items members would like to remove from the board consent agenda? >> I just have a quick question for this one here. Um so this was just the public hearing minutes. Do we have the regular board agenda from the day as well? >> Given the tight turnaround and with all the other things going on with the move
058and everything, we didn't have them done for tonight's meeting. So they'll be ready for the following. >> All right. Perfect. Understand that. With that, I'll make a motion to approve the items on the board consent agenda as presented. >> Second. >> Motion in a second. Any further discussion? >> All those in favor of the motion signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed? Motion carries. We'll then move on to referendum construction plan update. >> Joe coming back. >> I'm sorry. I [laughter] got lost. >> Like both of them are just >> Somebody tell us something. Daylight savings time's getting to me, I think. Uh, so, uh, the primary thing that we've been working on was the the dem demolition bids, and so getting that done has been great. Work continues at State Road Elementary
059School. Uh, they're currently grading the area and laying out um, uh, the locations of footers, which will go in here uh, pretty soon. Um, as with uh, any project, there's a little bit of soil amendment that needs to go on. state road. It's more like a medium amount of soil amendment. Uh and so they'll be hauling in some sand to ensure that it's a solid base for the next hundred years. Um there's a lot of rich dark soil there. If you drive by State Road, piles of black dirt. Uh and that's great for the playground afterwards. Uh but not great to to build a gymnasium on. And so we're doing some soil amendment there. It's all within our our budget parameters. And so that's all fine, but that's a little bit of a change. Uh
060and then bids will go out. Is it this week? >> Tomorrow for the Hogan Site Elementary School. And those will be back in uh in time for the December 15th school board meeting. And so we anticipate uh bid opening the week prior with um a recommendation to the school board to move forward on that. We've had a lot of good interest uh in that project uh based on the state road project. Uh we anticipate um you know competitive bidding uh and are excited to see where that comes in at the uh we'll do some groundbreaking probably in January formally uh but the the real work will really get started there in February. >> I do have a quick question though on the bid we just approved. You talked about like the um asbestous abatement. Was
061that included in that bid price or is that a separate thing that will come to us? >> Um, that's separate. It shouldn't rise to the level of needing uh schoolboard approval, the $100,000 mark unless Joe has more context. >> We're working on that right now. And so we anticipate starting in the next couple weeks doing a specificatement, but it should not be over the $100,000 threshold that we're working within. >> And what were the other items that you listed that were? >> Yeah, we have electrical would be the big one. If you look at both sides of Hogan School now, you have electrical poles going through. All of that will be removed. The sanitary sewer, uh the gas, um the water. Uh so all those things will be part of this uh demo bid and
062not part of the bid, but will be part of that demo budget that we need to do because as you look at the building, we're actually building on the opposite side of the site. And so all those things will have to be removed as we start that building. >> So do you have prices for those? I mean, we already approved this, but I just try to understand. >> I do I do not have >> You said your budget's 5. >> We have a budget number for those. We don't have prices for those. The biggest one that we're waiting on is working with XL Energy. So, we don't we have a good budget number, we think, with that, but we won't know until the last minute as it comes to removing all the poles and and
063replacing all that electrical. >> Thank you. [clears throat] >> Sorry, I should have answered. >> No, that's all right. >> Good question. >> Thank you. Any other questions or comments on the referendum planning? Otherwise, if not, we will move on to matters reserved for board action. Our first item is first reading of results R3 involve citizenship. And I want to say a huge thank you to Dr. Sprag for all his work on this. I volunteered him and myself and then he did all the work. So, that worked out really well for me. >> Um, >> wasn't too much. So, as you'll recall a few weeks ago, we approved the strategic plan and the um portrait of a graduate and we talked about incorporating that language into our policies, particularly this R3. And so, um I
064don't know if you want to kind of walk through this. >> Well, I think you'll notice I didn't actually change any of the words. I just reformatted it to fit the kind of policy structure. Um, I thought kind of active students will statements kept it in a in a nice voice that matched some of other other policies. People might quibble with me about whether a semicolon or a colon was necessary after those statements, but um yeah, so I didn't there's no substantive changes to the actual language from what what came through the the district visioning process. >> Any comments or questions? Um, so you have indicators for R3 that we're measuring and we'll you do them throughout the year. So how does how does this substantial change fit with that process? >> Um, as soon
065as we had a have a change in policy, then we will put together proposed monitoring indicators that we would ask the board to approve for us to move forward. >> Okay. So logistically then in our push to have fewer indicators and things, are you imagining an indicator for each of these six items? >> We'd probably identify one key thing and there may be uh some indicators elsewhere in our monitoring scheme that might do double duty or or fit nicely. Um, in some cases it'll be new things and I don't think there's anything wrong with that as long as they're appropriate and not a burden to gather, but you know there will be some new things to think about here. I'm thinking of like be students of character, you know, compassionate, inclusive, self-aware individuals that might
066be outside the scope of what we have existedly current ex currently exists in our in our monitoring process. But whereas something like be effective communicators um we've already been doing something like that in the in the existing R3 policy. So it might just flow over into this new iteration and be sufficient. But we'll also be looking carefully at everything that's stated in here to make sure that we're meeting the intent um uh in this new opportunity. >> Yeah, as I was going through all this, I thought some of it is going to be a little difficult to come up with like a quantifiable uh kind of measurement. I I did wonder if things would like student of character spoke to me about school culture which is something we do already measure and I wonder if
067that wouldn't be unduly burdensome to to allow something from an operating report to do to do double duty there as well. >> Yeah. The question as we've often debated at the board table is do we want it to be self-reported sorts of measures like we do with belonging or engagement or do we want it to be some kind of you know somewhat objective measure you know externally some sort of achievement or action that we want to to look for and so that will be just the tension that we'll navigate as we identify good indicators >> I just have to say having been part of the visioning um committee process. You know, our our policies the way pol our policies are supposed to be a reflection of the community's values and interests and all the work
068that that committee did to get input from the community and of course Dr. Dr. Engel and his staff did tremendous work amount of that work. But really, this is exactly the way our policy should be done and um I know we've got we're looking at some dates coming up for that group to come together and I think they'll be delighted to see that the board has taken their work and codified it into our ongoing policies. So that's exciting. If there's no further discussion, I would look for a motion to approve these changes to R3. like to make a motion grant the first reading approval for results R3 involve citizenship. >> Seconded >> motion to second. Any further discussion? >> All those in favor of the motion signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed.
069Motion carries. We'll then move on to operational expectation monitoring OE5 financial planning. >> Um I think we've done the monitoring thing enough at this point. people understand how it works. But I'll just do a quick recap. Our schoolboard policies are in place. In this case, it is OE5. Financial planning [snorts] has a number of different elements to it. Uh nine in this case. And what we're doing today is uh monitoring or uh providing evidence that we've uh met the school board's intent with those policy elements. And so we have indicators for each policy element. and evidence to present for it. Um, this well, I'll leave it to Patty. I don't want to step on her words for this one. So, I'll turn it over to Miss Spring, our executive director of business services, uh, to
070lead us through this. >> Yeah. Before that, the timing of this is perfect, of course, because it's really so aligned with the budget which we just approved. So, that's why it's on the schedule for right now. So, >> exactly. And so if you had a chance to look at any of the evidence, you're going to see that it looks very familiar as to what we have been doing for the last few months, including the ending of the 2425 school year when the board approves a budget adjustment and then uh designates fund balance and then moves on to approving the proposed budget. that goes to budget hearing and then up to the approval last week of the budget and the levy. So, is there anything on here that uh you have some question about or um
071with the evidence? >> Not so much with the evidence. I have a question about the >> the may not statements and specifically number nine uh that the superintendent may not present the for board approval a budget that provides for an anticipated year-end unassigned fund balance of less than 15 to 20% of the prior years prior year's operating expenditures. Right. >> So we've been really good about that over over the years that I've been on the board. At any rate, and >> absolutely, >> I'm I'm wondering as we've been reckoning with deficits, I know we've talked at the board table about the need to dip into fund balance a bit more than we would, right, to cover some expenses as we're like waiting for certain dispersements of like state and federal funds and things, right? >>
072But across that process, the the end budget, right, we do not run a foul of that particular pump. Correct. >> Yes or no question. >> Our our total endofyear fund balance has never come within that range. I think if you look like throughout any given point during the the school year, maybe there's an a point at which we're down to 10 15%. Um but that is known and there's revenues coming. It's really the end ofear um uh unassigned fund balance and debt has been healthy throughout the time that uh I've been here. >> Right. So if you remember we proposed a budget that you know might look like a deficit but then u missla had even pointed out that anything can happen during the school year. you know, we could have underestimated revenues, you know,
073overestimated expenditures, but we're very conservative because that board ha the board has to approve any use of a fund balance. So, be it at the beginning of the year with the budget uh proposal or at the end of the year if we should uh go into fund balance and then why. And so your fund balance is always um we've we've added that to our monthly financials that you have all see those um es and flows of our fund balance and how we need to use that to cover just simple things like operations payroll at certain times of the year when the state aid or our local tax payments have not come in yet. Um but we will always uh bring that to the board that you will it's very evident but any use uh should
074be approved by the board but with a healthy fund balance you also can keep in mind that one-time capital expenditures you could use fund balance for that. It takes planning but you do have that option in any given year. I will say when I originally started on the board in 2001, we had an a number of similar policies, but we did not have this um policy about a uh setting what we were looking for for a fund balance um expectation. And so um that we've added on and I do appreciate um just I was just going to add what you already said is that we get to look at that throughout the year in your regular reports to us how we're doing on that. So, it's not only that we've added the policy, but we
075have a good monitoring of that throughout the year. >> Yes, >> we won't dive into specific pieces of evidence unless the board wants us to uh because we have covered it so thoroughly over the last eight months. So, if there's any other questions, we're happy to answer those. Otherwise, >> for a motion to approve. I'll make a motion uh in regard to the monitoring report for policy OE5, financial planning, and with respect to the provisions of policy BSR5, superintendent accountability, the board of education concludes that the superintendent and district are in compliance. >> Second. I'll let you take it. >> I say I think Molly got it ahead of you. We have a motion, a second. Any further discussion? >> All those in favor of the motion signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those
076opposed? Motion carries. We'll then move on to um operational expectation monitoring OEE1 instructional program. And this is uh just the reporting template that you're working on. Correct. >> That's correct. We walked through this month and a half ago. uh the school board decided it made more sense to approve the policy language first uh before we made the adjustments to uh the monitoring report and so we're back with the monitoring report. It's pretty comprehensive through 11.9 [snorts] uh and 1112. Uh there's a handful of things that are not adjusted, but um sat down with the instructional resource team and the folks who put together this report and tried to really think about the school board's policy language and align the indicators to that and um set ourselves up for success in terms of gathering the right
077data and evidence to bring to the school board um this next school year. Um the places where there was maybe a little bit more um adjustment was 11.6 uh relating to using a social justice lens and being culturally competent. Uh and then also um 11.12 the information technology area. um our um IT director looked at those items and really wanted to focus around um let's see monitoring and preventing and then as well as the response that we provide when something happens. Happy to take any questions here. I think we've we've kind of talked about a similar issue before. I'm looking at OE 11.6 six in the indicators. I worry about indicator two uh that when when we write equal access to uh curricular opportunities and extracurricular activities that we're kind of setting you up for
078failure on that because we know there are things that only exist on one side of town or the other. And while students can get bus can can get transport and can get access at least arguably it's not equal on an equal footing. Would that maybe work better as as an aspirational statement that you know we continue to exp this is going to get really wordy. How continue to explore how how we can improve equitable access to all curricular something. You see what I'm saying? Right. >> Yeah. Asking how you write that, right, without saying we'll accept unequal access, you know? Uh, and so I think it's it is with some of these indicators it's tough to figure out whether or not you're having like a smart goal like by the end of the year 100%
079of students will have you know right versus a slightly more aspirational statement and doing our best to back it up with the evidence. Um, I guess we aired on the t side of slightly more aspirational statements, willing to do a little bit of research and digging in order to provide evidence for those as opposed to, >> you know, finding a bar we could clear without working too hard, right? So, it's it's just >> I think it's the right thing to do. >> It's a tough balance if we get called on to the carpet. I guess you know next year when we come back with this and we indicate like yeah we have transportation issues but it's a it's a you know it's a it's a challenge that we're mitigating this way or we have um
080some opportunities at Logan High School that aren't available at Central High School and that's because of student interest and teacher support and that's there's going to be variability and [snorts] you know so I I think well I guess I agree ree that it's better to aim high and miss. >> Yeah. And and I I think we'll be able to do a pretty good job demonstrating that, you know, if a student has an interest in a thing, we've found a way. Uh in almost no case that I can think of have we had to say, you know, just straight up no, you can't do that. You know, if there's a kid and a teacher that want to try and figure something out, we've been able to do it. So, I I I feel confident that we'll
081have data that will support this. I appreciate though the uh the the goal to not set ourselves up for failure right from the start. [clears throat] >> So look for a motion to approve. >> So moved. >> Okay. >> Motion. Do we have a second? >> Motion in a second. Any further discussion? All those in favor of the motion signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed, >> nay. >> Okay. We will then move on to announcements and we will start with our student representatives and I'll start with Owen. >> You know, there's not really a whole lot going on at Central right now. The pret was this past Friday. Um the advanced marketing class at Central is preparing for Hoops for Hope held on December 19th. Um, it is a charity tailgate held
082before a basketball game and the proceeds will go to the Pinky Square Foundation to help fight childhood cancer. Uh, it should be a lot of fun. They put a lot of work in and it's a really great experience. I helped run it last year. Um, if you have the time and are able to, I say, uh, you should stop on by. Goes to a good cause. >> What's the date? >> Uh, December 19th. >> Okay. Thank you, Emerson. Um, not that much at Logan either. Both boys and girls started open gyms for basketball last week. It's very exciting. Um, Logan is off this Friday. A lot of students are excited for that. A long three-day weekend. Um, quarter 1 ended two weeks ago. Um, students are, well, mostly seniors are really excited for that because
083we got fitted for our cap and gowns last week. So, it's all becoming very surreal. That's all I have. >> Coming fast and furious. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Um Dr. Garcia, Lacrosse Public Education Foundation. >> Yeah, we had our donor appreciation event last week here at the planetarium. We got to see a cool program and it was a lot of fun and uh toured the new facilities. So, that was great. Um the gold star grant applications closed today. So we'll be reviewing those soon and then awarding those to teachers uh and the and staff and students depending on yeah who um who applied. And the Golden Apple Awards nominations are due by November 6th. So if there are faculty staff you want to nominate for their impact on your education or
084your children's education or your community um that's open and it's available on the school district website. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Um so Mr. Alberts, Mr. Newmeister are on the city school consortium and I apologize I have not kept this on the agenda as regularly as I should have but I'm going to do that going forward. So, I'll turn over to you guys if there's any updates. >> Um, there really hasn't been any updates. We haven't had a our first meeting yet, so we're kind of waiting on on that. Uh, there has been stuff in the media, but um just the media. We we haven't had a meet meeting yet, so there's nothing to report. >> Great. >> I think it's important to say that I'm part of that media. Um, and I'll just be
085upfront. I'm hoping to to at least have the pool open one more year so we can figure out collectively on what to do. We haven't figured out how we're going to pay for a pool. We we know that our city pool is shot and we know our pool at Logan is shot. I mean, it leaks more water than anybody would imagine. Um, so collectively we're really hoping that we can come together and uh work together on a solution to that, but we're a long ways away and there's those that made it sound like it was, you know, gearing up and we're about ready to sign on a dotted line and start building. That's the farthest thing from the truth. So we we have a lot of work to do yet and work together on. And
086again, I I I just am hoping that we can get one more year out of Logan Pool and figure it out. And when I say Logan pool, I mean Logan Middle City Pool, the Logan pool itself is I guess anybody with anyone else when that's going to end its life. But thank you. >> Thank you very much. Um so for my announcements, a couple quick things uh for your calendars. December 15th. Um, mark your calendars to come a little bit early. We're going to have the holiday brass with some students. >> I'm starting to perform, I think, at 5:30. >> Uh, Miss Dawald, do you know about >> It's usually about 5:45. >> Okay. So, plan to come a little bit early to enjoy that. Um Laura has put in front of you a form
087about availability for workshop in January that we talked about um recently about scheduling some time where we can just sit down um uninterrupted and really do some discussion on facility long-range facility planning and then did everybody get the linkage list as well Laura? >> Yes, that should have been there as well. So, we've got the linkages coming up with Soda, Hamilton, Central Northwoods Summit, and the LEA. Please let um Laura know if you can attend those. Um we want to have good representation at them. And um that's all that I have for my announcements. Dr. Engel. >> Uh this week is National School Psychology Week. Our school psychologists sometimes go unnoticed in our schools, but they do amazing work um in the special education process, in our behavioral intervention process, in the in the daily
088assistance with students. Uh and so I'm very thankful for all that they do. November 8th is National STEM Day. And so, uh celebrate the science, technology, engineering, math, and sometimes we have the arts in there, too, to make it steam, you know. So, there's lots of cool things to do there. Uh and we have amazing teachers in these areas that promote these uh uh endeavors with our kids. Um November 11th is Veterans Day and a number of our schools have veterans programs, some of them very longstanding. Uh if you have an interest, reach out to Laura. We could find you a Veterans Day program to attend. I think I'm like got four right now. So I'm going to be running all over the city trying to get to elementary schools and middle schools uh with
089a funny hat on. Uh and then November 16th through 20th um Appropo, it's National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. Um we are incredibly thankful for the hunger task force and wafer for all that they do to support our food pantries and uh anytime families are struggling uh with food insecurity. We have local food pantries in our schools to help families out, but we also direct folks to those uh larger resources to ensure that they get help when they need it. And uh the homelessness piece sometimes folks are unaware, but we have about 220 240 students each year that identify as homeless. They're um you know crowd surfing, doubled or couch surfing uh doubled up um traveling great distances uh to get here uh because they have to live in another community for a period of
090time or are literally on the streets um or in a homeless shelter. Uh and these students uh need help as well. And we are so thankful to have great resources in our school district and locally uh to help uh bridge the gaps uh for those students. But just keep that in mind. November 16th through the the 20th uh if there's an opportunity to help with hunger or homelessness in our community, I encourage people to take advantage. That's all I have. >> Thank you. We'll then move on to agenda planning. The proposed agenda for November 17th is um in front of you. Is there a motion to approve or any discussion? I'll make a motion to approve the November 17th, 2025 board of education agenda with any additions are corrected or as presented. I suppose >>
091a second. >> Okay. Motion a second. Any further discussion on agenda planning? >> All those in favor of the motion signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed. Motion carries. Board debriefing and tonight it is Mr. Albert's. >> Uh yeah. Um it was a really good meeting. Um, great discussion. Again, um, I love hearing about, you know, the programs within our schools that, um, like Dr. Sprag said, we probably don't get out, uh, enough the information and what we provide here in the Lacrosse School District. Um, most schools don't, you know, provide those programs like other schools or like other schools do. So, it's always great hearing about those. Um, yeah, it was a good meeting. Anybody have anything to add? >> Okay, >> good job on that, Mr. Alberts. >> Thank you. >>
092Mutual admiration Society. >> Such a booster. >> Um, at this time, the board of Lacrosse Board of Education will consider a motion to move into close session on Monday, November 3rd, 2025, immediately following the board of education meeting in district office room 269A, which is clear on the other side of the building. If you all want to drive over there, that's fine, too. Pursuant to Wisconsin statute 19.85 PN1 PN C for the purpose of considering employment promotion, compensation, or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility to the superintendent's evaluation. Is there a motion to adjourn to close session? I'd >> like to make a motion to adjourn to close session for the purpose as stated in Wisconsin statute 19.85 85 Princy 1 Princy C >>
093seconded. >> Um motion and a second. >> Roll call please. >> Mr. Alberts >> I >> Miss Hooks >> I >> Dr. Garcia >> I >> Mr. Mup >> I >> Mr. Newmeister >> I >> Dr. Sprag >> I >> miss >> I >> this meeting is adjourned. >> Just take five to 10 minutes. You don't like the front of the outfit? [music]