001[Music] h [Music] e e e it's just uh compan praying on fear e [Music] l [Music] March 3rd 2025 Board of Education meeting we recognize the Hogan Administration Center occupies the land of the hunk people please take a moment to recognize and honor this ancestral hoch chunk land and its sacred land of all indigenous peoples secretary is in here we're waiting for our secretary to do the roll call I shouldn't have rushed this our apologies for starting a little late we had a good linkage it ran a little long so it's all right how about thems did you say the Mets the Bucks are making a fine playoff push here the e Mr Alberts is excused oh excused yep Mr veski here miss bodal excused excused Dr Garcia here Dr Jimenez excused Mr Mana here
002Mr newme here Dr spr here miss Sula here and welcome to all three of our student Representatives as well a quum of the board of education is present so the regularly scheduled meeting of March 3rd 2025 is called call to order we will now have the Pledge of Allegiance please stand and face the American flague 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 tonight's agenda has been previously distributed to the board I would entertain at the time a motion with a second to approve the agenda as submitted unless there is a motion to amend I'd like make okay I'd like to make a motion to approve the agenda as presented motion by
003Mr Mana seconded by Dr spr any discussion all those in favor of the motion signify by saying I I those opposed motion carries move on to public speakers it is a policy of the board to provide its public meetings an opportunity for individuals to address the board comments about individual uh staff or Personnel will not be allowed open meeting law prohibits the board from engaging in discussion or responding to matters not included on the agenda speakers are reminded that at this same that the same policy limits your time to five minutes this limit will be strictly enforced may I ask the superintendent to keep track of the time and to notify the speaker when the time is running out I will thank you you are also asked to give your name and the school district
004where you reside at the beginning of your time for the public record our first Speaker tonight is Laura Wright I'm Laura R and I live in Lacrosse and I come on in two different roles one of my roles is as senior pastor of First Congregational United Church of Christ and we are also part of the lacrosse area Coalition of lgbtq affirming Christian um and we come in part as the federal climate is changing around us we wanted to come and speak with you we are an organization that includes people from the ELCA the United Church of Christ the Methodist denomination and we affirm all humans and their dignity wherever they fall on the gender spectrum and whatever their sexual orientation and so we come here first to say thank you for the things that you
005have done in the past often you don't hear thank you as Pastor I kind of know that feeling sometimes where you have so many bosses and so many people offering their view of what you're doing but we as the lgbtq affirming Christians of the lacrosse area wanted to let you know that we have seen your past support we see it in the students that are parts of our congregation who are trans non-binary and the ways their teachers work with them and the administration of this school and we are grateful for the work that so many teachers do to welcome the students from our congregation who need that welcome inclusive supportive environment we just wanted to come to say in 2019 you passed a resolution that said that you were going to have an operational expectation
006that the superintendent maintain a learning environment that is socially and emotionally safe welcoming inclusive respective and conducive to a Ive learning you affirmed that very concretely in 2021 when you have passed another resolution that said you are here to support the human rights and Equitable education opportunities and practices for all lgbtqia plus students and so we want to just say thank you for passing those resolutions and your continued support for the students that are in our churches and those that aren't who are sometimes experiencing bullying and other things and we know you do those things off the clock on the clock and all the time so thank you thank [Applause] you we'll then move on to the superintendent's consent agenda there is no School showcase or recognitions this evening the consent agenda is a mechanism
007used by the board to deal with routine business that must come before the body are there any items that the members want to ref remove from the consent agenda I'll make a motion to approve the items on the superintendent's consent agenda as presented second second you got it you get it take next one motion by Dr sprag seconded by Mr M to approve the items on the superintendent's consent agenda all those all those in favor of the motion signify by saying I I I those opposed motion carries board 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 on the board consent agenda that members want to remove I'll make a motion to approve the items on the
008board consent agenda as presented I'll second have a motion by Dr sprag seconded by Dr Garcia to approve the mo um items on the board consent agenda those in favor of the motion signify by saying I I I those opposed motion carries motion passes uh we then move into matters reserved for board action starting with resolution awarding the sale of 14 million General Obligations School building and facility Improvement bonds and I'll turn it over to Dr Engle and I will turn it over to miss sprang to discuss the details of this resolution okay I'm passing out some uh summary of this very legal document that can be confusing but today we went out for bids on our $14 million borrowing it's the first part of the 53.5 million and we had nine bids offerings so
009on this piece of paper uh PMA has summarized that and so in this resolution what we are doing is approving uh Hilltop security as the top uh bidder and the uh the tiic is at 3.92% now this is uh excellent actually uh rate for us the if you look at the next page it kind of summarizes that all of the planning when we were planning this we were saying we were basing it on an interest uh rate of 4.5 uh% so this is much better meaning that we can pay principal and and save some on interest so uh that is just the summary of this we will receive those funds on uh March 24th um and then they also there's a a call date in 20 2033 so like if the interest rate would be
010less than 3.92% % at that time we might consider refinancing and then saving more interest on the principal so um is there any questions otherwise Laura will take a roll call Vote with this I actually have a couple questions sure so on the call date if the interest rate drops who could take that would the call date affect us if the interest rate went up um we would not refinance it it doesn't this this we're locked into this one just like a house I thought that was the case I going be clear for the public y the call date is just the first date you could refinance if you chose to but you can maintain your current interest rate if you desire thank you correct um so because this rate is lower than what we
011had planned we can pay this off sooner um so will you um will we get a summary as we move along in this process I mean we're we're drawing down a part of the money now we'll draw down parts of the money as we go on as we need it um it would be helpful for us at some point to get a report on when we save this money where do the savings go does it mean we get does this gets paid off sooner or how does that work um it actually adjusts our debt schedule so that we um are only impacting our Levy for this borrowing by 40 cents that was our intention so um anything over that is is interest that we are paying so we're still still borrowing 53.5 million in total
012we're just saving on the anticipated interest cost when we're paying it back it may shave off a year or two on the backside of total payments or it could lower the payments that are necessary down the road lowering the mill rate that's what I was looking for thank you those are my only question yes on this this is just the first of how many are we going to do of these this 14 million 14 million next year we will at this time we'll be borrowing either the remainder of the debt or um a large increment because we'll be in the middle of the project and we'll need those dollars and then maybe a smaller amount the F March so so my question is follow up on that then is it I mean this is a
013pretty great rate I think we all are happy to see this do does it make sense to uh look at at borrowing sooner or is is that just wasteful being being a to put be just sitting there right you know because we don't know our next one might be four and a half five who knows right this is this is very strategic because at the beginning of the project there's not that much cost so you do not want to borrow a lot of money and not be spending it because then we are subject to Arbitrage which means we have to pay back dollars earned makes sense thank you yeah PMA has been helping kind of balance that very concern like when's the right time to go but also be able to spend down our funds
014and so I think we're monitoring the situation and if we needed to go six months early we probably could okay thank you another question did you no I was just going to say Arbitrage as well it's fun just to say the word well yeah we have to spend the money within a certain amount of time we can't just hold we can't just borrow money and hold on to it that's how we stay accountable correct for the thing we have approved are there any other questions I look for a motion to approve the resolution so move second he said so moved I said second I don't know if he needed that um motion by Mr veski seconded uh by Scott by Scott I just want to be part of it we'll share around we'll do a
015roll call vote Mr baski do a Dr Garcia hi Mr M hi Mr new Meister hi Dr sprag hi Miss zuk hi then our second item is operational expectation monitoring of o10 learning environment and I'll turn that over to you y so this is a part of our routine monitoring process this is o10 learning environment and I will turn it over to Mr fimr excellent so um this is a report for the 2425 school year confirms that lacrosse school district is in compliance with the school board's expectations with some ex exceptions noted this report highlights District commitment to fostering safe inclusive and supportive learning environment so OE 10.1 just to kind of give you some key findings um which is maintaining supportive and encouraging climate for um Student Success 80% of students feel safe and
016supported and belonging at school um we recently did a climate survey and we found that 83% of students are feeling safe um 81% report a sense of belonging and a good number is 95% feel that uh they have an adult who they can trust or someone that they can talk to so um we we are um definitely improved from last year and in compliance with that um expectation indicator two pupil service program is reviewed annually to support students academic and Mental Health social well-being um Services include counseling nursing psychology um School social work so some of the priorities set for this year included Mental Health Training crisis response expanding student support systems um and uh we are in also in compliance with that OE 10.2 ensuring fair and Equitable student uh Behavior policies um inator
017one is the code of Rights and responsibilities and must be reviewed annually and um it was reviewed by the school board on July 15 2024 um indicator two the code of Rights and responsibilities must be accessible to families and it's currently on the district website and signed annually by our families indicator three stakeholders which include students staff parents must provide feedback on the code of Rights and responsibilities annually um feedback has been collected from uh multiple staff students and parent groups from February of 2023 to March of 2024 um also putting us in compliance um indicator four uh disciplinary actions must be proportionate um for students of color and students with disability um lacrosse School District serves about 5,794 students of these 24 % had disciplinary incidences so we do have some disparities that continue
018to exist as 60% of our students of color received a disciplinary incident as well as 39.9% of students with disabilities um face some kind of disciplinary action um so some of the district some of the initiatives put into place um include restorative circles uh cultural Humanity training strategic plan for educational equity and systems of care Partnerships uh to uh coordinate develop a comprehensive plan of service and um activities that are culturally fostering strong supportive systems so we are not in compliance with indicator four indicator five um serious disciplinary actions suspensions expulsions must align with District policies um November 2023 discipline review there were 483 incidents 52 resulted in suspensions all were deemed appropriate no expulsions reported so that is also in compliance um OE 10.3 protection of confidential student information parents must be informed of
019their right to um restrict directory information so the data directory re form was distributed between July 1st and September 13th to all families and in 2024 to all new enroles so we are also in compliance there excuse me com down a little cold just breathe it's okay what just breathe it's okay okay thank you all right um research requests for students information must align with District policy so there were two research requests which were reviewed and approved in 2324 so we're also in compliance there the district must meet expectations for protecting confidential student data um so there was no unauthorized release of student data or complt complaints reported so indicator 3 is also in compliance OE 10.4 preventing harmful Behavior by adults in contact with students indicator one all misconducts all misconduct reports by adults
020must be investigated we did have two complaints this year filed one in October one in November of 24 um neither were classified as Title 9 violations but were addressed and resolved OE 10.5 preventing disruptive and dangerous Behavior at school and events indicator one policy responds to concerns and complaints must be reviewed regularly so um these policies uh were reviewed for 2425 concerning um public conduct student harassment non uh discrimination and discipline policy so we were in compliance there as well overall the Cross School District is in full compliance um out of the 11 indicators 10 of them were in compliance some of the key areas of strength include students um perception of safety and support annual policy reviews and um Community input no expulsions and um proper handling of disciplinary actions strict protection of student
021information areas that we're going to continue to work on for improvement include addressing racial disp uh racial and disability based disparities in discipline through continued equity-based intervention mentions overall the school district of Lacrosse remains um committed to fostering an equitable supportive learning environment efforts continue to reduce discipline disparities strengthen student support systems and enhance School climate the superintendent is in compliance with exceptions noted Mr Fen can you clarify some question on dates um some of the information here is for the 2425 school year some is for the 23 24 particularly we noted the number of expulsions seems to different than what our recent memory is can you provide some clarity around that yeah from my understanding Devon I can get a Clarity on this but from my understanding is that information is not available so
022we have to it's always pulled a year later once it becomes available so should be for the 23 24 school year that's the intent it's a lagging indicator because we're not done with 2425 yet yes and uh I had a couple of questions first so my first question is about 10.2 indicator 3 um although it does look like we've got a overwhelming majority of all stakeholders in the past I've heard from faculties such as maintenance of cafeteria staff that uh they'd like to share some more of their own input some these things as well so I'm kind of curious how they're involved in the process such as this when comes to the student codes rights responsibilities if they're able to put input into that sure um I know that um Mr te runs you know
023basically some um codes of Rights and responsibilities um informational sessions where he's gathering information from different parties so I think he does reach out um I'm not exactly sure which groups he does reach out to but I'm assuming that would be one of them um Mr Engel do you know um if he does Reach Out specifically to custodial staff so our March 20th opportunity is for anyone in the district to attend so it's all staff and so they're all notified and aware that they have an opportunity to provide input we're also always seeking input generally speaking on the code of Rights and responsibilities um what we've noticed over time is that you know this is an iterative process it happens every year and so I think this is our sixth or seventh year of doing
024this process and so we've been able to hit a wide swath of folks over the years we might not hit every group specifically each year but over time we've been able to make sure that we capture uh the voice of anyone who wants to be involved uh and it has been very valuable in our process all right thank you Jim uh I was interested in in terms of the disciplinary rate of suspensions or whatever contact how does that compare to previous years is that better worse goes up and down a lot uh year in and year out our discipline record is idea it's pretty stable it hasn't moved substantially um I was actually kind of looking at those numbers a little bit more closely with the student suspensions and um as I look over the
025years it might fluctuate four or five percentage points depending on the size of the group but ultimately it's been pretty stable over time and this takes into account elementary middle school high school that's correct all student groups yep at all levels and then in terms of getting that top of discipline there was something mentioned in terms of cultural humility training I don't know what that is could you explain what that is yeah a lot of different ways to approach um you know the diversity of cultures in our school district historically one of our goals was cultural competence that we would develop competence or proficiency or expertise even in a particular culture um you know M culture was a particular one we'd focused on for a number of years what we've realized over time is that
026there's lots of folks that move into our school district lots of different cultures for any given teacher or principal um to become a competent or proficient in all the cultures that are available in our schools or present in our schools would be impossible and so instead we want to promote an attitude that makes us open to other cultures that come to uh our school district so that uh any student any family Any teacher feels welcome in our schools and so a an a a posture of humility an attitude of humility allows us to really welcome folks with open arms be inquisitive and curious uh to talk to folks to find out what they need to be successful in our school district as opposed to making assumptions about what might be necessary um and so it's
027just a way of approaching situations that allows us to meet the needs of all individuals in our school district regardless of their culture or background so this is a training that teachers go through we've had training over the years um it's something that will probably need to reinvigorate it's one of those things where you do it once or twice and then you kind of take some time off and then you bring it back around as you get new staff yeah I didn't know if it was for instance if we had groups of students sometimes you end up with those uh this group of students get in conflict with this and therefore there would be some training as far as crosscultural yeah we haven't had as far as I can think of any significant crosscultural conflict
028in the last five to six years it's not been a defining feature of our school district which has been good but you know we had Ukrainian refugees as a result of the war over there and so having that um that cultural humility approach allows us to welcome in families from anywhere um and find out uh from them what they need to be successful thank you I think it's worth okay and then my second followup question is kind of more so looking more of a vertical lens of this is that I think it's kind of hard to measure this horizontally try to get perfect results there's so many factors come into this too but to get more of a bigger picture how is so we have 24.9% of students have had a disciplinary incident has that
029been lowering throughout the years has been increasing is that a standard number it's right there I completely missed it it is probably um right here again it's pretty stable been pretty stable um you know 2021 hard to measure that year because of the pandemic and if kids aren't in school it's hard to have disciplinary incidents um but relatively stable All Things Considered maybe a slight decline as we see declining enrollment the target would be probably closer to you 20% as opposed to 25% so that's something that we will be monitoring and looking for over time so that was a good segue into what I wanted to say I think it's worth dwelling on um kind of on the topic of of cultural humility and why that training is appropriate and and important not just for
030interactions between student groups but but how it shows up in disciplinary data is really meaningful because when we have triggers for disciplinary actions that are things like what are the D's dis disruptive disrespectful danger Defiance Defiance right those can be some I'm going to bring our favorite word back squishy terms right that that leave some room for subjectivity and responses from a student to certain ways of being spoken to certain certain actions that take place within a classroom can be culturally dependent and an attitude of cultural humility can help in in making sure that those those moments are not escalated above where they need to be right but they can be handled more appropriately so yeah and and if you look at the discipline snapshot uh and indicator 5 you will see those the the
031D there um however they're at a relatively low rate and when you look at the comments and look in further they do rise to the level of suspension as opposed to you know maybe potentially being culturally grounded in as in terms of like misinterpretation that isn't to say that those things still don't show up from time to time right bias exists but um our uh analysis of those felt that all those suspensions were appropriate given the writeups from the the principles I think when you go into uh the humanity piece of it cultural Humanity I mean we're teaching kids how to respect other people's culture and um you know understand their culture so um as we as we approach some of those disciplinary ideas like mentioned uh we can do it with a with a
032clear lens just one more in terms of do you break it down in terms of elementary middle school and high school more High School more of the Middle School disciplinary actions taken uh we haven't broken it down here but there's a general Trend you know we see more disciplinary incidents as students get older and more severe as they get older um oftentimes things level off in middle school you know that's a time where kids are uh experiencing um growth and taking risk more frequently and you know have more capacity to push boundaries it's nicer than just saying being a middle schooler uh and so we see things elevate a little bit more in middle school and then kind of level off to a certain extent and then by the time students are Juniors and seniors
033there's fewer disciplinary incidents because they start to see like out the door you know the next things you know the eff of schooling has worked students are responsible respectful well behaved um and so um you know there's a little bit of a a taale uh I wanted to I wanted to go back to the U student climate survey um and I had a kind of two questions about it um one is was just really logistical is there an opportunity for long form feedback on that outside of the the more quantitative or know scaled questions or is it just the three I think it's um there's there's um because they're giving that climate survey throughout it's just a a matter of selecting a a choice all right so there is long form feedback as well okay
034okay yep and it's not just those three questions we have a number of others as well those are the ones that align with this particular uh indicator uh and we do look through um all of that feedback there's lots of things in there including whether or not we should have a snow day on Wednesday uh so uh kids are willing to provide lots of feedback and it is all read and it is all looked at sometimes there's safety things that show up in there that is like immediate response um but it is uh analyzed for broader context that that was my concern and I'm really glad to hear that we're doing that because again those ideas of I feel safe like is that in the context of your relationships with your peers is that in
035the context of your relationships with the staff that's useful information for you to be gathering I'm really glad to hear that you're doing that yep and if they indicate I don't feel safe it immediately prompts a question for them to fill out and so we often get sometimes it's and that one of the things we had thought about whether or not to to get into the Weeds on with this indicator is is it because of external factors outside the school district's control is it because of news reporting that's been going on is it because there was just an incident in Mount horb you know like we had last year um we've decided that you know while that's helpful and we can respond to it locally in terms of like measuring our progress broadly this you
036know indicator is a good measure of progress broadly yeah I I agree with that and I think we can and should celebrate the the 80 plus% the 95% statistics while also being mindful of fact that there are still hundreds of students who are responding no on those questions um I helped give the survey in kindergarten through second grade at one of the schools because they're looking for volunteers it was a survey but it's mostly related to PBIS and it's really helpful for that to be done in person as well so you're able to really gain more feedback as you write down kind of what what those are so I think I'm going to save my question for later down the line since we do this does come back up again towards the information 7.02 action
037plan for policies with exceptions noted so I'm going to save that discussion might discuss that until we reach show that part um I would like to ask um students here because this is a year the uh closest to this uh if you have any thoughts on any of this I mean your learning environment is vital to to you if you had any input on in general comments about your learning environment and feeling physically socially emotionally safe and welcome if you have any comments or thoughts on any of that on what you've seen what you thought we could do to improve would been helpful to you and your fellow students I don't know I think personally like I've had a pretty like good experience like with support District that said I'm probably not the best person
038to ask about that because I've not had like that many experiences where I would have needed support um I think surveys like this are probably like decent like as to like capturing accurate like statistics on like who um like feels safe and who feels like they belong um or that or I can just I like personally can't think of a better way you could do it um but yes I I did fill this out last week and it's pretty like comprehensive um pretty like in-depth um if I had to say like the there if there was like one thing um when it comes to like safety at school that kind of like worries me sometimes is like um the impact of like some of like the incidents Central with like um threats of violence against
039a school um which I guess like I get that's not really exactly an anybody's control um but it just kind of tends to cause anxiety sometimes um that's about it for me so thank you um I think in general uh High School is ruthless no matter who you are where you come from high school is not easy um but specifically I think poly Technic is definitely not a tradition environment um that is really I'm it's not really being taken into account when creating these not to say that it's unfit for the school uh but just to say that it's a small enough Community where everyone knows everyone um and in terms of safety from what I understand is me and a lot of my fellow peers do feel safe at school uh we might not
040like everyone at our school but we do feel safe um and I think I do agree where even if we did try and change um how this uh survey is distributed um whether it changes to an in-person approach which can get more comprehensive answers um I think the kind of anonymity you know what I'm trying to say um I think that does help in students giving honest answers um if there was one question I would have and it's kind of for the district as a whole is um if we have data reaching uh back to Prior pandemic um I have a feeling that would have changed a lot in terms of um and not necessarily for what we can change but just as an interesting thing to try and understand is how that necessarily changed
041students uh safety or comfortability at school anything yeah I think from just like my experiences at like Logan anytime there's been some sort of like disciplinary issue that's like obvious it get it's dealt with pretty fast like if there's a fight or something it's not going to go on for very long before like some authority figure steps in so I think that is handled in a good way like I've never witnessed something where I felt like oh my gosh this is out of control like so I I do think there's a good job done there and just overall I don't think violence and like feeling unsafe is too big of an issue um um yeah the only thing I would have to say about the survey is I think some there was definitely some instances
042of people just clicking to get through it because it was so long and because they like didn't want to do that with their home room so I don't know if there would be any way to like break it up because I know my friend she said that she almost clicked like the I've done heroin 30 times in the past month but cuz she was going so fast but she caught it so but yeah I so that's that's good but um just the intent the like attention spans of high schoolers Is Not Great these days but I do most people did fill it out fully which is good but I don't know just I'm sure people will get more and more non-attentive in the future so if it could be split up that might be helpful
043thank you for your candid uh input I know I kind of caught you off guard but I um you're closest to this and your voice is really important to us so thank you any other comments or questions so we look for a motion can I ask a quick question yes uh I'm confused about in the executive content it's there's a note that there will be no vote tonight but this is in the reserve for board action section well it is in the board action is this is this so this is not an information the old fashioned way of doing it is action okay then in that case I will make a motion uh in regard to the monitoring report for policy o10 learning environment and with respect the provisions of policy bsr5 superintendent accountability the
044Board of Education concludes that the superintendent and District are in compliance with exceptions noted second have a motion by actor sprag seconded by Mr M any other questions or comments all those in favor this motion signify by saying I I those opposed motion carries uh we then move on to um policy approval first reading for ex um oe1 and um the two of you worked on some language is that correct uh I believe these were the options that I I sent in so happy to reiterate the context of that just provide a public summary y so um the initial conversation two board meetings ago um so not not two weeks ago but four weeks ago was around um in in the interest of uh revising our results policies in ways that uh allowed us to
045actually measure things in meaningful ways um we thought about removing a couple of the items from the results policy and rewriting them in such a way that they became an operational expectation where they seem to be a more natural fit the language that is available there and the two options for each of what would be new items as OE um 11.14 and 115 um one option was um essentially what the administration sort of put together my own stab at the language is there as well you can see they are not wildly different from each other um but um one of the big goals um I know uh Dr Garcia mentioned this and I share this opinion that we wanted to retain the really specific statements um uh uh of social location uh and and positionality
046uh as major impacts in um the instructional environment am I being fair on that so I'm going to ask a question that people from the public will ask can you define positionality because I don't think that's a language used in regular conversation do you want no you go um so positionality it it we take the standpoint that in any group of individuals diversity is the norm diversity of perspective diversity of background diversity of of upbringing of socioeconomic status and all of those factors can contribute to well they do contribute to our our perspectives uh and the way we respond to situations and the way we show up in the instructional environment and so uh a policy that that takes that as a standpoint that takes that understanding of diversity as the norm um is a
047responsive policy that's the way I view it so questions giving me the evil eye there's so how do we just listening to you so do you have a recommendation on option one or two on either one of these the I would be fine with either because the the content um is is essentially the same same it's really just like the syntax if you think one sentence is more clear or more elegant for some reason the the parts that we wanted to retain there about the impact of social location or positionality on how individuals see understand and experience the world around them we want that recognized as as a meaningful part of our instructional environment Mr M I try to F out a word this too um when listing examples too do you want to have
048some kind of call maybe to like the civil liberties Act what the federal government or the state government kind expects us put down here that be better more so just for legal language is that a silly question uh I don't I don't see that there's a requirement to incorporate statutory language um unless unless the statute requires language in a in a board policy and we do have those kinds of instances where something is State mandated but uh can you can you say a little more about that um as was just more like a procedural question like I know the risting examples here I kind of just wonder if there were some examples maybe the civil liberties act some would that we wouldn't have right there I think that'll be a great opportunity for teachers to
049take this language and then and use things like the civil liberties act to talk about this how have Americans been protected Through The Years using a variety of means whether it's non-discrimination policy special education policy America the civil liberties act all sorts of things like that that address kind of historic IAL things and allow people to think about them in today's context you know I was in a a Kindergarten class just the other day I think it was Senora Hooper's class and they were talking about how historically some students with special needs weren't allowed to be in schools and in 1970s we passed um the individuals disabilities and Education Act and as a result all students had access so even at a kindergarten level we're thinking about you know differences and how that affects your
050experience in the world and how we've made changes in order to make things better so that all kids have access and so um I think these policies you know highlight some of those examples but it could be any number of other things as well I'm C are you are you interested in in like seeing more Civics in the curriculum is that that's kind of like thought I had it I just didn't really know how to word it that was more so make it more Civic minded or whatever it was like based off of what you'd expect more in our class work I think those pieces are still in the Civic results policy right which yeah Dr Engel made a very good point about that too and and again part of the drive for putting this
051this language in the operational expectations is that results policies are are measured by that standard of like making reasonable progress towards and these kinds of things are not easily or really meaningfully measured by that by that standard I think so and I think we talked about shortening up a little to would not have them so intense and long and you know easy to understand which I think the more we add to it I think it gets uh a little more even confusing than would have needed to be yeah absolutely and removing these from the results portion because of the nature of that reporting structure I I asked Dr Engel about this um in an email exchange as I was was working on this what the question is essentially what work does this add does it
052add to staff's reporting requirements does it add a significant burden to them and the nature of the reporting here is a little more factual about this is what the curriculum contains it's something that he can do not necessarily something that teachers are asked to do so although it is adding two items under o1 that weren't there before the actual reporting on it is not cumbersome in that way I'll just weigh in and I I think I like option one on both of them um I think option one on item 14 um is a little bit more common language in in not such educator speak language um which I think is again we want to keep our documents uh they're public so we want to make sure the public can better understand them and on 15
053I like the first one better because and I i' have read this wrong please correct me it looks like the second one adds um practicing the strategies for addressing these systems and versus just um on the first one it says to um identify strategies and I think that would be easier to measure because once we start talking about practicing it then we want to know how well they practice it and I think we go down a slippery slope we have the same problem with the environmental stewardship right my preference is I um whoever makes the motion but my preference would be option one for each of these for those reasons any other discussion otherwise we look for a motion for the first reading this will come back at the next meeting because our bylaws require
054second reading so I'll I'll make a motion to Grant first reading for policy approval to operational expectations oe1 instructional program and I believe I should specify um to approve option one for both OE 11.14 and 11.15 I'll second second um go ahead you win motion by um Dr sprag seconded by Dr Garcia um to uh for the first reading of these changes um to oe1 to add uh 14 and item 14 and 15 and of the documents in front of us to choose option one for each of those any discussions or questions this comes back around one more time correct will it be in the consent agenda next time or it'll be it'll be regular action thank you um all those in favor of the motion signify by saying I I those opposed motion thank
055you for doing that that you did a nice job we appreciate your efforts my pleasure it was going to be you or an I so I we thought we'd let you um so our next item um is then the first reading of results R three and uh the Chang here would essentially be removing the language we just added to OE um good Lord I'm tracking numbers o1 so I don't know if we need any further discussion are there any questions look for a motion I'll make the motion to Grant first reading for policy approval to results R3 involved citizenship do I need more specificity there no proposed changes is sufficient do you have a second will second it Mr new Meister will second that so we have a motion by Dr sprag seconded by Mr
056new Meister to approve the proposed changes to R3 involv citizenship 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 information portion of the um meeting and we have a 25 26 budget development timeline yay great so every year we bring this to the board to let you know that um how the timeline in which you will receive information uh until October when you approve the final budget so we recently sent out the zerob based budgeting worksheets to all departments and schools and they are in the process of determining their needs for the next scho year and then those come back to the district and uh they're reviewed and so it just starts the process and so you'll see this
057budget development timeline in the final budget plan document and you'll also um note that all along on the agendas you'll see budget uh information and anything that like that will eventually be in the budget plan document so any questions I have a question we had discussed at a recent Workshop um so when are the decisions about Staffing decided that's is that that's usually February or March isn't like with contracts and all that sort of thing yep we're in the process right now of uh examining needs for next year and at our budget Workshop we can talk about kind of what that looks like and where we're at right now yeah and I mean ultimately we'll post for positions in late mid to late March you know for things that we anticipate as needs for next
058year um where I I don't anticipate any significant changes for next year but we'll talk about that I would recommend that in the future you add those workshops that we have to the timeline I think that that's a vital conversation that happens it's a vital step and I think it happens so you might as well just add it to the list can absolutely do that so I know Mr bagneski has asked questions too about the budget like when do these things come to us to us so this kind of provides that that timeline of and this is similar to what we've done many years yes so there's nothing new or different fundamentally new or different um this year's budget though could be there's a new state budget coming out this year yes so that depending
059on how long it takes the governor and the legislature to approve the budget I I recall some years we have to have a budget approved by the 30th or 31st of October is that correct yes and so it like it was like the 29th that we got the information and so um this looks all nice and neat but really depends on that that state could really throw a real wrench in this and make things really difficult for us um come summer and fall in the planning that we're doing I staff have done a brilliant job in each of those times doing the best they can and making the best estimates that they can um but there are times that that has gotten really dragged out yeah our current assessment of the political climate is that
060we will we'd be fortunate to have a budget in place by July one this time around just given how close the assembly and the Senate are in terms of the uh political divide and then the you know joint finance committee is um you know a party different than the governor and so there's likely to be some conflict there the sometimes the more difference there is between the the the two groups there's it's easier to come together when they're closer it gets harder to negotiate on those fine lines and so uh it'll be an interesting year uh uh for sure um we're anticipating the joint finance committee to kind of start fresh with the budget and present something here at the end of this month with public hearings in April uh and then they'll negotiate in
061Earnest leading up to um July one but um as you indicated missla we could easily see a budget that is not approved until September um it does say July uh state budget impact because by law the budget is suppos budget is supposed to be pass pass by July 1st but our lawmakers don't always follow the law so they do not and there's uh information we don't get until mid-september in terms of equalized uh values um we don't have third Friday count till then you know we don't get eight estimate or our final aid allocations until mid October you know so we're not even able to finalize things uh until then and to a certain extent it makes sense if the state budget isn't done until July 1 naturally it takes some time for all the
062other things to be worked out uh it's just odd to be spending dollars on July 1 for a budget that hasn't been approved until October 31st any other questions or comments on this you've also provided us with information opportunities for advocacy as we move along in that and the budget certainly is a big piece of that yes as so um I next week uh there's the uh opportunity the day at the capital if that's of interest to folks and I know uh Miss tiger Wald sent out information on that you'll get it in your wasby stuff um in addition as soon as we know when the joint finance committee hearings are we'll get that information out to folks and um I'll be headed uh likely up to oair that's where they have been the last
063couple of years and if anyone wants to join me happy to carpool and be a part of that process uh I usually get there very early so that I'm first in line so that we get signed up to speak right away at the beginning otherwise you could end up being there all day and speak at 4 or 5:00 at night so uh helps you get there early some of the legislators may or may not even be there at that point yeah there's been good attendance but by the end of the day they start to go take breaks and filter out and you don't have the full captive audience if you can get there right out the gate when everybody's fresh and their Starbucks is in hand it's a much better environment definitely um move on
064to uh information um item number two action plan for policies with noted yeah uh this uh is uh my item as a result of um the board's evaluation looked through uh the information there uh and looked at the three board goals um I've included information on the other two goals as well but wanted to specifically talk about the plan to address policy elements where you know with exceptions noted arises and so um in that action plan if you scroll down to to the third page I should put page numbers on these things um you'll see that there's a a listing going back to 2020 that little table there that identifies where uh with exceptions noted has occurred over the last five years and many have occurred just once uh and some have been rectified some
065were most recently identified this last year um but the policies that I chose to focus on was the ones that consistently did not meet expectations or happened twice and and could potentially happen again uh and so I focused on OE 4.32 teacher turnover 4.10.1 pay and benefits retention as a reason for retention um and then uh 10.11 student climate 10.24 disproportionate discipline and then finally 11.9.51 discussion about each as we go the first one was teacher turnover and we didn't meet our internal goal of less than 8% initially which had originally a bit been arbitrarily set based on our our past history in the district and what we chose instead this last year was to be below the state average and as a result what we find is our school district has much better retention
066than the state average um and so we were in compliance last year but it was by moving the threshold not by getting below that 8% and so I want to be clear about that uh we anticipate continually meeting below the state average given the quality of the environment that we provide um however we still have some strategies in place we want to maintain a focus on positive School culture um analyze those exit surveys for additional issues to address they provide comments as well that we always evaluate uh and then just to continue to promote our pay and benefit competitiveness through our internal marketing to staff we do a great job here the best we can in our environment and we are very competitive in cesa4 Western Wisconsin we're number one or two and paying benefits
067for all employee groups uh and so we just want to make sure that folks know that we also have to keep our eye on the ball and make sure we stay there you know and so as we think about the state budget as we think about budget planning we want to ensure that we continue to be competitive in pay and benefits any thoughts on that item I'm going I ask a question on the pay and benefit is that is that for all class all teachers and staff all classes yep okay thank you yep we're number one or two in uh custodians Food Service AAS Tas um administrators teachers um every group of employees is that the overall package or is that just pay um pay uh primarily the benefits we're competitive in our area uh
068this last year you know we changed our benefits plan and it we wish it could have been better than what we had to move to uh but that is something we're going to uh kind of acutely focus on in the near term to try and get back to where we were uh a few years ago um the second uh item OE 4.10.1 pay and benefits retention um this is another example where we had previously set our internal goal at um less than 10% um which was a bit arbitrary based on our historical experience and we set the goal um to be below the state average with this one as well and as a result came into compliance this last year um we anticipate this indicator continuing to meet expectations um with below the state average
069however um just like with the prior indicator we have strategies in place to make sure that we stay there um continuing to survey the region on salaries and benefits annually uh Main maintaining a focus on providing competitive competition or compensation and benefits and then that internal marketing again as well do you know roughly what the state average is for school districts like us it was 60% so when we're moving this threshold we are still looking at our comparables right correct okay yep uh in different types of school districts there's different experiences but school districts our size and cities um it's primarily paying benefits that people leave for I would say that I I appreciate there's there's been a lot of talk about moving goalposts in education recently and I I I appreciate that you're you're
070thinking about coupling changing the metric which if it's a bad metric we want to do um while not letting that be the whole story and continuing to actually focus on doing things to to promote success within that that area absolutely and there's other indicators that we have that keep our eye on the ball in terms of what our expectation is for paying benefits and so retention is certainly a piece of that um and turnover is a piece of that and so we want to be competitive and realistic and so I think we've got multiple indicators that don't allow the gall post to move we've just you know set them at realistic Heights but um I recall the conversation we Chang those gold posts because the labor market has shifted so significantly particularly since 2020 um
071I mean it was tightening up but since 2020 I mean it it's it's so different and I think to use historical information puts us in a unrealistic position and that's why I I don't have an issue with moving the gold post for this particular one although I do appreciate you continuing to look at just because we want to be better than the state average and we've had to adjust the gold post because of the changing environment um I appreciate that this continues to be a priority so thank you absolutely um the next indicator um a a little bit longer description is 10.1.1 student climate and that's the one we just evaluated right now where we do meet expectations this year um and historically we did not meet our goal it was set at 95% uh
072and we changed it to 80% two years ago and that change was based on realistic dat data from State and National sources and so that 95% was just unrealistic given the experience of every other school district in the state and the nation and so we chose data that we felt was um realistic and also um um a bit I wouldn't say a stretch goal but a reasonable Benchmark that all school districts should seek um we have continuing strategies that we're implementing to create um safe welcoming supportive environments it's based on a root cause analysis and a a review of the literature around this area we have a action plan from 2024 that goes into great depth and I can share that document with folks if they're interested um I would say that you know our
073time frame for meeting expectations we expect to continue to meet expectations but this is one that could see some variability over the years realistically there's a lot of external forces that are in play when we think about safe welcoming inclusive supportive environments uh and the safety one in particular you know depending on what's going on locally Statewide nationally or even in the world it can affect kids' impression of what it means to be at school and so while we're confident that we have the strategies in place and we'll continue to see that above 80% threshold we're also realistic that we need to maintain a clear and everpresent focus on this because uh a lot can happen quickly to adjust how folks feel about school have have you noticed any differences between the CH after the
074change of Sr uh has there been an increase decrease safety unsafe discipline non discipline um we don't have great pre-2020 data at hand right now I could probably go back and and dig no I just off the top of your head you know like Hal yeah I think the pandemic had more of an impact uh and some of the school shootings that we had in the state in the nation uh more so than the SRO issue you know that one was divided on both sides of it folks felt unsafe for a period of time you know because it was highlighted in the news and a national issue what we're finding amongst our students is kind of regardless of what happened in 20201 22 what we're seeing our students see is um generalized appreciation for school
075safety and our school resource officers in our schools and um when we do student surveys and student focus groups you know there isn't any expressed concern about SRO except that maybe sometimes there's too few uh I would say that's the general feedback we get from students from all backgr s cultures races um and I think part of the reason for that is we've been very clear about what our sro's do and we've put up you know a clear dividing line between what our administrative and and school expectations and what our SRO expectations our sro's are there to provide safety and to respond to legitimate legal and safety issues and when they get to focus on that part of their job and develop the relationships that are necessary to facilitating that it creates a positive environment
076when SRO are engaged in work that's not theirs like student discipline enforcing dress codes hallway monitoring then there becomes a negative view around SRO and as we reflect on you know what's changed over the last four or five years we've seen that sros are used in much different ways in different school districts and it leads to you know more hostile opinions because they're involved in work that's not theirs um they get viewed like administrators get viewed which is with some variability you know because they're uh enforcers of of regular student discipline I would say you know half of our contacts when we look at um uh interactions with SRO are seeking information as opposed to being required to interact with somebody because of a legal or safety issue you know it's a student is requesting
077help on something or is a part of a supportive plan as opposed to an enforcement plan so long-winded answer for just CU um indicator 10.2.4 disproportionate discipline we just looked at that one as well um we've not met this um the entire time we've been monitoring um root cause under uh identifies two issues uh one there may be some underlying biases in our disciplinary responses that lead to disproportionate outcomes we might be viewing the situation through an inappropriate lens Mis categorizing some Behavior as Defiance disrespect disruption that might not ought to be and so that's something that we work on through a cultural humility process you know to be aware of and responding to the different ways that people interact in the world a second factor is the societal factors outside of school that cause
078disproportionate experiences for our students and so then while we're having technically appropriate responses it leads to um disproportionate outcomes when taken as a whole um students from poverty you know have experiences that lead to more behavioral outcomes sometimes uh students from different cultural groups sometimes have different homel lived experiences that lead to different experiences in school and so even if we're technically following through on what our guidance says it may still lead to disproportionate outcomes uh in our students yeah that's why I wanted wait until then is most because again that discussion about the fact that some of the stuff we can't control and although it is our um it's our responsibility to control we can inside of our schools are we exactly looking at the right metric here if it's failed cons consistently for
079four years in a row here like is there anything that we can realistically change the goal post here to um I guess just get more of a better vision of what we could do to decrease that like what exactly we looking for what would you prefer to evaluate here if you were to change anything Mr beneski did you have a comment to add to that no my qu I had another follow-up question okay yeah I think that's the the exact right question like if we're going to change a trajectory on that what does that look like um thought about that at length um and we did add indicator 5 for o 10.2 which that was just this last year partly in response to that very question and so the use of so what we asked
080was are our significant issues disciplinary issues being resolved based on the criteria and the code of Rights and responsibilities so like regardless of something happens you know who's involved are we addressing it appropriately based on our review of the data even though we know that there's going to be some societal factors that cause there to be differences in school are we still addressing that appropriately based on our our understanding of the facts is there any bias involved and trying to screen out for that um theoretically we could link indicator 4 and indicator 5 that would be a way to potentially be meeting expectations while still keeping our eye on the ball that there's disproportionality going on and so meeting indications expectations on this indicat so meeting expectations on the indicator 4 it's going to be
081a real challenge in the near future potentially ever um however we could add a caveat that if indicator 4 is not met but indicator 5 is met then the administration could consider the district to be meeting expectations for this policy if if we were interested in in in the the paperwork looking good that would be the only reasonable strategy that I can think of while also ensuring that we continue to focus on the thing which is important um the only thing else I would add is that you know fund 80 is the programs that are built through there do help address some of those societal factors and so I suspect our disproportionality be worse if we didn't have a lot of these great programs that positively impact our community whether it's after school programs the
082BGC or cultural Community connections to connect with our our M black and Latino populations there's opportunities that we provide that really move the needle on creating better disciplinary outcomes restorative justice another one I'd be really interested to see sorry Jim before we move on to a different question o over time with the new birth to three funds that we approved and um the community coordinator um to see if there is a correlation over the next few years and any movement on this particular issue totally Mr B well my question was maybe sometime we could talk in a workshop or whatever how are cultural aons used yeah yeah we could have them come in and do a a showcase they would love to do so they Tony and Laura have done amazing work if if I
083could just bring up that you know for many years I ran warehouses and we used to do our um we used to do our onein ones with our supervisors and stuff and they always seem to be upset that let's say it was one 125 or 1210 I never once gave anybody a 10 nobody's perfect I think it's good to have a few of these where it's obtainable but difficult to get there you know what I mean and I I don't think that hurts we know we need to keep our focus on uh these four items and and five items whatever it was and you've done a good job pointing that out and if yeah sure we can make our paperwork look pretty as you said but really what do we gained by that I I
084think if we're really and I believe we are we're all in this together and we want to uh be as perfect as we can but let's be honest it's that's impossible um but we can focus on what we need to focus on and that would be one of them where we you you can have it look good but that isn't always the best solution so I I like the way we're going here I agree I agree I would add um one of the populations in the dis uh disproportionate um are uh disabilities and include those disabilities are kids with some very uh severe and persistent behavioral issues how they're going to have discipline issues that's just the nature of their disability and how can we we can do many things to support them in many
085ways but it we can't make it perfect the other since you brought up fund ad I'll just put in my two cents worth I I think um this this item here some of it we're trying to fix society and we barely have the resources to do education much less fixed Society so I think sometimes we have to step back and look at as what we've kind of all agreed to we can only do what we can do yep it's limits to what we can impact yeah and then the last one is OE 119. 3 proportional enrollment um we have not met proportional enrollment uh in this indicator as long as we have been monitoring it um however um for this next year we have changed the indicator to read um proportional enrollment in our Charter
086Schools we eliminated Choice as a a part of that uh and that is partly because of root cause number one down below which indicates that um our choice schools are also home boundary schools and predominantly they're attended by home boundary students and a review of our enrollment data indicates that choice School enrollment demographics are not significantly different from their home boundary demographics basically the kids that live in that boundary are attending there that's the preference and even with the influx of 30% coming and going across our district it isn't materially changing those home boundary demographics and so unless we're interested in like a complete busing program and going back to you know 1990 and thinking about that which we've slowly moved away from then moving away from examining the choice schools I think is a
087good move however we still have our Charter Schools uh that um are disproportionate and I suspect we'll likely continue to experience disproportionate enrollment there for the foreseeable future given the natural barriers um that the charter school experience provides and those are Transportation the application process and then the unique culture of each Charter School those simple barriers just create enough of a hurdle that um folks from different types of backgrounds might not be able to access um transportation is great but if you have to get on a bus versus just walk to your school that is a hurdle for some families the application process which is required by state law for Charter Schools requires you to fill out paperwork in a perect in a particular time frame that barrier alone is sufficient to prevent some folks
088from accessing that experience even if we have all the folks available to help supportive principles and others there's just going to be a difference um We are continuing to focus on how to streamline the application process to make choice and Charter Schools more accessible to All Families continuing to provide transportation um but it remains a natural barrier in the face of walking to a home boundary school and we're continuing to work with Charter Schools to create accessible schedules and welcoming environments for all students one of the things we're doing at soda 2 this uh upcoming year it's historically or sort of one is they historically had Wednesday afternoons off it was used as a way to do um kind of collected planning time for teachers but it created a real Transportation issue for families and
089a real supervision issue for families um if you work all day than having to figure out child care for your student at 12 to 3 when the rest of the week you would have had you know school to take care of that it it it was a barrier for parents to access that program and so their schedule will be similar to uh the rest of our elementary schools and so that calendar that schedule that daily schedule won't be a barrier to families any longer that's a an example of things we're shifting towards over time when we have opportunities um I I think it will be a while before we have proportional enrollment there I think um to the points made earlier it's a good one to just keep our eyes on the ball and make
090sure that we continue to create opportunities that are as equal as possible I personally don't believe we this would be one I would personally want to see us change the gold post on um I think it's good that we continue to look at it I think it's good we continue to look at the barriers um and I it's good that I'm okay that we don't meet it um but we continue to look at it we continue to try try to make improvements um because we don't want to set up situations where we have essentially a private school funded with public dollars and uh for for a certain population that the rest of the population can't get to and I I think we always uh we want to be Universal in how we look at our
091what we do so I I think this is a good thing to look at but I'm also okay with missing the goal on that one any other thoughts comments thank you for entertaining that conversation and um we'll continue to bring this back annually um and uh keep our focus on it thank you for your work on that we'll now move to announcements and we have uh our first one is Communications from student representatives of the board so whoever would like to start I would say there's not like a lot this week because I feel like we're kind of like in the in between period where like everybody's kind of transitioning to like spring season type stuff um like music wise like bang just had their concert we do have all City streams coming up in
092a few weeks but like other than that it's like we're just kind of starting to learn like mus new music and stuff and then Sports wise kind of the same thing where we have spring sports starting up about next week and like winter sports pretty much done like most of them or they get other state competitions um but I would say that we do have like no school this Friday and next Monday to look forward to too so always fun thank you um poly teic remains vibrant in this dull weather uh most recently on Thursday we had our second annual uh or second Showcase of the year which was a success um don't need to bore you with every single project detail but two of my favorites uh were from Ezra a seventh grader who
093created a decimal second converter um so an effective clock that translated units of time from 60 to 10 really confusing but it looked super cool um and then second an 11th grader Carrick bar and his project on bug diets created meal worm Rice Krispie treats and chocolate covered crickets for people to try it's not what you'd expect when you walk into a school event but I didn't try any prot of the future man I know I know my friend tried a chocolate covered cricket and then he brought some more into school and they looked just a little bit too much like crickets but you know protein of the future um in other news our history classes are moving forward with AI utilization um Golden Apple award winner Jason Krug actually is kind of spearheading using
094a new magic schools program um and students have been able to talk to hamurabi about ham robi's code um Alexander the Great about his strides in uh trading but it also allows them to look deeper into personal life where they're talking to both um upper and lower class women from alexandrian periods uh it's really interesting and really fun to play around with um and finally the National Honor Society has solidified a date in late April for a community craft fair um we will hopefully be working closely with the lacrosse um Art Club uh to try and get a variety of community members uh to contribute as well as this will kind of be geared towards a community open house I know poly Technic was supposed to have one when it first opened but we un
095fortunately opened in the notorious year 2020 um so that's never really happened and we have a lot to show off um in our doors and we really want to open it up to the community for that what is the date um that's a great question I believe it is April April I will you on that 2025 yes all right um Logan is in kind of the same transitional period as is with spring sports starting winter sports ending lots of talk about track it's popular sport recently so that's fun um not my thing but uh the show choir uh they finished their season they had a competition in Iowa the combined show choir and they took fourth place which is good to see um later this week the League of Women Voters is going to be
096coming to speak to the senior class about getting out to vote and me and my friend will also be speaking just some like peer-to-peer conversation so hopefully we see people voting in like the next election and then registering when they can if they're not 18 and stuff like that uh yeah um interact club and the ecology Club are going to be partnering once the weather's a little bit better to do a trash cleanup around Logan which is something we're all excited about because just make the school look better there's always random stuff laying around and earlier this week the ecology Club also did plant some lettuce in the greenhouse try and s new varieties so if it grows students will be able to take it home and eat it so yay and please share with
097the students how important the April election is if they're old enough because how valuable to work that Schoolboard does so thank you we know um our next item we will uh skip uh he is inor um so we'll get an update on the public uh Education Foundation next time um announcements from the president uh are listed there was a linkage this evening with all High School staff there is a linkage coming up Friday uh at 1 pm I am unable to attend here at this building with local legislators we'd like Representatives uh from this board to be there so um please uh let Laura know because she'd like to have us there um and then we have a linkage coming up uh March 19th uh with the education Association at 410 at crew on uh
098Caroline Street on French island uh if you can be there uh two of my favorite linkages are next uh linkages of the central students and the Logan students and um those are great conversations um I've always enjoyed those um and those of you who are from those schools make sure your students come and join us in that conversation we'd love to hear from you and let them know how valuable their voice is to us I we have one coming up with ply but that's later to beered yeah that's usually later in the spring um the other thing that's not listed here um is all of you receive the letters for your art selections um and make sure you get out and do those on a timely basis so the students can be notified and their
099families can be notified so that they can make uh sure that they have time to come um to that special evening when their student is recognized for their artwork and it stays here with us and um we get to celebrate it all throughout the year uh Dr engo um this is school social work we our school social workers do amazing things um connecting students to resources and being a critical um connection for our students and families and in our schools they also often wear two hats uh working as uh school counselors as well and do all the school counselor things also so uh thanks to them and then this is also National School breakfast week so make sure you get out eat School breakfast I will be serving on Thursday at Southern Bluffs uh the
100theme this year is a detective theme so I've got my um my Sherlock Holmes hat out and I will be ready to serve um if you ever want to serve lunch or serve breakfast in our schools whether it's a special week or at any time it is an awesome opportunity to interact with kids so much fun uh if you're ever interested let us know uh we will then move on to board debriefing um and I believe Dr spr is up time a thoroughly enjoyable board meeting tonight um I appreciated the um getting getting into some depth on on a couple of the information items uh Dr angle on your on your um kind of improvement plan I think all really important it's nice to see kind of the fruits of previous discussions uh and previous
101board meetings coming around I I think this was a good opportunity on the the policy language discussion as well to to take this as an example of like how how can we how can we do a better job at being a an effective school board and and that's one mechanism that we that we have so I appreciated that I appreciated all the good questions um from the board members it's nice to have a public speaker more of that please um yeah so any comments questions additions i' just like to second again the fact that hearing from Dr Engle about what are we doing with the stuff that we're not passing on I I really did enjoy that I like that point of accountability and I was very impressed by it so thank you very much
102for that my pleasure I have one question when when do we plan on do we have a timeline on moving uh Hogan yes so um we're finalizing design right now we'll go out to bid shortly the plan is to move some staff over in summer probably in July about half of the folks into the vacated offices from the high school old high school office there Renovations will take place through about October and then our hope is to get in there uh by the end of October for the rest of the folks and how about us as members school board members when do you plan on having a transition of the meetings from here over to there and I only ask that because it's difficult I when like when they turn their faces and talk to
103you I can't hear you and I know you probably can't hear at all so I it just would be nicer to have a a system where everybody could hear each other and it's it's difficult at times to and I think it'll only enhance our um I guess dialogue if nothing else because we not at times I couldn't hear anything yeah we're um very carefully thinking about the boardroom and Dan is working uh vigorous ious ly on identifying the best strategy for that space I think this is a large open Airy space it's hard to hear in here generally and I think the space we'll be in will be more conducive to just conversation and and being around the table together and so I look forward to that um I anticipate we probably won't move until
104September or October um there's not a lot of renovation that's going to happen in that space it's just going to be some furniture really and then the equipment to make sure that we can record and hear each other properly bids for that will come to us as they come in yes any other comments on the debriefing hearing no objection this meeting is adjourned we'll take a five minute break and we'll come back for the budget Workshop [Applause] [Music]